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{{ottdp|no|2.0}} This is a list of the text IDs in TTD (for action 4), originally compiled by A. Skrobov.

You can use these Text IDs
* to change/translate TTD strings using action4 feature 48. (This is not supported by OpenTTD, nor will it ever.)
* to reference them in various action 0 properties, e.g. for house/industry/cargo names. (This is partly supported by OpenTTD.)

Note: OpenTTD's string system is very different to the system of TTD and TTDPatch. It supports/requires plural forms, genders, cases and different number formattings, so complex strings which are combined from multiple parts are not interchangeable. Various strings also have changed their parameter order over time or got additional arguments.

As such action 4 is not allowed to change any original strings in OpenTTD; translations are not done via NewGRF, but only via the [http://translator.openttd.org/ WebTranslator].

In action 0 only a subset of the original strings can be accessed. These are more or less the string which have no additional parameters, e.g. plain cargo/house/industry names.


=0000 General strings=
[[TextIDs/General_strings | General strings 0000-07FF]]

=0800 Basic land strings=
[[TextIDs/Basic_land_strings | Basic land strings 0800 - 0FFF]]

=1000 Railroad strings=
[[TextIDs/Railroad strings | Railroad strings 1000 - 17FF]]

=1800 Road strings=
[[TextIDs/Road strings | Road strings 1800 - 1FFF]]

=2000 Town strings=
[[TextIDs/Town strings | Town strings 2000 - 27FF]]

=2800 Tree strings=
[[TextIDs/Tree strings | Tree strings 2800 - 2FFF]]

=3000 Station strings=
[[TextIDs/Station strings | Station strings 3000 - 37FF]]

=3800 Water strings=
[[TextIDs/Water strings | Water strings 3800 - 3FFF]]

=4000 Load/save strings=
[[TextIDs/Load, save strings | Load, save strings 4000 - 47FF]]

=4800 Industry strings=
[[TextIDs/Industry strings | Industry strings 4800 - 4FFF]]

=5000 Tunnel and bridge strings=
[[TextIDs/Tunnel and bridge strings | Tunnel and bridge strings 5000-57FF]]

=5800 Object strings=
[[TextIDs/Object strings | Object strings 5800 - 5FFF]]

=6000 Debugger strings=
[[TextIDs/Debugger strings | Debugger strings 6000 - 67FF]]

=6800 Difficulty strings=
[[TextIDs/Difficulty strings | Difficulty strings 6800 - 6FFF]]

=7000 Company strings=
[[TextIDs/Company strings | Company strings 7000 - 77FF]]

=7800 Custom strings=
These cannot be set directly; an entry is generated every time the player enters a custom name for example for signs, stations or vehicles.

=8000 Vehicle type names=
[[TextIDs/Vehicle type names | Vehicle type names 8000 - 87FF]]

Note, IDs 8000..80FF will be changed by using a regular action 4 to name new vehicles, but not by using "custom vehicle names" from vehicle.dat which use custom strings instead.

=8800 Train strings=
[[TextIDs/Train strings | Train strings 8800 - 8FFF]]

=9000 Road vehicle strings=
[[TextIDs/Road vehicle strings | Road vehicle strings 9000 - 97FF]]

=9800 Ship strings=
[[TextIDs/Ship strings | Ship strings 9800 - 9FFF]]

=A000 Aircraft strings=
[[TextIDs/Aircraft strings | Aircraft strings A000 - A7FF]]

=A800 Pseudo-vehicle strings=
(None defined)

=B000 Disaster strings=
[[TextIDs/Disaster strings | Disaster strings B800 - BFFF]]

=B800 unused=

=C000 New station names=
This is used for TTDPatch newgrf station and class names. See action 4 for more details.

=C800 New house names=
This is used for TTDPatch newgrf town building names. See action 4 for more details.

=D000 Miscellaneous GRF texts=
This is used for TTDPatch newgrf miscellaneous texts, mostly for callbacks. See action 4 for more details.

The table has up to 1024 entries. To use entry X in an include text (codes 80/81), use ID D400+X. Note that if you want to include ID D000/D400, the 00 byte will be considered the end of string in action 4, this will therefore break if additional texts are supposed to follow in the action 4.

=D800 Persistent GRF texts=
This is used for TTDPatch newgrf persistent texts (the ID mappings are preserved through saving and loading even if the GRF file is unavailable). See action 4 for more details.

D800 class IDs (DCxx IDs) must not be used except in action 0 and where the spec explicitly says that they work.

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=E000 Hard-coded game texts=
[[TextIDs/Hard-coded game texts | Hard-coded game texts E000 - E7FF]]

This text class exists only in TTDPatch 2.0.1 alpha 59 and later. It contains language-dependent texts that didn't have textIDs originally. This class allows translating TTD entirely by using action 4s, since now every language-dependent text can be accessed.

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=E800 News texts=
This is used internally by TTDPatch for its additional news messages.

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=F000 unused=
(Unused, but TTD's critical error messages internally have a number in this region, even though they aren't text IDs as such.)

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=F800 Internal TTDPatch texts=
[[TextIDs/Internal TTDPatch strings | Internal TTDPatch texts F800 - FFFF]]

This is used internally by TTDPatch for its additional regular strings, i.e. those from ttdpttxt.txt. Since TTDPatch 2.0.1 alpha 59 you may use the following text IDs to change the respective patch strings (before alpha 59, the text IDs changed regularly). For default values, please see ttdpttxt.txt produced by mkpttxt.exe.

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