Thank you!

One of the things I most loved about the other blood mod was that the blood stuck around for a bit and allowed me to track wounded animals in dense forests. Would this mod have a similar effect.

💜

Screwy
These are all solid suggestions and I need to investigate them further. As soon as I have some spare time, I'll take a look at client side customization options.

Grifthegnome
first of all, thanks for this awesome mod. I'm still waiting for the client side custom options,
because I don't want to "force" the users on my server to view gore. Other than that, I pretty
much like the idea and look of your mod.

Regarding the color topic:
Have you considered sorting the entities by "attributes: { isMechanical: true }"?
I would suggest using red as default color for any entity, unless it is a drifter or mechanical.
Those should bleed according to a color setting in the config like this:

{
    "drifter": "42260e",
    "mechanical": "19d8be",
    "other": "a71f0a",
}

If you want to provide an extra step, you could build your config like this:
[
  "entityTypeToColor":{
    "drifter": "42260e",
    "mechanical": "19d8be",
    "other": "a71f0a",
  },
  "entityGroups": {
    "mechanical": {
      "locust-*",
      "bell",
      "eidolon-*"
    },
    "other": { "*" }
]

But I guess this is exactly what you not wanted.

Anyway, I think it would be really cool to make locust blood glow. It feels somehow intuitive,
that their blood is this glowy, temporal stuff leaking out of broken pipes.
Drifters also shouldn't bleed normal red blood, as they are not "living" in a classical sense.
Their blood should resemble rusty mudd or something like this, in my opinion.

Hm. I like the idea but I'd rather have a more realistic gore mod rather than a very excessive one. And yes, Locusts shouldn't bleed since they're constructs (maybe smaller amounts of oil).

Hah!  How fun.

Vaelora

Sure thing! Hope you enjoy it!

FINAAAALLLY!!1! This is an instant download... 
Thanks!!!

I appreciate all the sugestions and feedback! In the current release, I stubbed in a flexible blood color variable so that I would have a foundation to do blood color per EntityAgent type in the future, and also allow clients to turn off/ tune gore clientside, as unlike previous gore mods for Vintage Story, Brutal Story is a networked mod, so it is server authoratiative as to when the gore happens, but the client has plenty of options on how to handle gore events from the server. I need to look at how I want to handle blood color/settings per creature. I like to avoid massive paired lists in config files where possible becaue they are prone to breakage, so what I may do is add three keys that can be added/patched into the attribute field of any Vintage Story creature:

"brutalBlood": true/false

"brutalBloodPreset": Preset Value (I'll provide some color presets like Blood, Ichor, Slime, Oil, Miasma, etc)

"brutalBloodCustomColor": (B,G,R,A) Value (This would be to set a custom color and transparency for the creature's blood hit fx)

Basically these could be include/patch in any creature file and wouldn't do anything if Brutal Story wasn't running, but would inform Brutal Story on how to render blood fx for a creature when hit. Anything not defined would just play default blood fx.

It may be a bit before the next Brutal Story update, as I need to finalize and release the next version of Outlaw Mod.

For the entity problem, you could check out how doom modders handled it. Pretty sure they use a standard format for blood color which makes compatibility easy (theoretically). And maybe just a multiplier slider for number of blood particles? Anyway, love the mod so far :-]

Super-shotgun next?

Re: WickedSchnitzel

Or like maybe some option to set custom particle colors or particle types on a per-mob basis.

Suggestion: An option to reduce blood effects. Or different levels like 'normal', 'reduced' & 'excessive'. Also an blacklist, so that we can exclude modded creatures like skeletons.

Yeah true, red blood seems pretty weird for the mechanical creatures.

Not sure how difficult it would be to code different blood colors for separate creatures, but maybe they could bleed black for oil, or bright "temporal gear" cyan.

Why mechanical creatures are bleeding, this is totally not right, they don't have blood

Missed the blood mod, great to see gore options for the newer versions of the game!

Sweet!

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