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Aquaria => Modding => Topic started by: HeadTrauma on May 15, 2010, 07:56:43 am
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Are you annoyed that there is only a limited amount of red bulbs in the game?
Do you find it unreasonable that you can only create a few volcano rolls, or cold borscht?
Well I've got a pretty easy solution for all anal players out there!
Not really a full-on mod, but anyone with a little computer know-how should be able to do this:
1. Open your Aquaria install folder (i.e. C:\Program Files\Aquaria), and find the folder in it labelled "data".
2. Find the text file named "ingredients" and open it. You may want to create a backup copy in case you ruin anything.
3. Find the section headed by "==Recipes==". Insert a new line, with a new and reasonable recipe to create red bulbs. For example, "PlantBulb + RedBerry = RedBulb".
4. Save the file. Edited file must be named "ingredients".
5. Once you start up your game, you should be able to create red bulbs with whatever recipe you added.
Notes:
-I use Windows. I don't really know if it's exactly the same for other operating systems, but it shouldn't be too different.
-I have no idea what happens if you do this and start a save file with a red bulb already in your inventory.
-I have no idea what happens with the discovered recipes in save files when you remove recipes from the game.
-I have no idea what happens if you make a spelling error with a new recipe. Possibly game crash.
-The order of the recipes shown in-game are the reverse of the order in the text file.
-Adding a recipe will also add an empty 14th page in the recipe book. 52 recipes = 13+1 pages.
-Massive recipe spoilers!
I think that about covers it.
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There is an easier way if you are working in a mod; put a leaf or song plant in your game, and make it give whatever you like using a node. Red bulbs, Loaf of Life, Volcano rolls, Rukh eggs...you can have it all. No crashes. But I think Yogoda told me you can't create new recipes. He's the software engineer, and he knows why...I would love to do that, personally, having a fertile mind. Drum Roll of Death, for instance, for those really pesky bosses...+4 defense, +5 energy shot. Of course, it would probably make the game too easy, so then you would need to make the bosses harder...
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You can actually adjust what the items you consume do, so you can for example, make a plant leaf give you +5 energy shot if eaten.
You need the ingredients.txt file in the data folder, and behind an ingredient you have to add stuff like (++++energy) which makes it +5 energy same with health, it's +hp, and as far as I know you can put up to 5 '+' characters before an attribute. If you want more then one attribute on the same item, you have to seperate them within the ( )'s with a space.
The attributes I know of are these:
hp - increases hp
maxhp - fills hp
energy - increases energy shot damage
regen - regeneration
speed - increases speed
defense - increases defense
invincible - gives you a certain time of invincibility, up to 25 seconds I think(with 5 +'s)
petpower - increases your pet's damage
allstatus - this one needs a - in fromt of it, which makes it cure all statusses, or with a + give them all
poison - adds or removes poison depending on the + or -
blind - adds or removes blindness
trip - the trippy effect, more + characters increases the time I think
li - makes Li eat the item, though as far as I know you just see Li eating it and it has no other benefits, might be an increment to his damage, but I'm not sure.
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What Wizarduss said has been posted before.
None the less, I should give this a shot.
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Woah, Li can eat? XD I had no idea.
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Originally the only item that Li eats is some ice cream I think :P
And I know it's been posted before, I thought I'd just make it clear here, plus in the other thread was still some confusion on how it works excactly.
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Yeah, the strawberry ice cream, if you drop it, Li will eat it, but no further side effects afaik.
EDIT: Or was it cherry ice cream? I don't recall having strawberries in the game. xD
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EDIT: Or was it cherry ice cream? I don't recall having strawberries in the game. xD
But you recall cherries? ;) I think it is red berry ice cream.
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Okay, red berry. It's been way too long since I played Aquaria properly.
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Food Transmogrification
In this example we will transmogrify Fish Meat into Red Bulbs.
1. Discard all your Fish Meat, followed by all your Red Bulbs.
2. Resume game and collect them again. This ensures the Fish Meat is positioned directly before the Red Bulbs in your food list.
3. Place Fish Meat in a cooking slot. Place more Fish Meat in other cooking slots to transmogrify more than one at a time.
4. Discard all your remaining Fish Meat. The Red Bulbs should move up in the list to take its place.
5. Put away the Fish Meat in your cooking slots. *Boink* The Fish Meat magically becomes Red Bulbs.
Of course, you can just transmogrify the Fish Meat straight into a Volcano Roll or even a Loaf of Life if you prefer ;)
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Food Transmogrification
In this example we will transmogrify Fish Meat into Red Bulbs.
1. Discard all your Fish Meat, followed by all your Red Bulbs.
2. Resume game and collect them again. This ensures the Fish Meat is positioned directly before the Red Bulbs in your food list.
3. Place Fish Meat in a cooking slot. Place more Fish Meat in other cooking slots to transmogrify more than one at a time.
4. Discard all your remaining Fish Meat. The Red Bulbs should move up in the list to take its place.
5. Put away the Fish Meat in your cooking slots. *Boink* The Fish Meat magically becomes Red Bulbs.
Of course, you can just transmogrify the Fish Meat straight into a Volcano Roll or even a Loaf of Life if you prefer ;)
I don't like the cheating mentioned above, but using this is kinda funny.
I always have enough food, so I don't need it, but still a great find!
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Indeed. I had no idea that such a bug existed. XD
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Does that mean if you "lose" the food you're cooking with, and then cancel it, you get more of whatever food took the place of the lost food? @.@
And I know this is a stupid question... but how do you drop food? I've never actually tried to do it, and I'm too... tired to open Aquaria right now and experiment. ^^;
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You should just be able to drag the food off the menu screen if I recall correctly.
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You have to drag it on the x and Naija will drop the food.
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(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g58/bartelomeus/bacon.jpg)
Thanks for the tip, its fun not having to search for either eggs or leaves all the time.
(Foodname, Sprite name, food type (meat, plant, etc)
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Ok, I am curious: what is that foodstuff that is red and maroon and there are three of them? Never seen that.
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It looks like bacon.
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Thats because it is bacon. You can add new ingredients just like you can make new recipes.
I added the line "Bacon Bacon Meat (+hp)" to the ingredients file and then I put A new sprite named bacon in Aquaria/gfx/ingredients. The the underlined "Bacon" in "Bacon Bacon Meat (+hp)" is the sprite's name.
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...fish bacon? >_>
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I was excited to see if it would work and drew that in 2 sec. without thinking. I could have drawn a whole herring pie masterpiece but that would have been a waste of timeif it didn't work.
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Now I want to know what it does when eaten. xD
Make you run around and go oink oink? =^.^=
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Full health, invincibility for 2 hours, maximum power and light. Cause that's what an American breakfast can do to someone. 8D
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... followed promptly by an almost full health drain. ^.^
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So, apparently the latest American thing is bacon in sweets (chocolate covered, in ice cream or doughnuts, part of the salty and sweet thing that salted caramels started...I saw a bacon chocolate bar in the store yesterday) so she could have chocolate covered bacon, which gives you the bacon rush and the amorous chocolate glow (sort of like Rainbow Soup but without being totally dopey and dysfunctional), which could make Naija want to roll around (the pig part) lazily and wink at Li. Ooooh, I want to make up recipes!!!!
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Odd food mixed with bacon? Try this one!
(http://myfoodlooksfunny.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129182360931691983.jpg)
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Is that what you get when you cook a cake and bacon together? o.O
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Pancake bacon!
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Maybe you have to add in a pan too then. o.o
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Erm, not to be a jerk, but my dad doesn't like pancakes WITHOUT bacon and apple, I think it's a rather normal thing.
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How does that make you a jerk? It seems to make you seem more open-minded to me. o.o
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Pancakes with bacon sounds way better than chocolate-covered bacon or bacon ice cream, for sure. Don't think any of them would taste good under water, though... maybe for Aquaria, bacon-wrapped roasted red bulbs skewered with pineapple? Hawaiian Kebabs...+3 health and -1 speed.
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Oh I've combined the two before myself. But cooking them into one easily-eaten package? Pure genius.
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I'm just saying that's it's all BUT odd in this country.
Also bread with peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles.
I'm getting myself hungry now.
Stop going offtopic D:
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Stop going offtopic D:
Was there much else we could've said about the topic? XD
... I'm confused about this topic. The first post suggested making a new recipe, and then the second said that it's not possible? Am I reading this wrong?
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Well it clearly seems it IS possible.
Could we perhaps see the working bacon as a file/mod?
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Well it clearly seems it IS possible.
Could we perhaps see the working bacon as a file/mod?
But before you do, add in pancakes and bacon pancakes! And chocolate and the other stuff Alphasoldier brought up! In fact... maybe even make a "real food" mod? =^.^=
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Well it clearly seems it IS possible.
Could we perhaps see the working bacon as a file/mod?
Yeah... I can't do that. Its not really a file or script, its just a hack of the ingredients.txt file.
But if you want the bacon food ingame: Copy (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g58/bartelomeus/bacon-1.png) To your "Aquaria\GFX\Ingredients" folder and add the line "Bacon Bacon-1 Meat (+hp)" to the Ingredients.txt file in the "Aquaria\data" folder.
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Well it clearly seems it IS possible.
Could we perhaps see the working bacon as a file/mod?
Yeah... I can't do that. Its not really a file or script, its just a hack of the ingredients.txt file.
But if you want the bacon food ingame: Copy (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g58/bartelomeus/bacon-1.png) To your "Aquaria\GFX\Ingredients" folder and add the line "Bacon Bacon-1 Meat (+hp)" to the Ingredients.txt file in the "Aquaria\data" folder.
I thought that might have been what Alphasoldier meant? It's more of a low level mod of the game, but it's still a mod, right? ^^;
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Oh lord that just screwed up my save game royally, good thing I made a backup.
I wonder if there's a way to get that working without starting a new game. >_<
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Oh lord that just screwed up my save game royally, good thing I made a backup.
I wonder if there's a way to get that working without starting a new game. >_<
Poor alpha :(
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Oh lord that just screwed up my save game royally, good thing I made a backup.
I wonder if there's a way to get that working without starting a new game. >_<
What happened? I have several savegames with the most insane new ingredients and I had no problems at all.
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I lost about 5 recpies and my inventory was scrambled and had missing ingredients, I had 5 pages on original save, it went back to 4.
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5 pages!? For what? Every boss can be killed without using a single food item.
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5 pages!? For what? Every boss can be killed without using a single food item.
5 pages for completion? o.o
Aquaria isn't just a game about killing bosses; in fact, I haven't even tried using half of the foods I have. xD
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5 pages!? For what? Every boss can be killed without using a single food item.
Can be and will be are not the same thing... there are a lot of play styles and skill levels.
Being a completionist, I would want to collect all the recipes whether I needed them to finish or not.
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For extra fun, try to beat every boss while Rainbow Soup is up!
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I've never tried rainbow soup. I have a save with some rainbow mushrooms though, so I think I might try some tonight. :3
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well, the rainbow soup experience is fun.....once. The best thing about rainbow mushrooms is that they can make plump perogis, my favorite fighting food.
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I've never even heard of the latter. I guess I should explore more. :/
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Check out the Aquaria wiki for recipes and what they do, unless you are a purist. After awhile I cheated. Do a forum search for the link. The plump perogi, as I recall, is +3 defense and +3 damage (not the right word; I forget it in this moment. Brain fart.). Also love turtle soup for +3 defense, gotten by going in and out of the song cave until you have 8 bowls of turtle soup and 8 chunks of turtle meat. What can I say, I like to be prepared. And I prefer killing the cartoon turtles to the cute ones in the turtle cave... In our mod I just made turtle meat leaves. Can people make new food with new effects? What have people come up with for new effects?
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There is a file in data, its called "ingredientdescriptions.txt". It contains the effects food can have, but I doubt changing them has effect. The words used for the effects in this file and in the ingredients file do not match perfectly. I have not tried adding to or changing them, so I cannot tell for sure.
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Ah, I see. ^.^
Even if you did add more, though, how would the game know what to do with them? I doubt the game has a English interpreter built in. :3
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No, you silly thing, you didn't read the post and assumed I didn't know about the thing 75% of my posts so far are about.
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Oopsies. ^///^
*hides behind a rock*