First things first, I’d like to thank Malkin for helping me fix the cobs and for telling me how they were broken in the first place. 😀
Also, this isn’t intended to be a COB making tutorial but I wanted to make the instructions as clear as possible. I also wanted to add what I learned about C1 CAOS from fixing this COB.
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You’ve probably heard about the starch glitch on Jessica’s blog Discover Albia or the ‘pet norn’ bug on the download pages of Muppetboy’s carrot cobs. Turns out they’re the same thing!
The glitch happens when a norn that you don’t have selected eats one of these carrots. There’s really no problem if the norn that you have selected is eating this food but if a norn you don’t have selected tries to eat one of these carrots, the benefit is actually transferred to the creature that you currently have selected instead of the one that actually ate it.
There is a simple way to fix it and I’m here to show you.
First things first, you’ll need a cob editor; BoBCoB is what I’ve chosen to use.
Download BoBCoB at this website.
Next, you’ll need one of the carrot cobs that Muppetboy of Geatville made. For this example, we’re going to use the hunny carrot available at Creatures Caves.
Download the Hunny Carrot Patch at this CC page.
Installing BoBCoB
Extract the files to any folder on your pc then push Setup. You could also try running Setup from the .zip file.
When you first open BoBCoB, it’ll prompt you with a Preferences menu. Simply go to the Defaults tap and set the save and load locations to where you keep your cobs. If you’d like to save your cobs to a different location, you have that option as well.
For now, check Defaults for Creatures 1 and push OK.
Editing the Cob
Before we can edit the file, we need to open it. Go to the File menu and push Open. Find the Hunny Carrot Patch cob and push open.
What we’re concerned about is the middle tab titled “Other Scripts” (red arrow). To fix the starch glitch, select the first script (green arrow) and push edit (blue arrow).
Once you open this script, this window will appear.
I’ve selected the part of the script that needs to be changed. Instead of reading stim writ norn, it should read stim writ from.
How does this work? Well, stim writ means that it’s going to apply these changes to the following object. If the object is norn then it’s going to apply the changes to the currently selected norn instead of the creature that activated the script in the first place, known as from.
Click File then Save and Close.
Final Touches
You can push File then Save to save your changes if you like but, at least on my computer, the injector picture changes. If you’d like to change it to the intended graphic, click on the picture tab.
Click on the Picture tab (red arrow). If you look at the picture, you’ll see that it’s the normal carrot graphic. Next, click on Import.
If you followed Muppetboy’s installation guide, you’ll find huni.spr in the Images folder of your Creatures 1 directory. Select the file, push Open and finally you can save by going to File and clicking Save.
Now you can go forth and fix the other carrot-like cobs! Have fun!
For additional information, be sure to check out this page!
Most tragic was the death of Abigail. I’m sad to see her go though I know her suffering has finally come to an end. She has no eggs to call her own. She spent her last minutes alive with her father, eating Parsnips at the bottom level of the island. At the time, the observation kit paused (I wish it wouldn’t do that) so I carted him away to give him some space and food. Without him, Abi was free to eat the last of the parsnips, but it was too late. Godfried is the one who watched her take her last breath. I hate to have siblings witness each other’s deaths because it always seems so tragic.
Sadly, their little girl had just the problem that I suspected she would. Because Hunger Decrease didn’t actually decrease her hunger (boredom instead) she was in a state of constant hunger. She grew up quickly and it looked like she’d entered adolescence at only 15 minutes old! I fear the stress of always feeling hunger was affecting her aging. I’m going to have to keep her from breeding, sadly. The last thing I want is a population of norns that are always miserable, and I hope you agree.
The whole family got together after AppleJack laid her third egg. The only norn missing from this picture is Patrick. With both of the ladies smacking away his advances, he busied himself in the tree, carrying a ball with him.
Off to the hatchery! I decided to choose a lady this time to increase the odds of new eggs. We can hope it works out that way. I don’t want Abigail breeding, anyway.
Hooray! Due to my own negligence, their second egg hatched. I couldn’t pick it up since it was still growing and got distracted again.
When I was done checking on him, it was time to teach him the basics. I tended to his education and, when his father finally left him alone, I fed him some carrots and I got him to sleep. He got to sleep much more quickly than his parents did, that’s certain.