Posted February 15, 2025
Hi!
I have played this on Linux with Lutris.
setup_kitaria_fables_1.0148_(68820).exe
Worked mostly fine, but I had a few crashes, which may be unrelated to the game.
Save regularly.
Also backup your save files regularly.
Save is @ drive_c/users/username/AppData/LocalLow/Twin Hearts Games/Kitaria Fables
I have played at least 10-15 hours before hacking.
All together, I have spent 30 hours on this game.
TIPS:
Backup your savegame.
Got milk? - Cheap, makes you move faster.
Bosses can drop keys.
Bosses respawn every start of the day at 07:00.
If you have no quests, look in and around towns for people (guards !) with quests, both day and night.
You can have multiple food buffs at the same time.
If you don't water your plants, they won't grow.
Get gold watering can ASAP.
NOTE: a guide mentions that having a silver can before a quest for it may break the quest, but it didn't for me. It just got completed right after I got it.
Other tools don't need to be upgraded.
Using the axe and pickaxe doesn't take much time and you may not need them all game.
The axe becomes useless after you have enough wood for your chests. (and a quest)
You only need to hoe your garden once and if you keep having plants planted you won't lose the land.
Grow food for money and buffs.
Read Steam Guides:
Complete Walkthrough with Tips for Kitaria Fables
Kitaria Fables - Locations for monsters/bosses/chest, upgrade costs and a whole lot more SPOILERS!!
From steam guides:
Spell damage is based off weapon damage. I noticed this when I switched from sword to bow, and my spells did less damage.
You can pin items you want to buy at a shop, so you don't have to go back to that shop to see what you need again and again.
Only after you sell an item for the first time, will you see its sell price in the inventory.
BUGS
2nd chest at home comes with 5 gardening items you CAN NOT DROP OR DELETE.
3rd too
They are taking up space unnecessarily.
You can buy these items at pumpkin, so...
Sometimes attack animation also plays at the bottom left part of the screen.
Can't move after frost / iced up - use evade.
NOTE: effects have a timer and they show up with an icon below you mana.
AI targets the wrong enemy. (Not the closest.)
While gardening, somewhat hard to position the character to the right field.
Opening the inventory does not pause the game. Pretty bad during fights.
Only 4 skill slots and 4 food slots.
After killing last boss, I was frozen, got white screen, could move, but white screen remained...
Reloading and replaying the boss fight 'solved' this.
HACK
After I got fed up with grinding, I checked out how to edit savegame files.
They are base64 encoded, so you have to decode them, edit them, encode them.
Backup you save files.
Try to decode then encode one WITHOUT EDITING and compare the source file to the newly created one.
I had to change a setting, so that the the files were identical.
On linux:
decode
base64 -d S_0_20250204205011247691533.dat > save.bin
Edit save.bin with a hex editor. (Only after you know decode + encode works.)
encode
base64 -w0 save.bin > S_0_20250204205011247691533.dat
have to disable line wrapping!!!
You can use sha256sum, vbindiff or other tool to check the files for identity.
S_0_20250204205011247691533.dat is the original save file.
As you can see, it has the creation date in the filename.
NOTE that this name does NOT change over your gameplay, unless you delete a save file and create a new one.
Check when a save file was last modified to edit the proper one. (If you are using more than one save slot.)
Obviously you can change save.bin to any name you want.
In the hex editor you will see the name of an item and next to it the quantity you have.
See pic.
NOTE that there is a length check (don't know where), so you can only change characters.
You can NOT add or remove them.
So, if you have 2 of an item, you can make 9 out of the 2, but you can NOT make 999, because the save file won't load!
BUT if you have 9 of an item, you can divide the stack in the game to have multiple stacks of say 2 and edit the save game again to change all stacks to 9.
Obviously the best is if you have 10 if an item, then you can change that to 99...
Or if you have a 100, you can make that 999.
DO NOT CHANGE Advanced, Rare, Epic, Special items. You can only have one of them / they are not stackable AFAIK.
You can get rid of the useless gardening items you get in the chests at you house - at the time you unlock them - by changing the name of the item to another special item's name, that you can actually sell. (It's a bug.)
copperAxe -> armorIron
copperHoe -> armorIron
You can only do this because they have the same character length.
For the same reason you can't just add an item to your inventory, but you could change an item to another one if the length of their name is the same.
eg.:
I used this to make 999 cookies because of the life steal.
I used this to make 999 gold bars to sell them for money.
I used this to make 9 out of hard to get boss drops.
I have played this on Linux with Lutris.
setup_kitaria_fables_1.0148_(68820).exe
Worked mostly fine, but I had a few crashes, which may be unrelated to the game.
Save regularly.
Also backup your save files regularly.
Save is @ drive_c/users/username/AppData/LocalLow/Twin Hearts Games/Kitaria Fables
I have played at least 10-15 hours before hacking.
All together, I have spent 30 hours on this game.
TIPS:
Backup your savegame.
Got milk? - Cheap, makes you move faster.
Bosses can drop keys.
Bosses respawn every start of the day at 07:00.
If you have no quests, look in and around towns for people (guards !) with quests, both day and night.
You can have multiple food buffs at the same time.
If you don't water your plants, they won't grow.
Get gold watering can ASAP.
NOTE: a guide mentions that having a silver can before a quest for it may break the quest, but it didn't for me. It just got completed right after I got it.
Other tools don't need to be upgraded.
Using the axe and pickaxe doesn't take much time and you may not need them all game.
The axe becomes useless after you have enough wood for your chests. (and a quest)
You only need to hoe your garden once and if you keep having plants planted you won't lose the land.
Grow food for money and buffs.
Read Steam Guides:
Complete Walkthrough with Tips for Kitaria Fables
Kitaria Fables - Locations for monsters/bosses/chest, upgrade costs and a whole lot more SPOILERS!!
From steam guides:
Spell damage is based off weapon damage. I noticed this when I switched from sword to bow, and my spells did less damage.
You can pin items you want to buy at a shop, so you don't have to go back to that shop to see what you need again and again.
Only after you sell an item for the first time, will you see its sell price in the inventory.
BUGS
2nd chest at home comes with 5 gardening items you CAN NOT DROP OR DELETE.
3rd too
They are taking up space unnecessarily.
You can buy these items at pumpkin, so...
Sometimes attack animation also plays at the bottom left part of the screen.
Can't move after frost / iced up - use evade.
NOTE: effects have a timer and they show up with an icon below you mana.
AI targets the wrong enemy. (Not the closest.)
While gardening, somewhat hard to position the character to the right field.
Opening the inventory does not pause the game. Pretty bad during fights.
Only 4 skill slots and 4 food slots.
After killing last boss, I was frozen, got white screen, could move, but white screen remained...
Reloading and replaying the boss fight 'solved' this.
HACK
After I got fed up with grinding, I checked out how to edit savegame files.
They are base64 encoded, so you have to decode them, edit them, encode them.
Backup you save files.
Try to decode then encode one WITHOUT EDITING and compare the source file to the newly created one.
I had to change a setting, so that the the files were identical.
On linux:
decode
base64 -d S_0_20250204205011247691533.dat > save.bin
Edit save.bin with a hex editor. (Only after you know decode + encode works.)
encode
base64 -w0 save.bin > S_0_20250204205011247691533.dat
have to disable line wrapping!!!
You can use sha256sum, vbindiff or other tool to check the files for identity.
S_0_20250204205011247691533.dat is the original save file.
As you can see, it has the creation date in the filename.
NOTE that this name does NOT change over your gameplay, unless you delete a save file and create a new one.
Check when a save file was last modified to edit the proper one. (If you are using more than one save slot.)
Obviously you can change save.bin to any name you want.
In the hex editor you will see the name of an item and next to it the quantity you have.
See pic.
NOTE that there is a length check (don't know where), so you can only change characters.
You can NOT add or remove them.
So, if you have 2 of an item, you can make 9 out of the 2, but you can NOT make 999, because the save file won't load!
BUT if you have 9 of an item, you can divide the stack in the game to have multiple stacks of say 2 and edit the save game again to change all stacks to 9.
Obviously the best is if you have 10 if an item, then you can change that to 99...
Or if you have a 100, you can make that 999.
DO NOT CHANGE Advanced, Rare, Epic, Special items. You can only have one of them / they are not stackable AFAIK.
You can get rid of the useless gardening items you get in the chests at you house - at the time you unlock them - by changing the name of the item to another special item's name, that you can actually sell. (It's a bug.)
copperAxe -> armorIron
copperHoe -> armorIron
You can only do this because they have the same character length.
For the same reason you can't just add an item to your inventory, but you could change an item to another one if the length of their name is the same.
eg.:
I used this to make 999 cookies because of the life steal.
I used this to make 999 gold bars to sell them for money.
I used this to make 9 out of hard to get boss drops.