Cataclysm-DDA VS cdda-arcana-mod

And that sucks! I really wish being Huge (or Tiny, but I haven't tried that personally) felt more distinct than it does. You really shouldn't be able to operate holdout pistols, but you should be able to stuff a thanksgiving turkey in your coat pocket.

If you look in the jmath.json file (https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/master/data/mods/MindOverMatter/jmath.json) under the matrix awakening odds and portal storm awakening odds, change the Return to "return": "0 * _0". That should set the odds of awakening to 100% regardless of how many paths you have.

Are you sure? I checked the initial PR and couldn't find any mention of an anvil, and I checked the current files, and also couldn't find any mention of an anvil.

There is not, but it was mentioned as a desired feature in the original PR introducing Electrokinesis so it will hopefully be added eventually.

Must be the newest experimental. Static hordes were added back to worldgen, the hordes option now only toggles dynamic hordes.

It currently works as of: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/releases/tag/cdda-experimental-2023-12-09-0323

[default 3D field of view was reverted|https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/69940] because there were some bugs in the tests due to it

That said, I recommend Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, which offers something like this.

Each power has a different set of thresholds leading into different powers. You can check the JSON files for each class on github to see which powers lead into eachother at what level.

Yeah, I ran into a similar issue working on craftable bone spike spears. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/57447 There is some decent research on the topic but it’s not open access which didn’t leave me with evidence to support my argument besides basically metadata. For the record I think this is reasonable, it’s just frustratingly difficult to find accessible modern research on these interesting topics

As for your question, yes, there are mods that make melee stronger. Try Magiclysm and Mythical Martial Arts. They're both in-repo and both make melee way better. Magiclysm adds spells and magic weapons to buff you in melee. MMA adds some new martial arts and traits which make melee way better. I also use Arcana and Magic Items which isn't in-repo but provides some cool enchanted weapons, items, potions and stuff which really help out in melee. Good luck.

here's the link, https://github.com/chaosvolt/cdda-arcana-mod well it adds in a whole new magical aspect to the game, enemies now can drop things called essence, this essence along with other tools you may find while exploring allows you to harness the power of the arcane, you can create small trinkets, tools and items that should help you with your survival, from a brooch that makes you invisible to the undead to a cursed blade that grants an addictive life draining effect to your attacks that can be purified and allows you to recieve a certain kind of power from a special being. granted all of this is locked behind some sort of rare structures and some VERY dangerous opponents. though a word of advice, dragonblood is a very nice mutation threshold :).

If you're not ready to modify the files yourself, that's fine too since I was already going to do it myself, and I can send you the file once I finish, it shouldn't be too long. I was going to make it require material from a different mod called Arcana though. It also adds magic to the game, but in a different way. They both work together, so you can have both in the same game, but you'd have to start over for it to work fully.

I use Arcana Cata++

Fun, not a genre I was familiar with, though Taoism, Chan Buddhism, and the Song Dynasty are fascinating to me so I think I get some of the flavor. How total conversion do you want to get? Is there some stuff in DDA that is counter to this and needs removed or changed in a big way? You might look at Arcana to see how they handle these ideas from a more Western approach if you haven't already https://github.com/chaosvolt/cdda-arcana-mod I'm most interested in monsters and NPCs so I'm interested to know how those can be involved. Let me know if you want contributions on that. Is this still New England or are you taking us somewhere a little more in Asia? I'd recommend to start getting one path working really well so you can start getting player feedback ASAP. Once you have that you've already won, you've got a working mod. I'd love to see this in repo if possible, especially if you want others like me helping https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/master/doc/IN_REPO_MODS.md

There really aren't many unofficial mods, because the game is open source and so people tend to just add to the game directly. The two big mods I recommend that live outside the default repo are Arcana (magic that fits the vanilla tone a bit better than Magiclysm) and Noct's Cata Mod aka Cata++ (super soldiers and a special boss monster that gives me Resident Evil vibes).