Relic Hunters - Pets & Presets, CoQ Modding Game Jam 2024

[in announcer voice]

— Are YOU tired of dealing with low-tier relics that always give you the WRONG equipment with the WRONG stats ?

*Insert an image of a disappointed Multi-Legged Chimera with +1 INT Leather Boots*

— Have YOU lost faith or interest in exploring Historic Sites due to the constant disappointment of finding SINGLE-USE Relics ?!?!

*Insert an image of a sad young Hindren holding a Cube with a useless oblivious beetle behind him*

— Are you SICK of putting in SO MUCH EFFORT, wiping out ENTIRE CULTS of long-faced, BORING Equines, only to be CONSTANTLY DISAPPOINTED  ?!?!?!?!??!?!

REGAIN THE FAITH AND THRILL OF WONDERING:
"WHAT WILL MY NEXT NEW TOY BE?"
JUST LIKE YOUR FIRST TIME EXPLORING QUD
 WITH THE BRAND NEW MOD:

 🎉    ¡¡¡¡¡¡ RELIC HUNTERS !!!!!! 🎉

Adds: ➕

✅ — A Relic Hunter adventurer preset

✅ — Another Relic Hunter as a Plant-Person (inspired by Fern: a grass-made counterpart of Fin the Human)

✅ — A pet, Jake the Dog, featuring a suit-armor mode—just like in the series!

(He acts as a mini-mecha!1!1!1) You can, for a fair price, say PLEASE to use Jake. Specially usefull to fragile merchant characters.

✅ — Four new custom weapons, designed with game mechanics combined in a new way, to make them feel new and interesting, and as balanced as posible, currently in Jake's Stash! (He also has some of your relic-hunting gadgets)

✅ — A merchant!! I created an entity inside Jake that acts as his stash. Where you can pay the price to say PLEASE, and buy the new weapons, which also have a low probability of appearing on high tier areas.

ALSO: If Jake dies, his stash is dropped on the ground, undamage. So you don't lose access to it.

❌— A single-use, consumable Relic

Details:

► This mod was created to introduce a couple of utility-based builds along with a pet that you can enter for added protection that the presets builds might need.

► Also this mod is made to introdce weapons that I think they could perfectly exist and be so much fun. Like Spears that serve both as weapons in your main hand and as shields in your off-hand, capable of deflecting attacks and even disarming opponents when you block. They can also be thrown—and might even find their way back to you.

► The 'Adventure Time' theme ended up being the perfect fit for these mechanics: the post-post-apocalyptic setting, cute-weird mutated characters, and weaponize-nature end up fitting the ~Caves of Qud's vibes~.

Highlights: 🌟

• The Relic Hunter preset is designed to try your luck with the random Relics in your run

• Go in and out of Historic Sites, "stealing” the relics without combat. BUT! It can still be challenging, so you have to know what you're doing. With the guaranteed Reprogrammable Recoiler and Spiral Borer, you can dig down directly into the last floor of a Historic Site and recoil back thanks to Force Wall, present in both pressets builds.

• Jake the Dog appears in his eerie, blue alien form
Just like "Fin": its green plant-person counterpart

Jake is designed to protect the player: you can interact with him and 'enter' him, like a wearable armor suit (Just Like in the show :P). And much more.

There are some references that people who really like Adventure Time might recognize :)
(but I wouldn't say it’s strictly Adventure Time themed :P )

Links: 🔗

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3360638740

GitHub:   https://github.com/Beautiful-Bug/Relic-Hunter-mod-for-Caves-of-Qud.git

This is was an entry for the Caves of Qud Modding Jam: Pets & Presets. 2024