CACHE.TMP — Inn Storage Cache

Temporary file created when a saved game is loaded. Contains the current inn storage state. Structures here are shared with the save-file format; this page documents only the cache-specific layout.

Extension: CACHE.TMP
Location: Game root (runtime-generated)
Byte order: Little-endian (16-bit)
Size: Variable — 1-byte constant + 1-byte count + 0xC4-byte offset table + cache records
Compression: None
Magic: Byte 0x63 at offset 0x00 (constant max_cache_slot)
Status: Partial
Source: Wendigo — cache.tmp.xml; reference-only (byte-level correlation against live sample pending)

Canonical source: cache.tmp.xml (Wendigo’s Darklands repo)

File Layout

Offset 0x00:  byte         max_cache_slot = 0x63 (99) — constant
Offset 0x01:  byte         num_caches
Offset 0x02:  word[0x62]   cache_offsets  — offsets into the cache array
Offset 0xC6:  cache[N]     caches         — N = num_caches

The file uses the same cache struct defined in the save-file format. See Save File for the cache struct details.

Confidence

Medium-high. Reference-only validation — structure is from cache.tmp.xml; byte-level correlation against a live sample file is pending.