Risk of Rain Returns: How to Customize Your Language Files

This guide intends to outline pretty much everything that can be edited by the language file, and to be used as a resource.

however, i will be assuming you know the basics of file management and have some form of image editor, as if you don’t, please just use google and get those.

There are 3 components to the language file, the icon, name, and the language file itself. These are separated into icon.png, name.txt, and lang.json respectively.

icon.png is a VERY small flag by default, but it can be changed to whatever you want. However, make sure to size the image down, unless you want this to happen:

note: I am using my own language file[drive.google.com] i use for personal use. Yes this is a plug.

name.txt is quite simple: the name of your language file in game. The folder your language file is contained it does quite literally nothing for you in game, so i’d suggest naming it whatever you please.

and finally: lang.json. if you dont know what a .json file is, it is basically a fancy text file, and you can open it with notepad (which i do, sue me.)

lang.json is a BIG file, so for this section i will be listing the exact lines in which 95% of your edits will take place:

• 13-19: various invulnerability text
• 22-29: objectives (small text above your hud)
• 113-122: difficulty text
• 478-486: main menu text
• 509-519: death / victory screen
• 528-539: options menu text
• 701-726: lobby text (minus character specific, we’ll get there.)
• 984-1920: ROR1 items
• 1930-2113: Returns items
• 2115-2133: CHEF meals
• 2182-2225: Artifacts
• 2229-2343: Interactables
• 2443-2475: Stages
• 2521-2551: boss names + text
• 2569-2573: Lynx names + text
• 2583: Kin boss title
• 2593-2601: elite prefixes
• 2616-2651: Commando Skills
• 2653-2692: Enforcer Skills
• 2695-2729: Bandit Skills
• 2732-2761: Huntress Skills
• 2765-2802: HAN-D Skills
• 2805-2838: Engineer Skills
• 2841-2870: Miner Skills
• 2873-2910: Sniper Skills
• 2913-2942: Acrid Skills
• 2944-2979: Merc Skills
• 2982-3015: Loader Skills
• 3018-3073: CHEF Skills
• 3080-3109: Pilot Skills
• 3115-3146: Artificer Skills
• 3149-3182: Drifter Skills
• 3214-3361: Leave Quotes
• 3392-3397: Difficulty
• 3691-3729: Death Quotes
• 3733-3776: Friendly imp text (unsure if this works, may be multiplayer exclusive/unimplemented)
• 3778-3788: Providence Diolauge

If you’ve had any amount of time in RoRR, then you’ll notice some text in special colors. There’s a lot of them, and maybe some I don’t know about, so leave a comment if you find any not mentioned here.

<w> white
<b> blue
<bl> black
<p> pink
<g> green
<y> yellow
<or> orange
<rainbow> rainbow; takes a base color from anything before it, ignores /c
</c> clears color from text