deoxxys Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 If I were a mod god I would create this: Hardcore mode: Adds water into the game. Funny enough water is needed less often then food. Your character doesnt actually "hold" any pure water in their inventory. There is a canteen meter added between the hp/hunger indicator. This "holds" your water. Your character will automatically drink from this when they are thirsty (there are no drinking animations). Because of this some new mechanics, monsters, regions and machines will be needed. Water sources: ponds (unfiltered), Snow (unfiltered/winter only), mountian streams (pure), and Oasis (pure). First let me explain the filter mechanic. There are 2 kinds of water filtered and unfiltered. The canteen meter has 2 bars reprensenting the 2 kinds of water. One light blue for pure water and a murky brown for unfiltered water. To purify water, you will need a "water purifer", a new machine that will purify your unfiltered water making it addable to the canteen meter. Because of the default dificulty of winter, thirst is made real easy by having a lot of available nearby unfiltered water (snow), that is as long as you have a water purifer. So you know about ponds and snow, lets talk about the Mountian streams. A *new* area is added to the game, yay! I was thinking it would be a good idea if this was a landmark, kind of the way caves are. The area on the landmark will be represented by an area that takes up one screen and looks like tall misty mountians. If you click on this then you enter the mountian area. The mountian area has a couple of new things. The mountian area is made to look like misty mountians in china, because of this we have: pandas, bamboo shoots, a broken bridge and a mountian stream. The mountian area is semi linear, with the point of reaching the top. Im not sure if I want the pandas to be aggessive or nuetral, but they will definitely drop a good amount of meat There are two types of bamboo shoots: edible and choppable. All bamboo shoots grow back. The smaller bamboo shoots are edible but can only be eaten on the spot. Bigger ones can be chopped down and burn for a long time. Then theres the broken bridge that helps you cross a gorge. This bridge needs to be repaired once with 3 wood planks and a hammer. Once you reach the top you find the mountian stream which has pure water to fill your canteen meter with. It also has an inexhaustible amount of fish in it. You will need to fish here quite a bit if you want to catch the magical koi. Which I will cover in the next paragraph. But first lets talk about the levy. Dont want to have to make a trip up to the mountian everytime to get water? Well if you build a levy at the base of the mountian you can skip the trip and just go to the base of the mountian everytime, however it takes alot of wood planks and cut stone. Now for the magical koi, why do we need this? Well, the magical koi has a special organ you will need to make your "raincatcher". The Raincatcher is a new machine you make to help lessen trips to water sources during the summer (since during winter theres lots of snow). Whenever it rains, the raincatcher will "catch rain" and store it in a basin. If you have a water purifer made then rain water caught by this machine will already be purified when you harvest it. More then one rain catcher will make your thirst problem lessen, 3 and you probably will never go thirsty during summer, that is if it rains. However you will need to catch more magical koi. [Magical koi catch rate=15%; only in mountian stream]. Koi organs needed to make Raincatcher:2 + other more common materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mox Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Aha! I've been thinking about adding water to don't starve for a while now. It'll be a lot of work. My plans differ a bit though. Is there an aversion to physical canteens? My further plan is to add some other liquids as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplex Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 My further plan is to add some other liquids as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23rd Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 I'll just be sitting over here thinking about how urine would factor into the game world, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplex Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 I'll just be sitting over here thinking about how urine would factor into the game world, then. Well, hearing WX say "CRITICAL ERROR: RENAL FAILURE" would be reason enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mox Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 @simplex & I'll just be sitting over here thinking about how urine would factor into the game world, then.While the thought crossed my mind, being able to make tea is a much higher priority to me. My guess is urine would be in a super special add-on for the player poop mod. >.> Though if implemented, you could either purify through similar means as pond water purification, or possibly evaporate some for the acidic qualities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDanaAddams Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 While the thought crossed my mind, being able to make tea is a much higher priority to me.YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. I like tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debugman18 Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. I like tea.Holy crap. So much tea. But what Don't Starve really needs is coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDanaAddams Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 I love the idea that a player would be unable to sleep until the coffee wears off. x3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplex Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 But what Don't Starve really needs is coffee.Why not both? (as I hate that meme, I won't post it)And tobacco. A tobacco mod needs to happen, but that's only slightly related. The supermod was working on tea. They had code for tea/kettles and such, and if I'm not mistaken some art assets. Those could be used here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromiumboy Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Why not both? (as I hate that meme, I won't post it)And tobacco. A tobacco mod needs to happen, but that's only slightly related. The supermod was working on tea. They had code for tea/kettles and such, and if I'm not mistaken some art assets. Those could be used here.Yeah, we were working on tea and coffee and that. I still have the code but its way out of date. The art assets were made by @DaS, you could ask him about them if he's still around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplex Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Yeah, we were working on tea and coffee and that. I still have the code but its way out of date. The art assets were made by @DaS, you could ask him about them if he's still around. Based on his status update, I have a feeling he resents us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaS Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Based on his status update, I have a feeling he resents us. ...never... :( ...I just wanted a nice shiny badge I do indeed still have them... and you're more than welcome to use them if you'd like! It's not like they're going to be used for anything else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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