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[pokute]

Seems that the hack to enable magma buildings (discovering magma) is well-established, but there doesn't seem to be any similar tools for enabling towercap growth (discovering underground rivers).

Is this simply a case of no one has tried to do it?  Or are there inherent technical issues that make it near impossible?

[Zaranthan]

The primary issue is that testing which memory location flag marks out the discovery of subterranean water requires a huge investment of player time and effort to discover (muddying underground stone, which requires a lot of forethought; then waiting for the RNG to spawn Tower Caps, which can take ages). It's simply impractical to discover which particular bit controls tower cap growth versus which bit controls magma buildings (which you can check by hitting b-e, rather than deploying fluid engineering and waiting a few years).

[0x517A5D]

I worked on this a while ago and didn't really get anywhere.  I took a another look at it today.

There isn't a specific flag that can be set.  Every time the game places a tower cap or underground shrub, it consults a list of map features.  It scans that list to see if there is an underground river or pool, and then checks if that feature has been discovered.  I'm really iffy on what will happen if I tell the game to act as if a feature's been discovered when it may not even exist on the map.

[Neruz]

I worked on this a while ago and didn't really get anywhere.  I took a another look at it today.

There isn't a specific flag that can be set.  Every time the game places a tower cap or underground shrub, it consults a list of map features.  It scans that list to see if there is an underground river or pool, and then checks if that feature has been discovered.  I'm really iffy on what will happen if I tell the game to act as if a feature's been discovered when it may not even exist on the map.

Try it and find out, for SCIENCE!

[pokute]

I worked on this a while ago and didn't really get anywhere.  I took a another look at it today.

There isn't a specific flag that can be set.  Every time the game places a tower cap or underground shrub, it consults a list of map features.  It scans that list to see if there is an underground river or pool, and then checks if that feature has been discovered.  I'm really iffy on what will happen if I tell the game to act as if a feature's been discovered when it may not even exist on the map.

Wouldn't that be the same way magma buildings are checked?

[profit]

I worked on this a while ago and didn't really get anywhere.  I took a another look at it today.

There isn't a specific flag that can be set.  Every time the game places a tower cap or underground shrub, it consults a list of map features.  It scans that list to see if there is an underground river or pool, and then checks if that feature has been discovered.  I'm really iffy on what will happen if I tell the game to act as if a feature's been discovered when it may not even exist on the map.

Try it and find out, for SCIENCE!

Yeah.. bur since it is not a single bit, he would have a lot more work to do.

Instead of a "Does magma exist 1 = Yes 0 = No" the check becomes  "Does undergound water exist -> Check list and compare to known values" which would involve hacking the exe because you are not changing a single bit, your trying to add something to a list index in memory which will require the exe to know your going to do such a thing or it will simply crash with a protection fault or worse keep running causing all sorts of havoc.