Tes4Mod:Save File Format/NPC

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Form Flags (0) 3 Base Health (2) 4 Base Attributes (3) 5 Base Data (4) 6 Spell List (5) 7 Factions (6) 8 Full Name (7) 9 AI Data (8) 10 Skills (9) 11 Base Modifiers (28)

[edit] Overview

Order of subrecords inside record:

1. Form Flags
2. Base Attributes
3. Base Data
4. Factions
5. Spell List
6. AI Data (1)
7. Base Health
8. Base Modifiers
9. Full Name (2)
10. Skills

(1) AI Data's position is not certain. It might be also before Spell List.

(2) Full Name's position is not certain. It might be also before Base Modifiers.

[edit] Form Flags (0)

Subrecords interpretation is still unknown.

This subrecord is used in BOOK, WEAP, ACHR, ACRE, NPC_, REFR, KEYM record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
flags	ulong	Flags related to record's form id ?Unknown interpretation?

[edit] Base Health (2)

Character's base health. Subrecords interpretation is still unknown.

This subrecord is used in NPC_ record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
unknown1	ulong

[edit] Base Attributes (3)

Character's or creature's base attributes.

This subrecord is used in NPC_, CREA record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
strength	ubyte
intelligence	ubyte
willpower	ubyte
agility	ubyte
speed	ubyte
endurance	ubyte
personality	ubyte
luck	ubyte

[edit] Base Data (4)

This data seem to follow Tes4Mod:Mod_File_Format/NPC ACBS format.

This subrecord is used in NPC_, CREA record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
flags	ulong	Flags Flag Meaning 0x00000001 Female 0x00000002 Essential 0x00000008 Respawn 0x00000010 Auto-calc stats 0x00000080 PC Level Offset 0x00000200 No Low Level Processing 0x00002000 No Rumors 0x00004000 Summonable 0x00008000 No Persuasion 0x00100000 Can Corpse Check 0x40000000 Unknown1
baseSpell	ushort	Base spell points. ??For player character this 0 - maybe also for other non-auto-calc NPCs. Why? Where is actual base spell value stored??
fatigue	ushort	Fatigue. ??For player character this 0 - maybe also for other non-auto-calc NPCs. Why? Where is actual fatigue value stored??
unknown1	ushort	??Unused??
level	short	Level/Offset level.
calcMin	ushort	Minimal calculated level.
calcMax	ushort	Maximal calculated level.

[edit] Spell List (5)

Spell's that character or creature knows.

This subrecord is used in NPC_, CREA record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
spellCount	ushort
spellIds	iref[spellCount]	Array of spell Irefs.

[edit] Factions (6)

Subrecords interpretation is not yet fully understood. This subrecord is listing character's factions and character's relationship with factions.

This subrecord is used in NPC_ record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
factionsNum	ushort	Number of factions.
faction	struct[factionsNum]	Character's factions.
faction	iref	Faction's iref ?Actually I am not sure is this iref - but it should be...?'
factionRank	byte	?Not sure about interpretation yet. I am assuming that 0xFF is used when character is disliked by faction. This would mean that this is either signed byte - or 0xFF have special meaning.?

[edit] Full Name (7)

Character's or cell's name. This is used when object's name changes. For example from: "Shack for Sale" to "My Imperial City House".

This subrecord is used in NPC_, CELL record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
fullName	bstring	New full name for character or cell.

[edit] AI Data (8)

This subrecord's length is constant 4 bytes.

This subrecord is used in NPC_, CREA record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
unknown1	ulong	Constant length of observed subrecords.

[edit] Skills (9)

Character's skills.

This subrecord is used in NPC_ record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
armorer	ubyte
athletics	ubyte
blade	ubyte
block	ubyte
blunt	ubyte
handToHand	ubyte
heavyArmor	ubyte
alchemy	ubyte
alteration	ubyte
conjuration	ubyte
destruction	ubyte
illusion	ubyte
mysticism	ubyte
restoration	ubyte
acrobatics	ubyte
lightArmor	ubyte
marksman	ubyte
mercantile	ubyte
security	ubyte
sneak	ubyte
speechcraft	ubyte

[edit] Base Modifiers (28)

Subrecords interpretation is not yet fully understood.

This subrecord is used in NPC_ record types.

Name	Type/Size	Info
modCount	ushort
modifiers	struct[modCount]
unknown1	ubyte
unknown2	ulong