Produced by: Troy Forrest
Releases:
* Chunk Editor (17.9 KiB, 105 hits)

A simple editing utility for modifying the graphics ‘chunks’ in Ultima 6.

Produced by: Paul Gilbert
Website: U6Edit @ Sourceforge
Releases:
* U6Edit (523.5 KiB, 134 hits)

This powerful editing suite for Ultima 6 allows for the modification of the original game’s maps and graphics, and also includes a complete editing suite for conversations, with opcode highlighting. Currently, the program seems to support both Ultima 6 and Martian Dreams (but not, apparently, Savage Empire).

Produced by: DOUG the Eagle Dragon
Website: IT-HE Software
Releases:
* The Unoffical Ultima VI Developer's Kit v1.0 (128.9 KiB, 141 hits)
* Ultima 6 Items List (24.9 KiB, 122 hits)
* Ultima 6 Savegame Manager (100.0 KiB, 115 hits)
* Book Editor (17.6 KiB, 109 hits)
* Finder (20.6 KiB, 111 hits)
* IT-HE Utilities Source Code (1.4 MiB, 103 hits)
* Ultima 6 Editing Information (132.7 KiB, 119 hits)

The always amusing, always inventive DOUG the Eagle Dragon has produced an incredible wealth of software for editing many different aspects of Ultima 6, so much so that a “brief” description is rather difficult to give.

The Unofficial Developer’s Kit is a comprehensive utilities package that includes four programs that can be used to edit Ultima 6:

• Tweak – a party roster editor (add people to your party, even if in the game they won’t respond to the join command!) with a few other bonus features
• Map – world editor, edit the chunks and map
• RedSetter – affix ‘temporary’ objects to the ground, making static scenery
• Undead – repairs characters who have been rendered “brain-dead” by violent death and subsequent resurrection

DOUG has also released some useful subsidiary programs to this utility:

• Savage Empire Patch (96.0 KiB, 120 hits) – a patch that enables the editor to work with Savage Empire
• Martian Dreams Patch (69.2 KiB, 114 hits) – a patch that enables the editor to work with Martian Dreams
• Party Fix Utility (11.4 KiB, 102 hits) – a small program that corrects an occasional error in Tweak that causes ‘solid’ characters

Conversely, the Items List is more of a cheat than a utility (since you can only use the ‘item creation’ feature of Ultima 6 if you use the ‘spam’ cheat); this is a list of many of the items you can get Iolo to create in the game.

The Savegame Manager is a useful program that allows for more than one save-game in Ultima 6, even when using ‘hacked’ versions of the game.

The Book Editor will allow you to UNBIND all the books and signs in Ultima 6 into a text file, and then REBIND them into the game format after you edit their contents.

The Finder utility has two components, both of which will assist in the use of the RedSetter program that is a part of the Ultima 6 Developer’s Kit:

• Stamp – affixes a ‘homing device’ to the Avatar (the location of the Avatar is critical to proper use of RedSetter)
• Finder – tracks the Avatar using the ‘homing device’

Finally, the Editor source code: written mostly in Borland C, this is the code for all of the utilities from IT-HE software, as well as some information documentation to assist in its usage. Note that the source code has been RARed first, and then ZIPped, to make it smaller.

Produced by: Rescue Raider
Releases:
* Ultima 6 Character Editor (29.0 KiB, 151 hits)

Another character-editing utility for Ultima 6.

Produced by: Nodling Dragon
Website: Ultima Tech Info and Patches
Release:
* Ultima 6 File Formats (20.6 KiB, 120 hits)

Nodling Dragon’s incomplete reference file for some of the Ultima 6 file formats. Useful for editors.

Produced by: Nodling Dragon
Website: Ultima Tech Info and Patches
Releases:
* u6encode Source (1.8 KiB, 74 hits)
* u6decode Source (3.7 KiB, 77 hits)

Much as with Nodling’s equivalent utilities for Ultima 4, these files let you decode (decompress) LZW-compressed data files that Ultima 6 uses, and then re-encode them in a way that Ultima 6 can read (although not with the LZW algorithm, which was patented at the time these utilities were written). Nodling Dragon points out that when one uses the encoder, the resultant file will be a bit larger than the equivalent “original” file, for this reason.

NOTE: the packages here include only the source code necessary to compile a command-line utility in each case.