Do the songs do anything? I'm not sure they need to, but I'm curious. I kind of love the idea of it being something you can do just because.

This idea is so cool! I'd love to play with this if it's updated, but I just want to say that from the idea alone this would be an instant-download on-sight if I knew how to play older versions. Just being able to interact with the musical instruments throughout the game would really add a new layer to the cultures of the world, let alone playing and composing like a Carbide Chef of the strings.

Hello, does this mod work under the current stable version ?

Understandable. Do as you can

The game's updated versions of Unity make it a bit trickier to get this one up to speed.

No updates?

Doesn't seem work. Get same error as guy below.

as of 05/29/2022 v2.0.203.40, mod fails with this error message:
=== Caves Of Chords Errors ===
<...>\steamapps\workshop\content\333640\1821559303\AudioSequencer.cs(30,63): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'AudioClipSet' to 'UnityEngine.AudioClip'
<...>\steamapps\workshop\content\333640\1821559303\AudioSequencer.cs(50,22): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'AudioClipSet' to 'UnityEngine.AudioClip'
== Warnings ==
<...>\steamapps\workshop\content\333640\1821559303\CustomPopupRender.cs(167,29): warning CS0618: 'ConsoleChar.TileLayerBackground' is obsolete: 'Use TileBackground instead'

Agreed, works y/n?

does this mod still work?

btw is it normal for it to display "composing music" every time a zone is loaded?

I just love the idea.

@DisarmedSpy It because both of these mods cause errors in the player log with enough errors the game refuses to start up. If you have less mods with errors you can have this and Tychos Tangent (I've had both of these running before with a stable start).

Does not work with Tychos Tangent. :(

hey, I'm having an issue on the latest patch where the effects of the songs don't always end and are instead stuck on my permanently

got a weird problem where talking to the joppa zealot results in a menu that soft locks the game while a loading message appears at the bottom.

@Acegiak thanks for the perms. I'll get back to tinkering on that stuff again!

Main branch, I haven't opted into the Tomb of the Eaters beta.

@Mid Favila go right ahead! That sounds excellent!

@water V a p o r Merchant. Are you on the beta branch or the current main version?

The most recent version of this mod prevents you from backing out of the mod activation screen once turned on, and completely crashes the game on startup. Unsubscribing from this mod completely fixed my issues. Please look into it, as I do like the features this mod adds to the game.

Hey, would you mind if I made an add-on for this mod to implement a Bard calling? I've been tinkering with the files in Carbide Chef and I think I have a half-decent proof of concept. All I need to do is figure out how to make the PC learn some songs on startup.

This mod crashes my game when im selecting ability scores during character creation. real shame i was so excited to play a bard

Is there any way you could map the numbers to a chromatic scale (for example, 1 = A, 2 = B - or whatever note they are?

this error might from build log might be related to the cause (from build.log)
==== COMPILER ERRORS ====
ERROR: 104(61,6) : error 1502: The best overloaded method match for `XRL.Liquids.BaseLiquid.BaseLiquid(string, float)' has some invalid arguments
ERROR: (0,0) : error : The best overloaded method match for `XRL.Liquids.BaseLiquid.BaseLiquid(string, float)' has some invalid arguments

seems to cause the the game to fail to load up with the recent update (it instantly crashes before title screen)

The songs do indeed have various buffing effects.

So close yet so far.

Yeah, what Mid said! I want to be a sleazy lounge singer who pillages ruins of treasure and mutant villages of women. Or women-like creatures. Whatever; not picky.

Does this mod's songs/instruments have a buffing effect? If not, do you think it could potentially be added? Would be really, really awesome if we could have a bard-style character. Heck, you could even make it a Calling. Thanks!

Disregard my second complaint, the instrument I found is made of placebo, hopes, and dreams, not actual objects.

Is there a way to forget songs? I have two identical "Test song please ignore" after tying my hand at composing.

Also, I'm not actually hearing anything when I play those songs....

@the I was totally thinking this is parallel to DF's music system! TBH, there's nothing wrong with being a prettier, but shallower, alien post-apoc cousin of DF.

Great mod. As you add to rangen specificity and to the mod in general. Don't have the skill to write in contributions, but here are some thoughts for new features:

*instrument-related/specialized cybernetics
*electronic/digital/fancy computerized instruments
*crafting your own instruments from scrap and corpse parts
*song genre, including songs that may raise or lower faction reputations

These are complex things to work on, but if you hopefully continue expanding this mod they're some potential directions for more content involving it. DF's system for this would be
a good inspiration, but what Qud has that DF doesn't is the robot/cybernetic/tech features, so it would be interesting if they could be utilized for this mod.

@Pet Lol!

My suggestion would be to take a page out of dwarf fortress's book and go a little more specific with the components in their generation. So far the instruments don't seem like they could exist, or even are coherent. For instance one i found was described as a plucked instrument, but then went on to say you play it by shaking the neck and "rattling the hole and shell". Then another was described as being lute like, but was played by tapping the reed and blowing the skin. Suffice it to say that there is some work needed, but this mod is a great first step. This is direly needed in qud, imho, and if you are able to expand on this, then you will be making a legendary addition to qud.

Creativity!

Every day we stray closer to dwarf fortress

@nicolasstag all the instruments are procedurally generated in game from a series of components based on the faction that manufactured it.

could we get an outline of what instruments are in the game?

@MrAleuMcBalto instruments should appear in the world as treasure and in NPC inventories. To learn songs from NPCs you just need the Music skill. Not everyone has songs to learn but a recent update has made them more common.

This mod looks amazing. Couple of questions, though.

1. How or where do you get instruments?

2. Is having an instrument in your inventory necessary to learn a song from NPCs?

Thanks in advance.

Sounds great!