A Guide to Export_Descr_Buildings.txt

**K'Sharra the Conqueror** · December 15, 2016, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by Gigantus

A building has to have the temple prefix and the religion entry to get destroyed if the settlement gets captured by another religion.

It dosen't seem work with custom religions.

Here is the entry for the high elven temple from the Elder Scrolls mod.

Code:

building temple_auriel
{
    religion auriel_rel
    levels a_small_chapel a_chapel 
    {
        a_small_chapel requires factions { byzantium, } 
        {
            capability
            {
                happiness_bonus bonus 2
                religion_level bonus 3
                agent_limit priest 1
            }
            material wooden
            construction  1 
            cost  800 
            settlement_min village
            upgrades
            {
                a_chapel
            }
        }
        a_chapel requires factions { byzantium, } 
        {
            capability
            {
                happiness_bonus bonus 2
                religion_level bonus 4
                agent_limit priest 2
                population_health_bonus bonus 1
            }
            material wooden
            construction  3 
            cost  2600 
            settlement_min large_town
            upgrades
            {
            }
        }
    }
    plugins 
    {
    }
}

It dosen't get destroyed if another religion captures it, which is a problem in the submods that base recruitment on religion since the AI don't destroy buildings in their own settlements.

**Withwnar** · December 15, 2016, 09:31 PM

Auto destruction doesn't work if the levels don't have "city" or "castle" qualifiers. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post14773297

**lekseus** · October 01, 2017, 12:11 PM

Is there a way to add effect "tax bonus" to the building?

**Frunk** · October 11, 2017, 03:25 AM

Originally Posted by OP

In addition, there is sometimes a line that goes after the convert_to line that ties the building to a specific religion. It goes as follows:
religion orthodox
Available religions are:
catholic
orthodox
islam
pagan
heretic
After the line definition comes the individual building definitions in order, like the gunsmith definition:

Can someone tell me exactly what the religion line does? i.e. what does "ties the building to a specific religion" mean? Is the building only buildable by factions of that religion (and does that conflict with the requires faction line)? Or is it destroyed when a faction not of that religion captures the settlement? Or does it do something else?

**Withwnar** · October 11, 2017, 03:56 AM

If the building has a religion_level capability (i.e. increases religion level) then that line indicates which religion it's referring to.

Also, yes, it triggers auto-destruction when a faction of another religion captures it. But it must have a "city" or "castle" qualifier for this to happen. e.g. artist_studio city requires factions ... Sometimes buildings don't have this, when the same building is available in both types; such buildings will not auto-destroy.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...4#post14773524

**Frunk** · October 11, 2017, 04:35 AM

That clears everything up, thanks With! +rep

Most of the "European" buildings in the Americas campaign are assigned catholic, so I'll be getting rid of that line in cases where the building might also be protestant, islam or orthodox.

**Jurand of Cracow** · November 11, 2017, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by Gigantus

This is the list, can't guarantee that they all work - I know only about some difficulties with the construction cost bonuses.

agent [agent type]
agent_limit [agent type]
amplify_religion_level
archer_bonus armour
cavalry_bonus
construction_cost_bonus_defensive
construction_cost_bonus_military
construction_cost_bonus_other
construction_cost_bonus_religious
construction_cost_bonus_stone
construction_cost_bonus_wooden
construction_time_bonus_defensive
construction_time_bonus_military
construction_time_bonus_other
construction_time_bonus_religious
construction_time_bonus_stone
construction_time_bonus_wooden
farming_level
fire_risk
free_upkeep
gate_defences
gate_strength
gun_bonus
happiness_bonus
heavy_cavalry_bonus
income_bonus
law_bonus
mine_resource
navy_bonus
pope_approval
pope_disapproval
population_growth_bonus
population_health_bonus
population_loyalty_bonus
recruitment_cost_bonus_naval
recruitment_slots recruitment_time_bonus_naval
recruits_exp_bonus
recruits_morale_bonus
religion_level
retrain_cost_bonus
road_level
stage_games
stage_races
taxable_income_bonus
tower_level
trade_base_income_bonus
trade_fleet
trade_level_bonus
upgrade_bodyguard
wall_level
weapon_artillery_gunpowder
weapon_artillery_mechanical weapon_bladed
weapon_melee_blade
weapon_melee_simple weapon_missile
weapon_missile_gunpowder
weapon_missile_mechanical
weapon_naval_gunpowder
weapon_projectile
weapon_siege bonus
weapon_simple

Would some good, experienced soul bother to go through this list and point out the building effects which do work (and tell us which actually don't)? I think the community gathered much of knowledge over the lat 4 years of modding. And again thanks for Gigantus for providing us with this list.
JoC

**Gigantus** · November 12, 2017, 12:14 AM

taxable_income_bonus doesn't work for sure

**Etxxu** · December 17, 2017, 02:41 PM

I have a problem, i have edited export_descr_buildings to change to 0.4 and now the game crash even before to be opened... Why? What can i do?

**Gigantus** · December 19, 2017, 05:30 AM

Which editor are you using? And what exactly did you change? Copy that line here and mark the number.

**Jurand of Cracow** · October 09, 2018, 10:52 AM

Hi Guys,
in the EDB for The Last Kingdom mod I've found a following benefit from a building: population_loyalty_bonus 1.
I cannot find either in this thread or in the Docudemons.
Does anybody know if it works in the M2TW? (maybe it existed in the RTW engine?)
cheers
JoC

**Withwnar** · October 09, 2018, 11:13 PM

http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Export_...ngs.txt_-_M2TW

According to that it doesn't work, despite the browser (building details card I presume) showing that it does.

**Jurand of Cracow** · October 10, 2018, 02:13 AM

Thanks, Withwnar!
It was used in the older mods and still lurks in the code ;-)
I wish you and all the moders of the TATW, and Gigantus, and Quintus and moders of the EBII, and moders of other mods, would write what's been discovered about the M2TW engine in the recent years (say 2011-2018). Parts of it are here and there (like this list of non-functional script terms), but it'd be good to have it in one place ;-)
cheers
JoC

PS. (ad previous Gigantus entry) Interestingly enough, in the EBII EDB there's a phrase:

Code:

taxable_income_bonus bonus -10 ; No effect other than to provide the visible text for the construction time bonus
....
recruits_morale_bonus bonus -1 ; No effect other than to provide the visible text for the Trade Good bonus

So it means that you may use these to provide the text of the other effect. I wonder why if "0" may be used.

EDIT: errr, yes, on the Wiki page it's described as well. I shoud read more carefully...

**Jurand of Cracow** · October 25, 2018, 03:20 PM

Hi Guys,
I'm looking for an explanation for the following issue.
In the SSHIP there's a building chain "Food Administration" that with the building taking 7, 9, and 10 turns to build. You can start building them but vanish from the queue for no discernible reason after a few turns. If you reduce the prices - it sometimes work, but sometimes not. The same problem is with another building chain (mines), in this case lowering the number of turns to be built works occasionally.
Do you happen to have a similar experience in the other mods? Why it may happen?
JoC

**Gigantus** · October 25, 2018, 10:05 PM

Haven't heard of this problem before. But then the build times are higher then usual.

Has the building a event counter condition that is dynamic, eg switches on and off during game play? Switching an event counter off results in the accumulated building time to be discarded. See here for the principle.

**Lifthrasir** · August 18, 2019, 04:04 AM

About the mine issue mentionned by JoC above, I can't find the reason why. See the code below:

Code:

building mines
{
  convert_to castle_mines
  levels mines mines+1
  {
    mines city requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } and event_counter is_the_player 1 and resource silver or resource gold or resource iron or resource marble and building_present_min_level logging_camp logging_camp
    {
      convert_to 0
      capability
      {
        mine_resource 5 requires not event_counter is_the_ai 3 and not event_counter is_the_ai 4
        mine_resource 6 requires event_counter is_the_ai 3 and not event_counter is_the_ai 4
        mine_resource 7 requires event_counter is_the_ai 4
    population_health_bonus bonus -2
      
      }
      material wooden
      construction  7
      cost  3250
      settlement_min large_town
      upgrades
      {
        mines+1
      }
    }
    mines+1 city requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } and event_counter is_the_player 1 and resource silver or resource gold or resource iron or resource marble and building_present_min_level logging_camp carpenter
    {
      convert_to 1
      capability
      {
        mine_resource 8 requires not event_counter is_the_ai 3 and not event_counter is_the_ai 4
        mine_resource 9 requires event_counter is_the_ai 3 and not event_counter is_the_ai 4
        mine_resource 10 requires event_counter is_the_ai 4
    population_health_bonus bonus -4
      }
      material wooden
      construction  9
      cost  5200
      settlement_min city
      upgrades
      {
      }
    }
  }
  plugins
  {
  }
}

I've also checked the logging camp:

Code:

building logging_camp    ;tech
{
  convert_to logging_camp
  levels logging_camp carpenter
  {
    logging_camp requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, }
    {
      convert_to 0
      capability
      {
        construction_cost_bonus_wooden bonus 5 requires not event_counter is_the_ai 3
        construction_cost_bonus_wooden bonus 10 requires event_counter is_the_ai 3 and not event_counter is_the_ai 4
        construction_cost_bonus_wooden bonus 15 requires event_counter is_the_ai 4
        population_loyalty_bonus bonus 1
        trade_base_income_bonus bonus 1 requires factions { cumans, lithuania, }
      }
      material wooden
      construction  3
      cost  850
      settlement_min town
      upgrades
      {
      carpenter
      }
    }
    carpenter requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, }
    {
      convert_to 0
      capability
      {
        construction_cost_bonus_wooden bonus 10 requires not event_counter is_the_ai 3
        construction_cost_bonus_wooden bonus 15 requires event_counter is_the_ai 3 and not event_counter is_the_ai 4 
        construction_cost_bonus_wooden bonus 20 requires event_counter is_the_ai 4  
        population_loyalty_bonus bonus 2
        trade_base_income_bonus bonus 2 requires factions { cumans, lithuania, }
      }
      material wooden
      construction  3
      cost  3000
      settlement_min city
      upgrades
      {
      }
    }
  }
  plugins
  {
  }
}

I still can't understand why the building lvl2 is diseappearing from the building queue. Can it be due to the mix of the "or" and "and" conditions?

Note: we're using 2tpy

**Withwnar** · August 18, 2019, 04:53 AM

Could be this:
and event_counter is_the_player 1

During turn end that is no longer true. I don't know if that makes it disappear from the queue but would make sense if it did. Though that would also make level 1 disappear from the queue ... does it?

By the way: is it the intention that the logger camp is only required when marble is the resource? If not then it should be something like...

Code:

mines city requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } and event_counter is_the_player 1 and building_present_min_level logging_camp logging_camp and resource silver or resource gold or resource iron or resource marble

**Lifthrasir** · August 18, 2019, 05:48 AM

Thanks Withwnar.
The dev who did this is unfortunately not longer active on TWC. I think that his purpose was to tied the mine and its upgrade to the existence of another one (and its relevant upgrade as well). In this case, the logging camp and then the carpenter. The list of resources is just to justify the case to build a mine

So if I got it right, by putting the logging camp condition first as a minimum level requiered, that should solve the issue

If yes, I think that I have many buildings to check in the EDB

**Gigantus** · August 18, 2019, 10:36 PM

Yup, event counters that change during the building period will reset the building process, eg cancel it. We used a script work around in EBII that might help:

Code:

    monitor_event AddedToBuildingQueue FactionType f_rome
        and BuildingName = roads_garrison_four
        inc_counter cohors_disbanded -5
        if I_IsFactionAIControlled f_rome					;;; for the AI it is not needed
            terminate_monitor
        end_if
        if I_CompareCounter cohors_disbanded < 5
            set_event_counter ecVeteran_Colony 0
        end_if
    end_monitor
    ;
    ;   Re-enable the event counter after the player has clicked the end turn button. If this isn't done, the colony building will never complete.
    ;
    monitor_event ButtonPressed ButtonPressed end_turn
        if I_IsFactionAIControlled f_rome					;;; for the AI it is not needed
            terminate_monitor
        end_if
        ;
        if not I_IsFactionAIControlled f_rome
            set_event_counter ecVeteran_Colony 1
        end_if
    end_monitor
    ;
    ;   Disable the event counter at the end of faction turn.
    ;
    monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType f_rome
        if I_IsFactionAIControlled f_rome					;;; for the AI it is not needed
            terminate_monitor
        end_if
        set_event_counter ecVeteran_Colony 0
    end_monitor