Short chores eat your day in Survival Log. Action Speed lets you choose how much game time each kind of action takes, and how fast you, the robot and other people at your base walk. Everything is set in one config file, and each setting there says what it covers.
New install? Nothing changes until you set it. Every setting starts at the game's own pace, so a fresh install plays exactly like the base game. Before you start playing, raise the speeds you want: on the Mod Manager's Mods screen, or in BepInEx\config\com.dev.survivallog.actionspeed.cfg while the game is closed (the file appears after the game has started once with the mod). Already have a config file from an older version? Its speeds move to the new settings by themselves, so every action keeps the speed it had.
38 settings such as meals, snacks, sleep, naps, toilet, cleaning, harvesting, repairs, searching and traps. Each of the ten sections (eating, health, hygiene, rest, leisure, chores, farming, building, scavenging, defense) has one setting for the whole section, and one setting speeds up everything. Raise only what you want faster.
a sped-up action still gives everything it gives at the game's pace. Sleep twice as fast and you wake up just as rested. You can turn this off to cut sped-up actions short instead.
searching a container you have already searched opens it at once, so it costs no time and, on an expedition, no exposure. Off by default.
one speed for every book, magazine, newspaper, note and letter, wherever the game files them.
set a speed for one action by its id.
every action with the setting it follows and its old and new time is written to a text file.
38 settings such as meals, snacks, sleep, naps, toilet, cleaning, harvesting, repairs, searching and traps. Each of the ten sections (eating, health, hygiene, rest, leisure, chores, farming, building, scavenging, defense) has one setting for the whole section, and one setting speeds up everything. Raise only what you want faster.
a sped-up action still gives everything it gives at the game's pace. Sleep twice as fast and you wake up just as rested. You can turn this off to cut sped-up actions short instead.
searching a container you have already searched opens it at once, so it costs no time and, on an expedition, no exposure. Off by default.
one speed for every book, magazine, newspaper, note and letter, wherever the game files them.
set a speed for one action by its id.
every action with the setting it follows and its old and new time is written to a text file.
you, the robot and your survivors each have their own walking speed, the game's speed by default. Enemies keep the game's speed.
you, the robot and your survivors can each work faster at everything they do, on top of each action's speed, still with the full effect. The game's pace by default.
shorter or longer trips to expedition places and back. The map shows the new time. Off by default.
its own speed. Off by default. Brewing and cooking speeds are in Machine Speed.
Action Speed writes no data of its own into your save and does not edit game files. It does change how much game time things take, and your save reflects that. You can remove it at any time; actions started after that take the game's own time again.
Every setting in the config file is explained in English and Chinese.
BepInEx\config\com.dev.survivallog.actionspeed.cfgChange them on the Mod Manager's Mods screen, or edit the file with the game closed.[Actions]Action speeds come in three levels. Everything in [Actions] sets every action at once. Each section below ([Eating], [Health] and so on) has an All that sets the whole section. Each single setting in a section sets one kind of action. The most specific setting above 0 wins: a single setting beats its section's All, and All beats Everything. Leave a setting at 0 to follow the level above it.
Every action and the setting it follows are listed in BepInEx\action-speed-actions.txt (see below).
Every section has All (default 0, follows Everything). Every single setting defaults to 0 and follows its section's All.
| Section | Setting | Covers |
|---|---|---|
[Eating] | Meals | Meals and ingredients, such as Eat Crackers, Eat Carrot and Eat Mushroom Soup. |
Snacks | Snacks and fruit, such as Eat Cookies, Eat Candy, Eat Banana and Eat Potato Chips. | |
Drinks | Drinks, such as Drink Coffee, Drink Cola and Drink Whisky. | |
[Health] | Medicine | Medicine and first aid, such as Take Meds, Eat Vitamins, Use Bandage and Patch Yourself Up. |
Sickness | Vomiting and Diarrhea. | |
Moods | Short moments like Hungry..., Tired..., Sad... and feeling cold. | |
[Hygiene] | Toilet | Use Toilet and the other toilet actions. |
Washing | Wash Hands, Take a Bath, Brush Teeth and other washing up. | |
[Rest] | Sleep | Sleep. |
Nap | Nap, Snooze... and other short rests. | |
[Leisure] | Reading | Books, magazines, newspapers, notes and letters, wherever they come from. An action counts as reading when the game plays its reading animation or sound for it. |
Games | Play Video Games, Play Darts, Use Playing Cards and trying out electronics. | |
Music | Listen to Music, Listen to Radio and Put on Record. | |
Dancing | Dance. | |
QuietTime | Look Outside, Meditate, Journal and Do Yoga. | |
Relaxing | Rest, Massage, Look in Mirror, Admire and View Artwork. | |
Workouts | Work Out, Running, Do Push-ups and Use Dumbbells. | |
[Chores] | Cleaning | Clean, Disinfect and Do Laundry. |
Organizing | Organize Items (id 11), Put Away and Check Supplies. | |
BoilingWater | Boil Water. | |
Power | Manual Power Generation and Turn On Generator. | |
Unpacking | Unpacking furniture packages and opening packs and gift boxes, such as Open Fruit Crate. | |
Salvaging | Take Apart Chime, Break Trinket, Flatten Can and other collectibles taken apart. | |
[Farming] | Planting | Planting seeds and transplanting. |
Watering | Watering crops. | |
Harvesting | Harvest. | |
Tending | Remove Weeds, Remove Pests, tilling soil and using fertilizer. | |
[Building] | Repairs | Repair, Fix Door, Restore Power and Repair Stairs. |
Reinforcing | Reinforce Door, Reinforce Window and Upgrade Gate. | |
Furnishing | Install Furniture and Move Furniture. | |
Demolishing | Demolish, Dismantle and Scrap. | |
Projects | Create Rescue Beacon, Unlock Furniture, studying a build and other building projects. | |
[Scavenging] | Searching | Search and taking supplies. |
BreakingIn | Unlock, Pry Open, Pick Lock and Force Open. | |
Inspecting | View, Look Closely and Leaf Through. | |
Drones | Drone Patrol and Drone Scavenging. | |
[Defense] | Traps | Set Trap, Install Trap, Dismantle Trap and Move Trap. |
Throwing | Throw Molotov Cocktail, Throw Glow Stick and Fire Flare. |
For example, to make everything twice as fast but leave sleep alone: Everything = 2 in [Actions] and Sleep = 1 in [Rest]. To speed up only farming: All = 3 in [Farming].
To find an action's id and the setting it follows, open BepInEx\action-speed-actions.txt. The mod writes it once the game has loaded its tables, and again once the game's language has loaded. Each line reads id | name | setting | game clock -> with this mod | why, with times in minutes of game time. The setting is written as Section/Setting, such as Hygiene/Toilet. When an action keeps its full benefits, its time ends in , full benefits. The last column is one of:
Changed: sped up (or slowed down) by its speed setting.Overridden: set by Overrides.GameSpeed: its speed works out to 1, so it keeps the game's time.TimedElsewhere: not timed by this table (crafting, brewing, cooking and some others). Its time shows as "not timed by this table", and neither a speed setting nor an override changes it. Use the [Speed] section for crafting. Brewing and cooking are in the Machine Speed mod.FreeSecondSearch counts a container as searched once its contents have been opened the first time. It applies to every search that opens a container, whatever its speed or override, with FullBenefits on or off. The action list does not show it, because it depends on the container.
Speeds and override speeds are held between 0.25 and 20. A value below 0.25 is raised to 0.25 and a value above 20 is lowered to 20.
What 0 does here:
Everything at 0 or less counts as 1, the game's pace.All or a single setting at 0 or less follows the level above it. To put one kind of action back at the game's pace while the rest is sped up, write 1.0 or less, or an entry that is not id:speed, is skipped. The log says ignored override '<entry>', write it as id:speed with a speed above 0 at startup and whenever an action setting changes.1 puts that one action back at the game's pace even when its setting is sped up.Older versions had one speed per game action type (FurnitureUse, Food, Rest, Entertainment, Exercise, Social, Treatment, Move, Other, Free, RepairFurniture) and a Reading speed. The first time 0.8 starts with such a file, it moves those values to the new settings so every action keeps the speed it had, then removes the old keys. The speed most actions shared becomes Everything, a section where most settings share a speed gets that as its All, and only the settings that differ get their own value. The log says what was moved. The old [Speed] Brewing and Cooking lines, which Machine Speed took over in 0.5, are removed too.
All or a single setting says otherwise. 0 or less counts as 1.0 follows Everything.id:speed and separated by commas, for example 112:4, 39:2. An override beats every speed setting. 112:4 makes Use Toilet four times as fast.[Building][Chores][Defense][Eating][Farming][Health][Hygiene][Leisure][Rest][Scavenging][Speed]Crafting and expedition travel are timed apart from the action table, so they have their own speeds here. At 1 (the default) the mod does not touch them at all. Brewing and cooking speeds are in the Machine Speed mod.
Each is held between 0.25 and 20. A value outside that range is pulled to the nearest end, and the log says so at startup and when the setting changes, for example Speed/Crafting = 50 is outside 0.25 to 20, using 20.
What 0 does here: 0 or a negative number counts as 1, the game's pace, and the log says so at startup and when the setting changes, for example Speed/Crafting = 0 is not a speed above 0, using the game's pace (1).
A craft keeps the length it had when it started, so a change here only affects crafts started after it. A Travel change applies to the next trip.
[Walking]1 is the game's speed and 2 is twice as fast. Each is held between 0.25 and 5. A value below 0.25 is raised to 0.25 and a value above 5 is lowered to 5. A 0 (or a negative number) is raised to 0.25, a quarter of the game's walking speed. When all three are exactly 1, the mod does not touch walking at all.
[Work]A work speed adds to each action's own speed: with Sleep at 2 and your Speed at 2, you sleep four times as fast. The action still gives its full effect, even with FullBenefits off. Raiders and creatures always keep the game's pace. Each is held between 0.25 and 20, and 0 or a negative number counts as 1. When all three are exactly 1, they change nothing.
SurvivalLog.exe). The zip holds a BepInEx folder, so the DLL lands in the right place. When asked, merge the folders. The result should be:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Survival Log\BepInEx\plugins\ActionSpeed.dllSurvival Log\
├─ SurvivalLog.exe
└─ BepInEx\
├─ plugins\
│ └─ ActionSpeed.dll
└─ config\
└─ com.dev.survivallog.actionspeed.cfg (made on first start)Delete ActionSpeed.dll from the BepInEx\plugins folder.
To change settings, edit BepInEx\config\com.dev.survivallog.actionspeed.cfg while the game is closed, or do it in game on the Mod Manager's Mods screen, where changes take effect at once (see CONFIG.md for every setting). Action ids are listed in BepInEx\action-speed-actions.txt. Without Exiled's Toolkit installed, changes made on the Mods screen take effect at the next game start instead.
[Work] settings: Speed for you, RobotSpeed for robots and SurvivorSpeed for other people at your base. Each speeds up every action that character does, on top of the action's own speed, and the action still gives its full effect. All three start at 1, the game's pace.[Speed] Travel setting: how long trips between home and an expedition place take, going out and coming home. The map shows the new time. It starts at 1, the game's pace.Meals, Snacks, Drinks, Sleep, Nap, Reading, Toilet, Cleaning, Harvesting, Repairs, Searching and Traps, in ten sections. Each section has an All setting for the whole section, and Everything in [Actions] sets every action at once. A setting at 0 follows the one above it.Move and Free settings are gone; those actions are timed by walking or not timed at all.Brewing and Cooking lines left in [Speed] since 0.5 are removed from the config file.Hygiene/Toilet.Reading setting: one speed for reading books, magazines, newspapers, notes and letters, whatever their action type. It is 0 (off) by default, so reading keeps its type's speed until you set it. An override for a single action still beats it.FreeSecondSearch from on to off. A config file you already have keeps its values; delete it to get the new defaults.Brewing and Cooking settings moved to the new Machine Speed mod, which reads your values from this mod's config the first time it starts.Action speeds apply to everyone doing an action, survivors and the robot included. The bar over a character's head fills with a sped-up action, but other times the game shows may still be the full length while the action itself ends sooner.
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