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Missing death crate retrieval guide.

By NobleKnightmare

A short walkthrough on editing the location of a death crate (the crate that spawns where you die) if it spawned underground upon your death.

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Guide Index

Overview

Intro and finding your save file

Finding the death crate in the save file

How to lookup whats in a container

Some final thoughts

Comments

Intro and finding your save file

If you've been out wandering the planet, and suddenly woken up in your base, the first thing you've probably done was go looking for the items you dropped. Generally this is uneventful, but what do you do when you find no such crate?

Generally I've found these crates spawn underground when you die in the air or on uneven terrain. This guide will help you edit the location in your save file, giving you access to the crate, and your items, once again.

To begin, when you find your crate is not where it should be, simply move a few steps away from where it should be, then save and exit to the main menu.
Go to your save file location (%AppData%\LocalLow\MijuGames\Planet Crafter) and find the save files (named "Survival-x.json" where x is the save slot it represents ).
Create a copy of the JSON file, and put it somewhere else or rename it in case you corrupt your save file.

With this save backed up, lets move on.

Finding the death crate in the save file

Open the JSON file in something such as Notepad++
Near the top of the file, find the line that start with the following:
{"playerPosition":"349.2646,39.56247,714.0168",
In the screenshot below, its line 4

Take note of the players height, the middle number, in my case being 39 ish. This is what were going to set the crates height to in a few steps.
Search the file for:
Container1
and go to the last entry. It should be near the bottom of the file, and should be the last Container1 item listed if you havent built any other storage units since dying. The line should look like this:
{"id":xxxxxxxxx,"gId":"Container1","liId":xx,"liGrps":"","pos":

where the first 9 x's are a random numerical ID number, and the 'liId xx' is a numerical ID that counts up from 1 for each container that's in the game.

In the screen shot below its line 13, however this file gets much longer as you play, this is a very new save.
If you're sure this is the death crate, you can simply edit the middle number after 'pos' to the height of your player that we got earlier. As you can see its currently 8, and I'm going to set it to 42 (slightly higher than my height).
Save the file, and load your save. If the crate is suddenly above ground as in the image below, congratulations. You may need to play with the height a bit to get it just right. Having it much higher can make it easy to spot, but harder to access.

How to lookup whats in a container

If you're not sure if the last 'Container1' is your death crate or another crate you built, there's a semi easy way to check the items inside first.

First youll need the

"liId":x

from the above Container1 line. search the file for

"id":x

where instead of x, you put the number from the liId above.

line 13 and 18 are referancing the same container, as seen from the liID and ID number matching.
the 9 digit number on line 18 is the item inside my death crate, each item inside the storage would have its own 9 digit number. Searching the file for that 9 digit number would show you the name of that item.

In my example above you can see the highlighted 9 digit number from line 18 matches the highlighted ID from line 10, and its listed as Titanium meaning the crate only has 1 titanium in it.

Some final thoughts

I want to mention 2 things before wrapping this up:

Editing these crates can break their despawning mechanism once emptied. I've found they no longer disappear once I removed my items from them. If you find this to cheaty, simply edit the file again to bury it underground.
If you corrupt your save, simply rename your backup file to the name of the corrupted save file, and delete the corrupted one.

Thanks!

14 Comments

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MEPiK 13 Apr, 2022 @ 7:53am

Dont be a puss puss play on hardcore! 😀
No problem with dissapearing chest when you have no world to live in either way! 😀

Lord Flasheart 13 Apr, 2022 @ 3:23am

Dude, this is a great help. I lost two boxes trying to get down from one of the buttes and trying to get back to a base with food. Both were miles underground and I got them both back where I though they should be. Nothing important in them - rocket motors, zeolite..stuff like that. Great to get it all back

AstroPug22 12 Apr, 2022 @ 4:13pm

It worked!!

I put the crate a bit higher than necessary (way above my head lol), but now I know how to move it back down! Thank you so much for saving my items with this awesome guide!!

AstroPug22 12 Apr, 2022 @ 4:07pm

ah now it's working, must've just needed some time to sync (sorry for posting so many comments btw)

AstroPug22 12 Apr, 2022 @ 4:02pm

hmm, it's telling me it was "unable to sync your The Planet Crafter saves with the Steam Cloud" (probably because I added an extra file when I made the backup) should I continue or is this gonna mess up everything?

AstroPug22 12 Apr, 2022 @ 3:58pm

just found a container at y = -174.1 containing some super alloy, I think this is it!!!

AstroPug22 12 Apr, 2022 @ 3:28pm

Actually, I just made some discoveries that will make it a bit easier for me to tell which Container1 I need to find. The containers in my base, which I don't want to mess with, are all called Container2 (they're lockers) so I can ignore those, and a bunch of the Container1's in the file have a position of 0, 0, 0, which I guess means they've been deconstructed, so I can ignore those too. Now I just need to look at the ones that do have coordinates, and find one with a weirdly low elevation (like how the one you showed in the guide was around 8) and that should be it!

AstroPug22 12 Apr, 2022 @ 3:17pm

I died a while ago and lost a bunch of super alloy and other stuff when the container disappeared, but I've built a lot of stuff since then and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by searching through over 1000 lines of data to find it... Thanks anyway though, I will remember this technique next time I lose something so I can recover it right away!

SamikS 12 Apr, 2022 @ 7:40am

Thanks a lot!

Rimdlav 7 Apr, 2022 @ 12:14am

I accidentally deleted one of my golden seed in the destroyer, it helped me to save it.

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