[Tool] gddb: a command-line interface to Grim Dawn's database

Grim Dawn Utilities and Resources
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Hi, I’m modal. You may know me from such previous resources as my affix drop rates spreadsheet. I’ve been slowly refining the script I originally wrote to produce that, and now I have a command-line tool that has a few utilities for working with Grim Dawn’s database files. I’ve published it on github as free and open source software. You can check it out here:

gddb

Some words of warning:

  1. gddb will not be useful to you if you’re not comfortable with the POSIX command line.
  2. gddb has only been tested on Ubuntu running on Windows 11 via WSL2.
  3. There are undoubtedly bugs. The current version is just barely functional enough to be worth sharing.
  4. There are also likely flaws in my understanding of how the game files are meant to be interpreted, which could lead my tool to give incorrect answers even if it works as intended.

But if you happen to be, like me, one of the small number of people interested in working with Grim Dawn’s database, and you happen to be one of an even smaller number of people who prefer CLI tools to GUI tools like the ones Crate’s already provided for modders, then you might possibly be interested! So I thought I’d share just in case there might exist even one such individual.

I won’t go into too much detail here about what the tool can do for you; for that you’re better off checking the README on github.

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Looks sweet, are you interested in tests without WSL?

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My expectation is that it will work fine on other flavors of Linux, and probably on MacOS, but it would be nice to validate that. I am not interested in worrying about Windows support unless there’s an actual person who wants to use it on Windows.

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