How to disable chat censorship/increase character limit

This guide describes the steps to remove censorship from chat messages along with allowing yourself to send messages greater than 32 characters long.

Prologue

This guide will demonstrate the steps necessary to remove chat censors, and increase chat character limit. The only prerequisite to this is that you need to own a hex editor. My preferred editor is 010 Editor, though there are free alternatives available such as HxD.

Remove Chat Censors

This will remove censorship on your machine from your messages, and the messages that other players post. However, other players will still see your message as censored unless they have implemented this modification themselves.

Note: To jump to a particular offset, use the goto functionality (Ctrl+G). Additionally, you will want to select the hex notation in HxD.

All that needs to be done is as such:

• Open EDF5.exe in your hex editor.
  
• At offset 3EEBD2h, change 1 byte to EBh.
  
• Save EDF5.exe.

Increase Character Limit

This will increase the chat character limit from 32 to 128 (though other values up to 255 should be fine with this method, if desired).

Note: To jump to a particular offset, use the goto functionality (Ctrl+G). Additionally, you will want to select the hex notation in HxD.

All that needs to be done is as such:

• Open EDF5.exe in your hex editor.
  
• At offset 490880h, replace 6 bytes with B0 80 0F B6 C0 90
  (the second byte, 80h, is the limit and can be changed further if wanted).
  
• At offset 49486Eh, replace 14 bytes with 41 B8 A8 02 00 00 90 44 89 86 40 09 00 00
  (note: the A8 02 00 00 (2A8h) is the width of the chat dialog).
  
• Save EDF5.exe.

[jetsetsoaper]

just a heads up, my virus software stopped the edited exe from saving over backup files for my character (i think)

so if u have issues with your game saving after editing, u may have the same problem.

[Daar375]

Can you do a mod to modify the time that the blood and bodies last?

[Zach Fett]

You guys can now use Blue Amulet's EDF 5 Mod Loader to do this for you instead of having to hex edit. It also somewhat fixes the mouse jitter and has an optional patch for borderless window.

https://github.com/BlueAmulet/EDF5ModLoader

[[TG] deepplane82142]

I got it to work

[[TG] deepplane82142]

don't have time to test tonight, but just in case I made a backup of the unedited exe if something did go wrong.

[Manamonke]

Cool does this make me a hacker now?

[Mayheim]

Awesome

[Obi-Two Kenobi]

Works like a charm!

[Icen]

@Soouzooka Ahh okay thanks for clarifying!

[Souzooka]

No, if you modify the game in this fashion you'll be able to see uncensored words from anyone else, though it will be censored for them if they have not applied the mod. Additionally, you'll be able to type an increased number of characters while others can not regardless of if you are a client or host.