[mod] [CK2] Dark World: Reborn - Updated 02DEC2024

[dewguru]

Here is the current change log for the next update that is in the works. If things go well, it's looking at one to two weeks before it'll be released.

 

v2.00 (Dark World Reborn)
    - HOLY SHIT - 2.00! My mind is blown. Thank you for all those who've poked around in Dark World Reborn over the years.
    - NOTE: HIGHLY RECOMMEND NEW GAME. I updated some things that might not be save game friendly.
    - New events (Related Game Rules: Fae, Heaven/Hell, Classic Monsters, Seeds of Chaos)
    - Random events with new potential events (Grand Inn, Blood Moon Celebration, Spirit Quest)
    - New Succubus/Incubus spell for those who reach stage 3 - Dream Ravage
    - New Chosen of Lilith Society power/decision for rank 4 and potential rank 3 quest
    - A pair of new event images for an existing event
    - Some code clean-up
    - Tweak: The non-human slaver has been modified to reduce the number of non-human slaves that were being bought throughout the world
    - Tweak: **Past tweak not before mentioned** Expanded some checks to look across your entire realm, instead of just your own court. So if you marry an event NPC to a vassal, they can still potentially appear in events.
    - Tweak to Tentacle-kin Mindfuck decision - beware getting on their wrong side (tentacle ai will consider targeting an opponent who they have at least a -50 opinion of)
    - Fix: Storm now has tits instead of a dick
    - Fix: Darkseid is now a male
    - Fix: I discovered a major error in the Chosen of Lilith society, and it should be corrected - with the correction involving a new decision and events that were missing in a chain that started, but didn't finish.

 

[Pantheress]

I don't think the Blood Moon ritual is properly applying its cooldown modifier. I can start one immediately after ending one as long as I'm within the right season.

[dewguru]

On 8/4/2024 at 6:54 PM, Pantheress said:

I don't think the Blood Moon ritual is properly applying its cooldown modifier. I can start one immediately after ending one as long as I'm within the right season.

 

It is actually. It's a cheat of sorts. If you hit the Blood Moon in it's first week of availability, you will have a chance to trigger it one more time. If it's later in the period -you have less of  a chance of the event completing soon enough to trigger a second time.

 

When it was discovered, I had intended to remove it.  However, due to a fair amount of feedback asking to leave it in as is, I saw no harm in it, as using some of the exploit stuff is a personal choice.

[Pantheress]

Fair enough.
Are Angels still supported in this mod? I can't seem to find any angel portraits.

[CipherMitch]

On 8/3/2024 at 8:51 AM, dewguru said:

Here is the current change log for the next update that is in the works. If things go well, it's looking at one to two weeks before it'll be released.

 

v2.00 (Dark World Reborn)
    - HOLY SHIT - 2.00! My mind is blown. Thank you for all those who've poked around in Dark World Reborn over the years.
    - NOTE: HIGHLY RECOMMEND NEW GAME. I updated some things that might not be save game friendly.
    - New events (Related Game Rules: Fae, Heaven/Hell, Classic Monsters, Seeds of Chaos)
    - Random events with new potential events (Grand Inn, Blood Moon Celebration, Spirit Quest)
    - New Succubus/Incubus spell for those who reach stage 3 - Dream Ravage
    - New Chosen of Lilith Society power/decision for rank 4 and potential rank 3 quest
    - A pair of new event images for an existing event
    - Some code clean-up
    - Tweak: The non-human slaver has been modified to reduce the number of non-human slaves that were being bought throughout the world
    - Tweak: **Past tweak not before mentioned** Expanded some checks to look across your entire realm, instead of just your own court. So if you marry an event NPC to a vassal, they can still potentially appear in events.
    - Tweak to Tentacle-kin Mindfuck decision - beware getting on their wrong side (tentacle ai will consider targeting an opponent who they have at least a -50 opinion of)
    - Fix: Storm now has tits instead of a dick
    - Fix: Darkseid is now a male
    - Fix: I discovered a major error in the Chosen of Lilith society, and it should be corrected - with the correction involving a new decision and events that were missing in a chain that started, but didn't finish.

 

Holy shit thank you for contiuing to make this! 

[dewguru]

On 8/16/2024 at 10:16 AM, Pantheress said:

Fair enough.
Are Angels still supported in this mod? I can't seem to find any angel portraits.

 

Their content got snipped when it went from Dark World to Dark World Reborn, although the traits and a few other things remained. I'm starting to change that though. I added something recently. Either in this new update or a recent one, and I've more things planned.

 

Also - 2.0 has hit a delay. A very close friend passed away. I've not done anything much recently. Mind has been a little more blank than normal.

[ThallanTOG]

Can you get Lycanthropy during a characters life or do you have to start with rise of the pack/inherit to a werewolf character?

Edited August 22, 2024 by ThallanTOG

[AngelAngelis]

On 8/17/2024 at 12:33 PM, dewguru said:

 

Their content got snipped when it went from Dark World to Dark World Reborn, although the traits and a few other things remained. I'm starting to change that though. I added something recently. Either in this new update or a recent one, and I've more things planned.

 

Also - 2.0 has hit a delay. A very close friend passed away. I've not done anything much recently. Mind has been a little more blank than normal.

Awesome to hear. Will you be expanding things you can do as a Tentacle-kin? I wouldn't mind being able to do stuff like infect others, or draw power from consuming their brains or something. Maybe have some kind of ritual that's does the opposite of the mind fuck, where you gift a friend/lover/whatever with intelligence and stats at the cost of someone else (Preferably a prisoner.)? 

[Code_Cyber]

On 8/18/2024 at 12:33 AM, dewguru said:

 

Their content got snipped when it went from Dark World to Dark World Reborn, although the traits and a few other things remained. I'm starting to change that though. I added something recently. Either in this new update or a recent one, and I've more things planned.

 

Also - 2.0 has hit a delay. A very close friend passed away. I've not done anything much recently. Mind has been a little more blank than normal.

Bro... sorry for your lost. Take as much time as you need man and hope you'll get well soon.

[ClubGwyndolin]

Anyone else getting a crash with AGOT when u start a game with a character?

my .mod looks like this

name = "Dark World Reborn"
path = "mod/Dark World Reborn"
user_dir = "Dark World Reborn Data"
dependencies = { "A Game of Thrones" }

[philjd]

Lycans of all types - I find that about 100 or so years into the game pretty much everyone is of one type or another (cat wolf, fox etc), unless you deliberately opt to 'crusade/jihad purge' the entirety of your nobility on a permanent basis it is almost unavoidable.

Never seen an NPC country outlaw non-humans or remain 'cleansed' (so to speak).

 

Is this something that could be 'enhanced' or coded for so that NPC's/players get a cassus belli, for instance, if non-humans rule a state? It would seem appropriate given the strength of views, both religious and cultural, of these era's? Same for actually changing the law.

 

Just a thought or two for discussion really.

[Pantheress]

11 hours ago, philjd said:

Lycans of all types - I find that about 100 or so years into the game pretty much everyone is of one type or another (cat wolf, fox etc), unless you deliberately opt to 'crusade/jihad purge' the entirety of your nobility on a permanent basis it is almost unavoidable.

 

I actually tried a sort of crusader-angel type of playthrough where I tried to keep humanity safe from the other monstrous races. I thought that was what the 'Status of non-humans' law was about. Imagine my surprise when my own vassals suddenly had courts full of animal-kins, orcs, werewolves, etc.

Hope you're doing okay, dewguru. Take the time you need. Grieving needs time.

[dewguru]

On 8/31/2024 at 12:09 PM, ClubGwyndolin said:

Anyone else getting a crash with AGOT when u start a game with a character?

my .mod looks like this

name = "Dark World Reborn"
path = "mod/Dark World Reborn"
user_dir = "Dark World Reborn Data"
dependencies = { "A Game of Thrones" }

 

I could be wrong - but the user_dir could be an issue. I don't include that field by default.

 

On 8/22/2024 at 8:39 AM, ThallanTOG said:

Can you get Lycanthropy during a characters life or do you have to start with rise of the pack/inherit to a werewolf character?

 

An existing character can only obtain it via a special potion. Therianthropy is a genetic condition, and not a disease - so getting bit doesn't grant it. You'd be better off finding one to mate with to get it in your bloodline. There may be another method that I don't recall somewhere in the game.

 

On 8/26/2024 at 6:12 PM, AngelAngelis said:

Awesome to hear. Will you be expanding things you can do as a Tentacle-kin? I wouldn't mind being able to do stuff like infect others, or draw power from consuming their brains or something. Maybe have some kind of ritual that's does the opposite of the mind fuck, where you gift a friend/lover/whatever with intelligence and stats at the cost of someone else (Preferably a prisoner.)? 

 

Interesting ideas. I can say that the next update does expand on the existing Tentacle-kin ability and npc tentacle-kin may also now attempt to attack the player directly instead of via one of the rare random events.

 

On 9/2/2024 at 8:42 AM, philjd said:

Lycans of all types - I find that about 100 or so years into the game pretty much everyone is of one type or another (cat wolf, fox etc), unless you deliberately opt to 'crusade/jihad purge' the entirety of your nobility on a permanent basis it is almost unavoidable.

Never seen an NPC country outlaw non-humans or remain 'cleansed' (so to speak).

 

Is this something that could be 'enhanced' or coded for so that NPC's/players get a cassus belli, for instance, if non-humans rule a state? It would seem appropriate given the strength of views, both religious and cultural, of these era's? Same for actually changing the law.

 

Just a thought or two for discussion really.

 

This is due to an error with an event that happens way, way, way, way, way too often right now and is corrected in the next update.

 

 

[dewguru]

Thanks for the kind words about the recent lost.

 

Some friends drug me out of town for a long weekend as we traveled to DragonCon. My mind seems to be starting to work again. For a bit, I didn't even know what I had built into the new update. I plan to get started back on the new update this week. Instead of it having all of my original intent - I'll probably look to just get it where it's stable and release it - as it has an important fix, and I'll resume my work on the content I had in progress.

[Chocolatnave]

Is there gonna be any new futa related content in 2.00?

[dewguru]

1 hour ago, Chocolatnave said:

Is there gonna be any new futa related content in 2.00?

 

Not futa unique. There are a couple events that involve sex, and they handle if you're a futa. There was some planned, but it'll likely be in the update after 2.00.

[AngelAngelis]

On 9/3/2024 at 11:02 PM, dewguru said:

 

I could be wrong - but the user_dir could be an issue. I don't include that field by default.

 

 

An existing character can only obtain it via a special potion. Therianthropy is a genetic condition, and not a disease - so getting bit doesn't grant it. You'd be better off finding one to mate with to get it in your bloodline. There may be another method that I don't recall somewhere in the game.

 

 

Interesting ideas. I can say that the next update does expand on the existing Tentacle-kin ability and npc tentacle-kin may also now attempt to attack the player directly instead of via one of the rare random events.

 

 

This is due to an error with an event that happens way, way, way, way, way too often right now and is corrected in the next update.

 

 

Thanks for the response. Just take your time man. I can't imagine how hard this is. Just looking at coding makes my eyes hurt. I'll just be happy with what you give me...which is a harem of supers and other ladies, so I'm damn happy. If you are interested in some other Ideas about Tentacle Kin, I'll try and think of some other things. As long as they aren't a giant pain, you know?

About the only other thing I could think of right now is a way to enthrall people that doesn't make them brain damaged. Maybe some overlap between tentacle-kin and psychic bullcrap (The many illithid pictures just make me think I should be doing more mind fuckery.)

[VGer47]

Long time fan, first time poster her. I love the new content, but I have a problem: the new content, like for instance the Alice in Wonderland adventures and the new Heroes and Villains all have blank images. Is there anything special I need to have? All the older images work fine.

Thanks for a great mod that makes my CK2 even better!

[BrainlessGoblin]

Can you guys give me a spoiler about saving Alice in Wonderland? What do I have to do? Do I have to find the real Alice? Is this a random event? I've tried about eight combinations of choices, but nothing has worked yet.

[dewguru]

Fuck. Not been the best couple of months.

 

Going to post what's done so far on 2.0 in the next day or two. Still have work to do, but I'm over a month past when I first wanted to get it rolled out.

[dewguru]

On 9/26/2024 at 7:09 PM, zorrathdagon said:

So about the Therianthropy thing I had the child of Lilith campaign event and then like 10 20 years in the game I randomly had The Fox and the hound event trigger this was in a scattered full random culture and religion  world so that might have messed up like a trigger somewhere

 

Folks asked for the potential to obtain multiple campaign options. So I revisited them, and set it to where if the player has a ruler who ever matches certain criteria, then it could trigger for them - giving them an opportunity. If you're not interested in it, they should all have an opportunity to decline them.

On 9/21/2024 at 3:00 PM, BrainlessGoblin said:

Can you guys give me a spoiler about saving Alice in Wonderland? What do I have to do? Do I have to find the real Alice? Is this a random event? I've tried about eight combinations of choices, but nothing has worked yet.

 

It is a random event, which allows for it to be replayed. There are numerous Alice's, although there are two who (one light, one dark) that is considered the true version. If it's trigger too often, the next update should reduce its frequency.

On 9/17/2024 at 6:30 AM, VGer47 said:

Long time fan, first time poster her. I love the new content, but I have a problem: the new content, like for instance the Alice in Wonderland adventures and the new Heroes and Villains all have blank images. Is there anything special I need to have? All the older images work fine.

Thanks for a great mod that makes my CK2 even better!

 

This sounds like an error in the installation. I'd recommend trying to reinstall the mod - and sometimes, it's good practice to delete the mod directory so when you install a new version - to ensure that there is no oddities in overwriting or that you don't have any ghost files that were removed/replaced.

[dewguru]

The early version of 2.00 has been published. Due to the unexpected death of a close friend, and a month filled with highs and lows afterwards, the work that is in this release isn't even quite half of what I had intended. I'm resuming work on adding more events, with an eye towards new random stand alone events and new events that build off of existing traits within the mod.

 

Note - I added a new trait, as when things went south, I was just starting collecting events to expand upon the goblin invasion that pops-up on occasion. So there isn't really any content for that new trait right now, but if you try to use this on an existing save, it will mess up your existing traits on people due to how CK2 handles traits in save games. So, my apologies for that - but you're going to want to start a new game to play the new update.

 

v2.00 (Dark World Reborn)
    - HOLY SHIT - 2.00! My mind is blown. Thank you for all those who've poked around in Dark World Reborn over the years.
    - NOTE: REQUIRES NEW GAME - updates made that will cause save games to be messed up
    - New events (Related Game Rules: Fae, Heaven/Hell, Classic Monsters, Seeds of Chaos)
    - Random events with new potential events (Grand Inn, Blood Moon Celebration, Spirit Quest)
    - New Succubus/Incubus spell for those who reach stage 3 - Dream Ravage
    - New Chosen of Lilith Society power/decision for rank 4 and potential rank 3 quest
    - A pair of new event images for an existing event
    - New trait - goblin
    - Some code clean-up
    - Tweak: The non-human slaver has been modified to reduce the number of non-human slaves that were being bought throughout the world
    - Tweak: **Past tweak not before mentioned** Expanded some checks to look across your entire realm, instead of just your own court. So if you marry an event NPC to a vassal, they can still potentially appear in events.
    - Tweak to Tentacle-kin Mindfuck decision - beware getting on their wrong side (tentacle ai will consider targeting an opponent who they have at least a -50 opinion of)
    - Fix: Storm now has tits instead of a dick
    - Fix: Darkseid is now a male
    - Fix: I discovered a major error in the Chosen of Lilith society, and it should be corrected - with the correction involving a new decision and events that were missing in a chain that started, but didn't finish.

 

[Kroatische Doge]

Great job on the mod. I'm glad that you are still working on it.  Ɛ:

 

Nothing urgent and its easy to solve it on my end by just deleting it from the mod folder but the bathing beauty event can be kinda annoying beacuse it seems to have a very short cooldown. If you are leading an army you will have to pause the game every 2-3 months for around 10-15 seconds to go through the entire event chain. If the event could happen only once around every 2-3 years it would be more bearable.

[dewguru]

On 10/5/2024 at 2:08 AM, Kroatische Doge said:

Great job on the mod. I'm glad that you are still working on it.  Ɛ:

 

Nothing urgent and its easy to solve it on my end by just deleting it from the mod folder but the bathing beauty event can be kinda annoying beacuse it seems to have a very short cooldown. If you are leading an army you will have to pause the game every 2-3 months for around 10-15 seconds to go through the entire event chain. If the event could happen only once around every 2-3 years it would be more bearable.

 

I'm not seeing how you can get it every few game months unless you are using an older version of the mod (prior to the current 2.0).

 

It's only part of the annual event check. So it's one of a number of events that has a chance to trigger once a year. Before the current mod version, there was a chance for it to trigger more frequently, as it was checked annually, every other year, and then every 5 years, so some years it could indeed trigger 3 times (talk about being unlucky with randomization).

 

 

[dewguru]

I've begun making some progress on the next update. I'm letting what catches my interest to guide what I add, since I still am not fully feeling the same motivation level I had previously. It'll likely be a couple weeks before the next update, however, here's the change log as it currently stands for the next update.

 

v2.01 (Dark World Reborn)
    - NOTE: This update should be save game compatible with games started using v2.00 or later
    - New random events (Some standard and some that relate to specific Game Rules: Fae, Gender Bender)
    - New random Spend Time With events (Some standard and some that relate to specific Game Rules: Gender Bender, Classic Monsters)
    - New powers for Angels (Related Game Rules: Heaven/Hell)
    - Angel tier structure similar what incubus and succubus have. No Blood Moon equivalent though. They advance by collecting enough piety for a stage, which then makes a decision available to advance.