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The Darkness Is Coming!
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3 Sep, 2022 @ 4:36am
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The Darkness Is Coming!

In 3 collections by Monkey
Monkey's Mods and Maps
18 items
Monkey's Darkness Is Coming Collection
10 items
Backpacking Challenge
52 items
Description
Experimental Dedicated Server Compatibility! It can be a bit unstable.

Experience a horror-like game experience like never before!
Try this sub-mod for a more hardcore experience!

Answers for FAQs
  • READ THE FEATURES SECTION!
  • Mod is tested only in Singleplayer and Dedicated Server. However, Multiplayer & COOP is not 100% stable.
  • This mod works as intended as of 41.73.
  • Mod is still in active development, so expect updates.
  • There may be some little bugs here and there. But the mod works! If it doesn't, you either have a mod conflict or you're doing something wrong.


Recent Changes
Added persistent fog sandbox option

Features
  • Highly customizable experience through Sandbox Options!
  • Adds periods of darkness in Knox County that could go on for days!
  • Adds ambient sirens and spooked crows that go off to warn of an imminent Darkness Event in handpicked locations in the map!
  • Optionally add permanent fog even when there's no darkness (off by default)
  • Sirens are completely modular. You can easily add sirens to other maps if you know a bit of modding. Current map support included with this mod is: Raven Creek, Eerie Country and Slocan Lake.
  • Zombie lore can be changed when the Darkness Event comes!
  • Experimental "Heavy fog" that appears thicker than normal in-game fog!
  • The Darkness Event can also affect vehicles! They might become a bit unreliable during darkness.
  • Use the Automated Emergency Broadcast System to get warnings of the Darkness Event, hours before the actual event happens. There's a version that's also compatible with Save Our Station!

Lore
"The Darkness Is Coming!" became a popular cry for help, with whoever is still alive to experience this supernatural event.
Parts of the world started experiencing periods of total darkness.
Black clouds would cover the skies.
Clouds thick enough that they block completely block out the sun!
The air would turn foul.
An unexplained, and sometimes hazardous, thick fog would also set in.
Scientists started recommending the use of gas masks to stop this anomalous atmospheric matter from invading human bodies.
But unfortunately they couldn't find any scientific reasoning behind these events, leading everyone to believe that this event is of a supernatural nature.
They did come up with a warning system that could detect traces of this anomalous matter.
Authorities set up a number of sensor and sirens to warn everyone about this hazardous phenomenon.
A year later, the Knox Event happened. These are truly the end times.
Access to the Automated Emergency Broadcast System became essential to survival.

Sandbox Options
This discussion contains a summary of what the sandbox options do.

Mods that go well with The Darkness Is Coming (Completely my opinion and isn't set in stone!)
Click here to view the collection I use.

Credits
Wveth for commissioning the Persistent Fog update.
Silent Hill franchise
Dark World for granting me permission to use some of his code
The Long Night for the flashlight fix for Dark World
Arko for Spanish translations

Check out my other mods
Start Scenario - Vehicle Nomad Mod Collection
Silent Hill Radio REDUX
Permafrost
Become Desensitized
Become Brave
Kingsmouth in KY
Slocan Lake REDUX
Zombies Can Trip When Bumping Into Each Other

I do mod commissions - Discord: _mon.key

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Workshop ID: 2858019558
Mod ID: TheDarknessIsComing
Mod ID: TheDarknessIsComingEmergencyBroadcastModuleCore
Mod ID: TheDarknessIsComingEmergencyBroadcastSaveOurStation
Mod ID: TheDarknessIsComingEmergencyBroadcastVanilla
Mod ID: TheDarknessIsComingSirensExpansionEerieCountry
Mod ID: TheDarknessIsComingSirensExpansionRavenCreek
Mod ID: TheDarknessIsComingSirensExpansionSlocanLake
Popular Discussions View All (14)
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6 May @ 7:50am
PINNED: Important Multiplayer Info
Monkey
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24 Sep, 2024 @ 8:12pm
Where are the sandbox options?
shed a tear for my circd brothas
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15 Mar @ 1:22am
Mod incompatibility w/Save our Station
programmed.messiah
698 Comments
Nero 4 Jun @ 10:35pm 
hey do you know why the settings text is too big? i cant modify the settings because of it
soggy 3 Jun @ 3:45am 
does this support west point expansion on b41?
shark 15 May @ 10:23pm 
Looking forward for the update to this mod, one of my favorites. Really appreciate all the work you've put into this
Spoilt 12 May @ 12:37pm 
is there a command or anything i can do to force darkness? installed this on dedicated server and have yet to have the event trigger.
xabr 4 Apr @ 8:21pm 
waiting for the update!
marshmallow justice 26 Mar @ 7:37pm 
Sounds good, B42's lightning/environment changes with this would be so good. My friend's don't like it, but I personally love the feeling of having to walk (or get out) of a city during the heavy fog/night. It's so immersive seeing the fading zombies on the edge of fog vision.

I think leaving the Sandbox options toggleable (or just removed) would solidify compatibility a lot, as there's a couple of mods like RZ, Definitive Zombies, etc being revamped in B42 that could easily handle all of it like the current workarounds are now for B41. (IE using Random Zombies/Day&Night while disabling this mods ZLore feature). Though the vehicle malfunctioning is a great idea.
Benzo-Kazooie 24 Mar @ 12:24am 
Appreciate you still working on this Monkey
WoodieLassie 18 Mar @ 3:06am 
Okay no problem, thank you for your work!
Monkey  [author] 17 Mar @ 11:33am 
B42 rewrite will take a while as I'm rewriting the scheduling code to be less buggy. Unfortunately juggling this and 4 other projects, I don't have time to post updates on discord. I will release a public test version when it's ready so just follow my workshop to stay updated.
WoodieLassie 17 Mar @ 11:23am 
Hi, discord link is expired, can we get another one? I would love to beta test this mod