Building PW with hakpacks - adding and removing to it without crashing with errors

Valeriya

I want to be able to add big hakpacks to the PW I'm working on without them being divided to a 1000 files. But let's say I make them all into a big single hakpack (2GB file) made out of many small hapacks and then suddenly I want to add some new hakpacks that I like into my big hakpack. At the same time, I also want to remove some hakpacks that I eventually wound up not using from my big hakpack. Will it cause me problems?

FreshLemonBun

Your hak files contain resources (textures, 3d models, icons, etc) and reference tables (2da text files) to those resources. Any way that you can imagine that might cause a problem it will probably cause a problem. If you replace an unused resource with a new resource it wont cause a problem. If your references are updated but still point to valid resources they wont cause a problem unless what was once a potted plant is now a dragon statue. If your previous 2da files awarded content on level up that you later remove it might cause a problem for older characters. If you exceed the line read limit on a 2da then content over that limit might cause problems, I think 256 on classes, 128 on races, and 256 on base items are still a problem unless it was changed recently. Body parts might still have limits too.

Updating, removing, or replacing resources is mostly an exercise in common sense and precision, but a module wont crash if something it never used is no longer there and the references are all **** or blank whichever is expected.