Darklands location definitions

Files with this format: "darkland.loc".

Contains names, coordinates, and other data for all map locations. This data is copied into each saved game file.

Table of Contents

Offsets

Structures

Enumerations

Offsets

Offset: starting at 0x00

0x00: num_locations: word = 0x19e

Number of locations.

0x02: locations: array[ num_locations ] of struct location (each size 0x3a)

Location definitions.

Structures

Structure: location

Size 0x3a.

0x00: icon: word (enum location_icon)

Map image for the location.

• Note that this basically corresponds to the 'type' of location.

0x02: unknown word

• 0 for cities, other locations range from 0x08-0x0e.

0x04: coords: struct coordinates

Map coordinates.

0x08: unknown word

• Ranges from 1-10.
• Seems to be 4 or 9 for live Raubritters (1 for dead); perhaps it's a strength?

0x0a: unknown word

• Most range from 1-5, except pagan altars, which are 0x63 (99).

0x0c: menu: word (enum menu)

Card displayed on entering the location.

• This is the menu (found in enumerations) (card, screen?) you get when you enter the location.
• It could be said that this is the closest thing to a "location type" that there is.

0x0e: unknown word

• Always 0x62 except for castles currently occupied by Raubritters (icon=2); those are 0x92.

0x10: unknown byte [constant: 0xff]

0x11: city_size: byte

Size of the city.

• Cities range from 3 (small) to 8 (Koln); non-cities are always 1.

0x12: local_rep: word

Local reputation.

• In this file, this is always zero. The copy of this structure that lives in the saved game files gets non-zero values.
• Ranges from -150 to 150 (although others claim to have observed numbers outside this range).

0x14: unknown byte

• Zero seems to indicate an "active" site.
• Ruins of a Raubritter castle get 0x04, as do destroyed villages.
• Some other locations get 0x20 or 0x24.

0x15: unknown (4 bytes) [constant: { 0, 0x19, 0x19, 0x19 }]

0x19: inn_cache_idx: word

• In this file, this is always 0xffff (-1).
• In a saved game file, if the party stores items at an inn (in a city), this value becomes an index into cache_offsets (found in dksaveXX.sav).

0x1a: word [constant: 0x0000]

0x1c: unknown word

• All are zero except for Nurnberg, which is 0xc0.

0x1e: unknown (8 bytes) [constant: all 0x00]

0x26: name: string(20)

Name.

Enumerations

Enumeration: location_icon

Map image for the location.

• Darklands keeps the images and the menu options tied together, so the 'image' for a location is pretty much the indicator of the 'type' of location.
• Any unlisted values are displayed as the standard 'castle' style image.