Miscellaneous Cobs

These are cobs of varied types, a large number of which are tools.

Picture Cob Date Description


 

 
 
See below for main image

Icons v3.2October
2023
Norn Cloner (uses Rainbow Feliz)
Map Locator / Teleporter
 
Plus a series of Icons:
1) Picks up current creature
2) Refills all honey, hooch & beer
3) Sex-determining & pregnancy test
4) Gather all eggs & unpauses them
5-8) Teleport entire species for schooling
9-11) Toggle Creature spawners on or off
12) Create destructable backdrop
13) Toggle ruler on or off
14) Toggle XY Locator on or off
 
The cob also installs Infinite Scroll
 
Version 3.1 adds the Creature Counters
Version 3.2 fixed a problem with the Lifter
 

 

Finally completed!
Creatures + Update v2October
2023
A combination of the following update cobs & sprites:
 
Grendel Friendly - Kinnison
Grendel Machine Changer - (removed)
Still Alteration - Malkin
Submarine SWS Patch - Cyberlife
Elevator Fix - Moogie
 
Black Hole Patch - Slink
Cabinet Shelf - Casey Coco
Garden Shelf - Bibble
Hootch Shelf & Kitchen Table - M. Boehler
 
Female Fluffy Norn Neck Fix - Lis Morris
Male PMN Ear Fix - Norn Girl
Bed time Bear Fix; & Human Hand - Freya
Radio Sprite Fix - (removed)
 
New for this version:
Updated Lemons, Carrots, Carrot Variation & Cheese by Jessica
Projector & Radio Update - me
Reclassified Radio - Alex
 
*Back up files before replacing*
 Remove Lifts and ButtonsOctober
2023
This is a simple script to remove all lifts and call buttons, so you can quickly change your setup using Slink's lifts.
 
It leaves the scripts behind their fucntioning intact.
 
*THERE IS NO UNDO*
Albian Lift ScriptsApril
2022
So I ended up with a blankish world with no lift scripts, so this is just the original Lift Scripts for Albia in cob format.


Super Norn cloner now uses Rainbow Feliz Genome
 

 
 
See below for main image

Icons v2February
2022
This beauty is a combination of:
Norn Cloner (uses Rainbow Feliz)
Map Locator / Teleporter
 
Plus a series of Icons:
1) Sex-determining and pregnancy test
2) Gather all eggs & unpauses them
3-6) Teleport entire species for schooling
7-9) Toggle Creature spawners on or off
10) Create destructable backdrop
11) Toggle ruler on or off
12) Toggle XY Locator on or off
 
The cob also installs Infinite Scroll

 
Killing CobsNovember
2021
This is a pack of cobs for when your creatures are just too numerous and you need to clear the decks quickly.
 
There are specific cobs for each species, and an all purpose one.
 
*BE CAREFUL THERE IS NO UNDO*
See below for imageIcons v1.2
March
2021
This beauty is a combination of:
Map Locator 2
School Time Callers
Plus two more Icons, one for sex-determining and pregnancy test, and another to gather all eggs in the kitchen area.

v1.1 adds my Norn Cloner
A future update will allow turning off or on of creature spawners

v1.2 updates the egg icon to unpause paused eggs

 
Statuary

March
2021
During Project Arcadia I made a compilation of statue cobs to make it easier to install them:

Aphrodite by Brood (Chris Aliotta)
Hercules by me (Muppetboy)
Laokoon by Alexander Laemmle
Magical Mask by Stefan Kuske
Sappho by
Mokus (Martha Brummett)

Images to left are not all to scale
Remover Pack March
2021
This is a compilation of remover cobs.

Machine Remover will remove:
Computer, Projector, Radio, Pianola & Jukebox

Genocide Cob will kill all Creatures currently in the world, be very careful using it.

Egg Remover will destroy any creature eggs in the world.
School Time Callers March
2021
This is a major update for the School Time cob, it adds four icons, which when clicked bring all members of that species to the basement below the kitchen.

This makes it easy to teach them from the Encyclopedia Nornica, or it's variants.

Be warned that any creature in a lift or mover might  be still moving once teleported. You can grab them from the air if you have cheats installed.
Creatures + Update 1.1 June
2018
A combination of the following update cobs:

Grendel Friendly - Kinnison
Grendel Machine Changer - Kinnison
Still Alteration - Girly Satan
Submarine SWS Patch - Cyberlife
Elevator Fix - Moogie
Black hole Patch - Slink
Cabinet Shelf - Casey Coco
Garden Shelf - Bibble
Hootch Shelf and Kitchen Table - Mark Boehler
Female Fluffy Norn Neck Fix - Lis Morris
Male PMN Ear Fix - Norn Girl
Bed time Bear Fix; & Human Hand - Freya
Radio Sprite Fix - TreeSprite

*Back up files before replacing*

May 2020 - fixed error in script
School Time
May
2018
Teleports all creatures to the basement so you can educate them using Encomputer Nornica.

Also comes in a targeted version for sending only the current norn to school.

Undertaker v2 May
2018
This will alleviate nearby troubled creatures, then remove the body of the deceased. Updated to work for all species.
Tidy up Albian Tidy Up May
2018
A simple cob that collects all hooch and honey pots and puts them back by the distillery and hives respectively. It will also tidy up beer glasses by Steve Dismukes, if you have any.
Ruler v2
Ruler v2
November
2016
This is an updated version of Slink's Ruler.
 
When installed it removes other rulers. When dropped it switches between horizontal and vertical angles.
 
There is also a timer script to remove the object after a few minutes. Finally the ruler has been increased in length to 400 pixels and small spikes added along it for easier measuring.
See below for image Map Locator v3 August
2011
Version 3 is much larger, so has been moved to the upper part of the windmill. It also shows creatures with health of less than 55% as darker symbols.
Map Locator 3
 
map_loc.gif (7990 bytes)Map Locator v1

Version 2
January
2006

August
2011
This swanky cob keeps track of all creatures and eggs in your world, it also doubles up as a quick teleporter for the hand. A second cob replaces it with a version that scans for edible stuff instead.
 
It is based on Brad Fermaich's Albian Map cob

Version 2 also detects pregnancy and shows pregnant creatures with dots in them.
 
-
 
Encomputer Nornica v2 January
2006
Been a while since I've played Creatures or made any cobs but here are three gems. The Encyclopedia Nornica is a replacement for the Enc Kenny. Version 2 uses the sprites from Enc Kenny. it has an automatic mode as well as choice for selecting individual modes of nouns etc. Compatible with the Renamer cob 

 

 
Encomputer Nornica

 

Encyclopedia Kenny v5

August
2004

(v5 is November 2021)
My version of Slink's Encyclopedia Nornica. Here follows a list of alterations from the original:

Norns cannot torment you by re-activating books other than the one you want them to learn. Each book triggers the next one when it finishes, so you can leave creatures learning without supervision. The sprites have been edited, the books are compressed to four and rendered immobile.

The words are arranged by type. Some words have been replaced with the ones I use, such as "call" instead of "red" for the call button. It has the addition of three new words, "shee" and "ettin" so you can teach the names of these species. The third new word is "flag", which along with the replacing of "relax" with "clock" make the new vocabulary compatible with the changes brought about by the Renamer
cob.

Version 5 changes a few words and adds debugging notes.

*WARNING DO NOT SAVE WHILE IT IS TEACHING*
 

 
 

 
Toy Pack
v1.1

August
2008

March 2022
This installs a bunch of toys in the kitchen area! Uses the following cobs:
 
Helicopter, Bedtime Bear, Jack in the Box, Ball, Spinning Top & Robot by Cyberlife

Feather by Daniel Smallman
Norn Doll by LummoxJR
Bubble Wand by Mark Boehler
Clockwork Mouse by Stefan Kuske

Bong,
Eye Ball, Penguin & Toy Hand by Steerpike
 
Freya's Bedtime bear sprite update
 
Note that the Toy Hand has updated sprites so that it is distinguishable from the user's cursor.
 
v1.1 Update:
Fixed an error in the Bubble Wand
Added missing wave files
Also added a Readme file
Functional Forcefield
Functional Forcefield August
2004
I've been sick of the old force field for a while, and after tinkering with with cob on and off for months I've finally come up trumps. It uses sprites edited from C2 and uses only a single object so does not have the annoying effect of leaving behind forcefield bars, best of all it works even if a norn runs at it full pelt!
Hider- Mover Hider August
2004
Makes all natural movers (the cable car, two rafts, submarine and the cart) lifts, call buttons and teleporters invisible to norns and grendels, making keeping them in place easier. The remover makes them visible again. Remember that although they cannot see these things, they can still ride in them. IMPORTANT - do not install (or remove) the cob more than once in a row or it will malfunction.
renamer Renamer 2

SORRY FILE LOST
June
2003
Helps norns to differentiate between foods by placing cheese, honey,  carrots and lemons in separate categories so you can name them different things.
renamer Renamer June
2003
Reclassifies the shower as "water", so that the clocks can be named "clock". Also makes the ocean waves and the drips of water visible. It puts the three sets of flags into a new family of objects, and reclassifies the flames in the temple and the smoke as "fire".
MAKE SURE YOU REMOVE THE COB "VISIBLE WATER" FIRST IF IT HAS BEEN INSTALLED
visiblewater.gif (1614 bytes) Visible Water June
2003
I made this cob as an experiment to see how norns name objects. This proves that all objects of family 2, genus 3, are all named the same as the waterfall. This includes the flags and flames as well as the ocean waves.
Note: this might be incompatible with the following  3rd party cobs:
Joke Book, Grendel Guard, Rain Storm & Balloon.
visible Lazarus Creature Scanner May
2003
Scans all your norns, detects pregnancy, diseases, toxins, death, low health and makes the norn say the results. Named as such as I was trying to make a cob that would bring norns back to life - without success I might add. The remover makes the norn say its most pressing need.

Note that as this works on all norns, living or dead, it can be used as an autopsy device.

remover Functional Universal Remover May
2003
After discovering the Universal Remover made by someone else did not always work properly, I created this streamlined version. It will remove any object that has been picked up using shift-click in cheat mode. Do not try to use to delete objects picked up using right-click!!!
mover Neo World Object Mover May
2003
This cob is to move some objects around Albia to places where they are more useful or not in the way. Similar results from using the Neo World sfc.
Export Grendel, Ettin & Sheeges.jpg (6070 bytes) Exotic Species
(pack of six cobs)
April
2003
A set of exporters and selectors for Ettins, Shee and Grendels.

Four of them were made by me, the other two by Lee Gaiteri and Bean.
remover Removers April/May
2002
Removers for:
The Incubator - it has been rendered unneccessary since the invention of the Egg Unpauser cob and smilar

The Computer - outdated by various teaching cobs

The Chimney Smoke - because it clutters up the area and distracts norns.
remover bee2.gif (927 bytes) Excess Bee remover April/May
2002
I found that, after the updated hives have been activated a few times by over-zealous norns, the world becomes full of dangerous swarms of bees. This cob slays them all - but leaving the hives still capable of producing more.