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Offline TheStimerGames
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Hello everyone, ladies and gentlemen, this is Steamer, and today I present to you my April Fool's mod for 2022, ACAT, which stands for All Creatures Are Traitors.
The main idea of the mod: all creatures, from peasants to dragons, from fairies to demons, humans, wolves, bears, and even vampires, in general, all creatures existing in the game now have the Treachery ability (as it is officially translated).
Treachery is an anti-ability of ordinary goblins without upgrades, whereby when reaching 30% of the initial unit size (rounded down), the unit switches to the opposing side. Now, with this mod, every creature will have this ability, with the exception of machines, crystals, the Hive, and swords (i.e., it applies even to the Black Knight and Yeti, which are present in the game files as fully functional, albeit slightly unfinished, creatures).

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A video showing what you can expect from this mod


Note: This is an April Fool's mod, and there is no serious reason for its existence. There will also be no updates for it.

Дуллаханы где-то да имеются на Асхане... только они скрываются и не хотят показывать свою натуру...
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Not bad, not bad... Have you considered adding cowardice as well?

We can think about it, but that would be a completely different story. (Maybe for the next April Fool's Day, or even sooner)

Дуллаханы где-то да имеются на Асхане... только они скрываются и не хотят показывать свою натуру...
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As I understand it, the mod is installed in the data folder.

And in general, this is just brilliant.
Considering that the traitors remain in the army, you can build an entirely new gameplay around this.

It immediately made me want to replay the campaign.
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Guys, please tell me how to change the stats of units and give them abilities?
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comrades, please tell me how to change unit stats and give them abilities?!
as an example, take this mod - it only changes characteristics, so there's nothing extra in it

all original characteristics are located in data.pak along the same paths as in the mod, so finding them won't be difficult

with characteristics everything is simple 
<AttackSkill>4</AttackSkill> - attack 4
<Health>10</Health> - 10 health
and so on

but with abilities it's harder
for example
<Abilities>
        <Item>ABILITY_ELVES_DOUBLE_SHOT</Item>
    </Abilities>
these are the original abilities of wood elves - one ability (double shot)

and here are the abilities from the mod
<Abilities>
        <Item>ABILITY_ELVES_DOUBLE_SHOT</Item>
        <Item>ABILITY_TREACHERY</Item>
    </Abilities>
the treachery ability was added

I'll say right away, I don't have a list of abilities, I just look for them in the characteristics of other creatures, sometimes it's hard to distinguish creatures, for example who is a demon and who is an imp (they're called imps and familiars), then I scroll down to the end of the file and check if there's anything in the <Upgrades> section - if there is, then it's an unupgraded unit
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another question: how do you remove a specific rune from the Dwarves in the game, and how do you give creatures a certain percentage of magic resistance? For example, I want to give demons 20% fire resistance, as per the lore.
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one more question, how to remove any rune from the dwarves in the game and how to give creatures a certain percentage of magic resistance, for example I want to give demons 20% fire protection as per lore 
well, this is where things get tricky - resistances work as abilities, so there are only these:

        <Item>ABILITY_FIRE_PROOF_50</Item>
        <Item>ABILITY_MAGIC_PROOF_25</Item>
        <Item>ABILITY_MAGIC_PROOF_50</Item>
        <Item>ABILITY_MAGIC_PROOF_75</Item>
and with runes it's easier
all runes are located in \GameMechanics\Spell\Combat_Spells\RunicMagic

you can switch runes to an inactive school of magic by rewriting <MagicSchool>MAGIC_SCHOOL_RUNIC</MagicSchool> to <MagicSchool>MAGIC_SCHOOL_SPECIAL</MagicSchool>
Мои мини-моды

Мод RTF

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yes, I just need to remove the energy rune; this rune negates the only weakness of the Dwarves (their speed), and they are already strong.

Added 1 hour 35 minutes ago
I found the characteristics, changed them, and clicked save, but it asks me to save it to which folder, and I didn't understand how to save the modified data.
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Yeah, I just need to remove the Energy Rune. This rune negates the only weakness of the Dwarves (their speed), and they are already strong.

Added 1 hour 35 minutes ago
I found the characteristics, edited them, and when I click save, it asks me to save it to which folder, I don't understand how to save the modified data.
In general, I'll chime in. You need to create an exact copy of the folder structure and place the corrected file in it, and then pack it. The easiest way is: copy the file from the archive to a convenient location, edit it, then create the folder structure (pay close attention to the names and nesting), and pack it. Important: it's better to pack it using 7zip, in WinRAR you need to choose settings for it to work, but I don't remember which ones.


Не уходи безропотно во тьму,
Будь яростней пред ночью всех ночей,
Не дай погаснуть свету своему!

Хоть мудрый знает – не осилишь тьму
Во мгле словами не зажжёшь лучей –
Не уходи безропотно во тьму.


                                                                                       
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I found the characteristics, edited them, and when I click save, it asks me to save it to a specific folder. I don't understand how to save the modified data.
This is some kind of game protection. You always have to save files from the data folder to your desktop first, and the extension of your file might change to txt (but you can easily fix this in the archive).

When I'm too lazy to resave anything, I take an xdb file from a mod and paste the contents of the original file into it.

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In general, I'll chime in. You need to create an exact copy of the folder structure and put the corrected file in it, and then pack it.
The easiest way is to copy the file from the archive to a convenient location, edit it, then create the folder structure (pay close attention to the names and nesting), and pack it. Important: it's better to pack using 7zip, as you need to select settings in WinRAR for it to work, and I don't remember which ones.
By the way, yes, 7zip rarely corrupts files.

I use WinRAR myself, but when I need to combine all the small mods into one large file, I do it through 7zip.

WinRAR corrupts files; I only encountered this once when I uploaded the RTF mod in a WinRAR archive. Then I received a lot of messages about bugs; the strangest bug was with the giant – the texture of his helmet disappeared from the mod! WinRAR ate it!

Regarding recreating the paths, I haven't worried about it for a long time. I take folders from mods; for example, you can extract the path to the characteristics from any ncf mod, but you will need to delete all folders in GameMechanics except creature, and rename the Faction folder
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Мод RTF

Мои NCF существа
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fktifzobr@mail.ru

By the way, 7zip rarely corrupts files.

Regarding recreating paths, I haven't worried about it for a long time. I just take folders from mods; for example, you can extract the path to characteristics from any NCF mod, but you'll need to delete all folders in GameMechanics except for creature, and rename the faction folder.
For me (I don't know why), WinRAR simply breaks the game if it's not configured properly. It just won't launch, but that doesn't happen with 7zip.
And you're right about the structure, but it's convenient to do it this way when you have experience. You have a lot of things at hand, but when you're just learning, nothing is clear. :)


Не уходи безропотно во тьму,
Будь яростней пред ночью всех ночей,
Не дай погаснуть свету своему!

Хоть мудрый знает – не осилишь тьму
Во мгле словами не зажжёшь лучей –
Не уходи безропотно во тьму.


                                                                                       
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fktifzobr, all files within the game's archives have the "Read-only" attribute, and directly modifying them won't allow you to save the changes. It's a simple protection against careless users; therefore, the only solution is to copy and paste them to the desktop and then back. Alternatively, you can simply remove the "Read-only" attribute from all archives and the files within: copy all the data to the data~cash folder, apply the removal of the "Read-only" attribute to all files there, and then repack them.
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