Bouncing Baby Girl!

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When I returned, AppleJack was sick, but a few lemons and carrots later, she was smiling at me again.

I wasn’t having much luck getting Patrick to eat, though. Like Godfried, he spent much of his time holding the carrot, unsure what to do with it.

Penny got sick, too and complained about feeling hot. She recovered quickly so I can only assume that she just ate a weed.

There was a lull of activity. Patrick played with the elevators on the island, AppleJack watched the fish in the lighthouse swim, Penny kept the grendel company and Godfried stomped through the swamp carrots, occasionally eating with my advice.

Now that everyone was happy and healthy, I decided it was time to introduce Godfried’s new sibling.

Meet Candice, everyone!

REACTIONS
231  40   0 Emb   B MutDupCut   2*Antigen5 + 1*Glucose => 1*Antibody5 + 1*Hotness; half-life = 88.

Like her brother before her, the half life in this reaction is slower than in the original genome. Whether it’s beneficial or not has yet to be seen!

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Recovering from the Plague

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Now that everyone had recovered from the plague, they were taking a vacation on the island. The only norn who didn’t get sick, AppleJack, was hanging out with the bees. Fun fact. AppleJack maintained a health of about 90% during the plague!

It didn’t take long for AppleJack to decide to join the rest of her family on the island. It also didn’t take her long to change her mind and decide to head back to the waterfall, though!

With the others on the bridge, I took the opportunity to snap this photo of AppleJack.

Penny and Godfried flirted on the island while Patrick worked on making a new friend and AppleJack explored the lighthouse and falls. By now, AppleJack had proven to be the most independent norn.

Soon, though, Penny was pregnant with her first egg! Godfried slept on the bridge after his achievement (and after some slapping from Penny after more unwanted advances).

Penny took care to feed herself but Godfried seemed to be having trouble eating on his own. As if on queue, Penny came up to distract him some more, and then our Grendel friend stopped by to say hello and congratulate the happy couple.

Now, there were two eggs under the garden.

There was still one egg left to hatch. Does Godfried have another brother or a sister? Do Penny and Godfried have a boy or a girl?

More next time!

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Fixing Carrot Cobs

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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!

CCave’s C1 Development Resources

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A Plague Strikes

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Look at Penny! She’s not a baby anymore. She spent a good while getting to know the Grendel on the island and I think she made a friend! Little did I know what was around the corner, though.

They were both sick! Antigen 2 was attacking the both of them. I managed to get Godfried to eat some food but Penny was stuck spinning in a circle and frowning. Patrick was still willing to eat but Penny wasn’t cooperating much. I finally got her to pick up a honey pot and Godfried stole it!

Next thing I knew, everyone was sick!

Patrick frightened me the most. He was sick with Antigen 3 and his health plummeted in only a few seconds! His health increased to 33% from a dangerous 14% after I fed him some parsnips. Then to 45%. Godfried made a full recovery and Penny’s health recovered from 35% up to 60% though she was still sick.

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.

With everyone on the up, though, it was time to move on.

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