For those who want to use this mod, please see Kaige's updated mod 5 posts below which fixes the original Triumph version which has issues.

The DLC I did not know I needed

I'll have to remind myself to subscribe later, right now emperor penguin is bugging.

@Kaige

I don't care if it is boorish, you corrected small flaws and my anal retentive inner goblin thanks you.

Might be boorish for me to post this here, but I have an edited & corrected version of this mod available that properly tags all the spells, makes Dedicated to Evil actually work, and provides the Dire Emperor Penguin with his missing icon art, as well as the ability to swim like the standard Penguin. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2980342955

I'll gladly take it down if Triumph ever updates this mod to include all these fixes

Currently the researched spells lack a tag. For example the dedication to evil doesn't show it's an enchantment etc. Not to mention that the dire penguin doesn't have an icon yet. I get that this was a bit of an april fools joke, but would still be nice :) love these penguins

PRINNIES

This is neat and all..but how about just make Frostling a dang culture already and have dire penguin as a culture unit *cough cough* AoW 1 Frostlings *Cough Cough*

@TriumphBias Hey is it okay if I fix all the tooltips, missing icon art, and missing amphibious trait then re-release this back on the workshop?

After researching Dedicated to Evil, I can't seem to find it in my spell list. Has anyone else experienced the same?

@TriumphBas
Yeah, the only problem right now is that any Structure added by mods, do not disappear from the building list, show up even if their requirements are not met and show up in cities they can't be build in.
This is obviously not the case for vanilla things (like Wizard towers never show up in non-throne cities), province improvements that are unlocked via unlock settings disappear from the list of buildable provinces and the game correctly identifies that a building requires a previous building before it shows up.

Love modding this game, but that really needs fixing, it may just be a QoL, but it is an important one as down the road, with many mods that adds many new structures.. We're looking at a very.. very cluttered building list.

Any ETA on the update?

@MrYanYe oh wow! You're incredible! :D Thanks

incompatibility with Society Trait - Guardians of Nature, tome replaces text from that mod.

Can you make a tome for mage bane and lost wizard?

I made a Chinese translation of your MOD!
I hope I can get your authorization, of course, if not, I will delete this part of the text.
MOD address: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2971612369

Penguinification didn't turn my units into penguins is it bugged?

Does this include a Dire Penguin wizard\champion model?

WAIT WAIT, can you actually turn into penguins? like does the mod have a visual for that?

I'm also gonna push an update soonish that will actually give them the right categorization ingame, currently those were left blank on accident.

It def helped that you guys had listed them in the comments already xD I did go over the ingame descriptions real quick to double check.

Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply!

added!

Can we have the description of the mod on this workshop item description as well?

Skill 1: Strategic Spell - Summon Dire Penguin
Skill 2: Tactical Spell - Flock of Fury
Skill 3: Unit Enchantment - Dedicated to Evil
Skill 4: Transformation - Penguinification
Skill 5: City Structure - Nest of Evil
Skill 6: Unit - Dire Emperor Penguin

And what these skills do:
* Summon Dire Penguin does what you think it does.
* Flock of Fury -> inflicts blind, bleeding and 15 damage
* Dedicated to Evil -> shock and fighter units gain +2 physical damage and the Vicious Killers ability
* Nest of Evil -> +10 mana and gold, another +5 per level of Evil alignment
* Emperor Dire Penguin -> tier 2 version of the normal dire penguin

Besides skills you get:
* Penguin Statue -> Province improvement, +10 mana. +7 draft per adjacent farm. Counts as a conduit.
* Penguin Leader -> Hero skill. 20% bonus damage for animals in the stack.

What exactly this mod does??

FATE USCIRE LA TRADUZIONE IN ITALIANOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :)

Everything works for me too, although there is a missing icon for the King Penguin, and missing descriptors for spells as said by others. So, a little update for this would be really appreciated :)

Will mods be able to add new cultures, traits and races in the future?

> works for me but doesnt have words like "Unit Enchantment" or "Tactical Spell" in discription

Those are from the documentation, not from in-game.

In-game you have icon backgrounds that are supposed to denote this. But honestly they're pretty hard to see and people have complained about them a lot. Probably you just think they're part of the background image.

Love this mod, it's fun and a bit silly but useful as well. The Dire Emperor Penguin has no icon in the spellbook. Is that a bug?

works for me but doesnt have words like "Unit Enchantment" or "Tactical Spell" in discription

Yep the onedrive issue was it! Thank you!

If you are experiencing problems with no mods being loaded and have OneDrive installed, check out my pinned post:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/1669000/discussions/0/3828666283437576002/

@Zarathustra looking into it! Seems to be kind of inconsistent unfortunately so it's hard to track down why it's not working for some. but fine for others. Hopefully I'll be able to get it fixed soon!

mod works fine for me without any effort, not sure what issue is affecting others

praise the emperor penguin

At this time some of us aren't able to use any of these mods in-game, despite having them in the playset that is loaded in the launcher. I've tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, installing from paradox and steam separately, adding them to new playsets, and even excluding AOW4.exe in my antivirus software. Nothing doing so far.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Iguana-on-a-stick Just now
The info is in the official modding guide, but it's a bit hard to track down.

I copied some info here:


Skill 1: Strategic Spell - Summon Dire Penguin
Skill 2: Tactical Spell - Flock of Fury
Skill 3: Unit Enchantment - Dedicated to Evil
Skill 4: Transformation - Penguinification
Skill 5: City Structure - Nest of Evil
Skill 6: Unit - Dire Emperor Penguin

And what these skills do:

* Summon Dire Penguin does what you think it does.
* Flock of Fury -> inflicts blind, bleeding and 15 damage
* Dedicated to Evil -> shock and fighter units gain +2 physical damage and the Vicious Killers ability
* Nest of Evil -> +10 mana and gold, another +5 per level of Evil alignment
* Emperor Dire Penguin -> tier 2 version of the normal dire penguin

Besides skills you get:
* Penguin Statue -> Province improvement, +10 mana. +7 draft per adjacent farm. Counts as a conduit.
* Penguin Leader -> Hero skill. 20% bonus damage for animals in the stack.

maybe the example mod can show what the actual mod has in it? Do we get penguins? become penguins? Cast penguins from the sky?

Is the mod serious or funny?

Please make it official

May all future mods be as perfect as this.

Can we get more info on what this does?

I can finally be King penguin