@Maya Thanks!

If I recall correctly changing the variant is enough(eg. male engineer to female and back)

@ Maya thanks for the hint!
Is it necessary to change the skin or is it enough to enter/exit the menu?
I don't have time to test, but I will add this method to the descriptions.

Not quite true since I've managed to get this to work by changing suits at the medical room

The files have not changed, so I have only updated the compatibility to 1.203 in the description.
Did you have any problems?
after activating it and loading the game, are you respawned? (you must necessarily commit suicide for changes to occur)

is this mod going to get an update

last chance, have you tried a checkdisk? or maybe it's an overclocking error?
then, it's definitely the game.

I decided to give industrial overhaul a try and it seems to be incompatible, that or it's more of SE being weird

Omg! I am sorry for the situation that happened to you, I will add this thing in description, it is important that people know that this can happen.
Anyway, give it a try with other similar mods, maybe try another of mine, or just one made by someone else, and we hope the game decides to make it work with your savegame.

Indeed, the mod works perfectly in new saves, even with all of the same mods. Guess it's just Space Engineers being the bug infested spaghetti it is.

I don't know what it could be, the mod works perfectly, have you tried to check the files from steam (maybe something got bugged)?

just to be safe, create a separate save and try to leave my mod alone, removing all the others, if it works there must be a conflict somewhere.

I tried removing some mods that seemed to me like they might conflict but that didnt fix the problem so I have no idea what it's conflicting with

Can you please tell me which mod(s) is conflicting with mine? So I try to understand better what is going on.

Yes, both by flying into things with great force and by pressing the respawn button

this is weird behavior, did you try to commit suicide after starting the game, to allow the mod to activate on the suit?

I did try putting it at the bottom and it didnt fix the problem

To be more precise, there are mods that add additional suits/players, but at each load you need to go to the medbay to switch to them (maybe losing all inventory that exceed default values).
We just need a built-in system that integrates different types of suits, so that the game itself can save any changes it brings, without compromising the gameplay experience.

I don't think this is possible, as it is for blocks.
the game has only one basic set for the suit (the player), the rest are only interchangeable skins, so the game does not have a basic system to allow a suit change that would allow the creation of different models, in addition to just the change of skins.

However, to overcome the problem of overwriting other mods on this one, just put it at the bottom (down) of the list of active mods, using the buttons to move up and down the various mods, thus changing the order in which they are loaded.

Example: there is a mod that modifies a lot of things besides the character, but you want to use my mod as well.
just place my mod under the other, to allow an overwriting of the characters.sbc during loading, without compromising all the things that the other mod changes, because mine will only overwrite the characters.sbc file.

I would suggest a version that can be selected like a suit at a medical station since I think that might get around the problem of other mods overriding this mod