Removed Mods Stuff

Estranged · January 30, 2020, 4:04pm

With the mods that have been removed, is that a temp thing or whatever?
Has anything changed with the base game that the mods altered? Simplified Nutrition and Safe Auto-Doc for example. Is nutrition something we have to deal with now and do we need a medical skill to use auto-docs?

MamaLlama · January 30, 2020, 10:26pm

From what I understand the mods being removed are because they no longer have a maintainer and the cost to keeping them updated is higher than the current dev team can spare while trying to add new features and improve the game. Naturally, those mods will not likely make a return unless somebody is willing to dedicate to keeping them updated and functioning.

I believe another issue was that many of the core team don’t use a lot of the mods that are up for removal and so it wouldn’t make sense for them to do updates for those mods because they are not part of the intended audience.

SOME of the mods might still work but you have to remove the obsolete flag from your local copy and keep it with you because it won’t be served with the main game anymore, Erk has an answer in another thread similar to this one

The Issue on GitHub being discussed:

github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Obsolete mods

CleverRaven:master ← ymber:obsolete_mods

opened 09:23AM - 21 Jan 20 UTC

ymber

+93 -45

#### Summary SUMMARY: Mods "Cut down on in-tree mods" #### Purpose of change… Half the mods in the source tree are things we don't want to maintain. Some of them are stuff that should have been added to core in the first place. The mods we maintain here should be quality changes to the core experience unless there's a good technical reason something should be a mod. #### Describe the solution Obsolete mods. Once 0.E. lands we need to delete all the obsolete mods that have been collecting for a while. #### Testing Obsoleted mods continue to work in games with them. New games can't add obsolete mods. All works as expected.

Guidelines and Information on how Mainline mods will be handled going forward:

github.com

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/bab7781a37fa3eecc5ee91a6e3849a8a1bbafe1b/doc/MAINLINE_MODS.md

# Getting Mods Into The Repository

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is not only moddable, but ships with a number of mods available for users to select from even without having to obtain mods from a third party source.

## Why have mainlined mods?

The benefits of having mods mainlined include:

*  Visibility to a large number of users and potential contributors
*  The ability to use the CleverRaven issue tracker to report problems, as well as manage pull requests for adding to or fixing mods in the repository
*  Mods in mainline that demonstrate usage of a game feature which exists only for mods (i.e. not used by the core DDA game itself) help ensure that feature stays present in the game.

There are however things that might be expected but are not guaranteed:

*  Guarantee of maintenance of content -- core devs are mostly focused on the main game itself; although some might pick up mods as a side task, people who continue working on the core game tend to like the feel of the core game.
*  Guarantee of maintenance of used features -- over the course of development it may become impossible to keep a feature, due to performance needs or maintenance burden.
*  Guarantee of sole authorship -- once in the repository, the mod is considered community content. While the developers might defer to an active maintainer of a mod, if they become inactive anyone else can step forward.

## What kind of mods can be in the repository as mainlined mods?

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Erk · January 30, 2020, 10:32pm

Furthering your original question, nutrition in game currently causes no detrimental effects besides a warning message anyway, so you’re already playing with simplified nutrition on.

Estranged · January 30, 2020, 10:39pm

Ah cool, i’ll leave the Simplified Nutrition off then.
Are there any compatibility issues or whatever if I re-activate Safe Auto-Docs?

Erk · January 31, 2020, 2:37am

No, no compatibility issues, just copy it to your cdda/mods folder and turn of obsolete. It’s unlikely to stop working any time soon, until we get around to revamping autodocs.

Estranged · January 31, 2020, 1:54pm

Cool.

You said about an auto-doc revamp, is that updating how they work or an overhaul of the system?

Erk · February 1, 2020, 5:00am

yep, both. No idea when it’ll happen though.

TheKobold · February 1, 2020, 5:10pm

I havent updated in a while, what mods were removed

Topic		Replies	Views
Lot of mods dissapear after update The Garage	3	874	February 7, 2020
Question about removing a Mod The Bunker	7	360	April 9, 2019
Many mod no longer showup on menu on new version anymore The Garage	11	3358	February 7, 2020
"Bring Back Removed Content" Mod The Drawing Board	10	885	February 25, 2019
Updating game via launcher causes mods to be removed The Garage	3	408	June 17, 2021

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