TweakDB - dredmor-com/dungeons-of-dredmor GitHub Wiki

The TweakDB is where tweak information is stored. Tweak information is used for various balance-related features, notably including the different difficult levels.

There do not appear to be any tweaks in the TweakDB which directly affect spells, skills, or other features commonly used in modding, outside of controlling the spawning of monsters and items (so, nothing that affects those things after they spawn).

There are four places where tweaks can go in the TweakDB:

• Inside the main tweakDB tag
• Inside the easy tag, which is inside the main tweakDB tag
• Inside the medium tag, located similarly
• Inside the hard tag, again located likewise

In the main game's tweakDB.xml lists all the non-difficulty tags, then the easy tag and its contents, then the medium tag and its contents, then the hard tag and its contents. This is likely arbitrary, but other configurations are not documented.

The tweakDB, easy, medium, and hard tags have no additional known attributes, and do not appear to ever contain tags other than tweak tags (and, of course, the difficulty tags, in the case of tweakDB).

Every tweak tag contains two attributes:

• A name attribute: used to identify the tweak and determine what effect it applies
• Either an ival or fval attribute, representing either an integer or floating-point decimal value

The following are the tweak types which exist in the tweakDB. As stated in the comments for the XML file, some of these may be vestigial and not actually do anything.

Name	Description	Value Type	Used in Difficulty Tags	Used in Base Tag
additional horde size	???	ival	☑	☒
additional monster grace period	???	ival	☒	☑
additional named monster damage per level	???	ival	☑	☒
additional named monster primary point budget	???	ival	☑	☒
additional named monster secondary point budget	???	ival	☑	☒
additional number of monsters per room per level	???	ival	☒	☒
ammo roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
ammo roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
anvil chance	???	ival	☒	☑
armour roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
armour roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
artifact quality museum multiplier	???	ival	☑	☑
bad dual wield penalty	???	fval	☒	☒
bad weapon penalty	???	fval	☒	☑
bbq chance	???	ival	☒	☑
blocker number a	???	ival	☒	☑
blocker number b	???	ival	☒	☑
blood magic inc level 0	???	ival	☒	☑
blood magic inc level 1	???	ival	☒	☑
blood magic inc level 2	???	ival	☒	☑
blood magic inc level 3	???	ival	☒	☑
blood magic inc level 4	???	ival	☒	☒
boss mob XP scaler	???	fval	☒	☒
box muller std dev	???	fval	☑	☒
burn max	???	ival	☒	☑
burn min	???	ival	☒	☑
burn scale	???	ival	☒	☒
corpse time	???	ival	☒	☒
dispenser chance	???	ival	☒	☑
dredmor statue break exp	???	ival	☒	☑
dredmor statues per level	???	ival	☒	☒
entropy max	???	ival	☒	☑
entropy min	???	ival	☒	☑
entropy scale	???	ival	☒	☒
evilchest chance	???	ival	☒	☑
experience n	???	ival	☑	☒
food roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
food roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
fountain chance	???	ival	☒	☑
freezer chance	???	ival	☒	☒
gold amount per level	???	ival	☑	☒
gold drop per level	???	ival	☒	☒
hit ammo drop percent	???	ival	☒	☑
hit thrown drop percent	???	ival	☒	☑
horde chance	???	ival	☑	☒
horde is overpowered chance	???	ival	☑	☒
horde room grace period	???	ival	☒	☑
hpregenturns	???	ival	☑	☒
instability proc rate	???	ival	☑	☒
item power granting chance	???	ival	☒	☒
lockpick exp	???	ival	☒	☑
lockpick roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
lockpick roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
lutefisk divider	???	ival	☒	☑
maximum additional treasures	???	ival	☒	☒
maximum number of additional monsters	???	ival	☑	☒
max shops	???	ival	☒	☑
max wizard graffitis	???	ival	☒	☑
midas scaler	???	ival	☒	☑
minimum blockers	???	ival	☒	☑
minimum food per level	???	ival	☑	☒
minimum horde size	???	ival	☑	☒
minimum number of monsters in room	???	ival	☑	☒
minimum number of treasures	???	ival	☒	☑
miss ammo drop percent	???	ival	☒	☑
monster additional HP percent per level	???	fval	☑	☒
monster additional HP per level	???	fval	☑	☒
monster boost chance	???	ival	☑	☒
monster HP global scale	???	fval	☑	☒
monster hurt anim time	???	ival	☒	☑
monster level adder	???	ival	☑	☒
monster level sneaking penalty	???	ival	☑	☒
monster loot drop chance	???	ival	☒	☒
monsterspawnturns	???	ival	☑	☒
mushroom roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
mushroom roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
named monster box muller	???	fval	☑	☒
named monster chance	???	ival	☑	☒
number of reagents per level	???	ival	☒	☒
number of teleporters	???	ival	☒	☒
num lutefisk statues	???	ival	☒	☑
num quest statues	???	ival	☒	☑
num shelves per level	???	ival	☒	☒
numstairs	???	ival	☒	☒
num traps per level	???	ival	☑	☒
percent chance a found recipe is encrusting	???	ival	☒	☒
potion roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
potion roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
ring roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
ring roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
small random food buff	???	ival	☒	☑
small random food buff variation	???	ival	☒	☑
spregenturns	???	ival	☑	☒
store buy price scaler	???	fval	☑	☒
store sell price scaler	???	fval	☑	☒
tooltip border size	???	ival	☒	☑
trap XP scale	???	ival	☑	☒
treasure roll size	???	ival	☒	☒
uberchest chance	???	ival	☒	☑
vending machine scale	???	fval	☑	☒
wand roll max	???	ival	☒	☒
wand roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
weapon roll max	???	ival	☒	☑
weapon roll min	???	ival	☒	☑
zorkmids per level	???	ival	☑	☒