creatures caves welcome, guest
downloads   gallery   dev   community   creatchi   forum   mycaves
bookmarks | search | post new topic
Help Forum
old
Unable to play a new file on Creatures 3   
Scratchybird

Scratchybird



  10/31/2024  1

Hi! I have this problem with creatures 3 on my windows 10, I have the GoG version.
Whenever I try to start a new game I get this error

It otherwise works just fine when I play the first file I created but if I try to play another file I get this message.
If it does help I did at one point install custom norns and a couple of other mods.
Thank you in advance!

 
Papriko
Peppery One

Papriko



  10/31/2024

How strange that it happens on fresh worlds..... Say, the mods that you downloaded, did any of them require you to put a file ending in ".cos" into the game by hand? Those are usually automatically loaded when you make a new world.
Better yet: do you happen to have a list of all the things you got?

Also, blnk.s16, isn't that the default blank image? How'd that go missing? Odd things going on here, but these games are a bit on the older side.


Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...
 
Scratchybird

Scratchybird



  10/31/2024

Actually yes it appears so! It was like months ago when I installed these mods but I have these


I kind of like noticed new files stopped working so I stopped playing but I wanna play again now lol

 
Scratchybird

Scratchybird



  10/31/2024

Hold on it somehow fixed itself?
I got bored and downloaded more agent files (sorry) and cleared some disk space and now I can suddenly play my other files now.
Perhaps that was the issue all along?

Although now it seems like it'll not let me choose an egg on the new file. Unless I forgot how to like activate it which is totally possible it's been a while

 
Papriko
Peppery One

Papriko



  10/31/2024

That looks like it got struck down by autokill. Autokill is a feature where if an agent has a glitch, the game just deletes it instead of crashing. If your egg layer is gone like that, it probably had some sort of problem. My best guess here is that you installed a breed that you didn't have the sprites for, or it didn't install the sprites right. The egg layer tried to load an image that doesn't exist, which caused a glitch and it was deleted.

Also, "030 Other Mods"? Did you make that folder yourself or where does it come from?

Oh, and out of curiosity: is there any particular reason you don't play docking station instead? It can load all of C3, and has a slightly newer engine.


Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...
 
Scratchybird

Scratchybird



  10/31/2024

Honestly I don't remember where 030 other mods came from
But yeah it would probably just be easier to play docking station instead which does work just perfectly without any issue so I'll probably just play that instead
But thank you for all your help anyways!

 
Mandymom

Mandymom



  10/31/2024  1

I’ve honestly not really played c3 standalone, at least not in a long time :P

Grendels aren't so bad, but I love Ettins! They're adorable! The complexity of creatures is quite amazing.
 


downloads
cobs
adoptions
creaturelink
metarooms
breeds
 
gallery
art
wallpaper
screenshots
graphics
promos
sprites
dev
hack shack
script reservations
dev resources
active projects
dev forum
 
community
links
advice
chat
polls
resources
creatchi
 
forum
bookmarks
general
news
help
development
strangeo
survivor
mycaves
log in
register
lost pw
0 online
creatures caves is your #1 resource for the creatures artificial life game series: creatures, creatures 2, creatures 3, docking station, and the upcoming creatures family.

contact    help    privacy policy    terms & conditions    rules    donate    wiki