King Arthur: Knight’s Tale – How to Save File Editing and Modding Game

A guide to save file editing / “modding” your game.

Guide to Save File Editing and Modding Game

All credit goes to Nord!

Intro

Before you do anything, backup your save files.

A single, unwanted, character or even just a space somewhere can & likely will break your save file and you are s* out of luck until you find and correct it.

So I’ll say it once more: Backup your save files.

Occasionally, after editing your save, the game will take forever and appear frozen when you try to load it, that’s “normal”, just wait.

If the game crashes, it does not automatically mean you did something wrong, just try again to load. You will notice a “butchered” file if you load one, trust me 😉

You also might get a message like “save from older version, reset before starting a mission blabla”, which you can generally ignore. Hence it is also generally advised to only edit savefiles which are saved inside camelot or on the worldmap.

Naturally you could brick your playthrough with this but I haven’t had any issues so far and it is very unlikely that any will appear.

I started fiddling with my savegame at level 10, now im mid 15 and no issues so far.

Savegame Location

The save files are located here:

• C:\Users*yourUserName*\Documents\NeocoreGames\KA_KT\Users*SteamDigits*\Save

In here you just look for the savegame you want to edit, they will match in names on how they are named inside the game.

Right Click on the save file you want to edit and choose “open with” and choose notepad (or any similar program – I’d suggest to use notepad++).

Depending on how new or old your savegame is, in terms of actual playtime and progression in the game, it will contain more or less data and therefore lines of “code” (Who would have thought, right?).

You do not need to close the game when you edit a save file. I would suggest to do it while the game is open, this way you also won’t need to take care of potential anti-tamper measurements

Resources, Morality & Faith

The “Info.cfg” & “Adventure.cfg” section in the file should be straight forward, it’s mainly gamesettings but it also includes morality & faith and you can also edit gold, building resources and such.

If you can’t figure out how to change gold or some basic resource by yourself, you might want to stop right there and just play the game, the editing won’t get easier from here on out.

• MordredSkin=0 – default skin.
• MordredSkin=1 – the white skin, from twitch or some similar crap.
• ResurrectionTokens=1 – this is how many resurrections you have available inside the crypt.

In both the info.cfg and adventure.cfg you will have values for Religin, ReligionLast and the same for morality.

Religion as well as Morale are both either normal values, for example: Religin=14 or -values, for example: Religin=-14

Normal values are for Christianity & Rightful while negative values are for Old Faith and Tyrant.

So Religin=-5 would be 5 points into old faith and Religion=5 would be 5 into christianty.

You need to edit both values in adventure.cfg aswell as info.cfg for it to work.

You can ignore the ReligionLast / MoralityLast variables.

Bring back dismissed heros & freely exchange roundtable with aspiring heros

Important: Before you move or bring back a hero these ways, make sure they are not inside any facilities and also have no court titles or “jobs” assigned!

You can do this easily ingame, or alternatively, make sure that “CurrentlyTreated=” and “Title=” are blank inside the save file.

“HeroSaveData”

Again, most should be obvious on what they do.

• xp=11364 -if you want to max level your hero just put 999999 or something and gain some XP, if you just want to do a few levels you are better off duplicating XP tomes (more on that in the next section).
• Injuries= – if you remove everything after = your hero has no more injuries.
• DeadHero= – 0 = alive and kicking, 1 = inside the crypt.
• IdleHero= – 0 = active and inside the roster, 1 = in the aspiring hero tab.
• This allows you to move a hero from your roundtable / roster into the aspiring hero area or vice versa, however make sure you actually have free slots.
• damaged= -same as with injuries, if it has any value remove it and the hero is healed.

We can also re-recruit heroes which we previously dismissed:

Look for “Tags=Dismissed” , remove Dismissed so it just says “Tags=” and choose with the IdleHero=0 or 1 where you want them to appear. (again, make sure you actually have free slots)

This usually works, however sometimes it doesn’t…

…But there is a second way to bring back dismissed heroes:

Again, look for Tags=Dismissed, remove dismissed so it just says “Tags=” and this time also change “DeadHero=0” to “DeadHero=1” and change “Killer=” to “Killer=LostKnight”

The hero should now spawn in your crypt and be ready to be resurrected (remember: you can also edit the amount of resurrection tokens you have)

You can also “give” yourself heros which you haven’t met yet or can’t recruit. Its also possible to replace a existing hero with a different one.

I haven’t tested this much yet but technically all you need is a blank HeroSaveData sheet, so just copy Sir Mordred’s HeroSaveData, remove all LearnedSkills & equipment and Change “HeroType” to the hero you want, the names are usually just how the hero is called, without spaces.

Though with this I would say, unless you are already in the endgame mode, that you are riding a fine line between it works but the question is just for how long.

Add or Duplicate Items

Under “Inventory” you will have a list of all the items you got in your inventory.

To add an item, first look if you already got one of it and add the new one right below the existing one.

If you don’t have one already, it should not matter where you put it (I think), but I would generally put it last.

Here are the important tomes:

• ItemName=Tome_resetskills
• ItemName=Tome_removetrait
• ItemName=Tome_resetloyalty
• ItemName=Tome_xp
• ItemName=Tome_skillpoint

Note: here I’m pretty sure the game only ever drops a single one in act 1.

So just add these lines:

EquipmentItemSave
{
Buyback=0
NewItem=0
ItemName=Tome_resetloyalty
StackCount=1
}

And exchange ItemName= with whatever tome you want, as tomes don’t stack leave the stackCount at 1.

You can also add items this way, however as items are named like this: Jewelry_T3_U_3 or TH_Accessory_T3_R_1 it’s near impossible to know what you are getting unless you know what it is already, hence already having one it in the game. But I guess one could just change the numbers and see what comes out.

You can also add items directly to your hero, if you look for “Equipment=” and just add them there.

Changing loyalty and moving/duplicating essence buffs.

Under “HeroSaveData” you can change the loyalty by finding the hero you want to change it for and then look for:

LoyaltyEventModifiers
{
}

and change it to:

LoyaltyEventModifiers
{
EventBonus=10 (or whatever number you want)
}

You can also move or duplicate essence buffs:

You might want to unequip all other gear to make it easier.

Again, look for the hero you have used the essence on and under “Equipment=” you will see the values for the essence, they usually start with: “AM_Consumable”, from here you can freely move or duplicate these to other heroes.

Keep an eye out for the ; dividers, they are strangely placed and sometimes need an , and other times an ; to end, randomly – which is why unequipping all other gear isn’t a bad idea.