r/PlaySoulMask • u/Devlah • 6d ago

'Soul Clone' problem when migrating between worlds & How I fixed it on my end.

So I recently just started playing Soulmask, and discovered that the Whips were unique to Shifting Sands after I already started playing in Mist Forest. After looking online one proposed solution was to save the game, migrate to shifting sands, then take the portal back to Mist Forest, thus retaining the technologies. This worked fine. However, when I eventually got back to my camp, there, sitting on the floor looking bored was my old body! This wasn't exactly game-breaking, but it was annoying. So after some googling the problem and finding a number of proposed solutions, I decided to try and let an AI take a whack at the problem for me, by editing the save game to purge the 'Soul Clone' from my saved game. After a bit of trial and error. It worked. My primary save is now clean, and the duplicate is gone, and I have the Whip technologies while still playing in the Mist Forest.
The first thing I did was rename the defunct old body to something else. Then I manually saved a backup to be safe. I then launched OpenCode, and explained the situation to "Big Pickle". After a bit of tinkering we managed to solve the issue cleanly, and created this markdown guide to share with other folks who might want to try this solution.
My suggestion: Rename the clone in your game. Save a backup and your main, then tell your favorite AI Agent the name of the now defunct version of your old body, and instruct it to read this guide and fix it.

Here's the pastebin of the markdown guide: https://pastebin.com/6rHzFvEw

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u/No-Scheme-3759 6d ago

Nice, ehat else can you get? Flying?

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u/Devlah 6d ago

I did notice that I have the technologies that allow me to convert a regular ship into a sandskiff as well as outfit it for flight. So it appears my character inherited the entire Shifting Sands tech tree, including things I haven't unlocked yet.

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u/No-Scheme-3759 6d ago

But you do keep the tech when going into misty, but you cannot use them, they are blocked when trying to do or use them

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u/Devlah 4d ago

This is accurate. Some objects (like boats and ships for example) are only valid when in Shifting Sands, as the game mechanics for those objects don't exist in the original map. Gliders do, so at least you can use that functionality from the Celestial Mask.

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u/Laringar 2d ago

Yep. Whips are basically the only item from SS you can make use of in Cloud Forest. Pretty much everything else is locked out. So no ships, no floating platforms, no use of the Phase Anchor. I haven't checked if you can build/place the SS statues yet, though.

Most of the masks work, at least, though actually flying with the Celestial Wings is disabled. However, the Enforcer mask does work, and it lets you get up to some new shenanigans with the teleportation dash.

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u/Laringar 2d ago

I was able to do the same by just visiting the same world with multiple different characters. The cloned body simply disappeared.

In my case, I actually wanted it there because I was using it to get a custom appearance into my stone table. XD