Right now it is hard for a mod to be a complete total conversion of Delver, as the base game really wants to be used as the base for any mods added on top of it. This new field in the game.dat file lets a mod set itself as the base data instead, and have other mods merge on top of that.
Changes the data/game.dat game definition file
Adds a new field, overrideBaseGame which defaults to false
When set to true in a mod, this mod will be used as the base game instead of the prepackaged data
Only one base game mod will win out, and that one is the last one found
Right now it is hard for a mod to be a complete total conversion of Delver, as the base game really wants to be used as the base for any mods added on top of it. This new field in the
game.dat
file lets a mod set itself as the base data instead, and have other mods merge on top of that.data/game.dat
game definition fileoverrideBaseGame
which defaults to false