A patching tool for Ice-Pick Lodge's 2005 game Pathologic. Compatible with both the original 2005 and the 2015 "Classic HD" versions of the game.
To use Panacea, place Panacea.exe in the folder <pathologic base directory>\data.
Currently, Panacea can unpack the VFS files used by Pathologic to store game assets such as textures, sounds and scripts. To do this, invoke Panacea.exe with the --unpack-vfs option and provide the name of the VFS file to unpack, for example:
.\Panacea.exe --unpack-vfs Textures
This will unpack Textures.vfs into a folder called Textures.
Panacea is capable of unpacking the main.dat file, containing most in-game text including conversations and item descriptions. Get main.dat from Strings.vfs, then invoke:
.\Panacea.exe --unpack-strings main.dat
This will unpack the strings into text.csv; the first column is the ID of the string and the second column is the string itself.
Panacea can pack modified strings back into the format of main.dat. To do so, invoke:
.\Panacea.exe --pack-strings text.csv
This will pack the strings in text.csv into a file called main_modified.dat.