Battle Quill

CombatQuill provides a quill that can also be used in combat, allowing you to draw in combat.

CombatQuill 🎨

✨ Module Introduction

CombatQuill is an online drawing and tactical marking module specially designed for "Slay the Spire 2"! It cleverly adds an official-style quill toolbar to the battle interface and reward interface, allowing you and your teammates to mark enemies, plan routes, and set priorities in real time during tense battles, making team collaboration even more powerful!

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🛠️ Core functions

• **Real-time Tactical Drawing**: Draw markers directly on the map as the battle progresses, strategic communication has never been more intuitive.
• **Official Style Integration**: The toolbar is perfectly integrated into the game UI without any sense of disobedience.
• **Flexible operation mode**: Supports temporary activation and resident mode to adapt to the needs of different combat scenarios.
• **Rich customization options**: You can freely adjust the brush color, thickness, transparency and eraser size.

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📦 Installation Guide

• **Exit Game**: Please make sure to completely close "Slay the Spire 2".
• **Unzip file**: Unzip the downloaded release package.
• **Place Mod**: Copy the entire unzipped `mods\CombatQuill` folder to the root directory of the game.
• **Confirm files**: Make sure the target folder contains the four key files `CombatQuill.dll`, `CombatQuill.pck`, `combatquill.settings.json` and `mod_manifest.json`.
• **Startup Verification**: Run the game and check whether the module is loaded successfully.

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🎮 Instructions for use

Master these shortcut keys and you can become a master tactician on the battlefield:

• **Temporary drawing**: Default **Hold down the `Ctrl`** key to activate the quill.
• **Mode Switch**: Press the **`F8`** key to switch between temporary and resident drawing modes.
• **Start drawing**: After activating the quill, **hold down the left mouse button and drag** to draw or erase.
• **Switch Tools**: Press the **`E`** key to quickly switch between the brush and eraser.
• **One-click clear screen**: Press **`F9`** to clear all marks on the current screen.
• **Exit drawing**: Press the **`Esc`** key to exit the current quill state.
• **Personalized settings**: Click the settings button to customize all parameters such as trigger keys, mode, color, brush thickness, transparency, etc.!

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💾 Archive and Migrate

**Please note**: CombatQuill itself does not create independent progress archives, it only saves your key and brush settings.

• **Keep Settings**: If you want to keep your personalized settings on a new computer or after reinstalling the game, just copy the file `\mods\CombatQuill\combatquill.settings.json` to the same location.
• **Migrate original archive**:
• Start the game with the mod first and generate the `modded` archive directory.
• Copy the original `progress.save`, `prefs.save` and (if necessary) `current_run.save` to the `%APPDATA%\SlayTheSpire2\steam\\modded\profileX\saves` directory.
• If the current game cannot be read after migration, deleting the `current_run.save` and `current_run.save.backup` files in the `modded` archive folder usually solves the problem.

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Are you ready to conquer the spire with a paintbrush? Together with your teammates, draw a blueprint for victory! 🚀