Debug Mods¶
The game writes a new mod-loader.log file every game start.
It lists loading order, patch and dependency issues.
<user documents>/Anno 117/mods/mod-loader.log
<user documents>/Anno 1800/log/mod-loader.log
To test what a patch does to the original game file, you can also use xmltest.exe.
It will simulate what the game will load.
xmltest.exe c:\anno\all-rda\assets.xml patch.xml
Use Anno Modding Tools for testing.
The plugin does syntax and error checking.
It also has commands to show diffs of full mods, single files or selections.