Here is modded Bowgun Ammo file. To avoid potentially breaking the game (i.e. making it unplayable) I've only increased amount of ammo to 20/15/10 (based on ammo type) of the already existent ammo, reduced recoil as much as possible (where it was possible) and set to "Fast" default reload speed of each ammo type for every bowgun. As always, unpack "shell_table.shl_tbl" from "shell_table.zip" into "YourMonsterHunterWorldFolder\nativePC\common\equip\shell_table.shl_tbl" and enjoy:
Bowgun Ammunition File (contains ammo config for Light and Heavy Bowguns). First 6 bytes are header and should be ignored. After header ammunition segments begin. Each ammunition segment is 111 bytes long and contains 37 sub-segments (each 3 bytes long for 35 known and 2 unknown ammo types - these 2 sub-segments are always zero all 3 bytes):
- Segment 01/02/03 => Normal Ammo 1/2/3
- Segment 04/05/06 => Pierce Ammo 1/2/3
- Segment 07/08/09 => Spread Ammo 1/2/3
- Segment 10/11/12 => Cluster Bomb 1/2/3
- Segment 13 => Wyvern Ammo
- Segment 14/15/16 => Sticky Ammo 1/2/3
- Segment 17 => Slicing Ammo
- Segment 18 => Flaming Ammo
- Segment 19 => Water Ammo
- Segment 20 => Freeze Ammo
- Segment 21 => Thunder Ammo
- Segment 22 => Dragon Ammo
- Segment 23/24 => Poison Ammo 1/2
- Segment 25/26 => Paralysis Ammo 1/2
- Segment 27/28 => Sleep Ammo 1/2
- Segment 29/30 => Exhaust Ammo 1/2
- Segment 31/32 => Recover Ammo 1/2
- Segment 33 => Demon Ammo
- Segment 34 => Armor Ammo
- Segment 35/36 => Unknown Ammo (???)
- Segment 37 => Tranquilizer Ammo
- 1st byte: defines ammunition amount. Using more then 20 (14 in HEX) crashes game to the desktop!
- 2nd byte: defines ammunition shot type. Tested shot types (in HEX):
- Normal (Recoil +1) => 00
- Normal (Recoil +2) => 01 / 02 / 03
- Normal (Recoil +3) => 04 / 05 / 07 / 0B / 14 / 15 / 18 / 20
- Normal (Recoil +4) => 06 / 08 / 09 / 0C / 0D / 13 / 19
- Rapid Fire (Recoil +2) => 1C / 1D / 1E
- Rapid Fire (Recoil +3) => 1F / 21
- Follow-Up / Mortar (Recoil +1) => 12
- Follow-Up / Mortar (Recoil +2) => 0E / 1B
- Follow-Up / Mortar (Recoil +3) => 0F / 10 / 16 / 17 / 1A
- Blot Action / Single Shot / Auto-Reload => 0A
- Wyvern Shot Charge => 11
- 3rd byte: defines ammunition reload. Tested reload types (in HEX):
- Fast => 11
- Normal => 00 / 01 / 0E / 12
- Slow => 02 / 03 / 04 / 05 / 0B / 0F / 10
- Very Slow => 06 / 07 / 08 / 09 / 0A / 0C / 0D
Light/Heavy Bowgun Ammo Modding Tutorial:
First of all, you need Notepad++ to edit text and search for regular expression, and you also need HxD hex editor to edit read/write "shell_table.shl_tbl" file without harming data structure.
- Download "original_shell_table.zip" and unpack "shell_table.shl_tbl" to "YourMonsterHunterWorldFolder\nativePC\common\equip\" folder.
- Open "shell_table.shl_tbl" with HxD and copy all HEX code into new Notepad++ text file.
- For example, you want to change bowgun that has 7x Normal I, 5x Normal II, 4x Normal III, 6x Pierce III, 8x Spread II.
- Search in text file via Notepad++ (using regular expression search mode) for "07.[0-F][0-F].[0-F][0-F].05.[0-F][0-F].[0-F][0-F].04.[0-F][0-F].[0-F][0-F].00.[0-F][0-F].[0-F][0-F].00.[0-F][0-F].[0-F][0-F].06.[0-F][0-F].[0-F][0-F].00.[0-F][0-F].[0-F][0-F].08"
- Do pay attention that if one or another type of Ammo is missing in the in-game list, you must remember to add 00 into search (just as in example at #4) to follow the sub-segment order.
- Also, do follow sub-segments order shown at the very beginning, although Wyvern Ammo is one of the last at in-game list, in segment it goes right after Cluster Bombs.
- After you found your bowgun's ammo segment, use earlier explanations as reference to change whatever you want.
- After you finished, don't forget to copy HEX text from Notepad++ to HxD and overwrite "shell_table.shl_tbl" file.
- Important Notice: Cluster Bombs only work with "Follow-Up / Mortar" shot types. I'm also not sure if you can add Cluster Bombs to Light Bowguns and make them work. And DO NOT set more then 20 ammo for each type - game will crash to the desktop once you will try to use your bowgun.
- Now you can go Rambo with your favorite bowgun. Enjoy!
Rambo Mode ON
How to use this cheat table?
- Install Cheat Engine
- Double-click the .CT file in order to open it.
- Click the PC icon in Cheat Engine in order to select the game process.
- Keep the list.
- Activate the trainer options by checking boxes or setting values from 0 to 1
any headway on monster size?
