Which of the incorporated mods removed the frigates? Tried looking by myself but couldn't point it down on any of them


I'm not sure what mod did it either, but I believe you can go into the "gametext.txt" and change things back.

right now these things were changed
Frigates became destroyers ...

Is this kinda broken? I started a Legends game as Humans and it spawned me in with the name Atukko 2 and Atukko 1 was the Atukk race and they were literally right next to me and immediately started attacking me because I was in their airspace.


I'll look into Legends a bit (my initial looks into ...

CaesarAug wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 10:20 am For the latest 29 March 2025 update, you'll want to to change the "about.txt" from DWUR 1.1.0 to DWUR 1.1.1.

Thank you! I just shifted things to GitLab (updated the main page) for better version control overall. Updated the about.txt

imperialWorldX wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:35 am you still working on this mod at all after DW2 ?

Here and there. Not really doing any more development on it at the moment, no.

Trying this out with a couple of my personal tweaks. Thanks for putting all this work into an old game. I have DW2 but I can't bring myself to play it lol.


Glad you're enjoying it, friend! Yeah I keep coming back to DWU. I like a lot of what DW2 is doing, but it's slow going to get to the point ...

DWUR works ok on my Win7 64-bit 8GB ram set-up with 1366x768 resolution. Windows 10 and up does bugger-up some older games though, which is why I won't upgrade, and I don't like the idea of Distant Worlds 2 even though it looks great. Maybe if there was a demo I could have a go at before DL'ing ...

It's really only a hassle if you like to design different sub-types of destroyers or whatever and want to have them visually different, otherwise it's not that bothersome or game-breaking.


You know...I do remember when either Alvek or Bacon introduced that feature of multiple ship graphics per ...

Great mod, though I'm having issues with the planet shader on a fresh install

https://files.catbox.moe/qs16ox.jpg


Yeah that's an old graphic quirk. I've never been able to "fix" that. If you swap out planet graphics...even if you keep the resolution the same...you get that extra "shadow".

If ...

It's a problem with DWUR. The multiple-ship pics works with vanilla bacon/expansion mod, just not with DWUR for some reason even if you do change them to escort1, escort2 etc.


Hrmm...definitely not something I did intentionally :oops:

Maybe it's how DWUR works with ExpansionMod / BaconMod ...

Looks like someone re-uploaded it here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/j3iytdim ... 1.zip/file

Alvek wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:12 am
That something new, newer heard about bug like this. Can you upload your save ?

Thanks for taking a look, Alvek

Hey I tried playing with this and the expansion mod. There are lots of factions and pirate factions. But there are also two empires in my game that I can see in the world, but I can't do diplomacy on them. The game keeps spamming me every few seconds that I have met a new empire in the <name ...

I suppose the followup question is: Is the expanded mod a required component? It's the expanded mod's DistantWorld.exe that I'm having a problem with under Wine, not this mod.


I'm trying to think...Expansion Mod (or BaconMod, which Expansion is a continuation of...) I don't think is a hard ...

I'm confused about the following step..

Step 3: Exit DWU and restart. (Yes, this is necessary). If you don't exit and restart, not all of the theme assets will be loaded. Just a quirk of DWU.

I'm running the GOG version using Wine. When I change the theme and restart DWU, it doesn't remember the ...

Any plans to expand or reform government? I saw this old mod that (I think) never got actually published, and it could be a good addition in my opinion.


That does look pretty rad!

At the moment, I don't have plans to add anything else to the mod. But I will take a look at what might be ...

In the original post, edited the content a bit to provide instructions on using the Bundle Tool.

Quite a few troop icons are recycled for example 5 races (give or take) use the Atuuk images which is fine. Wondering if intentional.


You know...troop icons are one of the parts of DWU I've never messed with. Frankly, not sure where I might have brought all of them in from.

I have started to ...

DWUR 1.0.1 released

-- Updated all in-game Race Help files with edited backstories for each race.

Also provided a smaller file package for those wanting to upgrade from 1.0.0 on original forum post.

Thanks all

I shouldn't have any problem with this in future as I just upgraded to a faster internet connection! :)

So far this new version is working great, but the pirates seem to have targeted my civilization big-time. Something about destroying all their mines...


Glad it's working well!

Yeah and I ...

Those look great


Thanks! I've also taken to re-write many backstories of the different species.

Fleshed out the Lipids a bit to be more like kinda-nefarious Trill species from Star Trek

""Lipids" are a near-microscopic race of parasitic aliens with an unusually large intelligence, given the ...