Could you copy and paste the line you put into the export_descr_buildings file? I think you may have made a typo/forgotten a space, and that could definitely cause a CTD.

The full line is:

" recruit "rb saethwyr" 0 requires factions { romano_british, } "

I've found the EDB to be a most unstable file. It seems to behave pretty randomly. With EDU, I always find the typo, but I get the feeling that EDB makes the game CTD as soon as there's an extra space or shift.

The export_descr_building file is definitely one of the more finicky ones. Do you have two spaces on either side of the 0 for experience? Also, did you use tabs in front of the line?
What you show looks good, so I'm not entirely sure where the issue's coming in, unless the name isn't quite the same between export_descr_units and export_descr_buildings.

Did you update the export_descr_unit_enums?

I didn't update the enums file! I thought it was for the data/text-file for the in-game name, and cause it didn't have any effect I thought it wasn't neccessary. It's just gonna be that, isn't it?!

All of the tabs and spaces are correct cause I just copied the 'Eastern Archer' line and replaced it with the specifics for this unit.

Thanks!

UPDATE: I tried it and it still doesn't work.

[This message has been edited by jgenard (edited 05-17-2020 @ 02:06 AM).]

Hey guys,
I have now made a large amount of new units (I haven't counted yet but it's definitely over 30) from the skeletons & textures in the vanilla game alone.
But I still can't add them into the campaign because of this weird thing with EDB.
Anybody got an idea what I might be doing wrong?

- I'm not making typos, I've added lots of vanilla units to new buildings and changed the file before and they've always worked, so I know how to do it properly. I've also re-tried the whole adding-new-units-thing lots of times.

- it's not because of the enums file, cause that isn't necessary anymore since the patches.

- it's not cause I'm going over a limit of how many units you can base in a building, because I only tried it with lower-level barracks and archery range type buildings, where there's only like 8 recruitable units...

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience with adding new units to the game and making them recruitable. Is it possible for you to create a mod package with those files so that we could test it out and try troubleshooting?

Hey, that would be really nice of you!
How would I do that? I'm not entirely sure how, though. Shall I just make a .zip of my BI folder (that's the one I edited).
And where should I upload the file? Google drive?

[This message has been edited by jgenard (edited 06-03-2020 @ 12:39 PM).]

If you go to the Forum Download Central and submit a .zip or .rar file (button in the upper right), I can then download it and try it out. Login credentials are the same as for the forum.

Don't zip the whole BI folder; pull out the relevant files and put only those in the zipped file. The whole thing will be too much data

Hmmmm, but I've edited so many files I think you won't be able to even start the game if I don't include them all.

You can give it a shot, but I know the download central has a file size limit. If it's too big, a Google drive link or similar would work.

Text files are relatively small. It is graphics that make a file huge.

Mostly.