Going Reanimator on dead characters

A side note before you venture into this: consider looking at SOTFedit instead, I haven't used it but apparently it's easier! (https://github.com/codengine/SOTFEdit)

1. Oh no! Kelvin died and Virginia won't shut the ♥♥♥♥ up about it! (or vice versa, maybe, idk if Kelvin cries when Virginia dies. but I do know that Virginia was going through the full stages of grief when Kelvin got knocked the ♥♥♥♥ out by a red guy and we didn't know until too late)



2. Save your game, make an extra save just in case

3. Open File Explorer on your PC and enter <%AppData%..LocalLowEndnightSonsOfTheForestSaves> (without the <>) in the address bar.

4. Click on the folder titled with a string of numbers, followed by SinglePlayer or MultiPlayer (depending on the mode you're playing), and then select the save folder that you want to modify.

5. Open the file named 'GameStateSaveData.json'.

6. Locate the text that reads <”IsRobbyDead":true> or <"IsVirginiaDead":true>, depending on who you want back. Robby=Kelvin's current status, and the Virginia line more clearly refers to her dead/alive status.

7. Depending on which companion you want to revive, change their respective text to <"IsRobbyDead":false> or <"IsVirginiaDead":false>.

8. Save the 'GameStateSaveData.json' file and exit back to the save folder.

--> [Side note: I had difficulty saving directly because of my own computer settings.. I’m not super knowledgeable on file stuff but what I figured out was saving the edited file to the ####### (long number) save folder itself and then dragging it into the “SaveData” zip file. I selected the copy and replace option. There may be an easier way but that is just what I did. I did this again for the next section.] <-- I've been informed that this can corrupt your save file! I told you to make an extra save anyways but please be aware of this!

9. Next, open the 'SaveData.json' file. Search the file for a snippet of text that reads <"TypeId\":9> (for Kelvin) or <"TypeId\":10> (for Virginia).

10. From there, read along until you find some text further along that reads <"State\":6>. Change this piece of text to <"State\":2>.

11. Continue reading until you see <\"Stats\":{\"Anger\":12.6198864,”> and insert in <\"Health\":100.0,> after the first parentheses thing, before anger stat

12.Search again for <{\"TypeId\":9> (Kelvin) or <{\"TypeId\":10> (Virginia) and replace that whole second section that is closer to the bottom of the file (for example: <{\"TypeId\":9,\"PlayerKilled\":1,\"KilledOnDay\":{\"45\":1}}> for Kelvin) with

<{\"TypeId\":9,\"KilledOnDay\":{}}> (Kelvin)
or
<{\"TypeId\":10,\"KilledOnDay\":{}}> (Virginia)

13. Save the 'SaveData.json' file and close all of the files down.

14. Reload Sons of the Forest and enter your save. For me this worked, and Kelvin was back to being his annoying self that we ordered around, and chilling with dead bodies.


Some text taken from Rock Paper Shotgun but their guide was from about 9 months ago and wasn't fully resurrecting Kelvin for me so I added more to it.