Enter your character's name, gender, image, tags and stats. That part is easy and not what this guide is about, but here are a few pointers anyway:

Gender determines what pronouns the updates will use. Male and female are obvious. "Other" will make updates display "they", so it can be used for creatures of undetermined gender, such as aliens, and though some updates will look a little weird, for groups (i.e. The 7th Legion).

Image works best if cut to a square. It will look blurry in Edit Character no matter what you do or what file type and resolution you use, but it won't show up in this size anywhere in the game. All you see is the update thumbnail. So don't worry about the quality in Edit.

Tags help to find groups of characters to select. It may be funny and edgy to dump a ton of tags on a character, but it won't help anyone to find and select something with unrelated tags.

Stats determine a character's performance in the arena. Giving a character 10 in everything won't mean they win every time though. My best performers have two 10s and the rest anywhere from 3 to 8.

You can add updates to a specific character in "Edit Character", the same as you would in an update file. If you do this, only this character will ever display them, along with random picks from the update file(s).

For instance, I want only Gordon Ramsay to eat a fine dining meal made of roadkill and dirt, but not the other 249 fighters in the arena, so I add this update text on the character sheet, not the update file. Now, Mr. Ramsay will occassionally use this update for his "Eat" action, and also pick from the generic, free-for-all Update file. He won't use his personal text every time he eats though, and the more options a character has in total (own texts + update files), the rarer it gets to see specific ones.

To give a character his or her personal updates, edit the character's update texts like you would an update file. $1, @1, %1 and *1 will always refer to the character you're editing. Sections for "TWO FIGHTERS" can use $2, @2, %2 and *2 to refer to whoever your character interacts with.

For example, to have only Gordon Ramsay use a frying pan as a weapon, you would edit the character "Gordon Ramsay" instead of your update file, in any of the KILL sections allowing two fighters, i.e. "Kill Wooden Spear":

$1 brutally assaults $2 with a frying pan, killing *2 in the process.

will always result in

Gordon Ramsay brutally assaults (other fighter) with a frying pan, killing (him/her/them) in the process.

The same line in an update file would pick any fighter performing an armed melee attack to be in his place.

If you aren't using anything to refer to your character, i.e. "IT'S FOKKIN RAW" instead of "$1 thinks @1 food is fokkin raw" it will make the character 'say' the entire line and display as:

Gordon Ramsay: IT'S FOKKIN RAW

vs.

Gordon Ramsay thinks his food is fokkin raw.

Entering anything in certain sections will likely result in a total spam fest, to a point where you can't read the updates due to the overload and rapid display. This is because most fighters will perform these actions a lot, often several times in a row. It is a quick, easy and boring way to unlock the "have X updates in a single match" achievement.

The "don't edit" sections (unless you like spam) are:

- Wander
- Sleep
- Run
- Chase (Two Fighters) and to a lesser degree, Hunt (Insane, Two Fighters)
- the various Attacks

Borderline spammy sections:

- Search for water
- Search for food
- Bathe



Everything else is fine to edit.