r/DoomMods

Saves all picked-up items to your inventory. Compatible with all major Doom Engine games and potentially mods.

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I started thinking about how Doom isn't really tactical enough, and it reminded me of the Inventory Doom mini mod by meatman12 that I messed around with years ago. It let you hoard ammo, armor, and powerups. Sadly, the author abandoned the project and kept things pretty modest. So, I decided to take that concept to the next level / to absolute absurdity, and now you can literally hoover up every single level in Doom 1/2, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife.

You can stack up to 99 rocket launchers and 99 soulspheres to use later or just to hoard for your collection (because why not...).

Here is a full mod showcase video on my YouTube channel.

Just a heads-up: keys are NOT included in this mod so it doesn't mess with their logic and automap rendering. But if you want to collect keys too, I already got you covered with another my mini mod – Omni Key.

P.S. You might see some missing icon warnings in the console. That’s totally fine – I couldn't find a way around it, so just ignore them.

The mini mod was tested on UZDoom version 5.0.3, but it should also be supported on GZDoom versions 4.10 and newer. Please note that it uses ZScript.

Download links:
ModDB: https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/addons/hoardcore-universal-loot-vacuum
Google Disk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JRYZ-SY5jWuvDjRNgnPvov8TZ1Amso5w/view?usp=sharing

As a hobbyist, I was thinking: My OS, can it run DOOM?

YES, IT CAN!

Honestly? I was half expecting everything to blow up (in terms of page faults), but it runs shockingly smoothly.

And OH BOY I didn't cheat around anything cause:

DOOM runs completely isolated as a regular user program, just like any app would on Linux or Windows. It actually opens, reads, and parses the original DOOM.WAD right off the filesystem (on RAM actually, I haven't made it Installable/Persistant on a disk) with our own custom C library. It runs right inside its own desktop window with a little custom red demon icon on the title bar and taskbar, and you can maximise or resize it alongside other apps. The DOOM source code itself is 100% untouched. We just had to give it 5 simple bridge functions for drawing pixels, reading keyboard taps, and checking the clock.

Seeing that iconic title screen pop up inside an operating system built from scratch gave me a surge of dopamine. I will be releasing the next version of the OS that comes with this DOOM game and MANY other features, including some other ones that are just as cool on the project's GitHub page (Check it out and... maybe leave a star too? https://github.com/AkshajCreator/ArchaOS )

What other classic game or program should I try porting to it next?

Please recommend some good modern slaughtery wads. The stuff I played recently

Simulacrum - beyond awesome, very much balanced, fair, visually appealing and FUN. One of the best wads I finished so far

Neon Overdrive - another amazing wad. Hard, beautiful and fun to play

Pina Colada - a bit on a quirkier and RNG-dependent side but still very good and interesting

Sleepwalking - excellent visuals and music, non-linear maps with demanding arenas. Absolutely loved it

Eviternity - sorry for my blasphemy, but no. It's a good casual wad I guess but with UV pistol start it turns into a slow boring low resource grind. I broke after a 800+ mob map without a single major arena

Sunder is a bit over the roof for me honestly..

Link : https://store.steampowered.com/app/4603230/HEADCUTTER/

I'd like to find maps from other Boomer shooters to play in Doom, like Duke Nukem, Blood, and Strife.