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Better Sorting - Patch Smorgasbord
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Once I got to tinkering with Better Sorting category compatibility, I wound up finding more and more minor instances of mods that hadn't gotten baked-in support or separate patches. Rather than put out umpteen different tiny mods, I've gone and made this smorgasbord compilation to try to bring a wide variety of mod-added items into the Better Sorting style organization. I'll see if I find anything else along the way in this wide wild sea of PZ mods, but hopefully this helps some of you out there who may share my OCD about things clashing!

Covers more than 6,000 items and growing!

This mod is an expansion on coverage for improved sorting categories as inspired byBetter Sorting by ChobitsCrazy! It performs a check to detect if each of the given mods supported is activate before applying their tweaks, and ought to be perfectly safe to add / remove from a save since it's solely changing categories. Make sure that this is placed to load after the mods in question if you want it to affect them appropriately.

Added / Expanded Categories:
-Clothing with vastly expanded sub-categories
-Cooking / Weapon - Melee
-Crafting - Hobbies
-Furnishings with sub-categories
-Hobby - Collectables
-Hobby - Models
-Literature alng with added sub-categories
-Mechanics with vastly exapanded sub-categories
-Plushies
-Survival - Water
-Tool / Weapon - Melee
-Tool / Weapon - Ranged
-Utility

Note: use the Basic version of the module if you'd prefer not to take advantage of the deeper category expansions!

Current mod coverage has gotten quite lengthy, you can see a more comprehensive list in this discussion thread:
Covered Mods Reference

Credit to ChobitsCrazy for Better Sorting which kicked everything off.

Workshop ID: 2869324238
Mod ID: BSSmorgasbord
Mod ID: BSSmorgasbord-Basic
Mod ID: BSSmorgasbord-ConsistencyTweaks

Workshop ID: 2869324238
Mod ID: BSSmorgasbord
Mod ID: BSSmorgasbord-Basic
Mod ID: BSSmorgasbord-ConsistencyTweaks
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1 Oct, 2023 @ 11:34pm
PINNED: Bugs / Errors / Omissions
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15 Oct, 2022 @ 12:11pm
PINNED: Better Sorting & Pantry Packing Smorgasbords
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17 Oct, 2022 @ 12:21am
PINNED: Added / Expanded Categories
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Pipamonium 9 Jun @ 11:58pm 
Might I request a 'More Maps' being added to the covered mods list?
marshmallow justice 16 Mar @ 6:23am 
sapphs cooking ok or should i pair with other mod too?
Gaist Heidegger  [author] 18 Apr, 2024 @ 10:45am 
You can make a copy of the mod from your steam workshop folder and put it into the local PZ workshop folder as an option, the issue you're going to have with trying to override the established categories is that PZ doesn't really have a reliable way to 'prioritize' mods -- a lot of what it does is straight-up alphabetical loading. Hopefully the next major version has a little bit more nuance to structuring which mods should override which.

If you want to explore local edits, the local workshop folder (on Windows at least) is in Users\(Your username\Zomboid\Workshop on your system drive. You can look at the Workshop ID that gets appended at the end of every mod description to narrow down the folder for the particular mod you want to copy over (so for example this mod's ID is 2869324238.)
Kelzhul 18 Apr, 2024 @ 9:56am 
I posted this and then decided to delve a bit deeper myself. You are right, a lot of my issues were with base better sorting, rather than your mod. I just happened to see authentic z as part of your covered mods reference sheet.

Base bettersorting uses cook, instead of cooking, which I suppose is why tomato paste/brownsugar appears in it's own cooking category.

I think it is a known issue for easy packing regarding "drainables" but I'm not sure how they handle it. Maybe they do a condense before packing to make sure only full items are packed.

Looking into it, it really seems like it comes down to base better sorting having incomplete support for easy packing. If I wasn't so afraid of steam overwriting my local edits, I'd just change it myself (I probably still will). I don't know how to make my own mod, though I probably should learn. I wonder if it would be possible to make a mod that changes these categories in game.
Gaist Heidegger  [author] 18 Apr, 2024 @ 9:15am 
I don't believe I've got any Authentic Z coverage in this in the Basic module, so if that's the case it's probably something else as the culprit for those items.

It's been a very long time since I've played PZ myself so I've mostly been in maintenance mode with the mods periodically trying to fulfill requests for additions when free time accommodates it.
Gaist Heidegger  [author] 18 Apr, 2024 @ 9:14am 
Whoops, it does look like I overlooked that -- if you want to nix it on a local copy before I get a chance to upload an update, just delete zz-BSS-VanillaToolWep.lua from basic's media\lua\server folder and that should resolve it for you.

I'm not sure why Tomato paste would duplicate categories because I just pointed it at the basic Cooking category, but I imagine that has since become supported by the base Better Sorting, so I can just remove it from the mix and let that handle it.

I'm surprised easy packing is packing liquid containers since Zomboid's tracking of containers and consumables that have partial uses makes packing / unpacking them behave really strangely (at least from my experience with Pantry Packing, which is what I'd used / supported myself.) I can see about possibly looking at easy packing but if it's already covered by base better sorting doing overrides on them gets a bit more tangled.
Kelzhul 18 Apr, 2024 @ 8:57am 
Is it just me or is the basic version still adding the tool/weapon and cooking/weapon categories? I thought the basic version would use the same categories as base better sorting.

Requests: easy packing and easy packing skill books https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2857301610 .

I know easy packing is already included in the base better sorting, but some of it makes no sense. Aluminum is electronics, but packed aluminum becomes material. Gas can starts in container/fuel but packed gas cans become mechanics. Packed chips become food, instead of non-perishable. Packed literature entertainment becomes regular literature. Packed electronics is it's own duplicate category, etc

Small oddities: Tomato paste ended up in it's own duplicate cooking category. Spatula should be cooking, not junk. Aqua bottles from Authentic Z is in a duplicate container category, white glowstick is in household while the others are in misc.
Gaist Heidegger  [author] 24 Feb, 2024 @ 6:41am 
Basic version is same categories / style as base better sorting, non-basic has additional categories and expansions on that and consistency tweaks overrides some things sorted by better sorting to revise them to work with the new expanded categories.

I'll get rid of the tool category on weapons when I get a chance to take an update pass at this.
tobyfox2002 24 Feb, 2024 @ 5:08am 
I am sorry if this has been addressed already but what does the two sub-mods do? Do you only install one or all three?
Vivid Wyzard 20 Dec, 2023 @ 11:46am 
Tool / Weapon - Melee causes items to get locked out of being equiped to the tool belt because the tool belts are coded to only equip items labeled "tools." Saw is in this category which is crazy because it's not a weapon in the game. I would recommend getting rid of the Tool categories that you've added. It pretty much makes the tool belts obsolete if I can't equip all the tools to it.