User talk:Theaetetus/Retrieving data/reply

Most of the game's details are in the game folder (wherever you installed it). From there go to \Mods\Core\Defs. That's where most of the interesting XML files are. Just read em with any text editor.

Notepad++ and a lot of other text editors can make it easier on you by offering a Find in Files feature. Set a directory and a search term, and it'll look through all of them. So maybe I wanna see every reference to monkeys... Ctrl-Shift-F, "Monkey", enter. Double-click any result to open that file and jump to that line. :>

A picture's worth a thousand words:

Some of the ultra basic nuts and bolts of the game are buried in DLLs, but the vast majority is just XML.