Oblivion Mod:Save File Format/Form Flags

The Form Flags subrecord is common to nearly every change record. Therefore it has been documented on a separate page which can be transcluded into all appropriate change records.

Form Flags

The Form Flags subrecord is present when bit 0 (0x00000001) is set in any change record's overall Flags. Its length is a constant 4 bytes.

The Form Flags subrecord has been seen in nearly every type of change record, always associated with bit 0, always using the same name in the text dump files, and always using the same format. The only record types without any Form Flags (so far) have been: CELL, FACT, INFO, PACK, and QUST. Furthermore, in analyzed save files, bit 0 has never been set for any of those five record types, so it is possible that even for those records, bit 0 is reserved for the Form Flags subrecord.

Name	Type/Size	Info
flags	ulong	The record's current form flags. Related to form flags in mod files, but the meaning of some bits is unknown. Example: If an item from an ESM file was originally a quest item, and stopped being one, flags = 0x00000009 Example: If an item from an ESM file was not originally a quest item, and became one, flags = 0x00000409