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In NWNEE this now defines the damage types. It is related to damagetypegroups.2da and damagehitvisual.2da

Hardcoded Notes

The original entries are mostly hardcoded:

The original 3 lines (Bludegoning, Piercing and Slashing) as well as damage type 12 are all "Physical" (damagetypegroups.2da value 0). These are handled specially in the engine for combat purposes, eg dual damage type weapons, etc.
- No more "Physical" types can be added for weapons to use
The other "elemental" damage types (Magical, Acid, Cold, Divine, Electrical, Fire, Negative, Positive and Sonic) are used throughout the engine so deleting any of them may cause crashes, but renaming them functionally reuses them no problem

Creating New Damage Types

For a tutorial on this see Creating Custom Damage Types. There are some additional things you can do with ammo in later patches as well.

2da Column Information

Column Name	Example	Valid Values	Description
Label	Acid	Text	Human readable label. Not used by the engine - must supply TLK numbers in this and other files
CharsheetStrref	58303	TLK String	Must be a TLK number
DamageTypeGroup	2	Row in damagetypegroups.2da	A group is a way to aggregate multiple damage types into one in the combat log. Physical types are all in one group for instance. By default the elemental ones are separate. Can make the combat log a little less spammy or allow colour reuse.
DamageRangedProjectile	1	Linked to the column DamageRangedProjectile in ammunitiontypes.2da	This is to define the type of ranged projectile that will be used in ammuntiontypes.2da For instance you could have a "Super Acid" damage type in which case using "1" here would be fine and it will reuse the acid projectiles already in the game. If you add a new projectile you'd use this number here, eg use 6 and above for new damage types needing ranged new projectiles.

2da Contents

2DA V2.0

        Label           CharsheetStrref     DamageTypeGroup   DamageRangedProjectile
0       Bludgeoning     58345               0                 0
1       Piercing        58341               0                 0
2       Slashing        58344               0                 0
3       Magical         58302               1                 0
4       Acid            58303               2                 1
5       Cold            58304               3                 2
6       Divine          58305               4                 0
7       Electrical      58306               5                 3
8       Fire            58308               6                 4
9       Negative        58309               7                 0
10      Positive        58310               8                 0
11      Sonic           58311               9                 5
12      Base            58301               0                 0