SAV

This article (or part thereof) is obsolete. It may have made sense in the past, but it does not make sense now. It is kept here only for historic curiosity and/or posterity.

This is the documentation for the old save format. The current format is RSAV

A SAV file consists of binary records of 30000 16-bit INTs (60000 bytes). The number of records varies, but is typically 4 for the for normal save games, or 32 when the F2/F3 quicksave has been used. The records from 5 thru 31 are only accessible via plotscripting,

Integer Offset	Data Size	Name	in-memory storage	Notes
0	INT	SAV version		Always 3 for current games
1	INT	current map	map
2	INT	hero X	catx(0)	This is relative to the SAV offset in the MAP lump for the current map
3	INT	hero Y	caty(0)	This is relative to the SAV offset in the MAP lump for the current map
4	INT	hero direction	catd(0)
5	INT	random battle counter	foep	Decremented when you walk, random battle occurs when it reaches zero
6	INT	Unused		Used to be leader (and I don't remember what that means)
7	INT	camera x position	mapx	Not relative to SAV offset in MAP, but maybe it should be?
8	INT	camera y position	mapy	Not relative to SAV offset in MAP, but maybe it should be?
9-33	INT*25	Money	gold&	Money converted to a string, and stored as ascii digits, one per INT, with zero-padding on the end (profound shame)
34-138	INT*105	General data	gen()	Element 0-104 of the global gen() array. (a few elements of this are ignored when loading. See GEN)
139-535	INT*396	Unused		Used to contain additional elements of gen()
536-2634	INT*300	NPC x	npc().x	Current locations and state of NPC instances. see SerNPCL code
	INT*300	NPC y	npc().y
	INT*300	NPC ID	npc().id
	INT*300	NPC direction	npc().dir
	INT*300	NPC frame	npc().frame
	INT*300	NPC x move	npc().xgo
	INT*300	NPC y move	npc().ygo
2635	INT	Unused
2636-2762	BIT*2048	tags	tag()	bit 0 and 1 always zero. Bit 2-999 are tags Bit 1000-1999 are one-time-use bits Bits 2000-2047 are unused
2763-2803	INT*41	hero ID	hero()	hero ID numbers + 1, or 0 for empty party slots
2804-3304	INT*501	Unused?		used to contain an array named a() and danged if I can remember what that was
3305-4452	INT*41*2*14	Hero stats	stat()	Hero stats. 41 groups of 28 ints for each hero. Current stats 0-13 first, max stats 0-13 next. See stat() for details
4453-4698	INT*41*6	battle menus	bmenu()	Hero battle menus. 41 groups of 6 ints for each hero
4699-8798	INT*41*4*25	spell lists	spell()	Hero spell lists. 41 groups of 4 spell lists for each hero. Each spell list contains 24 ints of attack ID numbers and one wasted int at the end of each list.
8799-9126	INT*41*8	level mp	lmp()	Hero level-MP. 41 groups of 8 ints
9127-11258	INT*41*2*26	Experience	exlev&()	Hero experience levels stored in the same shameful format as the gold. 41 groups of 2 badly stored numbers of 26 ints each, first current experience then next-level experience. Each number is stored as a string with one ascii char per int, zero padded at the end
11259-11955	INT*41*17	her names	name$()	Hero names. 41 badly stored strings of 17 ints each. One ascii char per int, zero padded at the end.
11956-14594	INT	8/16 bit inventory magic		0 if the inventory is stored here in 8-bit format. 1 if the inventory is stored at 14800 in 16-bit format
	INT*2	Unused		(great exploding snakes on toast! Who designed this format! ... or yeah... I did)
	INT*198	Inventory 8-bit	inventory().num inventory().id	198 ints with item ID in the low 8 bits and item count in the high 8 bits
	INT*38	Unused
	INT*198*12	useless item names	inventory().text	Item names, one ascii char per int. It is a mystery to me why we ever stored these here, since they can be easily re-generated from the other data.
	INT*24	Unused
14595-14799	INT*205	Equipment	eqstuf()	Hero equipment. 41 groups of 5 ints
14800-14999	INT*100*2	Inventory 16-bit first 100	inventory()	100 pairs of 2 ints for the first 100 inventory slots. First item id, second item count. Ther rest of the inventory is stored later.
15000-19999	INT*100*50	Shop stock	stock()	Shop stock. 50 ints per shop for 100 shops.
20000-20003	BIT*64	Hero locks	hmask()	Bits 0-40 are locks to prevent swapin/swapout of heroes. bits 41-63 are wasted
20004-20012	INT*9	Caterpillar hero positions	catx() caty() catd()	3 sets of 3 ints for the other three heroes in the caterpillar party. x,y,direction
20013-21037	INT*1025	script globals 0-1024 (low 16 bits)	global()	Low 16 bits of script globals
21038-21059	INT * 22	Vehicle data	veh()	Current vehicle data (see VEH#Implementation Note)
21060	INT	Pic+Pal+Def magic		4444 if the following picture and palette and default weapon data is stored
21061-21306	INT*41*2*3	hero pic, pal, and default weapon	stat()	Extended hero data. 41 sets of 6 ints, from stat() elements (,,14) thru (,,16) See stat() for details
21307	INT	Hbits magic		4444 if the following hero bits data is stored
21308-21512	BIT*41*80	Hero bits	nativehbits()	Hero bitsets. 41 sets of 80 bits. See DT0
21513-22537	INT*1025	script globals 0-1024 (high 16 bits)	global()	High 16 bits of script globals
22538-28679	INT*2*3071	script globals 1025-4095 low 16, high 16 pairs in that order	global()	more globals
28680-29679	INT*500*2	Inventory 16-bit remainder	inventory()	500 pairs of 2 ints for the inventory slots 100-599. First item id, second item count.
29680-29999	INT*320	Unused		Unused

See Also

• Plan for new save format