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Alright, seeing as how popular this mod has gotten I think it's time to make a thread for it here on the DST forums.

 

The Chester Family adds in new versions of chester to the map, no not morphs, but new chesters all together.

 

My partner in crime right now is Afetogbo as well. He will be posting here as well helping me keep track.

 

THe purpose of this thread is to get our feelers out there on ideas from other people. We also will post a tiny list of ideas we have here for discussion anad maybe help with coding since some of this stuff can be pretty touchy (as all fellow modders know).

 

Currently our biggest project we've been fighting with is Afester, he has his own stand alone mod as well for those who wouldn't want the other chesters. (You know who you are!)

 

Currently working on:

 

Adding in a Mecha Chester. Choices on him are still a WIP, and going to be a major overhaul in coding. Some of our ideas for him are feeding him something to make him poop out gears, make him a lightning rod, he doesnt get attached by the other mechanicaal mobs, walks fast enough to keep up with you.

 

Pinata Chester - You feed him reuseable things to make him morph into a 'full' pinata chester. In which case kill (beat) the pinata to earn random items and treasures.

 

Mining chester - Automatically picks up stuff. My idea for this one is he starts out as a wooden chester who will only pickup the wood you chop. BUT upon morphing he will pickup anything you mine from stone. Third morph has yet to be decided, thought about food but problem there is food spoils.

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I don't know about all the other Chesters but with the Mining Chester, I think a better name would be Looter Chester. First Morph, loots logs. Second morph, loots rocks. Third morph, loots any item on the floor or on an object if he is carrying a stack of the same item.

 

Examples:

  • There are nightmare fuels scattered on the floor and Looter Chester is carrying two pieces of nightmare fuel, he will then go pick those nightmare fuel on the floor.
  • Looter Chester is carrying a few pieces of berries and there are Berry Bushes a few tiles from you(carrying the eyebone), he will then go loot the Berry Bushes. Same goes for when Looter Chester has twigs or grass, he will loot/eat up or swallow any grass/twigs from nearby grown grasstufts/saplings.

I've had this idea for Chester for a long while now, originally I wanted the Chester to actually be able to do this naturally. So he can help me loot stuff. Anyhow, a few things this idea can speed up is looting your farms of grass and twigs or help you with picking up all the eggs your caged bird produces while you're still feeding it meat to produce more eggs for Bacon and Eggs later.

 

If you could make this portion(picks items he's carrying a stack of) of Looter Chester a standalone and be merged with the original Chester, that would be awesome.

 

Though I think you have to widen the intervals between each time he loots stuff, so it's not ultimately exploitable. Hope that helps with the ideas, cheers!

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