zt1 vanilla items are missing after putting .ztds in my Updates folder?

[bellehanz]

By mods I mean mostly buildings and scenery, no hacks. I think all the animals I’ve downloaded have worked, and some scenery, fences, and foliage have shown up correctly. There’s one fence (rainbow post and rail I think?) that takes some time to “unlock” in a freeform game, then maybe around 5-10 other mods that don’t appear at all unless I’m in a scenario. I can check which specific ones if that’s helpful, I just didn’t want to list them all out haha.

[Fern]

Because of the lack of ids to use we reuse ingame ids. So there will be a lot of buildings just called "Restaurant" or "Gift Shop". I know the restaurant is one of the last to be released in a freeform game. If you want them all at the start then you need a freeform unlock which is available here.

If this does not work let me know and I will find an earlier version that was done for the original game. Some things might not appear because they use ids from the extensions DD, MM and CC.

Meanwhile I will do some checking.

[Fern]

If that does not work you could try this from the Designer Guild

Have All Things Available

[bellehanz]

Sadly neither of those worked for me /: I put them in the Updates folder and even tried checking local files for new items from the main game menu, to no avail (I tried that with the building & scenery mods too, but they still only appear in scenarios). Maybe some mods just aren’t fully compatible without the expansions ?

[Fern]

Well without these when you start a freeform game new items should appear each 3 months of game time and it takes 2 or 3 game years to have all released.

[Fern]

You would post it here or pm it to me.

From Jay: They could run makeListOfFilesInFolderAndAllItsSubfolders.bat from their ZT main folder and then give the listOfFilesInFolderAndAllItsSubfolders.txt and zoo.ini files for me to look at. That ".bat" is available from DD:

http://www.ztcdd.org/DD/index.php?topic=10658.0

[bellehanz]

2 hours ago, Fern said:

Well without these when you start a freeform game new items should appear each 3 months of game time and it takes 2 or 3 game years to have all released.

Yeah that I already know - I’m not having an issue with the original base game items, it’s only the new mods I’ve downloaded. Some work just fine while others only appear in scenarios but not in a freeform game. Unless you’re saying the mods are supposed to follow the base game unlocking rules?

[Fern]

Some might require the expansions. Run that list that Jay requested you run. That will show him what you have and he will know what will work and what won't.