Dumping & Full Dump

Reference. Everything about exporting the game's assets to disk: the per-scene toggle, the full-game dump, where files land, and the integrity guarantee behind all of it.

Dumps are templates, not content. Stitchwork never loads from Dumps/ — it's the reference library you copy from when starting an edit. The Pack Doctor also uses your dumps as ground truth to catch name typos in packs.

The integrity guarantee

Dumps always export the game's original art, even while packs or your own working-folder edits are active. tk2d dumps read the vanilla atlas backup; T2D dumps use the captured pre-swap pixels; text dumps read the game's own strings past any override. You never have to disable your packs to get a clean dump.

The controls (Dev Hub → Debug tab)

Per-sprite and per-atlas dumping also lives where you browse: the Animation console's Edit / Ready All buttons and the T2D browser's Dump Atlas / Dump All Sprites / Dump Sprite row (B2).

Full dump, what to expect

• A progress bar appears top-center: scene counter, elapsed minutes, and the current scene name. The per-scene work is synchronous, so the game freezes hard between updates — the counter advancing is the "working, not hung" signal. A full run is many minutes and several gigabytes of PNGs.
• Run it in a save you don't mind abandoning; when it finishes, the log prints the total and the output folder. Quit to menu or restart afterwards — the session has visited every scene in the game and is not in a state worth continuing.
• An optional keybind exists (FullDumpKey, unbound by default) but the Debug-tab button with its confirm step is the intended way in.

Where files land

BepInEx/plugins/StitchworkRoot/Stitchwork/
  Dumps/
    {Collection}/{Material}/{Sprite}.png      ← tk2d frames
    T2D/{AtlasName}/{Sprite}.png              ← T2D atlas sprites
    T2D/{AtlasName}/_atlas_{W}x{H}.png        ← full T2D atlases
    T2D/_standalone/{Texture}.png             ← textures with no sprite wrapper
    T2D/{Texture}.png                         ← non-atlas textures (flat)
  TextDumps/
    {Sheet}/{LANG}.yml                        ← every string, every language

The dump tree deliberately mirrors the load tree: copy a file from Dumps/... to the matching spot under Sprites/ (or Spritesheets/, paths reference) and it loads. Don't ship Dumps/ inside a pack — the Pack Doctor flags it as debris.