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[Eric Blank]

Thank you, ill keep that in mind for the future, maybe change how the syndromes work soonish

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

Greetings, fellow Spellcrafters! I've stumbled upon yet another mystery while playing this splendid mod. What is "Cursed Luck"?

You see, I was just running magical experiments in Adventurer Mode while I found the following line in my character's thoughts:

He feels hopeless due to Cursed Luck.

What could that possibly mean?

[Eric Blank]

Unless you've been toppling statues/rolling sacred dice, it's probably one of the temporary negative effects you can pick up from experimenting with essences. It'll give you bad skill rolls for a while, but will go away in time.

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

Got it, thanks a lot for the information!

While I'm here, another question: why does my Primeval Vampire have his own blood in his mouth all the time, without any injuries? Is it a way to make his bites have a chance of spreading his condition?

[Eric Blank]

Got it, thanks a lot for the information!

While I'm here, another question: why does my Primeval Vampire have his own blood in his mouth all the time, without any injuries? Is it a way to make his bites have a chance of spreading his condition?

Kinda, bit also to "infect" the primeval vampire themselves with that same syndrome, as it was the easiest transmission vector besides giving them an on-self only interaction that they might not decide to use.

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

Understood, thank you! And last but not the least, my final question for now: could you, please, make it so that not everyone & everything is hostile to a Primeval Vampire? It makes playing as one rather repetitive, due to countless battles breaking out over me simply approaching living beings. Furthermore, even creatures I summon that are supposed to be tame attack me on sight, which takes away summoning minions as a very interesting part of being a Spellcrafter. And finally, due to me making characters who enjoy arguing, it breaks immersion to just chat mid-fight with a civilian like,

Me: "Let us stop this pointless fighting!"

Them: "I will fight no more."

Me: "Power is cool." (don't remember the exact lines from this point on)

Them: "Nah."

Me: "Wow. We've argued for long enough, now die."

All in all, Primeval Vampires are immensely powerful, but making them Megabeasts takes a lot away from their Adventurer mode gameplay. Also, I recently died to a summoned Forgotten Beast despite having started as a Demigod adventurer, knowing countless spells and wearing high-quality equipment. This, too, is why I believe that they should no longer be counted as semi-Megabeasts.

Thank you in advance.

[Eric Blank]

To be fair, they were added as and intended to be megabeasts, and I only left them playable as adventurers for fun. And unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about people attacking semimegabeasts.

You could always go the challenging route and track down and kill one to gain their powers! Although finding survivors after worldgen can be difficult, as they're only human sized, and yeah, thats a big weakness. I could downgrade them to a night creature, but they'd still have all the drawbacks of being a semimegabeast, and there's already a vampire type night creature. And they rarely survive worldgen either.

I'll definitely consider solutions since I've been messing with vampires and werebeasts anyway, though

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

I could downgrade them to a night creature, but they'd still have all the drawbacks of being a semimegabeast...

Sorry, but what exactly do you mean by these "drawbacks"?

[Eric Blank]

Being attacked by people

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

Ah, I see. But why'd that be? Wouldn't making Primeval Vamps Night Creatures make them able to blend in with ordinary people like normal Vampires do?

[Eric Blank]

Thinking again, yeah it might make them passive by default.

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

Oh, that's great! If so, may you, please, run some tests to find out if that works and, provided that it does and no one minds Primeval Vampires losing their semi-Megabeast status, upload a mini-update making Primeval Vamps Night Creatures? Provided that they remain playable in Adventurer Mode afterwards, of course.

[Eric Blank]

Well I tested it out and it doesnt help, you still get attacked.

If you really wanted to play as one without megabeast/night creature tags, you can always remove this line from the raws in creature_spellcrafts_megabeasts.txt:

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[CREATURE:SPELLCRAFTS_PRIMEVAL_VAMPIRE]
   [DESCRIPTION:An ancient and powerful vampire. These monsters possess great power and skill.]
   [NAME:primeval vampire:primeval vampires:primeval vampire]
   [CASTE_NAME:primeval vampire:primeval vampires:primeval vampire]
   [CREATURE_TILE:165][COLOR:4:0:0]
   [OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE]
   [CAN_LEARN][CAN_SPEAK]
   [CANOPENDOORS]
   [EVIL]
   [BIOME:ANY_LAND]
   [SEMIMEGABEAST][DIFFICULTY:8]
      [ATTACK_TRIGGER:40:100:1000]
   [CREATURE_CLASS:SEMIMEGABEAST]
   [LAIR:SIMPLE_MOUND:100]
   [HABIT_NUM:TEST_ALL]
   [HABIT:COLLECT_WEALTH:100]
   [HABIT:COOK_BLOOD:100]
   [HABIT:COOK_PEOPLE:100]
   [HABIT:COLLECT_TROPHIES:100]

Removing the BIOME tag above it prevents them spawning in evil biomes, if you want to prevent that too. Pretty sure youll have to regenerate a new world, so might as well do it in the main raw/objects folder, not in the save's raw folder.

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

Oh, I see. Then, I'll tinker with the raws a bit once I have some free time and report to you with the results immediately afterwards!

[Kyuuketsuki_23]

My experiments bear fruit, at last! Removing the following lines from creature_spellcrafts_megabeasts.txt makes everything neutral to Primeval Vampires:
[SEMIMEGABEAST][DIFFICULTY:8]
      [ATTACK_TRIGGER:40:100:1000]
   [CREATURE_CLASS:SEMIMEGABEAST]
   [LAIR:SIMPLE_MOUND:100]
   [HABIT_NUM:TEST_ALL]
   [HABIT:COLLECT_WEALTH:100]
   [HABIT:COOK_BLOOD:100]
   [HABIT:COOK_PEOPLE:100]
   [HABIT:COLLECT_TROPHIES:100]
Another humble request on my part: could you, please, post up a small update for the mod with creature_spellcrafts_megabeasts.txt replaced by an identical copy of itself, only with these exact lines removed? Provided that you - and the other users of Spellcrafts - don't mind, of course. I'm asking because it'd be quite burdensome to locate and remove them after each and every update you make.