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Whorl, the Fractured Weaver
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22 Oct, 2021 @ 11:16am
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Whorl, the Fractured Weaver

Description
Created for Klei's hallowed nights mod competition! See all the submissions and vote here[discord.com]!



Enter the constant as Whorl, the Fractured Weaver! Balanced around fighting shadow creatures for nightmare fuel and collecting ingredients for powerful transformations. They currently have about half of their voice lines customized! The remainder of the voice lines will be updated in a future patch.



Whorl's play is oriented around fighting shadow creatures and using nightmare fuel to create items to sustain them. While their stats are average, take advantage of their low sanity and increased resistance toward shadow creatures to farm enough nightmare fuel for weaving!

Memories are a big part of Whorl's play. Though hard to craft, the Ancient Memory can be used for a big strength and armour boost. For less intense fights, consider using the Cavernous Memory instead.



Shadow-resistant - As a creature of shadow, Whorl takes 25% reduced damage from shadow monsters.

Creature of the Night - Whorl loses sanity during the day and dusk, and regains sanity at night.

Natural Botanist - Plants are drawn to Whorl. At night, a trail of lesser glow berries, light bulbs and ferns will grow in their footsteps, then wilt away after a time.

Unnatural Healer - Whorl can't be healed through conventional means. They can still be revived through a telltale heart, but will need to resort to other methods to keep their health up - namely their woven items.

Monstrous - Whorl is a monster, and will be treated as such by other creatures in the constant.


Whorl has one primary form, and 2 secondary forms.

Forest Form
  • Whorl's base form
  • Neutral attack and defense
  • Grows trails of plants behind them at night in the forest

Cave Form
  • Requires 1 Cavernous Memory for a temporary transformation
  • 1.5x damage boost
  • 25% damage reduction

Ancient Form
  • Requires 1 Ancient Memory for a temporary transformation
  • 4x damage boost
  • 50% damage reduction



Whorl has a custom weaving tab that allows you to spin your nightmare fuel into several unique craftables!

Shadowmorsel
  • Heals 8 Health
  • Heals 5 Sanity
  • Heals 12.5 Hunger

Shadowmeal
  • Heals 8 Health
  • Heals 10 Sanity
  • Heals 18.75 Hunger

Shadowfeast
  • Heals 30 Health
  • Heals 15 Sanity
  • Heals 75 Hunger
  • Restores missing maximum hp

Fossil Refining
  • Refine bone fragments, rock and nitre into fossil pieces

Cavernous Memory
  • Transforms Whorl into Cave Form for a limited time
  • Extends the duration of cave or ancient form if eaten while transformed

Ancient Memory
  • Transforms Whorl into Ancient Form for a limited time, even if Whorl is currently in Cave Form
  • Extends Ancient duration if eaten when already in ancient form

Known Bugs
Given this is the first non-cosmetic mod my team has worked on, there are a few bugs still to be worked out, and plenty of tuning to be done!
  • Shield Hand structure currently disabled due to non-functional aura
  • Sanity penalties that should take place for Ancient Form may not function during time changes

Planned Future Adjustments
  • Fix above bugs
  • Implement craftable Shadow Atrium (Using pseudoscience station and difficult components)
  • Implement Shield Hand craftable structure
  • Implement snare on hit for cave and ancient forms
  • Implement stalker 3rd hit negation on ancient form (and reduce damage resistance to compensate)
  • Completion of voice lines
  • Configurable settings for auto-transform in caves and atrium
  • Configurable settings for intensity of bloom trail at night
Credits
Avast Antivirus - General assets, Forest and Cave assets, coding
Identity Pollution - Ancient Fuelweaver form and bigpicture (character select image)
Cinsynate - Coding
Akimia - Voice lines
103 Comments
Hipecol 30 Apr @ 1:30pm 
I hope this gets continued cause it has so much potential
The Viral Divinity 25 Jan @ 7:29pm 
goofy fella
Castiliano 21 Dec, 2024 @ 10:21pm 
I've been playing this game for at least 10 years now and I always try to check out the player created characters and Whorl has been my favorite for a long time out of all of them. It's really cool how this character feels like it fits into the game, it's very coherent. Sure there are a few things that feel balanced, but overall it's awesome. :dsham:
TNT 1 Dec, 2024 @ 11:15am 
i like this mod and often go back to playing as him for fun,good luck finishing the mod and with life in general
(also tiny bug report if you rejoin a world while in cave or ancient form whorl will look like the first form)
Briileaf  [author] 8 Sep, 2024 @ 6:33pm 
@romikin34 I'm so happy to hear that for you! I was touched to hear your story!

A lot has happened in my life since I made this mod with some friends for the DST Halloween mod contest so many years ago. It's been very busy! Bur through it all I do think about coming back to this mod; it's all of the comments from people here about loving and playing Whorl, even unfinished as they are, that make me want to return to finish them up! There's plenty of unreleased content prepared already, but it definitely needs some polish before it's ready to be shared with the world.

We're coming up on October! If I can wrangle some time for it, I'll aim to have an update up this Halloween. I'd love to share my completed vision of them with you.

Thank you to everyone who's commented here over the years! Though I don't always respond, it always touches me to know people love this rushed creation so much! We never thought Whorl would get this kind of reception when we first created them!
AUTISM PRIME 8 Sep, 2024 @ 8:13am 
does anyone know any similar shadow related character mods would be nice if u told me ty
Romikin34 6 Sep, 2024 @ 7:04am 
Update: he is back :D
Romikin34 22 Aug, 2024 @ 10:42am 
my friend loved this mod, he has been offline for 96 days now:steamsad:
AbyosAbisurinbo 29 Jun, 2024 @ 8:29pm 
esta totalmente dañado en la actualidad el mod:steamfacepalm:
Karset 29 Jun, 2024 @ 7:58am 
very cool mod but it hasn't been updated for a long time and I woud like it to be improved and bugs fixed:steamsad: