A Pufferfish Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) Greetings! I have been working for 8+ months on a revised speech file, and I am finally ready to share it! Features: Quotes/Announcements sorted by update, and alphabetized If using an editor that supports it, collapsible categories All items have their actual in-game names above them, commented out Announcements are labelled to what they correlate to Example of categories when they are collapsed Example of an un-collapsed category F.A.Q. Q: Will this template work with <Default>'s speech file tool? A: Unfortunately, no. The way the tool works seems to re-build the whole speech file. Q: How will you handle updating? A: I will simply upload a new file here when I have adjusted for new content updates/additions, which then users can copy and paste categories to the bottom of their speech file, and voila! Updated. Q: What's next? A: I would like to add versions for other mods, eg. Island Adventures, The Winterlands, etc... Q: Do you have any way to support your projects? A: I do! I have a Ko-Fi! But, I mainly do this because I'm passionate about Don't Starve Q: Is there a Steam Workshop version? A: Yes! There is! You can find it at the link here! This is how I'll be posting change-logs for versions to see what was changed! If you find any mistakes, errors, problems, or likewise, please comment here! I'll address them as fast as I can! (Latest Update: 4/11/2026) speech_template.lua Edited April 11 by A Pufferfish 6 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senor_Dango Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Helped do a final passover of the whole thing along with puff and its cool to see this finally be released 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1856795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Pufferfish Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 Realized I forgot to attach the file... oops! That's corrected now! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1857188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echsrick Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 so uhm...the sample character mod has like out dated speech file not containing all prefabs and all so it seems if i understand correct, i cant like copy paste your thing into this one replace the old speech file or how would that work exactly? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1857205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Pufferfish Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 4 hours ago, Echsrick said: so uhm...the sample character mod has like out dated speech file not containing all prefabs and all so it seems if i understand correct, i cant like copy paste your thing into this one replace the old speech file or how would that work exactly? Im struggling a little to understand your question, but this file works exactly like a regular speech file, so as long as its named correctly (eg. "speech_(character)"), it will work in-game. Sorry if I didn't answer that correctly 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1857225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echsrick Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 6 hours ago, A Pufferfish said: Im struggling a little to understand your question, but this file works exactly like a regular speech file, so as long as its named correctly (eg. "speech_(character)"), it will work in-game. Sorry if I didn't answer that correctly sorry it was late on my side maybe thats why, but i just mean if i could just replace the speech file with yours one since the template character speech file is a bit outdated, but if i can just replace it then thats realy grant, thank you 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1857276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Pufferfish Posted April 2 Author Share Posted April 2 6 hours ago, Echsrick said: sorry it was late on my side maybe thats why, but i just mean if i could just replace the speech file with yours one since the template character speech file is a bit outdated, but if i can just replace it then thats realy grant, thank you Ahh I see! Yes! This file will work just like a standard speech file; so yep! You can replace the old one with this one 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1857328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Pufferfish Posted April 3 Author Share Posted April 3 Added a workshop version! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1857438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurayaxiii Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 finally, i can procrastinate in an organized fashion!! thank you so much, i'm so happy to see this finally up and available QwQ i will use it FOREVER 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1860918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaFishu Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Hey, so, first of all I'd like to thank you guy's work on this tool, writing character speech can be pretty messy and this template really helps a lot. I was using this for my wip mod and when I got to testing it ingame, all of the character's examinations quotes were just the default wilson ones. At first I thought I just messed something up, so I re-downloaded the template and only changed the florid postern's quotes but the quote was still the wilson one ingame. After that, I extracted the game's current "speech_wilson" file, renamed the file to what I was using, changed the florid postern's quote and that worked just fine, didn't change anything in any other file. Can anyone else confirm if this is just a me problem when using the template? I'm using the file indexed in the post btw Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1863793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Pufferfish Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 On 4/22/2026 at 5:53 PM, zaFishu said: Hey, so, first of all I'd like to thank you guy's work on this tool, writing character speech can be pretty messy and this template really helps a lot. I was using this for my wip mod and when I got to testing it ingame, all of the character's examinations quotes were just the default wilson ones. At first I thought I just messed something up, so I re-downloaded the template and only changed the florid postern's quotes but the quote was still the wilson one ingame. After that, I extracted the game's current "speech_wilson" file, renamed the file to what I was using, changed the florid postern's quote and that worked just fine, didn't change anything in any other file. Can anyone else confirm if this is just a me problem when using the template? I'm using the file indexed in the post btw Heyo! We are actually aware of the issue and we're working on a fix! Been really busy lol 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/170350-tool-modernized-speech-file/#findComment-1864048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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