Where do I find my savegames?:
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker Savegames can be found here:
%systemdrive%users%username%
AppDataLocalLowOwlcat GamesPathfinder KingmakerSaved Games
(For those who dont know, you can copy/paste the above path with the %
chars in it in explorer and itll directly open the folder)
Free Loot Glitch:
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If you have jaethal as special when resting you get undead guardians. If you
do this when resting during a mission. They appear when your attacked and
they die right after.
Bonus when you wake up there bodies are lootable. Got like20 sets of masterwork
longswordss and armor. And plain heavy shields.
Nice free loot.
Note: This glitch was performed on an unpatched version of the game.
It is likely to eventually get patched.
Tips & Tricks:
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* Formations make a big difference. Unfortunately it seems you need to manually
change formations every time you get a new companion.
* Bear in mind how easy it is to flank and be flanked (two enemies adjacent).
Thats a free +2 to hit and activates sneak attacks.
* Drinking a potion gives your adjacent melee opponent(s) a free attack of opportunity.
Getting up from prone does the same. Try and heal before combat rather than during.
* For most skills, it seems better to have one specialist in each than a bunch of
generalists. The exceptions seem to be perception (checks take multiple rolls),
use magic device and mobility (you use on yourself). Everyone with high wis or
perception as a class skill should probably take perception (unless they are really
hurting for skill points).
* Use magic device is a really long term investment for most but it should pay off.
* From the tooltip, it seems you need arcane knowledge on the specific character to
learn new spells from scrolls (important for wizards, magus, alchemists).
* Orisons/cantrips are free but will quickly be out-classed. Use them extensively
at low levels while you can.
* For spontaneous casters (bards, inquisitors, sorcerers) with limited spells known,
each and every spell you take is a precious, precious resource. Try and take spells
which seem like they will have value throughout the game (i.e those that scale with
caster level) rather than those that do not. For example, sleep looks like a great
spell and it is at low levels. But you wont cast it at all from the mid-levels on.
Leave those kind of spells to the wizard.
* Shooting into melee attracts a -4 penalty to hit. Ranged specialists take precise
shot to remove this. Recreational archers should generally try a different target.
* Use energy attacks/spells for swarms. They have high DR to weapons by design.
How to Use Custom Portraits:
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You can prepare three your own portraits with names: Small, Medium and Fulllength.
All these images must be saved in PNG format with resolutions:
Small width: 185px, height: 242px;
Medium width: 330px, height: 432px;
Fulllength width: 692px, height: 1024px;
The gameflow looks like:
1. Start a New game.
2. Choose „Create a new character”.
3. Click on icon „Custom portrait”.
4. Click on button „Open portraits folder”. (It works for Windows and Mac)
5. Replace portraits in opened folder or change it in your graphic redactor.
6. Click „Refresh portraits”.
7. Enjoy your own portraits.
Also it works for custom companions.
How to Defeat Tartuccio (The Kamikaze Strategy):
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Written by GrandMajora
An amusing way I found of defeating Tartuccio during the battle at the Sycamore.
-=Blaze of Glory!=-
Seeing as how so many people are having trouble with Tartuccio and the Sycamore, I’ve
decided to write this simple guide on a clever (if somewhat reckless) way of defeating
him. It’s quick, it’s easy and if you do it correctly, the boss will handle most of the
fight for you!
The first thing players will probably notice when entering this boss battle is that it’s
like a knife fight in a cupboard. The door locks behind you, trapping you in a small
space with an army of Kobolds who look ready to mess up your day. And behind them all
stands Tartuccio, in his purple kobold disguise.
The second thing players will probably notice is that Tartuccio is a bit of a moron,
because the first thing he does in this battle is start casting a Fireball spell!
Although in his defense, Sorcerers don’t really need intelligence in order to cast
spells…
Now anybody who’s familiar with D&D knows that Fireball is bad news, especially since
this battle is probably taking place at a point in the game where your own party can
only cast up to 2nd level spells. But don’t worry, because Tartuccio has almost quite
literally shot himself in the foot with this strategy!
As I said, this is a tiny room, and Fireball has a 20 foot explosive radius that hits
everything within range, including friendly fire! And to make things even better, the
army of kobolds he has with him are scattered around the room, instead of clustered
into a scaley shield wall.
This gives you the opening you need to pull off the Kamikaze strategy.
Once the battle begins, command your entire party to immediately rush Tartuccio,
while ignoring every other Kobold in the room. The army is spread out enough that
your team is able to run right past them, which causes the Kobolds to begin chasing
you back towards Tartuccio’s direction.
Now for the beautiful part, Tartuccio should be in the process of casting Fireball,
except that the people he was targeting are now directly on top of him. So what does
he decide to do?
He casts the Fireball at point blank range, causing it to literally explode in his
face! But that’s not all, because the size of the explosion should be large enough
that he also blows up his own army who were rushing to help him!
Now depending on your level, equipment and difficulty settings, there’s a good
chance most of your party survived the spell, but Tartuccio’s minions are not so
lucky. Kobolds are weak enough that anybody who got hit with that Fireball is
probably dead, or on the verge of death.
With Tartuccio reeling from the 6D6 Fireball he just shot himself with, and most
of his army reduced to crispy, Kobold burgers, you should have a much easier time
killing him!
Kingdom Management Tips:
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If there is a big crisis, do not wait, dont do a bunch of sidequests, get to it
ASAP. Especially dont waste precious time with the projects that fast forward 14
days.
If there is a big crisis, do not wait, dont do a bunch of sidequests, get to it
ASAP. I really mean it, the game will spawn additional and harder problem events
that will sooner or later prevent you from assigning advisors to all problems.
This can lead to a downward spiral that might end your kingdom and your game. If
you wait really long, there is even an event that will just end your kingdom (with
no way at all to handle it successfully). You can still solve your sidequests and
build your kingdom afterwards, I promise
You can only access your kingdom management screen when you are inside your barony.
It doesnt have to be your capital city, any area you claimed will work. Warning:
This includes getting notifications about events (specifically, not getting them
outside!).
The most common kingdom events must be adressed before the start of the next month,
so make sure you return to friendly lands before the end of the month and adress
all problems (since they can really take you down), and then with leftover advisors
adress opportunites.
Certain projects like adding new lands or upgrading an advisor automatically
progress time by 14 days. Save beforehand, and try to time them at the start of the
month (so you still have some time to adress new problems and opportunities before
months end)
You can buy BPs at a rate of 1 BP = 80 gold from the merchant on the central square.
Upgrading a village to a town requires 3 regions, the upgrade of the 2nd village to
a town requires 5 regions etc. A city requires 3 towns. Also the town upgrade
requires at least 6 building slots filled in the village. Upgrades are done via
projects and pop up automatically when requirements are met.
You get additional advisors by leveling the relevant stat of your advisor to 60.
E.g. Hagrim will introduce the arcane advisor when you reach divine 60. It might
also require a certain advisor level (3).
You can improve your advisors success rate by leveling up the appropriate rating.
Each level of economy adds +2 to the economy advisors roll. If the advisor is a
companion, you can also improve the appropriate stat by adding e.g. a headband
of intelligence to your economy advisor. Its basically a roll of d20 + 2*rank +
stat bonus vs a DC (like a skill check, but the skill rating is the kingom rank).
And thats it. Focus on problems before opportunities, check your kingdom before
the turn of the month, and solve any crisis with absolute priority, and you can
get a prospering kingdom soon.
Removing Fatigue:
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Written by ByteBiter
This is for you if you really don’t mind cheating and really hate the travel
fatigue every few seconds.
-=Setup=-
There are already several guides to editing save files. This is just a very specific
guide to edit in an item that makes your characters immune to fatigue and exhaustion.
There are several ways to do this. I’m going to just outline the simplest way I
have found.
Get to your shared stash in game.
Have a neckslot item in your inventory you don’t really care about.
Have 7zip or an alternative installed.
-=Steps=-
* Put an unimportant necklace in your shared stash all by itself in the first slot.
* I used a silver medallion.
* Save your game.
* Navigate to your save game folder.
* Mine is C:Users%username%AppDataLocalLowOwlcat GamesPathfinder KingmakerSaved Games
* Open the latest save.
* Mine is Quick#.zks.
* Edit „player.json”.
* In 7zip I can right click and choose edit to not have to unzip/repackage.
* It should open in a word processor. My default is notepad.
* Search for „inventorySlotIndex” and make sure the value is 0.
* This object is your necklace you don’t care about.
* Just before the inventoryslotindex key and value is a blueprint and value.
* It looks something like „06846b7beaca5444d8eebfebc320adca” which is the value for a
silver medallion.
* Replace that value with „c17f627fedd420d4aa871f23d0995fcf” and also up the
m_count from 1 to how many of these you need plus 1.
* Close the file and update it in the zip.
* Close the zip and reload your now edited save.
* Equip your new necklaces to everyone you don’t want getting tired.
-=FAQ=-
Q. Why use the shared stash?
A. It is easier to find the item you are attempting to morph into a Heart of Ira.
There should only be one item in inventorySlotIndex:0 as opposed to 1 for every character
in party.json.
Q. Why use a silver medallion?
A. Other guides have mentioned that if you are going to edit items, make sure you use
something closest to the target item you want. I have not tested if this works with a
rock or a suit of armor. The second part is if you use an existing item, you don’t
have to mess with the $id attributes at all like you would if you were just trying to
add to the item list to create the item out of nothing.
Q. Why up the count one more than needed?
A. The silver medallion item becomes a stack of 1 silver medallion that looks like a
heart of Ira and (n – 1) other true hearts of ira that spawn after you collect them
from the stash. You’ll have to trial and error to find which one is broken and throw it
away once that character gets fatigued.
Q. Why do this?
A. Sleeping every few nodes on the map is annoying. Yes this makes the game easier and
obviously breaks some of the developer intent. I don’t feel too bad about it though since
the game is still missing teleportation at levels 9+.
Q. What if I already have a Heart of Ira?
A. If you just want to dupe it for your other characters, put it in your inventory and
search party.json for the „c17f627fedd420d4aa871f23d0995fcf” and increase its count from
1 to X. Moving it to another container should separate them. I would still recommend
going through the steps though and avoid messing with party.json inventory.
Q. Will this break my game?
A. I don’t think so but I did turn off saved game sharing to the developers since I
don’t want my edited save files potentially polluting the debugging effort for other
issues. Always make a backup and restore if there are any issues.
Q. This broke my game, what do I do?
A. Make sure you closed whatever you were using to open the archive. Kingmaker will
complain if the archive is open at loading time. Make sure you do still have quotes
around the blueprint value and do not have quotes around the count value.
If all this fails, restore your backup and start over.
