The procedure for modifying characters, as we did in the last chapter is very similar to that of modifying all other data types in your adventure: objects, spells, monsters, text, and character class attributes. After we create some new objects, we will go ahead and give those objects to CALEB so that they show up in his inventory in the beginning of a new game.

Open up the file DB2ACK/Adventures/MyAdventure/lists/objects.txt in a text editor. Expand the window so that you can see as much of a row in your window as possible. Each non-comment row in this file represents a different object in "My Adventure". For a detailed explanation of the meaning of each field in the rows, see the documentationon objects.

It is extremely important to always maintain the integrity of the order and numbering of each row in your lists of data. If you insert or remove an object in the middle of the objects.txt file, then all objects after the change will require re-numbering, and everywhere you refer to those objects from somewhere else (such as in a map, or a character's inventory), you will have to modify the object number reference. For this reason, you must scroll to the bottom of the file before inserting our new objects.

Add the following lines to the end of the objects file. You may want to cut and paste from here into your text editor to simplify your work. Otherwise, you should probably spend some time lining up the fields of each object and comments row so you can see a description next to each field.

####New Objects##########################################################################################################################################################
#     Name                  tile#   lev   u     drop ID  buy sell find shop mask det req_attrib  min   bonus        val  type   code   Accur
403  "CALEB'S KEY"          156     0     1      0   0   0    0    0    0    0    0  strength      0   intelligence  0   Misc    1      0
#     Name                  Tile    Lev   Uniq  drop ID  buy sell find shop mask det attrib      val   bonus        val  type        phys  fire magic special accuracy
404  "CALEB'S AXE*"         125     3     1      1   0   100  0    0    0    64   0  strength     20   strength      2   HandWeapon    10    0    0    0       1

Figure 11: After changes to objects.txt

When finished, save your changes and exit the text editor.

Re-open the file DB2ACK/Adventures/MyAdventure/lists/heroes.txt in your text editor and position your cursor at the end of CALEB's row. The last column in this table represents the number of objects in that character's inventory, and a list of those objects' reference numbers. Presently, CALEB does not begin the game with any objects in his posession, so the last number in the row is 0. Change the end of the line to give CALEB the objects above, so that CALEB's new row is as follows:

0    CALEB          11      him     class1       30      5       9       0       0       3       1         -    25      10      14      20      400     2  403  404

Figure 12: After changes to heroes.txt

Save and exit from heroes.txt.

Refer to #2 - #4 of the previous chapter if you forgot how to do this. In the future, we will not detail the steps to recompile and install the new adventure, however we may note cases where you do or do not need to delete you temporary save game before testing your new version of My Adventure.