Making Mount & Blade: Warband, Halal

It’s always irked me somewhat that the townships of the Sarranid Sultanate in Mount & Blade: Warband carry pork products. The faction is obviously very Islamic themed, minarets are visible & their banner features a crescent moon. So, despite M&B never explicitly mentioning religion, such an Islamic themed faction should not be anywhere near pork.

But, this glaring anatopism is fixable with some very light-touch modding.

By editing the item_kinds1.txt within the games Modules folder, we can find the item definitions for itm_pork & itm_sausages.

 itm_pork Pork Pork 1  pork 0  ...<snip>
 0
0

 itm_sausages Sausages Sausages 1  ...<snip>
 0
0

The 2nd lines of these definitions denotes the number of factions that carry them, if it’s zero, all factions carry the items. If we amend these to something greater than zero, then a new line below is needed to denote which factions carry the item. We can use the following list for reference;

1 – Commoners ( Mercs & Farmers, etc), 3 – Neutral (peaceful parties), 15 – Swadia, 16 – Vaegirs, 17 – Khergit Khanate, 18 – Nords, 19 – Rhodoks, 20 – Sarranid Sultanate

And so it goes that the definitions become the following if we want to exclude our Sultanate;

 itm_pork Pork Pork 1  pork 0  ...<snip>
 7
 1 3 15 16 17 18 19
0

 itm_sausages Sausages Sausages 1  ...<snip>
 7
 1 3 15 16 17 18 19
0

With these changes, only Sarranid townships recently liberated from another faction will stock pork products, since the game restocks shops on a delayed timer. It’s a small fix, but a fun one.