Hey all. General question about extracting the text files. I'm not making a mod, but working on a personal project related to D2 and decided to use D2 LoD 1.14d as the dataset.
When extracting the txt files from the mpqs, I know it's typically data -> exp -> patch. What I was wondering is do I simply replace the files sequentially or do the contents of the files need to be merged in some way to have a single set of fully updated 1.14d txt files?
I'd assume the game itself looks at all of the data from the mpqs and knows what to use, so I'm not sure if there is anything relevant I'd lose by replacing the files instead of somehow looking things up between 3 different versions of a given txt file or merging the data to create a singular file that has the correct values.