Randomization tips

Elden's Circle Randomized Hints is a mod that works in conjunction with the Elden's Circle item and enemy randomizer and/or the Mist Gate Randomizer, which generates hint items in the game that provide the player with information about the item's location and randomized fog gate paths.

Elden Ring Randomizer Hints

🎯 Module Introduction

Elden's Circle Randomizer Tip is a helper mod designed specifically for **Elden's Circle** and works with the item and enemy randomizer and Mistgate randomizer developed by thefifthmatt. It will generate prompt items in the game, providing players with valuable information about **item locations** and **randomized fog door paths**, allowing you to enjoy the freshness of the randomized world while still conducting targeted exploration.

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✨ Core Functions

Use with item and enemy randomizers

• Prompt items can contain **1-4 pieces of prompt information**, providing item direction, enemy drop information or item ownership information
• Players can customize item categories, and the system will generate prompts pointing to the locations of similar items.
• Support prompt generation for NPC mission items
• Random category prompts and/or specific item prompts can be placed at the corpse of the Finger Witch at the beginning of the game to provide a starting point for exploration.

Use with fog door randomizer

• Prompt items can contain **1-3 prompt messages**, describing the connection path of the fog door or teleportation point
• **NOTE**: This mod only works with the **World Shuffle Mode** of the Mistgate Randomizer

Double randomization support

• Fog doors and/or hints for items needed to pass through the door may be randomly placed near the door
• Random item prompts and fog door prompts may appear in treasure chests and/or boss drops
• The required starting items can be placed in the initial inventory of the Finger Witch Corpse and/or the Twin Crones in the Hall of the Round Table

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🚀 Quick Start

System requirements

• Python 3.10 or higher (if not using standalone EXE)
• Installed Elden Ring game
• Mod Engine 2
• Item and enemy randomizer v0.9 and/or Mistgate randomizer v0.1.7b
• Yabber or WitchyBND for unpacking and repacking game files
• DSMSPortable is used to modify game files

Installation method

**Stand-alone EXE version:**

• Download the EXE package and extract it to the target folder
• Run `randomizerHints.exe` to start the program

**Python source code version:**

• Download the source code compressed package and extract it to the target folder
• Run from command line: `python randomizerHints.py`
• Or build your own EXE using the provided batch file: `buildExe.bat`

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⚙️ Mod Engine 2 configuration

After generating the prompts, Mod Engine 2 needs to be configured to include the randomized prompt mod. The program will generate a `config_randomizerhints.toml` configuration file.

**IMPORTANT NOTE:**

• In the toml file, `randomizerhints` must be arranged before `fog`, and `fog` must be arranged before `randomizer`
• Any module with a regulation.bin file listed before these lines will overwrite the randomization data and not work properly.

See the documentation folder for detailed configuration instructions.

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🌟 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the following developers and tools:

• **thefifthmatt** - Provides hundreds, if not thousands, of additional hours of gameplay for various Souls-based games
• **mountlover** - Developed the game-changing DSMSPortable tool
• Development team of Mod Engine 2, Yabber, WitchyBND and UXM Selective Unpacker

The complete project can be found on GitHub.