[1.1] Mineralogy and jewel art (wip)

[AnnAquamarine]

Description

For some time I have been working on jewelcrafting and mineralogy mod. It started simple, as more furniture colors and gems, just for myself, but I quickly realised I can add more features as well.

Suddenly Jewelry mod from Oskar Potocki and Kikohi was released with features I wanted to add. And there were also some mods with gems. But I didn't give up. What I want to do is not simple jewelery but all the things that humanity is making from minerals and stones. And I really love minerals because geology was a part of my studies.
It's my first big mod and also first post here. I'd like to share my work before uploading it and see if someone would like it.

Code by me (back to coding anything after maaany years, thanks Tynan ;] ).
All artwork also by me, from own or few free resources. I know my digital art has its own style but I tried my best to fit Rimworld style.

Content

- 46 new gems
Their colors and types were carefully choosen to satisfy most demanding builders and players who like to have very colorful bases ;] Few gems are transluscent if used to build furnitures or walls.

common gems - can be found via deep drills or in deposites;
rare gems - can be found in stone chunks! Your colonists will have to crush stone chunk to find new gems. It's perfect way to clean up  colony from unwanted chunks;
more rare gem: cuprite - can be found in new bornite chunks;
even more rare gem: moissanite - expensive gem, can be found only in chondrite meteorites.
two new metals: copper - from bornite chunks along with cuprite crystals, platinum - extremely rare and expensive;
new stone: strange deposite, drops strange chunks...

lumenite - new Rimworld exclusive stone with a bit of geological background, lumenite stones shine with pale light, a bit similar to bioluminescent creatures. Can be mined or drilled.




- new research tab
including: mineralogy, cosmo-mineralogy, metalwork, advanced metalwork, gem cutting, inlay techniques, engraving, gilding, plating and dyeing

- new lumenite furnitures: beds, shelfs, end table, round table, big wardrobe and some small dressers, lumenite floor and small shiny tiles, lumenite walls
All lumenite furnitures shine. They have their own, exclusive arts. You can also build something from simple lumenite but in the process lumenite crystals loose their bioluminescent properties. Buildings made directly from lumenite are a bit transparent, what makes them also unique. Lumenite furnitures are boosting comfort and cleanliness attached to bed.



- new Goldsmith workbench

- new art buildings
bejeweled photo frames: with random art and frame with mask. I put some of my screenshots on them ;d
collectors pieces: made from crushing strange chunks! Collectors pieces are unique or strange mineral forms. They're so fancy that colonists decided to put them on display. There are four types: animal shaped crystals, fossils, strange color pieces and geodes. Art is also random but player can decide about pieces type.


mosaics: can be placed on floors like rugs. They're small but player can even make a bumalope-floored room!
new sarcofaguses: unlocked after engraving research
two plushies:  thrumbo and megabadger plushies are added as a furniture to boost comfort, but I think I will move them to other mod.


- new room type: The Nature Museum
In order to create it following conditions must be meet: few mineral collector pieces must be instaled in

- mood boosting jewelery
It was planned but due to fact that Oskar's Jewelry mod is already here, I'm still thinking how to implement this part of my mod. Aaaaand Oskar is much much more skilled digital artist than I am ;< His jewelry arts are so beautiful. So, for now, I added only two simple necklaces. But I thought about wedding rings, super expensive rings with diamond and moissanites or tiaras.

- carpets: unlocking after finishing dyeing research. Some of carpets colors are coresponding to gems colors. For centuries we were using minerals as dyes so I decided to add this feature to mod. Carpets are added to new menu, so they wouldn't take a whole screen with Expanded Floor mod (and other floor mods).
I didn't use any textures from Expanded Floors mod. I made my own with dog fur texture. They look similar because they use same effect and are based on Rimworld floor tiles. My tiles match Exp. Floor tiles, however hue and saturation of darker tiles are different. And I think there is a one pixel nudge between tiles... it only could be seen on very long carpets



- ancient danger rooms are now named as Ancient Mausoleums as long as ancient cryptosleep casket remains within. (do not forgeet to put doors in wall) Initially that was test if my museum-room would work properly but I decided to leave it in mod. I love the archeology and old treasure hunting feeling in Rimworld. In my test colony I have base in a big mountain and I found huge ancient danger chamber near rooms. I left it with caskets. It looks like museum/relic/monument/memory relic. Something ancient you can find in depths and you want to keep for next generations. Ancient danger is my favourite feature in Rimworld.

Some rooms I made with my mod during test play
(sample furnitures on screenshots are from: Gloomy Furniture, Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Spacer Module, Expanded Floors, More Sculptures and Rimkea)
Lumenite light can also be used for making some kind of gradients on floors and buildings.
https://imgur.com/bX5CN6j
https://imgur.com/pSURB3N

To do & work in progress:
- new type of joy/meditaion and boost: visiting nature museum and watching collection. Xml's are added but I still need to code and add this to assemblies. (Currently this is the only displayed error from this mod: missing reference to joy type). I still didn't decide if pawn could meditate at museum bench or just on meditation spot. And my museum is coded 'hard' (if adjacted thing is 'def' or 'def' this is museum). I tried with new building classes like in mausoleum room type but it didn't work good. I also thought about that this could be a good meditation spot for pawns with intelectual background and stories. I'm still new to c# coding, it will take some time.

- event with new animal: lumenite spelopede or spider. Those insects are living deep inside rocks so I thought they can also live in lumenite deposites and evolve in new species under the lumenite chem influence. Tameable with new magic fabric or leather.

- more bejeweled frame photos
- collector pieces arts
- collector pieces are too cheap
- collector pieces unique description maker
- wall art - they're blank now, just shiny
- round lumenite table, megabadger plush and thrumbo mosaic need to be redrawn
- I'm not full-satisfied with arts of some gems
- more mosaics art - there're only two because it take a lot of time to draw them. Simply filtering original art doesn't give such a nice result. So for example I need to draw a new boomalope in vectors, add few color layers, filter every layer perfectly and redraw specific tiles. As it's shown: bumalope mosaic is nice, thrumbo mosaic is worse and was a prototype.
- some of new research types are 'empty', like advanced metalwork (this one should be for example connected with platinum).
- west and east bed art. Lumenite bed rotate well but uses only south art so perspective goes crazy when placed east or west.
- translation
- art museum room (maybe)
- something like ancient treasure chest with valuable gem-themed treasure
- necklace has its own worn graphic but it is not very visible on pawns
- necklaces are getting tattered too fast
- Royalty features for furnitures
- minor description updates for minerals


Conflicts and issues:
Mod works fine with glowstone mod and Fantasy Metals mod. Fantasy metals are cool, cause they're matching my gems colors with metal resource. It is compatibile with Gems by Agracore, I added unique def names but there will be two diamonds, two saphires etc. I could write a patch to overwrite Gems mod but it would overwrite all gems from Gems. But I don't want to overwrite someone's mod. I think user should choose it.

About Jewelry mod: both mods are compatibile with each other but Jewelry mod has a patch which overwrites saphire, ruby and diamond properties. I worked hard to match all my gems and their colors and I'm not happy with this overwriting but I need to think how to solve it. (I know how to solve it technicaly but I don't know now if I should leave both sapphires, diamond and rubies or maybe find other solutions).

I recomend use with Stuffed Floors mod, Gloomy furniture, Expanded Furniture and more furniture mods to explore colorfull stuff everywhere! xD

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If someone like to help me or do a collaboration - I'm happy to do this - my art and coding are poor
Use my art or whole mod - ask me.


Thank you so much for reading all my crazy stuff!

[Canute]

Talented artist ! :-)

[RitsukaD]

Just so You know, We are still waiting ... 

[AnnAquamarine]

Just so You know, We are still waiting ... 

Thank you so much for your kind words :]
I had to take a small break from Rim and coding. Some time ago started seriously learning c# and unity and started creating my first simple memo game with random kohin chickens arts xD And it was too much coding for my brain (picking random not repeatable chickens in pairs is not that simple, or maybe just for me).
But 1.2 update gave me new wings. I promise I'll try to put a version for download (propably googledrive not steam yet) this week. Maybe not with all features I wanted but working and with a lot of stuff.

Edit:
I see now I added Copper Sheep!!


And worked on wedding rings. I had an idea they could be biocoded to colonists. So many ideas but not that much coding skill ;/

[RitsukaD]

yaaay

[virussr]

Amazing artwork!

[AnnAquamarine]

I'm very sorry for making all of you waiting. But I'm a bit perfectionist and sometimes I need to just stop xD

Here's link for my mod (zip/google drive). I didn't implement all features I wrote about in "to do list". But I think this is still a lot of content for fun You can see "missing type of joy" error in log but you can just ignore it. I hope I will code it later. And Jewelry mod from Oskar Potocki will overwrite my ruby, sapphire and diamond (need to patch this).
Please write me about any problems and suggestions. Have fun with collecting and crafting!

Mineralogy

[AnnAquamarine]

Hello everyone!
It was a huge time of silence from me but I didn't forget my mod and I'm still playing Rimworld ~3k hours.

But one important thing: I saw my mod uploaded on Steam as 'continued'.

I do not give permission to re-upload or remaking my mod or my art. I worked really hard to do this and I don't understand that someone did it without asking me first. Also this mod is in 'unfinished' for a reason. I'm still working on it sometimes and have many new ideas (latest was anima gem from fossilized anima trees and furniture). Also it is really broken for now, espacially science tree.

If someone like to help me or do a collaboration - I'm happy to do this - my art and coding are poor
Use my art - please ask me.

[Canute]

But one important thing: I saw my mod uploaded on Steam as 'continued'.

I do not give permission to re-upload or remaking my mod or my art.

If you don't got a steam account to report that to steam support directly, you could try to ask some of the moderator's if the can contact them.
Try to PM Ramsis maybe he can help.

[AnnAquamarine]

If you don't got a steam account to report that to steam support directly, you could try to ask some of the moderator's if the can contact them.
Try to PM Ramsis maybe he can help.

Thank you Canute. I think that person will remove the mod from Steam as he/she wrote in description this is reupload and will remove it is author ask. Anyway I think this is unpolite not to ask. Also my mod is broken in some aspects so I don't understand why uploading and giving people piece of potato...


I'm currently working on redraw almost all graphics. Anima tree gems and things. Some new magical minerals

Anima chunk - fossilized ancient anima trees. Cut on stonecutter table to small tiles and polish them to anima gem. Tiles can be used to make shiny things similar to glowstone mod but the shine with light of anima tree Anima gems are just like stones and other gems from my mod - could be used to build things.