Combined Animal ZTDs

[HayleyGilbert24]

Hi all. I was wondering if there was a way to get into contact with Hawkeye666 because I wanted to ask them if they had any other combined animal packs than the ones listed here and on the Google Drive. Trying to free up more ZTD space and would really appreciate it if someone could help. Thank you very much ☺️

[Goosifer]

By chance did you ask a similar question on Discord recently? If so, sorry for the duplicate advice lol. Making your own combined packs is super easy. Here's a tutorial for batch combining ztd files on Windows. It's a bit technical, but it's convenient and fast once you get the hang of it.

 

What You'll Need

 

Git for Windows: https://git-scm.com/install/windows

 

Install; you might need to restart your computer.

 

Step 1

 

Create a new folder, call it whatever you want. Anywhere is fine, we just need a workspace. Copy or move all of the ztd files you want to merge into this folder.

 

Step 2

 

Create another folder inside of your workspace. Call it whatever you want. I called mine 'combined'. Here is what your workspace should kind of look like:

 

 

 

Step 3

 

Right click on an empty area of your workspace to bring up the mouse menu. Look for 'Git Bash Here'. You might need to click on Show More Options first if you're on Windows 11.

 

 

Step 4

 

We're almost there. At this point a black console window titled MINGW64 should have come up. Click on it so you can type the following command. Note that if you named your 'combined' folder something different, simply replace the word 'combined' in the command:

 

unzip '*.ztd' -d combined

 

and hit <ENTER> on your keyboard. This will look for all files with the ZTD extension (aka ZT1 mods) within your workspace and combine them inside of the 'combined' folder. Below are screenshots of what should happen:

 

 

 

Step 5

 

Now go into your 'combined' folder. You'll see all of files unzipped in the same spot, which is what we want:

 

 

From here, use your favorite method to zip them up into a ztd file (super easy). If you're on Windows 10 or 11, you can select all of these files, right click, and Compress to... ZIP File. You'll have a new zip file in that directory, likely named after the first folder in your active directory (mine was animals.zip). You'll want to rename it to something different and change the extension to .ztd:

 

 

Step 6

 

Move your new pack into the dlupdate folder!

 

Troubleshooting

 

Keep a lookout for a question mid-merge that will ask what to do with duplicate files. You shouldn't encounter this with Hawkkeye's files, but you might with others especially if you download from ZooBerry. It's okay to type 'A' for [A]ll to this question. Usually it's just about a meta.toml file that contains author information not required for the mod to work.

 

 

 

[HayleyGilbert24]

2 hours ago, Goosifer said:

By chance did you ask a similar question on Discord recently? If so, sorry for the duplicate advice lol. Making your own combined packs is super easy. Here's a tutorial for batch combining ztd files on Windows. It's a bit technical, but it's convenient and fast once you get the hang of it.

 

What You'll Need

 

Git for Windows: https://git-scm.com/install/windows

 

Install; you might need to restart your computer.

 

Step 1

 

Create a new folder, call it whatever you want. Anywhere is fine, we just need a workspace. Copy or move all of the ztd files you want to merge into this folder.

 

Step 2

 

Create another folder inside of your workspace. Call it whatever you want. I called mine 'combined'. Here is what your workspace should kind of look like:

 

 

 

Step 3

 

Right click on an empty area of your workspace to bring up the mouse menu. Look for 'Git Bash Here'. You might need to click on Show More Options first if you're on Windows 11.

 

 

Step 4

 

We're almost there. At this point a black console window titled MINGW64 should have come up. Click on it so you can type the following command. Note that if you named your 'combined' folder something different, simply replace the word 'combined' in the command:

 

unzip '*.ztd' -d combined

 

and hit <ENTER> on your keyboard. This will look for all files with the ZTD extension (aka ZT1 mods) within your workspace and combine them inside of the 'combined' folder. Below are screenshots of what should happen:

 

 

 

Step 5

 

Now go into your 'combined' folder. You'll see all of files unzipped in the same spot, which is what we want:

 

 

From here, use your favorite method to zip them up into a ztd file (super easy). If you're on Windows 10 or 11, you can select all of these files, right click, and Compress to... ZIP File. You'll have a new zip file in that directory, likely named after the first folder in your active directory (mine was animals.zip). You'll want to rename it to something different and change the extension to .ztd:

 

 

Step 6

 

Move your new pack into the dlupdate folder!

 

Troubleshooting

 

Keep a lookout for a question mid-merge that will ask what to do with duplicate files. You shouldn't encounter this with Hawkkeye's files, but you might with others especially if you download from ZooBerry. It's okay to type 'A' for [A]ll to this question. Usually it's just about a meta.toml file that contains author information not required for the mod to work.

 

 

 

So I managed to combine them but the problem is the icons for the animals are not showing up

[Goosifer]

For all of them or just some of them? Can you tell us which animals? 

[HayleyGilbert24]

9 hours ago, Goosifer said:

For all of them or just some of them? Can you tell us which animals? 

So its these animal packs and individual ztds right here

[Goosifer]

Thanks, but when you say you see missing icons ingame is it on all of them? If not, which ones? I just want to narrow down where we’re hitting the bug. 

[HayleyGilbert24]

28 minutes ago, Goosifer said:

Thanks, but when you say you see missing icons ingame is it on all of them? If not, which ones? I just want to narrow down where we’re hitting the bug. 

All of them

[Goosifer]

Weird! Busy with grad school weekdays but I'll play with it this weekend and see if I spot the problem.

[HayleyGilbert24]

14 minutes ago, Goosifer said:

Weird! Busy with grad school weekdays but I'll play with it this weekend and see if I spot the problem.

Thank you!

[Fern]

Goosfer just a couple of thoughts. Most likely HayleyGilbert24 did not follow the steps exactly. For example, maybe they somehow got their "combined" folder name inside the ztd they created, or maybe they didn't rename ".zip" to ".ztd".