The pointer to this section is at offset +40.
+0 500 RECORDs of 8 bytes each; Mine fields
+0 WORD X
+2 WORD Y
+4 WORD Radius. Zero if the minefield has been
swept. All other information remains in
this minefield slot until the slot is
re-used for a new minefield.
+6 WORD Owner.
0 empty record
1..11 Normal minefield belonging to
race 1..11
12 Crystalline Web mine field.
Note that this does not allow transmission
of web minefields that do not belong to the
Crystals. Non-Crystalline webs are sent as
normal mines (1..11).
This section contains not only the minefields the player
scanned this turn, but also all of his own minefields. This
implicitly provides information about minefields that were
swept completely.
+? 600 BYTEs Ion storms, 50 records of 12 bytes each
+0 WORD X
+2 WORD Y. Note that THost sometimes generates
storms with negative coordinates.
+4 WORD Radius
+6 WORD Voltage in MeV
0 non-existent
even weakening storm
odd growing storm
+8 WORD Warp
+10 WORD Heading in degrees
see also GREY.HST below.
+? 50 RECORDs of 4 bytes each: Explosions
+0 WORD X (0 = non-existent)
+2 WORD Y
THost generates an explosion entry for every ship that
exploded due to excess damage in battle or after a mine
hit. PHost only generates these entries for ships
exploding after a mine hit.
+? 682 BYTEs Contents of RACE.NM. RACE.NM remains unchanged if this
field is empty (only spaces).
+? 7800 BYTEs Contents of UFO.HST, filtered
+? 4 BYTEs Signature "1211", if all visual contacts fit into the
normal TARGETx.DAT file, "1120" otherwise. These numbers
appear to be literals, not some strange flags.
--- Additional Visual Contacts ---
+? DWORD Number of contacts.
+? n RECORDs of 34 bytes each.
+0 WORD Id Number
+2 WORD Owner
+4 WORD Warp
+6 WORD X location
+8 WORD Y location
+10 WORD Type of hull
+12 WORD Heading in degrees, 0=North, 90=East,
180=South, 270=West, -1=unknown
+14 20 BYTEs Ship name, encrypted
FOR i:=1 TO 20 DO
Encrypted[i] := Original[i] XOR (155-i)
Note that, except for the ship name, this is exactly a
TARGETx.DAT record.LEECHx.DAT
If the value at +44 is non-zero, it points to the following data:
+0 DWORD Size of LEECHx.DAT +4 n BYTEs Contents of LEECHx.DAT
You only need to place a file named LEECHx.DAT in the Host directory, and the Host will send it to the players. Winplan's UNPACK will unpack it to the game directory. This file is not used otherwise.
Extended Ufo database
In version "01" RSTs, the value at +48 points to the following data:
+0 WORD Total number of Ufos. The minimum value is 100, as there
are already 100 Ufo records in the standard Winplan
section.
+2 n RECORDs of 78 bytes each: the Ufos. This field contains the Ufos
from Id 101 onwards. Thus, the extended Ufo database stores
100 Ufos less than specified in the WORD above.
