Cheat engine exists. You can easily search for the status points and either 'lock' the current numbers or just add 999999 and then lock it up.
Edit: and before any of you tried to manipulate the skill LEVELS instead of getting carpal tunnel from repeatedly clicking the + button: no, the upgrade won't be applied that way. Trust me, I've tried.
Aware of the cheat engine since I use it a lot. But I did once try clicking away for shit and giggles when I started playing this game with cheats to get a feel of it. Holy crap, it takes forever.
Ended up using an auto clicker cause screw it. But nowadays, I don't cheat in this game particularly. There are mods to make skill costs so cheap that effectively you can max all the maxable skills and dump the rest into smash after level 50 to 70, I think.
With that said... even without the skill point reduction mod. It was playable normally, just damage will be slower than getting your tamed mini boss or raiders or something like that to do damage on your behalf against... anything really.
/point will give you 10000 status points and 100 skill points each time it's entered.
Notepad also exists and this game's saves are entirely in plain text (also the reason why saves are huge and saving/loading takes forever). No need to fiddle around with memory values when you can just directly edit the save. <statusPoint> and <skillPoint> are right there in the open. Same goes for <maxLife> , <maxFaint> , <attack> and <speed>. <skillSave> also has the skills listed unnamed but in order under <skills> as integers; they can be manipulated directly this way.
I'd caution keeping a backup save though before one edits anything, especially if one is going for the more extreme values. This applies for both save and memory editing.
Noted and thanks. Did play with that when I first started, but it made the game too easy... at least for me. But it was definitely good to have when I don't want to manually level my NPCs if I was going to do it anyway.
Can't exactly do that if I want to try and do a speed run without cheats though.
Hmm you guys think the plains around the lab exit would make a good base area?
only issue i have is water access for the mermaid. Does she work with the pool? And which bench makes the pool stuff?
Yes, she can work from the pool and you only need 40 stones to make it without the workbench. Just click the craft option and scroll down and you will find it there.
Alternatively, you can make sea water if you put a berry small (I think it's called the one you can get from harvest and gives experience points) and she is in sea water. It will let her craft one type of seawater block that you can put on land and expand it.