Tutorial:Creating New Types

In this walkthrough, we'll add a new type — Sound — into PMDO, which is based on the specification described here. Make your game is set to a mod in Modding Intro so that you’re editing a mod instead of the base game.

Creating the New Type

Begin by creating a new type in the Element list.

Click on Add and set the name to be "sound".

Click OK.

You should see the following page below:

Then do the following steps:

• Set the Name to be "Sound"
• Set the Symbol to be "" which represents the unicode \uE093. This will be located next to Water in the PMDO's unicode ordering.

Note: As of 0.7.16, you will need to manually open PMDO/MODS/{MOD_NAME}/Elements/sound.json to add the Symbol ""

Your JSON file for Sound should look similar to below:

{
"Version": "0.7.16.0",
"Object": {
"$type": "RogueEssence.Data.ElementData, RogueEssence",
"Name": {
"DefaultText": "Sound",
"LocalTexts": {}
},
"Comment": "",
"Symbol": ""
}
}

Click on OK and save your progress!

Editing Type Matchups

We will be referencing the chart below:

In the Dev Menu, navigate over to Constants -> Universal.

Under Universal States, click on PMDC.Dungeon.ElementTableState.

Below shows how the Type Matchups are ordered:

Type Ordering

Index	Type
0	Typeless
1	Bug
2	Dark
3	Dragon
4	Electric
5	Fairy
6	Fighting
7	Fire
8	Flying
9	Ghost
10	Grass
11	Ground
12	Ice
13	Normal
14	Poison
15	Psychic
16	Rock
17	Steel
18	Water

For example, clicking on the second System.Int32[] (Index 1) opens all the effectiveness of Bug against all other types. The third element (Index 2) which represents Dark is shown with an effectiveness of 5 (see table below).

Below is a table of what effectiveness each number represents.

# Representation	Effectiveness
0	No effect
3	Not very effective
4	Neutral
5	Super effective