Helbreath Internals

First of all, here's 2 groups of servers: 1 hosted in USA (Elkridge maryland), other is hosted in Korea. USA servers are planned to start working on 20th of jan, 2003. www.helbreath.com links to the Korean servers group (even though it's hosting international servers as well in Korea) www.helbreathusa.com links to the USA servers group (you can create account here) .

Tuning Helbreath

Tuning sounds

In your Helbreath folder you can find folder named Sounds, let's see what it contains:

The most interesting for us are:
e12 money drop, replace it with e13 (select e13 then copy and paste it, then delete e12 and rename copy of e13 into 12)
e11 Items drop - replace with something more loud, e13 is ok too.
c8 walk step - replace with something more loud e.g. e18

Many people asked how to change background music

It's quite easy:

1. Convert your music into the following format:PCM 8,810 kHz; 8 Bit; Stereo
   Here you may encounter some problems if source file has MP3 extension.
2. Backup MUSIC folder in Helbreath (autoupdate likes to download it again and again if you put your music there)
3. Put file you got after converting into the Helbreath/MUSIC folder under the one of the following filenames:
   elvine.wav
   aresden.wav
   middleland.wav
   dungeon.wav
   MainTM.wav

Indeed, if you don't have tools like soundforge or just too lazy to convert music from one format into another... Then you can replace any of the files above with a 0 bytes file and just use external player like winamp to add music to the game.

Tuning graphics

Here's a lots of ready skins (just check sites in links section for skins). If you have time and wish to make Helbreath look like YOU want to be - just get a PAK browsing tool , picture editor like PSP or Photoshop and :)

Hmm some people were having problems downloading PAK browser from the main mirror - therefore I'm providing direct links for PAK browser on other mirrors:
2nd Mirror (traffic-limited)
3rd Mirror

PAK browsing tool is really easy to use:

1. Backup your PAK files you want to mess with
2. Open HBPak
3. Click on "Open PAK file" button
4. Export picture you need into the BMP
5. Edit it the way you like
6. Then replace image in PAK with your own BMP file of the same size (it should have 256 colors - 8 bits) using HBPak

Note: color of leftmost-upper pixel will be transparent in the game

Pak files index

Files which are advised to be tweaked marked with bold. It's also advised to remove monster corpses to see items more clearly (not advised on unicorns or other monsters which does not drop items immediately or if you are hunting parts) .

Badword fix

Backup old Curse.txt and badword.txt from the Helbreath\Contents folder (in case in later updates it will not work). Put this file in Helbreath\Contents folder. Actually it's quite safe to import text and PAK files.
Links to Curse.Txt: First mirror Second mirror Third Mirror
Links to badword.txt: First mirror Second mirror Third Mirror

Also here is a way to change messages text e.g. "Protection from magic has vanished" to something like "PFM VAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNIIIISSSHHHHEEEEDDD!!!!" :) Just make a search for this string in Helbreath folder.