How do you create VHS? I would like to try my hand at it.

@Aus so, it does give a small chance of finding both in locations it adds tapes. as for the multiple copies, that is up to the game engine.

I this mod makes home vhs spawn in retail as well and does it home vhs have multiple copies?

thank you very much, i will continue my search.

@Naem594 of course, anything the game considers a retail tape can appear with this mod

i have a question if i may, i might also be in the wrong mod page.

does this mod include "cooking, electrical, mechanic, tailoring, metal working training VHS tape" ?
i have found these tapes, and cant figure out which mod they belong too. the tapes don't fit in normal vhs tape slots.

@S_0404 sorry, i realized i didn't answer your entire question. the problem with making tapes spawn more frequently is you just increase a chance of getting a tape. you might luck out and get more unique tapes, the problem is there are so many tapes to pool from that i feel that increasing the probability (beyond making it super easy to get tapes) wouldn't effectively help you all that much except give you more clutter. just change other to "Abundant" and you get the same effect, this mod was just to add more "spawn" points for tapes that weren't inherent in the game.

I can't say for sure @Brak's DAD, i integrate within the vanilla PZ tables. some modders just completely re-write the tables

@S_0404 this increases the chance of spawning in certain locations, houses are not one of them.

This mod doesn't have issues with More VHS no?

hey i downloaded this mod and i can't still find any home vhs tapes, I'm on louisville exploring houses that i hadn't explored on my map on mp, and nothing, can i tweak the chances of home vhs tapes?

Ah so increased distributions then, okay thanks ^^

It gives a chance to find tapes in spots that normally had 0% chance for both home and retail tapes.

But what does it actually do? The description does not specify:
- are these all entertainment tapes? (boredom relief only)
- are some capable of awarding XP to skills? (bordome relief + XP in a skill)

Or does this simply increase the quantity or tapes found in containers?

@Rimurito very possible that some other mods are blocking it. since i am not sure what mods you have i can't really say for sure what might be causing you errors

Idk why but vhs dont spawn in my server so i was thinking to download this mod but the server give me a lot of errors so i dont know whats the cause of this because i only wanted to have vhs in my world but still dont spawn, please help :C

This mod now works regardless of how many mods modify the distributions, I figured out a way to get around it.

Added you for a question about your mod!

so, if you start a new save this error prevents Crates from having tapes spawn in warehouses, storage units and such. this is what i suspected was the cause of this error, but unfortunately my options for fixing it is not great. so i will have to think on it if there is a way to fix it.

I will see what I can find out, it seems that most likely it means you want to see tape crates in warehouses and storage units. I will have to confirm

Thank you so much. I can just ignore it for the moment, right?

this error may just be an annoyance, I will investigate further to see if it actually causes an issue

@BreakUrSelf i have discovered the root cause of this error. when combined with other mods that add items that overrwrite the default distribution table, something imho should not be done you get this error. i noticed this when using Silencer and B41 Firearms Rebalance.

sorry to bother again, i keep getting this>

STACK TRACE
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function: addTapesToProceduralList -- file: MoreTapes_Distributions.lua line # 79 | MOD: More Tapes!


And 1 more as well

sounds good man, looking forward to it. it's looking great already but being able to alter spawn rates via settings would be a godsend and basically perfect the mod.

i will work on adding some options to alter spawn rates

@DA BUSHMASTER DAT ENDED IT ALL there was a distribution error, this is most likely the cause if you were playing on a new save

is there a setting to change how often home tapes spawn? my buddies and I went through looting LSU and 2 bookstores in Louisville and didn't find even a single home vhs tape somehow.

@BreakUrSelf ok, i did discover that it was still hitting occasionally. it has now been fixed.

hmm, let me take a gander. make sure to completely close PZ and also restart Steam. sometimes it has difficulty pulling the latest

I am still getting the distribution error. :(

good to hear!

After doing some of my own testing it seems that home vhs tapes may actually respect the loot respawn and spawn in too. I went to a school library and bookstore and found one home VHS tape each, along with a couple of other retail tapes (around 4-5 for both). The mod seems to work splendidly so far.

Ahh that sucks. I was revisiting areas that I had loot update set for, but learning they don't respawn like that anyway is a shame. Oh well

@DA BUSHMASTER DAT ENDED IT ALL so after checking upon adding my mod to a new save i discovered several home tapes in the school in Rosewood and 1 home tape in the Muldraugh library. i think the game puts heavier weight on the chance at getting books. I also found 3 retail tapes in both locations. I think the problem is the 2 types of tapes are competing. Also, just as a reminder, once you have been to an area the update won't take effect so it has to be a fresh area to see the home VHS tapes.

@DA BUSHMASTER DAT ENDED IT ALL interesting, i always find at least some tapes when hitting up bookstores. however, home VHS tapes are a bit rarer, i think in my own game I finally found 1 home VHS tape at a bookstore. i am not sure what the rarity is, i shall dig in to see what i can find

question, I have the mod installed but didn't find any home VHS tapes at bookstores or VHS stores. is there somewhere else i meant to find them? i searched half of muldraugh's houses and still couldn't find one

LIFESAVER! YOU ARE THE MAN!

@DA BUSHMASTER DAT ENDED IT ALL home VHS tapes have now been added

@DA BUSHMASTER DAT ENDED IT ALL i was thinking of making this tweak actually, i feel like home VHS tapes should be more common.

Does this mod change anything about the home VHS tapes? They're way way too rare in the vanilla game. Does this mod make them spawn in retail stores or no?

Oh No..... Beta....

@rientelfon VHS stores can be emptied pretty fast in MP servers, so being able to find them besides is a great bonus.

i am probably going to pull this mod, since there are now tape stores in the game. this mod was for that happy interim time

I actually second this, I have recently started playing and am compiling a mod pack for a server of 4-6 players before we start as a group.
Sooooo many mods add a "after thought" feature that throws off the balance of other mods I've selected.
I've avoided the energy drink mod myself and am VERY greatful it wasn't included in this mod, Thank you!

@rientelfon It was not a poor choice, just a bad implementation in my opinion. I've seen a few other mods which were focused on a single big welcome addition or change but then add other things as well that kinda made it less appealing. It's the equivalent of downloading a single vehicle mod but then it also adds changes to steering and handling you don't like and makes you unsubscribe despite wanting that vehicle but not the other changes. There's also a few energy drink mods out there and caffeine pills so this would add redundancy as it is in my case.
All of this is just my 2 cents, by no means do you NEED to change it - just giving feedback.

@Sneaky Bananas I will work on just the distribution of Braundo, thanks for your interest!

I personally loved the braundo and would happily subscribe to a separate mod for it :)

@Tim Shady that said, it seems that it was a poor choice, hindsight is 20/20 after all. it will be removed

@Tim Shady I didn’t really see it as over powered initially. however, I also don’t have control over the loot distribution of other players. I personally have never had a zombie drop one after killing 400+ in one game. So from my point of view it didn’t seem that OP to me. it was initially OP with -50 but that was an upload issue by me resetting it to -20 seems to have restored the functionality. out of 30 days looting I managed to get a total of 11 energy drinks, something I saved for rare occasions. I think drinking 3 or 4 could get me back up and going if needed. at that rate it would last me about ~4 days

Putting in other features such as an OP energy drink is generally a bad idea. Why not make them separate? Just link it under the description. If anything it just makes people hesitant to DL your mod or worse case scenario unsub from it because of the broken latter.