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Old 12-21-2007, 02:30 AM   #1
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They are apparently easy to create. I have just added an item #858, a "Lute of Ishad N'ha", which casts Meteorstorm. The item originally cast Lavawalk, and has been successfully used in actual practice.

The total number of items, currently 857, is decreed on the first line of the D6Item.dat file. This number of course needs to be altered. To actually create a new entry you need to be able to decrypt D6Item.dat, currently I have only half finished this.

After creating the item you need to get it into a PC's inventory. See my approach, creating minimal items, in my recent post "Item Editor".

If anyone has noticed any defects in the items, or if they want to see an item created, they can post in this forum.
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Old 12-21-2007, 10:22 PM   #2
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Wow, Shadow Stranger! You've really taken an interest into delving into the innards of this game! I'm impressed... and don't think that my lack of responses on your other threads is because I'm not interested I just don't have anything to add... yet...
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Old 12-22-2007, 01:54 AM   #3
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The post "Decrypting Item.dat" is being updated as I decrypt more columns. There is an awful lot of stuff that I still have not solved, about half of the total. But I am getting there slowly.

If you don't understand every last column, you can alter an existing entry. To create the Lute of Ishad N'ha I simply changed one character in the entry for Lute of Miracles.
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Old 12-28-2007, 10:45 AM   #4
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Old 01-09-2008, 01:55 AM   #5
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If you think that there are not enough good axes or warhammers, item creation is now able to handle this. Simply create custom items. There are plenty of good swords and a lot of good pole weapons but not much elsewhere.

Ditto if you want an item with an identity suitable to your favorite race or class.

I am making a fair bit of progress in decrypting D6Item.dat, the relevant post is being updated regularly. The first line must be updated every time that you create a new item. It is little - end first, thus "89 + 3" equals 89 +(3*256) =857.
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