Duplicate text when modify CoreAbilities.xml?

Yes, it is duplicating the benifits here. Depending what you are trying to accomplish, depends on what you can do to avoid this situation. If you are trying to revamp the entire ability section, well then there is a lot of work ahead of you. If you are trying to make minor tweaks to the abilities, well then you may add game modifiers that will nullify the previous benifits and put in your new benifits.

Would it work to move the coreabilities.xml file to a backup folder in the LH\data\english folder and then copy it to the mods\data\english folder - and make the changes to the one in the mods folder?

It seemed to work for me, but I just realized I may have lost all my racial/blood abilities...   Need to find them again

So, seems the game will load core files in the mod directory regardless of where they stand.

I took coreabilities

created 2 additional copies

coreabilities_blood - I removed everything but the racial blood traits

coreabilities_no_blood - I removed all racial blood traites

I backed up the base core abilities

I took the blood version, renamed it back to base and put it in the game folder (not the mod folder)

I took the no_blood version, renamed it back to base and put it in the mods folder

Seems to work fine now.

Initially I had 3x the abilities since I had the base, blood, and original all in a random folder in the mods directory.

I moved out the base and blood versions to be outside the mods directory and it seems to only be applying 1x the ability now.

So now I have my updated abilities, my new abilities, my original abilites and my racials - all working... it seems

I'll have to try that and see what i can come up with. Thanks for the info

https://forums.elementalgame.com/434780

That is some good info, thanks.