Dragoler wrote:
Do you have Magic Words Core installed?
You need that to configure patch plants.

Lurhstaap wrote:
Also, you don't need to click on the crosshairs. The crosshairs just show where an agent will appear when it injects if it's not a patch plant. I don't ever click the crosshairs and I use patch plants all the time.

Lurhstaap wrote:
Magic Words does a lot more than add auras - that's only one of its possible functions. I use the movable and clone commands SO MUCH, and the map editor stuff. Glad you fixed it!

Lurhstaap wrote:
You have to download Magic Words Core first before the other stuff will work, first of all. It sounds like you somehow got to Magic Words Auras. This is the link to the core agent:

http://creaturescaves.com/downloads.php?section=COBs&view=1463

Once you have that, then you download additional Magic Words agents, whichever ones do things you find useful or appealing. Magic Words Cloning, Room Edits, and Kill Half are the ones I personally make use of, but there are others. Cloning contains 'movable' and 'clone'. 'Movable' makes normally stationary things movable, like for example if you're using the Fire Ants agent you can make their nests movable. Clone, meanwhile, makes a clone of anything movable. It can clone stuff that's normally movable, and if you make stationary stuff movable with the first command you can then clone it. I use this to customize metarooms by stealing stuff from other rooms or moving agents that normally appear in specific places and cannot be moved, such as the Fire Ant nests and the Grapes. I also use Clone to quickly make stocks of critters and bugs to populate new rooms for my dragons to eat. You can even Clone individual creatures - the clone is considered another offspring of the parents and so even has the same generation as the original!

Kill Half allows you to kill hots half of the instances of a given instant in the world using its classifier number. For example, if I use the Zander Fish agent and their population gets out of control and begins to lag my game too much, I can use Kill Half to whittle them down without having to uninject the entire agent to get rid of them.

Room Edits is a very powerful tool that lets you see and tweak all kinds of information about rooms and metarooms.

Lurhstaap wrote:
Huh, that's odd. Which Windows are you using? 'patch options' stopped working for me when I went to Windows 10, sadly, but the rest of it works.

I get lag from running the game in general with too many creatures or agents in it, but I'm using a pretty weak machine right now by gaming standards so that's hardly surprising. I haven't noticed any especial lag from the use of clone so long as I don't go crazy with it.

Lurhstaap wrote:
Windows 10 did some wonky stuff to the games when I switched. For example I didn't have Black Box of Doom on C2 before but I do now. Weirdly, DS has actually run more efficiently in general, so I can deal with the loss of patch options. XD The BBoD is more annoying, but I've learned to deal by getting rid of it with CTL-ALT-DEL --> Task Manager. It can be a pain not being able to see the Hand but I'm learning to manage.

I do sometimes, but I've never tried to remove them. The strawberries probably have a typo or something in their remove script, I'd imagine, if you're only having trouble with that one patch plant.