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Want to know the hex location in the save game to give yourself tons of gold or that nifty item. Perhaps the format of the Daggerfall IMG files. Well here you can find that and much, much more. Please note that all the information/links contained on this page is third party information and as such may contain errors.

Running Without the CD
7 March 2002

Daggerfall can be run without the CD to improve game speed and prevent the annoyance of having to switch CDs when playing various games.

1. Install the game with the largest install size.
2. Copy all the files from the DAGGER/ARENA2 directory on the CD to the ARENA2 directory on your hard drive where you installed the game. There are some large files which are not installed by the largest install size.
3. Install the latest patch as desired.
4. Edit the Z.CFG file in your Daggerfall directory. Change the PATHCD value to match that of the PATH value.
5. To run the game don't use DAGGER.EXE as you would normally, but instead run the command FALL.EXE Z.CFG. You can create a batch file to prevent having to type it each time, but don't name it DAGGER.BAT.
6. Some say you need to add the line set dos4gvm=@dagger.vmc to your Autoexec or your custom batch file, though the game will run without it.

Becoming a Lich
30 May 1998

I thought I'd put a slight new twist in the game and try to become a lich. This would be essentially similar to a vampire with a few differences. The first step is, of course, to become a vampire as one normally would. Once that has been accompished you'll need to edit several files.

1. Change your face into that of a lich. Vampire faces are contained in the file VAMP00i0.CIF. I've created a skeleton like face which is available on the Daggerfall Graphics Page which will work fine. You will need to use Andypic and play with the X and Y position of the picture to get it right. Probably the easier way is to extract your vampire face and load it up into an editor. Copy the skeleton face into it and shift it until the eyes match up. Feel free to create your own 'lich' face, I'd love to see it.
2. Change your body into that of a lich. I've created a semi-decent skeleton also available on the Daggerfall Graphics Page. Find your body image which can be found in the BODY0?i?.IMG files. You will probably need to change the size and position of the image a bit to match depending on your race. The skeleton was made for a male Redguard. It doesn't fit everthing 100% since everything is much skinnier than normal so you'll have to wear things to cover it up....of course you'll have to wear things anyways otherwise people would be fleeing in terror.
3. Edit your savegame to make yourself immune to poison and disease. Your undead now and can't be affected by either. Also make yourself resistant to shock since this has a lesser effect on you.
4. Give yourself a critical weakness to fire...very deadly to undead. Also give yourself low tolerance to cold (wouldn't want those bones to shatter now would we). Any previous weaknesses/resistances etc... other than those mentioned can be left as is.
5. Give yourself a bonus to hit undead. Since you are one of the more powerful undead yourself, you have 'insight' or power over the other beings. Give yourself a phobia of humans since they generally want to kill you in nasty ways.
6. In order for your reputation not to drop (you are a walking skeleton after all), you must do several things. First, ensure that you are covered as much as possible from head to toe at all times. Next, to futhur ensure people don't recognize you for who you really are, make a magical item to 'disguise' your looks. It can be any magical item really, just make it give it powerful enchantments including the soul of a lich. It probably should have a spell that is cast at all times although I find this annoying, I'll leave it up to you.

That is it really, not too much different than a vampire, but your character portrait is now real cool. Feel free to make comments or suggestions on this.

Changing the Wagon Weight Limit
30 May 1998

Changing the size of the wagon is simple, once you know the location of the bytes. In version 2.13 of Daggerfall the offset is 0xDFE13. Note that you must multiply the desired max weight by four when changing it (ie, a max weight of 1000 lbs is the hex code A00F). The max value for the weight is most likely in the area of 16000 lbs. To change the text that goes along with this, check out the offset 0x1B06AC, making sure not to exceed the length of the string that is there. If you don't want to do this hex-editting yourself, check out the utility DFWAGON.ZIP which allows you to change the value and the text string.

Repairing with Hex Editing
November 1996

I can't find my write up so here it is again. Pardon me if I cover points you already know. If you need a hex editor, I recommend Hex Workshop, which I got off the net from a Excite search (+hex +editor +win95). Remember it's always a good idea to backup the file first (HW will prompt you to do a backup if make changes).

The save games are in the Dagger directory under subdirectories SAVE0 through SAVE5 in the following order according to the save screen....

The "name" of the save game is in a file called savename.txt if you want to verify that you have the right save.

Look for the item you want to repair (like %it of Orc Strength or Leaping %it), your items will generally follow your name and class name. Locate the beginning of the name then count forward 44 bytes. Position 44-45 are current status and 46-47 are max status. I generally set these 4 bytes to FF7F FF7F. This gives 32000+ uses before breakage. To help insure you are in the right place, for magic items, the two bytes right before that (42-43) usually start with a 2 (2###).

This works for ALL item, not just magical ones. One of these days, I'll play with those other two bytes and see if I can't figure out how to MAKE magic items ;-)

Fixing the Daedric Cuirass Bug + 'Repairing' Items
November 1996

Someone asked if you could use a hex editor to fix the broken Daedric Cuirasses and occasionally broken Daedric Greaves that the shops sell or that you find on monsters. Yes. In your hex editor find the beginning of the word Cuirass. In the file SAVETREE.DAT from your SAVEn directory Words 44, 45, 46 and 47 offset from the C in Cuirass will be something like 00H 80H 00H 80H. These two 2-byte hex words are "hits remaining" and "max hits" for the Cuirass. When it's new they should match. Once it's taken damage the hits remaining is reduced by the amount of the damage. Unfortunately, the word 8000H when taken as a signed integer is negative and the program believes anything that has a negative value is broken. Therefore the cuirass is broken, even though it's new. So, to make the new Cuirass not broken, change the values to FFH 7FH FFH 7FH for the words offset by 44, 45, 46 and 47 respectively. (This is reducing the max hits for the Cuirass from 32768 to 32767.)

You can also use this information to "fix" magic items (just use a hex editor to ake the two hex words match) until Bethesda fixes the "repairs objects" magic enchantment so that it works in the patched versions.

Be sure to make a backup of SAVETREE.DAT before messing with it. NOTE: This is fixed in patch v1.79.

Changing Item Materials
23 November 1998

Ok, so you're at bytes 44 or so doing "self repairs" on your magic weapons and armor, right? Well, you get to thinking about how ugly that leather cuirass looks. You decide to change it. So, you go down from the 44th "repair byte" to byte 50. This controls the style of the armor. You have to experiment to find out which is which, but if you go too high or too low, your armor disappears. Keep that in mind. Anyway, so you change it to look like that cool breastplate. But then you think, "wait... wouldn't it look better as, DAEDRIC?" sure it would! So, you move over 4 bytes to a 0#. Change this to a 09 (these numbers actually coorospond to the ones on the biog*.* edit list, cool huh?). Now, this WON'T change the color. So if you like the ebony color better than the daedric, hop over two more bytes (all this is to the right btw). Here you'll see a 1#. change this to a 17 (this matches the color of the type of material, aka 19 for daedric, 18 for orc, etc). Well, that's it. Have fun with that daedric!

	Bytes 44-47: Repair Bytes
	Byte 50: Armor Style (Leather, Plate, etc...)
	Byte 54: Armor Type (Steel, Silver, Daedric etc...)
	Byte 56: Armor Colour

Somthing to add to Changing Item Material Via Hex-editing In addition to the offset from Start of Item Name,

	Byte 57 - Item Weight (Weight = Byte value X 0.25 lbs)

One important thing to note: byte 54 is the Armor Material, and byte 55 is the armor TYPE. 0 is leather, 1 is chain, 2 is plate. I believe 3 is Crystal, 4 is Glass, and 5 and up are weird things like "of Lightning" and the like. Values past 2 add obscene amounts to your armor rating - like +58, or +2470. Of course, there is a maximum practical value, beyond which the game seems to ignore any further armor ratings. (This could simply be like the AD&D 'natural 20' rule, where a certain percent-score on the to-hit check results in an automatic hit, regardless of defenders' AC.)

Fixing the Negative Spell Point Bug
November 1996

This is a bug - nobody anticipated it because you shouldn't be able to select both low magic ability and no magic in daylight at the same time. What happens is that the "No Magic" part reduces your spellpoints to zero, then the low magic tries to further reduce that. Result is you have -32768 SP.

If you have a hex-editor, you can fix it. Use the editor to find your character's name in the savetree.dat file. Then count 565 bytes toward the end of the file from the first letter in your character's name - this byte should have a value of X3 where X is:

	0 if you have 3X Int in SP
	1 if you have 1X Int in SP  (SP = Int)
	2 if you have 2X Int in SP
	4 if you have 1.75X Int in SP

Monster Reflex Byte Location
November 1996

The monster reflex byte is location 130 bytes (82 bytes HEX) from the beginning of the character's name in the file SAVETREE.DAT found in the save game directories. The byte values range from 0 (Highest) to 4(Lowest). Alternatively you can download a program to do this automatically from the Files Area if you aren't familiar with hex editted binary files.

Increasing View Distance
3 January 1997

The first thing that really got on my nerves when I ventured into the wonderful world of Tamriel, was the limited view. I figured I had to fix that particular "bug". In the file savetree.dat, Daggerfall stores the sound/music/detail settings as vars. Now, the program itself does not allow you to enlarge the red bar beyond the limits of clicking-area, but a simple hex-editor does, if you only manage to locate the vars. As the size differs slightly from time to time, one cannot use the same offset for every savefile. To find the vars, just max the bars, save, let your hex-editor search the savetree.dat for these hex-values 7F,7F,00,7F,00 (the first byte being the detail, you may have to search for 7E's instead), and change the detail to FF!!!! When you load your game, you'll notice that your range has been doubled making everything look much better! (Not as good as unlimited range, but beats the hell out of the first one :))

View Distance Information
26 October 1997

I first hacked to 0xFF, the max viewing distance and ran everywhere (dungeons, outlands, towns...) to observe the effects:

• I didn't have new crashes though I did a dungeon quest, some fight and riding in the wild from one town to another, and some search in towns, asking peoples and pointing houses.
• I enjoyed the enhanced distance. Though the display doesn't get more precise for that (it's not Christmas yet), viewing further fits well to DAGGERFALL freedom feeling.
• The game didn't slow down (on 250 MMX) though displayed and interactive objets have doubled at max distance (42/29 ^2 = 2.1 - it increase with distance Power 2). It seems that PCs are powerfull enough now to handle the double of objects.
• The player sees every creatures further and enemies run towards the player from further distance too. This give more delay to shoot arrows and magic spells at them
• Inside towns, the info mode points further...
• THE PROBLEM: Now the Objects Appear Immediately, poping out of the far myst without smoothness unlike before. In fact many things shows that the game decision distance match 0xFF. The outlands random chaos point for example, regenerate differently when you walk more than the 0xFF distance from that point (42 stride noises). Bethesda limited the view distance to 0x7F and used the 0x7F-0xFF range to make objects appear progressively in the mist for all possible cases. The most mist-range consuming case happens first, patched only to 0xCF: when arriving from outlands onto the border of a big town like Daggerfall town, the chaotic ground in front of the player morphs suddenly into a flat ground with city walls popping up without soft transition anymore. Before patching, they appeared softly across the mist. Then, patching more and more, in a second time around OxDF, trees in outlands pop up the same, then in a third time at 0xFF, houses in towns and everything pop up roughly.
• The ingame distance isn't linear with the patched values. So that it is not so usefull to patch at the max 0xFF value. Here are some critical values I searched for:

  Patch Hex	Dist Strides	(m)	View Gain	Notes
  0x7F	29	(50m)	0%	Bethesda's max choice, smooth everywere
  0x9F	33	(57m)	14%	smooth limit on big towns borders
  0xCF	39	(67m)	34%	rough on big towns borders, smooth limit in outlands
  0xD7	40	(69m)	38%	a little rough in outlands, smooth in towns
  0xDF	41	(71m)	41%	rough in outlands, smooth limit in towns
  0xEF	42	(72m)	45%	rough in towns at view sides, smooth at center
  0xFF	42	(72m)	45%	max value, rough nearly everywhere.

  I don't care much of the first symptom (big towns poping up at once when arriving from outland) so I hacked definitly with 0xCF value. I "only" gained 34% increased view to keep enough trees smoothness to avoid a quickly bothering sight as I sometimes join sites manually accross the wild. Those who don't care outlands may patch up to 0xDF to gain an extra +7% view whith still a good town sight...

How I obtained these distances?
• I counted the stride noises while walking from the first detected pixels of an objects in the far mist till be in contact with it.
• my prefered test object was Castle Sentinel (Grand!). I used the tree rows all around as check scales to avoid any distance mistake.
• I saw the max view was obtained in full daylight at least from 10am to 4pm, under sunny, cloudy, and rainy wheather the same (the usual rainy days without fog). Distance measures showed the same values.
• I wanted to convert sound strides in meters for a better comparison with real world. I managed to obtain a significant approximation with the help of whatever tree row leading to Castle Sentinel. Walking through the trees following the row, I counted repeatedly 5 sound strides between every two trees with still good match on the 5th tree I passed through. So the distance between two trees worth 5 strides Then I stood in front of two trees, viewing them both at extreme right and left of my center view. Then I waited that a NPC cross the line between these trees and I freezed the screen at that moment with the "U" key (use magic object). So I had time to measure on screen the hight of the NPC and the lengh between the two trees: a 5.23 ratio.

  Then I had to estimate what was the hight of the NPC and all would be done. NPCs are strong but don't seem tall, the same as middle-age people. The player have to look down at them. I estimated they were exactly 1.65m tall just to have a simple reference number for the max detail distance choosed by Bethesda (0x7F) before patch.

  Now the formula: 1.65m x 5.23 = 5 strides
  so 1 stride = 1.65 x 34/6.5/5 = 1.72m
  so max view Bethesda ref: 29 strides x 1.72m = 50m
  and the distance between two trees: 5 strides x 1.72m = 8.6 m
  I found it could match my subjective impression for the 2 trees view.

• I noticed a distortion: the lateral 45° objects in the screen view are shown much nearer than the center objects. Having one Castle Sentinel tower hiding in the mist at center of the screen, turning 45° and the tower get strongly out of the mist lateraly: seems that the game takes a square map area and displays it around the player as a circle.
• Once a real scale established, it's possible to measure everything: The Sentinel East townwall inside has #strides: 247 (425m)
• I used it as a new ref to measure diferent player's speeds. walking, it took me 2'16" so walk speed is 11 km/h. It would change with character and load I think... running, it took me 1'30" so run speed is 17 km/h (may change too) at horse full speed, it took me 54", so horse full speed = 28 km/h

  Why not the size of the whole worldmap now? In "Totambu" state, riding from "The Screaming Giant Inn" strait south to "The Rheste Plantation" took me 1h27' with rest halts excluded, mouse locked at 28km/h full speed, so it shows a 40.6km distance. According to the on-screen map measures ratio, the whole world map would be about 314km x 530 km. Maybe there are other means to fix a better scale. I didn't looked after them. Mine only rely upon the estimation of NPCs' height.

Changing into Monsters
12 September 1997

Dunno if this would be in everyone's game. As I've said before, I hack considerably at my .exe [which I'd release if Bethesda would let me, cause I'm playin' a different game now. The 'Collectors' version, per se. (I've over 550 different items on my ship, as well as 150+ different paintings.)], but in my game, if one gets hit in at range while having The Wabbajack equipped, you are polymorphed into some other creature. I've screenshots of me being a rat, a lich and something else. Sometimes (often) when you go to view your character on the stats screen, it'll crash, which makes be beleive I didn't miss something when I was reading about the artifacts. It's interesting, because it TOTALLY skews your stats, and it RESETS the character. I don't know if any of these mutants would be playable due to stability.

Advancement Multiplier Stats
10 January 1999

0x266 (614 decimal) Over=Advancement multiplier in saved game

Format: ## ## 0! (! is the whole number) (#'s are other numbers) +/- 655 per 0.01 advancement point (ie: a value of 655 would be 0.01, 65536 would be 1.00, etc...).

Basic (nothing special, 8 HP char) = 1.00 or 65536
Each add HP + when 8+ cost: 3277 each (from 8 to 9 or 9 to 10, etc.)
Each sub HP - when 8- bonus: 6554 each (from 8 to 7 or 7 to 6, etc.)

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