

In order to make the Token of Absolution available at Akara's shop, we'll need to extract the Excel data.

You can tweak the config.json file that's included to change many game features already (including an experimental multi-mercenary mode, which was tucked away inside the game files). (If you already have Diablo II: Resurrected installed, it will know where to look for the games' files, so where you place it doesn't matter). It will download the necessary game files for you, if you don't already have the game installed. If you haven't already, go ahead and run D2RModding. Avoid using Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice as they can corrupt the files. An excel editor, such as AFJ's Sheet Editor or D2Excel.A launcher, such as shalzuth's D2RModding, or eezstreet's fork.

The following tools are needed to make this edit: In this guide, I will walk you through enabling Akara to sell the Token of Absolution. Instead, you'll have to run a launcher to manually enable the bits that turn on modding. However, Vicarious Visions have disabled the ability to use -direct and -txt in the alpha version of D2R. In fact, much of the softcoded methods that worked in v1.10 still work in v1.15, and have been expanded upon with this release. New discoveries about the game are being made daily. Modding has kept Diablo 2 alive all of these years, and modders here are determined to get started in working on it. At this point, Diablo 2: Resurrected is still in its alpha stages, but that doesn't mean we can't start modding it yet.
