Civilization – disable unit upgrade from a ruin

civilization-5

I dislike the "Advanced weaponry" ruins perk that upgrades your unit. Is there anyway via a mod or custom configuration to disable it and leave the other ruin perks intact?

Best Answer

You can edit the game files to remove this specific Ancient Ruins reward.

The data for the rewards is in a file called CIV5GoodyHuts.xml in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\Assets\Gameplay\XML\GameInfo

Before making any edits, I suggest you make a backup. Then open the file in notepad/other text editor and remove the following values:

<Column name="UpgradeUnit" type="boolean" default="false"/>

and:

<Row>
        <Type>GOODY_UPGRADE_UNIT</Type>
        <Description>TXT_KEY_GOODY_UPGRADE_UNIT</Description>
        <Sound/>
        <UpgradeUnit>true</UpgradeUnit>
    </Row>
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