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| - This is a DIY (do-it-yourself) mini-mod. The item stacking values are governed by the \DATA\2DA00.BIF\baseitems.2da file. Or, if your game is patched to version 1.1a, then: \DATA\PATCH100.BIF\baseitems.2da You will need to edit this file. Before you do, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the 2DA format article under the . Note: Change stacking for ingredients, potions and other non-equip-able items only. Changing item stacking for weapons, armour, shield and magical items is not recommended — it may crash your game. I did not try this; it might work — but you have been warned.
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| - This is a DIY (do-it-yourself) mini-mod. The item stacking values are governed by the \DATA\2DA00.BIF\baseitems.2da file. Or, if your game is patched to version 1.1a, then: \DATA\PATCH100.BIF\baseitems.2da You will need to edit this file. Before you do, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the 2DA format article under the . Note: Change stacking for ingredients, potions and other non-equip-able items only. Changing item stacking for weapons, armour, shield and magical items is not recommended — it may crash your game. I did not try this; it might work — but you have been warned. Open up baseitems.2da in the editor of your choice (this is pretty big table, so I recommend Excel). I will take only a few lines here as examples — you will need to make the same changes to all the lines you want changed — in the column named "Stacking". Anyway, here is how it looks now: <pre> 16 ammunition_arrow 99 20 necklace 50 22 potion 10 26 improvised 50 30 scroll 10 32 gem 10 33 ingredient 50 34 upgrade_component 50 44 food 10 45 other 10 46 grease 25 47 bomb 15 48 drink 10 51 sp_rngd_amm 99 54 ammunition_bolt 99 55 thorn 99</pre> And this is how lines above look after the update (again, I show only the "Stacking" column here): <pre> 16 ammunition_arrow 999 20 necklace 999 22 potion 999 26 improvised 999 30 scroll 999 32 gem 999 33 ingredient 999 34 upgrade_component 999 44 food 999 45 other 999 46 grease 999 47 bomb 999 48 drink 999 51 sp_rngd_amm 999 54 ammunition_bolt 999 55 thorn 999</pre> Save the file with the same name and put it in the \DATA\OVERRIDE directory. There is no need to start a new game; just load a saved game and enjoy your mini-mod. See how it feels and experiment with new values as you like. Other mods may modify the same file (like the Weapon range mod), so watch out. McCleud Warning Note: Using the v1.2a patch and based on my completion of the game from start to finish using my own modified file from long ago, specifically and only containing greatly increased stack limitations for 29 items within the baseitems.2da file and no other changes to any files, a correctly edited file will not cause a crash under any circumstances. It appears (to me) the occasional crash exhibited by the game relates to it having problems with its own save enumeration system and/or a failure to correctly initialize the next environment being loaded, such as during an autosave attempt when passing between indoor and outdoor or outdoor to outdoor environments. In those situations the autosave file is usually corrupted due to the game critically crashing before the save procedure completed. I highly recommend liberal use of the F5-key to save often. During the life of a game from start to finish, the save folder can easily grow beyond 2-3+ GB of data. Since the game automatically parses all save files gathering various data for listing purposes, and for enumeration of next logical sequencing depending upon its current action, such as when saving or listing for save or load, a substantial performance boost can be had by manually deleting as many of the unneeded save files as possible every couple days. Files should be sorted by date-modified when doing this instead of depending upon the games generated header numbers to better ensure you only delete what you really want to. As an alternative you can simply move out the older files, keeping only the newer files in the save folder. You can move those back at any time. McCleud OVERRIDE Note: Technical clarification. 2da and likely other files do not have to be in the OVERRIDE folder. The game will use them if they exist in the Data root. This is (likely) due to a standard function of the engine/archive-engine code to look in root folders for each file specified within a keylist/hashtable before using the file from an archive. During development stages no archive would exist and all files would be in raw/unpacked condition. I believe the OVERRIDE folder was created to help mod makers and end users of mods to better organize and keep track of mods, which is a good idea and should be used whenever possible.
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