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[Abandoned] Steel Foam

@Mlie added to description. Thank you

Made an update of this:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2379192653
Hope it helps anyone!

Hoping this mod gets updated--I really miss being able to use steel foam in the right places.

@bearhiderug , I don't know if it's working and I'm not sure if I plan to update it or not. Currently, I doubt I will

@lilwhitemouse , the issue was solved, but for the sake of discussion;

It depends on how "stuffed" things are saved, which i haven't looked into. You'd need to delete or change all references to the foam item def and recipes, then change or remove everything made of the material such as walls, turrets, etc.

Depending on the xml format it could be difficult or super easy, but I've never tried to edit stuff material items before, only adding and removing items, bills, and research etc.

Most of the time it's easier to just remove the references ingame rather than in xml

What you can do is open a save game, use the "destroy everything" button in the debug menus, and create two things: a steel foam wall and a ...marble wall? Then save the game (to a different name) and edit the save file with your favorite xml editor. It should be relatively easy (as these things go) to find the two bits of wall, and you can see what you will need to do to change steel foam to marble magically.

@FloppyDolphins , If it loaded fine without the mod installed, it should be alright. I'd recommend generating a new map, preferably a city, just to make sure. But if that goes smoothly, then you're pretty much good to go.

Thank you for the help so far by the way.

That's true, removing mods is harder than adding them.

I did what you suggested and the game save loaded successfully. Is it possible that my save might get corrupted in the future from the mod being removed, even though it loaded fine? Or is it safe to save over the previous save files?

@FloppyDolphins adding mods is always easier than removing them... It may be possible to do save editing, but it would probably be quite difficult (best case would be a search and replace the steelfoam material with steel, but I doubt it would be that easy).

Your best bet would be to use debug & godmode to remove all steel foam items and replacing all walls with another material.

Make a backup or duplicate of the save, remove all steelfoam objects, replace all existing walls, save, disable the mod, and try to load. If it fails then you may have missed some. If the save is really important to you, I could attempt to edit it manually.