Click “Open Pak”, and then a directory will open up for you to find the Pak location. After you verify that you trust it, click the “Open Pak” button in the top right. Once you have those 3 programs downloaded, we’re going to do an easy and quick change to Marcus in the original State of Decay game (change his inventory to include new weapons and a bigger backpack) so that you can see the whole process, from beginning to end.ġ. A walk through of a simple edit from beginning to end If you ever want to get rid of the new change, simply go to the State of Decay folder and delete the file you added. Most changes will require a new game, but some can be changed in current game.Ħ.

Drop the new files in State of Decay’s folder. It has to have the exact folder layout for the game to see it and make the appropriate changes.ĥ. Make sure the new files are in the appropriate file path. Use xml2bmd to convert the new XML file to a BMD file (which is what the game will actually read)Ĥ. Most of the files you’ll be editing are in XML format, which is easy to use and understand. To be able to edit the right files, you’ll need to use SoDET to extract the the files.Ģ. Credit to dude1234 from the Undead Labs forum.Ī quick overview of modding State of Decayġ. State of Decay’s game files are packed in various. xml2bmd : This is the program to convert the new XML files to a BMD file. You could use regular notepad or another program, but Notepad++ makes it much easier.ģ. Notepad++ : This is the program we’ll use to edit the XML files. Credit to thexshadow from the Undead Labs forum.Ģ. SoDET : This is a program to extract the files from State of Decay.

First, you will need a few programs to mod State of Decay– all of them can be downloaded for free:ġ.

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