Contributions

These fields indicate the amount of Trove Mastery Points and/or Geode Mastery Points that a collectable gives once unlocked. 

Please only ever input these values after the collectables have been released!

If a collectable does not give any Trove mastery (a Promo item for example) - you could input the value of  -1 into the 'mastery' field. This will prevent the collectable from appearing on the 'Needs Mastery" list.

Do not input -1 for Geode mastery! 

Every Approved Mastery/Geode Mastery contribution is rewarded with 1 Contribution Point.

You can find a list of collectables that do not have Mastery over here > https://trovesaurus.com/contributions/nomastery 

This field indicates the amount of Power Rank that a player gets if the collectable is equipped. Currently PowerRank contributions are only available for Allies category of collections.

Please only ever input Power Rank after the collectables have been released!

Every Approved Power Rank contribution is rewarded with 1 Contribution Point.

You can find a list of collectables that do not have Power Rank set over here > https://trovesaurus.com/contributions/nopowerrank 

A lot of users visit our database for just one most important reason - to find out how to get collectables they are missing. It is of most importance that we keep the Obtained information complete and up to date.

Please be sure to list ALL the possible ways to obtain a collectable.

Was the item made available in a new way or an old way to obtain is no longer possible? Upload a correction but keep the old way to obtain listed as "Previously obtainable by..."

Quite some collectables have an automatically-generated 'Source', if we can determine if the item is available through crafting/lootbox/store purchase etc. But even if there is such a form already existing on the page, there is still a possibility to input the human-written text. Purpose of this is to have ALL the ways to obtain something written down.

Usually a Form to submit an Obtained field contribution would look like this. Press the Blue button, input your text and hit Submit.

Examples:

1) Ally, Sentient Slice - has a recipe displayed, but the automated part does not say that craft is an Unlock and does not give an item, and it also does not say that Ally is tradable and can be rarely looted from killing event mobs.

BAD contribution: loot event mobs

GOOD contribution: 

Originally introduced during the Sunfest event in July 2023.

Can be Unlocked by crafting it on the [Sunfest Oven] during the Sunfest event.

Tradable version can be rarely looted from Chocolate and Strawberry cake slice NPCs that appear in Candoria during the same Sunfest event.

Tradable, can be purchased from the in-game marketplace.

Follow-up: during the next Sunfest event, this ally might get new way to be obtained, together with losing some previous ones. It might also end up in Event Vault, and in that case it would be unlockable by the Event Vault Stash. In such a case, the Obtained would need to be updated. 
Be sure to keep the old ways of 'obtained'! 

2) Mount, Last Taxi is unlocked by purchasing a store pack, and the pack is listed on the page, but a tradable version of this mount is also available in the time-limited event lootboxes.

BAD contribution: Store pack or lootbox.

GOOD contribution: 

Tradable, rarely unboxed from Spooklia's Treasure Box available during Shadows' Eve event in 2020.

Can be purchased from the in-game Marketplace.

As untradable Unlock included in the 2020's Shadowy Selection store pack.

That pack can be purchased from the in-game Store for 3000 Credits during Shadows' Eve event (October-November 2020).

Follow-up: Those lootboxes themselves are no longer obtainable, so a phrasing of 'Previously obtainable from ...' would also be acceptable. If a new method to obtain this mount becomes available it would need to be added to the page too.

3) Block - Primal Orange. It can be harder to specify methods to obtain for some items, like Primal color blocks for example. It is OK to generalize, but still try to be as specific as possible.

BAD contribution: This block can be obtained from destroying it in Worlds

GOOD contribution: 

Can be obtained by destroying terrain in Adventure worlds. Dirt blocks from most biomes will turn into Primal Orange when picked up.

Tradable, can be purchased from the in-game marketplace.

Each Obtained contribution is rewarded with 1 Contribution Point when approved.

You can find a list of collectables that need Obtained information over here > https://trovesaurus.com/contributions/noobtained 

Our website uses a system of tags to create user-friendly links to pages in the database.

Simply put a name of a desired item/crafting material/workbench/etc in square brackets:

[Flux]  , [Adventurer's Crafting Bench]  and [Penta-Forged Shadow Soul]  

get turned into Flux , Adventurer's Crafting Bench and Penta-Forged Shadow Soul.

You can also use the file paths to item prefabs to create same tags. This is useful if the database has more than one item of the exact same name. You can find the Path in the page URL:

So the [item/crafting/flux] , [placeable/crafting/home_basic]  ,[item/crafting/forge_shadow_05] 

turn into Flux, Adventurer's Crafting Bench and Penta-Forged Shadow Soul.

Notice how the Tags need to be in a different paragraph from any other text editing! If a line with a tag contains an actual inserted URL, or a symbol like / or = or : , the tag likely will not work!

You can test if your tags will work on this page over here > https://trovesaurus.com/tags/test 

1) On an example of Prized Qubbage - no clutter - good, hard to tell where the Qubbage is - bad.

2) Decent size - good, super small size - bad.

256x256 image - good - https://i.imgur.com/OgCbHkw.png 
97x84 image - bad - https://i.imgur.com/btG5txO.png 

3) Decent quality - good, enlarged image to meet size requirements - bad.

4) Centered image - good, landscape screenshot of a whole game area - bad.

5) In-game screenshot - good, photo of the screen - bad.

IMPORTANT - If you are aiming to upload a whole lot of images - please start small and upload one-two first to make sure your images are of sufficient quality to pass the moderation and get Approved!

The easiest way to take a screenshot is to use F12 (default) button while in game - it will take a snapshot of your whole game screen.
The screenshot location will be output in the chat box - this is only visible to you.

However, this method is not ideal as it captures the whole screen and could capture all the unwanted clutter or could have an object of interest as a very small part of the image. Plus, F12 removes transparency from Glass blocks.

To avoid that, you could use a free software like Greenshot or any other screenshot-taking application.

To take a good screenshot you also need to see a good image in the game itself. To achieve this you can:
- set your Field of View to smaller area to focus camera on an object in front of you - /fov 60 or /fov 20 etc will zoom in on a center of your screen. The default value is /fov 75 , if you want to revert your changes.
- disable your UI (health and abilities bar, crosshair etc) by pressing F7 . Press same F7 again to bring back the UI.
- hide your character so they are not blocking the view - /hideplayer - works best on classes without companions, like the Knight. To display player again use /showplayer
- hide the extra VFX by using /fxenable 0 . To enable vfx again use /fxenable 1
- if you want to take photos of allies - enter a Clubworld and use /freezecompanion  to keep your ally from moving. To enable their movement again, use /feezecompanion false

To record GIFs, you could use a free software like GIFCam. It does not place a watermark on the gifs and allows for a good amount of settings and editing options.

Lets take the Cuppy Puppy ally for example. If the page does not have any images at all you will see the following form.

Usually you might have to scroll to the bottom of the page to see the Images section.

Click on the Grey Upload Image button to proceed - this will bring up the Upload form, you can chose images or .gif files

Navigate to the file you want to upload in the opened up Explorer window, select it and click the Blue Submit button - your image or .gif will enter the Contributions queue for moderators to check.

Lets take [Tiny Trash Panda] as an item that needs a Troxel Contribution.
If the page does not have a Troxel link already, there would be a red exclamation mark next to the Model Viewer and two options would be available:




To Submit Troxel we would need to obtain a Troxel link - this means that we upload a model to the web-based Voxel Editor - Troxel and then export it as a Link that can be shared.

First we need to get the appropriate game files - we can either extract the game files from a Trove game client (installed on PC), or we can downloand already extracted blueprints from the Trovesaurus website one by one.

The game files that we need are the Blueprints - models that are used by the game.

To know which blueprint(s) exactly do we need, we have to visit the page of an item - in this case a Tiny Trash Panda. Click on the Mod Info tab > Blueprint and find a UI model - 2023/allies/egg_trashpanda/c_c_egg_trashpanda_ui - luckily this one is a full model!

On the same Mod Info page we can click a Blueprint button on a desired file and download this UI blueprint, or if we can find a local file by searching the name of the blueprint(s) in the extracted game files.

Items or styles would not have a Mod Info tab, but they always have and Identifier - name of a blueprint they use.

The Troxel does not accept raw Blueprints, so we need to convert the Blueprint to QB files.
Navigate to the Trove/Live folder and create a new folder named qbexport .
The must be a an empty (for now) folder Trove/Live/qbexport , otherwise the next step would not work!

In the Trove/Live folder we need to locate an executable file called devtool_dungeon_blueprint_to_QB.bat .
Then we going to use that. .bat file by dragging the 2023/allies/egg_trashpanda/c_c_egg_trashpanda_ui.blueprint from the Extracted game files onto the bat.
If done right, this will output 5 new files into the Trove/Live/qbexport folder.

If done right, we should have something like this in the qbexport:


Every single .blueprint converted to .qb will create 5 files:

c_c_egg_trashpanda_ui.qb - is a main QB file, this one contains color
c_c_egg_trashpanda_ui_a.qb - is an Alpha material map (_a) for the main QB file, it contains data about transparency of blocks
c_c_egg_trashpanda_ui_s.qb - is a Specular material map (_s) for the main QB file, it contains data about metallic/waxy/etc  blocks
c_c_egg_trashpanda_ui_t.qb - is a Type material map (_t) for the main QB file, it contains data about glowing/glass/etc  blocks
c_c_egg_trashpanda_ui_entities.blueprint - this new blueprints is only used for Dungeon blueprints! it is safe to discard this file, it is not used for Troxel.

Now that we have the files needed, we can go to the https://troxel.js.org/  and upload all the 4 QB files that were created:

Click on Open Model and we should be able to see the model right away. There should also be two new buttons on top, Export and Open: 



For Troxel, we need to use the Export Model As and chose Link (share).
Please use the same settings as on the image below! - Color Pallet Compression and Resize to Bounding Box are checked, everything else is unchecked!



Using those options should give a link - double-click to select it all or click and Ctrl+A . Copy and paste the link into the Submit Troxel field on the same page that we started with - https://trovesaurus.com/collections/pet/egg_trashpanda/troxel :

Once we click the Submit button the Contribution will be added to the Moderation queue - Troveaurus Contribution moderators do their best to check these as soon as they can, but it might take a few days.

Contribution can get Approved - this gives you Contributions Points - good Troxel links are rewarded with 2 points!
Or a Contribution can get Rejected - if this happens, your Contribution was either uploaded to a wrong page, or did not have the right model, or the model was not featuring a full model.

First we need to get the appropriate game files - we can either extract the game files from a Trove game client (installed on PC), or we can downloand already extracted blueprints from the Trovesaurus website one by one.

The game files that we need are the Blueprints - models that are used by the game.

To know which blueprint(s) exactly do we need, we have to visit the page of an item - lets take a Fiammit costume for a Shadow Hunter for this example.

Click on the Mod Info tab > Blueprints to see the Costume parts - at the moment this page only shows actual parts of the costume, but not the abilities.
BUT in most cases you can get the name identifier and look up other blueprints using it. In this case it is 'sunburn'.

If you search Blueprints for 'sunburn' you will see all the parts of the costume, including helmet, bow, bomb trap and whisp:

You can download costume parts from the Costume page, but if you want to download blueprints for skins and abilities you would need to go check the https://trovesaurus.com/trove/blueprints . It is MUCH easier to have your own client extracted.

Once you have the blueprints, you need to convert them to QB files to be able to open them in Qubicle.

Navigate to the Trove/Live folder and create a new folder named qbexport .
The must be a an empty (for now) folder Trove/Live/qbexport , without the folder the next step will not work!

In the Trove/Live folder locate an executable file called devtool_dungeon_blueprint_to_QB.bat .
Use that. .bat file by dragging our Shadowhunter costume blueprints from the Extracted game files onto the bat.
If done right, this will output 5 (per file) x 23 (total amount of our files for the costume )new files into the Trove/Live/qbexport folder.

In the video i look up all blueprints that have 'sunburn' in their name in my Trove/Live/Extracted folder, and convert them all to QB - the black console window closes once every blueprint is processed.

Once every blueprint is processed, you should be able to see 5 new files (per blueprint converted) in the Trove/Live/qbexport folder.

Every single .blueprint converted to .qb will create 5 files:

c_p_shadow_hunter_sunburn_ui.qb - is a main QB file, this one contains color - this is the main file we need for Qubicle!
c_p_shadow_hunter_sunburn_ui_a.qb - is an Alpha material map (_a) for the main QB file, it contains data about transparency of blocks 
c_p_shadow_hunter_sunburn_ui_s.qb - is a Specular material map (_s) for the main QB file, it contains data about metallic/waxy/etc  blocks
c_p_shadow_hunter_sunburn_ui_t.qb - is a Type material map (_t) for the main QB file, it contains data about glowing/glass/etc  blocks
c_p_shadow_hunter_sunburn_ui_entities.blueprint - this new blueprints is only used for Dungeon blueprints! it is safe to discard this file, it is not used for Qubicle!

The Alpha, Type and Specular maps can be optionally included in the qbcl file.

Drag the .qb files into the Qubicle one by one or all together - it would be harder to tell which part is which if you open them in bulk.

You do not need to include material maps if they are blank. The blueprint to qb converter will always generate all the maps, but in a lot of cases they do not actually contain any materials and only show up as 'default' color.

Once you are done with all the pieces, your file should look somewhat like this:

Save your file as .qbcl - this would be the only file type that Demo version of Qubicle would allow you to save as.

Back on the costume page, click on QBCL button on the Mod Info tab - the yellow buttons show that there is a .qbcl file uploaded for the same rig, but not for the same costume.

Click on Choose file, navigate to the qbcl file you made in the Explorer window popup and click Submit.

After your file has been Reviewed and Approved by moderators it will appear as downloadable on the page.