AgentKush is keeping game mods working — Icarus mods, and CDUMM for Crimson Desert

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keeping game mods working — Icarus mods, and CDUMM for Crimson Desert

Games patch. Mods break. I'm the one who works out why.

I've shipped 53 Icarus mods (43,000+ data entries, 18,800+ recipes), built Daedalus — a mod loader and a self-updating catalogue of 484 mods — and wrote the validator that catches a broken mod before players do.

Right now most of my time goes into CDUMM, the free open-source mod manager for Crimson Desert. The 1.13 patch quietly moved every equipment record inside the item table, so mods kept applying “successfully” and changing nothing. 26 fixes merged so far, 21 more in review, and 2,290 tests standing guard.

Different games, same job: when the ground shifts under a mod, someone has to go find out what moved.

All of it is free and open source — none of it is mine to sell. This page is just for the time.

→ github.com/AgentKush

If you play Crimson Desert with mods, you've probably had this happen: you install a mod, CDUMM says it applied fine, you load the game — and nothing has changed. No error. No warning. Just nothing. That's not you doing it wrong. Here's what was actually going on. Crimson Desert stores every item in a big binary table — stack sizes, prices, sockets, gear stats. Mods work by writing into that t...

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You keep the lights on while I stare at hex dumps.
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• A monthly dev log: what broke, what I fixed, what I'm still stuck on

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Testbuild Crew

Get the fixes before anyone else.
• Everything in Coffee
• Early access to my community testbuilds — every merged fix in one exe, weeks before it reaches an official release
• A say in what I dig into next

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For people who make mods, not just use them.
• Everything above
• Send me a mod that won't apply — Crimson Desert or Icarus — and I'll tell you why. Usually it's a field the game moved, and I can point at the exact one.
• Credited by name in my release notes

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About AgentKush

keeping game mods working — Icarus mods, and CDUMM for Crimson Desert

Your Crimson Desert mods weren't broken. They were being ignored.

Support AgentKush

Become a member

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You keep the lights on while I stare at hex dumps.• Your name in the supporters list• A monthly dev log: what broke, what I fixed, what I'm still stuck on

Support me on a monthly basis

Unlock exclusive posts and messages

Testbuild Crew

Get the fixes before anyone else.• Everything in Coffee• Early access to my community testbuilds — every merged fix in one exe, weeks before it reaches an official release• A say in what I dig into next

Support me on a monthly basis

Unlock exclusive posts and messages

Workshop

For people who make mods, not just use them.• Everything above• Send me a mod that won't apply — Crimson Desert or Icarus — and I'll tell you why. Usually it's a field the game moved, and I can point at the exact one.• Credited by name in my release notes

Support me on a monthly basis

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About AgentKush

keeping game mods working — Icarus mods, and CDUMM for Crimson Desert

Your Crimson Desert mods weren't broken. They were being ignored.

You keep the lights on while I stare at hex dumps.
• Your name in the supporters list
• A monthly dev log: what broke, what I fixed, what I'm still stuck on

Get the fixes before anyone else.
• Everything in Coffee
• Early access to my community testbuilds — every merged fix in one exe, weeks before it reaches an official release
• A say in what I dig into next

For people who make mods, not just use them.
• Everything above
• Send me a mod that won't apply — Crimson Desert or Icarus — and I'll tell you why. Usually it's a field the game moved, and I can point at the exact one.
• Credited by name in my release notes