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Beatrice
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🐭  [developer] 8 Jul, 2016 @ 11:11pm
Post links to your dialog rewrites here.
The topic of Beatrice's dialog is one that comes up fairly often and if you would like to rewrite her dialog, you can post a link to it here so you can share it with other people. If you want to try someone else's speech file for Beatrice, this is the place to look.

The speech for each character is actually spread across several different files and DLCs have their own speech files as well. The base speech files can be found at:
<install directory>/data/scripts/speech_<character name>.lua

You may have to do some digging to find the speech files for other DLCs. For example, ROG's speech files are at:
<install directory>/data/DLC0001/scripts/speech_<character name>.lua

You should be able to edit it with any text editor. When you're done writing it, or if you want to use somebody else's speech file, save it to:
<install directory>/mods/workshop-282897110/scripts/speech_beatrice_human.lua

:eshock: REMEMBER: Do not overwrite the original speech files. We have a modding environment and you would be wise to make use of it. But if you do screw something up with the base files, you simply delete them and then verify your game cache to redownload them.

Then to enable the new speech file, all you have to do is run Don't Starve, go to mods, then the configuration options for Beatrice, and change the setting for buzzes.


:eshock: Please do NOT post the contents of the file here. Only links to the file.

If you need a place to upload your speech files, you can use sites like pastebin.com and services like dropbox.com. Both of which are free and very easy to use.

Thank you and have fun! :smileymud:
Last edited by 🐭; 8 Jul, 2016 @ 11:13pm
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Para 10 Jul, 2016 @ 2:42pm 
Hi! Thanks for letting us do dialog rewrites for Beatrice.
Click here for the file![www.dropbox.com]
When writing her, I tried to follow and expand the character. This is just my interpretation of Beatrice.
What I gathered from the mod description was that Beatrice is a walking hive AND the queen of said hive. Therefore I had her talk in "we"s and address bees as "sisters" and her own bees, when she talks directly to them, as "daughters". I alternated between Queen role and Hive Mind role whenever it felt appropriate.
I wrote her as generally scared and fragile and mildly confused by everything non-bee related.
As a walking beehive, she views everything in terms of productivity and usefulness and hates thieves and lazy creatures. Fire and water scare her because they could damage the hive.

Also: I view Glommer as a bee sort of thing because it buzzes and flies around. Therefore, I had Beatrice refer to it as (an adopted) "sister".

Full disclosure: a dozen or so lines are borrowed from Maxwell because there's only so many ways to call a spade a spade. Also, as I understand it, original mod files are not to be rewritten so all the unique speech files and descriptions for the Bee tab items are still in buzzes.
Last edited by Para; 10 Jul, 2016 @ 2:47pm
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