Tutorial (Basic): Modify units/building stats

[ericendre]

Hi everyone,

I'm a french guy and i don"t speak english very well (so sorry for the mistakes). I am a beginner about modding, however i hope you will understand my topic.

After searching a long time how to modify units stats (as population cost or building limit for me) because of mods which don't work, i found how to do it. Maybe some of you already know it but i want to share my discovery

It is extremely simple, but it can be extremely long if you want to change all stats for all units.

Where do you have to go:
C:/Programs files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Age of mythology/data

Then you will find many "proto" files with different number like proto1.0 or proto1.5
I think the number correspond to the version of the game and so the version that interrest us is the last update, proto2.1.

Open this files with notepad or something like this.

Then you will have a very long text that begin with this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<proto version="4">
<unit id="0" name="Hawk">

WARNING: Before modifying the file, make a save of the original file please!

So what do you have to do is to search the unit or building that you want to change stats.

Use Ctrl+F and write the name of the unit.
Press enter until you find a specific line like this:


<unit id="X" name="Y">
with xxx the ID of the unit and Y for the name

and finally you can modify the unit by changing number in specific lines
(search key words or key values, it will help you!)

For example i want to change house limit cap.

<unit id="465" name="House">

I search the line that correspond to the limit construction

<buildlimit>10</buildlimit>

and i change the value by 25

<buildlimit>25</buildlimit>

Then i save and it works!

I did it already with no population cost for villagers, caravan, higher ressources for gold mine and tree and it works well for me.

Tell me if it is not clear and i hope it will help some of you!

[Armor Baron]

There's already 2 guides on the heaven forums about this and one on here made by WarriorMario but yeah, at least you want to help, it's the thought that counts.

[ericendre]

Thank you, i didn"t know AOM heaven forum. It's a gold mine for me ^^

[Armor Baron]

Originally posted by ericendre:

Thank you, i didn"t know AOM heaven forum. It's a gold mine for me ^^

Always willing to help, glad I did, good luck.