Icarus Character Editing Guide

This method does still work, if you have any questions about this feel free to leave a comment and ill try my best to help.

[@TVTray]

This method does still work, if you're having issues feel free to send me an email

[@IsabellaKemal]

When we can expect the new video.

[@TVTray]

@@IsabellaKemal within a week or two

[@IsabellaKemal]

@@TVTray hey bro i have an idea. you can also make a video about doing archivments with editing the json files. i did few but i dont know how to get the others.

[@chunkymonkey3330]

How do I set a notification for when this new video pops up? Just tried this method and boy did it not go well at all. Had to Uninstall and reinstall the whole game and wipe all the old files.

[@TVTray]

@@chunkymonkey3330 sorry to hear that. i should have the new vid out some time around Christmas, IF you want to get notified when I post you can click the bell icon and turn on notifications.

[@darks2485]

Honestly this Video saved me, not because i wanted to cheat, because i wanted to reverse the money cheats i did, the game was becoming extremly boring with everything max, no sense of progression, with this video i was able to start brand new. Thank you alot

[@TVTray]

Happy to help :)

[@TerraBarlow]

Just used this guide and can confirm it still works. Thanks!

[@averagebill394]

after 350 hours and losing my characters... I needed this

[@icarus-firstcohort-basebui9026]

TV Tray, great video, nicely condensed and very explanatory. I wrote a VBA code in Excel to parse these files and rebuild them along with missions completed & Inventory management. The trick is knowing the game codename for the talent, blueprints, inventory and missions. I took the time a while back to develop a full table of all these names, which assists with the process. Great stuff keep up the good work!

[@TVTray]

I've wanted to try making a modding assistant for the game but haven't gotten to it yet, I'm not experienced enough with coding yet to make anything good but I think that could be a fun project.

[@grantsmith46]

It sure does still work I just did it thanks for the video keep up the good work

[@lenhutkhoa5795]

Still work!!! confirmed,Thanks!

[@simonboucher5170]

Thank you sir. I don't care about using a modding program since all the tools are already in there and once you know how to play around with them you don't need a modding tool. I've searched reddit, google, steam forums and all of that trying to understand how to edit talent points and you are the ONLY ONE who explained it. I wonder if there is a way to simply edit the amount of spare talent points available on the top left corner instead of doing all of these manipulations ?

[@TVTray]

Not that I have found, it obviously exists but I don't think player have access to it for some reason

[@Goodfahter93]

It still works, where you should replace rank 0 (1,2&3) with rank 4, do this 2 times and you will have enough points. Thks :D

[@skyknight6467]

just subbed for the update to this video. Also an update to what talents you should get if you aren't using this would be cool too.

[@sportslounge6838]

Still works! Thanks Man!

[@DavidM-sv6ny]

Appreciate your hard work in making these videos. Going to try this however not use for blue prints, Ren or Exotics. Instead I'm thinking of just adding one talent point every time I level so I can work towards maxing out all talents. Don't like idea of things stopping at 60. Will this work?

[@tairangamerhd4041]

Good Viddeo. Still works in 2025 but u MUST HAVE thhe game on your C drive in order to edit the appdata. It also works witch your Main charakter. u didnt have to delete it in order to edit i. U also can edit ur Bestarium in the Files

[@peterlutisan9097]

Still work for me. More talents for 1 of my characters to test it, no need new character to make it. But be carefull with overwriting, if you have more characters. Always cut data from file and paste to somewhere. For example to new notepad file. After editing all you want, get back character data, which you dont want to change. One more thing, not all talents need 3 upgrades, so all lower talents game will write back like unspent points to your character. At the end, always make Backup ! You never know, what can goes wrong.

[@pun15h3r.]

nice explanation, prettey simple to follow if you have a little bit of coding exp ;) thx mate!

[@TVTray]

Happy to help :)

[@greesemonkey2465]

ty for this been trying to find a way to make a new charcter cause i used to many of my tech points for low teir stuff which makes them real useless at doing any of the end game stuff wish there was a way to just give yourself tech points or be able to reset them like you can with skill points

[@TomOfBattlefront]

Thank you.

[@FiSaE1992]

Nice work!!

[@cheezuscrust6868]

wish there was a way to edit the TECH tree. just an ocd thing for early game.

[@play2k3]

Hey can you uplode the skills so that we can cope and past them ? :)

[@TVTray]

If you go to my about section I have my email there and I would be happy to send you a copy. [e-mail]

[@Lebensgott]

i cant understand, why they save the character unencrypted in a json file on the players computer... xd everyone who can programm a tiny bit can modify it how they want to

[@ResidenciaGamerTeam]

I need to find where my pets are linked to me. I tamed one of my friend's horses by accident, and I just want to give it back to him. anyone can help me?

[@lordkujo9192]

I cant seem to get the file splicing to work for me, the new character is made and everything, but when i want to add my old one everything i try doesnt seem to work following the video.

[@TVTray]

If you want a copy of the game file send me an email. [e-mail]

[@NICKSSHOP]

Awesome

[@tauur]

This was great. Hadn't played in some time and discovered my character was gone. Is there anyway to unlock the missions or will have to start them from the beginning?

[@TVTray]

I haven't found a way to edit missions yet although I think there is a way, ill let you know if I figure it out.

[@robcasam4785]

Do you know where in the files I can reset the Open World Missions so I can play them again? Should be a simple value swap 1-0 or true/false but i can't for the life of me find it.

[@gabraz886]

nice work... TY !

[@shadowpigglet]

The Talents worked but How did you do the blueprints? Made a fresh install and could not do any of the blueprints. ty

[@TVTray]

you get blueprint points based on your characters level, give your character like 50 mil xp and you should have enough BP points

[@shadowpigglet]

@ I figured it out. You have to enter the game to assign blueprints.

[@00Powell]

as far as i know, i followed all the steps properly but the skills didnt save. any reason why?

[@user-lf3hy7wl3t]

why can't i just copy and paste that into the file? why do I have to let the file build itself by adding the skill points?

[@ThatKidChaCho]

Hey this isn’t working for me!? Did something get patched today is 10/16/23 1:50pm plz help

[@MACxAVELLI]

In your opinion whats the best weapon? If you could only go down 1 weapon tree would you do spear, bow, or knife?

[@TVTray]

Bow, it basically has aimbot with the killcams and it does the most damage, not to mention its obviously ranged so you're never really in danger

[@meldron4037]

I would always take bows over every other weapon. A weapon you always use right from the start till the end. Great dmg mobility its super cheap especially if you unlock that OP wormbow.

[@nonameoninternetwillthiswo377]

Hey if you just edited the level of talents you already had with a character that isn’t level 50 would you still be able to earn talent points?

[@TVTray]

I'm actually not sure I've never tried it. If that does work it still wouldn't be enough talent points to get everything because it would only give you the remaining points that you haven't spent out of the 60 you're supposed to have. If you do try it I would love to hear back from you if it works :)

[@nonameoninternetwillthiswo377]

Thank you for responding and I just tested it and it does work really useful for maxing out the stuff you want while still having new character progression.

[@TVTray]

@@nonameoninternetwillthiswo377 Thanks for letting me know, I wish you the best of luck with your new character :)

[@nonameoninternetwillthiswo377]

Thank you

[@ghostworm]

can you show, how to do this with an existing character please?

[@TVTray]

it works with a existing character

[@valentinvillalba9016]

Thank you :)

[@lolman_1252]

Hey there! I just went through getting all the talents and max level, though I had nowhere near the tech points you had in the end. Is there a way to specifically change the amount of tech points?

[@TVTray]

its based on your character xp, you get tech points every time you level up. In the character file you can change your xp to 100 mill if you want enough tech points for everything

[@lolman_1252]

@@TVTray thank you! I was searching around and found the answer a lil earlier, sorry for bothering with dumb question lol

[@TVTray]

all good that's what I'm here for :)

[@rjroberson8462]

would there be a reason as to why i cant spend my blueprint points ?

[@drippydrrizzttv2320]

its really throwing me off when you made a character, changed its name from Test Character to Subscribe, then theres 2 "new" characters to mess with. I'm so confused ive watched the end 30 times now and i still dont have my other character.

[@TVTray]

that's my bad I believe I sent you the file with all of my test characters instead of just the one

[@drippydrrizzttv2320]

@@TVTray everything else is just fine, but I'm not able to get my other character to show up lol

[@TVTray]

did you save a backup of your original file?

[@drippydrrizzttv2320]

@@TVTray not sure I'm new to high end PC's, but I followed everything you did step by step until the end that was confusing

[@bobmccack3369]

there has the be a text file i could just copy and paste somewhere... right?

[@TVTray]

there is but I don't have it anymore after I swapped pcs

[@bigdelite4268]

Do Mounts, please. Can't find mine.

[@krockernyc]

Any chance you can link the file so we can just copy and past? this didn't work for me

[@TVTray]

I don't have the edited file anymore I changed pcs. But this method does still work.

[@TrashedPanda69]

Went to edit a character today, made all characters get deleted. Used same method a few days ago, worked fine. Did they do something to stop some of this with the update the other day?

[@TVTray]

Not to my knowledge. Hopefully you saved a backup, if not you can send me an email and ill give you my character file if you want it.

[@BaderAlkandri93]

Bro can I use its for now?? or I cannot use it cuz they update?

[@wolfhunter98]

Will this work for MP? or will this cause join or dycn error? Few friends are just starting out and probably will do this when we hit max level. Or give us a few extra points for this learning game.

[@TVTray]

yep it should work in multiplayer

[@wolfhunter98]

@@TVTray Thanks!

[@nickolasp.5070]

Where can I find the actual number of talent points in file? I want to remove the 9 excess if possible

[@TVTray]

you cant

[@70sGent]

​@@TVTray You go back in and reduce the rank of skills to 0, allowing you to then spend the points to relearn the skills and remove excess points. Just reduce skills to Rank 0 with a total Rank sum that equals excess points. Example of the 9 excess points: go to character sheet and control + f to search, type Rank, find 3 skills at Rank 3 and change those to Rank 0.

[@Crownjo]

Can you make a new file that has all talents and no tech points spent? The one I got has some tech locked because of all the new updates.

[@Crownjo]

Never mind, figured it out!

[@CITIZENCV]

How do I give myself tech tree points without giving myself lvls?

[@TVTray]

you get them by leveling up

[@CITIZENCV]

@ yes, but I don’t wish to be max lvl I simply wish to have a bunch of tree points to unlock eveything at my current lvl (45)….

[@casperinmd]

For Tech Tree, I can't put points in. I have 123 points available, I have the default items learned. I did try one mission and back to space. Only set to level 35. Any ideas?

[@TVTray]

your tech points are based on your level, you get three each time you level up so you need to give your character a lot of xp

[@TheCMC1st]

when i try to open files to make changes it prompts me with "Open with find app," any suggestions? Thanks in advance

[@TVTray]

open with notepad

[@Gex121]

Is there any way to edit your movement speed? I tried using a trainer for this which works great in solo play, but in multiplayer, whatever I select on my trainer gets applied to my friend.

[@TVTray]

I'm not sure, what trainer do you use maybe I can look into it.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

I made a mod that gives me 500% movement speed on cloth armor. It is trivial to edit armor sets to have whatever buffs you want.

[@peterlutisan9097]

I think, if devs make something like easy or hard building character, there should be more or less points to talents, nobody need to cheat like this, so we need to do this, right this way 😊.

[@零點-t9b]

I want to have 20 talent points at level 1, how can I modify it?

[@TVTray]

I believe a recent game update has changed some of the ways to modify files, ill have to look into it

[@serapheid3669]

Hi, does this still work in the current build? Also, is this possible to do without having to delete your character files?

[@TVTray]

Everything in this should still work, and yes it is possible to do without deleting your current file but its significantly harder. If you want to keep your current characters I would recommend saving a copy of your current file then making a new file with the modded character, you can then combine the files like I showed at the end of the video.

[@serapheid3669]

@@TVTray Thank you

[@jayohplays]

i cannot seem to buy blueprints they are all locked for me but i have the 1250 tech points

[@TVTray]

You need to have the previous tiers unlocked before you can move up through the blueprint tree, If that's not what's causing the problem let me know and ill look into it.

[@Anna-fi2yt]

Thanks, it is so rude for me, but I love this game, whot is too rude for me .

[@Dipsy75560]

Only 175 points are given to me when i max out toon! How do i fix/change this

[@TVTray]

blueprint points are dictated by level, if you didnt get enough try giving your character more xp

[@nutty_skid_marks8286]

Aug 12, 2024 HAVING TROUBLE!!! Opened file Changed 500 Credit Saved File Open file Changed 5mil XP Saved File Launched game. Bought all talents and Refunded. Closed games. Open file Changed all Rank from 0 to 4 SAVED FILE Launched game 🤔 create new character. What am I doing wrong or what did I miss.

[@TVTray]

if you send me an email I can give you my character file with everything unlocked

[@nutty_skid_marks8286]

@@TVTray ?

[@KENASwfhLT]

Still works

[@that1guy803]

Do you know if i can change missions information

[@TVTray]

I haven't tried it but I can look into it :)

[@that1guy803]

Thank you

[@TVTray]

From what I've looked at there might be a way to edit the mission files but in order to do it I would need to either have every mission done already or have a file copy from someone who already dose

[@00Powell]

nvm i figured it out

[@Zero-mg8tp]

how would you do this now

[@TVTray]

its still done the same way

[@Gisborne1990]

is there any way to rename char?

[@TVTray]

5:05

[@Crownjo]

Sent an email to ya!

[@darthartagnan4737]

Wow imagine cheating yourself.. like how weird.. just give yourself max ren, exotics and red exotics and buy everything from the shop and quit playing.. how is this fun for people?

[@TVTray]

People can play however they want to play. If you don't want to mod your character then by all means play completely vanilla, but don't judge other players for wanting to play differently than you. The devs fully support modding the game too, that's why there's no anti cheat and that's why the player has full control over the game files.

[@darthartagnan4737]

Cool and last time I checked I'm allowed to have an OPINION and my OPINION is.. if you play this way you take the challenge out of the game.. do you have a way to give me unlimited ammo and health too? Might as well go all out.. lol.. unreal. @@TVTray

[@TVTray]

@@darthartagnan4737 you left a negative comment on my video that was meant to help people and when I respond I'm the bad guy?

[@crystzx8276]

@@darthartagnan4737 whats with the ... like... whats ... wrong ... with ... you...

[@deniaxdeniax]

@@darthartagnan4737 I spent hours and days building up character years ago .. devs decide to 'change the way the game is saved', I 'missed' the 'migration period' (because I wasn't made aware of this so called 'migration'), when I relaunch a few days ago after a looong time not playing, I lost everything ?! .. do you honnestly think I'll restart the game from scratch because they fail to find a proper way to migrate my data properly? .. I tried all the 'offical' methods (roll back, re-downloaded previous versions, ..) to transfer my data, none worked ! My last resort is to 'cheat' .. not to improve above what I had, but to recupe what I lost because of Devs poor data management. I partially agree with your opinion: giving yourself everything in the game will kill the game/experience. But there are exceptions to the way you see things. Blame the devs !