> ## Documentation Index
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# Game data tables

> The shape, container format, and categorized index of the 1,279 balance/config Lua data tables shipped alongside the client.

1,279 balance/config tables, each a data-only Lua module compiled from what is clearly a spreadsheet pipeline: positional row arrays, a column-index descriptor, and a string-interning pool for repeated values.

## Table shape

```lua theme={null}
T.index = { id = {1,"number"}, cost_resource = {19,"string",true} }  -- field -> {col, type, isLinked?}
T.data  = { [10100000] = {10100000, "135104", ..., "30030;200|30031;200", ...} }
T.vExt  = { "1;30|14;30", ... }   -- interned strings, referenced by 1-based index when isLinked
T.link  = { [1]={9,512025}, [2]={512026,535161} }  -- split-table partition ranges, for the largest tables
```

Only 4 field types exist across the entire 1,279-table corpus: `string`, `number`, `array`, `table`. Compound values are packed strings, almost universally `id;count` pairs joined by `|`. Very large tables (world monster spawns, army data) are physically split across sibling files, resolved via the `link` range table.

## Container & versioning

A plain ZIP, one flat-namespace entry per table name, the odd `.data` extension is misleading; `unzip -l` works on it directly. Local version manifest, one line: `version,size,md5,timestamp`, matching the filename `table_{version}_{md5}.data`. Table updates are tracked and patched (bsdiff) fully independently of the Lua bundle and asset bundles.

## Categorized index (1,279 tables)

| Group                               | Count | Examples                                                                                               |
| ----------------------------------- | ----: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `lw_*`: core "live" gameplay tables |   601 | heroes, army, monsters, buildings, seasons (dominated by `lw_monster*` split-table fan-out, 304 files) |
| `activity_*`: live-ops events       |   124 | boxopen, hunter, easter\_egg, dig                                                                      |
| `aps_*`: A/B variant family         |    52 | factory, pve waves, heroes rank                                                                        |
| `season*` (non-`lw_`)               |    46 | landmine, pass, reward\_group                                                                          |
| `build*`/`city*`/`scene*`           |    38 | building, city\_car, construction\_queue                                                               |
| `monster`/`pve`/`battle` related    |    63 | boss\_stage\_reward, monster\_refresh                                                                  |
| shop/pay/gold related               |    23 | goldbrick\_and\_price, import\_vip\_pay                                                                |
| alliance\*                          |    26 | alliance\_resource, alliance\_task                                                                     |
| misc / long tail                    |   257 | daily\_quest, government, chat\_room, calendar, and a profanity-filter word list                       |

These rows sum to 1,230, not the full 1,279; they're the dominant categories, not an exhaustive partition. The remaining \~49 tables (hero/troop/army data, resource/economy, rank/leaderboard, guide/novice-flow, item/artifact, and a few UI/language tables) weren't individually bucketed.