Ztensity's Unnecessarily Beautiful But Immersive (UBBI)  

Check out Unnecessarily Beautiful But Immersive where you can craft new items, turn on electronics, use working lights, sleep in alternative beds and cook at kitchen appliances with increased immersion and better visuals than ever before. In alpha 21, you must now find and read the "Wiring 101" magazines to unlock lights and powered doors!

UPDATE!

I have released version 4.6 of UBBI, which has made the following changes:

1. Fixed pool items so they could hold water again in A21.
2. Further fine-tuned textures once more to continue ensuring immersion.
3. Adjusted certain lights so they appeared more natural.
4. Made adjustments to pre-existing items as needed.
5. Added five new items to UBBI.

You can install an optional patch with version 4.6 if you wish to play with Sirillion's SMX.

INTRODUCTION

Unnecessarily Beautiful But Immersive is a new edition of Hernan's Unnecessary But Beautiful mod that was originally released on December 19th, 2019.

Originally wanting to add a Barista and a large TV, Hernan spent months designing code, textures, maps, 3D models and later compiling the files together to present a multitude of house buildables. Ranging from a variety of TVs, lamps, Kitchen appliances, cabinets and decorations to pool furniture, Bathroom amenities and beyond, he released Unnecessary But Beautiful. With the help of modder Hellsmoke a couple months later, recipes were created, which allowed players to finally craft these items for themselves in February of 2020.

Jump ten months later and I found myself inspired to take on my first major project with one goal in mind: increase immersion and make a somewhat fresher experience for players at the same time. With the permission of Hernan himself in early December that year, I began working hard to rebuild that mod.

Now, I continue to present the rebuild titled, Unnecessarily Beautiful But Immersive!

WHAT DOES THIS DO & WHAT DOES THIS ADD?

Functional Kitchen Appliances:

In Alpha 21, you can cook various foods and beverages at the Microwaves, Oven, Stove, Stovetop, Coffee Maker and Toaster!

Not all things can be cooked at each of these kitchen appliances, but this should help increase immersion. Of course, you can still use the old reliable campfire to cook all foods, beverages and chemical products.

These appliances still require wood alongside sometimes a grill and a cooking pot. In order to cook, brew and make all things players will still need to learn the recipes and gain the right skills.

Crafting:

All items from UBBI can be crafted at a workbench. To craft lights, players must first unlock them by reading the "Wiring 101" magazines to earn points towards the Electrician skill and reach mastery of Tier 1: Basic Electricity.

There is no way to unlock lights early in A21, however you can find the magazines during your travels, for sale by traders and as quest rewards.

To craft powered doors, you must unlock them by continuing to read "Wiring 101" magazines to earn more points towards the Electrician skill until you reach mastery of Tier 2: Sensors.

Players can receive resources by destroying items with weapons and fists. However, you will be able to receive more resources if you use a wrench.

Players can repair items crafted by using specific sources from cloth fragments, wood and glass blocks to forged iron, concrete mix and leather.

Lights, Electronics & Powered Doors:

In order to turn on lights, electronics and a shower, players must first activate these items by using a wire tool.

Build a working shower, activate it with a wire tool and take a quick, hot shower for a thirty-minute increase to stamina regeneration, increased running speed and cold resistance.

Players can build working doorbells that will alarm other players in multiplayer and possibly get the attention of nearby zombies.

Unlike lights and electronics, to use the powered doors you will be required to connect them to a power generator with at least 3W of energy. With a slightly increased damage threshold, you can use these doors with switches, timer relays and other sensors for immersive gameplay once powered, fueled, properly connected and turned on!

In Alpha 21, you will find new items ranging from a decorative Ferris Wheel, pinball machine, arcade terminals and a handheld gaming device to vines, a bush, a poster, trash can, vent, newspaper, ladder and a much-requested toilet!

Miscellaneous Additions:

Players can utilize the garden bed, small bed and big bed as a bedroll.

For those using the "one block crouch" mod, they can use the secret closet door to sneak around their hideout.

You can build a working Chimney that once placed will emit realistic smoke periodically.

The immersive storage options also continue to be a staple in UBBI.

Is this mod somewhat unnecessary? Potentially likely, just as Hernan originally stated when he first released his original version. However, is it beautiful? If I have to ask myself, I'd say everything he created was absolutely aesthetic and now with lots of hard work, there is much needed immersion!


WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW?
 
This mod contains over 250 items available to craft. Many of which were originally designed by Hernan, and all cleaned up for A21. Just about everything you loved about the Unnecessary But Beautiful mod remains.

In my efforts to increase immersion, I restructured the mod, thinned out a lot of code, removed offset items and others that didn't fit the theme of UBBI and I brought immersive features like working lights, electronics and other fun things.

All of these familiar and unnecessarily beautiful things that somehow worked in the zombie apocalypse before, but are more immersive than ever, continue to work with the latest build of the game seamlessly. Who knew you could have such nice things while trying to survive every 7 days!

LOCALIZATION FYI

A localization has been put in for "useSwitchLightOff" and "useSwitchLightOn" to make all lights and electronics turn "on / off" immersively. This will also affect vanilla lights as well or anything else using the "switch" class property.

For the time being, anything using a wire tool will say "turn off" / "turn on." This means this mod will likely affect other mods that utilize the "switch" class that are higher in the list in the "mods" folder.

If you are making a modlet and you don't want your object to read "turn on/off" and you want it to have the vanilla wording or something else, make it load after this modlet by utilizing a "ZZ" in its title such as "ZZ-ModName."

CREDITS

Most assets including the Unity3d files for resources and PNGs for UIAtlases were all created, designed and published first by Hernan. With his permission in 2020, I presented a newer edition the mod with new features, more in-depth immersion and further accessibility across all downloadable website clients.

Originally, a recipes file was put together by modder Hellsmoke. Hernan uploaded his recipe file on 2/12/2020 as an optional download. I included the recipes and expanded on the Localization from the Unnecessary but Beautiful mod to not only keep these files updated for all players, but also increase immersion and make Unnecessarily Beautiful But Immersive (UBBI) feel like part of the vanilla game experience.

I was given all original assets from Unnecessary But Beautiful by Hernan for A21 in 2023, which allowed me to increase performance, reduce load times and most importantly bring UBBI into the latest build of the game yet again. For version 4.5.0.0, I was given unreleased assets for UBB 2.0. I only implemented select items in that update.

To continue supporting SMX, I released an optional patch for UBBI that will ensure compatibility between UBBI and SMX for players wishing to continue using SMX with UBBI on Alpha 21. This patch was needed due to the custom functional kitchen appliances that behave like campfires.

The UI seen in any pictures or videos from my showcase is provided by Sirillion's SMX modlet. His mod series continues to be a staple in my load order. Thank you Sirillion and his team for your fantastic work!

COMPATIBILITY

The 4.6.0.0 version of Unnecessarily Beautiful But Immersive (UBBI) is only compatible with Alpha 21. There have been massive changes to the structure of the mod that allow for compatibility, while also making it look better than ever.

The 3.0.0.0 version of UBBI will be listed under "Old Files" and is only compatible with Alpha 20. If you wish to continue playing 7 Days to Die on this older alpha, this will still be available to download alongside an optional Undead Legacy patch for A20 to allow for compatibility.

While I worked with Dwallorde in to UBBI embedded into War of the Walkers for Alpha 19, I can no longer guarantee compatibility support for any additional overhauls due to lack of time.

I can confirm however that this mod is compatible with most modlets including UI mods like Sirilion's SMX by installing the newly released UBBI SMX Patch in the optional files.

Download:

Main mod Unnecessarily Beautiful But Immersive
UBBI SMX Patch A21.1