Beginners Wiki Guide (2024)

Welcome to the Beginners Wiki Guide, we hope to inform you of what you need to obtain and access the information and assets you need to contribute to this wiki.

Ruling on adding content to the wiki[ | ]

make sure that when adding content it follows the preferred rules of Failbetter Games for all their wikis as described in the link below.

http://echobazaar.wikidot.com/rules

Text colour and formats templates[ | ]

Here is a list of templates which allow for an easier way of formatting the wiki while keeping up the standard text format. Identify what it is you are editing and see what template can be used. These templates were designed by MestreLion, Tagaziel and S3Ld0m

The following is just a basic list, you may browse and explore for more.

• Use {{Action}} for actions:
  • Take him with you action.

• Use {{Game note}} for game notes:
  • Game note: This is a game note.

• Use {{trigger event}} and {{trigger location}} for actions that triggers events or move to locations:
  • Triggersevent:Opening a Cache of Curiosities
  • Goesto:Frostfound

• Use {{qty}} for coloring basic positive and negative outcomes:
  • +10 x Fuel
  • +10 x Terror
  • -10 x Fuel
  • -10 x Terror

• Use the "to" for a range of outcomes of the same result. Example:
  • -1 to +5 x Fuel
  • Or, for consistency, use {{link range}} with no icon.

• Use {{link icon}} for a link with its corresponding icon:
  • Fuel
  • Terror
  • Pigmote Isle

• Use {{link qty}} for a combination of colored quantity, link, and optionally and icon:
  • +10xFuel
  • +10xTerror
  • You will gain 100xEcho
  • You will lose 10xIron

• Use {{link range}} for ranges:
  • +5to+10xFuel
  • +10to+20xTerror
  • You will gain 100to500xEcho
  • You will lose 1to3xIron

• Use {{Challenge}} to format challenges:
  • Heartschallenge(123for100%)
  • Heartschallenge(?for100%)

• Use {{quality}} in descriptions containing quality references:
  • Help [Pigmote Isle: Mastery] resolve a dilemma

• Use {{link status}} to format the text of the Quality:
  • Favours: A Proposal from a Man of Business = 6 [You accepted the proposal]
• Or a combination of {{link icon}} and {{status}} for inequalities:
  • Learning About: The Tireless Mechanic ≥ 10 [Take a Clay Man and an empty Mirrorcatch Box to Hunter's Keep]

• Use {{quality status}} to format a list of Quality statuses:
  • Some of the possible values for Pigmote Isle: Spirit are:
• [3] Conflicted
• [4] Argumentative
• [5] Content
• [6] Optimistic

• Use {{color}} for colored text. For instance, yellow for conditional results:
  • "A good night out" OR "A marvelous night out".

In interaction tables, use the templates {{Style inner header}}, {{style inner cell}}, {{action title}} and {{effect title}}. Example:

Other suggestions not (yet) available as templates:

• Use italic and quotes for the text result outcomes. Example:
  • The outcome result is "A good night out".
• Use bold and grey for status changes. Example:
  • A Proposal from a Man of Business is Accepted.
• Use italic and grey for status getting disabled. Example:
  • Something Awaits You is Inactive.

Images[ | ]

Obtaining Icons[ | ]

All the icons, avatars, etc used in the game are stored seperately from the .assets files of the game.

To find these files on Windows go to:C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\LocalLow\Failbetter Games\Sunless Sea\images\sn\icons

Replace C with the disk you have installed your copy of Windows on, *USERNAME* with the user account name you are using.

Obtaining Textures[ | ]

Island graphics, wallpapers, backgrounds, effects, etc used in the game are stored in the .assets files found in the games directory. To obtain these files you must extract the .assets file, "resources.assets"

You can find the .assets files on Windows by going to:

• Installation*\Steam\SteamApps\common\SunlessSea\Sunless Sea_Data

Replace *Installation* with the disk and folder location you installed Steam on, for example "C:\Program Files (x86)\"

To extract from the .assets file you need a program capable of doing this. Personally I use Unity Assets Explorer 1.3, feel free to provide any alternative you may know of. The texture files are stored in the .TEX files which needs to be converted to .DDS files.

Image Uploading (important)[ | ]

To make sure that all images follow the same standard there are a few things you must know when uploading images

1. The file should be the original .png found in the image folder. No Jpgs.
2. The filename should not be altered, keep the original name, don't rename to fit the article it's used for.
3. Only upload the small or large version of the images, not the medium-sized. (the ones with "***small" or "***gaz" at the end of the name)
4. In the file description on the file page add the category of the file.
   1. [[Category: Sunless Sea small images]] for small images
   2. [[Category: Sunless Sea gaz images]] for large images

Image Gallery[ | ]

You can find the library of all uploaded images here:

• http://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Category:Sunless_Sea_images

Tables[ | ]

On most pages you will have to edit (or make) a table, this section will explain the basics of how to create and deal with a table.

Ps: It's easiest to learn how to deal with tables by experimenting. Edit a table and press preview to see what the changes did, try to find the logic in it and you will get the hang of it, and when worst comes to it you can just borrow from a different table that has done what you wanted and just edit the information.

Symbols[ | ]

Formatting[ | ]

Code	Effect	Notes
rowspan="#"	Merges rows together	Allows for several rows to be merged into one. Used for showing different potential results under the same interaction. Can be a nightmare to deal with at first.
	Rare event (100%)
	Making for useful multi-result information
<span style="color:###;">	Event Game notes Negative effect Positive effect Chance	"Teachings of a mad man" Game note: Used to distinguish information + 1 x Terror + 1 x Supplies Rare event (50%)
[[File:SS ###.png|23px]]		Image embedding. In tables the size for images are always 23px, thus the |23px at the end of the filename. Ps: It's CaSe SeNsItIvE.
[[###]]	Terror	Page linking. Anything inside [[]] will be treated as a local link to a page under that name. Ps: It's CaSe SeNsItIvE.

Additional[ | ]

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