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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?

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  • Personally, I love having archers that can move two hexes through forests. They can mow down barbs with ease.
    – FreeAsInBeer
    Commented Oct 13, 2014 at 13:25

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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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  • Seemed like a good plan, but did not work.
    – Fr33dan
    Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 20:11
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    Separate from the other answer, I have only recommend against removing the <Column> definition since code may try to read it, and I don't know how forgiving of removed columns the system is. The rest should be okay.
    – David Harkness
    Commented Sep 20, 2014 at 1:59
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shanondin's answer was helpful but didn't fully solve the problem. Starting from their solution I was able to find other places where the upgrade was referenced.

Rather than delete the reference in the XML file I opted to learn the mod tools and alter the game that way.

The mod I created is available in the steam workshop here. The zip file for the mod is attached to this forum post.

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