After fighting a losing battle with drought and the mysterious disappearance of their women, a brave people set out to sea. The survivors need your help as they are challenged to the ultimate test: survival. Food and building materials must be developed, for the productivity of future shipbuilders, foresters, brewers, and scouts depends on it. Construct gold, coal, iron, and granite mines. Cultivate the land, build farms, establish fisheries and hunting grounds, build up your stocks of animals and manage forests; the well-being of your subjects rests in your hands. Most important is to get your women back!

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A tool that allows you to open the encoded files. It decodes and encodes xml, dds, lua, gr2, cfg, any type of files. Batch conversion supported.

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr - - 32 comments

There are one ore more bugs to fix.
One of them is that the image is cropped at the top and bottom on Widescreen monitors. So to fix it, you need to find a way to distance the camera from the ground.
It is not enough to change the data in the "graphics.xml" file. I'm not sure.

I was searching for a way to open these files, and found this tool.

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UweWeber84
UweWeber84 - - 604 comments

thanks! great stuff

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr - - 32 comments

VoilĂ , here's the fix for this:
Moddb.com

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr - - 32 comments

How to open DDS files?
For Windows, copy the dds.exe (64bit) file to the plug-ins folder in GIMP. Works even with GIMP 2.10
Code.google.com

EDIT: The newest GIMP Versions can open DDS images by default. Note DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5 compressions are lossy - I can only recommend one of them if we are saving a complex images.

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Ultroman
Ultroman - - 2 comments

Sorry for double-post.
Do I need to do something special for the files to work? When I decode a TGA file, change it, save it, encode it and put it back in the game, the game crashes when starting/loading a game.

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr - - 32 comments

I decoded a file called PB_R_Headquarter01_L.tga
opened it in GIMP to see if I can read it, I can -
and encoded it, and put it back to the game directory.
The size was bigger after dec/enc, but the game had no problems to load it.
This Tool is exactly the same Version as on the Xentax-forum - link can be found in the Readme.txt file.

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Guest
Guest - - 690,630 comments

I cant download the files it dangerous file

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr - - 32 comments

It's because the encoder/decoder is an EXE file which modifies files when used on them. This is why browsers or antiviruses classify this EXE as a threat.

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Guest
Guest - - 690,630 comments

Is there a way to increase the amount of Coal, Iron and Gold Ore in the ground per tile? The goal is, to run these mines for ever, like ressource nodes in the game "Satisfactory". I have searched all the files I could read, but nothing found.

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KonradAr Author
KonradAr - - 32 comments

The maximum amount of Coal a single mine can mine is 259. Siedler-maps.de
As I remember you can increase the mining range of a mine, from 3 to a bigger number.
259 Coal allows creating up to 86 generals, starting from 0 soldiers.

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