#Vanilla: Multi-box dialogues

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shadow furnace
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This guide will show you how to make multi-box dialogue, in simpler words, have an NPC talk within multiple dialogue boxes instead of one

Step 1

  • Place your NPC, I will take a pet Slime for example
  • (Optional): Enter a unique dialogue, for example: "Pet Slime - Change this :D"

Step 2

  • Save, and quit your dungeon

Step 3

  • Open the dungeon file with the Locate button, you can also find your dungeon manually in your CreateDungeons folder

Step 4

  • In the file, locate your NPC, You can use the Search and Find and search for your dialogue, in my case i search for: "Pet Slime - Change this :D", you can also search for QuestMaster:Slime, but if you have multiple Pet Slime in your dungeon it could be very hard to modify the right one

You will find something like this:

{
  "Entity": "QuestMaster:Slime",
  "Position": {
    "X": 0.5,
    "Y": 1.5
  },
  "Condition": null,
  "Group": null,
  "Receivable": null,
  "Direction": "Right",
  "Message": "Pet Slime - Change this :D",
  "Buffs": [],
  "Focus": "QuestMaster:NeverFocus"
}

Step 5

  • Modify the Message part, if the message is too long, the game will split the message in different dialogue boxes, you can use: \n (new line) to pad your message

Here is what I end up this:

{
  "Entity": "QuestMaster:Slime",
  "Position": {
    "X": 0.5,
    "Y": 1.5
  },
  "Condition": null,
  "Group": null,
  "Receivable": null,
  "Direction": "Right",
  "Message": "Test\n\n\nTest2\n\n\nTest3\n\n\nTest4",
  "Buffs": [],
  "Focus": "QuestMaster:NeverFocus"
}

Step 6

  • Make sure to save your file
  • Can you now safely open your dungeon in game to test your change, if the change does not match your expectations, close your dungeon, without saving, modify your file, and repeat

Demo:

stray mantle
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WHAT

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WE HAVE EXTENDED DIALOGUE ALREADY???

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this is such a game changer omg

valid ibex
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Somebody get Johanna over here this is a huge find

stray mantle
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she'll find it

pastel raptor
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i don't. love having to close the game every time i want to edit dialogue

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but ig it's fine

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when i come back to qm i'll probably use this

shadow furnace
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You don't need to close the entire game, just, the dungeon :D

valid ibex
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For the abilities this offers, I think that's a very reasonable trade until the real deal is available

pastel raptor
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fair

errant reef
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i was really tempted to try doing this a while back but was way too lazy lol

errant reef
pastel raptor
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fair

errant reef
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seeing this guide might lowkey get me back into this game

pastel raptor
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huh, well, uh

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i'm... glad?

stray mantle
rich wren
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so fun fact: you can manually type \n in game and it will work the same way

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but save before trying it because there are situations where the game softlocks when reading the text

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adding spaces before and after every \n seems to help

pastel raptor
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will that also bypass the character limit?