Darklands common structures

These structures are common to a number of different files.

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Structures

Structures

Structure: date

Size 0x08.

A date.

0x00: hour: word

0x02: day: word

0x04: month: word (enum month)

0x06: year: word

• Contains the entire value (not just 0 for 1400)

Structure: date_reversed

Size 0x08.

A date stored in reversed format.

• curr_date (found in dksaveXX.sav) is stored in this format, although dates in the event structure (found in dksaveXX.sav) are stored in the normal date format.

0x00: year: word

• Contains the entire value (not just 0 for 1400)

0x02: month: word (enum month)

0x04: day: word

0x06: hour: word

Structure: money

Size 0x06.

An amount of money.

• Money is stored with the monetary units separated, rather than simply storing the number of pfenniges.
• Darklands does seem to recover if the number of pfenniges or groschen "overflow", and it makes change automatically.

0x00: florins: word

0x02: groschen: word

0x04: pfenniges: word

Structure: coordinates

Size 0x04.

A world map location (pair of coordinates).

0x00: x_coord: word

X-coordinate.

• Ranges from 0x0000 - 0x0147.
• The maximum is the first word of the file "darkland.map".

0x02: y_coord: word

Y-coordinate.

• Ranges from 0x0000 - 0x03a3.
• The maximum is the second word of the file "darkland.map".

Structure: item

Size 0x06.

An item.

• Most of these values can be found in the item_definitions array (found in darkland.lst). Quality and quantity, of course, differ from item to item.

0x00: code: word

0x02: type: byte

0x03: quality: byte

0x04: quantity: byte

0x05: weight: byte

Structure: attribute_set

Size 0x07.

A set of attribute values.

0x00: end: byte

Endurance.

0x01: str: byte

Strength.

0x02: agl: byte

Agility.

0x03: per: byte

Perception.

0x04: int: byte

Intelligence.

0x05: chr: byte

Charisma.

0x06: df: byte

Divine favor.

Structure: skill_set

Size 0x13.

A set of skill values.

0x00: wEdg: byte

Edged Weapon skill.

0x01: wImp: byte

Impact Weapon skill.

0x02: wFll: byte

Flail Weapon skill.

0x03: wPol: byte

Polearm skill.

0x04: wThr: byte

Thrown Weapon skill.

0x05: wBow: byte

Bow skill.

0x06: wMsl: byte

Missile Weapon skill.

0x07: alch: byte

Alchemy skill.

0x08: relg: byte

Religious skill.

0x09: virt: byte

Virtue skill.

0x0a: spkC: byte

Speak Common skill.

0x0b: spkL: byte

Speak Latin skill.

0x0c: r_w: byte

Read/Write skill.

0x0d: heal: byte

Healing skill.

0x0e: artf: byte

Artifice skill.

0x0f: stlh: byte

Stealth skill.

0x10: strw: byte

Streetwise skill.

0x11: ride: byte

Riding skill.

0x12: wdws: byte

Woodwise skill.