Description

Living World is a mod focused on populating the world with active NPCs that simulate player behavior as well as expanding the existing behavior of some existing NPCs. The NPCs are interact-able and mostly randomly generated.

Feature List

Randomly Generated active NPCs
Previously Defeated NPCs come back to life (Some require additional intervention first)
Collectible Card Game that can be played with active NPCs
NPC Sticker Trading
Captains seek out nearby Rogue Fusions to join the battle
Dedicated Settings Menu for customizing the mod's many features/behaviors.
Interactable benches
Player/Partner Overworld Monster Tranformation

Multiplayer Features

Followers + Nearby NPCs will join Multiplayer Raids (The NPCs/Followers of the player inviting)
Trade Cards with friends
Challenge your friends to Card Battles
Overworld Transformations are shown to all players in lobby

Trading Cards
- You can only trade cards that are not currently in your deck.
- Cards that are sent for trade will be held in reserve until the trade request is completed or canceled.
- Cards held in reserve cannot be added to your deck or offered in another trade.
Multiplayer Raids with NPCs
- If NPCs are currently engaged with a raid battle, they will continue to join the battle when inviting another player
- Followers you've invited to your party will also join any raid you send an invite to.
- Only the player sending the invite will have their NPCs join the battle.
- This feature can be disabled by turning off the NPCs Join Raids setting.
- NPCs who record a beast in a multiplayer raid will reward that tape to all participants as if a player had recorded it.

Overworld Transformation Details

Only beasts with an existing overworld form are available.
New forms are unlocked when the form has been recorded at least once.
All forms can be unlocked automatically by enabling the Unlock All Transformations setting.
The transformation shortcut can be disabled through the Overworld Transform Shortcut setting.

How to Transform

T on keyboard
R3 on Gamepad

Card Game Rules

Goal

Your goal is to bring your opponent's health down to 0. This is done by playing cards from your hand to accumulate stats used to attack your opponent at the end of each round.

Playing Cards

When you play a card from your hand to the field your Stance is changed based on the total attack and defense value of the cards on your field (see Stances section). After the Stance has been updated, your Power Meter will fill using the stance's primary stat and you will be awarded a point towards that stat. If the cards you played result in a Remaster Bonus, you will be awarded additional stats regardless of your current Stance.

End of Round

When both players have filled up their field, they will deal damage to each other using the stats they have earned during the round.

Stances

When playing cards, your Stance changes to match the highest stat value of your played cards on the field. The Stances are as follows:

Attacking - When your highest stat is Attack, you focus all your efforts into dealing damage. This leaves you with no defenses to block incoming attacks at the end of the round.
Defending - When your highest stat is Defense, you focus all your efforts on blocking/healing. You are unable to deal damage and block incoming damage up to your current Defense. If you have more Defense than your opponent's Attack, you will heal for the remaining points.
Balanced - When total Attack/Defense are equal, you are able to manage both attacking/defending.

Note: Bonus stats awarded through Remastering cards do not change your Stance and will continue to be used even when a Stance would otherwise ignore that stat.

Remastering Cards

When the cards played on the field are part of the same monster family, a Remaster Bonus is added to the total stats received for that round. How many stats awarded will depend on how much of the monster family is present on that player's side of the field. However, the bonus is only applied if the cards are played in the correct sequence.

Example:
Kuneko -> Shinning Kuneko will award a full remaster bonus, but Shinning Kuneko -> Kuneko will not. If an unrelated card is played in between, the remaster bonus is still applied as long as they are still on the correct order.