I have the game for Steam and have the program to make mods, but I can't figure it out for anything.

All I want to do is to add a barrel in Cyseal near the entrance that has 100 stat and ability boost books in it.

Once I finish it I want to do another play through where I just thoroughly break the game and test out all the different skills.

Anybody have a clue on how to do this?

All the videos I can find seem to be about creating your own areas and stuff, but nothing about how to just add a simple item to the base game.

I just finished the game and started to screw with the editor.. It's one of the most abstruse editors I've every used.

For all intents and purposes it seems to be a good way to look at everything in the game but I don't see how to add anything.

I can't even find the books in the lists because they aren't placed anywhere in the open in the game.

It's not worth it for me to spend a week watching mountains of videos for what just amounts to just wanting to screw around with the game after completing it.

I'm thinking since I can't find any mods that exist already for such a thing I'm figuring it's just not possible and the books are hard coded into the one single vendor.

I don't know what videos you have watched, and I can't tell you from experience, but here's a Larian tutorial on placing objects and prefabs.

I finally figured out how to place stuff, unfortunately any attempt to start a new game with the mod active just boots it back to the screen with the message "server shut down". Oh well.

I don't even know where to start. In the editor I just place a single book right near the starting point on the beach, and save with the mod name "Book".

I activate the mod, start new game, it just starts to load, says "server shutting down" until I remove it.


Meh, I just wanted to screw around anyway. Not a big enough deal for me to spend the next week pouring over forums. lol.

For some reason it just seems like it should be so simple though, but it's probably just something set up wrong.

Oh well I did read a lot on the Larian forum anyway and none of it seemed to apply to me.


In the editor, when I save and reload module, it gives an error about something missing from ../mods/main/

the message only lasts long enough to load so I can't see if there is more to the error.. Then it loads without my modifications.

If I try to move the mod to the ../mod/main/ directory DOS:EE just says it's corrupt and won't be loaded. If it's in the ../mod/ directory it'll let me activate the mod but refuses to start a new modded game.

From what I can see everything is installed and pointing to the proper directories.

Another weird thing is, while I can't save and reload the module from inside the editor, if I exit the editor and reload with the mod selected, the item I put in the ground is there, no problem.

The game itself just refuses to run it. And I can't find any reference to that problem. This is starting to turn into one of those things that sticks in my brain like and itch, making it impossible to quit until I figure it out. :p

Somebody on the Larian board solved my issue. Apparently a mod must have two things set in the Modding > Module setting (menu settings) for a mod to function... Weird. lol

Was really simple once one knows you have to set that! :)

What? You're not going to share this knowledge?

Here it is: http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=582024#Post582024

Yep just had to set those obscure settings and it works.. Can place as many books as I want.. It'll make it much easier for me to get all of the spell skills especially and try them all out.

It's awesome! =D