Where to Get Started?

Dylan_Rogers · February 10, 2018, 8:35pm

I am interested in mod making for CDDA. I stumbled upon this game on Reddit a few weeks ago. At first I rolled my eyes at it because of the graphics, but I eventually decided to download it and play it, and i love it, mostly because of its depth and difficulty. Anyways, enough of me rambling, I would really like to know where to get started with modding the game and help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,
Dylan

Zhilkin · February 10, 2018, 8:46pm

Start here if you don’t mind reading:

github.com

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/master/doc/MODDING.md

# Modding guide

Certain features of the game can be modified without rebuilding the game from source code; you should be able to just modify the pertinent files and run the game to see your changes.  This attempts to document these features.

An in-depth review of all json files and their appropriate fields is available in [JSON_INFO.md](JSON_INFO.md).

## Adding a profession.

Let's say we want to add a "survivalist" profession.

We'll say this profession starts with archery, survival, traps, beef jerky and a few survival items.  We'll set the starting cost at 3 points since it modifies skills and items.  We could do that with the following entries:

````json
{
  "ident" : "survivalist",
  "name": "Wilderness Survivalist",
  "description": "You live off the wild and wander the world; you've never
                  had a place to live or items other than what you can
                  scavenge off the land.  People called you crazy; now,
                  after the disaster, you're the sane one.",

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BorkBorkGoesTheCode · February 10, 2018, 9:25pm

Also look at JSON_INFO, JSON_FLAGS, MAPGEN, ITEM_SPAWN, NPCS, and the doc folder which comes with the experimentals (not fully up-to-date but they work). 0.C isn’t patched much, so it’s a good idea to mod the experimentals.

Dylan_Rogers · February 11, 2018, 12:25am

Thanks For The Help, Will take all of this into consideration.

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