Desktop app tour

The desktop app is the full Abiotic Editor for Windows, Linux, Steam Deck and macOS. It finds your saves, opens in its own window, and has every tool, including the 3D view with the game's own models. Your saves stay on your computer.

Work offline first

Close Abiotic Factor or stop the server before editing a save. Changes wait in the editor until you choose SAVE, and every file it writes gets a .bak copy of the old version. Choose REVERT to throw away changes you have not saved.

Open a world

Start the app and choose Open offline editor. The start page lists the worlds it found under Your worlds, tagged STEAM, GAME PASS or SERVER. Choose OPEN beside one, use OPEN FOLDER to pick one yourself, or drag a folder onto the window. NEW WORLD makes a fresh world.

The sidebar sorts the world into story progress, players, regions and server settings. Use its search box when a big world has become a maze.

Choose the account folder above Worlds when you can. That also loads your saved character looks, which are shared between your worlds.

Tune up a player

Open a player from the sidebar. Each tab covers one part of your survivor.

Tab	What you can do
General	See which account the save belongs to, and move it to another Steam account.
Vitals	Top up hunger, thirst, sanity, fatigue, continence, body health and money. HEAL ALL restores every limb.
Character	Set your background, add or remove traits, and change hair, clothing and other looks.
Transmog	Change how your armor looks without changing the armor, or hide pieces.
Spawn	Change your respawn point and teleporter-pad tags.
Inventory	Edit pockets, equipment, hotbar, backpack and deployed backpack storage. Change an item, stack, durability or weapon coating, and add anything from the searchable item catalogue.
Companions	Rename and heal carried pets, and see what they eat.
Skills	Set level or exact XP, or use MAX and MAX ALL.
Recipes	Unlock or hide recipes, or UNLOCK ALL. The in-game "NEW" highlight stays in step.
Gatepal	Mark e-mails, notes, compendium entries and fish as read or caught.
Achievements	View the Steam achievement records on this PC. Read only.
Advanced Data	Look at values that have no friendly control yet.

Selecting an item shows a Stats block with the same numbers the wiki publishes: weapon damage, armor and resistances, food values, and what it repairs or salvages into.

Edit a world

Open a region such as WorldSave_Facility.sav. Most places you build, loot or repair live in a region save. The header shows the world day and time. Which tabs appear depends on what that region holds.

Tab	What you can do
Containers	Restock or clear out storage with the same slot tools as an inventory.
Story Events	Review story switches by chapter. When a choice needs earlier steps, the editor offers to set them too. Only in the main Facility save.
Doors	Open or close doors (either way round for a swinging door).
Ground Items	Edit or remove items lying on the floor.
NPCs	Revive a story character, change a story stage, or edit a creature.
Pets	Rename, heal or change tamed pets.
Vehicles	Make a vehicle drivable, fix a wreck, move it back to its spawn, and fill its cargo.
Bases	Your bases on a map and in 3D. See Bases and the 3D view.
Buttons, Elevators, Trams, World Teleporters and more	Change the saved state of things placed in the level.
Resource Nodes	Refill harvestables and restore broken glass panes.
Garden plots, Chemistry benches and more	See More world tools.
Advanced Data	Look at world values a normal tab does not cover.

Most lists have a Show in 3D button that takes you to the thing you picked. The lists also show a picture of each thing and a small picture of where it stands; click that one to see it large.

The story save

WorldSave_MetaData.sav holds the story. It has its own tabs:

• Story moves the main chapter and edits the world-wide seen and read lists.
• Traders shows every trader, what they sell and how to unlock them. UNLOCK marks the story events they need as done. With spoiler protection on, traders you have not met stay hidden until you reveal them.
• Containment sets which creature each containment cell holds.

Refill a harvestable or restore a window

Open the region that contains it, then choose Resource Nodes. Search for its name, select it, and turn Harvested off. For damaged office windows, search for Glass Pane in the Office region. Leave Day Picked Up alone unless you want to change when it respawns.

Move loot to another world

From Containers, choose Move items to a different world save. The full walkthrough is Transfer items.

Adjust a dedicated server

When you open a dedicated-server folder, the sidebar also shows Config Files. Select Admin.ini or a world's SandboxSettings.ini to change difficulty, XP, stacking, spawns and refills. Choose SAVE INI when ready. These files get backup copies too. Add a setting offers options that are missing from the file, with the game's default value.

Settings

Open SETTINGS in the corner of the window.

Tab	What is there
General	Theme (Facility Blue, Hazard Orange, GATE Teal), light mode, language, release notes and diagnostics.
Editor	Spoiler protection: traders, recipes, flags, achievements and codex entries you have not reached stay CLASSIFIED until you reveal them.
Game data	Where your game is installed. See Game data.
Convert	Move a world between Steam and Game Pass. See Game Pass saves.
Plugins	Community add-ons and language packs. See Plugins.
Compare	Compare two saves.

Compare two saves

Compare shows what changed between two saves, or between a world and a backup. It skips background noise and calls out real differences such as items, recipes, traits, fish and story flags.

Reference pictures from the wiki

Some screens, such as fish, creatures and story characters, show a picture from the Abiotic Factor Wiki. The editor uses the current wiki picture when it can, and its own included copy when you are offline. A missing picture never affects your save.

Live editing

The desktop app can also connect to a running game on Windows, and on Linux for a game running through Steam Play (Proton). Live edits apply while you play and get no editor backup. Read the live editing guide before setting it up.

Reporting a bug

A clear report gives a broken tool its best chance of being fixed.

1. Open SETTINGS ▸ General ▸ Diagnostics and turn on Diagnostic logging.
2. Repeat the problem if you can.
3. Choose OPEN LOG FOLDER and attach the newest log file.
4. Say what you were doing, whether your save is Steam or Game Pass, and the editor version shown at the top of the window.

Crashes and write failures are logged even when diagnostic logging is off. Report it on GitHub Issues or in the POSTS tab on Nexus Mods.