Conan Exiles

Conan Exiles

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1 Feb @ 11:35pm
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Description
Welcome to my first mod!

This is a mod designed to improve (and fix) the in game descriptions to reduce the need for wikis and provide more clarity to the player directly. I aim to keep the regular flavor text in the game, even if it means we have to move it. The old short descriptions are moved to the top of the long descriptions, and the new short descriptions now provide more quick and clear information on what an item does. Utility descriptions for various items are fixed and include more info. Many descriptions are edited if they were wrong or not providing enough info.

No, this is not a copy and paste from the fandom either. I try and source everything from the game files/engine itself. Sometimes this involves extensive testing or searching as I am new to this. This can also result in long turnover times before something gets added.

Current Descriptions that are fixed:
-Tinker bench descriptions now more accurately represent the numerical value of each equipment modification so you know what you are making before you make it.
-Updated equipment modification descriptions as well as utility descriptions for various modifications.
-Many of the crafting stations have been updated.
-Many resources that are used as fuel have been updated to include the base burn time info.
-Book level short descriptions to better track sorcery progress.
-Numerical value on the amount of health Aloe Extracts restore.

Many more descriptions are planned, typically on a request basis or as I run into it as I play.

If you plan to report typos/issues relating to things that the mod changes, ensure the issues happen with only BetterDescriptions installed. I ran into a few bugs with descriptions that were directly caused by other mods. I cannot fix other peoples' mistakes.
45 Comments
RuTucker 3 Jul @ 4:47am 
"-Numerical value on the amount of health Aloe Extracts restore."
OMG THANKS!!! You are just the best!
Tenoz 10 May @ 3:47pm 
No worries, I actually found a different mod that will do this for me. I haven't looked into the devkit myself yet but there are a LOT of vague definitions in the game. I haven't played this in maybe 4 years and was lost when I came back.

Here are some of my thoughts on adding better clarity.

Add information to the knowledge screen so you know what you're getting like for. Weapons and armor

Better definitions on what each food/potion does in the inventory item and the craft screen at the cooking station. Like explaining durable or healing effects.

Adding onto above better definitions on the bonuses of each crafting station. Iirc there are 3 possible bonuses? One increases speed of crafts, one for reduced fuel cost (burning coal/wood etc) and one reduces material costs. So when listing these bonuses list all possible bonuses and list as a 0% so that it's clear what you are and aren't getting.
Lucid Wolf  [author] 9 May @ 10:24am 
@Tenoz Yeah that came to my attention recently as a problem. I will likely be adding this at some point. Thanks for the reminder!
Tenoz 8 May @ 7:33pm 
Thanks for the reply, I removed all mods except this then loaded it up and realized that it had been working the whole time. I just thought this did something it didn't or rather had wishful thinking lol. What I see in game matches up with your screenshots but for some reason I thought this also clarified descriptions for items crafted in the armorer workbench and blacksmith so you can tell if a piece of armor is agility based for example.
Lucid Wolf  [author] 7 May @ 6:10pm 
@Tenoz I would try to run the mod by itself, then slowly add in the others till it makes it fail. Getting information on which mod is causing conflicts can help others as well. I can add a list of mods that don't work with this one if I know more.
Tenoz 7 May @ 1:21pm 
I can't seem to get this working in game, I tried it both at the beginning and end of my mod load order.

Here's my current mod list

BlackMarketMerchant.pak
CompleteFashion.pak
Ideapoet_EditAppearance.pak
StylistPlus.pak
ExilesExtreme.pak
Commando2.pak
femaleNewFaces.pak
Heritage.pak
Better_gen.pak
ShimasCompendium.pak
maleNewFaces.pak
Boot_Camp_Of_Pain.pak
Emberlight.pak
SlaveWarsServer.pak
slaverMod2.pak
PortableWorkbenches.pak
ImprovedThrallsAndQoL.pak
BetterDescriptions.pak
Coelmatius 4 May @ 2:36pm 
Very useful :steamthumbsup: mod
雷龙先森 17 Apr @ 9:45pm 
The description is in English, is localization support considered?
Gravel 11 Apr @ 6:54am 
@lucid
Yeah it was Gportal having problems with updating. it deleted the file but never grabbed the new one,. place it in manually fixed it
Lucid Wolf  [author] 10 Apr @ 11:11pm 
In case people need the prior version of 0.1.43 (April 2nd) because their server host isn't updating: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdXWhslEg3M1dwH6LtXiUgYsVqJjVF-1/view?usp=sharing

This version shows as 0.1.42 in game but works for the new patch unlike the previous 0.1.42.

Confusing and annoying, I know. Shit happens.