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Dreamer's Dreams
Loki 10 Sep, 2021 @ 9:30am
Dream triggers, chains and psionics
It might be fun to define dream 'cards' as needing certain things to be true in order to occur. For example:
If Blood Loss = Extreme & Dreamt of Exangination = Flase & Mood <10:
"I dreamt of drowning in a torrential river of blood flowing from my wounds"
Add mood state 'Dreamt of Exangination' (duration = mood*-1 days).

This would then potentially allow you to build dream chains fairly trivially:

If Undergrounder = False
"I dreamt of the stars, and they -looked at me"
Add 'Stars are watching' (duration = mood*-1 hours) -2 mood

If Stars are watching = True
"The Stars are EYES and they can seem ME see US"
Add 'Celestial Eyes' (duration = mood*-1 days) -5 mood

and so on...
It would be really interesting to allow dreams to trigger other events as this could be especially interesting for psionic pawns as their dreams/nightmares can become manifest in some way.

For example:

If Burn = True
"I'm burning its all burning..."
If flashstorm = true cast flashstorm and location (near caster ofc)
Add Nightmare Come True (duration x), wake
Else
"i'm burning its all burning..."
Add disturbed sleep

this would then allow for the emergant gameplay need to keep your psionic pawns both happy and if not drugged so they are happy or anaesthetised.

For tribal pawn / shamen maybe dream quests?
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Psyche  [developer] 11 Sep, 2021 @ 4:27am 
Hey! Thank you for making this discussion! :)

As of now, dreams already have requirements system but need more actual dreams (descriptions you see in the needs tab). So, cannibals dream about eating people and they are very content with it. A lot of dreams have their unique combination of requirements. If you feel like you can have a look at the defs and notice that some dreams have tags like "nonpsycho", "prisoner", "hungry". You can also write your own dreams (it is quite easy) and either send them to me on submission page or create your own package with dreams as a seperate mod :D

Regarding events from dreams. I see it happening at some point in the future but as of now it is not on the priority list. Sorry :c my intent with this mod is to introduce a tad more chaos into the gameplay with great customability. I'm working on the latter now :sans:

If you have anymore suggestions please feel free to let me know :) I'm happy to discuss any ideas :heart:
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