# Artifacts lose their activated abilities post save&reload \[Windows\] \[Exp.533\]

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/artifacts-lose-their-activated-abilities-post-save-reload-windows-exp-533/4690>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [January 5, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/artifacts-lose-their-activated-abilities-post-save-reload-windows-exp-533/4690 "2014-01-05T11:27:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Waladil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@Waladil](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Waladil)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/artifacts-lose-their-activated-abilities-post-save-reload-windows-exp-533/4690/1 "2014-01-05T11:27:52Z")

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I’ve been farming artifacts in an Amigara fault, and noticed that (as per title) after I save my game to the main menu or fully quit, I can no longer access the activated abilities of any of my artifacts. When I try to (a)ctivate one, it says “You cannot do anything interesting with your {itemname}.” It still costs a charge to use, however. They don’t seem to be recharging, either, but I’ve not looked too closely at that. Notably, all their passive effects still work fine.

I did fiddle around in the artifacts.gsav file, and did temporarily mess things up and there were errors when I tried to load a few times. However, I hunted down and fixed those mistakes I made, and never allowed the game to save post-error. So that fiddling around PROBABLY isn’t the cause of this problem, but it might be so I wanted to mention it.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/artifacts-lose-their-activated-abilities-post-save-reload-windows-exp-533/4690/2 "2014-01-05T21:46:03Z")

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Merged PR 5414, which should fix this, even for affected saves.