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About this mod
This mod lets you change vanilla sounds for owls and crickets to be less grating! This mod also intends to add luck-based cultural habits to various characters and situations in the game. Optional Luck settings and DSV Native Leah compatibility, designed for some Indigenous or superstitious players.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
Welcome to Don't Whistle At Night- The Luck Mod!
This mod began as just a way to turn off owl hooting for myself and my native friends (as the sound can be bad luck for some communities), and quickly expanded after I realized that I could free us all from the clutches of cricket.wav. From there, I began playing with daily luck conditions, and realized how satisfying it is to have the fortune teller's bad luck warning have some impact. Currently this mod changes the owl hoot sound and the cricket chirp sound, but will soon be expanding to include more sounds for good and bad luck days, adding character dialog, custom mail through mail framework, item interactions, and events connecting to common superstitions! I am starting with DSV's native Leah, and am looking to expand into other characters as interest is expressed. Please feel free to reach out with suggestions!
Currently this mod has one file option- The Audio Only version. This version allows you to choose from multiple sound settings, whether or not the mod is only relevant once DSV's Native Leah lives on your farm (Thank you so much to Airyn for helping me with this!!), and whether or not special sounds can be heard depending on your daily luck. The cultural habits version of the mod is coming soon!
HOW TO USE
CONFIG OPTIONS
COMPATIBILITY
As far as I know this is compatible with almost all mods, but it may cause issues if you are using mods that add owls to your gameplay. Whatever you set your sound settings to, is what the game will play instead of the normal owl or cricket sound, however i've picked the sound options I have with a goal to maintain immersion. In some situations this mod could result in owls making frog or bat sounds. If you find something broken please let me know and I will do what I can to fix it!
FUTURE PLANS
This mod began as just a way to turn off owl hooting for myself and my native friends (as the sound can be bad luck for some communities), and quickly expanded after I realized that I could free us all from the clutches of cricket.wav. From there, I began playing with daily luck conditions, and realized how satisfying it is to have the fortune teller's bad luck warning have some impact. Currently this mod changes the owl hoot sound and the cricket chirp sound, but will soon be expanding to include more sounds for good and bad luck days, adding character dialog, custom mail through mail framework, item interactions, and events connecting to common superstitions! I am starting with DSV's native Leah, and am looking to expand into other characters as interest is expressed. Please feel free to reach out with suggestions!
Currently this mod has one file option- The Audio Only version. This version allows you to choose from multiple sound settings, whether or not the mod is only relevant once DSV's Native Leah lives on your farm (Thank you so much to Airyn for helping me with this!!), and whether or not special sounds can be heard depending on your daily luck. The cultural habits version of the mod is coming soon!
HOW TO USE
- download and put this file in your mods file
- check out the video on this page for a summary of the sounds you can choose from
- edit the config settings using GMCM
- Relaunch The Game After Changing Your Config Settings! because of how audio files are loaded into the game, I cannot promise that everything will work properly if you haven't done this step!
CONFIG OPTIONS
- Owl Replacement Sounds: whether to replace owl.wav with vanilla bat sounds, vanilla leaf sounds, various custom sounds such as frogs croaking and crows cawing, silence, or to keep the default sound.
- Cricket Replacement Sounds: whether to replace cricket.wav with better vanilla cricket sounds, various seasonal and weather based sounds such as bats chirping in rainstorms or chipmunks in fall, silence, or to keep the default sound. Silence turns off both cricket.wav and cricketsAmbient.wav!
- When to Replace: only relevant for the owl noise. Whether to replace owl.wav all the time, or only once DSV's Native Leah is living on your farm.
- (Un)Lucky Sounds: whether or not your sound replacement choices will consider your daily luck. With this on, owls will still hoot on unlucky nights, and cicadas will replace your chosen cricket sound on lucky days.
COMPATIBILITY
As far as I know this is compatible with almost all mods, but it may cause issues if you are using mods that add owls to your gameplay. Whatever you set your sound settings to, is what the game will play instead of the normal owl or cricket sound, however i've picked the sound options I have with a goal to maintain immersion. In some situations this mod could result in owls making frog or bat sounds. If you find something broken please let me know and I will do what I can to fix it!
FUTURE PLANS
- Owl Superstition: Change the owl statue event to either specifically occur on bad luck days (and change the statue's description accordingly), or replace the statue with a different one. See if the owl flying overhead can be changed or if it is hardcoded, and if either event's hoot sounds can be altered independently. Figure out how to handle custom items like owl feathers and rare in game instances where owls come up.
- DSV Leah: add dialog about hearing hoots after bad luck days, or about how peaceful the farm sounds at night, after leah lives on the farm, add mail checking in on the player before leah lives on the farm.
- Other Superstitions and Sounds: please give me suggestions! DSV's Latina Evelyn and Alex: adding huevo limpia (egg cleanse) interaction to increase daily luck, event with Alex about this tradition.