How do you look through the game's code (and find new content)?

[Szczuku]

Like the title states; if I want to look through the game's code, how do I go about doing that.

Like, I know that tuning.lua has most of the stuff that I'd probably be interested in.

But how do you guys find new content? Do devs always leave //NEW CONTENT comments that you can easily ctrl+f to or what?

Or character/npc lines, what file and how do you search it? There's gotta be like thounds of lines in there; how'd you find Sharboi's unimplemented speech?

[grm9]

search for "sharkboi" duh, you can get the prefab of the thing under mouse using print(c_select().prefab), then search for the prefab and in the files that have it in the name 

[Szczuku]

1 minute ago, grm9 said:

search for "sharkboi" duh, you can get the prefab of the thing under mouse using print(c_select().prefab), then search for the prefab and in the files that have it in the name 

Ah, I forgot to mention in the op; I was wondering how do you search for new stuff without knowing the prefab name. I didn't know the .prefab method. Thanks

[Yuuko]

https://semanticdiff.com/blog/visual-studio-code-compare-files/

You can go to 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don't Starve Together\data\databundles

and extract the scripts.zip file to its own folder.  Set yourself on public release, extract, then switch to beta, extract, then run the folder comparison tool.

 

[Cassielu]

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[Hornete]

9 hours ago, Szczuku said:

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Hiya, me and @penguin0616 handle a repository with a good chunk of versions and their (lua) scripts. (Commit names go by VersionID - ManifestID)

https://github.com/penguin0616/dst_gamescripts/tree/willow_wigfrid_meta

The beta scripts are currently on their own branch here, and I personally use Github desktop (you can use any Git GUI, I've been meaning to give Gitkraken more of a shot!) to view differences.

For example, eyyy, did you know moon base is centered now on new generations? That's a change that happened!