Options

Options can be accessed in-game by pressing ? then 2 or in the "Help" menu at the start screen. If you delete the options.txt stored in "Data" the game will create a new file.

General Options

Default Character Name

"Set a default character name that will be used instead of a random name on character creation."

Default: [none]

Valid: standard characters

Auto-Pickup

"Enable item auto pickup. Change pickup rules with the Auto Pickup Manager in the Help Menu"

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Adjacent Tile Auto-Pickup

"If true, will enable to pickup items one tile around to the player. You can assign No Auto Pickup zones with the Zones Manager 'Y' key for eg. your homebase."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Zero Volume Auto-Pickup

"Auto pickup items with 0 Volume, and weight less than or equal to [option] * 50 grams. '0' disables this option"

Default: 0

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 20

Auto-Pickup Safemode

"Auto pickup is disabled as long as you can see monsters nearby. This is affected by Safemode proximity distance."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Dangerous Pickups

"If false, will cause player to drop new items that cause them to exceed the weight limit."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Auto-Safemode

"If true, auto-safemode will be on after starting a new game or loading."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Auto-Safemode Turn-on

"Number of turns after safemode is re-enabled if no hostiles are in safemodeproximity distance."

Default: 50

Valid: Min: 1, Max: 100

Safemode on Load

"If true, safemode will be on after starting a new game or loading."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Safemode Distance

"If safemode is enabled, distance to hostiles when safemode should show a warning. 0 = Max player viewdistance."

Default : 0

Valid: Min: 0, Max : 50

Safemode in Vehicle

"When true, safemode will alert you of hostiles while you are driving a vehicle."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Autosave

"If true, game will periodically save the map. Autosaves occur based on in-game turns or real-time minutes, whichever is larger."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Autosave Frequency

"Number of game turns between autosaves"

Default: 50

Valid: Min: 10, Max: 1000

Realtime Autosave Frequency

"Number of real time minutes between autosaves"

Default: 5

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 127

Circular Distances

"If true, the game will calculate range in a realistic way: light sources will be circles, diagonal movement will cover more ground and take longer. If disabled, everything is square: moving to the northwest corner of a building takes as long as moving to the north wall."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Drop Empty Containers

"Set to drop empty containers after use. No: Don't drop any. - Watertight: All except watertight containers. - All: Drop all containers."

Default: No

Valid: No, Watertight, All

Auto Map Notes

"If true, automatically sets notes on places that have stairs that go up or down"

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Death Camera

"Always: Always start deathcam. Ask: Query upon death. Never: Never show deathcam."

Default: Ask

Valid: Always, Ask, Never

Interface Options

User Language

"Switch Language. Requires restart."

Default: System Language

Valid: System Language, cs, en, fi, fr, de, it_IT, el, es_AR, es_ES, ja, ko, pl, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru, sr, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW

Temperature Display

"Switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit."

Default: Fahrenheit

Valid: Fahrenheit, Celsius

Speed Display

"Switch between km/h and mph."

Default: mph

Valid: mph, km/h

Weight Display

"Switch between kg and lbs."

Default: lbs

Valid: lbs, kg

Clock Display

"12h: AM/PM, eg: 7:31 AM - Military: 24h Military, eg: 0731 - 24h: Normal 24h, eg: 7:31"

Default: 12h

Valid: 12h, military, 24h

Prompt Case Sensitivity

"If true, Y/N prompts are case-sensitive and y and n are not accepted."

Default: True

ValidL True, False

Snap to Target

"If true, automatically follow the crosshair when firing/throwing."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Save upon Sleeping

"If true, game will ask to save the map before sleeping."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Query Before Disassembly

"If true, will query before disassembling items."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Query upon Keybinding

"If true, will query before removing a keybinding from a hotkey."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Auto-Close Advanced Inventory

"If true, will close the advanced inventory when the move all items command is used."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Vehicle Armor color Changes

"If true, vehicle parts will change color if they are armor plated"

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Driving View Offset

"If true, view will automatically shift towards the driving direction"

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Vehicle Driving Indicator

"If true, when controlling a vehicle, a white 'X' (in curses version) or a crosshair (in tiles version) at distance 10 from the center will display its current facing."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Sidebar HUD Position

"Switch between sidebar on the left or on the right side. Requires restart."

Default: Right

Valid: Right, Left

Sidebar Style

"Switch between a narrower or wider sidebar. Requires restart."

Default: Narrow

Valid: Narrow, Wider

Sidebar Log Flow

"Where new sidebar log messages should show."

Default: Bottom

Valid: Bottom, Top

Vehicle Menu Style

"Switch between two different styles of vehicle interaction menu or combination of them."

Default: Vertical

Valid: Vertical, Horizontal, Hybrid

Move View Offset

"Move view by how many squares per keypress."

Default: 1

Valid: Min: 1, Max: 50

Menu Scroll

"If true, menus will start scrolling in the center of the list, and keep the list centered."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

List Item View Shift

"Centered or to edge, shift the view toward the selected item if it is outside of your current viewport."

Default: Centered

Valid: Centered, False, Edge

Auto Inventory Letter Assignment

"If false, new inventory items will only get letters assigned if they had one before."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Item Health Bars

"If true, show item health bars instead of reinforced, scratched etc. text."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Item Symbols

"If true, show item symbols in inventory and pick up menu."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Graphics Options

Animations

"If true, will display enabled animations."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Rain Animation

"If true, will display weather animations."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Scrolling Text Animations

"If true, will display scrolling combat text animations."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Animation Repeat Delay

"The amount of time to pause between animation frames in ms."

Default: 10

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 100

X Axis Terminal Size

"Set the size of the terminal along the X axis. Requires restart."

Default: 80

Valid: Min 80, Max 242

Y Axis Terminal Size

"Set the size of the terminal along the Y axis. Requires restart."

Default: 24

Valid: Min: 24, Max: 24

Debug Options

Initial Overworld Map Reveal

"Determines the scope, which is known in the beginning of the game."

Default: 15

Valid: Min: 3, Max: 20

Character Generation Initial Points

"Initial points available on character generation."

Default: 6

Valid: Min: 6, Max: 1000

Maximum Allowed Trait Points

"Maximum trait points available for character generation."

Default: 12

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 1000

Experience Scaling

"Scales experience gained from practicing skills and reading books. 0.5 is half as fast as default, 2.0 is twice as fast, 0.0 disables skill training except for NPC training."

Default: 1.00

Valid: Min: 0.00, Max: 100.00

Skill Rust

"Set the level of skill rust. Vanilla: Vanilla Cataclysm - Capped: Capped at skill levels 2 - Int: Intelligence dependent - IntCap: Intelligence dependent, capped - Off: None at all."

Default: Int

Valid: Vanilla, Capped, Int, Intcap, Off

World Defaults

World end handling

"Delete the world when the last active character dies."

Default: No

Valid: No, Yes, Query

City Size

"A number determining how large cities are. 0 disables cities and roads."

Default: 4

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 16

City Spacing

"A number determining how far apart cities are. Warning, small numbers lead to very slow mapgen."

Default: 4

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 8

Monster Spawn Density

"A scaling factor that determines density of monster spawns."

Default: 1.00

Valid: Min: 0.00, Max: 50.00

Item Spawn Density

"A scaling factor that determines density of item spawns."

Default: 1.00

Valid: Min: 0.01, Max: 10.00

NPC Spawn Density

"A scaling factor that determines density of dynamic NPC spawns."

Default: 1.00

Valid: Min: 0.00, Max: 100.00

Monster Evolution Factor

"A scaling factor that determines the time between monster upgrades. A higher number means slower evolution. Set to 0.00 to turn off monster upgrades."

Default: 4.00

Valid: Min: 4.00, Max: 100.00

Region

"(WIP feature) Determines terrain, shops, plants, and more."

Default: Default

Valid: Default

Initial Time of Day

"Initial starting time of day on character generation."

Default: 8

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 23

Initial Season

"Season the player starts in. Options other than the default delay spawn of the character, so food decay and monster spawns will have advanced."

Default: Spring

Valid: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Season Length

"Season length, in days."

Default: 91

Valid: Min: 14, Max: 127

Construction Speed Scaling

"Multiplies the speed of construction by the given percentage. '0' automatically scales construction to match the world's season length."

Default: 100

Valid: Min: 0, Max: 1000

Eternal Seasons

"Keep the initial season for ever."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Static Spawn

"Spawn zombies at game start instead of during game. Must reset world directory after changing for it to take effect."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Wandering Hordes

"Emulation of zombie hordes. Zombie spawn points wander around cities and may go to noise. Must reset world directory after changing for it to take effect."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Classic Zombies

"Only spawn classic zombies and natural wildlife. Requires a reset of save folder to take effect. This disables certain buildings."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Surrounded Start

"If true, spawn zombies at shelters. Makes the starting game a lot harder."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Static NPC

"If true, the game will spawn static NPC at the start of the game, requires world reset."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Random NPC

"If true, the game will randomly spawn NPC during gameplay."

Default: False

Valid: True, False

Mutation Through Radiation

"If true, radiation causes the player to mutate."

Default: True

Valid: True, False

Experimental Z-Levels

"If true, experimental z-level maps will be enabled. This feature is not finished yet; the minimap has problems with it, among other things."

Default: False

Valid: True, False