DropTable Tutorial Modify

Tutorial - Modifying drops for DropTable

This tutorial will describe how to modify the feathers drop from felling fir trees to instead be coins.

Identify what to modify

First of all, to modify a DropTable drop entry we need to either find the DropTable config file of what we are modifying, or extract a list of what is being loaded.

• Go to your BepInEx/Config folder.
• Open the drop_that.cfg.

If it doesn't exist yet, run the game to have it generate.

• Find the WriteDropTablesToFiles setting under the [Debug] section, and enable it. This will tell Drop That to create a bunch of files showing the DropTable loot tables that is available on world start.

WriteDropTablesToFiles = true

• Run the game and enter a world.
• Check the Bepin/Debug folder, for a file called drop_that.drop_table.prefabs.txt. If you can't find it, check your logs. There should be a line describing what files are being created and where.
• Open it up, and find the drop entry that you want to change.
• Search for FirTree, which should lead us to a part of the file that shows us all the drops a fir tree will have, looking something like this:

## DropTable Source: TreeBase; 
[FirTree]
DropChance=50
DropOnlyOnce=False
DropMin=1
DropMax=2

[FirTree.0]
PrefabName=FirCone
Weight=1
AmountMin=1
AmountMax=1
DisableResourceModifierScaling=False

[FirTree.1]
PrefabName=Feathers
Weight=0.25
AmountMin=1
AmountMax=1
DisableResourceModifierScaling=False

[FirTree.2]
PrefabName=Resin
Weight=0.25
AmountMin=1
AmountMax=1
DisableResourceModifierScaling=False

What we are searching for is the Prefab name and the ID of the drop we want to modify. We see that feathers are under [FirTree.1], so that is the one we will be changing.

Modifying the drop

To make our changes, we must go back to the configs.

• Go to your BepInEx/Config folder.
• Open the drop_that.drop_table.cfg.
• Add the following to the end of it.

[FirTree.1]
PrefabName = Coins
AmountMin = 10
AmountMax = 30

• Save the file.

Done!

We have now told Drop That that it should modify the drop with ID 2 from the FirTree DropTable loot table. Instead of a chance to drop a feather, it can now drop 10-30 coins Note that all the settings we didn't change stays as they were. The drop entry at 1 still only has Weight = 0.25, so the probability of the drop is unchanged.