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This is a walkthrough guide on the process of making a mod: In this section you’ll learn how to create a new item in-game; an apple sold at street vending machines that instantly makes the player drunk!

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Setting up a new Mod

• Navigate to the persistent data folder for Shadows at: \Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\ColePowered Games\Shadows of Doubt

• Inside this you should see a folder called ‘Mods’ (if you don’t, you can create one or run the game with the latest update).

• This is the directory where the game will look for local mods (outside of mod.io which is a separate directory with a corresponding name).

• To set up a new mod, create a folder inside this mods folder and name it the same as your mod (although technically the folder name won’t matter). For this walkthrough, name it ‘Drunk Apple Mod’.

• Inside this folder, create a new text file and name it ‘ModSettings.txt’. This is the key file the game will look for to configure your mod.

• You can change various parameters within this ModSettings.txt file to set up some details about your mod. For this example, make it look like this:

  {
  	"name": "Drunk Apple Mod",
  	"version": "1.0",
  	"loadOrderValue": 0,
  	"creator": "You",
  	"summary": "An apple that the player can buy at vending machines that makes the player drunk.",
  	"enabled": true,
  	"workshopTags": ["misc"]
  }
  

• You can change the parameters after the ‘:’ to suit your needs.

Cloning the Apple

• Since our goal is to make a new object somewhat similar to the existing apple in-game, we can use the mod system to effectively clone the existing apple.
• Make a new folder within your local mod folder called ‘Objects’. This is where the game will look for altered or new object data.
• Next, make a new txt file in the ‘Objects’ folder and call it ‘DrunkApple.txt’.
• Inside this text file, we simply want to make it look like this:

{
	"copyDataFrom": "Apple"
}

• The number of data fields you can change for any given object is extensive, but to prevent you having to re-enter all of it we can simply tell the game to copy all fields from another object instead. To do this we can use the ‘copyDataFrom’ field, and pass in the name of the item we want to copy; in this case ‘Apple’.

Making the Apple Alcoholic

• For most alterations we change stuff within the above file, but specifically for altering what the effects are when the player consumes the item, we need to alter a different file.
• Go back to the root mod folder and create a new folder named ‘RetailItems’.
• Create another ‘DrunkApple.txt’ in here.