Trick or treaters arrive on Septober 15 - get your chocolate ready or prepare for tricks!
[b]What do the kids do?[/b] - A small group of kids visit the colony on Septober 15th and request chocolate. If you ignore them, they’ll pull various semi-harmless pranks (tricks). I’d rather keep the specifics a little vague for fun c:
[b]I’m not American, what’s trick or treat?[/b] - It’s a Halloween tradition (holiday on October 31st) where children go door to door dressed up in scary outfits and yell, “trick or treat!”. It doesn’t happen as much anymore but if you didn’t give a treat, kids would pull pranks (tricks). Classic tricks would be smashing ornaments or pumpkins, throwing toilet paper rolls over the house and trees, and throwing eggs. It’s a silly time to dress up, put out scary decorations, be a little impish, and enjoy candy. “Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!”
[b]Does it add anything?[/b] - No, no extra stuff. The kids make use of items from the base game and all DLC (all optional) to make their “costumes”. Like any mod, this probably throws game balance off a tiny bit since the kids can be xenotypes and if you’re a monster, you could kidnap them. Other than a small mood buff if you give them chocolate, there’s no benefits or serious drawbacks with this mod.
[b]Updates[/b] -
Added the option to enable alternative treats in the mod options menu (Open Options, go to Mod Options, click on Trick or Treat). The kids will accept lavish meals, fine meals, insect jelly, beer, silver (trick or treat for UNICEF!), glitterworld medicine, medicine, psychite tea, ambrosia, and smokeleaf joints as alternatives and will pick an available alternative at random (like beggars from Ideology). Be careful, they may not be happy with your alternative treats..
Add your own treats! I've added an XML file that can be edited with any text editor which can be found here: C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\3609938267\1.6\Defs\TreatDefs (your steam library may be installed on a different drive!)
Want to go the extra mile for the kids? Enable full-size candy bars! Each kid will request 5 chocolate instead of 1. Works with the alternate treat option!
[b]Troubleshooting[/b] -
It’s the 15th of Septober and no trick or treaters arrived: They won’t visit colonies in extreme biomes. If you’re not on an extreme biome, please check your logs and send me the errors.
Extreme biomes are: Ice sheet, sea ice, extreme desert, and glacial plain
The kids arrive but they leave immediately: They check for dangerous temperatures like traders and will leave if it'll be too uncomfortable for them. If impids are apart of the group, they'll leave far sooner in cold temperatures than a regular trader might. They're also children so they're not going to tough it out as well as traders.
[b]Mod incompatibilities?[/b] - I didn’t find any with my current mod list but that doesn’t mean much. Should work with popular modded chocolate/candy. Let me know if you find any issues!
[b]Discord[/b] - For feedback/ideas/issues: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscord.gg%2FZvYf42BtZ6]https://discord.gg/ZvYf42BtZ6[/url]
