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khallaandClaude Opus 5.5 3f03228c29 Failed quests restartable
A failed quest gets its flags cleared and its quest book entries removed
after its failure script ran, so the quest giver can offer it again; quests
failed before the mod are reset once after loading. Quest table and quest
book in game/engine/quests.h, measurements in docs/quests.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-25 01:44:01 +02:00

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# Quests
## Quest data (measured 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-25)
- Quest table `g_quests` (vector begin/end `0xaa9e98` / `0xaa9e9c`), 0x124
bytes per quest: id +0, internal name +4 (ANSI), scripts +0x10c (run on
trigger), +0x114 (one-time, cleared after it ran), +0x118 success end,
+0x11c failure end (only quests with one can fail), flags +0x120:
1 triggered, 2 done, 4 in progress, 8 busy (while the trigger runs its
scripts). `game/engine/quests.h`.
- Quest manager: static object `0xaaaf00` (script interpreter). Quest book
vector +0x424..+0x428, plain 0x174-byte entries (serialized field by field):
state +4 (2 active, 100 solved, 101 failed), quest id +8, map position
+0x14..+0x20; per player (16) a selected entry index at +0x3a8 + player * 8.
- Script opcodes (keyword table `0x452540`): LoseQuest `0x36` and ExitQuest
`0x0f` -> `0x48f110` -> `Quest_End` `0x46ced0` (thiscall (index, ?,
success), ret 0xc; LoseQuest success 0, ExitQuest 1). QuestDone `0x0a` tests
flag 2, QuestInProgress `0x0c` flag 4.
- `Quest_Trigger` `0x46de10` (cdecl (index, ?, ?, ?), plain ret): does
nothing if flag 1 is set; else sets 1 | 8, runs +0x114 (then cleared) and
+0x10c, clears 8. Talking to a giver triggered a quest (flags 0 -> 1, no
book entry yet); accepting it set flag 4 and added a book entry, state 2.
- `Quest_End`: if the quest is in progress and not done, runs the end script
(success / failure) and sets done (flags 3); the book entry's state becomes
100 / 101. Quests with ids 2600..3599 (the generic "Bringe NPC zu ...",
"Eskortiere ...", ...) are copied to the end of the table under a new id
(largest + 1, at least 10000): the game repeats those itself.
- Compiled quest scripts: `bin\sgf.bin` (labels such as `LoseQuest_10255`,
texts `res:...`; random side quests use `DQ_` names, time limits
`DQ_ZEITFENSTER_TAGE`).
- Example (Gladiator, Silber, 2026-10-25): failed Hetzjagd 1502, Pony Express
5005, Rette Jungfrau 2504, Eskortiere Händler zu geheimen Treffen 1403, all
flags 3, book state 101.
## Failed quests restartable (request 2026-10-17)
A failed quest is not final: talking to the quest giver again offers it
again. `mods/questfail.cpp`: after `Quest_End` with success 0 (its failure
script has run) the quest's flags 1/2/4/8 are cleared and its book entries
removed, as if never triggered; quests failed before the mod are reset once
after loading. Confirmed in the log (the four quests above reset, 2026-10-25);
the giver offering them again is still to be tested in the game.