Mods / Better Than Drifters (Alpha)
Tags:
#Crafting
#Graphics
#Tweak
#Worldgen
Author: Kamalium
Side: Both
Created: Jan 10th at 2:50 AM
Last modified: Jan 13th at 2:22 AM
Downloads: 47
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Author: Kamalium
Side: Both
Created: Jan 10th at 2:50 AM
Last modified: Jan 13th at 2:22 AM
Downloads: 47
Follow Unfollow 18
Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.21.6):
BetterThanDrifters_Alpha_0.2.1.zip
1-click install
WARNING: DON'T USE THIS MOD IN YOUR EXISTING SAVES. USE IT ONLY IN NEW WORLDS. IT AFFECTS STORAGE AND YOUR ITEMS WILL BE LOST.
Less important warning: This mod is nowhere near being complete yet so it might be unbalanced. A LOT will change with future updates.
This mod currently has three major features:
- It adds another step to crafting tools. Most tools now require a grass twine or a flax twine to craft.
- It changes the generation of all crops, certain flowers, and berries.
- It changes the sky texture and the colormaps of plants and water to be more realistic and vibrant.
The mod is still in active development and a lot more will be added in the future. I am open to all kinds of suggestions and criticism.
I am also open to separate certain features (like the colormap changes) into their own mods so if there is any feature you would like to see as its own mod, let me know.
Detailed explanation of the additions and tweaks:
New items and blocks:
- Sharpened stone: A new primitive knife with little durability and slow mining speed. It is the starting tool and the only tool you can make before acquiring a grass twine or a flax twine.
- Fresh grass: Cutting tallgrass with a knife, scythe or sharpened stone now makes it drop fresh grass instead of dry grass. It is used in crafting grass fibers. It dries into dry grass in 3 in-game hours.
- Grass fibers: Dries into dry grass fibers in roughly 8 in-game hours.
- Dry grass fibers: Combining 9 of them in the crafting grid makes a grass twine.
- Grass twine: Used in binding tool heads to handles.
- Dead wood: Found under trees in forests just like sticks in vanilla. Drops firewood when broken. A good way to obtain firewood before you can craft an axe.
Storage tweaks:
- All chests now has less capacity.
Reed chests: 8 in vanilla, 4 in BTD
Wooden chests: 16 in vanilla, 9 in BTD
Wooden trunks: 36 in vanilla, 21 in BTD
Loading an existing save with items in a chest will cause your items to disappear. Be careful.
Crafting tweaks:
- Tools now require a grass twine or a flax twine to craft.
- Rope can now be crafted using grass twine or flax twine as well.
Worldgen tweaks:
- Crops: Wild crops are now very rare but spawn in big patches.
- Flowers: Some flower types are now rarer but spawn in big patches.
- Berry bushes: All berry bushes are now rarer and drop less berries.
- Driftwood: Is now much more common. Drops firewood when broken. A good way to obtain firewood before you can craft an axe.
- Seashells: Are now much more common.
Other tweaks:
- Stick: Can now be piled up to 48 sticks.
| Mod Version | Mod Identifier | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| 0.2.1 | btd | 16 | Jan 13th at 2:22 AM | BetterThanDrifters_Alpha_0.2.1.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Mod icon updated. | |||||||
| 0.2.0 | btd | 2 | Jan 13th at 2:06 AM | BetterThanDrifters_Alpha_0.2.0.zip | 1-click install | ||
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| 0.1.0 | btd | 29 | Jan 10th at 3:02 AM | Better Than Drifters (Alpha).zip | 1-click install | ||
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First release. | |||||||
The images should be fixed now.
AmethystZhou My embarrassment is immeasurable right now. Thanks for warning me.
FYI the images in your description don't work since Discord doesn't allow outside links. Try imgbox.com, imgur.com, or similar! 👍
@Kamalium I certainly wasn't recommending removing the simple stone knife, merely increasing its durability to be comparable to the tier of copper tools, on account of being so brain dead simple that breaking via its intended use is almost unthinkable. Make it last a while, but be the least efficient, so players are still incentivized to use improved tools to gather grass faster/more effectively, but also you don't need to haul around like. three of them in order to get enough grass for toolmaking
Lowering the capacity of storage is where you lost me. Hard enough to manage early game vanilla inventory.
nightb49 It's very embarrassing to admit this but I still haven't played BTW lol. So no I am not Flowerchild and not even a BTW fan (yet) but I think it's very safe to assume we have a similar vision. If I can manage to implement all my ideas this mod will also eventually become a total conversion mod like BTW which is also why I named it Better Than Drifters in the first place. The idea is basically making a total conversion mod focused on hard realism and improve on the Homo Sapiens preset in Vanilla.
Joblerone Yes, having stone tools break by cutting grass isn't realistic at all, but removing tool breaking would remove a lot of gameplay value from the game in my opinion so I have to keep that part unrealistic. Because by that logic most iron tools would have to literally be indestructable for example, which really wouldn't be fun. Though yes I would like to add a similar tool making system to what some of the other mods do in the future.
Different tools dropping different amounts of grass or something similar to that would be very cool and I will look into that, thanks for the idea.
The name and the extra steps to expand upon the early game.... Is this the vintage successor to the amazing Minecraft mod BETTER THAN WOLVES!!!!
If you are flowerchild or are just a big fan (like I am), then I thank you for your hard work and I eagerly await more!!
No matter what, I'm going to keep an eye on this mod.
If the purpose of the stone simple knife is to emulate the cobble choppers of old, it should actually be incredibly durable, as those tools have proven so durable that they've lasted into the modern day. A flaked stone of that kind could outlast the toolmaker many times over - many generations over. Likewise, it is rarely the stone toolhead that breaks, but instead the bindings or the haft, as these are the things we discover millennia later. I would recommend implementing a rehafting system, not unlike another mod on this db, as that is more accurate to real life
If instead this is a step centered around game balance, I would recommend making proper tools drop more grass per grass, emblematic of a cleaner cut and a more efficient tool. That, or some way to account for taller grass giving more lengths of usable twine