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The Essential: Variety Insect Mod
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The Essential: Variety Insect Mod

Description
OH NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AHH MY EYES! MY EYES!

This mod overhauls the sprites of the vanilla bugs to make them more appealing than using the same boring vanilla sprite recoloured over and over in addition to adding a few extra features. All bug jars are now interactable. When you interact with a bug jar it will release the insect it holds. You can recapture the insect with a bug net or relocator as normal. If you wish to move the jar just use the matter manipulator as normal.

This mod also adds a bug spawner which functions very similar to the moth trap but you instead attract "moth-like" insects which you can collect after an elapsed time. It will not spawn all possible bugs since just farming bugs in this fashion kinda ruins the fun. This is more intended to get your collection started or to be used as a passive income stream so you can sell the bug jars. Theres also a hornet nest which lets you harvest the hivebomb throwable item.

You can access the variety store via the 2-stop Teleshop teleporter at the outpost. There are several merchants that can take care of your landscaping needs and animal care.

Important Information
If anyone asks, when you are at the variety biodome dungeon, the insects are clones of the vanilla bugs for thematic purposes only. They are there specifically for display purposes. You cannot relocate or capture them. If you manage to spawn one outside the dungeon using the /monsterspawn admin commands and capture one using the bug net, you will not recieve an itemdrop.

So don't complain to me about the game being broken just in case people try to do this which I know people will!

Hope you all enjoy this mod and adds some depth to the collectors out there.

Have fun me hearties!


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If you would like to ask me questions or see what I'm up to, check out my Discord Server[discord.gg] if you want to organise games and various multiplayer related things.

Have Fun Me Hearties!

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28 Sep, 2019 @ 4:03pm
PINNED: BUG REPORTS [PUN INTENDED]
CaptainRumBarrels
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TarXor 18 Feb @ 4:33am 
I have reduced the size of the insects, if someone doesn’t like very large ones:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3163052151
GeekyRaptorStudios 9 Apr, 2022 @ 1:05am 
BeeeeeEEEEEESsssssss!!!!!
Zazen 25 Sep, 2021 @ 10:57pm 
hmmm interesting... Thanks for the reply. If I ever figure out a solution I will let you know!
Excellent job on the modding, again!
CaptainRumBarrels  [author] 25 Sep, 2021 @ 9:26pm 
Unfortunately I can't figure out a way to make graphics scaled down XD
They are the size they are because thats how big the cavas is. Most of the vanilla bugs are 3x3 pixels.

If you folks know how to do that I'll gladly patch this mod.
Zazen 25 Sep, 2021 @ 6:55pm 
I like this mod so far, but like Jokiu I don't really care for the giant head sized bugs that look like they belong in some alien amazon jungle of terror and death.
Again the mod's fantastic work, but if there's a chance of a patch or version where they're back to their normal size that'd be awesome!
Thanks for all your incredible work on all your mods!
... especially screaming naked...
PentaSquares 11 Dec, 2020 @ 8:57pm 
Okay, so uhhh.... the thumbnail....
Janothia 3 Jul, 2019 @ 11:53am 
For when others have the same issue as me:

The location does not appear at the Teleport Shop for me.

I use the following steps to enable access to the Essential Variety Shop:

- Step 0 = /admin
- Step 1 = /warp InstanceWorld:essential_varietyshop
- Step 3 = /settileprotection 65524 false
- Step 3 = /settileprotection 0 false
- Step 4 = Remove Teleporter
- Step 5 = Place a flat Teleporter on the place where the old one was located
- Step 6 = Name Teleporter "3 Essential Variety Shop"
- Step 7 = /settileprotection 0 true
- Step 8 = /settileprotection 65524 true
- Step 9 = /admin
Jokiu 27 Apr, 2019 @ 12:46pm 
Sure enough I got used to it. This mod is great and fun.
The song that plays at the shop place sounds familiar... Did it come from somewhere else or did you make it yourself?
Jokiu 31 Mar, 2019 @ 9:45am 
At least it does make them easier to distinguish and find in the open. But just how huge the sprites are makes them quite unsettling.
Eh. Maybe I'll get used to it.
CaptainRumBarrels  [author] 31 Mar, 2019 @ 12:40am 
yeah I only had so much room to work with on the canvas otherwise the bugs will become monstrously huge