Archaeology Kit 2 (Public Release)

They show up as University Textbooks. You can buy them at the kiosks in Britechester. You can also find them in the list of all books on a bookshelf (Book of Hou, the Ecclesiastical History of the Simlish People, Vol 1-4, and several others). Those all give your sim SimLore skill. You can also get a few by doing missions for the Simsonian Institute. Let me know if you can't find them, and I'll see where else you can get them.

Thank you so much! I will include this.

I haven't tried it lately. The problem previously was that her mod had an override for one of the game tuning files to speed up the excavation/authentication processes -- and also auto add the artifact to inventory afterwards so that you can stack them. This (my) mod tries to add some injections to the same files, and they get overwritten when her mod loads (as far as I know). The symptom was that you never got the loot from the dirt clumps, IIRC. I noticed that she stopped using overrides at one point, and started using scripts, injections, XML injector, etc. So if she changed how hers works in regard to that interaction (eg, not using an overridden game file), then they could be compatible. Otherwise, same problem. The Archaeology Kit does do the 'add artifact to inventory' feature so that you can stack up artifacts, but it does not change the amount of time it takes to do those steps. That's all I know for now. If you try it again and find thatthey can both work together now, let me know!

Sorry I didn't see this earlier. Yeah, i haven't added new missions for quite awhile and have that on my TODO list. I also have come up with some code to detect what packs a player has better than before, so I'm going to filter the missions based on what packs you have. My TODO list is pretty big, but that is definitely on it. Thanks for the feedback!

Sure, happy to help! The Dirt Clump tuning is here: 11894865550844571184 The artifacts themselves are here: 16241076788243476708 Each one has states for region found, artifact era, authentication status and authenticity. The (magic) relics each have their own object tuning. I can describe those if you need them. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Yes, there is a list of artifacts and their historical cultures here: https://simsonianlibrary.com/archaeology-kit/artifacts/index.html I just noticed that I haven't added the newer Belomisian, Shih and Appaloosian artifacts to that page, so I will add those when I get a chance. There are about 3-4 artifacts from those cultures that aren't listed above. Each region will generally have a 'main' culture, then often another one with a lower chance of finding them. There are clues to help you figure out which regions have artifacts from which cultures. Asking a Local resident or local museum docent (if there is one in the region) will usually reveal which cultures left artfacts there. I should probably add a list of regions and their cultures to the links above, now that you mention it. Thanks for the feedback and let me know if you have any other questions!

Having to change the career ID (from 64 to 32 bit after the patch) might throw a error when you load a sim that had the old version of the career ID, but I didn't run into any errors that kept the game from loading. I'm pretty sure that I had a sim that actually had an active mission when I switched mine, and it just dropped the career from them as well as the mission. But no lot loading problems. Hmm. When I first noticed the original error after the R&L patch (before I made changes) I was having trouble loading a sim that was on a museum lot with a Docent. I still have 2.0.25 posted above, so if that still works for you (somehow...it doesn't for me post-patch), perhaps you could cancel any active missions a sim is working on, and make sure they don't try to load in at a museum first thing after the update? You could probably use the Load Game -> Visit (some other lot) with sim like that as well. Or remove the mod, load the sim, save them, then start again with 2.0.26 (that has the newer 32 bit career IDs). Otherwise, if you get a lastException.txt file next to your Mods folder, the error stacktrace in there can usually show me what's going wrong. Thanks for the feedback, and let me know how it goes.

I expect to be posting another update this evening. I just discovered the changes to custom career IDs that happened during the pre-Royalty and Legacy patch, and hadn't realized that it broke the Museum career. I plan to get another version posted later this evening (within the next 6-8 hours, hopefully). Thanks for your patience!

I'm not sure. I was just looking at the code that adds them, and it's pretty standard. It injects some Docent shifts into the Museum zone director, and the filter to choose a docent is pretty easy (similar to a Librarian). For me, they usually show up on the sidewalk spawn points with all of the visitors when the lot loads. They'll be dressed like a Librarian. Two many sims on the lot (over 20) might keep them from show up, but otherwise aside from the script not loading at all (due to being in nested subfolders, for example), I can't think of anything. I did just try starting a brand new save, and had the sim travel directly to the museum in Oasis Springs. There was a Docent spawned on the sidewalk who then went inside the Museum. So it does still work without any prerequisites. A mod conflict is possible. If I get the chance, I'll try the Home Regions mod out and see if that causes a problem. Thanks for the report!

You found a bug! (ding, ding, ding...a winner!). It is supposed to be near the shipwreck lot in Sulani, but after checking just now, I mistakenly set up the loot test to look for dirt clumps from the shipwreck lot -- but in Tartosa. The problem is that you can't dig up dirt clumps on the shipwreck lot in Tartosa...it's in Sulani. I just fixed this in my working copy and am hoping to get an update available within a few days, as I just added support for Ondarion from the new pack and am doing some testing. Thanks for the feedback, and that should be available on or around the shipwreck lot in Sulani in the next update.

It uses one of the animations from the seance interactions for one of the interactions for an artifact (Turn Undead from St Simbert's Relics). Otherwise, I think that's the only thing that depends on it. So most of it should work fine without Paranormal. Let me know if you discover otherwise!

Sorry I missed this question! LittleMsSam's Archaeology Overhaul used to conflict with this mod, since it replaces the excavate interaction (and this mod hooks into the built in one). I haven't tried it in quite a while though (years), so it may not be an issue anymore if they've changed how they set theirs up. One thing that that mod provides (automatically grabbing things off the archaeology workbench when done so you can stack them) is also provided by this mod, but I think that LittleMsSam's mod might speed it up even more. The symptom of the conflict was empty dirt clumps, etc.

There's definitely something going wrong there, but I'm not sure what yet. I wonder if the script is loading? That would account for several of those (interactions wouldn't get injected, situations not added, etc). Some things I'd check right away are the simple ones: Are script mods enabled (the recent update shut it off, I think)? Also is the script file more than one folder deep in the Mods folder? Those are the main 'script didn't load' reasons I've seen. Let me know if the problem persists!

Thanks for the bug reports! I'll look into this and may get back to you (here) if I have any questions. Thanks again for the feedback!

Thanks for the tip. I think I'll download that and see if I can figure out why the Docent wouldn't show up if the front desk is busy (but will if there's no front desk at all). I would have expected them to struggle over the chair, lol. I'll look into that. Thanks for the feedback!

Sorry for the late reply. I started looking at the University code again right after you posted this. I was considering whether it would be easier to add an entirely new University with it's own curriculum, rather than try to inject a few courses. I'm probably missing something, lol. In any case, it's something I'd like to add, but need to figure out the best way of doing so. I'll '+1' the feature request for this in my issue board. Thanks for the feedback!

I will update the link! I keep trying to avoid having the STBL ID change each build, but my build tool has a bug that's been hard to fix that causes it to ignore the previous ID and come up with a new one. I'll keep working on that, apologies!

That does make sense, though it doesn't do that -- yet. But it's an awesome idea! I think i could do it by injecting loots into the Archaeology kit from the Family History mod, based on their regional traits. I am definitely putting that on the 'To Add' list -- it's a great idea! Thanks for the feedback!

LOL! tbh, it goes back to my college days in the '80's (btw, I cough up ancient bone dust occasionally), during the 'American Ninja' craze. My roommates and I started blaming everything wrong on evil Koga Ninja. "Who drank the last beer?" "Koga Ninja" "Who left these wet towels on the floor?" "Koga Ninja" Previous versions of this mod included koga ninja who'd show up at night and try to steal any relics left out. It was causing problems, and burglars are a better idea (I added them before burglars were in the game), so I took them out. Koga ninja defeated.

Thank you so much! I had a great time trying to imagine the migrations of ancient sim peoples while making this mod!

That's a good point -- I might have it turned up too high for those. Most of the built-in spells have a 'bad reputation for spellcasting' broadcaster built in, but now that you mention it, that doesn't make sense with these spells, lol. I'll look at adjusting that in an update! Thanks for the feedback!

It's been a few patches since I gave all the missions a play-through, so I'll do that again to see if I can check the komorebi medieval missions out. It looks like it just needs to be a genuine artifact in the tuning. I was able to replicate the issue with Aegwareth's Wand. I'm not sure what's going on with it yet. It seems to be something related to the tuning and not the object definition. "it used to work." (seriously, it's one of my must-have relics when I play). I will release a fix as soon as I have one! Thanks for the feedback!

Yes , the latest version 2.0.17, is compatible with patch 1.117. I just double-checked it this evening, and it all seems to work as expected.

I booted up the game just now and had an archaeologist sim excavate an existing dig pile, as well as survey for dig piles, and excavate one they just found, and it all worked. So I don't think a patch just broke it (which is something I try to check for, as there are a lot of patches nowadays). The only other times I've heard of similar issues were when someone had LilMsSam's Archaeology Mod installed -- it overrides the tuning so the 'find artifact' hook from this mod doesn't get called. But you mentioned you tried it without other mods. The other time the person had script mods turned off, and it needs the script to load. However, then you wouldn't see Survey for Dig Piles, so I'm not sure it's that, either. There's a characteristic animation that a sim does when they find an artifact -- it's the generic 'pick up' animation, where there arm sweeps from one side to the other like they've picked something up. Do you ever see that, but not actually get an artifact? If so, that might mean you are missing the pack that the artifact you'd be finding is from. It needs most of the packs that have maps up until just before the High School pack. You might also try digging in another region if this is the case, since different regions return different artifacts (from different packs). That's all I can think of. Let me know if you see that 'pick up' animation while they are digging.

Hello, I don't know of anything that does that.

This is something I'm going to make easier, since it's a little dumb right now, lol. It uses the same method to donate an artifact that you use with the Jungle Adventure artifacts. You have to be on your home lot, then the interaction should be available on the artifact itself, and your sim will put it in the mailbox. I'm working on a way that you can just hand it to the docent in the museum...the way one would expect to be able to do it, lol.

I just replied to this, but Patreon failed to send it (again...this has happened several times lately). In any case, this mod uses a lot of packs, since it tries to provide different artifacts depending on what region you are in (so it at least refers to most packs with regions/maps). For the missing object error you received, it's probably Vampires, or Werewolves. Not sure I used any objects from the others. I need to update the pack requirement list for this mod, since I know that it's using more than just what it says above not. Much of it might still work, but it will throw the LE when it looks for something in a pack you don't have.

I'll look at it, as well as the LE.

I have not been able to get many of the things you need to do for the Archaeology Aspiration to get marked as done through the Archaeology Kit. In other words, the aspiration only counts extracting and authenticating Selvadoradan artifacts, not Archaeology Kit ones. The problem is that the objectives that need to be completed for the aspiration are very specific to the interactions in Jungle Adventure. I've been looking for a way to complete the objectives some other way (even through a script), but haven't really found one yet. Otherwise, it doesn't block anything that I'm aware of -- it just doesn't help much with the aspiration (some will work, others will not -- depends on how the objective was set up). The only other thing I've considered is coming up with an additional aspiration specifically for the Archaeology Kit (which would include all archaeology interactions both built in and in the mod). But it hasn't been a priority yet.

Answers (hopefully): Gaining Sim Lore * Reading the Historical Books * The Simsonian Institute will give you one leather bound version of the first volume once you complete a mission for them, as well as others as you complete more missions. The paperback versions of these books can also be purchased (cheaper) from the University Kiosk in Britechester and from bookshelves. * https://simsonianlibrary.com/archaeology-kit/books/index.html * Asking Museum Docents about historical eras, local culture, etc * Authenticating Archaeology Kit artifacts * Analyzing Archaeology Kit artifacts * I often set up museums to do this, here are some tips: * https://simsonianlibrary.com/archaeology-kit/how-to-build-a-museum/index.html * Talking to regional residents about local culture Yes, the NPCs will plunder your digsites. They do this in Selvadorada, too (it's built-in), but doesn't happen there as often since you're out in the jungle and there are fewer NPCs. There is no specific Simsonian Museum in-game. All museums should now have staff called Museum Docents. You can ask them questions about the Simsonian Institute, ask for archaeological missions to go on, and gain Sim Lore by asking them questions, watching their museum tours (if you have Archaeology Kit artifacts in the museum), etc. BTW, currently testing version 2.0.14 to fix the double menu problem.

That is confusing...The string itself comes from the stock game code, as there isn't a separate German translation yet. As far as why it's showing up twice? I attach a Survey Dig Site interaction to the terrain to allow searching to work in all regions, but it should be blocked from showing up in Selvadorada, which is the only place the built-in one should appear (to end up with two of them). If you have TwistedMexi's AllCheats mod installed, you can see the actual filename of each interaction by using this cheat to turn it on (and also off): interactions.show_interaction_tuning_name I'll try that myself and see if I can trace the duplicated tuning filename, but let me know if you discover it first. Also, if you could tell me what region it shows up in (one or all, etc), that would help. Thanks!

Sure! If you don't have the spellbook injector installed, the spells just won't be added. I'll also check the probabilities I set up to find those spells and make sure they aren't overly weighted. I sometimes do that when I'm testing things, lol.

I'm putting together an update to fix it as soon as possible. Thanks again for the report!

I haven't had a chance to check through all the features in that mod since the recent patches, but i'll check that out next. Thanks for the report!

Excellent!

I am not entirely certain, but I think you can create an Overrides folder inside your Mods folder as described here: https://simplifiedmodding.tumblr.com/post/653467282670026752/tutorial-how-to-create-a-working-overrides-folder Then put the .package file with the French translations inside the Overrides folder. This will cause the French translations to override the English strings inside the Mod. Any text missing from the French translation package would stay in English. I copied the link above since someone had already written up how to create an Overrides folder inside your Mods folder, but let me know if that doesn't work.

Glad to hear it. :)

Hello, could you give me more information about where you saw the career before that you no longer do? I can't tell from what you've reported whether you had previously handled missions from the Museum or not. The Museum Contractor career isn't a normal career that you can join via Find a Job. You need to interact with the Museum Docent staff and they will give you missions. You only see the career indicator in the 'Career' tab when you are working on an active mission. Let me know if you can't find the Museum Docent staff at a museum (any museum). They should have a set of interactions under a Museum Docent menu that will let you get missions from them, once you qualify by donating a Rare non-Selvadoradan artifact. If the Docents don't show up in the museum, do any other features of the mod appear, such as Survey for Digsite outside Sulani, etc? Thanks!

I've attached it to this post just now. I apparently forgot to upload it before, my apologies! It's under the mod download named 'Archéology2 trad FR Heidi de LuniverSims.com.package'. It was done by https://luniversims.com/ . The file just contains the translations, so you need the mod, too. You may need to put the package with the translated strings into an Overrides folder, so that it's used instead of the English strings (in the French category) built into the mod. Here's a link to a fairly easy way to do this (apologies if you know how to do this already): https://simplifiedmodding.tumblr.com/post/653467282670026752/tutorial-how-to-create-a-working-overrides-folder

Hello, Nobody has told me that they're doing a French translation yet, and it would be great if you did one!