Mods / Sonito's Fear the Fire
Author: Sonito
Side: Both
Created: Sep 17th at 6:38 PM
Last modified: Sep 21st at 7:05 PM
Downloads: 1362
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.21.0, potentially outdated):
sonitofearthefire 1.0.2.zip
1-click install
What it dooo :
When a player equips a torch item (configurable ), nearby bears and wolves get a temporary “fear of fire” behavior.
If you want to a detailled description of the behavior i'll put it under this spoiler , or you can leave their behavior cryptic
By default the temporary fear behavior lasts 20 seconds , once those 20 seconds are up the animal gets accustomed to the fire and becomes firebrave (no longer fearful of fire)
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Bear behavior
Most of the time a bear will be Cautious (80%) : it faces you and will be idle or in standing animation,. If you push your luck and get closer to it , it can still swipe.
There’s also a configurable chance to flee(10%), or to ignore the fire(10%) (“attack anyway”) -
Wolf behavior
Wolves usually Stay Close without attacking by orbiting you and staying a safe distance, they stop orbiting until re-engaged. -
Torch
if you put the torch away the animal will ignore the fear behavior
if you put back the torch after unequipping it the fear behavior will return
The fear effect ticks down even if you put the torch away. When the timer ends, animals can become firebrave (enabled by default) meaning future torches won’t scare them
both creatures, If attacked during the fear timer will gain firebrave and attack you
Updates :
- You can throw a torch for a chance to make an animal flee even if it has firebrave and remove its firebrave trait (configurable)
Why it was made :
I find myself victim of many predators without having a chance to establish my first camp , this maybe can help those scenarios
Personal Notes:
Please note that any entity tagged with firebrave wil attack you directly next time, it is kept track of by the server so it only resets when the server restarts
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| Mod Version | Mod Identifier | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| 1.0.2 | sonitofearthefire | 945 | Sep 21st at 7:05 PM | sonitofearthefire 1.0.2.zip | 1-click install | ||
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- Added Torch throwing behavior , throwing a torch has a 25% (configurable) chance to make the animal flee and lose firebrave
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| 1.0.1 | sonitofearthefire | 46 | Sep 21st at 5:03 PM | sonitofearthefire 1.0.1.zip | 1-click install | ||
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- Added campfire fear behavior (enabled by default) with it's configurable variables (Radius,ignore firebrave etc)
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| 1.0.0 | sonitofearthefire | 371 | Sep 17th at 6:39 PM | sonitofearthefire.zip | 1-click install | ||
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- Init
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Couple thoughts:
If an animal catches fire, it should just go full-fear regardless of previous states (Or maybe if it already has firebrave there's a slim 10-25% chance to maintain it)
Smacking an animal with a lit torch, should have a chance to ignite the animal and a chance to extinguish the torch (Both simultaneously)
Campfires and other open flames should cause all animals to flee/navigate a set distance away if they aren't already reacting to other stimuli.
Slight issue with this mod, since the new behaviors seem to override the vanilla behaviors completely(?), you can kind of cheese bears. If you just run up to them with a torch, and they do their "Cautious" behavior, you can back off, and kind of just throw spears out of their swipe range, and skewer them to death and they don't react at all until they decide whether or not they're afraid of the fire.
This is a very cool mod! Make animals more interesting and they look "smarter" and less "psycho killer" :D
SUGGESTION: This behavior could be extended to rusty creatures too (they fear the sunlight)
Maybe I should get off my butt and do some showcase videos like other modders
this looks great! I'm excited to try it :)
Sonito
You rock!
<3
Sonito Oh my god, you're amazing! thank you for wonderful immersive mod!))
Sounds useful for hardcore/semi hardcore playthroughs, thank you!
Sidfu
This kind of behavior is costly in terms of performances to do in a mod , it can be done but not only is it heavy on the server but also complex to code and complex to get "right" , issues with the animations overlapping , stopping / starting when they shouldn't , multiplayer player priority , other behaviors tasks overlapp / priority management , it's hard
i feel like this kind of behavior if done should be implemented in the game instead by the developpers
i feel like this mod wold work better with LOS aka line of site + flame instead of just working on flame. so say your looking forward and if ther emutiple wolves one might circle you and attack from behind.
I'm quite interested in what you managed to achieve with blocks (animals fleeing lit firepits). I feel like there is potential there, like drifters being afraid of salt piles or silver for folklore reasons.
Kalmorph
Yes I agree for Pet AI , I just never played with it tbh
For the left click interaction, it could be done i think , but it would require much more time especially for the animation part i have never done that before
It's on my list !
Hi Sonito, thank you for making the mod!
I was wondering, is it possible to create an behaviour or action, more specifically an left-click interaction with torch on hand that trigger these effects?
I feel that just holding the item can be very intrusive on overall gameplay, causing things like the Pet AI incomatibility. This could be considered more like an "feature" rather than incompatibility if turning these effects towards more player input (as example, I wouldn't try to scare my own "dogs" if I'm just leisuring with them at night with a torch).
El_Neuman
Ask and you shall recieve my child,
Added : If you throw a torch at an animal (even if he is firebrave) , it has a chance to make him flee and lose firebrave, again the item "torch" is configurable you can choose whatever item you want to add if needed in the config
FatherSarge
There you go I added what you wanted =D
Just make sure to modify in the config
"FirepitsIgnoreFirebrave": true,
that will be amazing if i cuould throw torches
Sonito Ok. Thanks for the response ☺️
Yeah for Sure Pet AI is not going to be compatible , i'll put it on my list but it's not a priority
Potential bug with Pet AI and Tamable Wolves. I took out a torch to light a fire pit and all my pets ran off. Now I can't feed them (torch removed).
yup I still have lots of work to do on other mods plus my dayjob but once I add the fire pit feature without any hitches I'll definitely look up compatibility with popular creature mods,
Can this be configured or made compatible with other animal mods like FotSA?
this is such a cool mod, i was literally thinking the game should have something like this yesterday :D
FatherSarge
Yup already started on that , I will make it disabled by default tho
Good mod, should be in vanilla
If you are so inclined, firepit fire making all predators keep their distance (no chance to become firebrave to this type of fire) to keep small camps a bit more safe would be cool
gona give it a try not afraid of them critters , but built base in forest and they both spawn like every 30-45 minutes
Thanks let me know if you find problems with it i'm happy to fix
Downloaded in the first 30s!