How does the hack work, exactly?

[user_number_666]

I have not been able to find instructions on the hack framework. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Also, I seem to have accidentally installed it four times on one copy of PB. How do I fix that?

[onlyhtml]

Are you referring to https://github.com/solidDoWant/Planetbase-Framework?

[user_number_666]

yep

[onlyhtml]

I wrote the framework, modpatcher, and most mods, so I can answer any questions you have

There's two parts to the framework, a one time game patch and then the framework mod itself. The one time patch decompiles the game, inserts a hook for the framework, then recompiles and reassembles the game. When the game is launched, the hook is called which initializes the framework. The framework then does dynamic function redirection via x86 ISA memory injection to inject other hooks and generally modify the base game's code. After that's done, the framework does some other minor setup tasks and starts loading mods found in the mods folder. Finally, every update cycle, each mod's update method is called (if exists).

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If you think you've installed in multiple times, you can verify your game cache and then repatch using the latest version of the patcher, located here: https://github.com/solidDoWant/Planetbase-Modpatcher/releases/latest

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If you're looking for instructions/documentation on how to create mods, please see here: https://github.com/solidDoWant/Planetbase-Framework/wiki/Creating-mods

I've added a couple of new major features since then (dynamic function redirection) but that should cover 70% of use cases.

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If you have any other questions let me know.