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Mod Releases / Re: BAC 3.86

« on: September 12, 2025, 11:59:21 AM »

My (+C) clothing menu goes from 1 to letter O, not from 1 to H, so it seems I have some extra items on it that are pushing the repair clothing option off the bottom of the menu.  The last two items on mine are:

N Leather belt
O Leather cap

Above them are all the nettle and linen options.

I have only the BAC and a portrait mod installed, and have tried re-installation.  I've also tried running the game via Steam rather than my usual running it directly from the directory, and it's the same. 

When I have time, I will try deleting some items from the menus to see if I can get the repair option to reappear.  Should I be deleting from diy_BAC_Clothing.txt, from mod_diy_BAC_Clothing.txt, or from both?  Or is having both files what's messing me up, and I should only have one of them?

Any help would be gratefully received!

EDIT:  Solved this by commenting out all the fur, leather, and birch bark clothing items that are duplicated in the mod's relevant menus.

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General Discussion / Re: Fantasy?

« on: August 16, 2025, 06:44:48 PM »

I don't know of any, though I think the old Shamen mod had magic stuff in it?

URW began as yet another fantasy rogue-like, but I think Sami saw the market was saturated and began to develop in a direction he knew about - living in the woods in Finland.  Far more engaging than elves and all that shite 

I remember a few years back, someone trying to tell the devs that their timbercraft timings were way out.  So they did a video of I think it was Erkka, splitting a trunk into boards to prove the point.  Where else do you get that kind of dedication to realism?    

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General Discussion / Re: Personal House-Rules?

« on: August 16, 2025, 06:37:48 PM »

The Baltic Sea around Finland is brackish, which means you can drink it.  Water from marshes, though, would need to be filtered and boiled.

And yeah, I pine for the age of anarchy, too!   

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Modding / Re: need help creating something

« on: August 16, 2025, 06:35:11 PM »

You're doing what I often do 

The BAC mod allows you to start naked with nothing, and eventually progress to making your own metal tools.  I usually head for the far north east of the map, with a big fast Kaumo.  I make it so the only contact I have with other humans is when I murder them.  If I'm on a really hardcore run, I don't even loot the bodies.

The main trouble is starvation and cold.  Fur and leather are okay outside of winter, but in the coldest months you freeze pretty quick.  Making a small cabin with just a stone axe takes a loooong time!  The food problem is because a stone knife harvests only around a quarter of the meat cuts that a metal knife gets you.

It's challenging; but with a good Kaumo and a bit of luck, it's very satisfying.

I found this game while searching for a caveman simulator.  There was a stone-age mod back in the day, but it's not been updated for years now.  I'd love to see someone mod in a sling and an atl-atl, though.  Even better if they could add some Neolithic megafauna such as aurochs (which should probably be in the base game) and cave bears and giant elk etc.!

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General Discussion / Re: Tips on solving sleeping problem during summer hunting

« on: August 13, 2025, 10:51:27 PM »

If there's a decent moon, I'll sometimes sleep during the day, sometimes for just a couple of hours before setting off on a hunt.

Bear pipe and mother pipe are two herbs that I always try to have on hand.  If you get an elk, eat a bit of bear pipe and you'll have the vigour for skinning and butchering it.

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Mod Releases / Re: BAC 3.86

« on: August 08, 2025, 04:12:04 PM »

1) Clothes (repairing etc) - modded recipes moved to modded submenu "Nettle and Linen Garments"

I see the menu, but there is no option to repair clothing in it.  Am I doing it wrong, or is it somewhere else?

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Off-topic / Four young ladies in their underwear

« on: June 21, 2025, 10:38:59 PM »

I made it sound better than it is, but it's still good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MovNWuNPXXE

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Mod Releases / Re: BAC 3.86

« on: June 19, 2025, 12:10:25 AM »

A very minor point, the "spindle" appears twice in the Textiles menu.

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Suggestions / Re: Sightings

« on: June 18, 2025, 09:36:10 PM »

Ah, c'mon!

Screenshot is my uninhabited private island, where I am trying to be a hermit.

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Off-topic / Re: Be ready

« on: June 14, 2025, 01:57:36 PM »

I agree, not much point in continued engagement if you still deny that it's a civil war.

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Off-topic / Re: Be ready

« on: June 13, 2025, 09:54:00 PM »

Oh come on, I'm sure you know as well as I do that Russia is holding back from using conscripts and strategic airpower.  Their "meat-wave" attacks are actually fire-teams of 4 blokes infiltrating, because any large formations are getting zapped by drones.  War is changing, and it seems for the better as casualties are fewer.  I still hate the idea of drones hunting down individual riflemen though, maybe I am old-fashioned but it doesn't sit well with me, no matter which side is doing it.

If they are trying to drown you in blood, how is it you didn't have enough bodies to exchange the other day?  You are slipping under the surface much faster than they are.  It's over, pack it in and make terms before you really annoy them.  You've done well and made your point, what can you possibly hope to gain now, if not dragging us all into world war III?

It is a civil war, with foreign intervention on both sides.  I can't grasp why you won't admit this.

Yugoslavia was doomed with the death of Tito due to old hatreds, yes.  But war could have been avoided, had the Serbs let the separatists go.  But they didn't.  And in the end, they went though a whole lot of pain for nothing.  See?

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Suggestions / Re: Strenght 0 problem

« on: June 13, 2025, 09:42:23 PM »

I have done it, though it was many years ago.  I traded poisoned bread with the villagers, then after a couple of weeks they were dead.

I think if you leave the poisoned food lying around on their stockpiles, they will eventually pick some up and eat it, though I'm not sure.  I also suspect that some things happen in the game only when your are in the area, so you may have to visit a village every few days to make them eat things.  Much the same as dogs only eat when you can see them.This is all just suspicion though, I've not done any testing.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Boiled Beverage Question

« on: June 12, 2025, 02:36:09 AM »

I know that if you are poisoned and it may be deadly, you need to eat as many de-toxicants as you can.  The herbs that give you an appetite help you to eat more de-toxicants, and it seems to work. 

This suggests that effects are cumulative; but when doing multiple bear pipes or magic mushies I have not noticed cumulative effects.  I'm high as a kite, but only for a few hours.

So yeah, not much help, really 

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Off-topic / Re: Be ready

« on: June 12, 2025, 02:28:35 AM »

It's not a full scale invasion.  Russia could be carpet bombing your cities, but it isn't.  It's a civil war, and Russia is intervening.  Check the OCSE figures for the number of shells Ukrainian militias were lobbing at the separatists if you want to know why.  Sometimes a thousand a day, in the run up to the war. 

Since the invasion, the Ukrainian forces have been steadfast, and have done very well.  I don't understand the reluctance to call up young men, but I do understand that if you are defending then older men are your better bet.  Your drone forces have equaled those of Russia, and it seems that drones are what matter most these days.

Partisan activity in the areas controlled by Russia is low because it's very dangerous.  It's very dangerous because most of the people there don't want it to happen.  Because they want to be independent, or Russian.

Had you been a Serb in the 1990's, I've no doubt you'd have rolled the tanks into Croatia.  Yugoslavia must be maintained!  But it didn't work out that way, and the people in the Balkans are probably the better for it.  Guard your lands, but accept that sometimes you have to let something go.



 



     

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Off-topic / Re: Be ready

« on: June 11, 2025, 09:31:06 PM »

Oh thats quite alright, I have no illusions about my mental state. That being said, I wonder what you'd call them If you'd seen what they do to civilians, especially young women, or those dudes who actively refuse to cooperate with them. And when I say "seen it", I dont mean in a video. I mean seen it with your own eyes, sensed the smell of the bodies and tried to wash off the body fluids off your hands after handling something that was a human before being killed by these damned orcs. Yes, I wonder what name you'd come up with after that.

Sun Tzu is wonderful reading, but I am not worried about it. Like I said, before full scale orcish invasion, about 8 millions of Ukrainians fled eastern Ukraine and Crimea to other parts of the country. After the land is free from occupation, they will come home.

Oh and there was no referendum in Crimea. Without any warning and/or declaring war, first orcs invaded Crimea, blocked completely stunned and bamboozled local Ukrainian forces (we did not consider them our enemies before 2014 and no one really expected this, not even military), then their special forces units have taken by force the Crimean parliament, at the gun point gathered the MPs and other elected officials and staged their little farce. In short, they pretty much did the very same thing Hitler did in Austria 1938. Ever since 2014, Ukrainian nationals and Crimean Tatars/Qyrymli are being constantly harassed, arrested and kidnapped. Again, same thing like in Austria after Hitler's "referendum". So just like Austria, eventually Crimea will be liberated and things will go back to normal. Those who supported the orcs and have committed crimes will be legally proceeded and those who didnt care either way, will continue not to care.

I saw such things in the Balkans.  I was 108 HVO, and fought in Operation Koridor.  Where did you see such things, and what unit were you with and in what capacity?  I thought of the Serbs as orcs, back then, though I had no idea what an orc was.  All I knew was that I was on the side of the underdog, so I was in the right.  I was a fool.

Our press always talk of the "full scale invasion".  But let's be honest.  It's not, is it?

It's odd how in the territories Russia occupies, there is so little partisan activity.  Is it because the people are cowed by the deranged brutality of the invader?  Or is it because they are okay with being invaded, actually?