Modding Guide for Anno 1800

You want to add something? Check the contribution guide.

Getting Started

• Tools you need
• Structure of a mod
• How to: Change an existing mod

Tutorials

Detailed walkthrough the creation of mods:

1. Tutorial 1 - Get started
2. Tutorial 2 - Making new specialists
3. Tutorial 3 - Making a new production chain
4. Tutorial 4 - Making a new ship
5. Tutorial 5 - Making a new session
6. Tutorial 6 - Basics Modelling

• Tutorial Making Quests

Dedicated Guides and Documentations

ModOps

• ModOps Guide - basic ModOp explanations
• Mod Compatiblity Guide - learn how to make mods compatible with others
• New modloader features with GU17 - more powerful ModOps, dependencies/loading order and sub-mods
• XPath Cheat Sheet - needed for advanced ModOps

Modinfo and ToolOne

• Modinfo.json manual - mod meta information, LoadAfter, dependencies
• Official Property-Documentation (properties-toolone.xml)

ToolTips and Scripting

• Tooltip modding (infotips)
• Lua Scripting

Guides (for assets.xml modding)

• Map Fertilities
• Object Variations and Skins - for Buildings, including automatic neighbors
• How to make AI use new buildings
• Explanation of inheritance (Template/BaseAssetGUID)

Guides (for modding graphic files)

• Ifo-File Documentation
• FC-Files
• Create .RDM Animations with Blender
• Editing .RDM models with Animations (with solving the problem of disappearing objects)
• Create Cloth .RDM
• RDP Particle Files
• Mesh Height Maps
• Edit-Island-Meshes.md

iModYourAnno (IMYA)

• Set up your mod for tweaking

Further Topics

• Build and deploy mods in VSCode
• GU 17 update guide
• GU 16 update guide
• GuidRanges
• Shared Mods

More

• Schwubbe's modding blog
• Asset and Text Browser: a1800.net
• Anno Building-menu Customizer (ABC)
• Map Editor: Stable / Experimental: Code Download