The Drunken Lizard Pub

Spider Silk is quite easy to find early in the game, Jude, but gets rare later.

I found the chest you get your first letter and a bag of coins from to be a good spot to store things safely. I forgot the guys name, SE corner of the first town.

That's a good idea. I've been using the chests and barrels in the ruined town my character woke up in.

Jude

AIR Maddocks is the guy's name, sirchet

many great ideas, thanks a lot! maybe i can become rich after all.

i agree that money is not a problem in the second half of the game (and not that important either). but i was imagining that i could make a simply change in the game file, and start with 99,999 pieces of gold instead of 200, and what would in my opinion make a big difference. and be fun, too - but i guess that's only me. im a cheater. =)

Ahh...it feels good to come clean. heh heh

I too am a cheater, that's right I said it.

I do try to contain my cheating until I've beaten a game fair and square first...but, after that is accomplished, it can be fun to see just how much you can get away with. heh heh

yes, me too ... i've finished the game in all three ways. it would be so fun to edit stuff and create a super-character. i just can't figure out how to - maybe no one else can either? it's probably just me, though. makes me sad.

Oh, editing the character is quite easy. I just tweaked my stats to the equivalent of a decent roll to avoid the tiresome dice reroll mini-game, but creating a super-character would be easy to do.

it is? that sounds great!

could you maybe give me some tips? to start with i can't find any editor that works on a mac - artmoney and those other editors doesn't.

or do you just open the 'char'-file and change stuff? if so, what should i look for?

HexEdit works wonderfully

http://hexedit.sourceforge.net/

Attributes can be found in lines 3ff. immediately followed by your skills.

Editing the Inventory is quite easy too, just lookout for 0D 0A 0D 0A ... this code marks the start of a new bagslot. Copy the code of a expensive item over the code of a empty slot. Take care to overwrite code. Just adding will do strange things to your donned equipent

Editing money is more difficult. Up to now i just succeeded in increasing money from 40 (hexcode 28 ) to 255 (hexcode FF) or crashing the game with a corrupt char file

edit:
Okay ... i have found a quite secure and hopefully reproduceable way:

1. Start a new game
2. Loot the chest with the 40gp
3. Run to Farwick the Blacksmith
4. Save and exit your game
5. Open your char file with HexEdit
6. In line 000000C0 mark the number 28 and replace it with FF
7. Save and close the charfile
8. Reload your game and sell your shirt and trousers (you should own 257gp now)
9. Save and exit your game
10. Open your char file with HexEdit
11. In line 000000C0 mark 01 01 and replace it with AA AA
12. Save and close the char file
13. Reload your game and enjoy some 40k gp

wow, impressive!

i just tried your way to gain 40,000, and it works perfectly! thanks a lot!

i still can't figure out how to edit the attributes and skills ... what do you when you say "lines 3ff"?

anyway, thanks again, i'm rich and happy

Hehe ...

Attributes begin in line 00000020 (or in human terms: line 3) and are divided by three sets of zeroes.

So if you have 15 Strength, 14 Dex, 16 Endurance, 9 Speed, 11 Int, 8 Wis, 17 Perception and 12 Concentration it would look like:

0F 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 yy 00 00 00 zz

xx = alchemy
yy = divination
zz = elemental

Hint: If you have an extra long name, your attributes may begin in line 4

For better understanding:
01 = 1, 02 = 2, ... , 09 = 9, 0A = 10, 0B = 11, 0C = 12, 0D = 13, 0E = 14, 0F = 15, 10 = 16, 11 = 17, 12 = 18, ... , 19= 25, 1A = 26, ...

thanks a lot again! i'm gonna try it as soon as possible, just have to do some stuff in real life first =)

I actually figured out all of the spots for your stats and for fun, changed mine to 99.

I would hope that no one starts flaming me. I've already won the game 3 times, so I feel free to edit it all I want. For those of you who are so "moral" that they never cheat - I don't know why you'd be in this topic anyway...

I discovered a unqiue way to be rich. If you change the mercantile stat to 99, people PAY YOU to buy things from them, hahaha! I bought out every store and had thousands of gold by the time I was done!

Might be something that Basilisk should look into - capping the % for Mercantile skill - everything I sell I sell for like 200% and everything I buy they pay me (even going negative), for.

That sounds like a fun thing

Will try this later today. Time to pimp my cheatchar "Imbalon" to even greater hights. All stats 50 and all skills 21 are not enough *lol*