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My =subject.waterRitualLiquid= is Yours

Originally posted by Conversations.xml:

Live and drink, =subject.waterRitualLiquid=-sib.

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The Water Ritual is both a core gameplay mechanic and an iconic element of Qud's setting. Your thirst is mine. My water is yours. Live and drink. But have you ever wondered why you find yourself sharing your water with... fish? Why carnivorous arachnids don't prefer blood, or honey skunks honey? Or whether anyone actually drinks all that wine and cider?

This mod aims to be bring greater diversity, challenge and immersion to the Water Ritual by making more factions and creatures utilize one of the game's many other liquids as their ritual offering, in a logical and lore-respectful way.

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• 22 Water Ritual Liquids: Significantly expands the range of liquids used for the water ritual by creatures and factions. Fresh water remains the most common ritual liquid, but there is now much greater diversity: frogs will use slime, birds and insects sap, carnivorous creatures blood, and so on. Most of the liquids used are inexpensive and easily available, but a few individual creature types will demand rarer offerings. Currently, 22 of the 27 liquids featured in the game are used by at least one creature.
  
  
• Consistent with the Base Game: Existing alternatives used in the vanilla game (e.g. oil for robots, slime for molluscs) have generally been respected, but with some additional nuances. Most robots still require oil, but more advanced and less mechanical entities require gel instead, and the most advanced use sunslag.
  
  
• Granular Preferences: Utilizes unused native functionality and an expansion of the native GetWaterRitualLiquid script to permit alternative liquids to be specified at both faction and creature level. For example, most fish require algae for the ritual, but madpoles require blood.
  
  
• New Character: To mitigate the greater challenge and inconvenience in the early game in particular (and, since this is my first mod, to help me learn more about modding the game), the mod also adds a new, lore-friendly NPC with custom dialogue who functions as an ichor merchant, selling basic liquids at a relatively low price. Requires new worldgen to spawn naturally. Learn their location from the villagers of Joppa, or seek for a cave looking out over the flower fields, 4 parasangs north and east of Red Rock.

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So this mod just makes it more awkward and time-consuming to make friends?

Pretty much. But hopefully in an immersive way.

Does this mod make more creatures water ritual-able?

No. It doesn't change the mechanics of the water ritual itself, just the range of liquids used for it.

Is there a list of what's changed?

Yes. Scroll down to the bottom of this page for a full list of who uses what.

Why does X use Y?

The whole point of this mod is to widen the range of liquids, but I have tried to ensure that creatures only use something else if it makes sense. Feel free to comment if you have specific feedback or suggestions on who should use what.

I can't find the new liquid-selling NPC.

The new NPC will only appear naturally as part of a new worldgen. If you can't get the secret because Mehmet and Irudad thought some random pig farms were more more worthy of your attention, you can discover their location by Wishing revealsecret:$djk_liquifex. If you're too lazy to go looking, or don't want to start a new game, you can will them into existence directly by Wishing for DJK_Liquifex.

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This mod adds a few things but doesn't really change much, so should generally play nicely with other mods. The only fundamental incompatibility would be other mods that manually specify water ritual liquids for the base game's creatures or factions.

On a new worldgen, the mod also adds a small custom location fragment, a cave 1 strata deep at 15.16.1.0 on the map.

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This mod is intended to be fairly simple and is essentially done, but possible future updates include:

• Try to find lore-consistent uses for more liquids. Suggestions welcome!
  
  
• Make it possible to tell the new NPC about a certain base game character (if you have met them), and have them relocate accordingly.

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Names refer to factions (applying to all creatures and NPCs of that primary faction). Italics refer to specific creatures or NPCs who have a preference overriding that of their faction.

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