Update on this, turns out you can do this. It's an effect modifier called ".initiative_change X" where X is the number of total actions. Just found this out. Hope it's still relevant.

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It is possible. You are looking in the wrong place, it has less to do with generation, more with somehow setting up an incompatibility. The Flagellant implements this very nicely
"quirk_modifier: .incompatible_class_ids alcoholism gambler love_interest" and it goes on. It's a bit more tedious, you just have to make your quirk incompatible with all classes except the one you want. Hope that was understandable.

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It sounds like an awesome idea. Though it is reasonable to doubt it's feasibility. I am a modder such a yourself, plagued with a lack of artistic skill.

To speak to a couple of the specifics that you mention:

The idea of linking quirks might be integrated soon. Or tags might be scrapped altogether. Red Hook is working on a quirk incompatibility system. Biggest example of this is that they want the religious incompatibility of the Abomination to depend on quirks rather than tags. So if that becomes a reality that could give a lot of tools to play with. Until it's officially implemented though I think it would be difiicult to do it on your own.

You can definitely create new tags, I've done it myself. Tags on heroes is easy, on quirks it's way more difficult.

You probably can't add new Resistences or DoTs, but I'm reasonbly sure you could just rework the existing ones (Bleed and Blight). As they don't seem very thematic to your target feel, you could just change them. Change the text and icon, and it's as if it's a brand new thing. That would be pretty straightforward actually (I imagine you want to do something like oxygen depravation or something along the lines).

The single turn debuff would probably not be possible, but I suspect there are ways you can simulate this. Maybe do the -PROT debuff and then somehow apply a +PROT buff soon after? A reaction could be accomplished. Many bosses have some 'auto-attacks', attacks they perform at the end of their turn that consumes no actions, just automatic. You could try that.

All in all it sounds like a fascinating idea, but it would be a ton of work, not just on the art side. You'd be in for the long haul, and without a committed artist I might even reccommend you rework some of your ideas to be able to work with existing textures, or ones with very easy modifications.

I'd love to help out and listen to some more of your ideas, it really does sound awesome.

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The XML is the project.xml file. The exporter EXE is the steam_workshop_upload.exe.

Glad I could be of help!

Not entirely sure you could pull that off as a buff. Maybe as a new class that acted twice, and even then I would be skeptical. I would recommend checking out the enemies that have multiple actions and see how that works. There are also some enemies that say have 2 actions per round, but also have an auto-action that triggers at the end/beginning of each round. Check that out, see if it might work for you. I would recommend the Crimson Curse Croc as good enemy to look into. He implements all of the aforementioned mechanics.

Glad to see someone diving in! Darkest Dungeon is my first modding experience as well. The system is actually very moddable, but it is very strict in how you manage it, especially in regards to file hierarchy i.e., you have everything in the folder paths it should be in.

So here is what I would advise.

The folder referred to in the guide is the windowsnosteam folder. Inside you will find the Darkest.exe, which allows you to run DD seperate from Steam (saves and all). This is, clearly enough, an optimal way to test mods. I would reccomend however you copy the entire DD data folder to a seperate location, and handle it from there. Best to keep the safe copy where it belongs.

Next, in order for something to work in the mods folder, it must be in it's own folder, then mimic the DD directory. So, if I wanted to change the Plague Doctor skills, which are in the plague_doctor.info.darkest, then I would NOT put it into DarkestDungeon/mods/heroes/plague_doctor but rather into DarkestDungeon/mods/mymodfolder/heroes/plague_doctor instead.

I am fairly sure that should clear up your questions. Anything else feel free to ask! The Official Modding Guide is awesome, but if you want more advice I would recommend you check out MaesterSilvio's modding streams. They've been uploaded to YouTube and they are top-notch, as with all of his work. To be advised though, he does not delve into the graphical part of modding very deeply, so if you're looking for help with that, you'll have to look elsewhere.

Cheers!

I assume you want to do this in addition to the Crimson Curse? Beacuse if not, a simple way would be to make your disease, assign it the vampire tag, and replace the existing Profile Icon and Disease Panel Overlay (i.e. name them the same thing).

I've been diving around the files and no luck on how the effect is actually created. I would have thought the DLC created a new character.layout.darkest file, but it doesn't seem like it. It seems to be hardcoded.

You may be able to use the system even if it is hardcoded though. I would attempt what I proposed above, just to see if it works. After that I would recommend creating your new disease, and assigning it it's own custom tag. Then name your Disease Panel file disease_overlay_yourtaghere.png and put it in the shared/character directory of your mod folder. Then same with the Portrait Icon: name it portrait_icon_yourtagehere.png and put it in the shared/hero directory. That would be my best guess.

I'm not entirely sure it's possible, be it for heroes or enemies, to target their allies. The only instance I can think of are the new affliction act-outs, a couple of them are friendly fire attacks. Maybe look in there, see if you can't find something useful

Hello to everyone!

I'm trying to set up a building so only heroes with a certain disease can be admitted (again, you can guess which one). There is a requirement parameter in the building activities, but the only values I've seen it take are is_diseased (Only allowed entry if the character has a MODIFIABLE disease quirk) and not_have_quirks (Pretty straightforward, not allowed entry if the character possesses one of the listed quirks). It seems there is no value that allows me to allow entry only to characters that have a given disease quirk.

I thought of a workaround to this, setting up the is_diseased restriction, then setting up the not_have_quirks to all the diseases except the one I want, but the system doesn't seem to let me set up more than one requirement parameter.

So! Questions are as follows:

-Is it possible to restrict a building activity to characters that have a given quirk(s)?

-Is it possible to set up more than one restriction for a building activity? (I suspect, given the way Red Hook handled the Crimson Curse restriction for the sanatrium, the answer is no, but hey, worth a shot)

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!