How to tweak OXZ's

OXZ's live in your ManagedAddOns folder.

• To tweak an OXZ, you expand it, rewrite part of the code (following the instructions), and then repackage it as an OXP.

• You then put the tweaked OXP in your AddOns folder.

• You then restart the game holding down the shift button.

When you next dive into the entrails of the in-game Expansions Manager you will notice that that Expansion is now listed in red!

• Note that you can directly download the OXZ in expanded state into your AddOns folder by pressing x when the Expansion is highlighted. The expanded expansion will have an .off extension superadded to the folder.

• Note that the old OXZ if you have already downloaded one remains in your Managed Expansions folder.
• Note also that the OXPs in your AddOns folder trump the OXZs in your Managed Expansions folder.

• Note also that an OXZ is just a zipped OXP - there is essentially no difference between the two... Reval recommends adding a simple step to the tweaking process: create a folder in AddOns with an .oxp extension, and unzip the contents of the oxz to it (after renaming it .zip). Presto! - an OXP.
• An OXZ, to be accepted, must also contain a manifest.plist, (it is basically a zipped version of the entire OXP with an added manifest.plist) whereas a pure OXP needs only a requires.plist. Reval's belt'n'braces approach is to include both.

Links

• OXP for details on finding the ManagedAddOns & AddOns Folders for AppleMAc, Windows & Linux.
• BB Thread with more detail and long list of tweaks.

• Suggestions for change to the system of doing this.
• Aegidian's views on tweaking (and on OXZ's generally!): here. Tweaking an OXP is easier than doing the same to an OXZ.

• Tweaking background stars, space dust, sun distance, etc. for 1.81+

• Tweaking galaxy seeds: Interactive Maps - and see the linked discussion

Other advice pages

• How do I ... dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick etc