[Mod][XCL] [0.25.6] Bad Habits: Redux

[AthenaWilliams]

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[XCL] [0.25.6] Bad Habits: Redux

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Bad Habits 1.0.0
A vices overhaul for X-Change Life: cigarettes, weed, cocaine, mushrooms and ecstasy, each with its own mechanics, art and consequences.

What is this?
Bad Habits started life as a small cigarettes-and-weed mod by Melodious Melia. Version 1.0.0 grows it into a complete dependency ladder for X-Change Life. Five substances, two dealers, addiction and tolerance systems, moods, withdrawal, portrait work, live psychedelic visuals, 32 achievements, and one very bad decision available at the club if your wallet is empty.

Nothing here is a reskin of anything else. Each drug has its own arc and its own reason to exist:

• Cigarettes. Three brands, a six stage nicotine habit that creeps up on you, smoke breaks at more or less every location, and street harassment tuned by a setting. The habit starts as something to do with your hands and ends with you planning your day around it.
• Weed. Two strains from Callum, the bar dealer. Mellow highs, munchies, and a habit that costs you motivation rather than money.
• Cocaine. Three grades at three prices with purity to match. While you're up, action points cost half: the drug that gives you more day. Then it wears off, the crash takes the evening back, and a three stage addiction starts taking $40 to $80 a day out of your pocket whether you score or not.
• Magic mushrooms. Two bags, slow onset, five stages, one whole evening. Live psychedelic visuals warp every image and video in the game while you trip (Full / Capped / Off in settings), and the base characters get dilated-pupil, bloodshot portrait variants by tier. No crash and no addiction: the day after a trip is actually better than a normal day. The catch is a tolerance that makes back-to-back trips a shadow of the real thing.
• Ecstasy. Three pills from Dolphins to Teslas. Reluctance melts while you're rolling, arousal climbs on its own, and people warm to you twice as fast. The price is a two day comedown where everything is fine and nothing is good. No addiction arc. It doesn't need one.
  

The club dealer
Cash works the Electric Pickle. He sells the synthetics, he remembers you, and he notices what you reach for when you can't pay for it. If that happens, he has a proposition involving one pink pill and a party at his place. It pays exactly the thing you couldn't afford. It is repeatable. It is not a secret what kind of party it is.

The scene is a five man group scene built on the game's temporary transformation machinery, with its own filmed media set, an active/passive move economy running on a stamina meter, three finish events, and distinct prose the second time you come back. You have been warned and/or sold.

Also in the box

• 32 achievements across all five habits, from "Just the One" to the ones you'll have to earn the hard way.
• 8 settings: per-drug toggles, trip visual intensity, addiction speed, catcall frequency.
• Sidebar status icons with tooltips for every substance, plus moods for cravings, crashes, comedowns and afterglows.
• Per-character portrait variants for the ten base player characters in both genders (wired, tripping, rolling).
• A dealer framework other mods can plug venues into (see the included modders guide).
  

Requirements & installation

• X-Change Life 0.25.6 or newer
• XCL Mod Loader
• BOTH files: Bad Habits 1.0.0.xcl (the mod, 100 KB) and Bad Habits-Media 1.0.0.xcl (art, clips and audio, 256 MB)
  

Add both .xcl files to the Mod Loader, rebuild, and play. The loader handles load order automatically. Safe to add to an existing save; state is initialised on the fly and old Bad Habits saves are migrated.

Compatibility
Built additively: base passages are wrapped, never replaced, and shared base variables are respected (the mod takes maximums rather than overwriting). No known conflicts. If another mod adds its own venue dealers, the framework is designed to coexist; modders can wire into it via the included Bad Habits Modders Guide.

Credits

• Melodious Melia: the original cigarettes-and-weed mod this grew from.
• Athena: design, code, art pipeline, and the 1.0.0 release.
  

Permissions
Ask before repackaging or porting. Modders are welcome and encouraged to integrate with the dealer framework and the extension hooks documented in the modders guide.

The obvious disclaimer
This is fiction for an adult game. Every substance in it is written to cost you something, because that is what makes it a game mechanic. None of it is an endorsement of anything, except possibly not buying the cheap coke.

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• Submitter
  AthenaWilliams
• Submitted
  08/18/26
• Category
  Pill & Drug Types
• Requirements