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You mean the player character avatars? Those are based on something called UMA (a third-party tool). The Fun Pimps are planning to get rid of UMA altogether, and focus on fewer player models, with fewer clothing options, but all of which are created in-house and work well together. (Theoretically this would also form the basis for bandit models.) They originally planned to do this for A20 but it was too much work, so they pushed it to A21.

Just FYI, Xyth and SphereII created a modlet (which requires custom C# code) that allows human NPCs to be hired. However, once they are hired, they stay hired, unless they are dismissed. And, if you play around with those NPCs, you'll see exactly how the "magnet follow" AI is not simple. Once hired you can get those NPCs to follow you - and even though both Xyth and SphereII are very talented, and are also using much of the AI code from the vanilla game, it's still buggy. They had to implement a "teleport" mechanic because of it. I'm just letting you know this, so that you know that follower AI is not at all easy to implement. I'm sure the Ark developers worked for months or years on that AI and you can see it's still not perfect. That, plus the fact that players famously loathe escort missions, means it is vanishingly unlikely that TFP will ever put them in the game, or even add the code necessary to support them. If you're curious, I did implement some human NPC missions in my own NPC modlets. None of them are escort missions, but you might like them nonetheless. You can see them here:

Not much is compatible with Darkness Falls. It uses a customized version of the SphereII Core modlet, so any other modlet that also uses that modlet will probably fail.

This is the modlet you're looking for:

By this, do you mean the ability for zombies to crawl through 1.5-meter holes? When I first saw it, I was thinking it related to that whole discussion about NPCs using cover. Probably because I still can't get Bert the Turtle out of my head. It would be awesome if it was about that.

Bug Fixes for A19 Modlets I just pushed bug fixes to a lot of my modlets, and updated their patch versions. The fixes are all on the master branch, so they should show up in the Mod Launcher soon, if you're using that. If not, you will need to download and install the modlets manually, as per usual. Here is a list of what was fixed: 1-CreaturePackZombies_khzmusik: Localization for zombie names 1-CreaturePackZombies_khzmusik: Improvements to zombie models (gore, skins, etc.) 1-SphereIICore_khzmusik_FoodSpoilage: Coffee now spoils, as does beer; added IPA that doesn't (must be crafted) 2-NPCPackHumans_khzmusik_Adjustments_DMT: Adjusted hire costs, by weapon and armor types 2-NPCPackHumans_khzmusik_Adjustments_DMT: Reduced spawn rates for human NPCs 2-NPCPackHumans_khzmusik_Adjustments_DMT: Removed trader voice set from NPCs, so they don't randomly talk to you in Joel's voice khzmusik_Bad_Medicine: Medical (clean) bandages now listed under campfire chemicals group khzmusik_Preserved_Foods: Preserved snowberries cure dysentery (for consistency with Snowberry Love) khzmusik_Snowberry_Love: Snowberry tea spoils (if spoilage modlet is installed - there should be no change if it's not) khzmusik_Snowberry_Love: First aid bandage recipe with snowberry paste, now requires a bandage rather than cloth (for consistency with Bad Medicine, and also because I think that makes more sense) I am hoping this fixes all of the lingering bugs for A19. If so, there should not be any more updates before A20. Once A20 happens, I will start porting the modlets over. My plan is to make a new A20 thread and have modlets available as soon as it leaves experimental. But speaking of A20, I have a question to ask. It seems like there isn't too much interest in the new NPCs modlets, which surprises me. So this is the question: Should I combine the human NPC modlets into one? This would make it closer to an "overhaul," but ideally it could still be used with other modlets. The disadvantage, of course, is that you couldn't pick and choose which features you didn't want, by including or leaving out different modlets.

Oh, so they are just like items or blocks. That is good to know. I will make actual translations. (It is not hard to do.)

I will have to do research about this. I don't know where that name is displayed, nor how to translate the name. But, I am doing some final bug fixes for all modlets before A20 reaches experimental. Once I find out, I will add translations. EDIT: One thing I intend to fix, is the zombie businessman's green skin. I thought it would look cool, but now that I see it in game, I think it looks silly. If anyone here wants me to keep that green skin, now is your chance to tell me.

If your schematic descends from "schematicMaster" then it should work. Otherwise you would have to add the icon properties in your schematic's XML code. If you look in the README.md file of my modlet, the technical details should get you started. Also - and I did not realize this when I made my modlet - you do not have to stick with the icons supplied by the game. You can also supply your own. @Jegethy did that in his own modlet that changes the book icons:

One more to sneak in before A20... New Zombies I finally got around to messing with Unity and some character model creators, and managed to make a bunch of new zombies: a new burnt zombie an older businessman zombie an older businesswoman zombie a skinny cowgirl zombie a generic, skinny, female zombie a female lumberjack zombie a female office worker zombie a female stripper zombie, similar to the original TFP designs (Warning! Nudity) a male firefighter zombie a generic, but skinny, male zombie a short but stocky police woman zombie They should all spawn with the appropriate vanilla zombies. This modlet is dependent upon 0-CreaturePackZombies. It has custom assets, so it is not server-side safe. However, it does not have custom C# code, so you can just copy it into the Mods folder, and you do not need to disable EAC. https://gitlab.com/karlgiesing/7d2d-a19-modlets/-/tree/master/1-CreaturePackZombies_khzmusik Screenshots are attached. Hope you all enjoy them!

I was imagining that the particle board would replace the wood frames, but you'd still have to go through an upgrade path (which will be far simpler in A20). So no going straight from particle board to steel, but particle board -> wood -> cobblestone (I think? one of them is still there) -> concrete -> steel. Something like that anyway.

Will it be possible for quests to target POIs by name, or by part of its name? Alternatively, will it be possible to mod in new quest types that POIs support? (Example: "this POI supports a 'murder the bandits' quest.")

That looks correct, but there's an easier way to do it. XPath comes with a "starts-with" function that you can use in your selectors. So that code could be rewritten like this: <config> <setattribute xpath="lootcontainers/lootgroup/item[starts-with(@name, 'armorCloth')]" name="count">3,6</setattribute> <set xpath="/lootcontainers/lootgroup/item[starts-with(@name, 'armorCloth')]/@name">resourceCloth</set> </config>

Have you tried looking at this modlet? It's doing something similar: https://community.7daystodie.com/topic/18680-proper-repair-kits EDIT: Though, it looks like they couldn't figure out vehicles either.

At one point, the game developers (I think maybe Joel himself) gave a rough outline of what they wanted the game's plot to be. The idea is that there are two competing factions, one led by the Duke, the other by Noah from Whiteriver. During the game the player decides to side with one or the other. The end game would be a boss fight between the player, and either the Duke or Noah. I don't know if that is going to make it into the game at this point. Bandits aren't part of the Duke's faction (his soldiers are called Cassadores), and it looks like bandits are the primary focus for human NPCs. If you don't want to wait for TFP, I have a series of modlets that do something like this. They use the NPCs from Xyth, and add a couple more factions (whisperers and vault dwellers), but the idea is the same. You do quests for each faction (or murder that faction's enemies) to build reputation, and eventually you're asked by one faction to wipe out the others. If you're interested, this is the topic where I post my modlets - go to the latest post for details about the NPC specific ones.

That is an excellent question. Usually it's determined in items.xml by the item's "RepairTools" property. That property is inherited if you use the "Extends" property. But that does not seem to be how the vehicles work. They all extend "vehicleMinibikePlaceable", which itself extends nothing, and it does not have a "RepairTools" property. So there are a number of possibilities for where it gets the repair item: If there is no "RepairTools" property, the game defaults to a repair kit. They might use the "RepairTools" value of the engine (the "smallEngine" item). This wouldn't make sense for the bicycle, but it does for the minibike, and the bicycle extends that. Their parts extend from "partsMaster" and all those are also repaired with repair kits, so maybe they use the value of their parts? Those are in order of most to least likely, in my opinion. You could test this by adding a "RepairTools" property the the minibike item, and set it to be a small stone (or whatever). Then damage a vehicle a little bit, try to repair it, and see what happens.

Oh, that is interesting. I did not know that. I am very surprised that TFP allow that. So, I did some research. I looked at the modlet you linked, then decompiled the code to see where it was actually loading the image. If you're curious, the class in the code that does this is called "XUiV_Texture". It holds a reference to a Unity "WWW" object that it uses to download the texture. As the name suggests, it's not used anywhere except in the various XUi classes. So, I'm almost positive that you can only do this for the XUi textures. Those are defined by the XML in the "XUi" folder, and specify how the various window elements look in the UI (like the color of the player backpack window). I don't see any indication that you can use a URL anywhere else. But, obviously, I've been wrong before.

I discovered that I can edit the first post again. Yay! And it's a good thing, too. Just in time for the weekend, I finally finished the human NPC modlets that I've been working on for months. If you want a fully-featured human NPC experience in 7D2D, then grab all these modlets: Adjustments to 1-NPCPackHumans Human Factions and Prefabs NPCPack Humans for Human Factions and Prefabs Quests for Human Factions and Prefabs Trader Lore Trader lore, factions, prefabs, and quests integration Also, make sure you install these modlets from other modders, the above modlets are dependent upon them: 0-SphereIICore - MUST be the latest version! 0-CreaturePackHumans 1-NPCPackHumans SphereII NPC Dialog Windows If you don't, or can't, use DMT, then you can use this collection of modlets instead: 0-CreaturePackHumans Human Factions and Prefabs CreaturePack Humans for Human Factions and Prefabs Trader Lore (optional, but IMHO nice to have) Unfortunately, the quests require DMT (in the SphereII Core module), so you won't have those. Also, due to vanilla limitations, sleepers won't wake up at all unless the player is considered an enemy - so, all other humans are enemies in this combination of modlets. (Neither limitation is present in the DMT collection.) Want to help? Here's how: We need more human POIs. If you are a prefab designer, you only need the Human Factions and Prefabs modlet. That contains the code for the human sleeper volumes. See the design README for details and suggestions. This is an initial release, so there may be a couple of bugs, and there almost certainly will be balancing issues. The bugs I can hopefully fix, but the balancing issues might have to wait until this is all ported over to A20 (which is not too far away now). I really hope you all enjoy this. EDIT: I should also mention - the bulk of the NPC quests are designed for mid-to-late game. Most are Tier 2 or above, and you won't get certain quests (like the "murder" quests) until Tier 4 or 5.

What you have written is definitely not possible in the game right now. Furthermore, I would be surprised if TFP ever implemented that as an option. It would mean the game would have to open an unsecured HTTP request, to some website outside its control, to download a binary file that may or may not actually be an image file. For now, "server-side" mods have to only include: assets that the game pushes from its own directories on the server, to its own directories in the client (XML, the world map) assets that are shipped with the game, so everyone already has them (this is how Snufkin's server-side modlets work, for example) Hopefully some day TFP will add the ability to push other relatively small assets, like image files, to clients. Until that happens, you either have to live with the assets that are in the game now, or require clients to install their own copies of custom assets.

XPath selects a collection of XML elements. It doesn't stop when it finds a match. (It's why people use selectors in the first place.) For example, you could do this: <set xpath="//triggered_effect[@stat='Health']/@value">0</set> That will select all triggered_effect nodes with the "stat" attribute value of "health", and set all their "value" attribute values to zero, for all XML nodes in the file. The double-slash means "any descendent of the currently selected element which matches, no matter how deep." (In this case it's the root node of the XML document.) It's useful for matching nodes that might or might not be a direct child of a node that you know how to target. For example: <set xpath="//buff[@name='buffDrugPainkillers']//triggered_effect[@stat='Health']/@value">0</set> You might not know if the triggered effect is a descendent of a requirement node, or of an effect_group node, but it doesn't matter. It's something to keep in mind for forwards compatibility. It obviously doesn't guarantee it will still work if TFP update the XML, but it helps.

The burning shaft mod adds the "buffBurningElement" buff to entities you attack. It's the same buff given by the torch, when you attack entities with it. A simple tweak would be to increase the "HealthChangeOT" property to something like 3 or 4 (its current value is 1.5). That would affect anything that gives that buff. If you want to make a new item, like you said, you'd make a new item modifier, and have it add a new buff. Both the new item and the new buff could be copies of the vanilla item and buff, but with their names changed, and the new buff would have the new "HealthChangeOT" value. That isn't difficult, but you'd also have to consider its recipe, whether or how that recipe is locked, whether the item is found in loot, and if so which loot, and so forth. None of it is difficult but it's not a trivial amount of work.

To anyone at TFP: With the new dynamic imposter feature, will worlds with custom POIs be server-side only? Specifically: You install custom POIs on a server, and generate a world with them. Will clients need to install those custom POIs in order to connect to that world? Right now, the answer is yes. But I think that's only because they need the imposter information, and the rest is baked into the world. Am I wrong? (that's entirely possible, I'm not a MP guy.)

You could try these. I haven't tried them myself, but they seem to be what you're looking for:

Finished or not, this already looks a million times better than what's in the game right now. That's really great, the plant textures were probably my biggest pet peeve about the game. Justin deserves a raise.

That modlet is extraordinarily simple, and server-friendly (meaning, no custom assets or code, so it's automatically pushed to clients). You don't need any kind of mod manager, just drop the modlet's folder into the Mods directory. (If that directory doesn't exist, create it in the game's root directory, it should be a sibling of the Data directory.) It's literally a couple lines of XML, so if you want to just mod it yourself, feel free to use my code as a guide (if you can understand XPath): https://gitlab.com/karlgiesing/7d2d-a19-modlets/-/blob/master/khzmusik_Book_Icons/Config/items.xml That's not true of all my modlets, of course, and for those I understand your reluctance. Were it not for the Mod Launcher, I probably wouldn't have started with mods either. The new version of the Mod Launcher, written in Unity, should be Linux compatible, if you want to give it a shot: http://7d2dmodlauncher.org/30.html