Bugs are getting more gross #37158
Bugs are getting more gross #37158
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I-am-Erk
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What's garden house doing here? |
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Mission accomplished I guess, though I'm slightly worried about the length of the messages. |
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Nothing, just a bad commit in my repo that I haven't wiped from the record yet. |
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I love/am disgusted by the new descriptions. Makes me think of The Fly. |
So do we want to call them Cronenbugs, or Croninsects? |
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Cronenbugs is fantastic. There should be a big bug boss, named... David Cronenbug. |
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What happened to the item definitions? |
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PR isn't done. |
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Still needs testing, but that's enough writing for me for now. |
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Okay, seems to work. I look forward to hearing what sort of things people do with the new bug parts, I've left them for decoration for the moment. Probably best this is left in content freeze, it adds more than we should be doing at this point in the cycle |
The amount of acid just doesn't make that much sense to have a special organ for it. Might add acid glands later.
| "name": "strand of endochitin", | ||
| "name_plural": "strands of endochitin", |
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Replace these with modern name object with str and str_pl fields?
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| "id": "chitin_1", | ||
| "text": "A piece of a bug's exoskeleton, but mutated. The inner side is lined with veins and strange hooked protruberances." |
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| "text": "A piece of a bug's exoskeleton, but mutated. The inner side is lined with veins and strange hooked protruberances." | |
| "text": "A piece of a bug's exoskeleton, but mutated. The inner side is lined with veins and strange hooked protuberances." |
| "As you peel away the outer shell, you find veins lining the chitin plates", | ||
| "With the creature dead, its carapace comes away surprisingly easily", | ||
| "There's a thin membrane, much like skin, spread over the chitin of this creature", | ||
| "Under the carapace of this mutant is a bristly, velcro like material", |
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| "Under the carapace of this mutant is a bristly, velcro like material", | |
| "Under the carapace of this mutant is a bristly, velcro-like material", |
| "Inside is a complex, still-squirming mess of strange appendages and organs that bear only a passing resemblance to any natural creature", | ||
| "Beneath the chitin, the meat is covered in thick, bristly hair hiding a chaotic bramble of half-formed, mutated organs", | ||
| "Inside is a tangled mess of organs and tissues that do not appear to entirely natural", | ||
| "Inside the creature you find lungs, hearts, and intestings more like a mammal than a giant bug" |
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| "Inside the creature you find lungs, hearts, and intestings more like a mammal than a giant bug" | |
| "Inside the creature you find lungs, hearts, and intestines more like a mammal than a giant bug" |
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| "<bug_harvest_general_descriptive>", | ||
| "The powerfully acidic vapors coming from the carcass make it hard to work", | ||
| "The tissues of the creature are full of half-formed organs, their purpose unclear.", |
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| "The tissues of the creature are full of half-formed organs, their purpose unclear.", | |
| "The tissues of the creature are full of half-formed organs, their purpose unclear", |
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I will close this one to clean up PR queue. Feel free to reopen. |
Summary
SUMMARY: Content "Make bugs much more mutated"Purpose of change
In order to survive, giant bugs can't just be giant bugs, they'd die pretty quickly.
Luckily, the thing that made them giant is the same thing that can make you, the player, turn into a horrifying freak of nature.
Describe the solution
Make bugs into horrifying freaks of nature.
Adds a harvest message to all bugs, and several new butchery items. Currently these items mostly exist to be gross and add lore, but potentially could have some scientific use as well as being absolutely disgusting comestibles.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I would like to be able to make snippets describing the bug harvest, instead of a single message per type.
Testing
Mostly working.
Butchery snippets are randomly generated from a series of phrases.
Additional context
I plan to add many descriptive snippets for bug organs to suggest variation and mutation.