Korean, cheats, and an autoplay

An unofficial mod for Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder (Crux Games). It adds three files to your game folder and changes none of the ones already there.

Download the latest release Source on GitHub

Verified against game v1.0.6, Steam build 24989173. After a game update the translation can revert to English or autoplay can stop — that is expected, and the anchor catalogue is where it gets fixed.

The three

한국어. Every one of the game’s 1,071 translatable strings, joined on the key rather than on the English, so Crux can reword their own text without moving ours. None of the game’s fonts has a single Hangul glyph, so the mod builds a Galmuri11 font asset at runtime and hangs it off every font as a fallback.

Cheats, on F8. Gold, score, rerolls, removes, dismisses, rewinds and enchantment; weeks and score target; skip the milestone, force the shop, build anywhere. Every write goes through the game’s own methods rather than the fields behind them, so the UI, the triggers and the save all agree.

Using any of them stops Steam achievements for the rest of the session. That is the default rather than a setting to find, because an achievement unlocked by a cheat cannot be taken back.

Autoplay, on F11. It plays: picking which of the offered buildings to take, where to put it, whether the shop is worth entering, which council request it can actually finish, and past every screen between milestones. F9 is the quieter version — it highlights where it would place what you are holding and leaves the clicking to you.

How it decides

It does not guess what a tile is worth. The game exposes GetScorePreview, a pure function giving what a building scores and off which tiles, and end of turn scores every building on the board — so a week is arithmetic. Dump the rules once and the overlay prints real points, checkable against the game’s own display. Then it leans that answer toward the milestone: with weeks to spare it builds the engine, and with two weeks left it takes the points.

It also cannot break a rule. Every placement goes through the game’s own legality check and is abandoned when the answer is no.

Installing

You need MelonLoader v0.7.3 first — it is not bundled here, because vendoring somebody else’s loader would make their bug reports ours.

Then unpack the release over your game folder:

Combolands/
├─ Mods/CombolandsMod.dll
├─ UserData/Combolands/locale/ko/strings.json
└─ UserData/Combolands/fonts/Galmuri11.ttf

Uninstalling is deleting those. Nothing in the game folder was changed, so there is nothing to restore.

Back up your save before using cheats or autoplay. They put a run into states ordinary play cannot reach.

For people reading the code


Anchor catalogue	every signature the mod binds, what breaks when the game moves it, and where to fix it
The simulator	how a placement’s worth is computed rather than guessed, and how faithfully
Directory conventions	where code goes, and why the valuation has no Unity types in it
The plan	what this is, what it attaches to, and the order the work happened in

The parts that decide anything — the board snapshot, the valuation, the placement plan, the rules, the pace — carry no Unity and no game types at all. That is what lets 91 tests run on a machine that has never seen the game, and lets the policy trainer play tens of thousands of simulated milestones there. A separate suite reads an installed Assembly-CSharp.dll as metadata and checks every anchor in about fifty milliseconds, naming the row that broke.