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After digging more in the code I'm afraid the problem I encountered is only a small drop of water in the ocean and that the code, as is, can't support any serious modding.

It's clearly not done, at start, to be modded, that is comprehensible because such a succes of the game was not really expected :)

But what is breaking any modding is the fact that the basic rules of pro dev are not expected and a lot of work on the basic code is needed before anything :

- outsourcing of all hardcoded datas to permit them to be modified, eventually by more than one mod

-  separation of the 3 classical tiers (datas, process, UI) and splitting in functions that contains each one functionality (the end_day code is a good example of a 'every is done here' code)

For now the only thing that modders can produce are overhauls of the game, each broking any other mod and all broken by any update of the vanilla code and, even if I have a lot of time to spend on a game I love, I've not enough informations on the next waited version to launch such a project so I think I'll stop trying modding and only produce an overhauled version for my own usage.

~~I've not enough informations on the next waited version to launch such a project so I think I'll stop trying modding and only produce an overhauled version for my own usage.~~

This is exactly what I do every update, as I've found modding to not be very effective with Strive. Each newest stable version I'll start editing all .GD files in the game that suit my desires. It's taken a lot of trial and error to find out which values cannot be changed or else they break the game, especially in globals.gd. Most of the .gd files in the \scripts folder and subfolders can be edited much easier, though you have to make absolute certain you don't forget to end each code fragment with quotes or else the script will run right through into the next one, and you have errors that can break the game.