Editing Hex Editing - Guide (section)

== Editing Buildings ==
Building names and descriptions (excluding HotA) are saved in BldgSpec.txt and BldgNeut.txt. Building requirements can be altered by changing their dependency tables. Address of each dependency table is located at: 
* 0x0EB816 - Castle
* 0x0EB8B3 - Rampart
* 0x0EB971 - Tower
* 0x0EBA39 - Inferno
* 0x0EBA48 - Necropolis
* 0x0EBA5C - Dungeon
* 0x0EBA70 - Stronghold
* 0x0EBA84 - Fortress
* 0x0EBA98 - Conflux

Note, that some building requirements are changed in HotA.dll. While it shouldn't be too difficult to determine their location in that file, (look for appropriate DWORDs in HotA.dll) for now these offsets are unknown. The requirement table for Cove and Factory may be coded differently and as far as I know, haven't been found yet. 

Building costs can be changed in Building.txt. 

=== HotA buildings ===
Building names and descriptions for HotA are saved in HotA.dat and can be edited as a text edit using f.e. the aforementioned HotA Editor. 

Building costs for HotA are saved in HotA.dat. The building names appear before the building costs. Each building cost contains of 28 bytes, each 4 bytes representing a 4-byte little endian number of cost for each resource (Wood, Mercury, Ore, Sulfur, Crystal, Gems, Gold). Note, that some buildings have text and description, but no written cost (either replaced with 0s or simply not having any space devoted to them). An example is Mana Generator. For now it is not known how to edit the cost of these buildings (and therefore the cost of the Mana Generator remains a mystery).  

=== Resource Silos ===
Resource Silo yield tables are located at 0x288F04. Each resource value is mentioned for each town, one by one, in 4-byte values (order of resources is Wood, Mercury, Ore, Sulphur, Crystal, Gems, Gold) with towns going in order. 

Cove's Resource Silo simply copies the one from the Dungeon, while Factory copies Rampart. 

The Resource Silo table is called for in exe a few times, but HotA.dll overwrites all (or most) of these calls at 0xd37ae and 0xd37ce.  As of 12:19, 19 September 2024 (UTC), it is not known how to alter the Resource Silo values for Cove and Factory. No specific offset or function have been identified.  {{unk}}.