We have all been there. You sit down for a relaxing evening of your favorite deep simulation game. You install two new mods. You load your save. Red errors flood the console. Your colonists stand idle. The animals are on fire for no reason. The autosave from five minutes ago is also corrupted.
For years, mod authors have wrestled with how to safely remove their content. Enter by mugwump , a tool designed to be the "nuclear option" for resetting specific game states. With the recent release of version 1.1.0 , this utility has evolved from a simple tool into a robust safety net for your load order. Clean Slate -v1.1.0- -mugwump-
No matter your input, the cursor blinks. Forever. The only way to close it is a hard kill via Task Manager. Users on the artist’s Discord have reported that after three forced quits, their desktop wallpaper resets to the default Windows XP green hill. Others claim their recycle bin empties itself at 3:33 AM. We have all been there
At its core, a "Clean Slate" is the ultimate fantasy of the modern age. We live in an era where our "permanent records" are no longer kept in dusty school basements but are indexed by search engines and archived in the cloud. To reach version implies a previous failure (1.0.0) and a subsequent iteration. It suggests that the person we were yesterday was merely a beta test—a buggy, flawed prototype that has been decommissioned to make room for a more optimized self. You load your save
The work posits that the desire for a clean slate is itself the dirtiest data of all. To want to forget is to remember the thing you want to forget. The terminal cursor does not blink because it is waiting for input. It blinks because it is counting down to the moment you give up and learn to live with your corrupted sectors.