[Mod]Altermatic - Runtime Alteration Tool for Palworld

[Spirit_Shard]

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Altermatic - Runtime Alteration Tool for Palworld

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What is Altermatic?

Altermatic is a Replacer Framework which Automatically Alters in-game assets at run-time, enabling dynamic and highly configurable replacers with user customization options. Altermatic uses JSON configuration files which are both quick and easy for both modders and users to make and customize what gets altered. The most common usage for Altermatic is replacing Pals with new models, enabling gender dimorphism, giving lucky pals unique features/textures, or just giving them cool glasses. You can also add other replacer mods into the mix, if they don't overwrite base-game assets then you can define them in a JSON config file for Altermatic and now see them in-game!~

 

NOTE : A rework of Altermatic from the ground-up is in the works.

 

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More information available on either...
My Creative Site : https://spiritshard.com/?mode=gamemod&view=Palworld_Altermatic
Our Forums : https://forum.thebrokenchatbox.com/d/8-altermatic-runtime-alteration-framework-for-palworld
Our Discord : https://discord.gg/h3vB7S4FEw

 

You can support my work on SubscribeStar! =^-^= - https://subscribestar.art/michaelpstanich

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• Submitter
  Spirit_Shard
• Submitted
  05/28/26
• Category
  Palworld

 

[BombaB]

Hii, this is animation related, i would have wrote on the S-cake but the support section is disabled there.

I have a fresh install with all the framework mods in place, everything works fine, but the animations, S-Cake refuses to register any of them, i put the json files into the AnimJSON file first as the guide suggested, failed to register "No Valid AnimSet Found", then i put it in the AnimConfig folder like you suggested it and still failed to register, and so i ran out of options, any suggestions?😊

[Spirit_Shard]

4 hours ago, BombaB said:

... failed to register "No Valid AnimSet Found", then i put it in the AnimConfig folder like you suggested it and still failed to register...

Sugar Cake v0.6.19 added some new JSON config requirements so Anim Config files need to be updated. We've got some updated JSONs posted in our Discord, modders are being really slow to updated them. >.<

[BombaB]

59 minutes ago, Spirit_Shard said:

Sugar Cake v0.6.19 added some new JSON config requirements so Anim Config files need to be updated. We've got some updated JSONs posted in our Discord, modders are being really slow to updated them. >.<

Ah i see, it's a waiting game then, all good, thank you for the insight! ^^

[Msurikqp79]

7 hours ago, BombaB said:

Ah i see, it's a waiting game then, all good, thank you for the insight! ^^

the majority of modders will not update

[BombaB]

6 hours ago, Msurikqp79 said:

the majority of modders will not update

That what's the point of posting? I've been modding games for 10-15 years now, i've never seen such conservative modding community like this one, ever, everything is on DC or on a different website. It's like mod creators want to be recognized but on second thought no not really.

So strange. 😄

[TheFuckingQueen]

11 hours ago, BombaB said:

That what's the point of posting? I've been modding games for 10-15 years now, i've never seen such conservative modding community like this one, ever, everything is on DC or on a different website. It's like mod creators want to be recognized but on second thought no not really.

So strange. 😄

I don't want to stir the pot, but there's a bit of drama going on in the background, short version is everyone is doing their best Mean Girls impersonation, and have all decided they hate each other. I won't put my opinions on who I believe is to blame for this, but needless to say this isn't going away for a while.

[Algene]

On 6/7/2026 at 11:37 PM, BombaB said:

That what's the point of posting? I've been modding games for 10-15 years now, i've never seen such conservative modding community like this one, ever, everything is on DC or on a different website. It's like mod creators want to be recognized but on second thought no not really.

So strange. 😄

Dude, I really miss when Discord wasn't a thing, now with 1.0 on like a month we have to 1. wait till everyone decides to act like adults and laugh it all off or 2. a WHOLE new system for lewd mods is implemented, I wish I could even start to have some hope for 1, but every last discord member seems to be throwing gas to the fire, this tribalism is completely unnecesary, in the eyes of the world we're all degenerates, sticking together is the only way to have fun, we really can't afford to be divided

[Spirit_Shard]

16 minutes ago, Algene said:

Dude, I really miss when Discord wasn't a thing... in the eyes of the world we're all degenerates, sticking together is the only way to have fun, we really can't afford to be divided

At least I tried to restore the threads here, but a certain group refuses to leave them alone (which is why they were unavailable for a pretty long while, and is why the proper SCake thread is now hidden. >.>).

The idea of everything being locked behind discords is a concern our community shares. Discord is great for direct communication as you have instant back-and-forth capabilities and it's great for sharing a lot of information quickly and efficiently. However as a hosting platform it's obviously not designed for it and Discord is for creating primarily private spaces. We're losing a lot of information and work to the void because of these things, and I do wish people would be a bit more thoughtful about where this leads in the long-run.

When SCake was effectively forced of LL because of the endless drama, I fast tracked features for my website so we could ensure it was always available, and The Broken Chatbox started our own forum so we had a place to post things publicly if needed. However, it really seems like most people just do not want to move to public platforms and places like Discord servers can feel much more comfortable for people. Discord also allows people to create their own echo-chamber and re-enforce their own bad behaviors without scrutiny, such as how people are telling others to not redistribute their mods while happily re-distributing my own work without a single thought (despite my mods all being public and completely free).

I have a bad feeling that stuff like this is going to keep happening within niche communities, and with web-hosting now getting more expensive the idea of free wikis and hosted resources may also be affected as well. Hopefully we can help prevent this from happening in spaces I and our community are active with in the future, already making some movements for helping with inZOI for instance. Palworld may unfortunately be a lost cause for a while until we have enough new-blood disconnected from the troublesome group. We have a lot of modders in our community, but we're all adults with lives and other interests so stuff takes time. We'll be around for 1.0 and I'll certainly make sure the frameworks are up-and-running to the best of my ability at least, for whatever that's worth.

[BombaB]

11 hours ago, Spirit_Shard said:

SCake was effectively forced of LL because of the endless drama

I do not know anything of dramas, since i'm new, but can't you guys force those who cause dramas out of the modding community? Or core individuals cause dramas? Sorry if i ask dumb things.
What was the core of the drama anyway, and why is that the whole community suffers for it?

[Spirit_Shard]

3 hours ago, BombaB said:

I do not know anything of dramas, since i'm new, but can't you guys force those who cause dramas out of the modding community? Or core individuals cause dramas? Sorry if i ask dumb things.
What was the core of the drama anyway, and why is that the whole community suffers for it?

Not a dumb question at all, though it is unfortunately a much more complicated question than it may seem. >.<

Firstly, I should make clear that I don't agree with trying to completely force people out of a modding community. I know this is something my haters think should happen to me (as in, they want me out of modding) but I don't wish this upon others. What I think is much healthier if there needs to be a divide for whatever reason, is that there can be isolated groups and communities like what we have with, say, Skyrim, where people just do their own thing and don't attack the groups they may not agree with, inherent collaboration through frameworks but very little community cross-over.

To actually answer the question though, these people are not part of our community (The Broken Chatbox and our sister/collab communities), we tried to reason and tolerate them but after a certain point you can't just let drama be a daily occurrence and we made the choice to start being more aggressive toward their removal (which has only had to escalate). If they left us (myself included in "us") alone and didn't bother our community it wouldn't be an issue really, but they refuse to just have their own silo and leave us alone.

The reason they won't leave us alone probably has to do with how and when all this started. This endless drama non-sense has been going since before I even joined the scene. The NSFW scene was already at each-other's throats when I entered the space, and the majority of people causing issues now are the same people who were causing issues then. There's people from back then who left the space but you'll still see bad actors spreading hate and insane lies about those people despite their absence for well over a year and a half at this point. My personal theory is this group wants to have much more control and popularity than they currently have, they tried repeatedly to manipulate me and community members and whenever someone resists or doesn't want to fully integrate into their clique we're seen as 'hostile' and they try and snuff us out. (this has happend to a lot of other modders) The Broken Chatbox has become a safe heaven for a lot of people in the NSFW Palworld community to escape that stuff, but the more adjusted you are the less obsessive you are going to be over Palworld, and we're not just a Palworld community (I just release a new build for NaughtyZOI for instance, a mod for inZOI =^-^=).

Sorry for the long response, I'll try and keep this bit short.

As for this current debacle, it comes down to people making mistakes, making bad decisions, and reacting emotionally without any willingness to just admit we're all flawed and will sometimes miscalculate or just straight fuck up. (And to be clear, I'm not excluding myself here, I've obviously made my own share of mistakes and bad decisions, I'm human like the rest of us.) I really wish people would just be willing to say and accept sorry and let things be better, but after 2 years of this non-sense I've really kinda just lost hope. I tried to have fun with the whole thing and while many found it justified and silly, others did not and it's just one of those bad decisions that got blown out of the water more than anyone could have predicted.

While I've always tried to keep my work up and available for everyone to download and follow, I know that hasn't been the approach others have had. I wish people would think more about the community rather than just themselves. I know some think by removing their work from the public and spiting the community it will then end up hurting me and my work as an attempt to 'oust' me from the space, but really it just hurts users and other community members. If my work fades from relevance I'll just move to another project, but when they harass community members out of the space and their work then vanishes, that's just gone and that person is very likely to never participate in modding again, and that sucks.

[BombaB]

Thank you for sharing.
These reasons for arguing sound so childish, people should learn to accept one another as they are, and everyone makes mistakes, that's part of being human.
I hope things will change one day.

Yea, i don't stick to one game either, i play a lot of different games, but i do like to spice them up a bit.
But it's true, i was curious what's going on in this community, because this is the first time i've ever seen something like this, most of the communities stick together more or less, or at the very least they tolerate each other.

So sad though, all that hard work.😓

[Xaxares]

Ah, that explains why I couldn't get the animations to work. Will just have to be patient.

The mesh replacement though is working really nicely.

Should the "Human anims" included in the Scake mod work though?

Edited Monday at 09:28 PM by Xaxares

[Palpetinus]

On 6/10/2026 at 5:50 AM, BombaB said:

force those who cause dramas out of the modding community? 

The problem is that the person developing the framework all the lewd mods are built upon keeps stirring up drama, then walks it back, goes "I'm just a little guy :(" and blames everyone else. Remember, if it smells like shit everywhere, it's time to check your soles.

[ShadyKitsune]

On 6/9/2026 at 8:50 PM, BombaB said:

I do not know anything of dramas, since i'm new, but can't you guys force those who cause dramas out of the modding community? Or core individuals cause dramas? Sorry if i ask dumb things.
What was the core of the drama anyway, and why is that the whole community suffers for it?

 

The primary "drama" is that if anyone says anything remotely lukewarm or just plain not in favor of a certain someone in any degree, that they are now viewed as an enemy who is causing problems and mischief, while slandering his name as he's "done nothing wrong".

 

People who know nothing about it also get caught in the crossfire with no chance of an explanation, short of "apologizing" and saying "I promise not to talk to the people in these places anymore".

 

It's not the animators stirring up issues, I'll tell you that.

[Spirit_Shard]

4 hours ago, ShadyKitsune said:

 

The primary "drama" is that if anyone says anything remotely lukewarm or just plain not in favor of a certain someone in any degree, that they are now viewed as an enemy who is causing problems and mischief, while slandering his name as he's "done nothing wrong".

 

People who know nothing about it also get caught in the crossfire with no chance of an explanation, short of "apologizing" and saying "I promise not to talk to the people in these places anymore".

 

It's not the animators stirring up issues, I'll tell you that.

You've really been putting in the effort to try and spread drama in every thread, haven't you. I get that you're upset you're currently banned from TBC for participating in their drama, but trying to present things as if 'your side' isn't causing issues is a bit ridiculous. Like, The Broken Chatbox is just asking you people to stop spreading hate and starting drama constantly, and you're currently going into every thread trying to cause problems for people, with absolutely zero reflection on your behavior. This is why this drama continues, you people just can't help yourself but go into threads and discord and DMs and just non-stop go on about drama you 'have nothing to do with', but you're the only people continue-ing this nonsense.

You don't have to like me, you don't have to agree with me, but you should really stop trying your best to hate me and anyone that you dislike or disagree with. Intentionally misrepresenting the situation to try and mislead people and 'get them on your side' is destructive. (Though I know that's your point, you feed on this drama >.>)

[ShadyKitsune]

Telling the truth isn't "spreading drama", and honestly dude, I don't care about your discord anymore either, that feeling passed within 12 hours of that first chat with you after the malware issue happened. Haven't touched PW in months either meaning your updates don't matter to me.

 

As for "my side" as you want to call it for a single consumer, the only ones I spectate are like 4 main people and while you act like 3 or all of them are heinous masterminds, they're literally moving on with their lives while you sit here doing petty updates that change author names needlessly and other such nonsense. However, I just don't like you acting like you're the victim 24/7 every time something comes up.

 

Also, "going into discord and dms"? Michael, I haven't talked to anyone remotely related to Palworld in months, let alone reserving any time to random message folks over someone who mutes, blocks, or bans just because someone exercised free will to talk in a server at all that you didn't like.

 

Lastly, that's the funny thing you know. You're a Grade A narcissist, yet you do have moments you can actually be a decent, helpful guy. If you had any kind of tact and self reflection to look in on what would actually make people like you more genuinely, a lot of this mess scatters within months to weeks if it was an honest attempt to change.

 

Edit: For anyone wondering "what malware issue?", Windows Defender turned itself off and asked for a subscription in the middle of the night while on the internet leading to a host of those annoying "mr beast crypto" scam messages being spammed in servers (they steal your token, so they can do junk while you're still logged in. You need to change your password in full and clear any cookies, along with finding a reputable antivirus instead of relying on WD alone).

 

Michael did help with it and I was genuinely thankful for the tips, up until like 5 hours later at least.

Edited 14 hours ago by ShadyKitsune
certain context to not misrepresent something

[Spirit_Shard]

1 hour ago, ShadyKitsune said:

Telling the truth isn't "spreading drama", and honestly dude, I don't care about your discord anymore either, that feeling passed within 12 hours of that first chat with you after the malware issue happened. Haven't touched PW in months either meaning your updates don't matter to me.

 

As for "my side" as you want to call it for a single consumer, the only ones I spectate are like 4 main people and while you act like 3 or all of them are heinous masterminds, they're literally moving on with their lives while you sit here doing petty updates that change author names needlessly and other such nonsense. However, I just don't like you acting like you're the victim 24/7 every time something comes up.

 

Also, "going into discord and dms"? Michael, I haven't talked to anyone remotely related to Palworld in months, let alone reserving any time to random message folks over someone who mutes, blocks, or bans just because someone exercised free will to talk in a server at all that you didn't like.

 

Lastly, that's the funny thing you know. You're a Grade A narcissist, yet you do have moments you can actually be a decent, helpful guy. If you had any kind of tact and self reflection to look in on what would actually make people like you more genuinely, a lot of this mess scatters within months to weeks if it was an honest attempt to change.

 

Edit: For anyone wondering "what malware issue?", Windows Defender turned itself off and asked for a subscription in the middle of the night while on the internet leading to a host of those annoying "mr beast crypto" scam messages being spammed in servers (they steal your token, so they can do junk while you're still logged in. You need to change your password in full and clear any cookies, along with finding a reputable antivirus instead of relying on WD alone).

 

Michael did help with it and I was genuinely thankful for the tips, up until like 5 hours later at least.

Except you're not telling the truth, you're actively lying and trying to mislead people. If you have honest criticisms then focus on those and we can have a conversation, but instead you're acting like I'm some "heinous mastermind" "doing petty updates" while then namecalling me a "narcissist"? (Here's a help guide for narcissism, which includes a description and actual symptoms of the condition - https://www.helpguide.org/mental-health/personality-disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder - I'd much rather this be a chance for people to learn something rather than have the word devolve into just yet another thing internet weirdos say to try and attack people. >.> No, I'm obviously not a narcissist, nor should we be trying to use mental disorders as a frame of attack, that's disgusting behavior -.-)

Look at what you're trying to do right now, what is the purpose of your message, and what did I say you were doing? And I don't mean your excuse for leaving your message, but what was your goal, what was the genuine purpose and what you hope to get out of it? What are you hoping to achieve? You said yourself you haven't played Palworld or talked to people in months, so what horse would you even have in this race? How would you know what has and hasn't changed?

I and The Broken Chatbox community wanted this non-sense to end before it even started, if it was on us then it would be done and over with. We are not the reason this continues, your presence in this help thread for Altermatic bringing in this topic supports this. Please just stop.

[Msurikqp79]

46 minutes ago, Spirit_Shard said:

Except you're not telling the truth, you're actively lying and trying to mislead people. If you have honest criticisms then focus on those and we can have a conversation, but instead you're acting like I'm some "heinous mastermind" "doing petty updates" while then namecalling me a "narcissist"? (Here's a help guide for narcissism, which includes a description and actual symptoms of the condition - https://www.helpguide.org/mental-health/personality-disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder - I'd much rather this be a chance for people to learn something rather than have the word devolve into just yet another thing internet weirdos say to try and attack people. >.> No, I'm obviously not a narcissist, nor should we be trying to use mental disorders as a frame of attack, that's disgusting behavior -.-)

Look at what you're trying to do right now, what is the purpose of your message, and what did I say you were doing? And I don't mean your excuse for leaving your message, but what was your goal, what was the genuine purpose and what you hope to get out of it? What are you hoping to achieve? You said yourself you haven't played Palworld or talked to people in months, so what horse would you even have in this race? How would you know what has and hasn't changed?

I and The Broken Chatbox community wanted this non-sense to end before it even started, if it was on us then it would be done and over with. We are not the reason this continues, your presence in this help thread for Altermatic bringing in this topic supports this. Please just stop.

"doing petty updates" you redacted other modders credits so yes thats exactly what happend

[ShadyKitsune]

Michael, I said "I don't dm random folks" as you claim I was. Otherwise, I've literally watched some people in real time react to suddenly being banned with no rhyme or reason just for asking a question in said servers, where supposedly you aren't interacting with those folks and letting them "exist", at least until you need a screenshot that miraculously appears out of thin air as though someone is spying. 

 

Did you hear me call you the "heinous mastermind" otherwise? And yeah, I can genuinely claim "petty updates" for the framework, you don't think that labeling very specific pack authors "poopoo head" for 6.19 was gonna stay down low forever did you?

 

Beyond that however, I said what "the purpose" of my messages was, to answer questions. You can claim I dislike the server all day, it really doesn't affect me anymore, the guys in there were cool. I had always wondered otherwise at the time what "problem people" you were always talking about, but I did see the real colors after all things were said and done, no matter how you try to direct the narrative.

 

Anyways, to everyone else, hope you all have a good one. To Michael, I hope you find some other avenue other than "this". I won't be replying here any further.