An udderly useless mod made for cow lovers everywhere

I found a file in my icons folder, caled menucow.pcx

I don't know why it was named .pcx, sinnce it wasn't a valid .pcx file.

So I opened it up in text and it was titled with the title of this thread.

I renamed it to a .bic, and it came up in the editor, an all grassland map, with cows as the only resource, and some rivers.



it is in Civilization III/art/civilopedia/icons

Kulade is confused...

looking in the text file, I see the resources are things like GOOD_glowing cow,... here, from the file viewed as text....

 GOOD X Race Cow GOOD_Horses     X War Cow GOOD_Iron      X Inflama-Cow GOOD_Saltpeter  x   

X Smoky Cow GOOD_Coal  x 
 , 
X Greasy Cow GOOD_Oil  x È  5
 X Latex Cow GOOD_Rubber  x  9  X Meta-Cow GOOD_Aluminum  x 
 A  X Glowing Cow GOOD_Uranium  d d  B   X Tipsy Cow GOOD_Wine
 ÿÿÿÿ

X Hairy Cow GOOD_Furs
 ÿÿÿÿ

X Painted Cow GOOD_Dye
 ÿÿÿÿ

X Holy Cow GOOD_Incense
 ÿÿÿÿ  X Smelly Cow GOOD_Spice
 ÿÿÿÿ  X Horned Cow GOOD_Ivory
 ÿÿÿÿ  X Fashion Cow GOOD_Silk
 ÿÿÿÿ  X Polished Cow GOOD_Diamonds
 ÿÿÿÿ  X Sea Cow GOOD_Whales  ÿÿÿÿ

 X Wild Cow GOOD_Game  ÿÿÿÿ
X Amphibi-Cow GOOD_Fish  ÿÿÿÿ
X Moo Cow

I busted out the old vanilla Civ III cd and played it for a couple of turns.

Basically it looks like they made all the resources on the map appear as cows, and re-named them in the civilopedia.

Ie rubeer is called latex cow, incense is called smelly cow, etc.....

It would've been cool if the continent was in the shape of a cow...

I want to play it, upload it!

So, I'm confused... is it an easter egg put there by the creators? Or did you download it with something else?

EDIT: Okay, Nevermind... I see it.

Dom Pedro II said:

It would've been cool if the continent was in the shape of a cow...

Click to expand...

It would've been cool if elvis and jaimyo were in it maybe...... It is really, really, really not worth playing looking at it. Maybe some cool cow effects... I could do them in about 15 minutes in PSP... if I cared.

Nice find
kulade, it's not a creation, it's a hidden file- Civilization III/art/civilopedia/icons/menucow open it with the editor

It's amazing all this time after release, easter eggs are still being found.

Nice one!

This is........original........