TCIS's Guide To Editing Kerbals

[Chel]

Do you ever feel like your Kerbals need a little extra in their life? Maybe some more courage. Maybe some more stupidity. Or maybe, even a new name. This quick guide will show you how to edit Kerbals. Editing a Kerbal only takes around a minute, and there are infinite possibilities!

Part 1: Getting Started

For this, you will need a save game, the 'persistent.sfs' file in that save game, and a simple text editor (e.g. Windows Notepad).

Simply choose your particular save game, locate the 'persistent.sfs' file in that save game, right click on that file, click 'open with', and select Windows Notepad (or whatever you use).

Part 2: Finding Your Kerbals

Scroll down around the bottom of the file, and you should see something called 'Roster'. This contains all Kerbals currently assigned, applying, and MIA/KIA. From here, the fun begins!

Part 3: Editing!

You should see the following, once you've selected a particular Kerbal.

NAME: (Name of Kerbal, change it to whatever you want. Please note that KSP uses a swear word filter, so don't use those!)

GENDER: (Male or Female, change if you wish)

BadS: (badS=True for Jebediah and Valentina Kerman, you can also make it True for any other Kerbal if you wish)

Courage: (Change the courage level of your Kerbal, with a max of 15)

Stupidity: (Change the stupidity level of your Kerbal, with a max of 15).

Part 4: Saving, and launching KSP

Once you've edited your Kerbals, go to 'File', and click 'Save' (or just ctrl+s for a quick shortcut), close the window, and launch KSP!

 

What To Do:

Edit Kerbal names, badS=True/badS=False, gender, courage and stupidity levels

What Not To Do:

Change Jebediah, Bill, Bob, and Valentina in any way (they will lose the orange spacesuits and be treated like normal Kerbals)

Change ToD (Time of Death) to anything other than the current one (this WILL break the save file)

Make any profanity a Kerbal's name (e.g. F!#% Kerman, S^*! Kerman). This will erase the Kerbal from the save file, as they have a swear word as the name (KSP uses a profanity-name filter, so don't even try)

Edited June 12, 2017 by The_Cat_In_Space

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Edited October 9, 2017 by The_Cat_In_Space