Modding Wiki
The wiki is a collection of short, focused entries on:
- Gotchas — bugs, edge cases, surprising behavior.
- Patterns — recurring techniques used by mods.
- Workflow — modder workflow tips.
Unlike the API reference (organized by abstraction), the wiki is organized by topic.
Planned topics
Section titled “Planned topics”- Game data gotchas — UI scale vs internal scale, money/prices ×100 in logs, faction relation float vs uivalue.
- MD patterns — Bridge/Worker pattern, listener race avoidance, reset_cue for recurring workers, library for return-by-value.
- MD traps — XML comment double-hyphen breaks scripts, instantiate=true drops entity writes, signal_cue param drops, double quotes in attr strings break LIBXML2.
- Lua/UI traps — utf8 missing, uitable as widget ID, FFI restrictions.
- Workflow — deploy paths (Steam only), reading debug.log, full sync after every build.