# Custom professions

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/custom-professions/1909>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [June 24, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/custom-professions/1909 "2013-06-24T12:52:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ceasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@Ceasar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ceasar)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/custom-professions/1909/1 "2013-06-24T12:52:02Z")

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Can anyone maybe give a good example of how to make a custom profession that would show me how to make it give me certain items, a fixed number of bullets or just how to quantify the items without having to copy paste it 50 times, and how to add multiple skills cause i think i messed that part up and now the game wont start.

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**Author:** ![xLemor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ea5d25/32.png) [@xLemor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/xLemor)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/custom-professions/1909/2 "2013-06-24T13:55:26Z")

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You should look at the existing items in the .json files in the data folder.  
It would give you a good idea on how to do it.

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**Author:** ![darth\_servo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@darth\_servo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/darth_servo)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/custom-professions/1909/3 "2013-06-24T14:20:16Z")

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Here’s my modified version of the Mechanic profession, which has 1 skill pt each in Driving and Mechanics:

`{
  "ident": "mechanic",
  "name": "Mechanic",
  "description":
"You've always loved cars. You start with a wrench, hacksaw, toolbelt, and\nsome car-related reading material. You also start with 1 skill\neach in mechanics and driving.",
  "points": 2,
  "items": ["tank_top", "jeans", "boots", "beltrig", "wrench", "hacksaw", "mag_cars", "manual_mechanics"],
  "skills" : [
     {
      "name" : "mechanics",
      "level" : 1
     },
     {
      "name" : "driving",
      "level" : 1
     }
  ]
 },
`

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**Author:** ![Ceasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@Ceasar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ceasar)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/custom-professions/1909/4 "2013-06-25T15:38:54Z")

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Oh yeah those whole item lists really helped, thanks for that 😃

Also thanks for giving an example of the skills part, after some time realised that i was missing a , after the item line 😃

But yeah thanks guys for the help 🙂