Red Hearts First

v2.0.2·Updated 2022-10-22

Adds a little menu to change in what order your hearts take damage.

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About this mod Author’s original text

A Cult of the Lamb mod that adds a little 'Heart Order' menu to the game's pause menu, letting you choose in what order your hearts take damage.

The little menu window is draggable and looks like this:

You can navigate through the options by clicking the arrows.

You can also navigate through the options with your keyboard by pressing H.

Installation

This mod’s only dependency is BepInEx. It's also fully compatible with my 'Weapon Selector' mod.

Installation (Mod Manager)

  • Download and install r2modman or the Mod Manager.
  • Install this mod and all of its dependencies with the help of the mod manager!

Installation (Manual)

  • Download and install BepInEx.
  • If you're downloading it from its Github page, follow this installation guide.
  • If you're downloading "BepInExPack CultOfTheLamb", follow the manual installation guide page itself. This one comes with a preconfigured BepInEx.cfg file, so it's advised you download this one.
  • Find the BepInEx/plugins folder.
  • Place the contents of "RedHeartsFirst.zip" in a new folder within the plugins folder.

How To Use

All you have to do is select a heart order from the menu and start a dungeon. You can also change your heart order mid-dungeon and even mid-combat, but some bugs may ensue from that.

The available options are:

  • Black, Blue, Red -- The game's default.
  • Black, Red, Blue -- The mod's default. Your blue hearts will always be the last to be damaged.
  • Red, Black, Blue -- You will take damage to your red hearts before your black ones and to your black hearts before your blue ones.
  • Blue, Red, Black -- You will take damage to your blue hearts before your red ones, and to your red hearts before your black ones.

Your heart order choice is saved to a text file named HeartOrder.txt created inside of the BepInEx/plugins folder.

Known Bugs

All known bugs are purely visual and shouldn't affect gameplay.

  • Black Heart animation always plays when Lamb is hit, regardless of whether they took any damage to their Black Hearts or not. A purely visual bug.

If you find any bugs or issues, you can contact me on Discord! kelly betty#7936

Changelog

  • 2.0.2 -- Clean up + Bug fix!
  • 2.0.0 -- Added menu window, added more choices, fixed bugs with hearts disappearing after Lamb gets hit.

Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions

  1. Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
  2. Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
  3. For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
  4. Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.

Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

BepInEx-BepInExPack_CultOfTheLamb

File & checksum

Filename
Red_Hearts_First-2.0.2.zip
File size
209.4 KiB