Discovery - modding resrouces

[a_b_danner]

I don't think this is common knoledge (appologies if it is).

Modding trade goods in descr_regions does nothing at all. It DOES NOT add those trade goods to the map.

What adds resources to the game is adding them in the descr_strat. I had thought this was purely cosmetic, but it is what the computer actually goes by when distributing resources to regions. The descr_regions text file is used for hidden resources only, from what i can tell.

[alpaca]

Huh, afaik it's exactly the opposite... Are you sure?
I could be mistaken but I think there are some regions that have resources which don't show up on the strat map.

//Edit: Sorry, didn't read the thread on TWC, this might be interesting...

[GiantMonkeyMan]

this works both ways... to see the resource on the map you must add it in descr_strat but to actually gain from the resource it must be in descr_resource... this is shown by the hidden resources used in AOR etc

[Tittils]

No, A_B is right.
I had a region with both wine and gold as resources in the descr_regions file. I did not have the visible resources in the descr_strat file. That gave me a trade income of 8.
When I added the visible resources to the descr_strat file in that region, the income rose to 64.
So this is actually true.
Good job A_B:)

[GiantMonkeyMan]

maybe you must have both it in descr_regions and on the descr_strat a bit like you having hidden_resources in descr_regions and the top of the buildings file.... has anyone checked if it works with just in the descr_strat?

[alpaca]

Ya, it works without the resource line in descr_regions
However I think that the building requirement is linked to the resource existing in the descr_regions file.