[HELP] Adding items to the game?

[FeroFerreTuliLatus]

I've looked through this forum, and have trawled through the Imperium "MOD" directory looking for clues, but I've come up blank: is it possible to add new items to the game?

For example, say I wanted to add a medium combat drone - is there a way of doing that? The item editor only seems to let you edit existing items, not create new ones, and the "items" MOD directory only contains PNG bitmaps.

Can anyone help with this?

[astyanyx]

The items database is hidden among those images, cleverly disguised as the only txt file.

[FeroFerreTuliLatus]

<Grin>. Why, so it is! Thank you! Quite a different format; I'm going to have to find an editor that can insert tabs (I hate tabs with a passion and always use space sequences in my source code).

Is there a convention for adding things to the list? I'm mainly concerned about item IDs - I could see problems if i used the next linear ID in the sequence only to find that momo has added something with that ID in the next update that results in confusion for existing save games. Can I use any ID number, even if it's out of sequence? Is there perhaps an ID range reserved for added items?

[FeroFerreTuliLatus]

Another thing... When you get to the bottom of the file where the drones are defined, the helpful column headers end up being "NULL 0" for the ones that probably matter (e.g, combat damage for a combat drone). Is there a description of what the columns marked NULL do for drones?

[astyanyx]

I just had a small mouse tap me on the foot and introduce itself as Nani. Anyway, A Nani Mouse says the following.

14 AoE Type | 15 Bomb Bonus (negative for damage, positive for healing. Doesn't affect Web types) | 16 AoE Growth Speed | 17 AoE Max Size | 18 AoE Delay | 19 NULL | 20 NULL | 21 NULL

14 Drone Type | 15 Drone Range | 16 Drone Speed | 17 Max HP | 18 Max Energy | 19 Drone Abilities (R,G,B,A#mining#attack#defense#repair#salvage#tractor#scanner#bomber#leech#burglar) | 20 Cargo Size | 21 Drone Special (depends on type, could be ammo ID for attack drones, bomb ID for bomb drones, amount of energy returned by a leech drone, etc.)

[FeroFerreTuliLatus]

<Grin>. Thank you!