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[ollobrains]

Eh, maybe. For now I figure once Coolthulhu's patch has the new property too (Noct's thing got merged) I'll make use of it.

this is a branch off the main project im assuming, perhaps the new property could have deeper usefulness as well ?

[Random_Dragon]

Welp, thanks to Noct the fancy clairvoyance is in the mod anyway. 3:<

But yeah, Coolthulhu is making a sexier branch with its own releases.

[Gentlefish]

Can we put hookers and blackjack in it?

[Egan_BW]

It's likely you could fit that into the cata gameplay, but that's just because cata is the everygame, which needs every feature.

[Sindain]

Man, did they do something to drop rates? I've gotten back into the latest experimental and it feels like item spawn rates are a lot lower than they used to be.

[Akura]

It's been a while, but isn't there a setting for item drop rates in the worldgen menu?

[Sindain]

There is, I'm playing on default drop rate right now and it feels a lot lower, so I was curious if there were some changes.

[pisskop]

Yes.  there was previously a bug that caused the spawn settings to continue to drop extra goods if it rolled a success.

Essentially it would keep rolling and placing items for as long as it rolled under its d100 spawn success frequency.  Sooo, if the chance for an item was set to 95%, then it would roll and place items until it rolled a 96-100.

[Damiac]

So all this time I was playing at normal item spawn rates I was actually getting WAY more loot than I was supposed to?

In a way, that sucks.  In another way, that explains why I needed so much storage space on my deathmobile after looting a couple places.

[pisskop]

The issue now is that its been a bug for so long that people (like modders (like me) ) have actually been designing locations around this bug, so its removal means that there is less spawns than there perhaps should be.

[Random_Dragon]

Yeah. Don't forget there's also multiple methods for spawning items in a mapgen. Add, mapping, place_loot etc. At least one method is depreciated, and at least one other method seems to get different results compared to the current preferred method.

I've fixed most of Arcana to use place_loot since that seem to be the one that's the most up-to-date and actually in use by the devs.

[ChairmanPoo]

So did Coolthulu do his own branch then?

[Random_Dragon]

So did Coolthulu do his own branch then?

A branch to patch some dumb shit, but not yet at the level of a full offshoot yet. It seems some people are PRing to Coolthulhu's fork in general though, which is either:
1. A thing that sometimes happens to collaborate in PRs to the CDDA main repo.
or
2. Signs that at least some people want to improve the star-spawn's version instead of Kevin's version.

[pisskop]

that got a link to git?

[Random_Dragon]

A link to the what now? Coolthulu's patch? Here: https://github.com/Coolthulhu/Cataclysm-DDA/releases