HAND (Hydro's A New Dawn)

This is no longer supported please go to C2C if you want the most updated version.

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HAND (Hydro's A New Dawn) is a modmodmod. Which means its a mod of a mod of a mod. The purpose of this mod is to add much more content than is included into RoM or AND. This means things are not always balanced and you may get overwhelmed. If you are ok with that then please download this mod. If your not then I suggest you stick with just AND or even just RoM.

Requirements for HAND v1.3
- Beyond the Sword v3.19
- Rise of Mankind v2.92
- A New Dawn v1.74
- NOT Recommended to be played with any other Mod than those listed above.

Requirements for HAND v1.2
- Beyond the Sword v3.19
- Rise of Mankind v2.91
- A New Dawn v1.73

Installation

Unpack the WinRAR to your Rise of Mankind root folder. This is usually:

C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Rise of Mankind\

You may have to adjust this depending on which drive you installed Civ4, and whether or not you bought the Complete Edition.

Downloads (Requires WinRAR to Unpack)

August 6th 2010
- HAND v1.3 (See Attachment Below)

May 24th 2010
- HAND v1.2 (See Attachment Below)

*Attachments Removed*

Credits

Afforess
- Civic Buildings
- Domestic Animals Mod
- Education mod
- Farming Mod
- Firestorm Mod
- NIMBY Mod
- Zoology Mod

Dancing Hoskuld
- Palace Mod

GeneralStaff
- Early Buildings Mod
- Other Mod
- Tower Mod
- Wilderness Mod

Note: Many of the buildings from these mods have been picked apart and even altered into my own mods.

And a special thanks to Afforess for making "A New Dawn" and Zappara for making "Rise of Mankind"!

Features

Craft Mod
- Basketweaver's Hut
- Cannabis Plantation
- Carpenter's Workshop
- Carpentry [Tech]
- Clay Pit
- Cotton Plantation
- Crafts Hut
- High-Tech Crane NEW!
- Ice House
- Lumber Camp
- Modern Crane NEW!
- Papyrus Grove
- Rendering Plant
- Seal Hunter's Camp
- Silk Farm
- Steam Crane NEW!
- Storage Pit
- Timekeeper's Shop
- Woodcarver's Hut
- Woodworking [Tech]

Domestic Animal Mod
- Camel Farm
- Cat Breeder
- Cat Shrine
- Chicken Coop
- Cormorant Trainer
- Cow Farm
- Cow Shrine
- Donkey Farm
- Dog Breeder
- Duck and Goose Farm
- Elephant Trainer
- Elephant Shrine
- Falconer
- Goat Farm
- Homing Pigeon Coop
- Horse Farm
- Llama and Alpaca Farm
- Monkey Breeder
- Oxen Farm
- Parrot Aviary
- Pig Farm
- Reindeer Farm
- Sheep Farm
- Turkey Farm
- Whale Shrine
- Yak Farm

Education Mod
- Barber Shop
- Brahman Library
- Drama School
- Gladiator School
- Music School

Entertainment Mod
- Art Patronage
- Dance Hall
- Dance Hut
- Local Radio Station
- Night Club
- Recording Studio
- Storyteller's Hut

Farm Mod
- Arboretum
- Botanical Gardens
- Bureau of Farm Management
- Chinampa
- Community Garden
- Fairgrounds
- Farmer's Market
- Farm Supply
- Florist
- Great Chinampa
- Greenhouse
- Hydroponics Lab
- Rice Paddy
- Rice Terrace
- Victory Garden
- Warehouse

Firestorm Mod
- Fire Brigade
- Fire Brigades [Tech]
- Fire Dock
- Firefighting [Tech]
- Fire Station
- Fire Suppression [Tech]

Garbage Mod
- Garbage Anywhere [Civic]
- Landfills [Civic]
- Off-Planet Dumping [Civic]
- Waste Exportation [Civic]
- Waste Importation [Civic]
- Waste to Energy [Civic]
- Waste to Sea [Civic]

Health Mod
- Acupuncturist's Shop
- Animal Shelter
- Dentist
- Field Hospital
- Insane Asylum
- Laser Eye Surgery Clinic
- Optometrist
- Plastic Surgery Clinic
- Rehabilitation Center
- Retirement Home

Military Mod
- Fletcher's Hut
- Flint Knapper's Hut
- Mercenary Camp
- Riding School
- Warrior's Hut

NIMBY Mod
- Cigar Roller's Shop
- Cryogenic Prison
- Garbage Collection Agency
- Landfill
- Liquor Store
- Maximum Security Prison
- Poacher's Camp
- Saloon
- Tattoo Parlor
- Toxic Waste Dump

Palace Mod
- Ballroom
- Forbidden Palace Garden
- Guardhouse
- Palace Garden
- Palace Walls
- Servant's Quarters
- Throne Room

Science Mod
- Anthropology Lab
- Archaeology Lab
- Biology Lab
- Cartographer's Shop
- Chemistry Lab
- Engineering School
- Geology Lab
- Mathematics Academy
- National Science Foundation
- Paleontology Lab
- Physics Lab

Spiritual Mod
- Church of the State
- Church School
- Divine Monument
- Mystic's Hut

Tower Mod
- Anti-Matter Battery
- Artillery Battery
- Auto-Cannon Battery
- Barricades
- Bombard Tower
- Cement Barrier
- Fortified Outpost
- Frontier Outpost
- Guard Tower
- Keep Tower
- Laser Battery
- Missile Battery
- Palisade
- Railgun Battery
- Watch Tower

Transportation Mod
- Automobile Factory
- Bus Station
- Caravan Post
- Carpool Ordinance
- Carriage Builder
- Department of Motor Vehicles
- Ethanol Station
- Gas Station
- Grand Central Station
- Monorail Station
- Parking Meters
- Railroad Station
- Skyroad Station
- Steamboat Port

Vacation Mod
- Cruse Ship Port
- Ranger Station
- State Park
- Travel Agency
- UNESCO Site

Water Mod
- Cistern
- Department of Water
- Desalination Plant
- Fire Airport
- Fire Hydrants
- Hand Water Pump
- Reservoir
- Town Well
- Water Pipes
- Water Pumping Station
- Water Tower
- Wind Water Pump

Zoological Buildings Mod
- Aquarium
- Pet Shop
- Petting Zoo
- Re-Pet Shop
- Zoo

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Sounds cool

Ok I have some good news and bad news.

The good news is I am making this semi-modular. Which means each mod will be in a separate folder inside my Hydro folder. However since installation is going to just be unpacking by winRAR you will have to delete the mod you don't want manually. Each mod should work independently from the other though. I hope this will make those who want the ability to choice happy. This basically means if you like say the Garbage Civics mod but don't like the Domestic Animal Mod then you can just delete the Domestic Animal Mod.

The bad news is that its taking a bit longer to un-merge the mods I previously merged together when thought they were all going into AND. So bear with me while I un-merge mods like "Early Buildings" and "Civic Buildings" so they can be stand alone mods. In short its not hard to do just takes me a while to do it.

cool, so all your mods from AND have been removed and if we want it must we just wait for this download and we can put it in? So many changes will be waiting how long you think you'll take?

cool i like your mod and your bildings. for me is more bildings more fun. thank you

HAND v1.0 is up!

I tried to get as many bugs as I could out of it but I am sure there are some left. So what I need you guys to do is ...

1. Report bugs.
2. Post balance ideas
3. Give overall feedback.

If you do that I will do my best to address those problems.

Have a good game and enjoy!

Whoa, i never though that it was going to be so small
I though it's > 10 mb, that's why i'm agree on Aff to exclude HAND from AND installer(because a limited bandwith guy which don't like HAND would suffer a lot)
+ 2mb (which is 1/60 of the installer) wouldn;t hurt a lot i think
But anyway, nice work Hydro

I actually made it smaller when I combined it all into one file. However that made it not modular anymore.

Also I just found a bug. The "Crafts Hut" was left out when I separated them back out again. But no worries it shall be fixed in the next update. However I would like to get a lot more bug fixes and maybe even new mod components before then. So happy playing in the meantime.

I'll help you test it. I do like your stuff. I can look at helping balance things if you are looking for feedback that way too?

i_diavolorosso said:

Whoa, i never though that it was going to be so small
I though it's > 10 mb, that's why i'm agree on Aff to exclude HAND from AND installer(because a limited bandwith guy which don't like HAND would suffer a lot)
+ 2mb (which is 1/60 of the installer) wouldn;t hurt a lot i think
But anyway, nice work Hydro

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XML, Python and the SDK are actually a rather small portion of all mods, combined they take up roughly 20% of the mod's size. The large impact in mod sizes are Images (buttons, skins, event pictures, etc) then sounds (ambient or background music) followed by models and movies. However this is why Firaxis advises to use Pakbuild when adding images videos and everything in between to the game... hell every gaming company uses some sort of mass media compressing program (whether it be .pak, .mpq, etc) to reduce the size of the game files.

Hydromancerx said:

Features

Dancing Hoskuld's Units
- Celebrity [Unit]
- Fanatic [Unit]
- High-Tech Sniper [Unit]
- Modern Sniper [Unit]
- Monk [Unit]
- Sniper [Unit]
- Story Teller [Unit]
- Surgeon [Unit]

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Celebrity, Story Teller and Surgeon are actually AAranda's units. I just made them modular and updated the schema files for RoM 2.91

The Sniper units are also AAranda's but also have some stuff by StrategyOnly in them.

Did you include StrategyOnly's sniper promotion or did that get dropped from the pack when it was merged into AND originally?

The Monk and Fanatic are by The_J just ported to RoM by me.

Coming soon the Fundamentalist an upgrade to the Fanatic by me art by others.

@Dancing Hoskuld

Ok I fixed my credits and just listed them as "Custom Units" in the features section.

Elucidus said:

I'll help you test it. I do like your stuff. I can look at helping balance things if you are looking for feedback that way too?

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Yes please give feedback. I am aiming for Friday for the release of HAND v1.1.

I will probably not play a real game until this weekend, but it will have my and my wife's feedback. Hopefully we will download 1.1 firday and be able to use that.

Main comment - dunno if its still the case (doing a reinstall here as I type) but when i played the old AND game with the medical options enabled, something really bothered me about the Dentist building - why does sugar add an unhealth penalty with the building? I can understand sugar isn't healthy but that's what dentistry is designed to offset - if there's an unhealth it should come from the resource, not the building, and the building should offer an overall improvement to health >_>

I am kind of confused on what you mean. Sugar can cause tooth decay thus if you have the resource of sugar then it makes the dentist less effective than it would have been if you had not had sugar resource.