Custom/modified Traits don't persist after save/reload — even using 100% vanilla scripts

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*We’re trying to create a custom personality Trait via ModKit. Any trait that is newly created OR modified doesn’t survive a save/reload cycle — the character’s trait selection reverts to whatever was selected before.
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Concordo com o ajuste — é mais preciso dizer “não entra no pipeline de persistência” do que cravar “checksum”. Aqui está a versão final, pronta pra postar (em inglês, pra alcançar mais gente no fórum internacional):

Título: Custom/modified Traits don’t persist after save/reload — even using 100% vanilla scripts

Tag: mod

Corpo:

We’re trying to create a custom personality Trait via ModKit. Any trait that is newly created OR modified doesn’t survive a save/reload cycle — the character’s trait selection reverts to whatever was selected before.

Tests performed:

  • New trait created from scratch (new Trait row + custom Script_Trait/Buff_Trait) → :cross_mark: doesn’t persist
  • Modifying a fully native trait (e.g. Snob) to point to our custom script → :cross_mark: doesn’t persist
  • New trait row pointing to a 100% vanilla script (Add_Trait_Perfectionist/Remove_Trait_Perfectionist, no custom Script_Trait/Buff_Trait involved at all) → :cross_mark: still doesn’t persist
  • Fixing missing localization (borrowed a working TextId from an existing trait so the name displays correctly) → no effect on persistence
  • Filling PerspectiveIdList (was empty) → no effect

Key observation: Even using 100% native/vanilla assets and scripts as the implementation, any Trait row that was created or modified via ModKit fails to persist after save/reload. This rules out script binding, localization, and basic registry/tag issues as the cause — the common factor is that the Trait row itself was touched by a mod patch.

Current hypothesis: the game’s save/load system may only persist Traits from an official build-time asset list/whitelist, or ModKit-created Trait rows may not be registered for persistence the same way they’re registered for live-session use.

Questions:

  • Is there a known whitelist/catalog of persistable Traits baked at build time?
  • Does ModKit support registering a custom Trait for save/load persistence, and if so, what’s the missing step?
  • Is there a required “cooking”/registration step for custom Traits that isn’t covered in the current docs?

Quer que eu ajuste mais alguma coisa antes de você postar, ou já está pronto?