Very nice mod, you can concentrate on the battle with your friend without distractions. Works in multiplayer in 2024

I have finally released the modpack this mod was intended to be a part of: the Torchlite II Roguelite Pack! It includes the new Adventure Mode mod which overhauls the game's campaign.

Both the modlist and the mod are available here on Steam for those interested in reading more:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=2553012355

Glad you managed to get it working and like the mod too Vitor! If you like this, keep an eye open for a new mod and mod-list that I built this and Scaling Vendors to be part of, you might like it too!

You comment here already means more than anything but if you could drop a thumbs-up or an award to help promote the mod in the Workshop, that would be very helpful too <3 Happy gaming!

Problem solved!
For Linux Mint XFCE 18.3 the Torchlight II savegame location is:
/home/<USERNAME>/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Torchlight II/my games/runic games/torchlight 2/
The mod is AWESOME. Is now possible to rush through the world picking up gold only from monsters. Chests drop Blue+, never seen a green or less, so every item has a good money value or an utility of some sort.
In addition, the perks "More Gold drop from Monsters" or "Increased % of magic drops" now are extremely useful, if the formula works how I think it does.
The char file is untouched, so is still possible to add other mods, or remove the mod and still have the char playable.
Probably won't play anymore without!

Yeah Vitor, TL2 seems to have a folder for vanilla saves and another for modded games. I think both should be compatible since this mod doesn't add or remove anything really.

In my Linux install I have "save" and "modsave" folders under "my games/runic games/torchlight 2" when you right-click the game and select "browse local files".

On Windows the location seems to be "Documents/My Games/Runic Games/Torchlight 2" and you can find the same folders there.

Remember to backup your saves just in case, I haven't tried this myself so proceed with caution!

Also, I made this mod to be a part of a larger modlist which is ready for release - but the timing for it was wrong with the new Path of Exile league and Lost Ark coming out this month. If you'd rather wait to try the whole modlist, I will announce ti in this comment section once I make it public! Thanks for checking the mod anyway and have fun!

I'd like to play with this mod, but my savegame seems to be in another folder.
I looked for it to copy in the "Mods" savegame folder, but after finding out 20 different indications to where the Steam savegames are under Linux (none of those indications being true), I decided to carry on with my unmodded game due to not being up to re-start for the 3rd time a lev. 46 character.
If one day I will be able to discover where Steam saves my games (one of which got lost despite using the cloud), I'll gladly try this mod out.

Hey guys I've just uploaded a rebalance for this mod which I've been testing since August 2021 (which honestly I had just forgotten to publish here... but hey better late than never)!

For details on the new balance approach check the "more information" link on the description.

Thanks for the award! Expect some big news on the topic of TL2 mods soon!

This is cool. I usually end up ignoring shops in these games because of drops, which feels like a waste.

Small update: chests now drop ~50% less coins, meaning that you're more likely to see item drops from chests again. My goal is that you should see at least one (hopefully pretty powerful) item drop after opening a boss chest.

Monster drops remain unchanged in this update.

Your reasoning is the same as mine for making this mod - I will add a couple things to that:

1. Being able to deliberately choose your gear from the vendors is a lot more strategic than simply "use whatever is best" from drops. On my limited testing, I have gone for things like Mana Regen even though the gear wasn't all that great for me just because... well I wanted more Mana Regen - while in vanilla I would never buy/use a Mana Regen item for that stat alone.

2. On inventory management, picking up items really breaks the flow for me, especially when the loot filter can be janky in TL2 - with the mod I feel like you could even play without the filter at all.

Let me know how your Veteran run goes and if needed I will buff the drops some. In 3 hours of play (an act), sounds like you should have gotten at least one or two cool drops. I think shat should be easy enough to fix :) thanks again for your help in testing this out!

(2/2) The idea to see loot from monsters replaced with gold in ARPGs crossed my mind for a few reasons: I wanted shopping have a purpose outside of hunting for very specific purchases like early movement speed boots; I wanted my urge to obsessively break every urn and vase to not be a waste of time; Lastly, I wanted to stop dealing with inventory management when I'm slaying hordes of evil.

So this mod does a solid job, checking off two of those boxes. I might just be having bad luck with gear from containers, but with the droprate being so low combined with the pace this build goes, it'll take awhile for my luck to average out.

That's it for now. I had planned to share my initial thoughts at the end of Act I but I'm considering a switch to Veteran mode after my first death. It felt pretty cheap getting one-shot by Chillhoof through all the precautions I took to avoid that happening. In Veteran I hope to avoid one-shots without farming Grell eyes.

(1/2) I played up to late Act I, choosing not to reset any areas or bosses to farm. That's resulted in 3 hours of mostly kiting so far. With that slow pace in mind, here are my thoughts:

Since the value you get from using dropped gear is equal to its buy & sell price combined, it makes sense to get slightly more gold than vanilla, where you take advantage of that value nearly all the time.

I reached Grell with around 14,000 gold acquired according to the statistics page, much of it from selling gems. It was enough to upgrade my weapon twice, and I managed to equip all but a solid belt and chest piece. I even blew 3,000 gold on enchants. Most of this came after I acquired health-on-hit. Before having sustain without potions, it was difficult to afford anything but the cheapest gear.

I never found any gear in containers that was better than the cheapest shop gear. The only dropped gear I ended up using temporarily were ghastly gloves, because I was level 3 with no other options.

Thanks! In the latest version, I have a feeling a lot more gold is dropping than in vanilla - and while I hope that's balanced by needing to rely much on shop gear, I'm not sure it's not too a bit too much. I guess you'll have to tell me after your playthough :)

I haven't tested this as much as I'd like yet but so far, despite lots of gold, it's never been enough that I can just buy every item I'd want and potions, etc. I always end up returning to little to no gold after coming back to town.

About your summoner build, this mod makes no changes to how shop inventory is generated but since you will find a lot less items on the ground, it will be harder for you to find the gear you truly want. That's part of the intended design here - you will need to make use of non-optimal items you find in shops and unique/legendary items from chests that may not 100% fit your build.

Finally, if you feel like sharing why this idea had crossed your mind already, I'd like to hear it too!

I've always wanted to see an idea similar to this implemented in an ARPG. :^)

Now, I'm not familiar at all with vanilla Torchlight's item progression, but I will give this a shot and share my thoughts after a bit.

For reference/as a disclaimer: I'll be trying to complete my first full playthrough of NG and NG+ on Elite difficulty with a summon focused Outlander. My main goal will be to get my hands on as many sockets and minion damage gear I can find while keeping a healthy stock of potions. Since I don't have any benchmarks to compare my progress to, the main thing I'm looking out for is how often I have the gold to purchase an upgrade when I reach a jump in difficulty or hit a wall while leveling.

Made an update tackling chests this time around (see updated description for more info)! Felt pretty good to play for a short while but would be interested in hearing people's opinions on it!

ok thank you!

I tried making it as balanced to the vanilla game as possible but I think you can install any other mod that increases the gold drop rate and it should work with this (haven't tried it myself though).

yeahhow high is the droperate? :)

Thanks, happy to have found you guys on Discord!

hey @tukkek! good first mod man, grats!