Plasmator Expanded mod [OUTDATED -3.72.2]

[Plasmator94]

URW EXPANDED

This mod was not meant to be 100% faithful to the historical reenactment, however I searched various sources about Iron Age foods in Finland, such as rose hips, wild apple trees, juniper, as well as sour milk and fermented beverages.
In this mode I've used some tiles from vanilla game, is forbidden to use them outside URW. about my own graphic and code, feel free to use it for your own projects and mods.

This mod contain also the Bird Coop code and graphic by Privateer.

THIS MOD IS OUTDATED!!! At the moment, work properly on version 3.72 (I use on 3.72.2, probably work on any past version and up to 3.8.0 )

HOW TO INSTALL
Simply copy and paste all files in the URW directory
Make a diy_glossary and diy_cookery backup first!





ABOUT THE MOD

Mining
Pottery
Forging
Smithing
Gathering
Jewelry
Rites
Farming
Fishing (improved)
Cooking (improved)

NEW PLANTS
- Bugs: Bees and Snail
- Wild fruit trees: Hazelnut and wild apple
- plants and berries: Rose hip, lentils and ramsons.

NEW SEA FAUNA (now living in the in islands will be much more easier and the sea will have a lot of food to give now, and exploring those rocks in the sea will give you a lot of mussels and clams, if you have the right climbing skill...)
- Clams
- Mussels
- Crayfish
- Prawns



MINING
- Look for open mire to dig ferrous stones
- Look for caves to dig various ore like copper, silver and gold

FORGING
- Smelt bog ferrous stones into impure iron, smelt again for rough iron block and forge them into pure steel bars!
- Smelt and forge precious metal ores for jewelry making, to barter on your trading routes

SMITHING
- Forge and shape rough blades, then bury them in a swamp to increase the carbon inside the steel and wait for some months.
- Dig out your blades and forge them into valuable tools or weapons.
- Craftable items: Knife, Seax (skramaseax), Handaxe, Carving Axe, Woodsman's axe, Battleaxe, Battlesword, Spear, Carving Knife, Small pot, Pot, Cauldron, Roundhield, Shovel.

JEWELRY
- Make rings, brooches, sun\moon symbol pendant and brachelet with copper, silver or gold metals.
- Find and refine precious gems and put them on your ring, barter them to be a rich man, or give as a gift for your future wife\husband (if marriage will back one day )

POTTERY
- Dig on the river\lake for clay, shape it and make your clay containers! Avaiable to craft: clay cup, clay bowl, clay pot, small clay pot and the huge amphora
- Small pot and cauldron, a smaller and lighter version of the pot for your wandered characters, and a huge pot to cook great meals for your log-house guests.

GATHERING
- Harvest pine tar to varnish punts and rafts
- Make Charcoal for pottery, smithing and jewelry crafting.
- Look for baltic amber on the seashore and put them on your own jewelry
- Dig for worms to use as baits
- Build and place bird-houses for harvesting eggs after a while
- Look for shells and baltic amber on the seashore
- Dig for stones and rocks
- Crush bones into powder to fertilize the soil

TEXTILECRAFT
- Craftable simple yarn clothes


RITUALS (all this stuff is still very rough, and is meant more for roleplay than other stuff, but make a nice ritual will give you some reward at this moment)
- Burial ritual
- Cremation rite
- Midsommer ritual
- Midwinter ritual
- Shaman-drum (will be used as part of ritual recipe)

COOKERY
- Dry mushrooms
- Seal your berries making Berries Jam
- Make butter and two kind of long lasting cheese
- Huge meals to cook in the new outstanding cauldron
- Harvest bee hives to get honey (extremely carb nutritional) or to get beeswax to seal food like Berry Jam, Cheese, and more to come, or use it as a tanning material
- Harvest snails, a new bug food to find around. Purge them, and taste this delicious stew!
- Harvest new plant like hazelnut (hight fats!), wild apple, rose hip, lentils and ramsons garlic.
- Boil bones for marrow
- Make beverage like Mead, fermented berries wine and sour milk to entertain your guests or to get drunk!
- Modified fish soups to include also shellfishes, dedicated sea soup and freshwater soup!
- Make sourdough for a lot of bread

FISHING
- Make net
- Make and set crayfish\prawn traps (meaby I will remove the shrimp trap or modify a bit)

BUILDINGS (codes take from fandom wiki, Idrk who writed them)
- Dig a primitive well
- Make roads

FARMING
- Bird coop (code and graphicby privateer)
- Scarecrow (will be used for training recipes on future versions)

GRAPHIC INCLUDED FOR:
- All water fauna (crabs, crayfish, shrimps, clams, etc..)
- Clay pot and amphora
- Altar and grave
- All flora (snail, beehive, wild fruit trees etc) - apple and hazelnut have still a very raw graphic, I will work on it soon as I can
- Shellfish trap
- Amber

I hope I din't forget anythink 






Changelog

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Changelog_v0.7 - Expanded Plasmator mod URW

- Creation of dedicated sub-menus for cookery craftings
- Removed seacrab and freshwater crabs, since in finland there where no native species of crabs
- cratfish can be found in both river and lake, but can be fished by trapping only in lakes
- Changed graphics for shrimps and changed name to prawn (baltic brawn)
- Added Rockpool Prawn, can occasionaly found in summer season to add some variety on the coast after crabs removal
- Fixed some mining and forging recipes, setted up noquality for all mining process
- Edited cooking recipes to adapt new sea fauna
- Added lentil soup
- Edited and fixed brass jewelry
- Added Stone cooking plate (atm is useless, will be update on some planned cookery recipes)
- Stone pot weight and capacity changed from 10-2.5 to 12-3 for balance
- Removed waxed cheese
- Added beewax requirement for fermented beverage like mead and fermented berries drinks
- Added flora_ore.txt   -  Baltic amber now spawn as mushroom. Removed possibility to find baltic amber by crafting from "Gathering"
- Fixed "shrimp" graphic
- Added "polish amber" option in jewelry to actually make baltic amber gems to put on rings
- Added hammer and goldsmith's hammer option in smithing menu
- Removed seacrab trap and fixed shellfish traps
- Added lentils soup
- Added bird coop (graphic and code by Privateer). Building the coop and feeding animals require now also some straws
- Changed related skill of forging from common to weatherlore, changed related skill of smithing from common to carpentery
- Changed name of the menù "Rituals" to "Rites"
- Added Cremation rite, where you can get ashes to fill on a container, and then you can bury the ashes inside an amphora
- Changed related skill for rites from common to ritual


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Changelog_v0.8 - Expanded Plasmator mod URW

- Created dedicated sub-menus for Armorsmith, weaponsmith and toolsmith crafting recipes
- Added Rus lamellar, lamellar with shoulders, Lamellar with tassets, lamellar tessets and lamellar shoulders (for now the recipes are empty, only graphics are implemented for now. Next release will add forging option for steel lamellae to build lamellar armours)
- Added Broadhead arrow crafting option.
  Changed requirment for arrow and broadhead arrow from rock to iron block.
  Is not so easy to make your own arrow now
- Removed dedicated cooking recipes and ported again to diy_cookery.txt since was not showing the recipes
- Added Baltic sword, Vikingr Sword, Rus Saber, Langseax, Braided shield, Rus shield, Norman sword


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Changelog_v0.9 - Expanded Plasmator mod URW


- Added smoked meat soup and dried fish soup
- Added beer production with 3 steps ---> malting barley -> malt -> beer
- All cultivated crops like barley and rye, now, when trashed, give also straw
- Added straw hat
- Added compost for manure with straw and raw food (90d to be ready)
- Added extraction of seeds and grains oil (very low output, but with a huge fat value)
- Added fried eggs, fried meat and fried fish (require oil and a stone cooking plate)
- Added smithing option to make iron fish hooks
- Added many rituals (Midsommer ritual, Midwinter ritual, Animal honouring, Spring fisherman rite)
- Added Shaman drum and bone flute for rituals
- Added Reindeer totem and bear totem (with no
- Added crafting option to make Hemp, Nettle or Linen clothes from yarn (tunic, trousers and cloak)
- Added clay bottle (3lb capacity, perfect to keep your fermented berries wine or beer inside)
- Added option to cut fish cuts
- Added Oat cultivable crops
- Added white bread, berries bread and yellow bread
- Pickaxe require now a Rough Axe Head to be made (to balance the fact that you can start in early game to craft expensive jewelry)
- Balanced jewelry prices for feather, bones and antler necklaces, bone rings.



Plasmator URW Expanded v1.0 Changelog

NEW FEATURES
- Overhaul of the rites submenu: 5 new unique seasonal festival (solstices, harvest fest,etc), new ritual mask and kantele. Removed many non-historical and un-practical rituals, adjusted some recipes.
- Finished the armorsmith menu. Now you can actually make lamellar armours and splinted vanbraces\shin guards. (need some balancing and adjustments)
- Added Cabbage plant
- Added quartz. Spawn on mountain tiles, can be polished to get a gem, and putted on a ring. Added to make more variety with the Baltic Amber.
- Added Mugworth (Artemisia), usable for many rites.
- Added straw-wrapped cheese
- Added Suonetar Grass, an unique plant that have ALL the healing attributes (acquirable only by doing certain rites) - bear in mind that have a chance of spawning of 1% so there is a possibility that spawn in open_mires


FIX & ADJUSTMENTS
- Reduced from 0.4 to 0.1 salt requirement for pit cheese
- Reduced stone requirement for burial rite from 15 to 10
- Removed bear totem, spring fisherman rites and other generic midsommer and midwinter rites
- Adjusted output nutrition value for pit cheese
- Reduced beewax required to make berry jams
- Swapped spoilage time of cheeses and oils to 0 (never spoils)
- Adjusted some drink spoilage time to last longer (mead, beer)
- Added 0.1 lb flour for fried meat recipe
- Added seasoning for the sour milk recipe
- Reduce requirement of steel bars for cauldron from 38 to 33
- Changed name of "rough blade" to "rough sword blade" to be more intuitive
- Removed "gather birch young leaves" craft recipe
- Adjusted "look for seashells" to actually work only when you are on the seashore

[Krutzelpuntz]

It looks very cool. I'm a graphics guy, and have a bit to point out.
Your sprites seem to use alpha, which the game does not support.

Heres a quote from the readme that explains how the background color works:

* Background color (which appears transparent in action) is not fixed and is derived from the upper left pixel (0,0).
  Don't use image built-in transparency, but just make sure that the upper left pixel is of the color
  you want to be transparent.

[Plasmator94]

It looks very cool. I'm a graphics guy, and have a bit to point out.
Your sprites seem to use alpha, which the game does not support.

Heres a quote from the readme that explains how the background color works:

Hi Krutzelpuntz, thanks for your feedback!

They just work fine on my pc when I run URW, I've used vanilla background-related object pictures and worken on them, meaby work fine just for me? I'm using latest URW version downloaded from Itch.io

[Krutzelpuntz]

Hi Krutzelpuntz, thanks for your feedback!

They just work fine on my pc when I run URW, I've used vanilla background-related object pictures and worken on them, meaby work fine just for me? I'm using latest URW version downloaded from Itch.io

It seems to only be a problem with seacrab.png, mussel.png and shrimp.png. Here's an example of how they would look in game, with black background.

[Plasmator94]

Hi Krutzelpuntz, thanks for your feedback!

They just work fine on my pc when I run URW, I've used vanilla background-related object pictures and worken on them, meaby work fine just for me? I'm using latest URW version downloaded from Itch.io

It seems to only be a problem with seacrab.png, mussel.png and shrimp.png. Here's an example of how they would look in game, with black background.

Oh I see! Thanks you, I will fix it asap

[Bert Preast]

Looks very interesting!  Great to see you intend to focus on realism, if you look after that then the balancing sorts itself out 

[Tinker]

Looks like you discovered the philosopher's stone, you can make gold bars out of iron.

There are some interesting ideas that will find a place in my version of BAC.

[Plasmator94]

 

Looks like you discovered the philosopher's stone, you can make gold bars out of iron.

There are some interesting ideas that will find a place in my version of BAC.

OOOPS!!  Hahaha thanks for notice me. I will make a quick fix and aa dev update in a couple of days. I've started to take off some stuff and polishing each recipes.

Feel free to add it on your BAC! And if you guys have suggestion and ideas just tell me

[Plasmator94]

Hello everybody, from now I will add the dev on the original post and I will update via a post on this topic.

I've just uploaded the new version 0.7, a lot of small fix done and added some stuff on rituals. Also added Farming crafting, with Bird coop (by Privateer) and a scarecrow (will be used for physicall training on future releases)

I've also made dedicated submenus for cooking recipes, so now shoul be more compatible with other mods

[FestesWagon]

Hey, so i installed the most recent version of the mod and when i check some of the cooking sub-menus they are completely empty.

[Plasmator94]

Hello everybody, here are some new stuff for this version 0.8. New weapons to forge, and armors, all based on actual historical finds on the period where URW is based on. Check the cheangelog for more info

Hey, so i installed the most recent version of the mod and when i check some of the cooking sub-menus they are completely empty.

With new version this is fixed
Just remove diy_harvesting, diy_preserving, diy_beverage and diy_hugemeals after you've overwritten all files with v0.8 files

This will be compatible with your older save

V0.8 Changelog

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Changelog_v0.8 - Expanded Plasmator mod URW

- Created dedicated sub-menus for Armorsmith, weaponsmith and toolsmith crafting recipes
- Added Rus lamellar, lamellar with shoulders, Lamellar with tassets, lamellar tessets and lamellar shoulders.
- Added Broadhead arrow crafting option.
  Changed requirment for arrow and broadhead arrow from rock to iron block.
  Is not so easy to make your own arrow now
- Removed dedicated cooking recipes and ported again to diy_cookery.txt since was not showing the recipes
- Added Baltic sword, Vikingr Sword, Rus Saber, Langseax, Braided shield, Rus shield, Norman sword

[Plasmator94]

It’s been almost two years, and unfortunately I haven’t had much time to dedicate to URW due to personal matters. Still, every now and then, whenever I had the chance to relax and play, I also spent some time expanding this mod.
The next step, aiming toward version 1.0, will be a global balancing of all the new features, adding more to the rituals section (such as crafting a kantele and new specific rites), and most importantly, updating everything to the latest version of URW.

New features:

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With this update, URW Expanded Mod grows with plenty of new content focused on cooking, crafting, rituals, and gameplay balance:

New cooking recipes: smoked and dried soups, several types of bread, fried dishes (eggs, meat, fish), plus a full three-step beer brewing process.

Farming & extraction: new oat crops, straw obtained from threshed cereals, oil extraction from seeds and grains, and composting with straw and raw food.

Crafting & items: straw hat, clay bottle for fermented drinks, fish cutting, handmade clothes from hemp, nettle, or linen yarn, iron fish hooks, and a rebalanced pickaxe recipe.

Rituals & spirituality: seasonal and animistic rites, ritual instruments (shaman drum and bone flute), and totems of reindeer and bear.

Balancing: adjusted prices for jewelry such as feather, bone, and antler necklaces or bone rings.

If I've missed something, let me know. I may have missed to load from older mod some tile images. For any bugs and problems, feel free to let me know, and I will fix it asap.

I'm also planning to make a full overview guide to the mod, and some encyclopedia entires (not a priority atm)

[Plasmator94]

It’s been almost two years, and unfortunately I haven’t had much time to dedicate to URW due to personal matters. Still, every now and then, whenever I had the chance to relax and play, I also spent some time expanding this mod.
The next step, aiming toward version 1.0, will be a global balancing of all the new features, adding more to the rituals section (such as crafting a kantele and new specific rites), and most importantly, updating everything to the latest version of URW.

Sorry in the file is missing the menudef_mod, I will fix it on Monday morning!

If you want to try the new version, just download the 0.8, and move the menu_def file to the main folder (menu_def has no changes between latest version and 0.

[Plasmator94]

PLASMATOR URW EXPANDED V1.0

This is the final version (1.0) of my mod for URW 3.72. With this release the project is officially considered complete, and it’s unlikely I’ll update it further — since my next goal is to port everything to URW 3.86.

That said, if any bugs or issues are reported, I’ll be happy to provide fixes when needed.

New Features in 1.0:

- Complete overhaul of the rites submenu: 5 new seasonal festivals (solstices, harvest fest, etc.), plus a new ritual mask and kantele. Removed non-historical/unpractical rituals, tweaked recipes.

- Finished armorsmith menu: you can now craft lamellar armors and splinted vambraces/shin guards (still needs some balancing).

- Added Cabbage plant.

- Added Quartz (spawns on mountain tiles, can be polished into a gem and mounted on a ring — designed to add more variety alongside Baltic Amber).

- Added Mugwort (Artemisia), useful for many rites.

- Added Straw-wrapped cheese.

- Added Suonetar Grass, a unique plant with all healing attributes. (Only obtainable through specific rites; this still have a 1% chance to spawn in open mires).


As always, check the changelog for detailed tweaks and adjustments.

See you soon on URW 3.86!


CHANGELOG

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Plasmator URW Expanded v1.0 Changelog

NEW FEATURES
- Overhaul of the rites submenu: 5 new unique seasonal festival (solstices, harvest fest,etc), new ritual mask and kantele. Removed many non-historical and un-practical rituals, adjusted some recipes.
- Finished the armorsmith menu. Now you can actually make lamellar armours and splinted vanbraces\shin guards. (need some balancing and adjustments)
- Added Cabbage plant
- Added quartz. Spawn on mountain tiles, can be polished to get a gem, and putted on a ring. Added to make more variety with the Baltic Amber.
- Added Mugworth (Artemisia), usable for many rites.
- Added straw-wrapped cheese
- Added Suonetar Grass, an unique plant that have ALL the healing attributes (acquirable only by doing certain rites) - bear in mind that have a chance of spawning of 1% so there is a possibility that spawn in open_mires


FIX & ADJUSTMENTS
- Reduced from 0.4 to 0.1 salt requirement for pit cheese
- Reduced stone requirement for burial rite from 15 to 10
- Removed bear totem, spring fisherman rites and other generic midsommer and midwinter rites
- Adjusted output nutrition value for pit cheese
- Reduced beewax required to make berry jams
- Swapped spoilage time of cheeses and oils to 0 (never spoils)
- Adjusted some drink spoilage time to last longer (mead, beer)
- Added 0.1 lb flour for fried meat recipe
- Added seasoning for the sour milk recipe
- Reduce requirement of steel bars for cauldron from 38 to 33
- Changed name of "rough blade" to "rough sword blade" to be more intuitive
- Removed "gather birch young leaves" craft recipe
- Adjusted "look for seashells" to actually work only when you are on the seashore