Wilderlands Echoes

Wilderlands Echoes

Wilderlands Echoes is a configurable ambient text system for Vintage Story.
It delivers short atmospheric messages on login and respawn, powered by a JSON-driven system that players, server owners, and modders can fully customize or extend.

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Details
Echoes entries are fully Customizable: Entries are loaded from a modconfig file. Players can add, remove, or customize messages as they see fit. Subtle and fully editable, this mod exists purely to deepen tone and presence within the Wilderlands, and provides a light weight tool for players and server owners to use in their own worlds.

The list for all of the mod's entries is found in the modConfig folder inside "wilderlandsechoes.json". Edit, add to, and delete as desired, just be sure to add entries modeled after the format used by the mod's default entries.

Use the server command: /echo to generate a new line without having to login or die/respawn. 

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NEW with version 1.0.1:

• The mod's modconfig file now ships with option to customize global text colors for all entries as well as customize text color on a per-entry basis.
• Mod now allows mod authors to ship their mods with customized entires by adding a file to their mod's game/config folder.

 

File path would be: "game/config/echoes.json".

Entires in that file should look like this:
{

  "Color": "#7AC7C7", //default color for all entries if per-entry color is not set
  "FlavorTexts": [
    {
     "Text": "Example entry 1 with customized text color.",

     "Color": "#FFAA00" 
    },
    {
     "Text": "Example entry 2 with no custom color, defaulting to global text color value."
    },
    {
     "Text": "Example entry 3 using a different customized text color.",
     "Color": "#FF77FF"
    }
  ]
}

 

NEW with version 1.0.2:

Modders can ship their own "Echoes" entries with their mod via an "echoes.json" file placed in the game folder. Path would be "assets/game/config/echoes.json".

 

This allows W.Echoes to also be used to add customized tips and comments regarding specific mod content, which will show up on login or respawn.

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Community & Support

If you have issues, suggestions, or feedback:

Please post in the Wilderlands Rustbound thread in Vintage Story's official Discord.

Interested in following development more closely?
Join The Wilderlands Community Discord server.

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