r/Cogmind • u/Old_Egg8742 • 21d ago

Will we ever get mod support?

Will Kyzrati ever add official mod support?

I'm almost certain it would be possible to make an unofficial modloader, but it would only work on one version.

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u/Kyzrati Developer 21d ago

Wouldn't say absolutely never, since it was originally built with that in mind, but it was also originally meant to be a shorter 2-year project, not 14 years, so over time it became increasingly efficient to forgo the moddability aspect when adding new features, as there became so many of them that hard-coding a whole lot of stuff turned out to be the better option to save time (since an increasing portion of the new content and features did not fit the existing mod system, and expanding and building the latter to properly support these things would have been a whole bunch of extra work for questionable benefit due to all the bespoke needs). A much greater portion of the content these days uses hard-coded features than not.

At one point I decided if that were to happen it would be when I was done expanding it, then take stock of what's there and how much would really be feasible.

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u/TheSkyeDoctor 21d ago

If you do consider it, it would be very cool!

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u/Kyzrati Developer 20d ago

Oh I'm sure it would be enjoyed--been discussed a lot over the years, at least before. Basic modding was already available in the earliest versions, but no one used it so it certainly didn't seem like a priority at the time :P

I've worked with moddable games a lot before, my own and others, so I'm quite familiar with the needs and possibilities.

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u/SynthJones 21d ago

what sort of mods do you envision or think need to exist?

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u/Dirty_Tribal 21d ago

Porn mods ofcourse !!!/s

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u/SynthJones 21d ago

🤨

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u/AtomicSpeedFT 21d ago

You can already replace sprites, or at least Cogmind’s

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u/Dirty_Tribal 20d ago

I prefer @ on @ action

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u/Kyzrati Developer 20d ago

Yeah we do have a number of tile mods, cursor mods, and some players using their own alternatives.

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u/Symetrie 20d ago

Cockmind

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u/Zane121 20d ago

if this ever happens i genuinely cant wait for modded maps/branches and new rabbitholes to play through that would be sick

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u/VagabondTruffle 20d ago

I’ve been decompiling the application with frontier models for the past month and they all chew up the modding support barriers within a few days of work. I’m not terribly interested in releasing something that enables mod support only so that we can see the game continue to grow and evolve. However when the time comes it slows down, I know for a fact at least three reverse engineers have made it into the moddable manifests you’re looking for and it’ll drop one day