(UNTITLED MOD) (Formerly Mo Vermin Mod) (not out yet)

[austere ember]

I found the tool in godot to turn a mesh into an sdf

kind of surprised I figured it out

[austere ember]

many abbles

This is going very well

think I'm gonna take a break from working on the saplings and fruits for a second

might get rubber duckies into the game right now

[austere ember]

wholesome ducks

really REALLY happy with this result

wanted to add functionality to the bubblebear to make it attracted to bath ducks

that just makes sense doesn't it

bubble bath

[sick beacon]

Oh woah I really like this

[austere ember]

they use the same shadeer that glaggles use

[austere ember]

should rubber ducks drop as items by right clicking them or by punching them?

or should they even drop as items at all?

I wanted to be able to pick them up and place them elsewhere

if I get a rubber ducky from the store I will 100% make hand animations with the duckie in my hand

[sick beacon]

The only thing I could think of them dropping would be the water item which I don't think anything else drops that

[sick beacon]

Maybe make use of that bucket feature you were planning before? Where you can put one in a bucket and move it around

[austere ember]

Ohh a bucket of bath duck would make perfect sense

Originally my idea was that punching them would jkustr drop the duck as an item which could then be placed or crafted (I'm adding duck blocks as we speak)

I can't figure out how to add new step sounds

I don't think it's possible with the tools I have

nvm what am I saying!!

I found out

[austere ember]

spent maybe a bit too much time working on the plenty of ducks block

but the texture is seamless

[sick beacon]

I love this really good work

[austere ember]

was this really necessary?

we'll find out soon

[sick beacon]

What is this for? 😭

[austere ember]

this.

this is what it was for

was it worth it

was it even the right cal

I don't know

but I really like this

eventually I plan for the horseheads to be rideable

because imagine riding one like this

god I CANT BELIEVE I got this to work

[sick beacon]

Damn what's that look like ingame?

[austere ember]

I have not implemented riding yet

I'm hoping to make it so the horse snaps to the screen similar to how the hand is part of the ui

it could even have little animations

the horse would probably be able to travel faster and would be able to double jump bnecause yes

[sick beacon]

It'd be cool if you added apple fruit (like the orange one) and you'd need to feet it to the horse to tame it and ride it

[austere ember]

good idea

[austere ember]

honse is now ridable

gonna ghave to add hoof clomping (even though it has no legs)

name tag in this video is in the wronmg position

[sick beacon]

You've been making crazy progress I'm so hype

[cold pendant]

i thought of paper cranes that work similarly

[patent coral]

omg

[austere ember]

I did plan for a paper creature that could fold into various shapes depending on what situation they;'re in

I'm trying to make a blender model that I'm able to fold into the different necessary shapes, I didn't decide yet whether it would use a paper boat or paper crane (I was leaning towards the boat because it's an easier fold to make -- folding paper digitally is a NIGHTMARE)

but I already made a paper airplane model for this purpose

[stoic wadi]

Can confirm folding paper is very hard mod is looking awesome btw looking forward to it

[austere ember]

thank you!!

I appreciate the support a lot :)

debating whether I should even add folding animations for the paper creature or if that would be way too much

because I;'ve been trying to figure out how to fold this paper crane using blender and it's not fun

[delicate salmon]

when you kill it, he drops 2 rubber ducks

but you cant craft anyting from them

[delicate salmon]

woah thats really cool tbh

[austere ember]

I wanted to make it so ducks can be hit to drop them as an item (like how blocks work) and then they can be placed wherever you like or used as a crafting item

the reason I want them to be used as a crafting item is because I specifically made the plenty of ducks block

[delicate salmon]

oh

imagine you have to give that horse non-euclidean carrot

[austere ember]

That's a cool idea

[delicate salmon]

if you eat one..

YOU become a horse

but not like you can play as horse

you die

and on your death location

theres a horse around here

[austere ember]

I like the idea of something like that

Honestly I have liked the idea of player transformations for a while

[delicate salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/jgmm-cat-meme-ragebait-cat-think-cat-ponder-gif-7034802297606826390

[austere ember]

The whole thing I wanted for gnomes is that you could somehow get some kind of material from them (probably materials they would farm -- I still intend for gnomes to be able to farm certain crops) and then you could craft it into some equipment potion that would make the player smaller, which would then allow specific interactions between the player and gnomes

the small potion would be useful in general

[delicate salmon]

when you become smaller gnomes move around normally and dont hide

but tbh

i want potion to be smth other

idk

[austere ember]

Gnome hat is another option

Or fungus (mario reference)

[delicate salmon]

ya thats a good idea

[delicate salmon]

and you can collect their crops

gnome hat makes your hand replace with 2d png of a small baby hand

lol

[austere ember]

YESS

Though that... would take a long time to implement for every item type

[austere ember]

unfortunately

[delicate salmon]

wdym every item type btw

[austere ember]

like there are many different kinds of held items (food, tools, etc) that show up in the player's hand differently

[delicate salmon]

i dont mean you have to make the baby hand dynamic like the default one

maybe

just maybe

for an example, if you hold food in your hand

there will be just a fish png from the default hand

like gnomes cant move their hand

[austere ember]

Ohhh interesting idea actually

Mayeb it would just hold the items without any unique hand animations, like holding the glider glove would just show up as an icon instead of the puppet itself

[delicate salmon]

good idea too

[austere ember]

This could still take a long time but it's better

[delicate salmon]

imagine if gnomes could sneeze and spawn dogglets

if you will be clearing their village from dogglets

you will be town hero

and gnomes wouldnt hide from you

even you dont have gnome hat

maybe thats too odd a bit

[austere ember]

That might be a little conditional

If anything I'd want them to be able to be infected by the bubblebear fungus virus

[austere ember]

say the line paperjak!

"I think you get the PICTURE!!!!"

probably won't use the soyjak as a doodle variant in game just placeholder

[cold pendant]

Hear me out: it would have these blue horizontal lines and a red vertical line on the side like those papers at school

[delicate salmon]

dats actually fire

[austere ember]

ohh good idea

[cold pendant]

Maybe even have some punch holes on the side if possible

[delicate salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/sans-thank-you-soriel-undertale-deltarune-gif-8598175995200710822

[brazen crescent]

Sus

[austere ember]

a demo of the doodle

or scribble

not doodle that's too close to doggle

Soon I’d like to compile everything I’ve made for the creatures to determine what I should add to flesh out what is already existing

I’m looking at the neburaffe

I really want to add the feature where you put items into their face to get other items out of it, I just don’t know what the functionality should be yet

Should it be like

Should it break materials down? Like turning cloth blocks to fluff or brick blocks to bricks

I feel like that’s too disconnected to the nebulous theming though, I’d want it to be something spacey

Like maybe it would simply convert items into spacey counterparts, like turning stone into skyrock

Which would also open up the idea of upgrading items through nebulation, like turning the ball wand into a raygun or turning the high beams into some kind of tractor beam or something

That’s definitely my favorite idea for a use

[sick beacon]

This is actually crazy

[austere ember]

they also crumple when killed

[gilded gale]

I like the idea of transmuting items with the neburaffe

Maybe the ball wand can make a moon wand that shoots balls that have no gravity or something instead of a ray gun

Since I see the ray gun being gotten from the hatewand

Maybe it acts as a hate wand but without the explosion? Just a beam?

[austere ember]

ohhhh!! I had an idea a while ago that would be a wand that would shoot balls that would act as a floating light source that stays there

so it being a moon would work perfect

ALSO the idea of the moon is a PERFECT idea for what I wanted to do for the giant eye scouting entity in the abyss biomes

I was trying to figure out what to make the eye, it would be perfect as the moon

[austere ember]

an unintended feature that I don't really mind being in the game -- using a glider glove and getting kicked by a stumbleweed gives the player a ton of knockback that can be utilized as a sort of primitive fast travel

I think it just fits a lot, of course a ton of legs would kick

also this is the first video I'm showing of the new simplified stumbleweed model with new collisions and step sounds

the step sounds took me a surprisingly large amount of time to implement for whatever reason

but I think it came out super well

god their many footsteps make my skin crawl

Consistently, over and over again, I've been snuck up on by stumbleweeds and the only warning I get is the barrage of footsteps just a few feet away

[austere ember]

Actually now that I think about it, it would be best as an upgrade of the haze hand

[gilded gale]

Oh rlly?

Haze hand is more utility though right

I mean making a weapon with it is cool through transmutation honestly

[austere ember]

That;s a good point

honestly now that got me thinking about utility uses for a nebulized haze hand

[gilded gale]

Oh you know the hand wand?

[austere ember]

yesyes

[gilded gale]

Maybe it could have the opposite effect

I think it slows time

So speeding it up could be cool

Acting like a sprint but it also speeds up everything else

Speeds up travel but also danger

[austere ember]

a nebulized hand wand speeding up time would be great

[gilded gale]

I haven’t got the wand so I’m not good surue how it works

[austere ember]

obviously a big reason to get a neburaffe in your base

[gilded gale]

Yea true

[austere ember]

honestly some of my ideas for a haze hand upgrade would be one that would create a tractor beam-like effect and blast the player similarly to the haze hand, but would be held down instead of being in bursts, and would be able to levitate the player kind of like the fan from voima

[gilded gale]

Oh wow yeah that’s interesting

[austere ember]

just seems like the natural step up from the average haze hand

[gilded gale]

Agreed that’s a pretty cool transmutation

Would using it while walking backwards give you like some repulsion backwards

Idk how to explain rlly

[austere ember]

I imagine it probably would, I guess I didn't think about that

this item would need some gates to prevent it from being too busted

like you shouldn't be able to just fly up forever

maybe you can only use it a certain amount before you have to touch ground again

[gilded gale]

Maybe double the amount that the hazehand pushes you up

Or, but this might be difficult, give it a different stat seperate from durability that lowers as you use it

No clue about coding so this would likely be difficult

[austere ember]

That's kind of what I was thinking, but yeah that might be a pain in the ass to implement

[gilded gale]

And resets when you touch ground forget to mention

Yeah I thought it might be

Since there’s no real similar thing in the game

[austere ember]

But if I do add this item, I would add that

it's the most logical way and I probably would use it for other items too

[gilded gale]

Yeah that could help on other items

If some are too op

[austere ember]

Like for a future glider glove upgrade I would want it to be able to be used to do a flap or two upward before it can only be used as a glider (with slower downward gliding as well, which would be super useful in my opinion)

[gilded gale]

Oh yeah that’s nice

Dunno if you know about this but by spamming the glider glove it resets your velocity

[austere ember]

Oh yeah I know that, but this would just be a more convenient way of doing that

[gilded gale]

Yeah that’s fair

I think it uses more durability too but I’m not sure

[austere ember]

well actually we'll see if it's more convenient

but anyway the double flap would be useful for getting over those small ledges you can't quite get over

unless you have a haze hand

haze hand is really better than the flap

[gilded gale]

Ohhh yeah i hate it when that happens…

It can’t be used midair though so that’s a plus for the glider

[austere ember]

That's true, though then it gets outclassed by the upgraded haze hand again

[gilded gale]

Oh yeah good point

[austere ember]

then again it's all just different methods of travel

the upgraded glider glove would be for gliding and small corrections in flight, the upgraded haze hand would be specifically for launching yourself, which could even be used in combination with the glider glove to pull off some crazy stunts

[sick beacon]

This also happens with gel creatures (albeit I think that Gel kicks further)

[austere ember]

oh really??

well it's a cool thing

[sick beacon]

It's superrr useful to traverse around I hope Lucy doesn't patch it

[gilded gale]

i doubt it would be patched

its just a useful tech not really a glitch

thats just kinda the way the glider works

you can do the same but vertical by grappling up from afar which boosts the velocity given

then ungrappling then gliding

[gilded gale]

retains not really boosts

[delicate salmon]

what if it will walk on a pen and pencil glued to them?

like

this

[austere ember]

Maybe maybe

I'm unsure since where would thoser items go during oragami mode?

Also for the neburaffe, trying to figure out what you should feed it to prime it for nebulation

I want it to be so that you have to feed a neburafe some kind of item (maybe a couple of times) before nebulation can be activated

hbut what item should it be? What's a rare material in this game?

mana gel maybe?

[austere ember]

I want it to be an item that's harder to come by because I don't want you to be able to jsut walk around a cosmic biome and instantly feed it your tools to make them better

[delicate salmon]

non-euclidean carrot

https://tenor.com/view/cat-silly-finns-gifs-funny-goofy-gif-3941098364779365125

[austere ember]

Considering it

something like that would be good

maybe

If it's to be the item that various creatures are tamed with, it should definitely be a crop alongside the nut plant

but at the same time, I don't really want the neburaffe's nebulation to be easily activated either

and having it be activated from a farmed resource might make upgraded items too easy to get in the long run

I was hoping it would be an item I could use from base game like mana gel, but wasn't sure if an item like mana gel is too easy to obtain

[onyx lantern]

i love honse

[austere ember]

I’m very glad you do

Honse is probably my favorite creature in the mod just because of how I got it to look

I do plan to add more creatures that render that way, it’s just a matter of what

I think a prime idea would be for a bug/bugs that render this way, or if I can correctly 3d model my cat that would also be a great candidate

[austere ember]

ignore the little glitch at the end

at the moment I've just called it "moon" but I'd like a better name

perhaps omni, but there's already the omni hat, so I wasn't sure

There is one very glaring issue with these entities... when you get far enough away from them, even if it doesn't look like that far of a distance, the game unloads the entity way too close to the player

[sick beacon]

The omni hat emits light, it would make sense to call it that

[austere ember]

had to make the tragic decision of reducing the size of the omni

it seems there is no way to implement a larger loading box for an entity

[austere ember]

Only reason I was apprehensive was because I was planning to add a light that can be placed that acts like the omni, shining as a spotlight in the player's direction, which might confuse the players or something? I don't know it's not a big deal I'll call it the omni because it's a good name

[austere ember]

Anyway, should the moon light (the placeable light) be an entity or a block? If it's an entity, I'd make it throwable, so you'd throw it into the air and it would be a convenient way to add a spotlight

but at the same time, for those who just want to place it down like a normal block, trying to place it down and having it be thrown might be annoying

Okay I'm doing the entity moon ball because I had a great idea for interaction

By default, the moon ball would have a spotlight that would point downwards, but right clicking on the moon ball would make it so the spotlight follows the player -- In this state, if the player changes their position and right clicks on the moon ball again, the light's rotation would be frozen

so you'd be able to set the direction the light points

if this goes well I'll have to add a disco ball as well

(moon ball is a placeholder name)

[delicate salmon]

perhaps

no wait im thinking of a name

hm

Oculus lunae nervus

[torn rampart]

just tougth of a vermin, somenthing like the vashta nerada

[gilded gale]

Hey who turned out the lights

[delicate salmon]

damn we really need a snail shelldon in the mod

[austere ember]

a shelled entity would be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you lucidbob you never miss

I could imaghine an entity with some sort of shell that's like a polygonal human face

[delicate salmon]

what about

a traveler snail with a shell that is like a backpack

and you can also trade with him

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1269607258933821471/1347018945340768287/attachment-7-2.gif

[austere ember]

new prototype

zibbies

might make them smaller, definitely looking to make them jump higher

actually i think theyre a good size

theyre supposed to be different colors as well

and they're still buggy, as shown at the end with the weird decal and the death

[delicate salmon]

make a ambient bird that look like zibbies and honse too

lol

https://tenor.com/view/cat-silly-finns-gifs-funny-goofy-gif-3941098364779365125

bubblebirds

[onyx lantern]

oh the big eye, very cool. I like the spotlight a lot

maybe add some funny shader to it so the pixels aren't so obvious, given how big it is, the pixelation looks a bit out of place

[onyx lantern]

https://klipy.com/gifs/ferass18

maybe you could do some fuckery where after the eyeball sees you, it technically exsists at the player's location, but has all its properties translated to it's origional position

I don't know the limitiations of modding the game, but that would bypass the rendering issue

maybe you could use some state behaviour, so if you go beyond a certain chunk distance, it swaps to a seperate entity / mode w/ no hitbox, but a bounding box following the player. In this mode it would translate the model being rendered to it's original world position which is stored as a variable

[austere ember]

That’s a smart workaround

I’ll have to mess with that

Because that would probably allow me to achieve this giant entity and other giant entities that I plan to add

(Another I planned was a giant hallucination entity that wobbles like how heat waves look — they would come in a variety of variants, depending on where the player is, and would most likely do different things, so maybe it would be more close to say that they’d be a new class of entity that would appear a fixed distance away from the player far off — I already have a shader for this effect)

Ideas for possible hallucinations are people (maybe a distant crowd, or maybe even people floating at different levels, almost looking like they’re being raptured), giant versions of other vermin like bath ducks, boats

Maybe buildings

They wouldn’t appear in every biome, but mostly open plain-like biomes would make sense

Giant fish would be a great one

[austere ember]

That’s something I somehow didn’t really notice until now, but you’re right

Originally I put the heat wave shader over the omni for testing but I removed it for some reason — I still plan to make it so that if the player has a high enough hate score, the eye’s shader gains corruptness and intensity (think of how polygons look on the ps1 — I’d want it to have that jitter but more intense)

[onyx lantern]

https://klipy.com/gifs/gerson-boom-old-man

[austere ember]

ALSo it would summon creatures I meant to mention tha

Its spotlight would turn red and it would summon its bodyguards

Whatever they may be

Still planning on adding the plate faces

(The long-legged slim blasphemy-like creature with a decorative plate for a face)

One thing I’ve wanted to add for a while (alongside text signs) is the idea of an item frame-like item

Perhaps you could place the plates as item frames? Maybe not

It would probably be more fitting if I went with the idea I had for pins that you’d be able to stick on the wall or ground and then attach items to them that way, it would kind of just look like you placed an item there, which would be super cool for decoration

Capabilities for what blocks can be added is very limited unfortunately, I can’t add any slab-like block without either its collision just being a normal block or it would have placement difficulties, and that seems to be a limitation in what normal godot modding can do

[austere ember]

I worked on a one way platform block that you’d be able to jump through (maybe a one way wall too) but unfortunately it just didn’t work out

Block collisions seem to be very hard coded

There are certain things in this game that can’t be edited it seems, unless I can figure out how to alter more advanced shit

[austere ember]

That’s also the reason those transparent sponge blocks from the update can’t be placed against one another

I’m hoping there will be a way to work around this soon

[pale wedge]

Dude the progress is looking gooddddd

[onyx lantern]

i was thinking it would be funny if you could throw them, but that would also be good

I think it would be cool if those creatues just happen to spawn around the eye, and only agro if the eye sees you

transforming into their agro variant and running after you

like scary quick but fragile blasphemi

hmu if you need me to digitize some plate sprites to map onto the plate models. I'm a little budy, but i like taking photos and turning them into competent pixelart

[austere ember]

yess good idea

I appreciate it

[austere ember]

THast would be better in my opinion

I didnt realize there's already an item display block, my only gripe about it is that it's not a fully transparent block, it's more like a display case

and the items rotate

so maybe I still have a chance to make that happen

[onyx lantern]

You don't need to add the plates as blocks, they could just be items that can be thrown

[austere ember]

Oh yeah I wouldn't, I would rather pins be used as item frame type blocks that just keep the item in place

[austere ember]

Turns out............. I just broke something in the code and that's why that shit don't work

I'm going to try to add my platforms that I wanted to add with this knowledge

[brazen crescent]

Ooh that's cool

[delicate salmon]

i've got a little idea for a small vermin

it would be ambient mob like the bugs

say hi to the new Gweemeg galaxy pro

it would sit on the trees

and just sit there

if you go too close to the tree

it would hide back into the leafs

[haughty estuary]

What does it look like now?

[austere ember]

It doesn’t look too bad, but I’m looking to use a method suggested by someone else to make them bigger again

Perhaps even bigger than that, but we’ll see

[austere ember]

Ohh I like that idea

Gweemeg is a good name

[delicate salmon]

my mom is cooking up kebab rn🥹🤞

[delicate salmon]

i would like if it was a real 2d

not the dithered screenshot of 3d model

i could draw it

[austere ember]

AWESOME NEWS lucidbob

[austere ember]

Oooo

That’s probably what I should’ve done for zibbies tbh?

[delicate salmon]

if you want so

[austere ember]

I just added them because I wanted another creature with that type of rendering, but it’s kind of hard to tell what it is

[delicate salmon]

yea you're prolly right

[austere ember]

I think a creature like that being drawn would be really cool

Though it’s 40 frames

I would probably make a 3d model and scan it the same way as a reference and then add drawn elements on top of it

[silk hedge]

ive been watching this mods development since the start, and like holy so much progress. TWO THOUSAND MESSAGES.

this will be a crazy mod

continue to make peak for this game after this pls 🥹

[austere ember]

Thank you!! I really appreciate your support!!!

I love makijng crap

I'm absolutely planning to make other mods that would be compatible with this one, like originally I wanted to make it a part of this mod but a mod specifically for adding wires and other redstone-like components would be wonderful

Same with a canvas mod that would allow you to create and place pictures in your world

these are two ideas ambitious enough to make a separate mod out of them

2 thousand messages... I talk a LOT

[sick beacon]

Hows progress looking for the mod so far? LIke amount of vermin and items and such

[austere ember]

I may or may not have added 13 vermin so far

as in I have

NO MORE ENTITIES FOR SOME TIME

must focus on adding other things that fit with those entities

Most of the creatures already have at least one feature that can be utilized

[sick beacon]

I feel like this would be cool if it acted somewhat as a slime block, it sounds squishy

[sick beacon]

God DAMN 😭😭

[austere ember]

YEAH....

maybe I should go back to the mod's original title of excessive vermin mod

The thing about this game is that I could tell you I added 13 vermin and you might not even be able to tell immediately because of how spread out everything in lucidblocks is

I;ve never encountered a doggle in the wild

[sick beacon]

I think that's good I love exploring for hours and not found everything a game/mod offers yet

[austere ember]

yesss

let me see here

any useless creatures I've added other than zibbies? i need to check

Deer are pretty useless right now, but they don't really need a lot

ANother thing about vermin in this game is that base game vermin are usually simple as fuck

They don't even have pathfinding at all, none of them

they run in a straight line and turn sometimes

[austere ember]

This is why I don't feel bad adding some creatures that really don't do much, like deer and sheep are pretty equivalent in that way

Though I would like deer to drop antlers

what you'd do with them I'm not sure

maybe you could make jingle bells with them :)

I've planned for multiple silly instruments to be added, like wonky ass instruments

I got platforms workinhg at LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this may not seem like a big deal to all of you but fixing the issues in collision that I broke at some point in development took way too long

super simple, just a one way platform

I'd probably add one way walls too

Question is, what material should be used to make them? (Texture is placeholder)

I'm thinking maybe mem material

mems are one of my favorites in the game

[sick beacon]

Nice, this would be good for farms

[austere ember]

yesss

[sick beacon]

I have never seen this 😭

[austere ember]

they're so good

they just walk and teleport and walk and teleport but their shader makes it so they blend REALLY weirdly with the environment to the point where you barely see their outline sometimes

it gets me every time without fail

They do not yet have a drop, so maybe this would be a good opportunity

the reason they make me laugh every time is because they remind me of this one meme that's just a sillouette walking across the screen

https://klipy.com/gifs/wahid-yimshee-kilometraat

[sick beacon]

Hood irony ❤️‍🩹

I think you could do some awesome stuff with new structures, I don't think I've seen you talk about adding them but it would be cool

[austere ember]

Oh fuck yeah I totally could too

I figured out structures when I was figuring out how to get the fruit trees to work

Oh that’s another thing, I have to add the fruit candy I planned to add that would give you a temporary status effect

[austere ember]

But yeah when it comes to structures I may add various ones relating to the vermin of this mod

A Doggle daycare would be great

One thing I’ve been dreading is getting the Apor to work correctly — currently, they are able to be linked together to teleport the player between each other, but strangeness occurs if you happen to use them in your personal qualia

It’s an issue I’m really not sure how to resolve

[sick beacon]

#1492182657629552700 Kinda solved this, you can only use qualia and overworld specific teleporters when you are in one or the other

[austere ember]

The issue is that if you enter your personal qualia through your personal qualia block, then use an apor within the personal qualia, then teleport back to that same apor and try leaving the personal qualia, it does not send you to the original personal qualia block you placed down — it just brings you to the most recent apor you’ve used

[austere ember]

Probably the best approach

I just felt sad not being able to have the personal qualia be a hub world for teleporters

But that makes more sense

[sick beacon]

Can you reword this I tried deciphering it for a minute but couldn't 😭

[austere ember]

SORRY I REALIZED THAT LMAO

It’s really hard to describe because it’s a very very specific issue

Okay so

Imagine you enter your pocket dimension through the klonoqualia block or whatever it’s called

Inside the pocket dimension, you have an apor that is linked to an apor outside of the dimension

Teleportation between dimensions works fine

The issue arises if you use the apor in the pocket dimension to teleport you to the apor in the overworld and then use that apor to teleport back to the pocket dimension again

Does that make sense?

If you re enter the pocket dimension through the apor, then if you were to use the yellow pocket dimension block to leave the pocket dimension, you just get teleported to the overworld apor instead of being teleported to the original klonoqualia block

And then after this happens, re entering the pocket dimension using a qualia block teleports you to the apor rather than teleporting you to the yellow qualia block

[sick beacon]

Maybe when going to an apor outside the dimension, you could temp destroy the qualia block and teleport it onto the apors position and before the player fully loads in you place it back?

Not sure if that would work at all but if I understand what you explained the issue is, maybe it could work somewhat

[austere ember]

Perhaps that could be a workaround

Sorry it’s a really difficult issue to articulate which is one of the reasons why it’s been so hard to pinpoint

Testing for the apor is hell

Not to mention I’ve never been fully satisfied with its design

[sick beacon]

So the issue is if you're in your qualia and use an apor to teleport to an outside apor, rather than teleporting to that one you teleport to your qualia/jonaqualia block?

[austere ember]

Not quite, the issue is that if you enter your qualia with the blue qualia block and use an apor to teleport to an outside apor, then if you were to use that outside apor to teleport back into your qualia, using the yellow qualia block teleports you to the outside apor rather than teleporting you to the original blue qualia block

Does that make sense? I have no idea

But then there’s the secondary issue which is that after using an apor to enter the pocket dimension, once you exit the pocket dimension, for some reason re entering through a qualia block teleports you to the apor within the pocket dimension rather than teleporting you to the yellow qualia block

[sick beacon]

Oh yes it does

[austere ember]

Very strange dimensional issues

[sick beacon]

Hm yeah that's really weird, I think sadly the teleportation anchor method you might have to use

[austere ember]

I’ll probably just make it so they can’t be used in pocket dimensions, so you’d have to make a teleportation hub area in the overworld, which might actually be a really good opportunity, since there’s usually no other reason to build in the overworld

(I call it the overworld for simplicity but I think it’s called naraka)

Actually, here’s a good workaround

There could be a variant of the apor (maybe you just feed it something else and it morphs) that only allows for one-way travel, like a specific hub apor, taking inspiration from the one-way waystones from the minecraft waystones mod

this one could be used in the pocket dimension

Maybe that’d be kind of weird? I don’t know

I’m glad I brought this up to brainstorm, the only reason I’ve been avoiding apors is because I thought this issue was unresolvable, but it would be a cool opportunity to add that specific multidimensional one way apor variant

I just hope that wouldn’t be too niche

No I don’t think it would be too niche, more like I hope it wouldn’t be too hard for players to figure out

But it’s just about as hard as players figuring out which blocks to place where to summon an apor (I plan to make it so you place blocks in an arrangement to create them, like golems)

[sick beacon]

I'm kinda confused, don't they already have one way travel?

[austere ember]

that was kind of confusing, my bad

Apors are two way travel in the way that you can teleport between two linked apors

By one way, I mean that you wouldn’t be able to go back the way you came

Im still not sure if it’s the best solution — maybe it wouldn’t be a variant, but rather if you were to link two apors between dimensions, then the one on the overworld side would appear closed rather than open

So basically, the apor would be open and shining its light and stuff in the pocket dimension, but if you use it to teleport back out to the overworld, then the one on the overworld’s side would be shut, just appearing as an average pyramid

So you’d still be able to use apors cross dimensionally, just one way

My fear originally was that players wouldn’t understand, but I feel it’s less convoluted than the one way variant idea — maybe interacting with the closed version would even show “Apor cannot send you to pocket dimension” (not that text specifically but something similar)

The thing about apors is that they feel a lot more like blocks than entities, which makes sense, but I wonder if there’s subtle ways I could give them more personality

[sick beacon]

Maybe you could do something related to the kila with the apor, they visually remind me of eachother

[austere ember]

That would be cool, that’s a really good point

I might change their brick-like texture to be more like the material blasphemies use instead

[sick beacon]

Maybe have them teleport within a small distance every once and a while until they are 'tamed'? it would add a bit of life

[austere ember]

Honestly you know what? Maybe instead of feeding apors rejuvenation anchors to make them shit out a hyperlink, you’d feed them kilas! It already fits more as a digital item providing a hyperlink

And kilas feel important

Not to mention, creating an apor would already require a rejuvenation anchor

[austere ember]

Maybe that would be good, I’ve considered it before, my worry was that portal rooms would become very messy if all the teleporters were wandering, but it wouldn’t be an issue if it’s just a small distance

Alternatively, here’s a crazy idea

the inner part of the apor is the actual entity itself, the outer part is more like a container — I’ve already wanted at least one other four dimensional creature like the apor.. but what if there’s an uncaged version of the apor?

Like. Instead of them being golems, they’d be creatures you’d have to trap in prisms somehow

then placing the prism holding the creature and right clicking on it would enlarge the prism up to size (if there’s enough space)

Just hard for me to tell what exactly this four dimensional creature would do — I was hoping it would have a low chance of spawning in most biomes, but would probably be most abundant in one

I know that if you were to attack it, it would attack you back, sending you to a completely random location

[sick beacon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8LMyWcKL_c This is a pretty interesting video on 4D stuff, maybe you could take inspo from it

[austere ember]

OHH YES!!!

This has those fucked up 4d spiders

It would definitely phase in and out of reality a lot

it would also likely be able to go through walls

[sick beacon]

I feel like maybe something with the handwand and faithwand could be interesting with a 4th dimensional vermin

[austere ember]

Ohh yes yes

The concept of a fourth dimensional creature that is always observing the third dimension from afar is very cool

Like theoretically the apor could be just a single extremely large creature connected through the fourth dimension

Imagine if you could see more of the apor’s form by using the faith wand

Or even.. what if you can only see uncaged apors using the faith wand?

It might be AWFUL trying to navigate and see apors through the faith wand, but maybe apors would be quite slow, so they’d be more easy to capture

I dontknow how common they’d be using the faith wand, but probably wouldn’t be very rare — I’ve thought about faith wand creatures in passing before but could never pinpoint something weird enough

The fourth dimension is about as weird as it gets

I’d want the prism you capture the apor with to also be able to be used as a decoration block, and it would probably be crafted with prismatic blocks (if I can give it similar crafting to rejuvenation anchors and qualia blocks while also requiring prismatic blocks in the recipe, I will)

[austere ember]

I meant to say earlier, this is a really good idea

I believe no block like that in-game so that would be perfect

[delicate salmon]

BREAKING NEWS!!!

we MUST add the eye floaters to the mod!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTkuP7vMT/

Thats all for today

[austere ember]

I think about eye floaters sometimes

I love these videos

[cold pendant]

??????

[austere ember]

Skibidi

[austere ember]

This is how they look in gameplay

Genuinely tweaks me out sometimes

[delicate salmon]

apchezmig did enough honor to be a texture for platfrom you know

[onyx lantern]

holy

[sick beacon]

Dang yeah I really like these

[simple ether]

Bit of a weird suggestion for a more ambient vermin, but what about the iconic Mourning doves with their very distinct calls for the more foresty biomes of the world?

[austere ember]

YEAAAAAAHHHH

thank you nigel excellent suggestion

even if I was to add an ambient vermin that wasn't a mourning dove, I would likely give it mourning dove noises

similar to how the blasphemy sounds like a pond at night with peepers

[austere ember]

maybe the leaf-peeking mob lucidbob suggested could have that sound

[delicate salmon]

gweemeg

[austere ember]

gweemeg

btw thisis what zibbies look like

so cute

made zibbies slightly higher definition

happy with the outcome

should melons grow from trees or grow out of the ground like minecraf

probably out of the ground

I just thought it might've been funny

[sick beacon]

Reminds me of a smiling friends character

[delicate salmon]

that is WAY better

[austere ember]

harmless zibby admires the many prisms

prisms will be used to capture wild 4 dimensional creatures when in faith wand mode

[austere ember]

I wonder if I could somehow fit slopes into this mod

because slopes are something I've really liked the idea of

Should apors be renamed? I feel like I could think of a better 4 dimensional name

Originally apors were not 4 dimensional at all

They'

re called apors because of aporia, which is a state of puzzlement

[lost wolf]

it'd be fun if these guys had a hostile mob variety that did it's normal walking cycle, but the moment it'd usually teleport away, it begins sprinting toward you

to add to their creep. because you also maybe could never tell which was which

[delicate salmon]

bro..

my whole search bar in a random moment became a slop

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1482353046888386664/1486875495621722253/Screenshot_2026-03-26_134634.imagename.gif

[austere ember]

it would be funny if upon attacking the player, they immediately vanish and teleport away and return to being passive

they would just randomly be mean for spook factor

[lost wolf]

ALSO TRUE

[austere ember]

but also I think that mems should be neutral in general, and when in super angry mode, they continuously attack you and teleport away

[delicate salmon]

would be better if when they hit the player the hood irony bell sound effect plays

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1493354953799110746/1493354954105159801/ezgif-5a6b7fefa741ca25.gif

[austere ember]

YESSS

LMAO

they'd also teleport around if they run at you in a straight line for too long

(if super aggro)

[delicate salmon]

d.o.n.t.f.o.r.g.e.t.a.b.o.u.t.m.i.l.k.w.a.l.k.e.r

[austere ember]

Question!

ummm

What should this be called

It's the free version of an apor

(they spawn in if you use the faith wand and vanish once you stop using the faith wand)

they can be captured with prisms as previously mentioned

Should it just be called the apor?

[delicate salmon]

absolutum pulmentum

[austere ember]

too long

[delicate salmon]

it means absolute mess on latin

hmm

pulmentum?

[austere ember]

I want a name that reflects its fourth dimensional nature more

[delicate salmon]

oh

[austere ember]

Like tesser or something

a tesseract is a 4 dimnensional cube

let me do some reserarch

Also in particular I was curious how they should behave

[delicate salmon]

what about pentach it would be named

pentachore

[austere ember]

maybe it could be considered a pentachoron

I think that's actually the shape

[delicate salmon]

what if they would act similiar to kodama

but

when they hit you

nvm i think its a bad idea

[austere ember]

I was actually thinking the same thing about them being like the kodama

they should be able to go through walls

[delicate salmon]

AND LEAVE GOO BEHIND

[austere ember]

and when they hit you they should probably teleport the player

[delicate salmon]

on the walls

[austere ember]

perhaps goo would be good

I say they should teleport the player because it fits with how apors behave, I did want a creature that teleported the player, it would likely only be a short distance

[delicate salmon]

what if it would grab you like principilaty, but grab you in meele and then spin very quickly and then throw you in the wall

[austere ember]

not sure

somethng to note about the pictyre i sent

the mesh is actually a baby, but it's so messed up that you can't tell

[sick beacon]

Is this related to the stumble weed at all? The model reminds me of it kinda

[austere ember]

That's kind of what I thought when I saw it too

They are four dimensional, let me take a quick video

they only look those weird colors because they spawn when using the faith wand, which inverts the camera color

they're the free version of the apor

[sick beacon]

Oh damn that's really cool

How did you get it to Animate like that??

[austere ember]

you capture them with the prism to get an imprismed apor, which can then be placed on the ground and fed some kind of 4 dimensional essence item (like tesseracts or something, which I think should either drop or somehow be farmed from the free apors) to make them turn into full apors

[austere ember]

lot of experimentation with 4 dimensional shaders

[sick beacon]

Are you going to allow different stuff to be fed to the imprismed apor to give ethe apor different effects like the one way one you mentioned before?

[sick beacon]

Well it looks superrr good nice job

[austere ember]

Thankkie

I'm probably not gonna make the one way apor a thing, it's just going to turn closed on the overworld side if you use an apor in the pocket dimension

However, the open apor can be fed rejuvination anchors to generate hyperlinks, so it would make sense if you could feed them more stuff

[sick beacon]

I forgot what hyperlinks do, they tell you your biome right?

Or do they connect the apors

[austere ember]

They connect the apors

Like a hyperspace link

honeslty the smartest name I've ever come up with for anything

[austere ember]

here is how they look in gameplay

[sick beacon]

Damn, do their animations look good in game too?

[austere ember]

They do, they look about the same, they even fade in and out with the faith wand effect perfectly

[austere ember]

I'm just worried they're too similar to kodamas, but maybe they could be considered variants of kodamas

Maybe I should make imprismed kodamas and agnis

Wonder what they'd do though

[shadow hatch]

YEASSSSSS

[austere ember]

I specifically added platforms so that bubblebears can be transported up to different floors in my house

[austere ember]

They now pop in and out very well I think

The only issue they have is fading out after the effect ends

[silk hedge]

i know this is like completely unrelated but what does the faith wand specificly do? and what does faith affect?

[austere ember]

not sure

[silk hedge]

i have like over a hundred hours 😭

[austere ember]

I really wish I knew lmfao

[silk hedge]

please somebody figure out what it does

[austere ember]

I;ll have to explore it later anyway because I wanted to make this one entity summon enemies when it detects you if you have too little faith and too much hate

[sick beacon]

It makes some blocks like dirt and grass seethrough I don't think it has much of a function outside of that

[sick beacon]

Really cool, I forgot how much of a headache the faithwand effect gives me

[austere ember]

me too

it gives a function for the faith wand

still have to add the imprismed apors

[sick beacon]

Do you plan to ever add a passive vermin in the qualia? Idk how you would manage it, but it seems like it could be interesting

I always thought a vermin that can only be seen in reflections would be cool, so they wouldn't be interactable but just visual

[austere ember]

OHHH THAT WOULD BE REALLY COOOOOOOOOL\

I never thought of that

That alongside other hallucination entities that I plan to add (I've talked about it before, they'd just be giant creatures/people/objects/etc on the horizon that would have different behaviors

wouldn't be able to be interacted with and its type would depend on the biome

but I could imagine hallucinations of all biome types spawning in the personal qualia

though I don't know, maybe a more subtle thing like the reflection vermin would be much cooler

it would be cool if there was a vermin that only lived very deep in the personal qualia oceans

they would definitely be bioluminescent

ohhh I got a good idea

so I've been working on adding memories as the mem's drop

which will be used to craft platforms (placeholder name)

but I thought about it for a while, and I think it would be great to tie into the memory theme by being able to craft thoughts with them

thoughts would be like signs basically

shift right clicking would place the thought as a floating thought bubble

another cool idea that I could use for memories or something else would be some kind of taser that would be similar to a grappling hook but wouldn’t pull the player, instead it would only be used to hook onto entities to stun them for a short period of time and harm the entity rapidly while hooked (attack is not very powerful, mostly used for the stun ability)

My first thought was entities being able to be tased to make them fall into the ground, but I feel like that would be a bit overpowered

[austere ember]

if I ever go back to the idea of wires in this mod, I would probably change them to be nerves or neurons

I'm thinking of adding a new neural vital essence type for the memory item because of all the ideas I have for items to be crafted from memories

how about I add those signs and then decide whether or not it's worth it

I didnt mean to send that here LMAOOOO

rip uncle fatty

[quaint mason]

This mod looks really cool

It turned a month and one day today as well 🙃

[austere ember]

Thank you!!

Damn it's already been a month

Feels like longer

[austere ember]

do not question

[austere ember]

considering a possible wand that would be a paintbrush of some kind

you'd select any kind of block from your inventory with the brush and would be able to right click to replace whatever block you look at with the block from your inventory, draining the blocks from your inventory and deleting the block you replaced in the process

Is that too overpowered? I just think it would be a great utility for building in a game where mining can be pretty slow, especially for certain blocks

plus I'd be able to slowly convert my ambiguous bomb island into grass or something

I don't think it would be overpowered, since the blocks you're replacing are deleted in the process

[delicate salmon]

what if it would have a variant

that wouldnt place blocks

but instead

draw in the air with colored pixels

[terse hill]

only one question. very important.

can you pet it 🥺

[austere ember]

You'll be able to

This is my cat Bubba

He will probably be a 3d sprite similar to the honse and zibby

unless you guys think he should be a mesh instead -- otherwise he would not move his legs at all

[delicate salmon]

let him roll on skateboard and do crazy tricks that spawn png sprites with smth like "AMAZING!", "IMPOSSIBLE"

with that one sfx

[austere ember]

LMAOOO\

THAT WOULD BE GOOD

[delicate salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-cats-skating-skate-board-gif-16710677522807821119

if you hit it, he starts to roll onto you to instakill you BUT

on the death screen

you will see

hol on

"Despondent vermin.
How shall you touch a god with such an Unfathomable capacity of skateboarding?"

[delicate salmon]

how does that sound?

[austere ember]

That does sound pretty cool

Custom death screens for very specific entities would be funny

I intend to have Bubba be tamable

probably by feeding him something that he would immediately puke out

[onyx lantern]

the dead expressionless face of some low poly cats are unsettling

[austere ember]

I know I love them so much

This is a model for bubba that I have used since one of my first minecraft mods I made

[onyx lantern]

holy

reminds me of the cat distribution system video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Roq-SRAas8

[austere ember]

LMAO

here's what he originally looked like

[onyx lantern]

hahaha

[austere ember]

actually this is what he looked like

very large

[onyx lantern]

that went from hilarious to kinda scary

[austere ember]

I'm debating whether he should be small or large in lucidblocks

also still trying to figure out whether he should be in-game as a 3d model or as a 2d sprite that would rotate as if it's 3 dimensional

like with a spritesheet

maybe he should be able to grow in size

[delicate salmon]

something yogurt-like

[delicate salmon]

middle

[austere ember]

probably just fish corpse

bubba pukes irl when he eats anything

it's kind of sad

[delicate salmon]

wait, dont fish in lucid blocks drop fish bone?

[austere ember]

it;s becayse he only has 4 teeth in his mouth

[austere ember]

I think they just drop water and fish corpse

[shadow hatch]

they drop that with other things! :D

[austere ember]

oh they drop fish bone???

I didn't know that

[delicate salmon]

ooh, theres no fish bones

they drop corpses

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1482353046888386664/1486875495621722253/Screenshot_2026-03-26_134634.imagename.gif

[austere ember]

at some point i'D Like to add different kinds of topiaries

topiaries are like

they'd probably appear alongside gnomes and would be inanimate decoration blocks

[sick beacon]

Are gnomes ingame?

[austere ember]

Not yet

I plan for them to use the sprite rendering style like the honse

The only reason I haven't added them is because for some reason, whenever I think about them, my first thought is

[delicate salmon]

i think 3d fits gnomes more

[austere ember]

"holy fuck. there's too many"

[sick beacon]

That's what I was thinking

[austere ember]

hmm perhaps

perhaps they do

[delicate salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/wario-from-safe-never-gif-25999841

[austere ember]

the only reason is because

well

I have two models for gnomes currently

[sick beacon]

it's me woah

[austere ember]

My idea was that uhhh

hold on

[delicate salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/wario-dance-party-mario-ghost-gif-16331962770303635229

[austere ember]

so there's this gnome model

one second

but then I have this gnome model I made about a year ago

[delicate salmon]

i think the first kinda fits lucid blocks more

[austere ember]

You're probably right

[sick beacon]

They look like they'd be a good defensive wall lol

[delicate salmon]

[austere ember]

Originally my idea was that the first gnome model would be used during the day (gnomes would be frozen in place during the daytime) and then at night they would melt into their sprite version

But the first gnome is funnier

so I'll probably just make that the only model used

idk, for some reason I felt this feeling that people often prefer higher poly gnomes

which is really odd thinking

[sick beacon]

I think I'd have to see it ingame with the filters and enviroment lucid blocks has to know which is better

[austere ember]

Good point

I'll have to make a gnome prototype soon

I've been doing some work adding features to other entities I've already added

I finally got around to adding the throwable moonlight, which acts as a floating spotlight that follows you when right clicked (and can be posed)

very useful for lighting up areas

[delicate salmon]

wait

do you know what wrathful mode does?

[austere ember]

No idea

Do you?

[delicate salmon]

every night

theres a moon in the sky

that slowly burns you to death

if you didnt hid in the house

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1269607258933821471/1347018945340768287/attachment-7-2.gif

[austere ember]

Fuuck should I remove my moon from the game

[delicate salmon]

naahh

make it so

when the spotlight moon appears

it defends you from burning

or just

idk actually

make the spotlight moon in wrathful mode burn your house if you dont right click at it certain amount of times

idkk

[austere ember]

hmm

I'll have to experiment with wrathful mode enabled

[delicate salmon]

should've told you this earlier

[austere ember]

that's oki

I also added memories, which are dropped by mems, and can be crafted into membrane platforms and eventually membrane walls that will only allow entities to enter from one side

soon I will work on adding thoughts, crafted with memories, wehich I talked about previously

(text signs that can either be placed floating as a thought bubble or on walls)

[sick beacon]

Did you ever add the textures for them?

[austere ember]

This is what memories currently look like

based off a neuron's head

looks a bit more like a snowflake right now though, I didn't realize that

but maybe it fits -- the essences required to craft a mem capsule are capsule, glass, neural (new essence type I added) and cold

mems are canonically very cold to be around

but membranes themselves...

quite a work in progress when it comes to looks

I'd like to add some shader that shows neurons flowing through it

or some kind of shifting membrane material (more likely)

[delicate salmon]

hes not green, hes gween

[sick beacon]

I meant the platforms 😭 but these still look really cool

[austere ember]

I'm glad you think so!

here's my bubba baby

same reference photo used for the model

[austere ember]

returning to conceptualize the plate creature once more

at first I was like, the plate idea seems kind of like

idk, arbitrary? like it could be anything not just a plate

but I've grown quite attached to the idea for whatever reason

Especially considering the idea of the plate cracking into 8 pieces when angered

just fits really well

again, they'd be in abyss biomes with the moon

Porceer is probably my favorite name, but I do like the name witness a lot too

I have a bubblebear in my qualia hidden high in my tower that is named witness because he saw me accidentally let a stumbleweed free onto the world to cause havoc

now he's trapped forever

[austere ember]

I've been having a spree of ideas for earlier entities after looking over my list that I've created on Trello

[quaint mason]

Sick

[austere ember]

Thank you :)

love your cat

[quaint mason]

Thank you!!

[austere ember]

Ofc!

[austere ember]

I've had the idea for instruments that you'd hold and looking up and down would change the pitch

that's an idea I've had from the very start that would be very easy to implement

I decided that wild honses would display "please insert [price] glaggle tokens" when right clicked ([price] would be 5 to 10 glaggle tokens, depending on the base speed multiplier of the honse -- more expensive honses would be quicker) - honses could be bribed to lower the price by feeding them wheat or grass or any kind of candy

and I wanted to add some special steed whistle that would be an instrument that would link to your tamed honse if played nearby

then, if you're out in the wild and want to summon your horse, you'd just play the steed whistle for a few seconds, allowing the honse to fall from the sky

should the honse whistle be crafted with gold as a lategame item? Honses are a pretty big step up from average player walking movement, but at the same time I haven't even been able to figure out how to get gold in my world lol

Actually, maybe not, it should just be a pretty expensive magic item

I think honses should have at least a couple of variants, just simple skin changes, but I do have one idea for a more powerful honse

I'd like the player to be able to craft a unicorn horn with gold and a thorn that would be able to be applied to your honse to transform it

into, you guessed it, a unicorn

this unicorn would probably be able to double jump a couple more times than the base honse with a rainbow trail

probably also would be able to launch some kind of unicorn faith ray

imagine if giving a honse one of these horns while the player's hate level is higher than their faith would result in the honse transforming into something else

like a nightmare or something (mare of the night)

it would have similar abilities to the unicorn, but be made specifically for havoc

[delicate salmon]

what about a honse variant

thatll be an evil unicorn

unihorn

[quaint mason]

Glaggle tokens stack to five so I believe, just for inventory sake, 5 would be a good max so no one would have to have 2 spots in their inventory dedicated to the tokens

[austere ember]

True true

Good point

One of the things I REALLY want in this mod before release that I haven't even created a concept for somehow would be some floating tamed mob that would hold an inventory that you could upgrade by feeding it or something

maybe you'd upgrade it by feeding it silicon crystals or memories, it really depends on what the creature actually is

I can't go too crazy with the design -- as a tamed mob, it would have to be something that would not mess with the atmosphere of the game too much and would fit with whatever biome you enter

I have wanted to add a sock puppet entity or just any silly puppet for a while, and I think that would fit with the realism of somthing like the glider glove, and I could see a sock puppet floating next to me and consuming all of my junk, but I don't know

[sick beacon]

Idea for memories

Maybe you can add a vermin that you can do good deeds for, like find it food, or kill a vermin attacking it, and it can give you a memory cause it's a good memory you gave the vermin

[austere ember]

That would be really cool

I do very much want at least a couple of vermin that would be able to give you some sort of quest or just some kind of complex activity like that

[quaint mason]

Nice idea, maybe if they don't wanna overflow how many vermin there is they could relate it to the manikins somehow

[austere ember]

Gnomes would give you quests if you shrink down to their size by eating one of their maruio mushrooms

[sick beacon]

That seem cool I like that idea

[austere ember]

a quest system would definitely be better if there were maps of some kind

I have had the idea of maps that you could create that would only show the player's current position as a point, but you would be able to draw on it like the tome to draw out landmarks and paths and stuff

It wouldn't generate a minimap like minecraft's map, that's up to you

I'd probably add a block similar to minecraft's loom that would allow you to expand or copy the map, then your map could be placed on walls, ceilings and floors to display your artwork around your place

[quaint mason]

This is probably too big for the scope of this mod but being able to get tome pages as rewards of stuff would be fire, like after you do something for a gnome it edits your earlier unused tome page and has some sort of secret on it that'll help you understand some features of the mod that might not be obvious

[austere ember]

That would be really really cool

[sick beacon]

Damn I love that idea

[austere ember]

God damn it's peak

[sick beacon]

Yeah I think not generating it by itself would be good

[austere ember]

Yes yes I think it would just really fit lucidblocks and would also give me an excuse to be able to place my drawings on walls

[quaint mason]

Do honses have a drop yet

[austere ember]

Not yet, honses are still quite early in development, originally I was thinking of just making them drop sticks and string or fluff or something, but I'm open to ideas

[sick beacon]

What if you had a vermin that can only be seen via like a lidar scanner wand

[austere ember]

WARIO I HAVE A LIDAR SCANNER IN MY IDEAS LIST

No I fully agree

That would be really really cool

[sick beacon]

Maybe those walking guys could be uncovered with the lidar scanner? They go invisible when they're close to you right?

[austere ember]

The mems actually just go invisible whenever they feel like it

[quaint mason]

I was gonna say maybe make them drop leather and add a book and quill item but I forgot the tome already does that 🥲🥲

[austere ember]

Ohh lmao I've been there

so many ideas I've had that are just already in the game

[sick beacon]

Oh then nevermind 😭 Exploring the idea of lidars would be fun though for sure

[austere ember]

I agreee

Perhaps the free apors could always be flying around even if you don't have the faith wand active

using the lidar scanner would reveal them being there

[quaint mason]

This is silly but I think a door mob that kinda waddles away from you that could be right clicked to open, and when opened you can walk through it and go to a place like your pocket dimension or just something else would be funny, I don't know if that really would be of use through

[austere ember]

I was thinking maps could also be placed on walls so you can display your artwork, which is somethjing I desperately want in lucidblocks -- I would just make it so that tomes could be converted to images you can place, but tomes are not block shaped, so I'm not sure how good they would look when placed down -- perhaps I could make it so that both maps and tomes could be placed, but maps would be higher resolution and would be fully square-shaped

[austere ember]

Daaaamn

DAAAAAMN

I SHOULDVE MADE APORS DOORS INSTEAD

I'm so goofy

I've ALWAYS loved dimensional doors and that would've been the perfect opportunity

I'll have to fit doors somewhere else somehow

If I was to ever add a new dimension, it would probably be accessed through door enemies that would try to fall onto you and flatten you like whomps from mario 64

[quaint mason]

I was thinking of it to attack like a whomp 😭😭

[austere ember]

yesss

whomp enemy is an idea I have in my notes from the very beginning

[austere ember]

Connecting paper to memories, perhaps the player could somehow take in-game screenshots using some feature relating to memories and then could place them as photos

[quaint mason]

I thinkjj a mob like a Venus flytrap would be good, maybe you have to lure bees bubblebears or noots ect into its mouth to feed it and you'll get some things if you do

I'm kinda just spitting ideas out hopefully some of them help you out in the future

[austere ember]

a very hateful creature that has to consume innocent creatures would be great

[quaint mason]

I really dig this idea

[austere ember]

Not sure how I'd do it yet but I'm sure it's possible

[quaint mason]

What if you added a flower that is poisonous and when fed to a vermin it makes it stay stagnant and act as a block and you can crouch click to change its animation

This is definitely in the scope trust me/j

[austere ember]

I did have an idea similar to that

at least some sort of entity display block would be great

feed it a capsule like the vermin vigil to make a projection of an entity

[quaint mason]

Oh yeah speaking of capsules pls let the empty capsule right click on vermin to collect them

[austere ember]

Just saw this guy in game for the first time

[quaint mason]

I have 120 hours and have never seen him 😭

[austere ember]

I hope I didn't fuck something up in code, I didn't realize they were even capable of spawning at all

I saw people talk about how they're not even in the game yet, but maybe that was before the update

[quaint mason]

They were I've seen some people post about them

[austere ember]

Okay good lmao

[quaint mason]

I think Kali are the only vermin not implemented yet

[austere ember]

Deadass for a long time I thought empty capsules were able to do that because of how you can literally get them as a reward for leveling up

like you'd kind of expect them to work that way

[quaint mason]

Me too I was so disappointed

I wanted to capture those golums that build but I couldn't get it lol

Not to be the guy that asks this over and over but is there an idea when this will release? Like are you hoping by the end of the month or next?

[pale wedge]

This mod is getting sizable, i think its gonna be the first legit content mod no??? The ideas here have been great at keeping up the lucid vibes too. Beyond peak

[austere ember]

That's a good question

I'd assume more of a end of next month type deal but I haven't been sure

I've gotten to a point where I'm less just adding new disconnected stuff left and right haphazardly and I'm focusing a lot more on adding features to the creatures that are already in

Something that will take a long time (what I'm currently doing) is figuring out what entities go in which biomes

I made my own spawn injector for spawning creatures in biomes but without a biomelocate command (like in minecraft), I've been having to manually explore and figure out where to put creatures that way

which has been going p[retty well and alkways inspires me to add new crap

[austere ember]

I was thinking I might finally get around to doing the other two fruits and the fruit candies

Banana candy will obviously allow you to climb for a period of time because monkey climb and monke bnanana

(I MUST MUST MUST add a monke at some point -- maybe I should experiment with creating biomes someday, but that's in the far future)

Other than that.... what effects should apple, orange, and melon candy have?

Melon would probably be the one that would give the player strength for a bit due to how large it is and the fact that it would probably take the longest to grow (unlike the others, it wouldn't have a tree, just a vine on the ground)

Orange would probably make you run faster

Apple would give resistance, like it's increasing your life

[austere ember]

apple candy will be green even though the apple itself is red -- maybe I should add a green skin for the apple

I was thinking perhaps you could only get the fruit tree seeds from gnomes or something, they wouldn;'t be craftable

though I'd probably make it so the different trees can rarely spawn in certain biomes

[austere ember]

Also I really appreicate it :))

[lost wolf]

i do like this mod a lot!! its the only one i looked into in the modding thread

[delicate salmon]

what if an apple would be sour

and it would regenerate health

but

when you get damaged

it hits slightly better

idk, doesnt seem like a good idea to me

OH

the green apple would be sour

instead of both

how about that

[sick beacon]

Sadly it's really the only major mod in development it seems 🥲 #1495186571270422751 is another mod adding a vermin, not as content packed is this but still something

[austere ember]

it's cool that it's not the only one!!

[austere ember]

Thank you!!

[main nest]

Ibe been watching ts mod for a while awesome work still

[austere ember]

Thank you humanoid product

[austere ember]

I keep finding myself upset that there's no quicker way of mining materials than like the ice pick

bombs don't drop items when they explode unlike tnt from minecraft

I'm unsure what to do about it because I also don't want to mess with whatever lucidblocks metas there are

[sick beacon]

I think I suggested it a while back but a food you can eat or a paraphinalia you can wear to increase speed mining would be good

[austere ember]

I feel like it wouldn't hurt if I made a pickaxe that could mine a 3x3x1 area that you could get through neburaffe item conversion

OHHH THAT TOO RIGHT

one of the candies should increase mining speed for a bit of time

[sick beacon]

Yeah I did❤️‍🩹

[sick beacon]

That would make sense kinda like you're hyper so you mine quicker

[austere ember]

Currently the plan I have set up is that melon candy would increase your strength (doesn't make a whole ton of sense but they;re the biggest ones and would take the longest to grow), apple candy would increase your resistance (as if you have extra health -- an apple candy a day), orange candy would increase your speed (idk lol) and originally I intended for banana candy to allow you to climb walls like ladders (I saw this mod a while ago for minecraft that gave that effect to bananas)

but I think banana candy should increase mining speed

[austere ember]

I still think this is a pretty good idea though -- I don't think it would mess with the balance between the other pickaxes, as it wouldn't mine any faster (it should probably mine a bit slower, since you're destroying more blocks)

but it would just be very helpful for block collection

[sick beacon]

Yeah I think as long as it's not craftable it would be good, being able to stack up on those would be way too broken

[austere ember]

Currently, charging up a neburaffe for item conversion requires feeding them 5 mana gel

I thought it was fitting, but I'm not sure

here's a demonstration on why I wanted platforms so bad

I've just been playing lucidblocks all day

entities in this game have a really hard time with water

like bubblebears noots and everyone else CANNOT escape water

I really have to finish making the obituary cube

I started creating an obituary cube a long while ago that has a menu that logs the deaths that have occurred in the world

specifically so I can know which of my creatures has passed away

I name each and every one of them so it's very important to me

[sick beacon]

Yoo that would be really cool

Don't you have an item/material that is relating to something that knows all? Maybe it can relate to that

[austere ember]

hmmmmmmm

fuck I cannot remember

but either way it would definitely be a neural block like memories

it makes sense that a block that has memory would be created using memories

The only issue with it is that creatures in this game only use their actual names for their capsules -- when you grab the name of a creature through code, it always returns their internal name

This means that when a noot dies, it says "an unnamed chicken has returned to obscure" (chicken is the internal name for noots)

[quaint mason]

I mean that kinda fits lucid blocks does it not

The world would recognize the more scientific name rather than it's actual one I feel

[austere ember]

I suppose so, it is pretty funny, I believe noots are really the only creatures with this issue anyway

don't look at them honse...

they are too sinful and vile...

[shadow hatch]

LUCY BUBBLE BEAR LOCKS NEEDS TO ADD THOSE ONE WAY BLOCKS NOW!!!

Does it let you go through if you shift???

Like double shift lest you phase through

[austere ember]

OHHHHHHHH GOOD FUCKINMG IDEA

I DIDNT THINK OF THAT

I plan tio also add membrane walls that act similarly but as one way walls instead

I'm so happy the membrane platforms are appreciated

beautiful work of art by me

[quaint mason]

Is this apart of the tome art page idea?