How to change the stats of a modded character?

[ferretjesus]

Hello there!

I downloaded a character mod and I want to change the stats to the default stats of Wilson or something like that, because I find him a tad OP although I like his design and want to keep that.

He deals 1.5x more damage, is luminous when he's above 130 sanity, and also is way faster than normal characters. Is there a way I could possibly change these?

Thanks!

[Ultroman]

A couple of considerations:

• If you only want to play alone, then it's fine. We can do whatever we want with the mod, and thus you can ignore the next points.
• If you want to play with others with the character, you have to either publish it to the workshop OR share it with them manually. See guide for the latter below.
• If you want to publish it, then you need to ask the original author, since they technically own at least the artwork of the character (and possibly also the code for it).

Using and sharing a customized mod for solo-play or just with a few friends

From now on, I will continue as if you have said that you just want to alter the original mod and use it for yourself and perhaps a few friends on a server only available for those people and NOT for the workshop. In that case, we want to "disconnect" the new version of the mod from the one on the workshop.

So, do the following:

• Find the original mod folder (named something like "workshop-###" with ### being a long series of digits), make a copy of it and name the copied folder something telling, as in, this will be the folder for your custom version of the mod. Since it is no longer named "workshop-###" it won't register updates from the original mod anymore.
• Unsubscribe from the original mod. You have to do this, and your friends, too, UNLESS you do the work of giving your version of the mod character a new prefab name (and probably also character name), so they can exist side-by-side.
• Make your changes in the renamed folder.
• Zip your new mod folder and give each person who is going to play on the server a copy to extract into their mod folder. They have to, or their game will crash when they join your server.

Edited January 1, 2020 by Ultroman