Monster Modding

Basic Commands

New Is New Monster
Select a Monster:
New Monster Number:
Monster Name:
Fixed Name if Hero:
Description:

Visuals: Standard Sprite:
Attack Sprite:
Special Look:

Clearing & Copying

Clearing Data

Clear Weapons, Armor, Magic, Special Abilities.
Clear All

Clear Weapons
Clear Armor
Clear Magic
Clear Special Abilities

Copy Data Copy stats from another monster

This can be from another monster in the same mod.
ID of Monster to Copy Stats from:

Copy sprites from another monster

If this value of this is equal to 0, it will not be used.
ID of Monster to Copy Sprite from from:

Pretender God Commands

Monster is a Pretender God
New Magic Path Cost:
Starting Domminion Strength:
Clears home realm
Home Realm:
Fixed Gold Cost:

Recruitment Rules

Recruitment Restrictions Slow Recruitment Time

Remove slow recruitment from existing monster.
Remove Slow Recruitment

Maximum recruitable units per month (a value of 0 disables this)
Max Units Per Month:

Enchantmant numbero. to reduce price by 50 gold (a value of 0 disables).
Enchantmant ID:

Required Buildings: Requires Lab
Requires Temple

Scale Values Heat Scale Required for Recruitment:
Heat Scale Required for Recruitment:
Gold Discount Per Level of Turmoil:
Gold Discount Per Level of Death:

AI Recruitment

Tells the AI to recrute only one unit per batch.
Only one per batch

Tells the AI to never recrute this unit.
AI never recrutes unit

Recruitment Requirements

If the monster requires another monster to be present in the same provence, enter the ID of that monster here. A value of 0 disables this.
ID of Required Monster:

If the monster requires the recruiting side to possess another monster, enter the ID of that monster here. A value of 0 disables this.
ID of Required Monster:

Desertion

Monster fights a single battle, then leaves.
Single battle

Chance of unit diserting per month.
Desertion change*:

Chance of disertion per month when astral corruption is active.
Desertion change*:

Chance of becoming indpentant per month.
Desertion change*:

* A value of zero will disable this mechanic.

Unit Cannot be Wished for

Gold & Resource Cost

Base Resource Cost:
Autocalculate gold cost
Gold Cost ajustment:
Gold Cost:
Recruitment Point Cost:

This is used for overridding the units size for caluclating the cost in resources of a units equipment. If a monster has a size value of 5, but this value is set to 3, then the cost of its equipment will be multiplied by 3 instaid of 5.
Ajusted Resource Cost:

Basic Attributes

Sets the units steal to at least 10 if less then 10, and set's its commanding ability to zero.

Racial Templates

Hit Points:
Strength:
Attack:
Defence:
Precision:
Protection:
Size:
Magic Resistance:
Morale:
Encumberence:

Note: Dominions 5 has a marked changed in how unit movment is calculated. It is still possible to use the old values, dominions will automaticly covert them to the corect movment values.
Map Speed:

Speed Guide

Action Points:

If this is set to zero, the #blind atribute will be added to the unit.
Number of Eyes:

A higher void sanity value reduces the chance of become insane.
Void Sanity:

Weapons & Armor

Weapons: ID of First Weapon:
ID of Second Weapon:
ID of Third Weapon:
ID of Fourth Weapon:
ID of Fifth Weapon:
ID of Sixth Weapon:

Armor Name or ID First Armor Piece:
Name or ID Second Armor Piece:
Name or ID Third Armor Piece:

Bodytype

Unit BodyType:

Note: To customise your monsters body slots, choose the option "Miscshape" from the "Unit Bodytype" drop down menu. This will enable the options under the "Number of Body Parts" box below. From ther, you can manually set the item slots that the monster will have.

Item Slots

Note: this is used only if the unit is a comander.
ID of the Item that this Monster Starts with:

ID of restricted item that this unit can use.
Item ID:

Can Only Use Misc Items:

Number of Body Parts: Unit Body Template:

Number of Hands:
Number of Heads:
Has Body:
Has Feet:
Number of Misc Slots:
Can Only Wear Crowns:

Creature Type & Status

Unit is Female
Unit is Coldblooded
Unit is Immortal

Note: This ability differ fron the prevous one in that it works so long as the monster is in friendly dommion.
Unit is Immortal

If this is checked, then this unit is affected by Dragon Master ability.
Unit is a Drake

Unit is a Plant

Horror Status: Is not a Horror
Lesser Horror
Greater Horror
Doom Horror

Unit is Mounted
Unit is Holy
Unit is an Animal

Only one of unit can be present in the world.
Unit is Unique

Unit is an Undead

This Unit can be Summoned by the Swarm Spell (land only)
Swarm summon

This Unit can be summoned by the Swarm Spell (underwater only)
UW swarm summon

Unit is a Demon
Unit is a Magical Being

Unit will automaticly compete in the arena deathmatch.
Autocompete

Unit cannot be Petrified
Unit is Inanimate
Unit can be found in Dungeons

Movement

Unit is Immobile

Underwater Movement Unit is Aquatic
Unit is Amphibious
Unit is Semi-Amphibous
Unit can Swim across rivers
Unit can Float across rivers
Unit can cannot move underwater

Unit is unaffected by snow

Unit can fly across rivers and mountians.
Minor flight

Unit can fly durring a Storm

Teleportation

Unit can teleport without the aid of magic spells/items.
Unit can teleport

Unit can teleport across the map without the aid of magic spells/items.
Map teleport

Unit can teleport durring battle without the aid of magic spells/items.
Unit can blink

Unit requires magic spells/items to teleport.
No teleport

Unit can only teleport using Stygian Paths and Faery Trod.
Unit cannot teleport

Even in winter when the rivers are forzen, this unit will not be able to cross.
Unit can never cross rivers

Enviromental Survival Units with these tags have do not suffer a map movement penalty when moveing across the assocated terrain.
Forest Survival
Mountain Survival
Swamp Survival
Wasteland Survival

Sailing The sailing ability allows a commander to transports friendly forces overseas.

Commander can sail across the seas

Max number of size points worth of units.
Max army size:

Max size of the units that can be transported.
Max unit size:

Max number of extra provences that this unit can sail.
Max provences:

Max number of size points worth of units that the commander can take underwater.
Army Size:

Chance of this monster moving on the map if it is independent.
Percent:

Monster suffer no move penalties from armor.
No armor penalties

Stealth & Assassination

A unit with the Glamour ability will have the mirror image spell cast on it at the begining of a battle.
If a unit has a stealth value of at least 10, then the Glamour ability will add 25 to it. Even if it does not have a stealth value of at least 10, it will still benifit from the mirror image.
Monster has Glamour

Units require a stealth value of at least 10 to be able to move undetected. If the value is less then 10, then tags such as #succubus, #spy and #beckon will have no effect.
Stealth:

Stealth Dependant Abilities Monster can spy on enemies

If the unit suceeds in seducing an enemy commander, then it and the commander will flee to a nearby friendly provence.
Seduction ability:

If the unit suceeds in seducing an enemy commander, then it and the commander will be transported to the nations capitol.
Seduction ability:

Ability of monster lure enemy commanders to their death when in a costal provence.
Lure:

Monster can assassinate enemy commanders.
Assassin

Monster can assassinate enemy commanders in a fortess under seige
Can scale walls

Ability to evade targets bodyguards.
Evade bodyguards:

This is the ability decive enemy scouts into thinking that the army is bigger.
False Army:

A value of 1 or greater means that the unit can decive enemy scouts into thinking that the army contains only one kind of unit.
Fools Scouts:

Age, Healing & Afflictions

Manually set starting age

Setting the starting age is often unesscary, as the system can precaluclate it. Setting this to zero will clear it from a monster (if the monster is not new) and setting it to 0 will set the start age to zero.
Starting Age:

After reaching its maximum age, a unit will begin to incure injuries.
Maximum Age:

The number of years the unit is older or younger then it's preset age
Extra Age:

Adds between 1 ad X years to the units age.
Extra random age:

Damage taken per turn while underwater.
Underwater damage:

Damage taken per turn while on land.
Land damage:

Self Healing Heals injuries
Standard healing
Lab required to heal

The chance of succfuly healing afflictions of friendly troops in the same provence.
Healer Ability:

Some units take damage while away from home provence.
Damage per turn:

Some units can cure a number of diseased units per turn.
Diseases to heal per turn:

Some units can cure a number of diseased units per turn, and convert the diseases into death gems.
Diseases to heal per turn:

Disease resistance:
Affliction resistance:

If this is checked, then the monster's hit ponts can go above the normal maximum. There is not limit to how high they can go, and the extra hit points are kept until they are lost from damage.
HP can go above normal maximum

Setting this value above 0 alows the monster's hit ponts to go above its normal maximum by the specified percent. Any extra hit points will gradualy be lost over time.
Percent:

Some monsters can eat unburied corspes during a turn to regain hit points. This specifes the maximum number of corspes a monster can eat each turn.
Corspes per turn:

Number of HP per corpse:

Some monsters have a chance of haveing a random affliction when they are recruited/summoned.

Chance of random affliction:

Starting Afflictions
Disease	Cursed	Plagued
			Burned
Sleep	Rusted Armor	Blind	Bleeding
Earth Grip			Limp
Lost Eye	Weakness	Battle Fright	Mute
Chest Wound	Crippled	Feeblemind	Never Healing Wound

Insanity. Units that are insane have a chance of taking a random action each turn based on how insane they are.
Insanity level:

Damage Reduction

Non Elemental Resistance Blunt Resistance
Piercing Resistance
Slashing Resistance

Non magical weapons have only a 25% chance of hitting an ethereal monster but ingore armor when they do.
Ethereal

Reinvigoration:
Regeneration:
reincarnation:

Elemental Resistance Cold Resistance:
Fire Resistance:
Poison Resistance:
Shock Resistance:

Extra protection basied on cold scale:

Monster takes less damage from nonmagic weapons.
Invulnerability:

Combat Auras

Heat Aura:
Cold Aura:
Underwater Heat Aura:
Poison Armor:
Poison Skin:
Poison Cloud Size:
Disease Cloud Size:
Awe:
Animal Awe:
Fear:
Air Shield:
Fire Shield:
Underwater Fire Shield:
Banefire Shield:
Acid Shield:

Foes who damage this monster recive the same damage instead of harming the monster, unless they pass a magic resistance test.
Damage Reversal:

Foes who damage this monster recive the same damage that they inflict, unless they pass a magic resistance test.
Blood Vengance:

Foes who attack this monster will become covered in slime and imobilised unless they pass a magic resistance test.
Slimer:

Mindslime area:
Overcharged:

Entangles foes who strike monster.
Entanglement

Foes who strike monster lose an eye.
Eyeloss

Horror marks foes who strike monster.
Horrormark

Seasonal Powers

Spring Power
Summer Power
Fall Power
Winter Power

Elemental & Scale Powers

Chaos Power
Cold Power
Fire Power
Death Power
Magic Power
Sloth Power
Darkness Power
Storm Power

Combat Abilities

Ambidextrous:
Berserk:
Unit goes berserk when blessed
Unit can fly when blessed
Darkvision:
Death curse
Disease cloud on death AoE:
Paralyzes enemies on death AoE:
Explodes on death
Chance of having a guardian spirit:

Trampeling Monster can trample smaller foes
Monster can devour trampled foes

This monster can digest devoured units. The number is the amount of damage devored units take per turn.
Damage:

This monster can digest devoured units and damage their armor. The number is the amount of damage devored units take per turn.
Damage:

This monster can digest devoured units and use them to heal damage. The number is the amount of damage devored units take per turn. Every hit point of damage that a devoured unit takes is used to heal the monster.
Damage:

This monster has a chance of raisng slain enemies as soulless.
Chance:

Slain enemies are raised as this monster.
Monster ID:

Magical Tatoos Bear Tattoo
Horse Tattoo
Wolf Tattoo
Boar Tattoo
Snake Tattoo

Non-Combat Abilities

Castle defence bonus:
Siege bonus:
Patrol bonus:
Pillage bonus:

This unit is doubly effective at preaching when inside enemy dominion.
Inquisitor

Generates extra supplies:
Unit does not need food

Some monsters are extra effective at calling back a slain pretender god. This value will be added to their priest level when using the Call God command.
Elegist value:

Spreads dominion:
Heretic:

Gold and Resources

Collects income in provences that cannot trace a path to a fort.
Tax Collector:

Generates resources:
Generates Gold:
Increased upkeep:
Generates resources in ice provences:

Chance of preventing bad events:
Chance of taking a random action:
Causes unrest:
Improves provence defence:
Unit spreads disease
Unit kills population:

Unit spreads insanity anongs the populations and units.
Insanity spread:

Unit cannot enter the hall of fame

Unit is more eficent at turning gems into gold.
Alchemist:

Shapechanging

Some units can voluntarly change shape on the map screen. If this unit can, enter the ID of the unit that it can turn into.
Shapechange target ID:

A few units will transform into another when becoming a prophet. If this unit does, enter the ID of the unit that it can turn into.
Shapechange target ID:

Same units will transform into another when gravly injured, such as dragons. If this unit does, enter the ID of the unit that it can turn into.
Shapechange target ID:

Same units will transform into another when gravly injured, such as dragons. When they heal, they revert to their original form. If another unit transforms into this unit when infured, enter the ID of the original unit.
Shapechange target ID:

Same units will transform into another when reduced to zer0 hit points. If this unit does, enter the ID of the unit that it turns into.
Shapechange target ID:

Terrain-based Shapeshifting

Some monsters will change into another when moving into provences that have specific terrains.
ID of plains shapechange:
ID of forest shapechange:
ID of land shapechange:
ID of water shapechange:

Some monsters will change another when moving into or out of their home provence.
ID of foreign provence shapechange:
ID of home provence shapechange:

Seasonal Shapechanges

Some units change shape during a season. Enter the ID of the monster it changes into, or leave it at zero.

ID of spring shapechange:
ID of summer shapechange:
ID of autumn shapechange:
ID of winter shapechange:

HP/Exp. Related Shapeshifting

Upon reaching a certain amount of hit points, a monster will change into the next monster in the games list (e.g., a four headed hydra changing into a three headed hydra).
HP amount:

Upon reaching a certain amount of hit points, a monster will change into the prevous monster in the games list (e.g., a four headed hydra changing into a five headed hydra).
HP amount:

Upon reaching a certian amount of experince points, a monster will change into the next monster in the games list.
Exp amount:

Percent of Exp lost when changing shape. Note: This is best used for perminate shapechange.
XP loss percent:

Transformation Target Spell Result Bad result
Disabled
Bad result

Path Attunment Chance of gaining a level in a magic path.
Atunment Chance:
Magic Path:

Heals wound and afflictions when changing shape

Monster Summoning

Number of corpses per month to automaticly reanimate. Corpses:

Dommion Based Summoning

Note: Setting a value to 0 will disable the summon.

Basic dominion auto-summoning. The number of monster summoned is based on the dominion strength.
ID of monster to automatic summon in firendly dominion:

This is half as effective as the prevous dominion summoning.
ID of monster to automatic summon in firendly dominion:

This is 1/20 as effective as the first dominion summoning.
ID of monster to automatic summon in firendly dominion:

There is a flat 8% chance of summoning this monster.
ID of monster to automatic summon in firendly dominion:

ID of monster this unit can summon when at a temple.
Monster ID:

Manual Summoning Some units can manually summon monsters.

Number of monsters to manualy summon per month.
Manualy summon:

ID of monster to summon:

Automatic Summoning

Number of monsters to automaticly summon per month. Automatic summon:

ID of monster to summon:

Battle Summoning

Number of monsters to summon per round of battle. This will summon between 0 and X (X being the number that you specified) monsters.
Battle summon:

ID of monster to summon:

Start of Battle Summoning

Number of monsters to summon at the begining of a battle. This will summon between 0 and X (X being the number that you specified) monsters.
Dice sides:

ID of monster to summon:

Number of monsters to summon at the begining of a battle. This will roll a 6 sided dice X times (X being the number that you specified) and then summon that amount of monsters.
Dice rolls:

ID of monster to summon:

Monster Tag (a value of 999 will disable this).
Monster Tag:

Monster Lord

Some units can summon extra monsters of a specific type when casting a spell to summon them.

Extra Vine Men per summon:
Extra Drakes per summon:
Extra Lamias per summon:
Extra Corpse Men per summon:

Nametypes

Use a custom namelist, rather then one of the builtin ones.
Custom name list

Name List to use:
Number of custom namelist to use:

Monster Modding, Leadership & Morale

Max Commanded Units:	Basic Morale Bonus/Penalty:	Max Squads Before Suffering Additional Penalties:	Additional Penalty:
No leadership ability (0 units)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Poor (10 units)	-1	1	-1
Average (40 units)	0	2	-1
Good (80 units)	1	3	-1
Expert (120 units)	2	4	-1
Superior (160 units)	3	5	N/A

Normal Leadership

Number of magic beings
Increase leadership by:

Magic Leadership

Number of magic beings
Increase magic leadership by:

Undead Leadership

Number of undead
Increase undead leadership by:

Even though this monster is not undead, it still requires a commander with undead leadership.
Undead leadership required

Even though this monster is undead, it does not require a commander with undead leadership.
Undead leadership not needed

Morale Related Abilities

Inspires troops:
Inspires animal troops:
Inspires slave troops:
Unit is a slave
Unit cannot be given orders
Unit's ability to fight in a formation:

Units ability to protect its commander from assassination.
Bodyguard:

Number of extra bodyguards that a commander can have.
Extra bodyguards:

Standard bearer:

Monster Modding, Magic

Magic Paths

Fire Magic Level:
Air Magic Level:
Water Magic Level:
Earth Magic Level:
Astral Magic Level:
Death Magic Level:
Nature Magic Level:
Blood Magic Level:
Priest Magic Level:
Random Magic Level:
Elemental Magic Level:
Sorcery Magic Level:
Non-Priest Magic Level:

Chance of reciving a random magic boost.
Chance:

Chance Based Magic Paths Fire
Air
Water
Earth
Astral
Death
Nature
Blood
Priest

Use this number for a monster that shapchanges into another form and you want to boost or penalize its magicpath level while in that form.

Amount to boost/penalize:
Magic Path to Boost:
Amount to boost/penalize:
Magic Path to Boost:
Ritual Master ability:

Spell Range

Extra fire range:
Extra air range:
Extra water range:
Extra earth range:
Extra astral range:
Extra death range:
Extra nature range:
Extra blood range:
Extra elemental range:
Extra sorcery range:

Magic Research

A commander without magic skills will still produce this amount of RP.
Extra Research Points:
Increase/decrease to research ability:
Ability to inspire other Researchers:
Extra research points per sloth scale:
Unaffected by drain scale
Unaffected by drain and magic scales

Benifit fron divine insperation is limited by dominion strength.
Limited insperation

Gem Production

Note: it is recomended that this ability should only be used on pretenders, heroes, or other unique units

Magic gems produced per month:
Magic Gem Type:

Tempory Combat Gems Temp Fire Gems:
Temp Air Gems:
Temp Water Gems:
Temp Earth Gems:
Temp Astral Pearls:
Temp Death Gems:
Temp Nature Gems:
Temp Blood Slaves:

Blood Hunting bonus:

Gem Conversion per Turn Water Gems to Astral Pearls:
Nature Gems to Death Gems:

Other Magic Abilities

Extra spells per round:
Spell to cast upon begining of combat:
Crossbreeding bonus:

Banishment and Escaping When this monster is slain, its killer is banished to one of the following planes:
N/A
The Void
The Inferno
Kokytos

Some units, if banished to a specific plane, have a change of escaping each month.
Kokytos excape chance:
Inferno excape chance:
Void excape chance:
Any other plane excape chance:

Chance of casting a random spell in combat, instead of a useful spell.
Chance:

Chance per turn of being horror marked.
Chance:

(Percentage based) reduction in gem cost when forging.
Reduction percent:

Flat reduction in gem cost when forging.
Flat reduction:

Bonus or penalty to magic paths when forging items.
Bonus/penalty:

If this unit is indpendent (i.e., not under the command of any pretender god), then it will have acess to all spells at this level or lower.
Independent spells levels:

Monster Modding, New Abilities for Dominions 5

Note: These abilities are listed but not documented in the modding manual. Use at your own risk.

#spiritsight
#invisible
#doheal
#reanimpriest
#norange
#polyimmune
#unify
#triple3mon
#combatcaster

#fastcast
#undregen
#magicstudy
#yearturn
#fortkill
#thronekill
#farthronekill

#minprison
#startmajoraff
#triplegod
#triplegodmag
#bringeroffortune
#unsurr
#skirmisher
#minsizeleader

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