Living with it

The config file

Where your settings live on disk, how the presets interact with them, and how to share a setup.

fileUngodlyStreetsOfRogueAI.cfgsettings354sizeabout 115 KBformatBepInEx TOML

Everything you change in the panel is written to one plain-text file. You never have to open it — the panel is the better interface for almost every job — but knowing where it is makes backing up, sharing and resetting your setup trivial.

Where it lives

Full path

...\Streets of Rogue\BepInEx\config\UngodlyStreetsOfRogueAI.cfg

The config folder once the plugin has run. BepInEx.cfg is BepInEx's own settings; the larger file is this plugin's. — The config folder once the plugin has run. `BepInEx.cfg` is BepInEx's own settings; the larger file is this plugin's.

Created	Automatically, the first time the plugin runs. Do not create it by hand.
Format	BepInEx's TOML-style config format — sections in square brackets, then `Key = Value` lines.
Size	About 115 KB for 354 settings, because each one carries its full explanation and range as comments.
Encoding	UTF-8. Notepad, Notepad++, VS Code — anything that does not add formatting.
Read	At game startup.
Written	When you press Save Now, and on a clean exit.

What a setting looks like

The same plain-English explanation that appears under a setting in the panel is written into the file as a comment, along with the documented range. That is deliberate: one source of truth, so the file and the panel can never disagree with each other.

A representative extract — your file will differ in detail

## The basics: whether the new AI runs at all, who it is allowed to touch,
## and where it stands down.

[00 - Core - General]

## Turns the whole AI replacement on or off without uninstalling anything.
## Off means every character in the city thinks exactly the way the
## unmodified game makes them think.
# Setting type: Boolean
# Default value: true
MasterSwitch = true

## Everyone upgrades every character on the level. HostilesOnly upgrades only
## people who already want to hurt somebody. NonPlayerOnly leaves anyone you
## are controlling alone. EnforcersAndGangs upgrades only cops, soldiers and
## gang members.
# Setting type: Scope
# Default value: Everyone
# Acceptable values: Everyone, HostilesOnly, NonPlayerOnly, EnforcersAndGangs
WhoGetsTheNewBrain = Everyone

Numeric settings additionally carry their minimum and maximum, so you can see the legal range without opening the panel:

Every numeric setting documents its range

# Setting type: Single
# Default value: 0.35
# Acceptable value range: From 0 to 1

Editing it by hand

Close the game first

The plugin writes this file on exit. Edit it while the game is running and your changes are overwritten the moment you quit. Close the game, edit, save, then launch.

Change only the value to the right of the = sign. Leave the key name and the comment lines alone.
Respect the documented range. Out-of-range values are clamped, so you get the boundary rather than the number you typed.
Booleans are lowercase true and false.
Enumerated values must be spelled exactly as listed in the Acceptable values comment, including capitals.
Decimals use a full stop, never a comma, regardless of your Windows regional settings.

Presets and your hand-tuned values

This trips people up once, and only once. The difficulty presets write across the other tabs — that is what makes them one-click. So:

The rule

If you have tuned settings you want to keep, set the difficulty preset to Custom. With Custom selected the preset stops overwriting your numbers. Choosing any named preset — or pressing Reapply Preset — deliberately flattens your changes back to that preset's values.

Backing up and sharing a setup

The file is completely portable. Copy it somewhere before experimenting, and copy it back to restore:

Command Prompt — run from your game folder

copy "BepInEx\config\UngodlyStreetsOfRogueAI.cfg" "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\ungodly-sor-backup.cfg"

To share a setup with a friend, send them that one file and have them drop it into their own BepInEx\config\, replacing what is there. Same plugin version on both machines is the only requirement.

Starting over

Reset one setting: Use the reset control on the right of that setting's row in the panel.
Reset one tab: Reset Tab along the bottom of the panel.
Reset everything: Reset All, or close the game, delete UngodlyStreetsOfRogueAI.cfg, and launch again — the plugin rebuilds a complete default file.
Return to stock AI without uninstalling: Turn the master switch off. Every character reverts to the unmodified game's behaviour instantly, with the plugin still loaded and every setting preserved.

Multiplayer note

Because decisions are made on the authority, the config that shapes NPC behaviour in a session is the host's. A client's own settings still govern their panel and their local interface options, but they will not override what the host has decided. The network line on the status readout tells you which side of that you are on.