This is the hideout from the Grim League, but modified. You can find all services here, including all faction merchants and blacksmiths the game has to offer. The entrance to it can be found right in the beginning in Devil’s Crossing, you can’t really miss it.
As a side-note, Grim League soon gets another season with a lot of new content, so be on the lookout.
Faction Tokens can be exchanged for Faction Reputation. You can access and level up all factions except Kymon’s Choosen / Order of Death’s Vigil (the faction you later choose gets unlocked) right from the beginning, if you already got a bunch of these tokens.
They come in three rarities and simply drop occasionally, although all legendaryBeutekugeln guarantee at least one token drop.
Changes to Existing Content
Yeci Island
Moved all spawn points closer to the middle
Modified all encounter chances
Lowered the pool sizes
Removed Iron Bits Explosion as a possible event (I forgot to update the dialog though)
Soul Vessels
Well, I fixed them
Moved the Ruined Memorial to the hideout
Sacrifices (used to increase favor gain)
-75% Health Points > -45% Health Points
-25% Max Resistances > -12% Max Resistances
Fixed some text issues
I have added a pre-merged version with the Diablo 3 Classes mod created by Grimer. This one is obviously a bit more lightweight than Dawn of Masteries.
Updated the compatibility patch for Dawn of Masteries. The patching process now extracts the whole database, adds the Lightweight Mod files, and then repacks it again — this hopefully ensures that all files are actually updated. Unfortunately, this whole process now takes up to 35 minutes.
Updated Translation Templates, but not the Source.
You are playing the Faster Leveling (L) Diablo 3 version? I tried it myself, and everything seems to be working just fine - spheres drop, get picked up, and can get destroyed.
It can sometimes (but very rarely, so rarely that I actually did not encounter it in like a year or so) happen that it either still shows the sphere besides being already picked up, or that you have to hold ALT (to show all loot) and then to click it to pick it up - spheres are affected by your loot filter, as well as the Auto Loot option, in case you have this disabled.
Today I learned of a method for “hard modding” Grim Dawn without actually doing so. This is a lot simpler than my method, so I wanted to share it here too.
Doing this allows one to play this (or any, actually) mod with main campaign characters, avoiding having to start over or porting them over.
Download the mod, extract it, and choose the version you want to play.
Go to the database folder and rename the *.arz file to database.arz.
Go to the resources folder and rename the Maps.arc file to Levels.arc.
Copy the .arz file from the database folder, as well as all .arc files from the resources folder, over to the “Grim Dawn/mods” folder. It should look like this (not shown are the eventual expansion and survival folders):
a) If on Steam, right-click Grim Dawn inside your Library > Properties > Add /basemods to Launch Options
b) If you are using Grim Internals, right-click GrimInternals64 > Create shortcut > right-click GrimInternals64 - Shortcut > Properties > Add /basemods to the end of Target (behind the ")
c) If you are using the GOG version, do the same as above but with the Grim Dawn.exe
To play Crucible with this mod, you also have to download the .arz below, and copy & overwrite to “Grim Dawn/survivalmode2/database”. Then you have to copy the Scripts.arc from “Grim Dawn/mods” to “Grim Dawn/survivalmode2/resources”. This only changes one record, there is no reason to ever undo this.
There should not be any issues, everything should be working fine.
Fun fact: Dawn of Masteries currently has 52 540 records / files (not including resources, such as textures). Lightweight Mod (Compatibility version) has about 15 000 either new or modified records, although many are simply duplicated with small changes, and some are redundant, since I’m lazy.
There are only 3 conflicts (7 records overall), which makes both mods very easy to merge, although the actual merging process is a bit more tricky.
This might be a bad question at this point but… is there a way to take a character created and leveled with this mod into the ‘main’ campaign.
Obviously I could keep playing in the ‘mod’ since it’s basically the same as the main campaign, but my character leveled doesn’t have access to the crucible (that I can figure out) and also the import functions don’t work on grimtools so I can’t use checklists.
Consider backing up your character. Install GDStash, select your Custom Game character, and remove the In Mod flag under Character Data. Afterwards move your character from the user folder inside your save game location to the main folder. At last, rename the .map folder, however it is called, inside your characters folder to levels_world001.map.
Take everything you want from your stash before doing all that. You can also do the method three comments above to be able to play crucible with this mod enabled (although I did not test this personally).
I have encountered a bug with Monster Infrequents starting at character level 111 or so and continuing permanently through remainder of the game. Monster Infrequents are dropping without suffixes. Often they are naked base models and mostly have a prefix or suffice only. Very rarely have I seen both prefix and suffix. Prior to level 111, there are no problems. Confirmed on two different characters. I ran the second through the mod from scratch to be certain the problem had nothing to do with being a linked save from the base game.
I tried a few things, but could not figure out how to fix it yet - for chests and spheres, I can set a max level of 100 that makes it work, for enemies I can’t. I guess that I would need to up some affix max level values, but they already seem high enough. Don’t know much about affixes and loot generation, so this gotta take me a while.
For now you could enable the Recycle feature and play with that a bit, since you commonly drop the MI loot spheres with it.
Copy the templates folder over to "Grim Dawn/database"
(2a) Copy Faster Leveling (N) and __skip over to "Grim Dawn/mods" / (2b) If Diablo 3: Rename Faster Leveling (N) to Faster Leveling (N) Diablo 3 and then copy the content from the other folder over, overwrite everything, then do (2a)
a) Open the Assset Manager (found inside the Grim Dawn folder)
b) Select __skip and press F7
c) Select Faster Leveling (N) and press F7, it should then be updating some files
For the /basemods method, before doing 3., simply copy the database.arz over to "Faster Leveling (N)/database" and rename it to Faster Leveling (N), then follow the other points. Afterwards rename and copy it back.
You could also patch Dawn of Masteries this way, but I did not test this. Don’t use the Diablo 3 files when doing so.
Fixes the Tome of Knowledge too. It might be a while until I re-upload everything properly, this is very time consuming for me due to all the versions.
yeah sorry, it was a dumb question lol
