Waiting for NPC updates

To be honest I never really tought so deep about DNA features for NPCs. Usually almost all the interesting effects are coded to only work at players. There's a pretty good chance of the elemental resistances work on NPCs indeed, so we could assume that all the passive stuff that don't change food/energy/hp bar will probably be on the NPCs too, but all the other traits that changes those bars or do some checks (like the Avian air jump, or the Glitch charging at the ship) will only work at the players. Sorry about the delay, I'll try to repply sooner next time, thank you very much =)

What about NPC's.

Hey Lienom, yes I did some updates with the help of the comments hehe. About other race mods, yeah, it will probably conflict with other races mods, since they probably will make changes into the same files I did, or probably the same races =)

Hey Max Payne, thanks for your comment, it's indeed amazing that we learned how much modding can improve our gameplay hehe! =)

Well this conflict with other races mods.

Does this work for NPC's?

Never mind I read the patch notes.

Can Apex still eat bananas and birds eat eggs again? Cause previous comment say otherwise.

@Alpha Drako exactly! Just like you, I used to be against modding, but then modded my GTA IV and realized that mods saved this game. And I think they save Starbound as well. The OG game is good, no doubt, but you're right, mods make it soo much better... Especially those that restore legacy content since it's for the memories as well..

That's actually exactly what make this game my favorite!! First time I played it was like... 2019, and I used to be very against mods hahaha, I used to say that mods take off the original idea of the game. How I was so wrong LOL. After discover how amazing is the modding community, and how epic most mods can be I just never stop learning! With mods this game is infinite, with mods it can be anything we want, and this is what makes the game so perfect =)

@Alpha Drako this game, as good as it is, becomes something else with mods, thanks to guys like you
I hope more people will appreciate your mod in future)

Thank you very much, I'll appreciate that a lot and will try to fix if you find any problems. And yeah, I made that to make our loved game even more lovable for the most people haha, I'm glad you liked that =)

Thank you! I'll be doing some testing if I have time in future and report here if I find any compatibility issues.
Nice to see mod authors caring for the community and their work)

Hello. I don't see why wouldn't be compatible with Supper's (great my by the way). I guess the changes Supper's does probably will be mixed with mine, but you can always test and see if it works fine and if it's bugged I can see what I can do =). About Race Traits, yeah, both mods changes the same parts of the game, so they're naturally not compatible. Thank you very much for the interest, I hope you have a good time with DNA =)

Hi, is it compatible with Supper's Combat Overhaul / Tougher Mobs and Better loot? Either both or one of them changes the player stats, e.g health.
Also, I take it it's incompatible with Race Traits? Since that one does almost the same thing but it's slightly bigger.

Yeah Crash, probably it does. My way of do stuff is a little bit different. First of all Alpha DNA can be uninstalled at anytime (as I try to do with any mod I make), and also it's a little bit "smaller" and "try-to-vanilla-like" the best I can. Thank you for the comment by the way =)

didn't frackin races do this kind of thing already?

Understood! I'll take all of that in mind for make the patch, and also will take a deep look at the Avali mod files =)

also their cooking is apperintly REALLY spicy even over a chillies,

but ya im more then happy to get some rundowns of lore and the mod already has the diet for em *they are omnivores but has a preferance for their own food and cooking*

well a lot i have given is from base memory of how the out of starbound lore is and from using fracken *because in fracken avali can be on frozen worlds of base but not frackens even colder worlds* but given fracken has worlds colder then base game its not feasable then for that tbh. but boons when on thoes i think can be easly had

Wow Lechkingofdead! The Avali are the first on the line for the future races to join that mod, and your whole comment gave me lots of ideas! I'm in a very complicated moment in life with lack of time and too much work hours, so I never took a time to really read about the Avali and their traits to start think about that patch, but I'm pretty sure that maybe Attack Power buff at night, Cold Resistance and Heat Vulnerability, and a reduced fall speed maybe works for them. You can tell me if there's anything else you think they should have, those buffs/debuffs are what I think I could do it with the knowledge I already have, but if you play with the Avali you could give me more tips. I still going to take a time to read the Avali pages on web too =)

do you plan on making comabatability for other mods like the larger races like avali for example? just asking anyway. given they native to exstream cold but suffer in anything close to normal temp and got also problems in the day but exceptional visability at night and in low grav atmoed worlds they can easly fly as well. but glide. as a mintal recap of whats what they are praobly odd to balince for the strengths to weaknesses often beeing exstreams to one anothr.

Hey Ben, thank you very much. I did my best to make it work properly, and I have plans to improve it at the future. I'm happy you liked! =)

this looks like a well-thought and properly developed mod! very immersive, a must-have for me. thank you!

Thank you, for real! That kind of comment is actually what give me the energy to work even harder and better, it's pretty awesome to get that feedback! =)

Ahh well I certainly understand your priorities. I'd do the same in your spot
Glad to see you're focused on quality, makes me look forward to your mods!

Thank you very much JesusIsAGoose, for real! I was planning to add the Avali race first, and I'm planning to do for the other races for sure, it's just the lack of time because I released the Alpha Ammo, and am working on the Alpha Worlds. Somehow I want to give my contribution to some areas of the game first, and then work on the upgrades for that contributions, you know? To be very honest I also am kinda bad at coding, I'm always trying to improve but it's pretty hard sometimes, so as my skills are limited, I need to think "what I know how to do, and that would fit great with that race?". After release Alpha Worlds I'll probably go back here to make the Avali, and hopefully that process will give me ideas about other races too. Thank you very much again, sorry for the wall of text =)

Any update on adding more (modded) races to this list? Awesome mod btw

Thank you very much Phantom, will do my best! =)

Thank you Alpha, and keep up the great work on your mods.

Yo Phantom! Start downloading Pakit, and after that take a look at the community foruns of mods where you can download the mods very easily (https://community.playstarbound.com/resources/categories/starbound.21/) , and also go to Discord and join the modding part of the Starbound server! It's pretty hard at first, but you know... My advice is: Start simple! Try to make a new furniture, try to mess with some status effect, or just try to change values of stuff that already exists. Remember that Starbound modding is very simple. All you need to do is: go to the "mods" folder on your installation folder, in there you create one folder "yourmodname" and inside that folder you deal with the files. I wish I could have more time and skills to explain better, but I don't even talk a good english to be honest, so I guess with Pakit and the foruns you have a good way to start. Good luck buddy!! =)

As a person who has never made a mod, I don't know what tools to even use. One thing is that someone like me starting out doesn't even know how to open the mods especially from the workshop like this one. Steam hides the mods with unclear filing from what I can tell and it confuses me mostly. There is a lot of information there, yes, but it just seems too overwhelming to not even know where to even begin.

Hey Phantom. Well, I don't know if this will work for you, but the best, best advice that I can do is: take a mod that you like, open the files, and study them. You will learn a lot about how to properly use the tags, how to edit stuff, how they used certain systems and stuff like that. Also, search the files of the vanilla game, there's LOTS of good knowledge in there, for real! I guess you can search on the foruns too, but in every great modder that I met, like Silver, Nebulox, Apple, and others, I felt the feeling that "Google will not help you, try the modding chat on the discord server". So, that's all the advices that I can give you that brought me here! Hope it help you somehow =)

I don't know much of modding but is there some sort of guide you use for modding? I want to try and add a mod or make a mod something like this for custom races that I use from the workshop.

Woooow, I'm happy to hear that Phantom! For real! I'm glad you liked and if you find any bug or have any suggestion I'm always here. Have fun and a good time exploring the universe while enjoy the races =)

I made one of each vanilla species characters and this mod so far just trying each does make me want to use the vanilla ones when normally i go for modded ones since modded ones I have are ones I like and want to play as . Thank you for making this mod.

That's nice Phantom! I agree with everything you said, and I add that the variety among the species also add interesting multiplayer stuff, you know? As people can cooperate with each other to fit the needs of each species. Like, imagine a Glitch working with a Floran, and as the Floran can help the Glitch with more damage, the Glitch can give the raw food collected to the Floran, and so it goes. I hope you enjoy the mod and the sandbox experience, which is exactly what, personally, I also love! =)

ok just reading this sounds like an interesting concept that should have been in the game. Like at least making the species vary from each other in gameplay would defiantly be nice to see and make choosing choosing which to play something to consider. I am going to be using your mods to go along with Story Disabler and a few other mods since your mods and the Story disabler would definitely help make the game feel more like a fun sandbox to play.

Ohhhhh, I feel extremely flattered, Identity! Thank you for the compliment, well, about the description, I totally need to fix that! Will do this on the next update, probably this week, I still have so much job with the food, but I'm delaying that because I'm scared about how I'll do that respecting the gourmet lore aspect of the game. Anyway, that specific part is totally okay and will be fixed, thank you again and I'm happy you loved the mod =)

This is certainly the best race ability/trait mod available right now, great work!

The only thing which kind of bugs me is the fact that the Food Description for Raw Meat is still the same for Florans, since it still says: "Maybe I should cook this" but I understand that this is not in the purview of this mod.

thanks for considering ! , avali have own wiki if you need

Hello Avali friend! Unfortunately I still don't know all I need to know about the Avali to understand what I should add, but I'm looking for it the next weeks. I'm on a rush with the job but I'm trying to make some time to work on mods again. Thanks for the comment =)

an avali support?

Oh, Onion, 30 seconds? Maybe there's something wrong, because the vanilla consumption of food is 20 mins of game for consume one entire bar, and the novakid are consuming food at a 4x speed, which means at least 5 minutes with the full bar... OH, I'm seeing the problem now! See, I was making that mod using my other mod, the Alpha Details, which buff the food bar max to 100 (instead of 70), so, it would last something like 30-35 minutes per full bar, which on Novakids would be almost 9 minutes with fullbar, which is pretty hard but still acceptable. What I will do now is to reduce the con on Novakids to consume 2x more food, and no longer 4x. I hope that's good enough for you, thank you for the comment, to be honest I don't play Novakid, so I only stayed on the test phase, I'm glad to have feedbacks! Will do that on the next update, probably today! =)

Everything looked cool until I tried Novakid. Too much con for being unable to go without eating for longer than 30 seconds.

noted thanks for the insight.

Hey Charger. I wish I could deal a little more with races and stuff like that, when I find some time to do that I definitely plan to make addons, I just can't promise that this will be soon, but I want to do this as fast as I can, after release some other mods that I'm trying to make. Thank you for your comment, when I start to work with that I will create a topic where people will be even allowed to send what races they want me to make the addon! =)

do you plan to add addons for modded races?