Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden: [EN Translation] Editing Save Data

This is a translation of the information found in penta0’s original guide. The information contained was translated from Japanese to English with additions I have added for clarity. If you found this translation useful, please go to penta0’s guide and give it a rating!

penta0’s guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2736420927
To preface this guide, please note that modifying the save file data will not let you see the stories if you modify that section. This guide should ideally be used to give yourself enough organs so you can see the rest of the story without endlessly farming organs to reach that state. Of course, you can just modify it so you unlock all of the achievements in one go if you can’t be bothered to play anymore.

To ensure nothing corrupts your save, create a copy of the save file and put it elsewhere on your PC PRIOR to editing it. That way, if you mess up, you have the save backed up somewhere and you can just replace the file and start again. It shouldn’t have to be said, but you should ONLY edit the save when the game IS NOT running.

This method doesn’t (and shouldn’t) trigger VAC since this game doesn’t use VAC-secured servers.

The save data is located in an unencrypted text file that can be easily modified.

There’s no checksums or anything that needs to be bypassed. Just rewrite the parts you want to change and save it before opening the game.

The game allows for 3 save slots, each corresponding to their own .sv file:
\Forget Me Not My Organic Garden\mog_Data\savefile1.sv
\Forget Me Not My Organic Garden\mog_Data\savefile2.sv
\Forget Me Not My Organic Garden\mog_Data\savefile3.sv

The .sv can be edited using the default notepad app on Windows, but using a program that numbers each line (like Notepad++ or opening this in VSCode) can be immensely helpful so you don’t lose your spot. For the purposes of this guide, I’ll be showing screenshots of the .sv in VSCode, but literally any text editing software will work.

The .sv file does NOT have labels, so you will need to figure out what each line is based off of your save data in the game.

• 3rd line: Amount of money in save file.
• Modify this as necessary so you can buy up all of the helper animals for those achievements.
• It should be noted that the display driver may crash or the game won’t display properly if this number is too big. I would aim for a number below 1,000,000 to start just so your file doesn’t bug out.

• The watering can section is labelled as “Zyouro State” in the .sv file.
• “Zyouro” from じょうろ (jouro in Hepburn), or the JP word for watering can.
• The 2nd line (Line 1779) controls the amount of exp. points the watering can has.
• My watering can is maxed out at Level 99 with 163195 exp.

• Though they’re not labelled, the trees are ordered by which you unlocked them: kidney, heart, stomach, liver, colon.
• 2nd line: Exp. points of tree
• 3rd line: Lifetime number of harvested regular fruit for the tree
• 4th line: Lifetime number of harvested great fruit for the tree
• 5th line: Lifetime number of harvested excellent fruit for the tree
• 6th line: Current number of regular fruit in inventory
• 7th line: Current number of great fruit in inventory
• 8th line: Current number of excellent fruit in inventory
• 9th line: Lifetime number of sap earned for fruit tree

• 2nd line: Exp. points of mincemeat grinder
• 3rd line: Current number of mincemeat units in inventory
• 4th line: Lifetime number of mincemeat produced

• 1st line: Exp. points of pickling containers
• 2nd line: Lifetime number of pickled kidneys harvested
• 3rd line: Lifetime number of pickled hearts harvested
• 4th line: Lifetime number of pickled stomachs harvested
• 5th line: Lifetime number of pickled livers harvested
• 6th line: Lifetime number of pickled colons harvested
• 7th line: Current number of picked kidneys in inventory
• 8th line: Current number of picked hearts in inventory
• 9th line: Current number of picked stomachs in inventory
• 10th line: Current number of picked livers in inventory
• 11th line: Current number of picked colons in inventory
• 12th line: Number of pickling containers (max is 6)

Events may not properly trigger if you modify the number of organs/mincemeat units or levels of the trees. In this case, you can change instances of “False” in the .sv to “True” to tell the game that you’ve already triggered the event. Note that doing this will prevent you from being able to read the event stories and there is no way to view an archive of these stories at the moment. Changing all of the “False” values to “True” will also quickly trigger all of the story-related Steam achievements.

Each one of these circles corresponds to a specific True/False value in the .sv file (there are 500 quests in the game to do to unlock the true ending). Based on my fiddling, the lines that cover the story achievements span between Lines 23-627 (most likely, anyway).

It’s best not to Ctrl + F and then replace every instance of “False” with “True” in the entire .sv since the True/False values are used for other things and it might break your save if you do that.

I’m still not sure which lines in the .sv correlate to the animal helpers, but you can only own a max of 30 of each. Each time you buy an animal helper, another chunk of lines gets added for that specific helper. It’s a pain trying to parse through an already endless .sv just to figure out which lines those are, but I’m sure you can figure it out if you actually care about that.

At the end, this is what my garden looks like with everything maxed out.

Once again, thank you to penta0 for allowing me to translate their guide into English! Their guide saved all of my hair from falling out of my head. Please make sure to give penta0’s guide a rating as this guide would not exist without theirs!