Okay, so I found a slight problem during intimacy, my character is a heterosexual male who doesnt have a twat nor was his asshole penetrated, and well see for yourself.
A simple vanilla error, one that has managed to be preserved in Aric's mod and slip by despite having been found a long time ago. It's actually the skin cover that is causing it, not the multple nipples. Line 1698 in sexdescriptions.gd is:
return getRandStr(descTitsBodyType[3])
but should be:
return getRandStr(descTitsBodyType[1])
The index 3 should be 1.
It's a pretty simple bug, but it's related to Aric's mod not vanilla. Aric forgot to increase the clamped index range when adding his new sizes to sexdescription.gd. In line 1250 it says:
return getRandStr( descPenisSize[ clamp(limitsPenis[0],0,2) * 2 + int(areAllAttrib_E_val(group, C_AGE, C_CHILD)) ])
but it should be:
return getRandStr( descPenisSize[ clamp(limitsPenis[0],0,5) * 2 + int(areAllAttrib_E_val(group, C_AGE, C_CHILD)) ])
It just changes the max size from 2 to 5.
Thank you very much, I will test that.
I assumed it was a simple error, that's why I tried to fix it myself. That, however, was more difficult that I thought. I didn't even recognise the langage used, so I thought that it would be better if someone who knows what they are doing takes a look at that. (Btw what is the name of the programmig language?)
Her breasts are too large. The structure of the conditions changed between versions and his changes were lost.
Line 1827 of outside.gd is
{reqs = [['race','eq','Taurus'],['sex','neq','male'],['lactation','eq',true],['titssize','eq',5],['titsextradeveloped','eq',true],['titsextra','gte',3]]},
but should be
{reqs = [['race','eq','Taurus'],['sex','neq','male'],['lactation','eq',true],['titssize','gte',5],['titsextradeveloped','eq',true],['titsextra','gte',3]]},
Basically changing the tit size check from equals ('eq') to greater than or equal ('gte').
Thanks, I appreciate it! Installation is much simpler now, fortunately, but your video was a huge help for a lot of people for a very long time. Congrats and good luck on your studying coding. I hope you don’t feel like you’re not welcome in the community because the video may not be needed currently; I hope you enjoy the mod and always feel free to swing by the discord or forums and say hello!
This information is too generic to be helpful, since the end of day is probably the largest section of code in the game. There is a Debug mod which can reveal the error message rather than the game crashing. Note that just because the game will not crash does not mean the problem is gone, so it is possible to permanently corrupt your data if you save after an error.
You can find it here: https://itch.io/t/1137280/debugmod-v1
If you get the error code for whatever is happening, feel free to post it so we can get that bug fixed!
This ones a bit tricky, but basically it's complaining that a person was created with an id of '-1' and the code mentioned in the error tried to access a non-existant entry in relativesdata. '-1' is not a standard id as they should all be positive numbers, which means that it was set to '-1' by the mod. This leads us to globals.gd where essentially non-existent fathers, or fathers that are actually animals rather than people, are given ids of '-1' before calling the function that gives the error. In vanilla people do not get relativesdata unless they have relatives, but Aric's mod changes that in expansionsetup.gd by giving it to everyone (I would also note that it attempts to exclude the player, but this fails as "globals.player" is not set until after the person object has been returned, and it would've caused this error if it worked). As the non-existent fathers do not need relativesdata , I will conclude that the fault lies with the constructor code as it incorrectly assumes that everyone would have relativesdata.
The simplest fix is to alter the if statement on line 546 of constructor.gd from
if person.npcexpanded.mansionbred == false:
to
if person.npcexpanded.mansionbred == false && globals.state.relativesdata.has(person.id):
Hi. Maybe I'm blind but I don't see this line in the 1.1 version of the mod. in the Constructor.gd on line 546 I see:
if person.genealogy[temprace] == 0 && rand_range(0,100) <= globals.expansionsettings.secondarybeastracialchance + sametypeweight:
Its in your mod folder right? under directory:
Users\NAME\AppData\Roaming\Strive\mods\AricsExpansion\scripts\characters\constructor.gd
Closest line I can find that matches yours in the constructor.gd is under 406:
#Sibling Match Relatives
if person.npcexpanded.mansionbred == false:
Sorry, I gave the line number for the script after it had been applied. Line 406 is indeed the correct line for the file in the mod folder.
The slave guild abortion and miscarriage potion both use the abortion function. Any attempt at removing a pregnant slave from the mansion results in them using the abortion function. Thus all 3 cases call the same function that was the cause of the old pregnancy resets bug, which in Strive v1.0d results in crashing as the game is no longer running in debug mode. So unless you have already implemented the fix yourself, this is the cause: https://itch.io/post/2931544 The Bugfix mod attempts to clean up loose ends by not keeping unnecessary data, which in this case is babies that will never be born.
Edit: just woke up and overlooked a call of abortion function
The strap-on size is an oversight in the vanilla sex descriptions. It is trying to produce a description of the penis, for which the strap-on acts as a substitute in most conditions requiring a penis. However, the text description function for penis size does not allocate a size for the strap-on (because it has none), so it simply uses the smallest description.
The text function can be easily altered to either produce no text or the largest size. Choosing an custom size of strap-on would likely require and re-working of the concept and a separate action per size. Also, Aric's mod adds functional stuff like stretching, which will also have a size problem with strap-ons. Though this slightly less tricky to resolve, there are 8 instances that need to be changed.
If you edit the file in the mod folder rather than in the program folder, then you will indeed need to re-apply the mod. But there is no reason relevant to this that you would need to start a new save file, as it doesn't effect the save data. It shouldn't even require a restart of the program as returning to the main menu to re-apply the mod would reload the changed file.
The strap-on crash happens because the mod adds code that generates text based on the opposite side of the interaction. When applying strap-ons the action does not require any receivers, so that side will be empty and the new code will crash. The easy fix is to simply add someone to the receivers side of the action. Otherwise open up newsexsystem.gd and replace
var relation = globals.expansion.relatedCheck(cp, partner.person)
with(this can like 2 lines but it's just one line):
var relation = 'unrelated' if partner == null else globals.expansion.relatedCheck(cp, partner.person)
Basically it just adds a new if condition to prevent using a non-existent partner and adds 1 tab to each of those lines under it. The site converts leading tabs to spaces, so copying this text without converting them back to tabs will break it.
The human slave you attempted to give away was likely pregnant, thus triggered this error: https://itch.io/post/4914936
Edit: I failed to notice that the variable 'relation' was used in more locations, fixed the code replacement.
Edit final: Sorry, made a lot of mistakes on this one. I think I got this cleaned up now.
There are 2 Strive games, Strive for Power and Strive: Conquest, which use "Strive" and "Strive for Power 2" respectively. There is no game that uses "Strive 2", though it is possible to rename the "Strive" folder or change the path in project.godot to that. But for a vanilla install it's simpler to just stick with "Strive", which should generate when you start the game. Ignore folders by any other name, at least until you have a better idea of what you are doing
The current version of Aric's mod is 1.1. The current version of Strive is 1.0d, but the next version is pre-released by the Bugfix mod which alters v1.0d. Neither of the mods is compatible with 0.5.25, you will need v1.0d. The Bugfix mod is required to be pre-installed before Aric's mod can be applied, as there were some bugs in the mod system of vanilla 1.0d.
If a slave is pregnant when you use them for a quest it will crash: https://itch.io/post/4914936
Fixed for the next version. Good catch! If you care to fix it manually, just change the "him" to "$him" in traits.gd
Fixed in the next version. Thanks for catching that. It'll default to Master (male) or Mistress (female/futa) if it ever is going to display Null.
The Improved Random Portraits mod is not included in this mod. The vanilla game has a very basic random portraits functionality; it will only match the race. The IRP mod should be applied below Aric's mod, otherwise Aric's will erase parts of IRP.
There should be no need to delete the "backup" folder anymore. The only reason to do so is to permanently change the code of Strive, but if the mod applied a patch then this can create a situation of missing code or files. The current mod system is designed around resetting every file to the vanilla files every time the mod system applies or resets. If there are concerns that the "backup" folder may be incorrect, then the entire program folder should be deleted and a new one extracted.
In this context the pussy and womb are different objects, pussy is part of the description and womb is related to impregnation. It appears that currently the personal baths should remove all cum from the body(except pussy) of slaves. Even without a bath, slaves may remove cum from parts of their bodies(except the womb) if they don't enjoy it or too much accumulates. Also, each day the amount of cum on their body is reduced by a very small amount.
There is no wiki for this mod and Aric prefers people find out through experience, but the mod scripts are text files and gdscript is fairly easy to read even with little experience in programming.
For tracking down the error, I recommend using the Debug mod ( https://itch.io/t/1137280/debugmod-v1 ) as it will usually provide error messages that identify what happened and where. Note that with the Debug mod the game may not crash from errors, but game data can be corrupted and the game will attempt to keep running anyways. If you play with the Debug mod, check for errors before saving.
Please let us know if you do encounter that again so we can make sure any CTD are fully eliminated. Regarding the clean up, the Bath was supposed to fully clean them, but I think that was messed up in the upgrade to v1 so it only partially cleans them daily. That will be addressed in the next update. Thanks for the report!
If you are working on new sex positions that correct this, hop on in the discord, make a fork for it on GitHub, and let’s mod that annoyance out. I know we’d originally planned on implementing your changes before the big version release, but I’m assuming they’d need to be checked and updated now. If you’ve got any working again on v1d then we can definitely get those included!
Seems there's a Sex Expansion mod already that seems to work (once you remove 3 files - specified in the thread). I doubt my attempt is better, so you can just roll that one in easily (it only needs the NEW action files added)
Regarding my items - I tested them with this update. They work a-is.
Mind you, I didn't change or test the item exchange in Umbra yet, nor did I add the bit of code that adds items to enemies/mobs yet, but I doubt anything changed there either.
It's a known issue, Futa sexuality was unhandled in 3 cases, which resulted in them considering sex with male or female to both be the opposite sex regardless of the options. Not sure how it will be resolved, but the next version will have a fix.
This one was tricky, it is likely attempting to find the father but they are not appearing in either the mansion slaves or the mod's NPC list. It seems certain that your description of the cause is correct because if it was the player then it is easy to find or if it was an animal then it would create a temporary replacement. The best cause for this that I can come up with is that the male slave had sex with the other two slaves and then was removed from the mansion and vanishing from the world (if the slave was sold to a slave guild, then they will not exist as far as the search is concerned, but may be bought back as a quick fix). The fertilize_egg function cannot handle slave fathers that did exist during sex but not later when the egg is fertilized. The fix for this is easy; open globals.gd(if you edit the one in the mod folder, then you need to re-apply the mod) with a decent text editor and after(use the Find or Search function):
father = globals.state.findslave(father_id)
Add the lines:
if father == null: # father disappeared from world father = globals.newslave(randomfromarray(globals.allracesarray), 'adult', 'male')
These two lines will need the spaces in front of them replaced with tabs(2 and 3 respectively), since this site replaces tabs with spaces.
It should look like this:
if father_id != null && father_id != '-1' && !father_unique in ['','dog','horse']: father = globals.state.findslave(father_id) if father == null: # father disappeared from world father = globals.newslave(randomfromarray(globals.allracesarray), 'adult', 'male') else:
The first may take some investigation to verify alternate sources of problems, but the cause is that the relativesdata does not update when a slave is renamed and Aric's mod attempts to fix that but only when the slave is not away. There is a fix which was supposed to be in this version of the Bugfix mod, but due to the rushed out version it was missed.
The milk issue was reported a long time ago, but I forget what the cause was. I tracked it down and posted about it, but I don't remember if that was for Aric's or Ralph's.
Definitely not OK.
One cow (taurus, big tits) produced 5 milk, the other (Tisha) producted 1200??? No hyperlactation. None of them are futa, but both are being bred and 600 semen was collected from each. I'm going bankrupt by buying bottles.
Also, profits are weird. 10 empty bottles are 100 gold,I seem to be losing money if 54 bottles yield 270???
Seeling them directly on the market seem far better.
This is very odd. I will investigate further. If you’re comfortable dming or posting your save game, that would help. I haven’t ever encountered that in my farm.
Regarding bottle sales; it’s honestly a placeholder system that was not perfected to try and give the option to generate income and simulate the economy without dragging out the version release back when the farm expansion took so long. It’s on the chopping block to give a lot more interactivity and control over sales, town interactions, etc. My goal is to find the issue here then will likely increase the priority on the updated system originally intended for sales.
Scratch that, definitely found the issue. The extractors should have been running between 0-1 to give a nice .25 or .5 to multiply the resulting production by. What was happening was some had 0-100 as the range, especially in the milkmaids checks, and a couple even have rounding on to give up to 100 times the produced amount. I corrected it in v1.3 and will try pushing that out as soon as I ensure no more bugs related to that, to get that fix out.
As a patch for the milk merchants for now, there’s a final check that will ensure they never sell for less than the cost of a bottle. Just a temp patch to make sure you don’t lose money in case the milk merchant bombs out a towns interest until the rework concludes.
Also fixed the issue of the farm not running at all if no cattle were found. Sneaky little “return text” snuck in there near the top. Corrected. Thanks for the detailed reports mate, they helped me track it down immediately.
I’m definitely down to check it out, not a bad idea at all. More post battle options are always appreciated.
Penile Virginity (and separating Anal/Oral virginity) is something that I’ve considered in the past but put on the back burner just due to the fact it would involve adding several more scene elements to main menu to be able to set that for the player and starter. It’s definitely feasible, it would just be time consuming.
I put the code in the discord. I know it worked with the older builds, back when I made it.
What I have is the copy-pasted code I put in a .txt and stashed way in my modding folder. Seem to have a formatting/identation issue, but other than that, should be good.
You are missing the file "user://mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansion.gd" from your AricExpansion folder. As there are no problems with the paths or line numbers, I must conclude that the failure likely occurred when extracting or moving the folder/files into the "mods" folder. There are no means of achieving these errors through any failed install process within the game.
I suggest deleting your AricsExpansion folder and your Strive program folder (you can keep the Strive user data folder, there appears to be nothing wrong with it), and then start over with extracting each from their folders.
Fetishes can only reveal once perday I think, update at v 1.2 https://itch.io/post/4933703
That’s correct, fetishes can only be revealed once per day at the moment.
An Undiscovered Fetish means that your characters either have a (or possible a couple) Dominant, Submission, Sadistic, or Masochistic traits. The best way to “discover” that trait is to talk to them about how they feel about inflicting pain, feeling pain, taking control, or giving up control. When you find their fetish that has acceptable/mindblowing, it will change from Undiscovered to the actual trait’s name.
Of course, I give you those details right before I update the system. Just as a heads up, that is changing to one “new” and one “changed” fetish per person per day (to speed up the flow a bit) in the new version I’m releasing soon.
Great works. When slave equip with Ancient Sword then I press End Day, error appear, end day notif not appear. Slave's confidence or fear not increased too.
Line 1632 of items.gd should say "conf" not "conf_base".
Part of playing with the Debug mod is that the game does not crash when errors occur, but as a result it aborts the current function and usually creates an avalanche of errors that continue until there is no more code in its path. As a result of the item typo, the rest of the end of day was skipped, including any slaves lower in the slave list than the slave holding the sword.
Yes, if they have Dominant, Submissive, Sadist, or Masochist it starts off hidden until discovered.
Yup, everyone! They are discoverable by talking to them about their fetishes. Just made more sense to tie them together (so you don’t have someone saying they hate losing control while being submissive, etc).
good to know thank =)
especially with the fact that gain a good trait can take a lot of try with the mutate spell so dont have to take a trait when he can be discover like that might help too in my case =)
Futa are known to be not handled correctly in the current version, the mod is undergoing some significant re-works, including how sex and attraction work. I have noticed some inconsistencies in the text during and after the sex interaction, but we have not gotten to that yet. It will be at least a few days till the next version is out.
Hey. I'm getting this error with your mod. Don't really have much information about it, I have no idea how it happened, and unfortunately I don't have a save because the autosaves already got ovewritten.
SCRIPT ERROR: dailyTownEvents: Invalid get index '[10, 25]' (on base: 'Array').
At: user://mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansion.gd:2618.
SCRIPT ERROR: dictionary: Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'substring' in base 'String'.
At: res://files/scripts/person/person.gd:785.
SCRIPT ERROR: dictionary: Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'replace' in base 'Nil'.
At: res://files/scripts/person/person.gd:748.
SCRIPT ERROR: dialogue: Invalid type in function 'set_bbcode' in base 'RichTextLabel'. Cannot convert argument 1 from Nil to String.
At: res://files/scripts/Mansion.gd:1873.
When I advance to a new day by pressing enter, I get only this:
SCRIPT ERROR: dailyTownEvents: Invalid get index '[10, 25]' (on base: 'Array').
At: user://mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansion.gd:2618.
im also getting this issue. Seems to be from a Side Quest Advance/New day
ERROR:
SCRIPT ERROR: dictionary: Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'substring' in base 'String'.
At: res://files/scripts/person/person.gd:785
SCRIPT ERROR: dictionary: Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'replace' in base 'Nil'.
At: res://files/scripts/person/person.gd:748
SCRIPT ERROR: dialogue: Invalid type in function 'set_bbcode' in base 'RichTextLabel'. Cannot convert argument 1 from Nil to String.
At: res://files/scripts/Mansion.gd:1873
Also off topic. Is there a way to disable some abilities from appearing in the combat menu? Like disabling/hiding Mind Read? I swore I could do it in a prior build.
Click on the ? over your units portrait and you can enable/disable there. The other issue is being investigated
Great Addon, thanks for this stuff. Unfortunately my whores don't bring back all the money they earned. As you can see in Job Report they earned a few hundert golds.. but I receive only the 52 gold as reported in Global Report.
Disabling your mod would fix this issue (but saves seem not backward compatible, the game crashes when one tries to continue without your mod)
There appears to be no bugs with gold earned, though perhaps some parts of the report could be clarified. Your reports suggest that you were led astray by the fancy coloring and the fact that some tasks that don't report their numbers.
Based on only what I can see, your slaves earned 371 gold, 20 was spent on luxury rules, 52 was the earned gold for the day. Thus there is 299 gold visibly unaccounted for, but the Job Report seems to scroll further down and I don't know how many slaves are not visible.
The job report also says you have a cook that went shopping for food and the Global Report says that "Market pricing for slaves increased", which means that Ralph's tweaks are enabled. Normally the price for food is 10 gold for 20 food, but Ralph's tweaks change that to 40 gold for 20 food. Assuming that you haven't changed how much food is bought by the cook, then you likely bought the default of 200 food for 400 gold. You only gained 61 food that day, that would suggest that you had at least 14 slaves since they eat 10 food each by default, but probably you had a few more due the reduced consumption as a result of the cook.
As not all of the slaves are visible in the report and the default purchase of food would leave our unaccounted for gold at -101, I am going to assume that the remaining slaves in that report earned that much.
As of Strive 1.0d, the game was no longer released in debug mode. To remedy this, the Debug Mod was released to provide debug mode again. https://itch.io/t/1137280/debugmod-v1
Make sure that you have the most recent version of both mods as it should no longer crash for that event.
Thanks for this. I thought I'd had updated version of both mods, but apparently I downloaded right before one of them got an update posted. (For now) no crash to desktop, and now I also have the debug window back. Yay!
I noticed this particular Typo as well, when I recently played with this new version of the mod. It stems from a missing '$' before the 'He' in line 1618 of the file 'jobs&Specs.gd', which can be found under '/mods/AricsExpansion/patch/files/scripts/', for the original file, or '/files/scripts/' in the modded game folder. The same error can also be found in line 1626 in the same script, which I'd guess came from a copy and past action when writing the negative outcome when the placer loses money.
Cheers and happy new year!
Fixed, thanks mate!
Regarding the freezing/crashing, is this a longterm-ish save or one that you've fought a lot in? The only thing I could think of that would slow anything down would be if the NPC pool has grown too large and bloated the save file size. If you go into expansionsettings.gd and change minimum_npcs_to_detain to a lower number like 5-10 and up the townguardefficiency, it should reduce the pool on the next End of Day. See if that fixes the freezing issue
I found the logs in the application data file, but they are cryptic to me. Still here they are.
DEBUG_TRACE
set ovulation start
setbabytype
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
racelottery
setgenealogy
set ovulation start
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
newslave
set ovulation start
setbabytype
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
setgenealogy
set ovulation start
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
newslave
set ovulation start
setbabytype
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
racelottery
setgenealogy
set ovulation start
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
newslave
set ovulation start
setbabytype
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
racelottery
setgenealogy
set ovulation start
set random ovulation day
set ovulation finish
newslave
GODOT
Godot Engine v3.2.4.beta4.official - https://godotengine.org
OpenGL ES 2.0 Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL ES Batching: ON
**WARNING**: BaseButton's Enabled Focus Mode property has been deprecated due to redundancy and will be removed in Godot 4.0. Please use Control.set_focus_mode instead.
At: scene/gui/base_button.cpp:329:set_enabled_focus_mode() - This method has been deprecated and will be removed in the future.
Godot_2022 something something
Godot Engine v3.2.4.beta4.official - https://godotengine.org
OpenGL ES 2.0 Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL ES Batching: ON
**WARNING**: BaseButton's Enabled Focus Mode property has been deprecated due to redundancy and will be removed in Godot 4.0. Please use Control.set_focus_mode instead.
At: scene/gui/base_button.cpp:329:set_enabled_focus_mode() - This method has been deprecated and will be removed in the future.
Aric's Expansion v1.5
**WARNING**: ObjectDB instances leaked at exit (run with --verbose for details).
At: core/object.cpp:2132:cleanup() - ObjectDB instances leaked at exit (run with --verbose for details).
**ERROR**: Resources still in use at exit (run with --verbose for details).
At: core/resource.cpp:475:clear() - Resources still in use at exit (run with --verbose for details).
Sorry I have no clue what any of this means but I think there is an answer in there somewhere.
The logs you posted are completely useless. If you want useful information, then see this post: https://itch.io/post/5136034
The debug changes how the game reacts to errors, it does not remove them. In debug mode it allows for corrupt behavior and data instead of crashing on error. If you save after the point where you get an error, then your data will most likely be corrupt and require file editing to fix.
The debug mod will provide a terminal that lists errors so that you can find out exactly what is going wrong, but I suspect that your errors were caused by playing the previous version of Aric's mod, which was the cause of crashing for the person who received that post originally.
In the current version you have to spend a turn that does not involve that person as either a giver or taker; however, they can only fulfill a request if they are either a giver or taker, so it's simply not possible. This will probably be changed in the future.
Are you saying you have only found what Wimborn has? if so doing the mage guild quest line will lead to new weapons or if you need them right away if you go to Gorn (Wimborn Outskirts, Prairies, Gorn Outskirts, Gorn) there are more powerful weapons there but you need to have some gold saved up. Otherwise for early game it would be defeating bandits in the local area which can have very good drops.
have gone to gorn multiple time and nothin new at the market, so i may have fucked up the installation of the new vers =(
Instructions on installations and upgrades on front page rather clear, you wouldn't be able to get pass new game menu if you bonk it unless game non-modded.
Only thing I can add is the file line User/Username/AppData <- this mark as hidden so will need check Hidden items box from view menu that is on top toolbar to access rest of the line, should be able to follow instructions from there on.
If talking about about getting better weapons Gorn has hammers and Frostford has greatswords about strongest weapons player can buy and better versions from chests.
If you mean new gear like Rune sword, Archmage robes, Book of Life etc and more they all obtain from chest found in mountain cave, marsh, underground ruins and elite bosses. Also get new elven gear from elf guards/grove.
Thanks for the reports, I already found the repeatable quest one and I'll be working on farm ones today.
For the settings, "true" means the content is enabled and "false" means it is disabled. "brutalcontent" allows explicit npc executions. "messycontent" appears not to be implemented yet.
The game comes with a modding guide in the "Mods" menu, just click the "Help" button, but there is no guide for mods compatible with Aric's mod. The main reason is that this mod is not designed with the intent of being compatible with other mods and Strive's mod system has limited ability for mods to coexist. Also, this mod is currently in active development so any mods made to work with this could become outdated within a week or two. If you wish to add content as part of this mod, it's easiest to simply join the development on Discord, link in the first post.
Just to echo what Ank said, the best way to get involved is to join the mod's Discord (linked in the main post). We have an awesome, active community working together on it who would be happy to teach you the ropes and walk you through implementing your ideas.
For the current version of this mod, please download Strive version 1.0d, the Bugfix mod version 6b, and this mod version 1.5a and install them in that order. The previous versions of this mod are no longer supported nor required. The Bugfix mod is the only one that offers several versions, for compatibility reasons.
All 3 versions I gave are currently the latest versions, but not necessary the final version. There will likely be a new version of Strive in a few weeks.
it's just a typo, there are still quite a few bugs in the current version. Many of them have been resolved for the next version, but I'm in the middle of cleaning up the farm.
Thanks a lot! So it kind of depends on several factors, but as a general rule for a purely optimized build (which isn't required in Strive, but always fun to do), Purebreeds are where to do for the highest total stat, Hybrids are better for more evenly distributed and generalized stats, and Ralph's special hybrids put a further unique spin on it with some unique traits and stat changes that really just depend on the hybrid itself. Some of the specials are stronger than purebreeds, some far weaker. The last type, Mutts, can actually turn out to be the strongest possible build if you can get a pretty even split over multiple genealogies and have fractional percentages of them all. That takes some careful breeding, however. The elemental side is a whole different level to that, of course.
There's a lot more bugs in this last version (though I believe most if not all of the reported bugs are resolved for this upcoming release) as we were reintegrating a massive mod on this mod that had just now been updated from the old game version before a lot of code was reworked. That tweak mod had a lot of conflicts with this mod that we had to resolve and the contributors did an awesome job with setting all of the major conflicts and alterations behind tweaks inside of the mod's settings file. However, though we each did a bugtest run, we figured with the scope of the merger, natural conflicts, and added systems that there would be bugs that cropped up between that release and this. Basically, bugs suck but it wasn't unexpected.
Regarding contributing, we'd love to have you! We have an awesome team working at their own pace on multiple different ideas and levels. If you have an idea to add in or just want to help bugfixing, hop in the discord listed on the front page and we'll be happy to work with you.
Godot provides decent error handling and warnings through the Godot Engine editor. I don't know about the rest of the group but I almost never use the editor for anything except the GUI as I have a text editor with a more comfortable interface. Strive 1.0d is distributed in release mode (non-debug), but there is a Debug mod that provides the Debug mode executable for those that want to debug without the editor, which is how I do it.
That said, many of the errors that make it to the users in a mod release are typos in the data structures not in the code. It is quite easy for Godot to catch code typos when files are initialized, but it does not proofread the data as that is a difficult task to anticipate. Thus, that responsibility falls to those that work on Strive and usually it is accomplished by playing the game. It is possible to write proofreading functions for the data, but nobody has bothered yet.
Hey, yeah, join us on the discord. gdscript is pretty easy to learn - I had zero experience with it before getting involved with Aric's mod on my own mostly (though with lots of help as I went along from folks on the Strive discord). I use the Godot Engine and it's nice vs plain Notepad++ as it does flag simple errors (missing ":"'s, bad indents, etc.) I'm working with Capitualize on revamping the hybrid system currently too and input/collaboration is welcome.
Also there is another bug I noticed, if you finish a fight against 3 (2 bad, 1 bystander) and you do: Rape, Rape, Ignore. But then decide to capture the second person the actions are set back to Ignore, Ignore and when you set them back to Rape, Ignore and commit, the last person is getting raped too.
This appears to be a vanilla bug, the GUI is recreated when you perform certain actions on the slaves, but it does not update the option buttons with any prior changes. The changes to those buttons are stored in a data structure, but that data structure does not update when a slave is captured and removed from the list.
I have not seen duplicate slaves happen in recent versions, nor has it been reported by anyone else so I would expect that it is specific to something you have done or to your save file. The most likely cause would be installing additional mods besides the 2 required, Improved Random Portraits, and Constants; so if there are any additional mods, then please list them or remove them.
I would recommend not saving any progress with duplicated slaves as there can be multiple causes that can behave in weird ways, such as having two buttons for only a single slave. You may also want to consider getting the Debug mod to check for errors.
Just to piggie-back of Ank's explanation, if we get a little more detail we can probably help further as this is the first I've heard of anyone having this error. Let's run through a few of the typical issues:
Just let us know and we'll be happy to help get it sorted for you asap
That feature was not fully implemented in 1.5a, so the best solution is simply to remove it. In explorationregions.gd you should be able to find 'nereidgroup'. Simply delete the entry it is apart of with the comma.
Hey, so I downloaded 1.3, followed the install instructions and was getting a crash before Main Menu. Downloaded the Debug Mod, and I'm getting this error.
,{value = 'nereidgroup', weight = 1}If you make the change in the mod folder, then you will need to re-apply the mod.
Looks like I forgot to update some copied code, line 2130 of newsexsystem.gd (in the program folder) has
!member.person.traits.has('Likes it rough')
but it should be
!i.person.traits.has('Likes it rough')
For the issue Strap-ons being undersized, while the text does sound rather awkward there appears to be no issues. Your taker simply has a 'gaping' sized vagina, which is size 5, and I gave strap-ons a size of 4 to deal with a previous issue of them having a size of -1. The text sounds more severe than it actually is; there is only a 10% reduction is pleasure from the strap-on due to the size differences.
Aric's Expansion v1.6
SCRIPT ERROR: calcUnspilled: Invalid operands 'Dictionary' and 'String' in operator '=='.
At: user://mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansionfarm.gd:1674
SCRIPT ERROR: extractMilk: Invalid operands 'Nil' and 'float' in operator '<'.
At: user://mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansionfarm.gd:730
SCRIPT ERROR: dailyFarm: Invalid operands 'String' and 'Nil' in operator '+'.
At: user://mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansionfarm.gd:398
Great, I look forward to your findings.
Something I also saw: at first I wasn't able to tick "Breed Snails" off after it was set, then somehow it worked. Playing around with it I recognized when Breed Snails is set "on" at the first girl it also shows "on" at the other girl. I tried to switch it off on the second girl (because I had only 1 snail), which didn't work.. and going back to the first girl I couldn't set it back to off anymore. Saving and restarting the game brought it back to work, also finding another snail miracously allowed me to tick that box on and off again. Funny enough the description of breast size changes whenever one sets Snail Breeding on and off. No debug messages shown while fiddling with that tick box.
Now I got curious about the whole breeding thing and brought a guy into the farm. I saw I could set his Breeding to stud, which gives me a list of all girls as potential partners.. and me! WTF, I'm a guy.. Mean as I am I set him to Breed snails.. which changed his state from stud to Breeding Snails.. ah well.. guess guys can't do both at once, eh?
The whole stud breeding is still confusing to me. Shouldn't the list of possible partners only show slaves who gave consent to breeding? Does female lifestock get breed by studs living in the mansion or should those studs also been set into the farm? And same question with male lifestock, do they breed girls living in mansion or should the breed girls also been set into the farm? In my opinion, I would expect consent would be needed from slaves living in mansion while everything could be forced upon farm lifestock.
Sorry for all those questions but I hope you could put some light on it.
That is a fascinating test and part of what I enjoy about people playtesting this mod. I have genuinely never even thought about (at least not as far as I can recall) flipping the script and having the male as the primary in the “cattle” slot. Yes, the only options should logically be those that gave breeding Consent. Thanks for pointing that out!
Mute is a mental trait so the Elixir of Clarity by itself can remove it. That is vanilla and not altered by this mod, so yes there is a way to do that in this mod.
Edit: I should note that this mod currently does not support transitioning vanilla progresses to modded progresses.
Thank! I though that the Elixir of Clarity are only use in Laboratory so I didnt try to applies the potion directly, my bad.
also would it be nice if the mod add deaf and blind trait that can find naturally or manually add or remove it with the Lab?
or the action to add trait with the Lab would also be interesting.
anyway thank for your help!
The first mod should be the Bugfix mod not the Debug mod (both my mods, but quite different), though many people get it right and simply state it wrong. At the start of this text should have been the green text `No errors recorded.` The long post install report with many overlaps is expected and is simply too long to get any useful information from it. It is simply a result of both mods having become rather huge. The most important thing is whether or not the game crashes or gives error messages when you start the game or a progress. Note there are still quite a few bugs in the current version, some fixes are mentioned in the posts above, but the best approach is to get the current code from the Github page (just be careful of the folder name).
okay so got some issue
the part of the genetic of character dont seem to work correctly, even with the library fullly upgraded the text"aric expansion racial bonus" still is blank as my bank account. And when cliking on the name of any race i got that =(
despite that some of my slave have some bonus (in green like when you use a enchanted gear, from the start, especially full blooded one's, so it work kinda
i have up with constant the number of skill pt gained per level, but yeah she was having decent stat from the start (starting slave), but yeah she have no gear who up her stat and havent get the lab yet, and a lot of new feature seem to work, got the new training facility, the town hall, etc
So if someone can tell me how to give more information it would be nice =)
There isn't an easy DIY fix for that error, a typo in another section creates improper data structures that get added to the save file. I'd recommend either waiting for the next version, which should be out in a few days or so, or getting the current main branch from the Github as most of the known issues have already been addressed there (just be careful of the mod folder name). The Debug mod prevents most crashing by aborting the current function as soon as things go wrong, so it doesn't crash but doesn't do much either. Though a side effect of the aborted function is that it causes errors in functions that were depending on the results of that function, which is 2/3 of those errors are.
For the empty studs array I recommend this: https://itch.io/profile/ankmairdor
The farm sales have yet to be investigated.
The spider trap encounter had testing data leftover so it will appear most of the time in the current release.
There are steps in the customization process where the game regenerates the player, specifically if you change the race, sex, or age or back up from that step. When the person is regenerated you will get new genetics. That said, the bonus for 100% fox is +2 agility. Apparently there is some crude genetics work happening at the end of the customization process that always forces the player and starting slave to be purebloods and the player's racial bonuses are not updated afterwards.
damn in that case it might be that my instalation is fked up, but got the new trait, the new item, specialisation, the training ground and the colorful name, so it's strange
or do that mean that it can be re enabled by change it to true ?
also have start from vers 1.6, with debug and all if that relevant to my question.
The traits/items/specializations are fully separate from Ralphs, Ralphs just gives the unique hybrid races and some additional race alterations (along with the option for difficulty tweaks). If you were playing with Ralphs beforehand, it wouldn't automatically save your changes to expansionsettings.gd, so any changes (like enabling ralphs via the line above) would need to be readded. We're trying to come up with a solution to having to re-add all of your tweaks/changes/customizations in expansionsettings but haven't gotten there yet. You can enable it now by setting it to true though, yes.
The Debug mod is not applied through the mod system and only works for 64 bit Windows.
I'd recommend either waiting for the next version, which should be out in a few days or so, or getting the current main branch from the Github as most of the known issues have already been addressed there (just be careful of the mod folder name).
I'm tried to use var use_ralphs_tweaks = true in AricsExpansion\customScripts\expansionsettings.gd. Sorry I just wanna ask, can I enable bonus race for my MC, in ralph tweak bonus race for MC not visible.
And I'm sorry if ask silly question, how can I make my MC wearing clothes, as you can see MC not wearing it, but not catch by town law nudity.
At the moment, there isn't an easy disable for the change to the player's racial bonus stats. The code responsible for it is in scripts/person/person.gd in the cleartraits function under globals.useRalphsTweaks. It causes them to be removed from the player during creation.
I don't think there is any way to manually toggle the cloths for the player, but there may be a way to have it happen automatically, though it will limit your description of the player. In AricsExpansion/expansionsettings.gd you can change player_treats_clothing_like_slave to true and edit the save file to make sure that the player's exhibitionism fetish opinion is low. You'll want a JSON editor, find the player, find fetish, find exhibitionism, and set it to "unacceptable". In theory this should cause the player to automatically re-dress after sex, though this was just from a quick read of the code.
I'm using aric's mod v. 1.6. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
Sorry if I'm asking too much, but can ankmairdor make script to changeplayer.exposed value to false when I preesing button leave to town or C button at mansion. I'm novice in coding, I've tried it so many times but failed. If too many code will change the mods then don't bother to make it.
It appears that the addition of new items included a regression of effects for the Armor Breaker. To trigger the built in fix you will need to edit the save file with a text editor(you will want one with a Find tool) and change the "currentversion" from "1.0d" to "1.0" (any change will work, but this keeps it simple). I recommend making a backup of the save file as mistakes are hard to fix.
New update seems to be doing fine so far I havent gotten through my entire play-through yet , I did find a few grammar errors in the non combat encounters.
Oh also, I've seen this pop up quite a few times, and futanari are disabled in my game and my character is perfectly fine being male so why would my MC randomly think this? lol
Great catch! We're still adding in more travel events and some potential settings checks like that weren't thought of. I also believe that one is one of the ones added by the "sillymode" setting that is on by default but can be disabled in expansionsettings, but am not 100%. Feel free to let us know about any grammar mistakes that slipped by as well!
The stripped down Mac version was shared in the Mac without Wine topic; however, it appears that that topic no longer exists.
https://mega.nz/file/3MJQVJ4Y#w1vLnCqyJ8v9AMdiRLz1lf5ZJHGW9dyNgFaMdp5hIb0
This is the stripped down Mac version, you need either the Windows or Linux version for its files. There is an older copy of the MacOS mod setup in Strive's Mods menu, or in the wiki's modding guide.
Thanks for the report. It is fixed, but for the meantime it's an easy fix on your end. Go into description.gd, find showVice(), then replace:
if person.mind.vice_known == false || globals.expansionsettings.vices_luxury_effects == false:
with
if person == globals.player || person.mind.vice_known == false || globals.expansionsettings.vices_luxury_effects == false:
Sorry, it was renamed to vice_luxury_effects. It’s in customScripts/expansionsettings.gd
Thanks for the best wishes, they are well received and returned. Regarding the second dong, unfortunately I'm not sure exactly how that would play into actually being used in Sex Scenes. It's an interesting concept, but unless the dong was almost treated like a second male/futa it would involve some serious retooling of the sex scenes to actually let it be used as more than a line of text in the inspect screen. It's an interesting concept though and I'll keep it in mind as a factor when we're looking at revamping elements of the sex system to see if there's any way to set the groundwork for it without redoing the whole system.
well my first idea was how to deal with melissa cause even if i was naming the slave she kill "sacrifice" well i was quit pissed at her
and then after i was like it would be actually a interessing idea especially with the interessing feature that is the lab =)
Well that would be amazing if that was possible =)
Make sure you have the current version of the mod from itch.io (not GitHub) installed. Use the steps: un-apply Aric's mod, delete the mod folder, move the new mod folder, and apply Aric's mod.
Otherwise install the Debug mod(https://itch.io/t/1137280/debugmod-v1) and post the error message you get. The Debug mod will stop the crashing but that does not mean that your problem is gone, rather the game accepts corrupted states in order to keep going no matter what.
Alright figured out the issue it was user error.
When downloading the bug fix, I downloaded v5 because v6 explicitly said it does not work with Alaric's mod 1.4. I misunderstood that as meaning I should use 1.5.
Nope, this is 1.7 and works just fine with bugfix v6
In the previous version, the player and start slave would basically never display pureblood(100%) genes but would always be forced to be pureblood when the game was started, so re-rolling the displayed genes never mattered. The code for assigning genes to unique characters was cleaned up so that the displayed genes are always what you will receive when the game starts. It was also reported by a player that it didn't make sense for halfkins to be purebloods, so halfkins were added as exceptions to the pureblood rule unless Furry was disabled in the Options menu, in which case halfkin would take the place of beastkin in terms of genetics. The 69% animal and 31% human was hard coded for halfkin starting characters when Furry is enabled.
Unique characters will have random genes if you do not have Ralph's Tweaks enabled. (Edit: apparently this was changed and unique characters no longer get random genes) Previous versions did not support Constants mod for changing settings like Ralph's Tweaks so the files had to be manually edited every time. Though if you use Constants mod you will need to restart the game for Ralph's Tweaks to go into effect.
I don't exactly understand your problem related to getting a non-demon child. In the previous version, the race chosen for a child had an un-intended bias. It is intended that the child's race will be a random selection of one of the highest percentages if there is more than one. In the case 25/25/25/25, each race will have 1 in 4 chance to be selected. If you have a reason for wanting a different result, then you will need to clarify why and what you would prefer.
Fetishes were expanded to include several vanilla traits such as "Submissive". Vanilla systems for acquiring those traits such as the start slave's quest line and the sex interact have not been corrected, thus those traits will still be added and then later removed. Currently it is not possible to acquire and keep those traits outside of the daily fetish opinion updates.
Didn't play the previous version since was too minor an update for me to bother with (since all it changed was name colour and a few bugs, as I understand), but in the last one before that used to re-roll, hence confusion. Can understand the change to halfkin too, just seemed odd to me given the rather obscure nature of the chosen numbers.
Double checked Ralph's tweaks were on, and they are, but still experiencing the same issue with unique characters. Emily, as previously mentioned, has a ludicrously long list of genetics that doesn't seem to change for me even when start a new game. Just tried it and got the exact same list (below).
Those numbers were chosen by Ralph, I have no idea why those were specifically chosen over a random range.
Also, those genes for Emily were chosen by Ralph, it was something about being optimized for breeding, though that may no longer apply unless the equalizer setting is changed.
There are a couple solutions to your Demon breeding problem. Edit the save file to give the player something like 80% demon and 20% human; it won't update the genetic bonuses but you'll get the children you wanted. Change "player_secondaryrace" and "player_secondaryracepercent" in expansionsettings.gd and start a new progress, though I'm not certain that it works well in every case.
The fetish system is still rather new, so I expect that it will change a bit in future versions and the other issues will eventually get addressed. If you wanted to make sure the start slave quest ends as expected, then you could influence them to have the fetish opinion high enough to get that trait.
Edit: The save file is JSON formatted, so I recommend using an online JSON editor for editing the save file. Also make a backup if you do, it's hard to fix save files.
If you don't like those genes, then open up expansionsetup.gd with any decent text editor and use a Find utility to locate 'Emily' or any other unique name. You can change the genes to whatever you want, change the condition after the "if" to false, or delete their entire section starting at the "if" or "elif" to the last line with one more leading tab than the start. Note there are two sets of code, the first is for playing without Ralph's tweaks and the second is for playing with Ralph's tweaks.
It seems that in the process of removing the old milking system, I failed to notice that "person.lactating.daysunmilked" was only updated in the old system. There are currently no safe and easy methods to stop lactation. The only way that exists at the moment is the mutation spell.
There is not an exact match to that old system's code format so the update of that value is somewhat complicated.
The zero-ing of that value would need to be added to extractMilk in expansionFarm.gd.
person.lactating.daysunmilked = 0 #add var milkproduced = 0
The incrementing(+= 1) of the value would need to be added to dailyLactation in expansion.gd just after the code checking if they are lactating.
if person.lactation == false: return text person.lactating.daysunmilked += 1 #add
Note that the leading tabs are turned into spaces and I have excluded one layer of tabs, so you cannot simply copy this code into your file.
Also, if you use the leak spell on them, suck on their nipples or use a milker during sex it will reset the timer.
I just went back through the library and didn't see it there. I must have read it someplace else. So the Library is all good. Sorry about that. Even though the new farm is a complete overhaul, I noticed that the farm manager does still perform similarly to its old way by subbing in as a farm hand and milk maid if you don't have any. Would it also be possible to add Milk Merchant to the farm manager's duties if no one else is doing it? At least then all the original farm functionality would be back. Maybe with whatever energy the manager has left being a negative multiplier towards profits. With higher energy, the manager would be more willing to deal with getting good prices, lower energy and they'd just want to get everything sold so they could go home and sleep, lol.
The Milk Merchant position is actually pending a fairly substantial overhaul itself to get it closer to where the original intention was. It should allow more direct control over milk sales, city interests, etc. However, I will keep that in mind as a strong possibility to see how easily I can tie that feature into what is planned. That's a good suggestion and I appreciate the feedback.
The “strip immediately” options (from Talk or the toggle in customize) are just for them to strip right then. If you want them to remain nude, you have to brand them and use the nudity rule (like in vanilla). The tooltip from hovering over the customization toggle button should explain that as well as the nudity rule toggle (if unlocked via brand).
Lip sizes do add lisps if at the extreme side of the scale, but reducing doesn’t immediately remove lisps. I believe there’s a chance every day, but the quickest way is to just the lab to remove it (as it is a physical trait).
If you mouse over the left side of the character names, it shows the character’s body image.
Something may be broken on your save if you can’t open your self-inspect menu. I haven’t heard of or seen a bug around that in this version. It may be fixable though. If you aren’t already, download and start the game with the debug exe. See if you’re getting an error when trying to open self-inspect in that. We may be able to talk you through fixing the save, though if it’s just a mid installation it may also work if you just reinstall it fresh and reattempt the save.
That’s the order, that may be part of what messed it up. Technically you have to go in exact reverse order of installation. It would have to be uninstall Aric’s to uninstall the bugfix and reinstall the bugfix before reinstalling Aric’s. If you uninstalled the bugfix while Aric’s was active, that did likely Bork things up.
I’d recommend to uninstall both, download/extract a new game and reinstall to be safe. If it still happens from there, try going to in your AppData/Strive/mods/AricsExpansion/customScripts/expansionsettings and changing the version number to something higher like 17a or something. It’ll force the game to rerun backwards compatibility and hopefully fix the issue if it’s related to the save game.
The body images for characters update with a preference for the first available image. The order that images are searched for is: pregnant, naked, default. If a character does not meet the requirements for the first two images or they are not found then it will skip that image. When an image is automatically updated it will store a value in the person to indicate which type of image it is using. However, this value for the image type is not used nor updated when the image is manually changed (including the random portraits mod's button). Any change of image while the image type is set to pregnant or naked would confuse the system until the person matched the default image type again.
Checking the size of the image nodes is difficult without the Godot editor.
https://itch.io/t/838806/core-tag-size-rules
I don't make image packs so I don't have many tips for making them. There is a channel on the Strive Discord that is dedicated to portrait packs(https://itch.io/t/284398/discord). The game only supports PNG, JPEG, or WEBP image formats. Most use PNG because they like to replace the background with transparency, though some feel that it is just extra work especially with the fading added by the Bugfix mod.
Something to keep in mind about image sizes is that anime images often have very fine details for things like hair or facial features, when those are shrunk to the portrait size they may not appear correct. Also, while there may be small benefits to using larger images and letting the game scale them down, this results in rather large file sizes. There is no benefit to increasing the size of images unless you have some kind of image processing to add detail.
Looking through the code I can confirm my suspicion the else starting at line 801 of exploration.gd in the AricsExpansion mod files is the part of code that recruits the rescued captive but doesn't seem to do anything to remove them from the world.
else:
rewardslave.obed = 85
rewardslave.stress = 10
globals.slaves = rewardslave
text = "$name observes you for some time, measuring your words, but to your surprise, $he complies either out of symphathy, or out of the desperate life $he had to carry. "
The issue is exactly as you have guessed. This was an issue that I believed I had fixed at the start of February, but it seems that I made a mistake. There is code to filter out duplicates from the world, which will run whenever the save file's "modversion" does not match the value in the installed mod. Edit: the duplicates in the mansion will not be removed, but they will be given unique IDs.
The following code can be added below the last line of exploration.gd that you quoted. It should start with the same number of tabs as the as the quoted code. Note that you will need to use a decent text editor and replace the leading spaces with tabs as the forums automatically replaces them. If you change the mod file, then you will need to re-apply the mod; if you change the program file, then you are all set.
text = "$name observes you... #add after this line
for i in globals.state.allnpcs.duplicate():
if str(rewardslave.id) == str(i.id):
globals.state.allnpcs.erase(i)
break
Thanks, I wasn't sure the exact code to remove them from the world.
I did change the code myself but instead of removing the duplicate, I set it up to prevent the slave granting a reward from being added to the world list until you don't (or fail to) recruit them after the fight.
There was already an if statement that primes the reward at line 539 of the mod file, I added an else and moved the code that adds the slave to the pools there.
Then I duplicated the code to add them to the world in the reward section at the end of every scenario other than successful recruitment.
It seems to have worked fine so far and has the added benefit of not posting a message about maybe seeing them again until after they leave.
There is no easy option to limit or disable non-combat encounters. You can edit the file "...files/scripts/explorationregions.gd" with a text editor and change the weights(13 entries) found after 'noenemyencountered' to anything greater than or equal to zero. At zero it should be the vanilla system.
1) It was recently discovered that the trainer job was not included in the list of jobs to be updated at the end of the day, thus it has no effect. This can easily be fixed by opening ".../files/scripts/Mansion.gd" with a decent text editor, finding the line starting with "var corejobs" at the top of the file, and adding to the list:
,'trainer'
2) The tamer specialization has not been changed to handle trainers working with trainees. Slaves working the same jobs will effect each other, but pairing different jobs has to be done explicitly. In "Mansion.gd", the line that starts with "if i.spec == 'tamer' &&"can be changed to:
if i.spec == 'tamer' && i.away.duration == 0 && i.obed > 60 && (i.work == person.work || i.work in ['rest','nurse','headgirl'] || (i.work == 'jailer' && person.sleep == 'jail') || (i.work == 'farmmanager' && person.work in ['cow','hen']) || (i.work == 'trainer' && person.work == 'trainee')):
3) The farm has job skill experience for each of the jobs: farm manager, farmhand, milking, bottling, milk merchant, and stud. How much impact the experience has varies considerably, and unfortunately farmhands never use that experience for anything.
4) The bottles use a copy-pasted function that was altered slightly for each; however the first line of text says piss for all of them. Generally(RNG dependent), if a person has a good fetish opinion for drinking that type of liquid then they lose a lot of stress, else they gain a bit of stress.
5) Fetishes have a small impact on the gameplay and I see no exceptions for the player, so I assume yes. I believe the save file is the only place to change the MC's fetishes at the moment; it's not too hard to do with a online JSON editor, but the daily updates can reduce the values you set unless you disable that option.
6) The code for creating people does not include a way to specify a hybrid race so it is currently not possible to intentionally generate them outside of breeding. There are no specific conditions against them being randomly generated but the chances are fairly low due to the various factors involved.
"There are no specific conditions against them being randomly generated" is all I needed to know. Let the hunt begin :D
Thanks for all the answers, oddly enough I was editing my post while you were finishing yours, I managed to find and correct the spelling problem for point 4.
You were super useful, I will add those lines to the files at once!
EDIT: Uh, should I add 'trainee' beside 'trainer'?
EDIT2: The Trainer job now works as it should, thanks.
About point 3: what I meant is that if I have a slave do, let's say, entertainment, or hunting, that slave will eventually not only get better at his\her job, but also gain enough normal XP to actually level up. Farm jobs don't really give experience, whereas it would be useful\realistic if I could add strength\agility to farmhands\milkmaids without having to resort to take them out to tag along while I fight bandits.
Thanks mate. I think we may have actually resolved the issue that was going to be save-breaking, but I'm not 100% on that yet. I appreciate your support!
The fetishes don't add new actions during sex, they add new Desire requests and improve the response of the person to actions corresponding to the fetish. The requests are randomly selected from the pool of possible requests. The better the opinion of the fetish the more times it is added to the pool. Many of the fetish requests can only be selected if they are not already plausibly fulfilled, meaning that they will not request cum on their body if the still have cum on them from a previous interaction.
Obedience can drop for many reasons: high stress(this is a common problem), low reputation in the town they work, high courage and confidence but low loyalty, failing to have enough food to feed them, having a low obedience and high courage slave instigate problems, not interacting with slaves with the Clingy trait, high lust for many days without sex, low luxury(can happen if you run out of supplies midway through the end of day), or having a dirty mansion. These are vanilla mechanics.
The housepet job and sleeping in the kennel each reduce charm a little per day. The pet rule reduces charm significantly per day. Regressive trait has no per day nor any stat effects.
Having more than one slave sleep in the master's bed is usually a recipe for a stress disaster unless you have prepared carefully. High stress can wreck slaves. The important things for sleeping together in the master's bed is a good relationship between each of the slaves (can be checked in the Statistics tab) or having the Fickle trait and not having the Monogamous trait. These are vanilla mechanics.
Having a farm manager with low confidence has a bug that will inflict stress upon everyone in your mansion.
Many jobs cause stress even if the person may be inclined to it. Fear is a partial substitute for obedience, it has no stress effect though they may gain stress while raising fear. Toxicity will occasional cause a bit of stress, but unlikely to be a problem by itself unless they are mutating.
The hybrid races are part of Ralph's Tweaks, you need to enable those before a person is created or conceived to be given a hybrid race. They can be enabled using the Constants mod and restarting after changing the setting. You may need to try a couple times anyways as with 50/50 splits the dominant race can go either way but the hybrid only happens for one race (Demon for Succubus).
No, it's basically self explanatory for in-game use, but here's a basic guide.
To install: Open the game, press Mods in main menu, select Constants in the list(it should probably be last), apply mods, and restart the game.
To use: press Constants in the main menu, change the values however you want, and close the menu to save the changes and return to main menu. The left column is variable names (hover mouse over for description), the right column has values that can be clicked to change. The mod will automatically reload any saved changes whenever you start the game.
Enabling Ralph's Tweaks with Constants is a special case and will require a restart to go into effect.
Use a text editor to open "customScripts/expansionsettings.gd", and find the line:
var swollenenabled = true
Change the "true" to "false" to disable most of the swelling and immobility, they may need to have an update triggered (ending the day if nothing else) before the change goes into effect.
Generally, the in-game solution is to give them a bath using the luxury rules, though that only works after ending the day.
Branding is not mandatory for slaves; according to the lore, it provides magical functionality to prevent escapes and (for the advanced version) enforce particular rules. You would not be alone if you are interested in distinguishing the social rank of your slaves, but nobody has invested time into implementing it and it is a rather broad mechanic to implement for a rather particular perspective. The Discord for this mod is a better place to offer your suggestions as most of the modders do not actively monitor this thread, but you can leave them here if you prefer.
The GitHub is not considered stable at this time so you may experience more bugs than usual.
The penis size for the person with the strap-on is being compared against null instead of 'none', thus resulting in an incorrect size of -1.
I did not see any indication of fellatio only being enjoyed by giver. If you have a specific example that would make it easier to locate.
>The GitHub is not considered stable at this time so you may experience more bugs than usual.
Would that explain why I'm not getting any after-combat activities (like raping captives, or the reward dialog when high reputation) or is that an install problem on my fault. I'm using the latest main build
I just tested with a new progress and the 1.7 version of the mod from this topic and had no difficulties impregnating 2 female slaves within a week. Thus there must be another factor preventing you from impregnating your slaves. While editing the save file can produce any number of problems, crashing the game is the most likely problem and severe infertility is probably the least likely, but I can't rule out that possibility. There are 4 possibilities (besides contraceptives) that I can think of which could explain it.
If you downloaded the mod from the GitHub within the last 2-3 months, then you are using an unstable version of the mod and your progress likely has severe data corruption. The solution is to download version 1.7 from the beginning of this topic and start a new progress.
Many people fail to install the mod properly, the game appears to run at first but some features like exploring will be significantly broken. Any progress created with an improperly installed mod will have severe data corruption. The solution is to re-install the mod (the Discord linked in the first post is the best place for help with this) and start a new progress.
If you started the save data using a prior version(1.6 was released in a somewhat unstable state) and continued using it with the current version, then you may have some data corruption left over from the previous version. These tend to be fairly minor but still a needle in a haystack. It may be possible to fix the save data by comparing it to a new progress. The Debug mod can sometimes help with identifying what data is corrupt.
I have not tried out every possible pairing of races, fertility traits, and testicle sizes so I cannot rule out the possibility that there is a bug for certain combinations. This mod(as well as Strive itself) is notorious for appearing to work fine until someone tries an unfortunate combination of things. Diagnosing something like this would likely require you share your save file either here or through Discord. If such an issue is found, then changes can be made to the mod files and you can continue playing your save data.
Your line numbers for slave_tab.gd don't match mine, version 1.7, so either you have another mod or a different version. I wouldn't doubt that the relatives panel is bugged for slimes. I think the slime changes are likely incomplete. In this case only children slimes have the slimesire data entry so captured slimes will throw that error.
I haven't played for a while so it's quite possible I changed something and forgot. Thanks :)
Sounds like you either made a mistake while installing or installed conflicting mods. If you saved or auto-saved the progress while this mod was actually installed, then it is unlikely to be compatible with the game without this mod installed. Therefore, if the progress was saved with this mod installed and works after you uninstalled this mod, then you may not have had this mod installed. If you had a progress from before installing the mod and completely uninstalled the mod(or extracted a new Strive folder) and not simply deleted the mod folder, then you should be safe to play.
There will probably be a 1.8 but when is hard to know. Most likely, development will resume in a couple months.
There will be a 1.8. I've had some various health fun times so priority dropped on this for a little while but progress is still being made slowly but surely.
I would not suggest Aric's for your first ever playthrough of Strive. While it does add to the game, most of it is geared towards making the game more challenging for veteran players. I would use Ank's bugfix which is link in the first post and maybe the improved random portraits mod for your first playthrough.
I agree with Rendrassa on playing the game vanilla for a first run. Aric's mod adds a lot of complexity to the game, which is hard to appreciate if you don't know what vanilla gameplay is like. Also, most mods are not compatible with Aric's unless specified so if you want to try all the mods you will need to try them in batches. Some compatibility information: https://itch.io/post/5897523
This mod isn’t for everyone. I appreciate you taking the time to try it and give your feedback. The systems aren’t perfectly optimized, it’s mostly guesswork to find out what works to give the intended result. The typos tend to happen when you’re trying to add in a lot of new dialogue (especially with any level of randomness or procedural generation). It’s unfortunate, but it happens. Almost every system added has fairly extensive toggles and customization under ExpansionSettings.gd where they can be modified and often disabled. However, instead of what currently seems to be an aggressive rant at the team who have spent a lot of their time creating this free mod for those who enjoy it to enjoy, I’ll just encourage you to try making your own mod with any and all changes you’d prefer to see in the game! This is an awesome modding community and we are always happy to see new content.
I'm just going to copy my post from the Discord, since it seems to cover most of this. As far as I remember, the condition of being torn only exists for at most the duration of the interaction, though stretching is semi-permanent.
In version 1.7, you can use the Constants mod to easily and safely adjust many settings for Aric's mod. There are many parts to the stretching system; the ones related to your request are tearing and stretching. Tearing is when the person's stretching becomes unpleasant; Stretching is the chance to permanently increase in size. Stretching can effectively be disabled by reducing the chance to well below zero(it's a base chance not a multiplier, so there are other factors). The option names start with "stretchchance".
Unfortunately, tearing cannot be easily disabled. There are options for auto-recovery like "tornvagautorecovery", but this just means that it heals during the next orgasm. In order to disable tearing, you would need to edit the script newsexsystem.gd. If you change the mod file, then you must re-apply. If you change the game file, then it will vanish whenever you apply mods. Any text editor will do, but decent ones will make it easier.
if difference >= 5 + rand_range(-5,0) + person.sexexpanded.pliability:
This line can be found twice in the file, when true the person can tear. Thus to disable tearing we simply need to ensure that it is always false. This can be achieved by a simple change like this:
if difference - 1000 >= 5 + rand_range(-5,0) + person.sexexpanded.pliability:
I'm away and don't have access to the code(I just remembered the GitHub, though the versions don't quite match). There is a nightly chance to restore tightness, though there are 2 RNG checks. The details are found in expansion.gd in func dailyTighten. There is an option accessible by Constants(vaginaltightenchance), though it simply changes the base chance with an age multiplier. It is affected by the new trait for elasticity.
The clothing feature is probably more complex and buggy than it really needs to be. If you assign a new image to a slave while their image state is either pregnant or naked, then their image will not change until their image state returns to normal. A slave will have a naked image type if they have been stripped of at least 2/3 of their clothes. If the image is changing, but reverting then they are probably choosing to not be naked.
The intent of a slave to chose to be clothed is primarily determined by their exhibitionism fetish opinion. If their opinion of being naked is high, then they will remain naked. If their opinion of being naked is moderate, then they can be forced to remain naked using the nudity rule associated with the advanced brand (acquired by progressing the story quests or always available in sandbox mode). If their opinion of being naked is low, then they may choose to re-cloth even though you attempted to force them to be naked.
That makes some sense why I can't find the option to tell them to stay stripped. I've just started a new save and was testing the new features and haven't progressed to the advanced brand yet.
It doesn't really explain the strange behavior of only having the ability to have 1 item stripped when asked through dialogue. If I ask to have one body part shown it will stay when I exit from talking to the girl and it shows the state in the inspection text. But if I ask to show 2 or fully naked it immediately flips back and I can't read it in the inspection area. I have to use the immediately strip check box to read the details.
The mod doesn't consider removing 1 piece of clothing to be naked, so no action is taken. This may need to be reconsidered.
The immediate re-clothing is probably unintended behavior as the update for Clothing is triggered anytime the slave list in the mansion is updated, which is triggered by almost every part of the Talk menu.
That makes sense. It would be nice if it didn't, at least until you picked another slave to inspect. That way you can ask them to strip, close out of talk, then see what they look like under the clothes, then when you leave them to inspect the next slave they have an opportunity to dress again.
A work around might be to have it display the flavor text that is obscured by the talk window within the talk window. That should be a fairly simple thing to implement? That way when you ask to see what's underneath you get a print out of what the inspect window shows in the chat window. Maybe a chance to include some flavor text along the lines of "You inspect their blah blah", or if the results are a negative sight you could have the flavor text say you are disappointed with blah blah..
Simply having the inspect details of whatever you asked to strip print in the talk window would be a big improvement!
i had constant on. i had it at 100% to make sure.
but i think i figured it out in origins.gd i found this and removed it
#ralph
elif tag == 'unique':
for i in traits:
if traits[i]['tags'].has('unique') == true && traits[i]['tags'].has('expansiontrait') != true:
###---Expansion End---###
rval.append(traits[i])
#/ralph
so i think it was ralph who changed it
no you have to have them in the mansion but in alll honesty it's not exactly a problem especially cause most of your slave are usually not home either because of modification or getting higher grade after for then inventory menu you can select to check only potion there some other page in it dedicaced for each category of item, plus if you click on the slave they are an option to use item on them wich are limited to potion.
Only the Random Portraits mod(https://itch.io/t/984434/randomportraits-and-portrait-pack-editor-for-the-10-ver...) cares about the sex of a person. Neither AricsExpansion nor the Bugfix mod change the portrait assignment behavior from vanilla, which ignores everything but race, so there are no settings to control it. The order of mods should be Bugfix, AricsExpansion, and then Random Portraits.
You are close enough. There was an old system for milk prior to the current expanded farm and not all the necessary parts(such as daysunmilked) have moved over to the new system. There is a lot of messing code and math, and some of that is likely related to milkstorage sometimes having unexpected values. I haven't taken the time to read through the code and clean up milking yet.
The reason is fairly simple, and is not specific to this mod. When the mod system was updated for Strive version 1.0, leading comments were added to the syntax, however it had the unintended quirk of starting the line counting from the first line of the comments rather than the header. It had become a new standard before I was aware of the oversight and changing that standard would break all existing mods that have compensated for it. I try to avoid changes that break existing mods, and I also try to keep the mod system somewhat intuitive, but I haven't yet committed to breaking so many mods to fix this quirk. Since there is one line of leading comments attached to the definition for newdescriptions you will need to add one to your line count to compensate.
Headers are things like var, func and so on? And leading comments are #-comments right before the header with no lines between them, right?
#leading comment
var example = {
}
#not a leading comment
var example2 = {
}So when I use RemoveFrom and AddTo on usual header, the first line (0) is the next one after header, and with leading comment 0 line is the header itself?
To be clear in this context, "header" is a term specific to the modding system which specifies the part of a definition that is used to identify a match from the mod files to the game files.
https://strive4power.fandom.com/wiki/Modding_Guide#Syntax_of_variables_and_their_variants:
Yes, the leading comments are limited to lines startings with a #.
https://strive4power.fandom.com/wiki/Modding_Guide#Leading_comments:
Yes, with one line of leading comment the first line is the header, and while not intended that is the only way to change or remove a header besides patching the file. Header lines were likely excluded from the count to prevent mistakes, though it does limit modding.
Indeed, it does not appear to be particularly common for "absent" to be used that way, though as someone proficient in English it does not feel wrong. From looking as various language forums, it seems that both "is absent X" and "is absent of X" are not commonly used in English outside of American English, so that is not guaranteed to add clarity. As best as I can tell from reading some dictionaries, it seems to be a mixing of the adjective semantics with the preposition usage. There seems to be better precedence for using words similar to "absent" (such as "without") as prepositions in this syntax, so I expect that the complex semantics of "absent" do not quite work well here.
I'll keep in mind your preference for lowercase in the future.
Capture Changes and Random Awareness are default of 0 which are what it appears they were in the released version for v1.8c. That's always been intended to be left as is for the release, so I'm not sure where it would have changed. I'll admit that those aren't the values I use on my personal playthroughs, so if it went from -3,3 or the multiplier of 10, I might have accidentally left in my personal changes into one of the old releases.
repeatable_quests.gd, line 466
description = "A member of the $rare race desires a worthy mate for reproductive purposes. $He must be at least average in appearance and open to $his mate's commands. ",
In game it looks like this
Vanilla Strive has no less than 3 different dynamic text systems, which have different formats and functionalities. The slave guild has one because the other systems are designed to work for people that exist, but the request for a person is not a person. The slave guild's text system is very bare bones and does not support most gendered pronouns like the single person system, so the fix is most likely adding text replacement for those.
The strangeness you found is the vanilla design for using the "setget" keyword on variables simply to access other values inside a dictionary. This design completely bypasses the member variables that appear in most of the code, so they remain null.
Also strange bugs with hairstyles
First, $his doesn't work in description
Second, hairstyle change is half-broken. When you click on hairstyle option it chooses previous one. So choosing straight hair makes character bald and it's impossible to choose bun.
Tried reinstalling everything and enabling only bugfix and this mod, nothing changes. In vanilla game everything is fine.
It appears that Deadly Blow is missing the effect field: "effect = null,". While I'm not entirely certain this is the cause, I am certain that if you were playing with the debug mod and used this ability then it would cause battle to soft-lock as the debug response to the missing field would be to abort the function and skip the part that manages the battle states.
I don't know how it happened, but during the combat I can't select the target enemy, and the "end turn" button broke. I was spamming "1" to use the basic attack while selecting the enemy, so maybe this is the cause.
The debug console keep writing the same line again ad again.
On a side note, sometime when I minimize the game window the buttons broke in the same way. This happen in several zones, not only in combat.
Sorry if those are already know issues. I tried to search for them but I may have missed them.
Just to re clarify problem occur in both normal and debug mode, you will most likely run into the issue in large group of bandits where using 1 button ends up soft locking game, smaller number of enemies don't run risk of it occurring or significant less to happen and same script error code as the poster.
Just the attack skill, only used constants mod and what it has to offer and the error code points to damage effect scales calculation, doesn't really say where or what group is.
Honestly could be something simple like loading problem with custom images that maybe bit too large size for what its use for, just creating stress on game engine having to resize image and use said image in attack animation causing it to stagger when force to speed up which can end up skipping something leading back to problem. Give that wild theory try later.
You may want to verify that you are looking at the correct file or lines of code. The error message points to this line:
if scene.targetskill.targetgroup == 'enemy' && scene.selectedcharacter.group == self.group:
This line has nothing to do with damage at all. It checks that you haven't selected one of your own party members as the target for a skill that targets the enemy. "group" shows up twice in this line, both being the string member variable of combatants that indicates which group they are apart of.
I have not yet ruled out the possibility of a race condition due to rapid inputs, but it should not be the case that something was skipped due to poor performance.
Oh yeah, thanks for pointing that out I pretty much went with first thing I saw on top the page with 'go to' line function search, still getting hang of coding and it was literally in next code func below.
Anyways think you might be correct with rapid inputs, did some stress test with large images all that was achieved creating lag spikes no change in script flow, only when mashing button inputs you get the problem and a lot sooner in frenzy manner.
Not certain that this is the only gap, but neither the key press event for skills nor the skill button press function checks the battle state before doing stuff. Adding the following couple of lines to the start of pressskill(), should cover this gap.
To assign them to crystal research you need to get the 1st lv. in the mansion upgrade.
func pressskill(skill):
if period != 'base' && period != 'skilltarget':
return
Note that this site converts leading tabs to spaces, so you will need to convert them back to tabs.
This should mean that the window for pressing the 1 key after a mouse click was only about 1/30 of a second.
I believe that was explained in a prior version of the setup instructions, but is no longer included. There are very few mods capable of conflicting with the Improved Random Portraits mod, and those that do conflict will quickly correct themselves as it is considered an essential mod. Thus this mod does not conflict with the Improved Random Portraits mod. I recommend using this version(https://itch.io/t/984434/randomportraits-and-portrait-pack-editor-for-the-10-ver...) as it is more up to date.
The Milk Flow trait is added by this mod to alter the amount of milk produced by someone who is lactating, but the trait does not cause them to lactate so removing it will not change their lactation status. The vanilla game has forever lactation after pregnancy and this mod continues that by default, but there is an option in this mod to have it end eventually. You can change the option "lactationstops" using the Constants mods, or you can edit the mod file ".../customScripts/expansionsettings.gd" and change it from "false" to "true". In ".../customScripts/expansion.gd" the value "chancelactationstops" is set to 5, which means that there is initially a 5% chance per day and that increases by 1% for each day since they have last been milked.
At least one of your slaves is missing the 'is_preg' field in the "preg" dictionary. This is a value is not present in vanilla and should be added by the mod to all slaves. The most likely causes are that you either started the progress or gained a slave in vanilla(compatibility with vanilla is lacking) or added another mod that is causing a conflict. The save file is plain text can be edited using an online JSON editor, though the data problems may extend to many slaves or other areas of the game.
Slaves impregnated in vanilla gameplay will have a baby ID in the "baby" field but will have "is_preg" still set to false. Slaves impregnated in this mod will have at least one baby ID in the "unborn_baby" field and the "is_preg" entry set to true. However, if the slave was added during vanilla gameplay but not expanded to have the addition data for the mod, then the "is_preg" entry will be missing, which is your primary problem.
I'm assuming you found the Mods menu from the main menu and that you were not met with a long list of errors when the Mods menu was accessed. But if that were the case then you most likely have a permissions issue that prevents the program folder from creating new folders and files. This is solved by extracting the game to a location with open permissions, like the desktop, documents, or %appdata%.
The most likely user error is that you changed the path to the mods folder in game. In bottom right corner of the mods menu is a button for "Open Mod Folder" and to the right of it is a button that has your path to the mod folder. By default the path should be "user://mods/" (equivalent to "%appdata%/Strive/mods"), and while any folder will work it can confuse users that change it by accident. There is an arrow to ascend folders in the top left of the folder selection dialogue, and there is a difference in the selected path depending on if a folder is selected. If this is the case, then you will have a duplicate instance of the Constants mod at the current assigned location. The Constants mod should be visible in the list from the second start of the game and onwards, regardless of the path.
Another possibility is that you extracted the internal files of the mods into the "mods" folder directly rather than extracting them into a new folder with the same name as the archive. Mods are identified by the mod system using a combination of the location of the info.txt file, which indicates the root folder of a mod and the mod's root folder name. Though the mod system should have given you a bunch of junk mod names if this is the case.
The last possibility that comes to mind is that somehow the mods were placed inside another mod, as the mod system will probably only see the highest level mod.
If none of these are the case, then I will need more detailed information about the files and folders. Perhaps even a few screenshots(you may erase any personal information) using the Snipping Tool, which generally comes with Windows.
You don't need to have experience with the code to figure this out. I know it takes time but if you simply played the game without mods, then you would find that Strive 1.0d does not differentiate siblings from half-siblings; there is only one category for all siblings. Also vanilla Strive does not have multiple babies per birth so twins never happen. If it was a problem in vanilla Strive, then the Bugfix mod or the Strive Discord would be the proper places to report it (mostly to me).
The relation of the parents to each other is not relevant. Note that it is possible for twins to have different fathers if the mother has ever had sex with more than one person with a penis. There have been several bugs related to semen lasting potentially infinite amounts of time within the womb. Additionally, if the father left the mansion, never existed, or ceased to exist before the children were conceived, then the game would generate random temporary stand-ins to provide the necessary data to create the babies. Therefore I recommend verifying that the characters indeed list the same father in their relatives data. You may provide the save file for review/fixing either here(through a file download service) or on Discord.
I'm not aware of any attempt to track twins in the relatives data, which is most likely due to the significant increase in complexity required simply to attach a different name for sibling.
The reworked action in 1.8d was discovered to cause errors when there are no givers/takers due to an oversight in the design.
I believe there are individual images on the discords but I don’t believe there’s a compiled pack for them as of yet.
Sorry for the late reply, the game expects vagina to be "none", but the item sets it to be "". The same is true for penis and balls. The code for the item is found in items.gd.
The virgin birth portion is rather odd. NPCs are designed to have offspring in the wild, especially if they are fucked by the player or their allies and released from the mansion or let go post combat. However the remaining a virgin portion is interesting as I’m not aware of a way for npc pregnancy to trigger without having sex first.
I’ll look into the code, but you may want to start working on some solid doctrine for that virgin birthed daughter wandering the wild. Either it’s a bug or a miracle, better safe than sorry!
I think it has something to do with adding relation after group npc generation in the wilds. I'm pretty sure I have never met(fuck) them before, and I have never released anyone or let them escape. It wasn't a single occurance either, there is at least 2 npc in my mansion who has given virgin birth to multiple children (in the wilds).
Thanks for the reply. For now I will just edit my save to remove the mother-children relation.
There aren’t any watersports sex actions added, it was the actions via the farm and within a dialogue event. But that is a good idea to look into adding another sex action!
oh okay! yea I was just confused cuz you could ask the slaves how they feel about peeing on someone or being peed on but within the farm its just the extraction as far as I know. So yea having more sex actions with watersports would be cool to have I think and would make sense with the fetish questions. Maybe something like: "name" pee's on "name" or somehow in combination with face sitting "name" sits on "name" and forces them to drink their pee or something like that just a couple ideas :3
The first error message in your screenshot mentions "puppet" in the file variables.gd, but AricsExpansion only uses that word once and never in that file. The rest of those errors appear to be derived from that error. So the question to you is "where did that come from"? Did you try to use this mod with another mod or did you edit the scripts? This mod states in the first post that there is very limited compatibility with other mods, due to the extensive scope of this mod.
Since your mod menu appears to work, you should be able to reset your mods to recover. If you run into future issues, then you may want to extract a brand new Strive folder, because sometimes things get left behind by mods after significant early errors.
I already did this thrice. I wrote that I even cleaned up not just the game directory, but even the %appdata%/Strive folder. It did not work.
I have found the reason of the problem after I used the debug .exe (the so-called "debug mod") and looked up the logs output. It seems from the code of the extension, that the folder of the extension in `%appdata%/strive/mods` must be called `AricsExpansion` without any version suffix. After the unpacking from the distrib archive the folder is called `AricsExpansion-1.8d` which completely 100% breaks the game startup.
Certainly consenting to zero children can seem a bit weird, but there are basically two systems: getting consent and persuading them to adjust their preference. The simplest solution would be to remove the zero option.
I'm not seeing any obvious code for the starting slave, so it's not clear why they would be affected. The base game has some lag issues, mostly from image updates, that get out of hand with Aric's mod. Some solutions have been implemented, but are only in the GitHub so far.
Image selection by sex is mostly outside the scope of this mod. The proper fix would involve changes to the Improved Random Portraits mod. Though it should be possible to temporarily change the person's sex if no image is assigned and then try again to find an image.
A couple of the exact error messages and where you encountered the messages would be helpful, as there are a few different problems that would state 'file not found'.
If you are encountering these messages in the mod system report, then the problem is related to the mod system rather than this mod. This message is common for Mac users as the mod system fails to initialize as the game files are inside the .pck and the game cannot find the files(159) to create the backup. It can also happen for users with other OS when the folder permissions prevent the game from creating files and folders.
If you are encountering these messages though the terminal with the debug mod or the log file, then the problem is most likely failure to install the Bugfix mod before everything else, because the Bugfix mod updates the mod system in ways that are critical for adding many new folders(18) and files(174) to the game folder. If the mod folder (the one that contains "info.txt") is not named exactly "AricsExpansion", then the game will fail to find any of the custom script files in that folder, but this is only 11 files. Also, if you failed to notice file copy errors in the mod system report, then those files will likely be reported missing again at this stage.
Edit: in the event that retrying installation fails it can sometimes be useful to extract a new copies of the game and mod from the ZIP archives, or if you do not have/use the archives then re-download them. Though rare, the game folder can become corrupt after bad installs and the mod folder can become corrupt if the user accidentally moves stuff around inside. The rest of the user data folder should be safe from most problems.
%appdata% is basically a Windows shortcut to the path "C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming", which is where many games store save files. The Strive mod folder is located at "%appdata%/Strive/mods" on Windows, so putting that path in a file explorer path bar and pressing enter will take you there. If it does not then that is because the appdata folder is hidden by default and you need to reveal hidden folders on your system. Alternatively, there is a "Open Mod Folder"button in the Mods menu, which will open the file explorer for the mod folder.
So long as you don't mean a path that looks like ".../strive-for-power-1.0d/files/scripts/mods", then yes you can just stick it in the Strive mod folder.
Thank you, I actually read about the upgrade minutes after I've posted this comment :D Looked weird to me that the mod mentioned the need for the specific upgrade only once in the segment that's pretty easy to skip accidently.
This is why he mentioned the Debug mod(https://itch.io/t/1137280/debugmod-v10d), as it changes how the game reacts to errors and enables the display of error messages. It will not fix your errors but the error messages should pinpoint the locations in the scripts that the errors occurred.
The first thing I’d check is that in expansionsettings.gd (or using the constants mod to adjust it) that ”perfect info” is set to true.
The hairstyle showing bald sounds like an old bug that should have been corrected already. Are you using the latest version of the mod or the main branch from GitHub?
Thank you for answering. I actually found out about the no information thing being a proper in game thing. I guess I had never send my nurse away without replacing her. When I gave a new person the "nurse" job it worked. So for that it was false alarm.
Ragrding the baldness: It is not that they all show bald. Just many (~25%) children (Regardless of what age I grow them up to) are bald only when I give a hair growth tonic do they start having hair.
Regarding hairstyles: I meant that when I select "bun" in customization it auto selects "two braids" or "ponytail" becomes "straigth"
I am not sure regarding your question as I downloaded it ages ago, but I am running 1.8d and this was a new game with that mod that is running on and off for months.
(I still have to redo a portrait pack once I have nearly 400 nude/preg pictures now (modified myself or from various sources) and still more to convert)
The hairstyle problem is due to the GUI options not matching the code options, as the GUI is missing the bald hairstyle. In Mansion.tscn replace
items = [ "straight", null, false, 0, null, "ponytail", null, false, 1, null, "twintails", null, false, 2, null, "braid", null, false, 3, null, "two braids", null, false, 4, null, "bun", null, false, 5, null ]
with
items = [ "bald", null, false, 0, null,"straight", null, false, 1, null, "ponytail", null, false, 2, null, "twintails", null, false, 3, null, "braid", null, false, 4, null, "two braids", null, false, 5, null, "bun", null, false, 6, null ]
and it should work. If you change the program folder file then the change will vanish if you re-apply mods. If you apply it to the file in the mod folder then you need to re-apply the mods(just press "Apply", no need for the full process).
S4P crashed during day end where three person (I think it was Emily and Tisha plus one random person) give birth. Attached is the error I obtained from debug mode. I can continue the game using the debug mode somehow (spam don't want to keep the child) but not sure if this is just a temporary solution.
This is an old issue that has been known for quite a while. Fix copied from discord:
the baby has a description problem because babies don't use the standard data (news to me too).
after line 481 of files/scripts/characters/description.gd, a new line needs to be added for feathers_and_fur. I just copied the normal entry
feathers_and_fur = '$His body is sparsely covered with [color=aqua][feathercolor] bird-like feathers[/color]. Beneath that is thick, soft [color=aqua]fur of [furcolor]',
adding a new line requires that you have a decent text editor so that the newline character is correct. although [furcolor] doesn't work because it was only added to the normal description function, it doesn't cause any errors.
Notepad++ will be perfectly sufficient for it. If you add it in the mod files, just remember to reapply the mod (fully deactivate, restart, reactivate, and restart). If you do it in the game files it'll take place next time you start the game but if you ever reload the mod it'll have to be redone. The safest option is adding it to both.
The consent and fetish systems were in discussions for an overhaul (for many of the same reasons as your post) while development was grinding to a halt due to a lack of time and interest. The GitHub version is slightly ahead of the itch.io version, though I'm not familiar with all the differences. The entrancement spell effect was included as a shortcut for both the consent and fetish systems, so if you are looking for an "always say yes" solution then that is it. Note that the enchantment spell effect is consumed by each attempt, so there is still a significant cost.
The consent system has a lot more complexity than may be apparent to the player and there are a lot of intertwined factors. Sexual consents can be influenced by lewdness, lust, and certain fetish opinions. If you aren't going to use the entrancement spell, then my recommendation would be to avoid trying to grind consent simply by asking every day as many of the consents require moderately high stats such as obedience and loyalty simply to get above zero chance of success. Unlike fetishes asking for consent does not improve your chances of success next time, so use a couple meet and sex interactions between attempts to gain consent. Also make sure to clear the rebellious effect of being captured or you probably won't get any consent. The Constants mod only provides options for chances of livestock consent.
The fetish opinion system is complex, buggy, and incomplete so it's difficult to give good advice for it. The alternative to the talk menu should be having the slave participate in the fetish during the sex interaction as the more times a slave is exposed to it each day the greater the chance of raising the fetish. However, this doesn't work for every fetish; some because of bugs and some because the design is lacking. The Constants mod provides access to some options, but these do not appear to be particularly useful at the moment.
To effectively alter/disable the systems, it appears that you could simply edit the values for "var fetish" and "var consentexp" in the program file ".../files/scripts/person/person.gd". It is a plain text file and the edits can be made with any text editor, though making a backup file is recommended. The fetish opinions can be changed from "none" to one of the following values:
"taboo", "dirty", "unacceptable", "uncertain", "acceptable", "enjoyable", "mindblowing"
The consent values can be changed from false to true.
well its not what I hoped but its still better then nothing thanks. I didn't know you could easily edit each character fetish and will for sure do this from now on instead of the mess of menu spam that the game currently demands. Enchantment spam is literally just more menu options clicks which slow everything down so I dont care for it if I want to do more then ask a character to put the damn sword on
If you wanted something else, then you will need to detail what it was you were after. These systems are messy, complex, and spread out across multiple files, so I don't feel like explaining it all and there aren't a lot of great points to edit the scripts unless you have experience programming. For instance, if you wanted Entrancement to last a whole day, then you would need to edit "func usedEntrancement()" in "../files/scripts/statstab.gd" by copying the "return text" line to a new line below
var text = ""
Note, if you make this change using a simple editor like Windows Notepad, then the game will crash due to an improper newline character.
Edit: You could also put a # at the start of the lines between between these two lines("var" and "return") if you prefer.
Also, I should have clarified that editing the values in person.gd will not change any existing characters but change the starting values for newly generated characters. If you want to change the values for existing characters, then you will need to edit the save file, which is JSON formatted data. An online JSON editor can be used to clarify the structure of the data, if you do not have an editor that supports the format. The values will work the same and have the same names as in person.gd, but will be harder to find as there will be a lot of slaves in the file.
Usually the first big indicator is that the game doesn't crash when you start the game or a progress, but besides that there are some things that should be present when the mod has been applied. The main menu will have a special graphic to indicate that the mod is installed, the options menu will list DickGirls as an optional sex, and the starting setup for a custom game will have new races and body part sizes, though you would need to know the normal lists to notice those. The presence of these things indicate that the mod was likely installed correctly, but modding can be complicated and it is entirely possible to add additional mods that conflict and screw up portions of the game.
Without error messages to show otherwise I would assume that it is due to use of "array1.append_array(array2)", which was added in the more recent version of Godot used by 1.0d. While it would not be entirely equivalent, "array1 += array2" can probably be used as a substitute as long as you don't change anything else.
It appears in the following files:
scripts/Mansion.gd
scripts/slave_tab.gd
scripts/exploration.gd
customScripts/expansiontravel.gd
customScripts/expansionsetup.gd
If you continue to have issues, then I suggest checking the output terminal window that opens with the game. If your game does not open with such a window, then you can create your own by opening Terminal, navigating to the app(cd <path to folder containing app>), and start the game(open -a "Strive For Power").
Please note, none of the modding community, including myself, use Mac so we can only get details and test solutions using Mac users like yourself.
Thanks for your response, and I appreciate your suggestion. As I said, I don't rally know what I'm doing (I'm more of a wannabe than anything), so still trying to parse what you said and how to apply it. I Will do some research and report back and in general, I am happy to provide any information/details and test solutions on Mac. Thanks again.
Update: the issue is definitely the changes in the Godot engine. The vanilla 1.0d displays relatives panel just fine. Even in the modded version, it also seems that from the save data that it is recording the relatives info, interactions/sex do recognize relations but it's not processing it for the relatives panel. Going through the scripts you mentioned and trying to understand their mechanics and functionality leads me to think that there are a lot more features that are available in Aric's expansion that are not functioning properly or at all, and I am just not aware because my default is the vanilla version.
One last thing, if I sound like i know what I am doing, I don't. I've just enjoyed playing the vanilla version enough that the expansion seemed like a no brainer, and that led me down the road of how to get mods working on a Mac. Thanks to your answer here I was able to do it, but I am a little (a lot) out of depth here. I guess that's the long way of me saying is that i am not necessarily hung up on fixing this particular issue, I just want to find a way to enjoy the game, with the expansion. So I am open to any suggestions, aside from getting it to work in a PC environment. Thanks again.
The fix shouldn't require much understanding, just change the text from one layout to the other. For instance in Mansion.gd there is:
halfsiblings.append_array(entry.halfsiblings)
Effectively "halfsiblings" is" array1" and "entry.halfsiblings" is "array2". which can be moved to the other layout:
halfsiblings += entry.halfsiblings
The existing line can be replaced with this line and it should work.
As a quick reminder, the mod system makes text changes to the game when mods are applied, so if you change the text of the mod files you will probably need to re-apply the mod for those changes to have any effect.
Brilliant. It was exactly that line of code with the halfsiblings that was breaking it, since that relation was not present in the vanilla version and I guess it didn't know what to do with the data. Anyways, fixed just in time to realize that Aric's v1.9 is out :D Offer still stands if you'd like me to test things on a mac. Thanks again.
The mod is currently buggy as the coders are busy with other projects. This is a known problem with a couple simple fixes. The simple approach is to disable the level up requirements using the Constants mod to enable "disable_levelup_gate".
Otherwise these edits should address the issue:
in outside.gd, lines 1584 and 1590, replace levelupreqs with xp_boost_reqs
in statstab.gd, line 1628 has same problem.
replacing those 6 instances in the mod files should resolve the problems. the mod needs to be re-applied to take effect
Hey, thanks for the fast reply, I followed the instructions and it seemed that it's working at the moment.
Edit: Update, no, still the same. Both are stuck at their previous levels just with a higher grade now. I wonder if it's maybe I am the one who needs to grade-up (I'm still Journeyman in this playthrough)
Wrong mod. This is probably the mod you are looking for https://itch.io/t/2331752/marriageandmore-mod-v3.
Note that the version that is compatible with Arics mod is only only compatible with version 1.8d, as 1.9a made changes to the GUI that require fixes, which are available on the Aric's mod Discord.
