mod: pikpik_carrot.BandTogether

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mod: pikpik_carrot.BandTogether

Entry for the OW 2024 modding jam. (by @Etherpod)

https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/bandtogether/

[Ultrinik]

I got a bug where the shrub keeps spawning in the island, and the greed guy doesn't accept that one.
The worship guys are in attack mode, but there is nothing in the shrine where the shrub is supposed to be.
So I think Im softlocked

[Etherpod]

Have you tried placing the shrubbery back in the shrine?

[Ultrinik]

I did it and nothing special happened, I can not grab it again from it and when the loop restarts it's on the island again

[Etherpod]

The next update should fix this, along with everything else on the issues page. Sorry about the bugs.

[ghost]

Is there any way I can reset all my progress for the time being just to avoid the shrubbery softlocking?

[Etherpod]

If you want to restart the mod, selecting New Expedition or making a new profile should do the trick.

If you want to only reset certain parts, there's a file in AppData/LocalLow under Mobius Digital and your profile name that's called data.owsave I think. Everything that saves across loops is controlled by conditions in the dictConditions section, so you can play around with those (Worship clan is called Ghird B).

[GreatGoldenchip]

This was definitely my favorite mod from the jam. It's so good!

[MrCrankunity]

Finished this mod today and had a lot of fun with it. I'm just a bit annoyed with Ernesto, because getting him seems kinda bugged or I misunderstood something heavily.

[Etherpod]

Thanks for playing!

Ernesto is weird because... (expand for spoilers)

the location that the quantum rocks travel to are directly beneath the South Pole, and the game code works by only moving the quantum objects once you look in their direction first. So to make the white rock appear, you need to look directly down first and then once you look up again it will appear on one of the pillars. The same thing happens when you're in the underground shrine, you need to look directly up (or maybe down?) for the rock to appear again. Opening the map also makes them appear, but outside of doing that it is pretty difficult for someone who doesn't know any of this.

[AaaGss]

Where is the blood stone? I can not find it. how can I open the door of logic follower?

[DaveLH]

This is my second time playing this mod. I really like it, and I had no issues when I played it back in April or May. But now there seems to be a bug I should report:

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

Details

Shortly after I started the mod, I went to the Exploration clan to give the Gatekeeper my cockpit. Then, because I didn't want to be without my ship for the rest of the mod, I did a "Meditate Until next loop," which somehow triggered the "Breaking the Fabric of Space Time" animation, but not the text indicating that -- Instead the game just went to black and then completely froze... Though I know the game timer was still running, as I have the "Clock" mod enabled. But no further user input had any effect. Have no idea how this happened, but thought I should report it as a potential bug.

[DaveLH]

Update: Looks like the issue was that my Game profile was broken, because I created a new one and the issue went away. Really weird though, anyway, what it was doing...

[BURG3R5]

An awesome mod with interesting puzzles and a cool story!

I'll mention some small issues because this is so close to perfect (for me, at least)!

1. The forced interaction at the start almost made me quit because I thought the mod was broken. I landed in a village and wanted to explore a bit before going to the signal. But I couldn't talk to people, I couldn't pick up scrolls, etc. There has to be a better way to introduce the premise. The current way seems to go against the non-linear and curiosity-driven gameplay of OW.
2. The ending could've been more fleshed-out. Everything after entering the door felt super rushed and I almost got jump-scared multiple times by the characters just appearing near the campfire as fast as possible without narrative pressure to be friends again.
3. Is there any way to not have all the physical progress persist across loops? Or else (now that the jam is over) have it be on a system without the loops? The persistent progress breaks immersion...

Anyway, I really liked this mod and I hope to see more mods from you soon!

[Etherpod]

Thanks for the feedback! We're not planning on working on this mod anymore, so it's not likely any of this will be fixed ::/

I agree, forcing you to go to the signal at the start is a bad way of doing things, but it was also the fastest way and nobody bothered to fix it afterwards.

The ending used to not work at all and we had to spend a bunch of time fixing it, so I’m happy with how it is right now, even if it does seem rushed. The quantum characters is something you can see throughout the mod, not just the ending.

Incorporating the time loop would likely require a complete redesign of the mod. It would be so annoying to do all the quests over and over again because they can’t remember who you are. Maybe they remember everything because of the Sacred Shrubbery or something XD

Moving the mod to a new system would defeat the point of Jam 3, so that sadly wasn't an option either.

It has some imperfections, but I’m glad you still enjoyed playing the mod!

[DaveLH]

Personally, I like that it isn't reset by the time loop , for the reasons you mention -- It would be just too much to try to do everything in only 22 minutes. I can also see how improving the ending would be a challenge -- Especially since the available animation cycles for the Nomai are so limited.

[AaaGss]

Where is the blood stone? I can not find it. how can I open the door of logic follower?

[Etherpod]

The "blood stone" is a

quantum rock that's colored red. There's one of them on each pole.

A hint for the Followers of Logic puzzle:

Pay attention to the carpet on the wall of the building with the locked door. Something needs to line up with the center of the carpet.

[AaaGss]

Something needs to line up with the center of the carpet. What is something? launch my reconnaissance aircraft to the center? I saw a wooden pillar on the opposite island.

[AaaGss]

I know where Ernesto is, but I can't get there. What should I do?

[Etherpod]

Have you found the clue at

the Followers of Greed in the tall tower? There's a scroll on the ceiling of the tower, it should give a hint for what you need to do for the Followers of Logic puzzle.

And how do you know where Erensto is? That's not something you're supposed to do until you complete the Followers of Logic XD

[AaaGss]

I've found the clue to the door of logic. It turns out that the shadow is the shadow of the sun. I thought it was something like a soul (I've played Hollow Knight too many times). When everyone was gathered at the gate, a deer man told me that he had lost his Erensto in the South Pole. Through the quantum entanglement law, I found the Erensto. The reconnaissance aircraft took an image of it. It was in a house with water, 85 meters below the North Pole, but I couldn't get there.

[Robo-D-Writah]

Has anyone experienced a problem with the followers of exploration? I found that I can talk to the guard near the broken door, who asks me for a cockpit. OK. I watched a vid (in fact, the ONLY vid I could find on this mod) that shows the cockpit of the shuttle craft that we use being ejected near the Nomai and then talking to it.

My problem/bug is that after I eject my cockpit, no matter where I do it, I can't talk to the Nomai near the broken door.

Any help with this one that can be offered, thanks, because so far I think this mod jam is just awesome, very puzzling and brain taxing at times, but awesome.

[Etherpod]

Hi @Robo-D-Writah, when you say you "can't talk to the Nomai near the broken door", do you mean you aren't able to interact with them at all? Or do you just mean that they don't acknowledge the cockpit?

[Robo-D-Writah]

I mean, before I blow the cockpit, I'm able to talk to the Nomai. After I've blown the cockpit, and I've done it several times in different places near the Nomai, like right on the gravity well landing pad, with my ship just outside of the gravity well, totally off the landing pad entirely...

Each time after I've blown the cockpit, I'm not able to interact with it AT ALL. It just looks at me and follows me around with its head.

[Etherpod]

That's definitely a bug, I'll look into it. Thanks for reporting this!

[Etherpod]

Hi @Robo-D-Writah, I just tested this and it works as intended on my game. When you have the time could you share your mod list? I think it might be an incompatibility between two mods. (You can export your mod list as a json by clicking the 3 dots in the mod manager)

[Robo-D-Writah]

here is a list of my current mods in a json file

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On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM Etherpod ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @Robo-D-Writah <https://github.com/Robo-D-Writah>, I just tested this and it works as intended on my game. When you have the time could you share your mod list? I think it might be an incompatibility between two mods. (You can export your mod list as a json by clicking the 3 dots in the mod manager) — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#172 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/B26MXKEYJGET45HQRRWWEA337Y3KXAVCNFSM6AAAAABWWDWXGCVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTKMJUGE4DSMY> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[Etherpod]

I'm not sure if the file uploaded correctly, I don't see anything on my end

[Robo-D-Writah]

let me open it in a json file

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On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM Etherpod ***@***.***> wrote: I'm not sure if the file uploaded correctly, I don't see anything on my end image.png (view on web) <https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/93937c98-3782-46bb-a33a-ea5ecb8cddcf> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#172 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/B26MXKB4RXI2F5CK5FO7F43372IEXAVCNFSM6AAAAABWWDWXGCVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTKMJUGQ4TSMQ> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[Robo-D-Writah]

ok that didn't quite work the way I expected, but I've managed to get a list of the mods through a json formatter program, then screenshot it. Hope this helps

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[Etherpod]

It doesn't look like it worked, could you try replying on the mod website? https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/bandtogether/

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page it should load all of the comments (you might have to sign into GitHub to reply)

[Robo-D-Writah]

Ok

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On Wed, 3 Dec 2025, 6:01 pm Etherpod, ***@***.***> wrote: It doesn't look like it worked, could you try replying on the mod website? https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/bandtogether/ If you scroll down to the bottom of the page it should load all of the comments (you might have to sign into GitHub to reply) — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#172 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/B26MXKCIO77EYH26DFUQU3L372KEHAVCNFSM6AAAAABWWDWXGCVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTKMJUGUZDAOA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[Robo-D-Writah]

Mods list.json
@Etherpod

[Etherpod]

I think I found your issue @Robo-D-Writah, and I think I found a fix for it as well.

After you eject the cockpit, go back into the main part of the ship through the hole left by the cockpit, then exit through the ship's hatch. That should allow you to talk to the Nomai again, as well as fix the weird gravity bug caused by ejecting the cockpit.

I'm unable to actually fix the bug because the bug is caused by code from another Jam 3 mod, but this should fix the issues you were having.

[Etherpod]

And thank you for the mod list! I wouldn't have been able to find the bug without it.

[Robo-D-Writah]

As bizarre as it sounds, your solution actually worked, though the gravity even outside of the gravity well was just confusing and like fighting your way through glue. But I got there in the end and finished the mod. So Thanks.