Terraria Calamity Mod

[Reinhard]

Hello everyone, I've just seen that the popular Terraria mod Calamity has had some sort of "*****-rights" related coup where the original creator (Fabsol) was removed from the development team and all references to him were replaced with some nauseating stuff. I don't wish to support such a project, so are there any existing efforts to "de-wokeify" Terraria or its mods? If not I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to fix myself.

[loregamer]

so are there any existing efforts to "de-wokeify" Terraria or its mods? If not I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to fix myself.

There definitely isn’t anything in progress right now. But if you want to work on it, you can definitely host your patches here

[Rand]

Hello everyone, I've just seen that the popular Terraria mod Calamity has had some sort of "*****-rights" related coup where the original creator (Fabsol) was removed from the development team and all references to him were replaced with some nauseating stuff. I don't wish to support such a project, so are there any existing efforts to "de-wokeify" Terraria or its mods? If not I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to fix myself.

Great. More demented ******* committing ***** wrongs.

[Reinhard]

After looking a little deeper into the mod, I don't see any purpose in a patch at the moment. The latest update (2.0.5) mainly served to remove all references to Fabsol, with little else in terms of substantive changes. All a patch would achieve is reverting to the previous version, which is easily found online. I imagine there will be more petty additions to come regardless.

[loregamer]

After looking a little deeper into the mod, I don't see any purpose in a patch at the moment. The latest update (2.0.5) mainly served to remove all references to Fabsol, with little else in terms of substantive changes. All a patch would achieve is reverting to the previous version, which is easily found online. I imagine there will be more petty additions to come regardless.

It’s worth preserving the old version here, imo

I reckon the majority of the work would be just backporting updates to the old version and removing ***** iconography. I don't know a thing about Terraria modding. Would that be simple?

[Reinhard]

It’s worth preserving the old version here, imo

It's been posted on Reddit already. Here is the direct link to the download.

To be honest the developer-pandering additions were never to my taste but expunging the original creator from his own project is not something I can tolerate.

I reckon the majority of the work would be just backporting updates to the old version and removing ***** iconography. I don't know a thing about Terraria modding. Would that be simple?

For now all they've done is replace/remove all of the items/NPCs which where "dedicated to" Fabsol. This is only a couple dozen discrete changes which are catalogued on the wiki, and I had initially hoped that reverting them could be done with a simple file replacement that could be repeated for future versions. Unfortunately decompiling and recompiling a mod is a little too much work for that. In any case, given the amount of effort they're willing to put into defacing existing content (this item is a prime example) I'm more concerned with what else they might add in the future. Reverting one set of obviously targeted changes is one thing, but actively keeping up with development and erasing new additions is not for me.

[Barntar who Plows]

What did Fabsol even do to get kicked off the development team of his own(?) mod? Probably some mild comment about the self-multilators given how rabid they are. Did some minor scrolling of the steam forums (since Plebbit is a hellscape) and it seems like he was constantly harassed by the community (Terraria and Calamity) which the other devs and jannies may have enabled, then one day he just up and quit because it wasn't worth it. Trying to find anything specific and concrete without it being veiled by bias is proving difficult for obvious reason. Something about transphobia and exploiting minors which I see no evidence of yet, just claims that he was a co-owner of a NSFW server and didn't ban minors that joined or something, said claims also being a regurgitation of what a single other developer said so it would not surprise me if it was fabricated.

After looking a little deeper into the mod, I don't see any purpose in a patch at the moment. The latest update (2.0.5) mainly served to remove all references to Fabsol, with little else in terms of substantive changes. All a patch would achieve is reverting to the previous version, which is easily found online. I imagine there will be more petty additions to come regardless.

It’s worth preserving the old version here, imo

I reckon the majority of the work would be just backporting updates to the old version and removing ***** iconography. I don't know a thing about Terraria modding. Would that be simple?

Oh, I'm blind and didn't notice it was already linked. Whoops. Despite the witch hunting and celebrating of Fabsol's departure on their Reddit, it's ironic that I found the archive there. As for editing out parts the mod or perhaps backporting new features into the older version, it doesn't seem like there's an easy way to do that aside from forking the actual code for the mod (if it's on Github or similar) or reverse engineering the .tmod file and...the more I research this topic the more overly complicated it seems.

I have read there was a tool specifically used for reading .tmod code but not only can I not find it, there are people who say that it was intentionally gimped to "respect mod developer's code" or something along those lines. Autist seem to be the most asinine people 90% of the time, this is why I will never respect a mod author to start. Too many silly changes out of spite, DFEs, and just general retardation.

[Acrux]

I heard that the ****** who stole this mod and also some Undertail mods just got found out for being a child sex predator. But I repeat myself.

[Reinhard]

What did Fabsol even do to get kicked off the development team of his own(?) mod? Probably some mild comment about the self-multilators given how rabid they are. Did some minor scrolling of the steam forums (since Plebbit is a hellscape) and it seems like he was constantly harassed by the community (Terraria and Calamity) which the other devs and jannies may have enabled, then one day he just up and quit because it wasn't worth it. Trying to find anything specific and concrete without it being veiled by bias is proving difficult for obvious reason. Something about transphobia and exploiting minors which I see no evidence of yet, just claims that he was a co-owner of a NSFW server and didn't ban minors that joined or something, said claims also being a regurgitation of what a single other developer said so it would not surprise me if it was fabricated.

You have it about right as far as I can tell. Obviously "transphobia" is not a real accusation that can convince any sensible man so the common practice is to throw in unsubstantiated claims of "grooming minors" which get accepted and repeated by credulous teenagers. If there were any evidence it'd have been easy to find.

I heard that the ****** who stole this mod and also some Undertail mods just got found out for being a child sex predator. But I repeat myself.

From a cursory glance at the dossier on this guy it seems to me that, while he did all the objectionable things one expects of an avowed paraphiliac, the moral panic about "grooming minors" is more baseless hysteria and amounts to messaging 17 year olds before they hit the magic number. Though, given how eager everyone in these communities is to turn any sort of misbehaviour into a several hundred–page Google doc, it makes the lack of anything on Fabsol all the more conspicuous—not that they have any capacity for self-reflection.

As for the substantive changes in the recent updates (2.0.6 and 2.0.7), they appear to be limited to more content removal and minor "fixes," including some pointless nerfs which have been poorly received. Still nothing anyone would be missing out on playing version 2.0.4.