Retro Rewind Employee Mod

Retro Rewind – Employee Mod

This mod allows you to permanently adjust your employees’ traits, salaries, and skill levels. All changes are written directly into your save file, meaning they remain active even after reloading.
UE4SS is required. Linux and Steam Deck users must add WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dwmapi=n,b" %command% to their Steam launch options.

Overview

Customize your staff by modifying their traits, daily pay, and work skills. Once applied, these changes are saved directly into your game file, so there is no need to reapply them after loading.

Requirements

• UE4SS must be installed beforehand

Installation

• Extract the downloaded zip into:
  RetroRewind\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods

• The archive already contains the correct folder structure, so no extra setup is required

Configuration

• Open config.lua in a text editor

• Add entries for each employee using their exact in-game name

Example:

Only edit config.lua. Do not modify main.lua.

Available Settings

Traits

• Define a list of trait IDs

• Existing traits will be fully replaced

Available IDs:

• 2: Strong Immune System

• 3: Runner

• 4: Thick-Skinned

• 5: Strong Bladder

• 6: Energetic

• 7: Loyal

• 8: Complaint Handler

IDs 0 and 1 exist but have no effect.

Salary

• Set daily wage in cents

• Examples:

  • 3900 = $39/day

  • 6100 = $61/day

Skills (skillCheckout / skillReturn)

• Controls performance at checkout and return stations

• Values range from 0 to 99

Reference levels:

• 15: Slow

• 40: Average

• 74: Good

• 99: Fast

Important: Do not use values of 100 or higher, as this can cause errors in the game.

Movement Speed

• Automatically calculated based on traits and skills

• The Runner trait combined with high skills results in maximum speed

Wildcard Configuration

Use "*" to apply settings to all employees without a specific entry:

Applying Changes

After editing config.lua, save the file and load your game. Changes are applied automatically in two ways:

• Play normally: Open and close your store; changes apply when the day ends and the game saves

• Manual save: Use the in-game time clock, then return to the main menu and reload the save

Once applied, changes are permanently stored in the save file—even if the mod is later removed.

Uninstalling

• Delete the Employee Mod folder from the Mods directory

• Existing changes will remain in your save, but no further updates will occur

• To restore original values, load a backup save

Save file location:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\RetroRewind\Saved\SaveGames\

Changelog

v1.2

• Config now applies on every save, fixing persistence issues after menu reloads

• Removed developer-only keybinds

v1.1.2

• Fixed an issue where changes would not apply after reloading from the menu

v1.1

• Initial release

Technical Details

This mod works by hooking into the game’s “Save Game Step – AI Director” function within the Core_Gamemode Blueprint. This function runs just before staff data is written into the save object.

By modifying the data at that exact moment, the changes are embedded directly into the .sav file without requiring external editors.

The hook is registered using NotifyOnNewObject on the Gamemode class, since Blueprint functions are not available for hooking during initial mod load.