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Crypt of the NecroPony: SYNCHPONY

A stand alone mod that rehauls, redesigns and reanimates the original Ponies Crypt mod - featuring UI reworks, title cards and bestiaries unique to each character, all of which fully compatible with all the DLCs.

Updates are every month or so! Follow on twitter for WIPs, or check the patch notes for everything we change!



All the Photoshop files used to create this mod are included - Feel free to use and create your own!

For ongoing updates, please check the Change Logs, if you wish to suggest a feature or a QC issue, please inform me via. discord or the discussion board.

- Core: Full development, and intended Necropony.
- Lite: Characters only, and updated alongside to Core.
- Classic: Archived characters, pre 2025 via. the Synchpony Update.

Art, Concepts, Sprite Development, Quality Control & Animation: Thea Vanherst
Colour QC, additional sprites: Sipher Nil
Music: Lucilla

Credit for the original animation base goes to the Ponies Mod.

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A total of 16 characters, all with bestiaries, including 10 alternate characters!
All characters have unique offsets to compensate for size changes, weapons, tools and equipables.

• Cadence - Princess Cadence / Somnambula
  
• Melody - Octavia
  
  • Golden Lute icon to look like Octavia's Cello.
• Dorian - Shining Armour
  
• Eli - Applejack
  
• Aria - "Equality" Starlight
  
• Monk - Autumn Blaze
  
• Dove - "Agent" Fluttershy
  
  • Replaced Dove's flower with a Stealth hoodie.
    
  • Crystal shovel and ring of peace redesigns.
    
  • Bird token replaced by a Butterfly token
• Coda - Sphinx
  
• Bolt - Rainbow Dash
  
• Bard - Vinyl Scratch
  
• Diamond - Zecora (AMP)
  
• Mary - Cutie Mark Crusaders (AMP)
  
  • Replaced Mary's Lamb with Applebloom & Sweetiebelle.

• Tempo - "Midnight / EQW" Twilight (AMP)

• Reaper - Pinkie Pie
  
  • Replaced Reaper's spirits with Parasprites.
• Suzu - Maud Pie (SYNC)
  
  • Reanimated Suzu's spear to be Maud's helmet & icon.
    
  • Redesigned her Swipe animation.
• Miku - Coloratura
  
  • Completely re-hauled clothing icons, unique to miku.
    
  • Replaced weapon & spell icons to be cutie-mark and mic themed.
    
  • Additional Characters:
    
    • Songbird, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie, Saffron Masala, Velvet, Lyra, Bon-bon, Doctor Whooves & Spitfire.

• Crystal Heart themed heart beat monitor.
  
• Redesigned coin HUD to be "bit" themed.
  
• Unique loading menu for all DLCS (Base game, Synchrony, Amplified)
  
• UI scroll texts when the game is initially loaded. ("press any button to continue")
  
• Credits screen on load to include Vanh & Sipher, alongside the current update version.
  
• Unique Artworks for the Halloween event.

• Diamond Trader has been changed to Rarity, which can be found in a uniquely designed cage.

• Mimics have been redesigned to be more inline with the Crypt tile-set, also with new colour palettes.
  
• Gargoyle variations to Changelings and Ponies, Changelings being the trap gargoyles, and unique bestiary.
  
• "Fire Pig" to be changeling themed and a new stone colour.
  
• Crate and barrel mimics, alongside the associated bestiaries.
  
• Alter mimic, which is inline with the Shrine of Phasing.

• Redesigned potions, bombs and grenades.
  
• Equipables such as backpacks & holsters and Shields.
  
• Additional slots such as shovels and torches.
  
• Head based equipables, most of which are redesigned into show elements & familiar summons to stone tablets.
  
• Food items; Chicken to a Hayburger. Meat to a Cake, redesigned carrot sprite, redesigned apple sprite, cookies to cupcakes, cheese to Apple-fritter.
  
• Scrolls and books, alongside redesigned spells & scrolls to be pony themed.
  
• Custom Map, coupon, and compass icons via. various changes.
  
• Weapon types - alongside additional glow related assets.
  
• Unique weapons such as Phasing Trident, electric and misc weaponry.
  
• Re-hauled armour type icons to be more inline to the pony body.
  
• Booster items such as boot & ring designs, now fit for a pony.
  
• Tweaks to charms to fit on the pony base.

• Doors, iron doors and locked doors.
  
• Codex into Twilight's book stand, and Teh Urn as the Stones of harmony.
  
• Zones and boss walls to include pony skulls when featured.
  
• Rehauled Zone 2 walls, floor & mushrooms.
  
• Tweaks to Zone 4 floors to include a cello & Ooze tiles to Poison joke.
  
• Shop tiles, chests, changes; both gold and glass & stair cases.
  
• Transmogrify tiles, Traps, trap doors & other misc entities.

• Re-coloured Zone 2 enemies; mushrooms & golems.
  
• Re-coloured and tweaked Zone 4 ooze golem.

• Lobby Music has been replaced by the MLP Intro theme.
  
• 4-3 replaced with a Love Is In Bloom remix.

• Rehauls to Shrine of Beauty, No Return, Chance, Space, Darkness & Blood.
  
• Boss Shrine, Shrine of War, friendly fire & uncertainty with pony skulls.
  
• Rehauled 9,13,16 and all character shrines.
  
• Story & ensemble, character lock shrines.

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This mod was created using Photoshop and my In-house resource pack design tool - Crypt of the Necrospriter.
Crypt of the Necrospriter is open source and available on my Github[github.com]
You can preview this resource pack AND CTNS via the online demo[theavanherst.github.io]
Or alternatively, you can download Necrospriter via. Steam.

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