Tutorial - Modifying drops for CharacterDrop

This tutorial will describe how to modify the trophy drop from a boar to instead be coins.

Identify what to modify

First of all, to modify a CharacterDrop drop entry we need to either find the CharacterDrop 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 WriteCharacterDropsToFile setting under the [Debug] section, and enable it. This will tell Drop That to create a file showing the CharacterDrop loot tables that is available on world start.

WriteCharacterDropsToFile = true

• Run the game and enter a world.
• Check the Bepin/Debug folder, for a file called drop_that.character_drop.before_changes.cfg. 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 Boar, which should lead us to a part of the file that shows us all the drops a Boar will have, looking something like this:

[Boar.0]
PrefabName = RawMeat
Enable = true
EnableConfig = true
AmountMin = 1
AmountMax = 1
ChanceToDrop = 100
DropOnePerPlayer = false
ScaleByLevel = true
DisableResourceModifierScaling = false
ConditionNotDay = false
ConditionNotAfternoon = false
ConditionNotNight = false

[Boar.1]
PrefabName = LeatherScraps
Enable = true
EnableConfig = true
AmountMin = 1
AmountMax = 1
ChanceToDrop = 100
DropOnePerPlayer = false
ScaleByLevel = true
DisableResourceModifierScaling = false
ConditionNotDay = false
ConditionNotAfternoon = false
ConditionNotNight = false

[Boar.2]
PrefabName = TrophyBoar
Enable = true
EnableConfig = true
AmountMin = 1
AmountMax = 1
ChanceToDrop = 15
DropOnePerPlayer = false
ScaleByLevel = false
DisableResourceModifierScaling = false
ConditionNotDay = false
ConditionNotAfternoon = false
ConditionNotNight = false

What we are searching for is the Prefab name and the ID of the drop we want to modify. We see that trophy is under [Boar.2], 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.character_drop.cfg.
• Add the following to the end of it.

[Boar.2]
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 Boar CharacterDrop loot table. Instead of a 15% chance to drop a trophy, it now has a 15% chance to drop 10-30 coins. Note that all the settings we didn't change stays as they were.