mod: Hawkbar.Terrarium

[giscus[bot]]

mod: Hawkbar.Terrarium

A barren world carries the seeds of rebirth. An entry for the 5th Outer Wilds mod jam. (by @Hawkbat)

https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/edenshope/

[connormccreesh]

Wooooow, this is the first mod from this jam I have tested that is instantly compelling. Terraforming premise hooks you right in.

Not sure of the spoiler tag syntax, so hopefully this is a little cryptic. I'm stuck after I have gears, I assume cliff if what I am working for, can't figure out how to transport them. Is this what I should be doing? Did I miss a hint?

[Hawkbat]

The objects which aren't directly pickup-able aren't able to be moved, and if you're where I think you are, these particular ones aren't interactible, but come with information that will be useful later. Focus on other locations for now.

Hopefully that's vague enough!

[connormccreesh]

Awesome, I got it. I didn't realize that the computer was actually changing its matched planet numbers. Very very cool mod, I really enjoyed it. Premise is very engaging, it's fun to piece together the puzzles, all very cool. Art and decoration was really nice as well, looked far more professional than many mods. Very cool.

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I don't know if this works...

Feedback:
This is so close to a really tight normal game mod, I really hope you do make it into one.

• The nomai dumps a load of info all at once, if you can communicate that over the logs and through the environment it'd be more satisfying.
• If others miss the computer narrowing down results, it could be extra explicit in the log, or accompanied by a beep, or maybe the writing "unreading" itself if possible.

Personal preference:

• Main one: It'd be really lovely if instead of seeing their planet at the end, if we just beam off the planet location to them, and then the Lonely Lump is terraformed (it could be move closer or further from sun, put on an angle etc.) as a test version or something. We could also be doing that in a progressive nature, any time we feel like we've found the conditions for a certain plant, it'd be cool to terraform the larger planet like that. As the nomai seems to persist the time link, it would be nice to have finished the mod, and to have a lush reminder of our work as a small planetoid in the solar system.
• Terrariums; I think it'd feel a bit nicer if the container wall had some sort of hologram/display effect. When we go in, it would appear that we're on an actual planet with a sun of the right size, instead of the rails and bulb being visible.

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