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How to avoid corrupted ESL plugins

Lesson learnt today:

If you add new things to an existing ESL, always compact it in the Creation Kit (CK) before releasing it:


Lest you want to corrupt savegames and cause CTDs.

Form IDs from records in an ESL can only be between xxxxx800 and xxxxxFFF.
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