Modding Guide (Anno 1404)

Hello everyone, a short guide to modding the game Anno 1404 Venice. You wanted to diversify the game and decided to tinker with the game, for this you need a program for editing .rda files. https://www.playground.ru/anno_1404/file/anno_1404_utilita_dlya_redaktirovaniya_dannyh_fajlov_rda-931819 Link to the program. Download, unpack wherever convenient. (Note the program sometimes crashes when saving. You will have to do everything over again)
1) Find the root folder with the game if you have a steam version (right-click-properties-local files-browse)
2) To change the game with the Venice addon, you need the addon folder.
3) For convenience, right-click on the files inside the addon folder, open with and select the exe file of the program that you downloaded earlier. It should turn out like this.
4) Clicking on any of these files will now open the program. You make a backup copy of the data1 file, for example, on the desktop. What would be the opportunity to return to the original version of the game.
5) Open the program through any of these files in the addon folder, in the file-open program
6) Find the root folder with the game and open the addon folder. you need the file data1.
7) addondata-config-game-assets.xml. you open assets.xml it should open as a text file.

8) We have reached the point of no return. Everything is here. From the config of items to the speed of people moving along the paths. The keyboard shortcut ctrl+f brings up a search box.

9) In an empty line, enter the name you are interested in, for example, a building as follows: CitizenHouse Without spaces at the end. This is the name of the house

10) everything is simple with houses. Let's say I wanted to change the elevator. range and amount of water in it
You need to find NoriaBuilding

These are the general configurations of both elevators.

If you do not change these configurations (configurations of textures and the active zone of the elevator), the elevator will work, but the radius in which it is active, that is, it gives a boost to farms for growth, will remain the same.
11) Setting up the configurations of the elevators themselves

12) We do the same with the texture settings in each elevator

. The radii of the textures must match, otherwise something may break.
Setting up norias is the most hemorrhoid that I have found so far. Attempts with the seventh, I managed to figure out what's what . The
little elevator is tuned according to the principle of the big one, just as accurately.
13) Close the text document with saving changes in the program, press yes

14) You need to save the changed folder.

we choose the place where we will save the main thing not to the same place as the source file that we copied in advance at the beginning.
choose a folder called data1 save click yes

saved file
For one hundred percent of its performance, delete data1 from the addon folder. And we push our data1 there.
It happened to me that for some reason half of the changes did not take effect. I don't know what is involved.
Run the game, check if it works or not, you can write thanks in the comments)
Then if there are any other thoughts or there is something to share, I will definitely do something else like that. Good luck with modding. (after changing the building configs, it's better to run a new script. It may not work in an old save, but try to demolish the building and rebuild it should help.