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This page explains how the game stores dialogue text, its format, and how the game parses it. This is an advanced guide for mod developers.

This page explains how the game stores dialogue text, its format, and how the game parses it. This is an advanced guide for mod developers.

==Data==

==Overview==

The dialogue text is stored in four sets of files.

Character dialogue is stored in many different files: The <samp>Characters\Dialogue</samp> directory is where the majority of NPC-specific dialogue is stored. <samp>Data\ExtraDialogue.xnb</samp>, <samp>Strings\Characters.xnb</samp>, <samp>Strings\Events.xnb</samp>, <samp>Strings\SpeechBubbles.xnb</samp>, and <samp>Strings\StringsFromCSFiles.xnb</samp> contain various other pieces of dialogue, some generic, and some NPC-specific.

===Character-specific dialogue===

==Characters\Dialogue directory==

<samp>Characters\Dialogue\*.xnb</samp> contains most of the dialogue for each character (one file per character). The game will choose dialogue from one of the sections below, in the order shown here.

===Characters\Dialogue\{{t|NPC}}.xnb===

An NPC's named file in <samp>Character\Dialogue</samp> contains most of their dialogue. The game will choose dialogue from one of the sections below, in the order shown here.

====Special dialogue====

====Special dialogue====

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====Rain dialogue====

==Rain dialogue==

<samp>Characters\Dialogue\rainy.xnb</samp> contains one dialogue entry per NPC. There's a roughly 50% chance they'll use this dialogue if one of the above didn't match, it's raining, and you're not married to or divorced from them.

<samp>Characters\Dialogue\rainy.xnb</samp> contains one dialogue entry per NPC. There's a roughly 50% chance they'll use this dialogue if one of the above didn't match, it's raining, and you're not married to or divorced from them.

====Engagement dialogue====

==Engagement dialogue==

Similar to the rain dialogue, <samp>Data/EngagementDialogue.xnb</samp> contains entries in the form of <samp>{{t|NPC}}0</samp> and <samp>{{t|NPC}}1</samp>, which are used when you are engaged but not yet married to an NPC, or, in the case of a roommate, when they have been invited but have not yet moved in.

Similar to the rain dialogue, <samp>Data/EngagementDialogue.xnb</samp> contains entries in the form of <samp>{{t|NPC}}0</samp> and <samp>{{t|NPC}}1</samp>, which are used when you are engaged but not yet married to an NPC, or, in the case of a roommate, when they have been invited but have not yet moved in.