Hey guys, this isn’t my original post, it’s from Bonesy of the D2R-Modding website/Discord. He’s done a lot of work figuring out how D2R modding works and has made lots of guides for other people to use, really cool dude along with the other helpful people in that Discord.
I asked him if I could share his post about modding requests here and he said go ahead so here it is:
Loot Filter
Let us choose which items to show and how to show them based on item quality and type.
You already have the base of this started with your _profilehd.json entries; expand on it.
If you really wanna treat us; let us set specific stats or values to determine shown items with a special config file or new .txt rows we can edit to our liking.Expand Legacy File Limits
Certain file limits become a real hindrance to mod developers and limit the creativity and flexibility of mods in general…especially as more and more slots get used up with new updates. Some of the more important limits are:
- Character Saves (8192 bytes)
- States.txt (255 rows)
- ItemStatCost.txt (511 rows)
Small Edits, Large Improvements
There are many smaller/easier edits that are currently hardcoded that would be a nice option for modders to have in their bag of tricks. Some of the ones I can think of:
- Allow Auto-Pickup Gold Radius to be adjusted
- Allow Auras to function when used on left-click
- Allow the “mod/useitem” function in other inputs and outputs of cubemain.txt
- Fix the “transmog” mechanic for item-switching on right-click. It used to work in D2L.
Honestly there are many more things…but I want to be reasonable and pick some low hanging fruit for modders in general. We like to change things.
Christmas Wish List
Finally, there are some things that we are unlikely to get much support for…but we want to throw it out there anyways:
- Bring back TCP/IP. Use whatever disclaimers you guys want; let us play mods with friends.
- Allow models and particles to be more freely-editable. Don’t handcuff us please.
Final Message
We love the game and appreciate the effort by the team to improve things for all players with more Quality of Life options, requested changes, etc. We also feel that removing some of these 20+ year-old limits would go a long way in pushing the mod scene and the playerbase along for another 20 years. So please take these requests seriously…some of them would make big impacts on the overall enjoyability and longevity of an already great game.
It’d be awesome for D2R modding could be expanded further, there’s already so many possibilities with the amount of softcoding available and it’d be nice to have even more options. 