Kalum Plays All Of The Mods (Probably Slowly)

[pseudo prism]

IN-PROGRESS MODS

COMPLETED MODS

• Winter's End; Snowflake
• Winter's End; Beecat (bugged)
• Gravel-Eater
• Pearlcat
• Darkness

I downloaded like, the top 20 most popular campaign mods a while back and I'm gonna go down the list and become ultimate master of modding

[broken tendon]

remember to only enable one at a time or the game will probably explode

[pseudo prism]

this is the one I was already playing and I have no clue what it's called but I bet some modders do

[broken tendon]

winter's end

the slugcat is named snowflake

[errant briar]

https://preview.redd.it/the-thousand-cycle-stare-v0-zv6jgvumsyid1.png?auto=webp&s=de3bef389d9d3380a3c6908adc9a5e50bcc15d0f

[pseudo prism]

I think this is the first gate I've seen all campaign

[pseudo prism]

Withered Wall

looks like I'm entering an iterator area chamber-side, I wonder if it'll be a mod version of Chasing Wind or a new fella entirely

actually I dont remember who all has white overseers

dead fella

[pseudo prism]

aww man. first simulation freeze

and I was just getting into a cool area

MOD IDEA: mod where you press a button and it waits until X amount of ingame seconds have passed but no ticks have passed and instantly resets the cycle with no karma consequences

(so that if you get a simulation freeze you can press it to not have to suffer but you wouldnt be able to abuse it otherwise)

[pseudo prism]

should I be grabbing the exception log files for these and throwing them at the mod devs if it came from their mod 🧐

I bet some people would appreciate that

total scam (skip to end)

[pseudo prism]

I knew it was gonna happen before I even made the jump

same thing happened in sky islands 💔

also I notice this uses some of the local group symbols but I have no way of knowing if that's lore-relevant or if the mod is just re-using assets

[pseudo prism]

Done for tonight; I've seen a whole bunch of regions and ended up looping back around to the starting area but I think I know where I wanna explore next 🥱

[pale lance]

kalum fp thread!??! I must see this.

[fluid solstice]

me too

[pseudo prism]

forgot to mention but I thought it was funny that the iterator used the term "map" when describing where I should go

very videogamey terminology to use to a rodent

[primal sage]

I would love to follow this thread but. haven't played Winters End

[pseudo prism]

I have been in this little subregion tower area above the iterator for a significantly long period of time

[charred prairie]

:3

[charred prairie]

might be lore
It's not re assets
I made some parts and modified a bit to fit things
Still working on expansion

[pseudo prism]

reached the top

so many lizards

[charred prairie]

One of my favourite part
Getting over it type

[pseudo prism]

does this campaign have credits to be reached btw

I did some riv-esque thing to get power to the iterator but I assume there's something more

just dont wanna push towards a non-existent goal if it isnt there 🤏

[charred prairie]

Have you fix the power?
Why not go cryobloom and hold down to finish the campaign
Unless you want to get all pearls or echos (as long you got some because you need drone to unlock the power region)

Especially secrets

[pseudo prism]

hold down..? 🤔

yes I got the power

[charred prairie]

Yesh you should go to cryobloom chamber and hold down for a bit

Well keep hold down longer if you notice gravity goes down

[pseudo prism]

😟

[charred prairie]

Don't worry about it it's letting cryobloom lower the gravity for Snowflake to sleep

[pseudo prism]

is the hold down thing communicated anywhere?

[charred prairie]

Communicated anywhere?

It's only in the chamber since it's how the campaign ended

[pseudo prism]

like, does the game tell you that you gotta hold down to end the campaign

[charred prairie]

Yes

[pseudo prism]

I got to the chamber but just left after the iterator dialogue and didnt realize the ending was right there 😔

ignore deathcount that isnt real

[charred prairie]

It has a text message on the bottom (like showing subregion)

Holy 194

[pseudo prism]

in my defense I was extraordinarily dehydrated

alright time for the bee one

[charred prairie]

i need to fix beecat to have its own timeline and balance it out in the winter's end world

[bronze dawn]

Only experienced players mod 🥹

[pseudo prism]

I would consider myself an experienced player

I just spent a lot of time at that wall area bruteforcing it and grinded out deaths there 🙂

[charred prairie]

Skill learning spiked

Winter's end gonna have expansion I'm working on

[pseudo prism]

playing a cat with regular movement after a one with enhanced movement is always jarring

mod idea

slugcat in cold world that gains heat by moving and the faster you move the more heat you gain

so you can survive super far into the blizzard but only by constantly pulling off sick tricks

mod idea

bee slugcat that has one spear "stinger" that deals a lot of damage, but it is permanently attached to you and has a short range

perhaps you are weaked while the spear is out akin to a bee dying after a sting

but you can re-attach it to fix that

(for this to work you'd have to nearly disable all natural spear spawns)

[bronze dawn]

Movement tech slugcat

[pseudo prism]

it would be really funny if you had a tony-hawk-esque movement combo display in the corner

like "4x roll + crawlturnvault + pole grab"

and an assigned point value for each 😌

[bronze dawn]

Not sure if I'll be able to pull off something like that, detecting movement based on a threshold

Roll will be easy but other movement tech

[pseudo prism]

you could use states for the basic stuff

just points based on the amount of time in a certain state

[bronze dawn]

[pseudo prism]

huh? speed increased

beecat is actually awful and terrible because you cant do wallpounces 😢

[pseudo prism]

I dont think echoes are supposed to be this big

really unsure of what I should be doin so far as the bee fella

went to the iterator to say hi and got brushed off

wouldnt even murder me 💔

aha! I didnt notice the orb before I crashed into it last time but I can read it now

Sting Damage Increased

I have a sting ability?

is that my maul?

I feel like this grass is probably not intentional

[pseudo prism]

lol, going to the Snowflake's spawn brings up the tutorial messages for its abilities

[crisp cargo]

,,,,,, beecat

[broken tendon]

What would happen if a mole of beecats

[pseudo prism]

k10 acquired and I still have no clue what I'm supposed to be doing 🧐

[bronze dawn]

You don't know what to do? Average RW experience

[pseudo prism]

<@&1387651053511770112> OHHHH THREE OTHER PEOPLE WITH THIS ROLE

I have a sneaking suspicion that the winter's end beecat thing isnt actually a proper campaign and just Slugcat In Worldstate™; do any of you know if that is or isnt the case 🧐

[broken tendon]

I’m assuming not finished based on this message from the dev

[pseudo prism]

I thought the same thing but I saw this comment and it confused me

@charred prairie actually I probably just should've pinged you from the start

[bronze dawn]

Beecat has 2 campaigns the legacy one without Winter's end and the WE one

[pseudo prism]

I've got Winter's End activated 🤏

[bronze dawn]

Myzti knows more, but due time zone is sleeping

[pseudo prism]

alright this is the next one on my mods list, I've heard a lot of people mention it

[crisp cargo]

eat the rocks

[pseudo prism]

hey I know this guy

that's mr pebble

did I eat all of his gravel 💔

[void gulch]

Oh have fun with this one one of the best

Btw, if you're ever confused if a campaign Has A Point™, you can just check the files to see if there's any cutscene art

[pseudo prism]

but what if there IS cutscene art and then I'm spoiled 😔

[void gulch]

Oh, dw they're double-foldered. So you can just crack open the illustrations folder and see if they have anything other than, like, the sleep screen lmfao

Sometimes they have an ascension end screen

[pseudo prism]

bit of an unfortunate start

oh oops

maybe this one has it

noo

[void gulch]

Did you sink?

[pseudo prism]

anyways I went into the pipe at the end of this room and got the "miros bird kills you in the pipe" glitch

also officially on my bucket list is "kill a leviathan"

because you can convert blue fruit to lanterns to fire eggs 🧐

[clear merlin]

Gravel eater, good choice
One of the best

[pseudo prism]

between rivulet and saint worldstate it seems

post-collapse but pre-snow

cant be post-saint because the rot is doing well

unless you argue for some niche rot interpretation where it comes back once things warm up

oh, eating more makes you less bouyant

[pseudo prism]

I guess that explains this comment

oh hm that's different from MSC

lore implications

I keep hearing rot squelch noises in lttm

[pseudo prism]

(it was my stomach actually)

do the garbage worms hate me because I eat their garbage 😢

[pseudo prism]

suspicious soot effect near SI gate

interesting

yep this feels like lore

[charred prairie]

Beecat ending? Go up the top of the tower

[pseudo prism]

I did that 😨

I grabbed the pearl and brought it back down

[charred prairie]

It has ending but I need to tinker the world state and balance creatures

[pseudo prism]

even showed it to the iterator and got a "..."

[charred prairie]

did you got the ending?

Where's the pearl in the beginning of the campaign

[pseudo prism]

the pearl at the top of the tall tower (the segment you compared to Getting Over It)

on top of the iterator structure

[charred prairie]

Yea

Ill fix beecat soon and still working on expansion to have more stuff

[pseudo prism]

nothing came of it 🧐

maybe it was an effect someone else made so it was just easy to slap it in

oh is the gravel-eater based off of that one pearl dialogue about the old methods of ascension

starving yourself with gravel and tea and whatnot

sub echo seems to imply that

probably should've realized

[zealous hearth]

Yes it is.

AFAIK it started as a joke about that and then evolved into something more proper.

[dawn trail]

[dawn trail]

yeah, huge inspiration

[pseudo prism]

okay so gravel-eater was or is a similar being to echoes, but is not bound to a single location under this interpretation of echo lore

and the question is... how

[pseudo prism]

💔 I accidentally fell during the sky islands echo dialogue, could anyone nab that off of the mods wiki page so I dont have to peep the horrors

[broken tendon]

Do you hear it?
The voice that calls from your very being?
I'm familiar with it. It's pronounced within the air...
But now, it's fainter. Calling from another place...
How you have relocated your buzz, 'tis a mystery to me.

[pseudo prism]

hm

maybe we are the same entity as the starting echo somehow

[pseudo prism]

K9 acquired, I think I'm out of proper echoes

maybe I have to return back to the starting one

I recall it saying I should return when I need it most

this feels apt

unless shoreline echo is there, but I doubt that for some reason

[pseudo prism]

suspiciously voidlike filtration system

is it gonna be like, halfway to the rubicon state but not quite

since this should be almost saint

yeah I was pretty much right

blue paint

bluebicon

I think I see where this is going

[dawn trail]

did that so its easier for people to know where to go

yellow paint moment fr

[pseudo prism]

getting close

this last bit is quite a gauntlet

[pseudo prism]

alright, Gravel Eater completed

that one was pretty good

I noticed "Balance achieved" only appeared like halfway through the kill counts showing up, after the met pebbles and moon ones

no clue what it means 🥱

[pseudo prism]

lol I did not do that

[pseudo prism]

on Pearlcat now

[pseudo prism]

k10 'cause echoes were on the way to OE

[pseudo prism]

OE ending acquired but I have a hunch there's a good bit more to see

the added area on top of pebbles has some gate with the dashed line; I dunno why they'd add that if you couldn't access it at some point

I dont know why the baby died though maybe that is explained more somewhere else

or maybe I just wasnt paying attention

oh wait no it's just sickly

I suppose I will go to pebbles since he heals you a bit as hunter 🫴

otherwise ascending is the classic solution

oh is this supposed to be where the citizens crossed over from the precipice

[pseudo prism]

art was good on pearlcat

high production value

[void gulch]

you are smashing these out

[pseudo prism]

pearlcat went very quickly

love how the deaths go from 194-54-4 as my rust wears off 😌

back into the rainworld flow

although pearlcat was just easier too

[blazing coral]

have you played not slugcat playables? if not im slapping you with a spoon

[pseudo prism]

I do not know what that is

[blazing coral]

... the playable scav, lizard, rot and (wip) parasite slugcat

[pseudo prism]

isnt that one pretty new

im currently mostly trying to go through all of the all-time popular mods; I sorted by most popular all time to grab the ones I did :P

but ill get to it eventually

[primal sage]

ah you've completed four campaigns, nice

now install every region mod

[sleek tinsel]

have you tried the outsider

its very fun to play as but sadly the claustrophobic areas of rain world prevent you from utilizing its flight much

but its ok theres mothpups and they're so fucking cute

(which isnt rly a spoiler cus they dont spawn naturally, you need to use dev console iirc

ah you probably know all this

[primal sage]

(Me or someone else can give you a list. It won't make the game explode, don't worry )

[pseudo prism]

I'll install some extra regions once I've done All Of The Campaigns 🤏

[primal sage]

install all of the regions at once and go for the Wanderer Passage

that's a campaign in itself

[pseudo prism]

I think the pips would go offscreen

[clear merlin]

Eventually the pips turn into a progress bar (if we recall correctly)

[broken tendon]

Yep

Past 30 pips it just turns into a bar

[void gulch]

I'm curious what the maximum official All The Regions list is lol. And if it includes regions that technically work but not really,

[fast bone]

you can check the wiki to see most of the vailable region mods out there and check which ones you would like to try out

[sleek tinsel]

oh yeah i still need to redownload that

ill play it... eventually.....

[primal sage]

I would argue it's better to look around the Workshop - there's probably more information regarding its stability (either in the mod page itself or through comments and update notes), and less potential spoilers.

[fast bone]

Hmmm, i would say that both have Its pros and cons, because for example not all region mods are Tagged as such so some of them wont appear when you search them

Also we usually include notes about a region's stability in Its page

Although i was mainly mentioning It just for the list, not necessarily reading each page

Also we usually describe the stuff in the region but i would say that most of the Time Its not that spoilery? But yeah fair

[zealous hearth]

Shrouded Assembly:

[primal sage]

Search "region", don't use the tag.

[broken tendon]

spoilery pages are marked with spoilers where applicable

[fast bone]

Yeah

[fast bone]

Huh does this even works

[broken tendon]

for like the big stuff you wouldn't want to know prior like big secrets or lore

[broken tendon]

it looks for any page with "region" on it

not necessarily tagged with it though I think it does include those too

but this can be title or description

so it only fails if the mod put nothing indicating it's a region in the title or description

which I wouldn't be surprised if there are quite a few of those

though in all fairness I also doubt those would be high quality regions either

[fast bone]

Lol, i see

I mean both are alternatives

[void gulch]

the unfortunate reality is that to find every region, ya gotta look through every mod manually

fortunately, the best ones are popular, so its nbd

[primal sage]

Surely a mod adding a region is going to say "adds a new region" somewhere

[broken tendon]

You’d hope

I think the best way to ensure you’ve covered it all is to subscribe to every item on the workshop (using like a script or something) and then seeing which ones modify regions.txt

[void gulch]

Literally yeah. Some campaigns do the double whammy: don't tag their mods properly And Also have custom regions that just, are there

[primal sage]

[pseudo prism]

I wonder what the filesize of that download would be

100g?

[broken tendon]

less

[pseudo prism]

I guess it is mostly just images

if enough people just paste the entire downpour code into their mods we can bump those numbers up though

[pseudo prism]

would this end up counting Woke World as a region mod

since it changes region names, which I would assume are stored in the main region text file

[void gulch]

Wouldn't it be more efficient just to detect the existence of a world folder

[broken tendon]

there's a good >3000 or so items on the workshop but afaik the biggest one is a bit over 1 GB (Old New Horizons), the 200ish regions (this is purely a guess) are typically less than 300 MB (usually between 100-200 MB), and the >50% of DMS mods and other code mods on the workshop are < 5 MB most of the time

[broken tendon]

no, in the case of mods that simply add or modify a room

[void gulch]

Fair fair, but some "region" mods are just extensions of an existing region

What would be the line?

[broken tendon]

ig but I'm discounting region extensions because there isn't really a line between a region expansion and modifying a few rooms

I'm purely speaking of adding new ones

[void gulch]

Also, you could immediately halve the amount you'd need to download by excluding dms

[broken tendon]

yeah I mentioned that

[void gulch]

I see, I am blind. Nods

[broken tendon]

you can see how big the mods are on the workshop page

[void gulch]

Now I'm curious

[broken tendon]

this is DMS itself

less than a megabyte

not slugcat playables manages 3

[void gulch]

Mmm

[broken tendon]

oh interesting

that's bigger than ONH

[void gulch]

Yeah, I'm not surprised there

[broken tendon]

I thought ONH had more regions but I might be wrong

[void gulch]

Reclaiming entropy is... Disturbingly detailed. But it's an outlier

[broken tendon]

I wonder how big SLT would be bundled together

actually I might just try to figure that out

[void gulch]

I'm tempted to actually check the statistics of all the mods I have rn. I have about a third of the workshop downloaded rn

And they're mostly regions

Hm

[primal sage]

But no all-region-mods playthrough is complete without EXSU/EXHI/DS+/EXUW

[void gulch]

Ds+ never worked for me sadge

[primal sage]

Outskirts and Drainage System are some very high-quality modded regions.

[void gulch]

Has it been updated?

[broken tendon]

interestingly, exclusively these 6 mods take up less than a gigabyte

barely

[void gulch]

Oof

It has not. For 2 years

Those regions are both pretty dang large, and also. Detailed. Huh.

[broken tendon]

gonna try factoring in the other mods in the collection though lmao

holy shit

[void gulch]

Sksksks

[primal sage]

EXSU and DS+ are picky about their load order I think, and you have to set it manually.

[pseudo prism]

my mod is gonna have a 30 minute long mp3 cutscene with a consistent confetti+snow particle effect

[void gulch]

Exsu has always treated me right we love exsu

[primal sage]

but the hassle is worth it if you can get them to work

[void gulch]

That'd do it lmfao

[bronze dawn]

But the confetti will be coded for sure, unless you make a WAV confetti and slap it over the screen 🥹

[void gulch]

I wonder how much custom illustrations contribute to the size

I've seen jankier solutions

[broken tendon]

ok so the entire sunlit trail collection takes up approximately 2.2 GB from what I've calculated using the steam workshop pages

[void gulch]

Not bad! That's a dlc for ya

[broken tendon]

for all mods in here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3235980359

[pseudo prism]

oh wait no I meant mp4

mp4 cutscene

[void gulch]

Lol

Mp3 cutscene would be more impressive

[pseudo prism]

the cutscene will be made entirely with effects but then the effects will be recorded and turned into an mp4 to maximize filesize

[broken tendon]

guess how big the seer is. because it surprised me

[void gulch]

I'd actually love to see a troll giant mod

Uh, 100 mb

[pseudo prism]

it can hear karma level requirements

[primal sage]

it's gameplay footage

[broken tendon]

too high

[pseudo prism]

10 trillion

[void gulch]

Ohhh? 50?

[broken tendon]

spot on. it's 61.7 MB

[primal sage]

Desert Bus has an echo in the Saint's time but the entire encounter with it is prerendered

[broken tendon]

which I guess makes sense because it does actually modify vanilla regions and has images and stuff

[broken tendon]

rendered in 4K resolution but they didn't apply scaling to it so you only get to see a tiny fraction of it in the tiny 1366x768 game window

[primal sage]

the video is just the 1366x768 game window upscaled to 4K anyways

title bar included

[broken tendon]

also the echo dialogue should be a voice over by morgan freeman

[pseudo prism]

I've made it to Shaded Citadel, feels like a fitting place to put extra content for this fella if there is gonna be any

[pseudo prism]

this darkness mechanic works pretty well with pebbles

[clear merlin]

Another one down

[pseudo prism]

it didnt take me too long I just didnt play for a few days 👻

[pseudo prism]

Idea: Once I start doing the modded regions, I'll draw art of each one as I go through it to Spice up Life and make it more Interesting

[bronze dawn]

Slowly falling in the modding hole

[pseudo prism]

ok im back im gonna do the thing I said I was gonna do

hey gamers do you have any recommandations or like, a list of all of the modded regions I should download that wont explode my computer

[clear merlin]

you should totally play GHTS /silly
Sunlit Trail is a must, and CW shouldn't explode your computer with batflies anymore hopefully
preservatory too, hanging gardens, Shrouded Assembly off the top of our head
pokedex4848 put a proper list in #modded-gameplay

[inland flare]

PLAY MY REGION https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3539078233 DO IT!!!!!!!

[primal sage]

hmmm

well uh

The Preservatory

The Mast

[pseudo prism]

someone gave me a big list in modded gameplay

one moment

[primal sage]

The Sunlit Trail Collection

[pseudo prism]

I just started going from Most Popular: All Time and downloading everything from the top of the list

[primal sage]

... Floating Isles?

[pseudo prism]

Arid Barrens
Ashen Bow
Auxiliary Intake
Badlands
Bioengineering Center
Chasing Wind
Citadel
Cliffside
Consecrated Steppe
Coral Caves
Data Manifold
Eventide
Far Shore
Floating Isles
Fog Gulch
Forgotten Boiler
Forsaken Station
Gilded Sanctuary
Gray Urban
Hanging Gardens
Howling Rift
Lush Mire
Marshland Wastes
Midnight Meadows
Moss Fields
Mossy Rifts
Necropolis
Pilgrim's Ascent
Preservatory
Purification Conduits
Scorched District
Secluded Pass
Steaming Edifice
Sky Tower
Soaring Lookout
Stormy Coast
Sun-Scorched Forest
Sunlit Power Plant
The Grinder
The Mast
Underbelly
Underpass
Undersea

imma mark off all of the ones from here I've already downloaded

[primal sage]

The Sunlit Trail is a Steam collection, use that

[pseudo prism]

ill get it dw

[primal sage]

Stormy Coast / Coral Caves is gonna be really funny

[primal sage]

Fog Gulch and Steaming Edifice are two parts of a mod called "Shrouded Assembly"

[pseudo prism]

colloquially known as Shrembly, I've heard

[primal sage]

yeah

Did someone port Floating Isles and I forgot

[pseudo prism]

you

you did

oh wait "port"

I thought you meant mention

[primal sage]

Floating Isles is a 1.5 mod

[pseudo prism]

yeah I've heard there are a lot of those

[primal sage]

I'm surprised it's available for 1.10

[pseudo prism]

I'll have to try em all out separately, after I finish the sisyphean task of doing these

[primal sage]

It was Wrayk (the Watcher dev)'s first mod, and they don't think it's up to their modern standards, so they're not maintaining it AFAIK

(lies. it's lots of fun )

[pseudo prism]

ok I finished scrolling through my subscribed mods list

now to download more mods

[primal sage]

The Sunlit Trail collection also comes with a campaign mod

never played it, not sure how it interacts with other mods

[pseudo prism]

I dont actually see Sunlit Trail

only Sunlit Power Plant

[primal sage]

I would suppose it's probably best to just play the Survivor?

[primal sage]

it's a Collection, not a regular workshop item

[pseudo prism]

well where are those hidden

nvm I found it immediately

[pseudo prism]

these people

[primal sage]

oh right, awesome

[pseudo prism]

🔥

this is a good sign surely

[primal sage]

in true Wrayk fashion

(if you download Undersea make sure to also download the US <-> WF fix mod)

And I think there's a Gilded Sanctuary spawn fix mod too? Not sure, it could have been made redundant since I last checked.

OH

EXSU, Expanded Industrial, DS+, Expanded Leg

not technically new regions, but very good region mods nonetheless

Oh and also Solar's Outskirts and Industrial Complex remakes. I think they're compatible with everything else? Take a look at their workshop pages, at least.

[pseudo prism]

wait I forgot I need to be using my spare rainworld time to be doing The Thing™ 😔

I'll have to put this off for a bit

[fast bone]

GS spawns were fixed (and updated) recently

[primal sage]

The Thing™?

[pseudo prism]

secret

[fervent trellis]

Scaggytown,bheh

[pseudo prism]

ok I enabled all of the region mods ever

nvm it's still applying mods

only gonna play for like an hour tonight

and it seems that roughly 30% of that time will be spent loading mods

this feels reasonable

aough I touched the same eye with my pepper hand that I touched like 10 minutes ago with the same pepper hand

ok we up to 75

the game is struggling

glorious

first cycle im noticing some white glyphs in the tutorial rooms

I dont recall if those were there before

first new room

found a gate almost immediately

[fluid solstice]

kalum dms

[pseudo prism]

they really just throw these things in there in random spots lol

turned up my music volume for the first time since my first playthrough

gotta hear the new tunes

first region- "Curious Ascent"

I think that I will go down instead

to be evil

gate in upper left

gonna map out the whole place first

I ❤️ pointless CTVs (skip to end of clip)

I lose time by going for them instead of playing normally

oh wow, tiny region! 🤏
are most modded regions like this? I guess it probably varies

welp, onto the next!

ope, it's just chimney

first death to a failed grapple in a random chimney room

heading back to outskirts

I think the optimal way to do this is to clear each region's connections fully before moving on

ermm one room connects incorrectly

these region remakes are made by @eager hazel right

oh is it just Like That

funky.

I think it might be an incompatibility with this "Floating Isles" region I just entered

@undone moon this region is yours right

[eager hazel]

Yes

Oh dhit

Um i didnt make it compatible with fi cause its an unofficial port

[pseudo prism]

fair enough

[eager hazel]

Sorry kalum

[pseudo prism]

it didnt crash the game or anything and that's what counts

[eager hazel]

Oh cool

Also hey thanks for playing my mod

Do you like it

[pseudo prism]

it looks nice 🙂
I've only seen like, the easternmost 5 rooms so far tho

[pseudo prism]

Status Update: Too Many Blue Lizards

[eager hazel]

Cool but yeah i can release a patch but kinda cant cause ill upload my accidental plans

[primal sage]

Welcome to Floating Isles

[eager hazel]

At least it didnt explode

Im surprised

[pseudo prism]

I survived

[primal sage]

What is that DMS skin

[pseudo prism]

isnt it beautiful

[eager hazel]

anyways see ya kalum

[pseudo prism]

👋 🙂

mega stonehead

using the map paid off

[primal sage]

I was thinking more "Apostate Smiley Face Abomination" but sure

[primal sage]

... is that a real FI room

[pseudo prism]

I mean, as far as I know

it wasnt a marked pipe

but treasuries usually arent

[primal sage]

it's the original version of that one secret room in Badlands

[pseudo prism]

watcher or OG badlands

[primal sage]

watcher

[pseudo prism]

I think it's in torrid

[primal sage]

yeah that's confusing

oh yeah it's in torrid :whydidtheyremoveslugfacepalmwhataaaaaaaaa:

[pseudo prism]

here's a cool room

aww man I got stuck in weird platforming between a screen transition and a lizard got me

"cloud condensation"

still within FI

oh fun a vulture nest

underwater wormgrass! that's fun

this region is lacking in shelters a bit

found one, but I think I'm gonna hop off 🥱

[primal sage]

new player immediately going to Floating Isles since it connects to Outskirts

Just like old times...

[pseudo prism]

what's the definition of New Player here

new to mods I suppose

but I do have like 1500 hours 🧐

[undone moon]

its actually @quartz sable's

[pseudo prism]

🧐

[primal sage]

well you're doing a first playthrough

[broken tendon]

bad news: it is an official port. it was made by bro and then held onto wrayk forever and then wrayk eventually gave permission for someone else to upload it like 2 years later

[eager hazel]

oh okay

i thought it wasnt offiial cause of its thumbnail

and who uploaded it

[broken tendon]

tbf it lines up with how floating isles is regarded in the community

[eager hazel]

i liked fi

[broken tendon]

yeah but it's still pretty heavily firstregionitis

[eager hazel]

one of the first regions i played

[broken tendon]

power plant I think was more firstregionitis than floating isles though

[eager hazel]

ehhh i think its better than a lot of first regions

power plant hehe pp

gah im a child

well ill try and make a fix

it just wont be now cause im doing repo work

and i dont want to accidentally upload my new stuff

[eager hazel]

but why didnt wrayk upload it 🥹

[broken tendon]

because wrayk hates floating isles

[eager hazel]

also i wish wrayk didnt accidentally kill the leditor files for it

it couldve been immortalized on the repo

[broken tendon]

solar I will warn you if I release a region, you won't be getting the leditor files for it. I'd rather they stay on my own repos so I can make changes to them easier if needed. (though the repos for the regions will be public)

[eager hazel]

okay

idc either way

i can link your region repo on the site if you prefer

[broken tendon]

that'd work

[eager hazel]

peak

also i made the props init in the repo better finally

i just gotta make the other inits better

[pseudo prism]

the spawns are interesting

[eager hazel]

anyways see yua

[broken tendon]

3 leviathans and they can only enter 1 room 😊

[eager hazel]

so peak

[primal sage]

Floating Isles got a 255/10 review from me

via integer underflow

[quartz sable]

Hey man ill never make something that great, dont flatter me

[undone moon]

cant wait for eroded isles

[zealous hearth]

Floated Refinery

[primal sage]

BTW if you wanna turn a modded regions playthrough into an actual playthrough with an objective

use the Quality of Death Collection to make Five Pebbles not raise your karma
then make a point to not visit any vanilla echoes.

so, you have to beat the game using only modded stuff

[pseudo prism]

ehhh nah I dont think ill bother with anything like that

thanks for the suggestion tho

[pseudo prism]

I have returned

streaming in platforms

[fluid solstice]

you were serious

[pseudo prism]

kalum is famously always serious, never silly

[pseudo prism]

ok I finished streaming

today I:

• Explored a bit of some regions connected to farm arrays that lagged the hell out of my games and made me cry
• Explored Purgatory (outer outskirts) and ended up in a mossy region. Those two were nicer

[primal sage]

gotta test something

Escort

[subtle kite]

[primal sage]

[eager hazel]

does kalum play mods here

[pseudo prism]

very rarely

maybe I'll play tomorrow

but I have to print out a Power of Attorney Authorization form and then take it to the public library to get it notarized and then send it in the mail and it'll be a whole thing

[pseudo prism]

goin through some more regions tonight

[primal sage]

ooooo which

[pseudo prism]

Most Of Them

I have no clue what regions I'll end up in because I have no map

[pseudo prism]

hmmmm I think this room may be inspired by something

I think... this room... may be... inspired by something..?

[broken tendon]

What region is this

[pseudo prism]

something with moss in the name

[pseudo prism]

my best guess would be that that is a connection to the region I downloaded called Citadel

maybe some alternate version of shaded idk

[subtle kite]

Mossy Mosspits?

[pseudo prism]

my guess would be mossy rifts but I really couldn't say for sure

[broken tendon]

Mossy Rifts would be my guess too yea

[pseudo prism]

very brick

they forgot to blackgoo this one

[broken tendon]

It’s not Moss Fields, the other moss region lol

[pseudo prism]

is this not just literally a shaded room with all of the detail removed

[broken tendon]

Indeed that is

[pseudo prism]

ok no it's a bit different

[broken tendon]

Well actually shaded citadel doesn’t have much detail to begin with

Thanks to it being dark

[pseudo prism]

more than that, though

[broken tendon]

Oh yeah more than that

The workshop does say the region isn’t finished

[pseudo prism]

interesting

[broken tendon]

I don’t get the point of releasing a region unfinished

Happens even more with slugcats

[pseudo prism]

I think the general philosophy would be that it's better to release something than nothing

[broken tendon]

Usually they end up just being slugbase json with no abilities and a high likelihood of exploding on death

And then never gets updated because the creator gave up trying to learn how to code

Or just forgot it existed

[pseudo prism]

is it possible to make a den that has a set seed for the id of one stage of the lineage

[broken tendon]

Theoretically yes

[pseudo prism]

I was thinking it would be cool to have a bunch of set ID creatures in a region but that it would be a bit odd if they stayed like that forever

so maybe you could have it set to where the custom ones are a 100% chance first stage of a lineage

[primal sage]

I mean, if it's playable, and you aren't going to release the full version any time soon, you might as well.

[broken tendon]

Something about coding that I think a lot of people trying to learn it don’t realize is it’s completely normal for code to not work on the first try. Ask any experienced coder this and you’ll find they almost always agree. Code is an iterative process

[broken tendon]

My issue with it is a lot of them never end up being finished and the workshop stops promoting it after 2 weeks

[pseudo prism]

I'll give em props, this region is absolutely massive in terms of the walking distance I've gone in it so far

although when I searched the name in chat history for the server one of the comments said the only connection was the one I came through, which is.. disconcerting

[primal sage]

If your code works on the first try it's because you have five separate bugs that cancel each other out in all of your tests. It's the worst possible outcome.

[broken tendon]

Maybe but you’d have to end it at some point. When does it end

[pseudo prism]

it would just end at a normal random thing

like, red lizard with set id is the first stage
red lizard without set id is the second and final

so it just gives you a set one for the first spawn and then random IDs after that

[subtle kite]

Me with my Escort mod that has yet to see version 1.0
But I did hit front page twice so that's something

[pseudo prism]

and I just entered a subregion called Retaining Wall

I get the feeling this is just every room this person has made as one Region™ and that I may be here for a while

wait no, this is literally just OE 🧐

are you allowed to do that

I guess maybe if it requires downpour to play

[broken tendon]

I think it could be interesting to combine it with a separate idea I’ve had in the past, which is that every den is a lineage that ends in nothing

[pseudo prism]

I think that idea has been proposed by everyone to have ever played saint

[primal sage]

Extinction

would be cool for like

a region that's basically uninhabitable

[broken tendon]

Mossy Rifts already does require Downpour

[broken tendon]

I was imagining it as a Hunter-exclusive region

Dunno why it’d be Hunter-exclusive but the idea works well with carnivorous slugcats

[primal sage]

Implying that the region's population isn't actually sustainable, and consists entirely of creatures that wandered in from elsewhere.

[broken tendon]

I don’t give a shit about Saint, it will not be able to access any of the regions I make (if I ever finish them )

[primal sage]

I would much prefer that

if you ascend a creature it gets replaced with empty

The Saint's campaign is the end of the iterators. The rest of the ecosystem will persist.

[pseudo prism]

until someone invents the SOS region that functions as a time machine for saint

[broken tendon]

Shouldn’t be hard to mod into existence I think

Maybe lineages would be annoying

[pseudo prism]

just set the respawn timer to 999999 lol

[primal sage]

Or, rather, if you ascend a creature it gets added to a list in deathPersistentSaveData and stays dead between strands. For consistency with the iterator ascension mechanic.

[broken tendon]

int.MaxValue

2147483647

[pseudo prism]

alright I restarted the campaign to escape mossy rifts

[broken tendon]

lol

[pseudo prism]

my mission is to go to the general area of sky islands because I think all of the cool regions are in that direction

like, maybe The Mast

and other generally colorful things

[primal sage]

ooooo you haven't been to the Mast before?

[broken tendon]

If you’re gonna play the mast, I recommend its ||subterranean|| entrance

that or its badlands or undersea connections (they’re near each other in the mast)

[pseudo prism]

bah!

would it really be rain world if I knew the right way to do something before going in

[primal sage]

IMHO any entrance is fine

Except maybe Gilded Sanctuary? But I'd be impressed-

[broken tendon]

It’s not the “right way” per se but it is a good way in. Full experience. But any experience is fine

[broken tendon]

True, considering GS is one of those regions you can’t get to from vanilla lol

[pseudo prism]

like, you gotta warp in?

or it's just nested within other modded regions

[broken tendon]

No, it only has mod region connections

There’s not actually many regions like that I think. Most of Sunlit Trail counts as that but that’s all the same creator. Also Hanging Gardens and Fog Gulch, and a secret one I won’t mention

[pseudo prism]

is the secret one.... one of the preservatory regions? the end one perhaps?

[broken tendon]

No, though Preservatory would also be included in that list

[pseudo prism]

I played through some segment of preservatory via parsec a whiiile back

before any of this stuff

(to the ending)

[broken tendon]

Ah so you are a knower

Unfortunate that I don’t get to see your reaction in real time but oh well

There are other things like it which should prove as equal substitutes

(I always love seeing peoples’ reactions to the ending)

[primal sage]

[primal sage]

How does it feel to be on the other side of a first-playthrough channel for once

[broken tendon]

God if I ever finish GO, I’m going to be giddy as hell watching playtests

[pseudo prism]

well here's what I can dig up from the convo afterwards

the real-time stuff was via the shitty parsec ingame chat though

I liked the camo kelp mechanic

it was fun

[primal sage]

fake kelp is evil I love it

[pseudo prism]

also can you drown in the preservatory liquid in that little area just before the ending room? I didn't want to die so I swam really optimally through them but I couldn't actually tell

[primal sage]

I'm not sure, I did the same

[broken tendon]

No

Actually that’s mentioned in the credits as a code contribution from Bro748

(And I’m the one that made the credits )

[primal sage]

Bro748 holding up the entire modding community as usual

[broken tendon]

Fishnoid holding up playthroughs with peak ideas for regions

And NV did most of the rest of the code

LB made the lizards though!

[broken tendon]

Fishnoid is definitely someone to study in terms of gameplay though, he is especially good at introducing and utilizing gameplay mechanics, which is pretty evident in his Watcher regions

Klumquart too

[primal sage]

hadn't thought of that but you're right

Badlands 2 is like
incredibly cool game design

[pseudo prism]

I'm goin somewhere

feels mastcore but we'll see
ideally not an iterator region, I may cry if it is

ok yeah it's the mast, nice

[primal sage]

[broken tendon]

I don’t actually know of any iterators people have placed that close to the base game except for one slugbase json slugcat mod which adds one to subterranean after like 3 rooms. Not even in another region

[clear merlin]

Seven Winding Tunnels too if we recall correctly

[broken tendon]

I didn’t even know that existed

Garbage Wastes. Wow

[pseudo prism]

mod idea: mod that adds a bunch of hidden rooms built off of secret places in the regular regions

not its own region

[primal sage]

amazing mod idea

would be horrible for the room connection lease

but amazing mod idea

[clear merlin]

Speaking of the lease
We haven’t put a bunch of stuff on the lease from polar circuit

Just started forgetting and not bothering

[pseudo prism]

honestly if I made a region I would feel uneasy about its coexistance with the rest of the modded content
somehow I feel like I would have less control over the artistic vision

I might want it to just be a standalone thing (maybe even separate from the main map), although that would likely drive people away from even trying it in the first place

[primal sage]

I mean, that works if you make multiple.

That's what Winter's End is.

But that obviously comes with a lot of extra headaches, custom code, y'know.

[pseudo prism]

poor mast

fella isnt doing so well

[broken tendon]

congraglelations

one of my favorite modded songs plays up there

expanse my beloved

https://snoodle.bandcamp.com/track/Expanse

[pseudo prism]

I have my rain world music volume a bit low I think

I should turn it up

[pseudo prism]

yknow what would be a cool way to teach the locust mechanic

have the first room where you see them have you start out walking on a permeable platform

and then once the locusts get you, your stun makes you fall through the platform and into some mud or smth 😌

so you get to fear for your life a bit

[primal sage]

I mean

you exit the rift above the locusts

so you know they're there before you have to deal with them

and then the area to the left of the tower has little bits of cover for you to use to test their aggressiveness

[pseudo prism]

I'm not challenging the way badlands does it

[primal sage]

I think the mud is self-explanatory? Once you fall in it, you know it does something, and it's not too hard to figure out what from there.