There are one or two mods but they're not strongly advertised because the devs are a bit autistic about people showing off the game in ways that were not intended.
It's available on the modding discord here: https://discord.com/invite/KWrCfZbskt
They basically don't want people to spoil their first time experience with easy access to cheats and silly mods. Why they don't allow to spread it on their discord. Once upon a time it was easy to mess with the game body morphing and both discord and steam was flooded with low effort shit posts of extremely obese or otherwise deformed characters so this caution is justified. When official modding tools arrive and people start to create actual interesting modded content the attitude will change.
Not originally but by now people created custom level editors and stuff. Its not perfect but way better than it was years ago.
that better be mf'ing velvetMadoc also teased tabards for arena that will display your company logo. But it won't arrive any time soon, not before dye system. Currently devs are focused on last two levels for story.
Excuse me?
They want to add coloring customization system for arena. Unknown if it will get ported to story as well. Was supposed to come out years ago with last big arena update but they run out of time. On a technical level it is easy to do if you want to simply add the functionality but they want to do in an immersive way, with fancy UI and more importantly with historically inspired dye system where you would need to hunt and buy various materials to do the coloring, with pricing depending on rarity of the colors. Like, in medieval times black dye was easy, fast and therefore cheap to produce, but for a long time a color like purple was reserved only for royalty (why byzantium heirs were "born in purple") because they could only extract it from special breed of snails by mashing them up. Which was slow, inefficient and required a specialist, which was reflected in prohibitively expensive manufacturing cost. I imagine gold was pretty expensive to do as well. Of course exanima is set in vaguely renaissance like timeline, time when craftsmen guilds started to rise and dyeing process among other things was revolutionized with various new inventions and chemicals coming into play. But many colors were still costly to produce and price range varied wildly depending on difficulty of manufacturing process.
Oh my God
procedural snail gland secretions when? we need anemic snail secretions, juvenile snail secretions, alcoholic mid-career professional snail secretions, and elder boomer in 3,500 sqft McMansion snail secretions for the full range of possible purple dye variants
You could get 50 hours before you even noticed it just playing the arena let alone the proper game.
So much effort spent on painstaking details that one can barely notice during gameplay.Madoc also teased tabards for arena that will display your company logo. But it won't arrive any time soon, not before dye system. Currently devs are focused on last two levels for story.
You can clothe your arena hub char in best gear you have. Then when you are in bying screen, you can drag crap on the char without buying to preview it. If you drag something and some clothing you wore gets unequipped, that means that items take same layer. Its nor really that complex when you know but it is somewhat complex to systematize because various items use various slots.
The deep, rich purple dye made from this snail became known as Tyrian Purple. The process of making the dye was long, difficult and expensive. Thousands of the tiny snails had to be found, their shells cracked, the snail removed. Mountains of empty shells have been found at the ancient sites of Sidon and Tyre. The snails were left to soak, then a tiny gland was removed and the juice extracted and put in a basin, which was placed in the sunlight. There, a remarkable transformation took place. In the sunlight the juice turned white, then yellow-green, then green, then violet, then a red which turned darker and darker. The process had to be stopped at exactly the right time to obtain the desired color, which could range from a bright crimson to a dark purple, the color of dried blood. Then either wool, linen or silk would be dyed. The exact hue varied between crimson and violet, but it was always rich, bright and lasting.
The actual color of Tyrian purple seems to have varied from a reddish to a bluish purple. The murex shells coming from northern waters, produced a more bluish color than those of the south. The most valued shades were said to be those closer to the color of dried blood. The chemical composition of the dye from the murex is close to that of the dye from indigo, and indigo was sometimes used to make a counterfeit Tyrian purple, a crime which was severely punished. What seems to have mattered about Tyrian purple was not its color, but its luster, richness, its resistance to weather and light, and its high price.
In modern times, Tyrian purple has been recreated, at great expense. When the german chemist tried to recreate Tyrian purple in 2008, he needed twelve thousand mollusks to create 1.4 ounces of dye, enough to color a handkerchief. In the year 2000, a gram of Tyrian purple made from ten thousand mollusks according to the original formula cost two thousand euros.
I still get a chuckle every time he makes one of these jokes, because it's still completely relevant. The fact that time keeps marching forward and he can still keep making them only adds to absurd nature of it all.
But imagine that you completed the game for a moment. Would such a victory really feel complete and satisfying without your character wearing armor dyed in double-premium Tyrian purple?
