Introduction
I have been getting a lot of questions lately about why the Yanfly Engine Plugins library offers 40 free plugins and the VisuStella MZ plugin only offers 10, ie the "Cores".
I also see this question living rent-free in the heads of specific individuals of the community.
This wiki article is made to draw comparisons between what the plugins do offer and what is actually in the VisuStella MZ Cores.
TL;DR: The VisuStella MZ Cores are composed of way more plugins than 40 from Yanfly Engine Plugins.
Look at what's inside them.
What's Free from Yanfly Engine Plugins?
First, let's take a look at what is considered free coming from Yanfly Engine Plugins.
These plugins are a part of the Free Starter Pack Essentials bundle that can be downloaded from my itch.io page.
These are the following plugins included:
What is Actually Included
This is a table of the full Yanfly Engine Plugins library and shows which of the VisuStella MZ Cores that contain the MV plugin counterpart.
Core Plugins
This is a table showing the Core Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 24
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 17
Battle Plugins
This is a table showing the Battle Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 47
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 20
Item Plugins
This is a table showing the Item Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 15
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 6
Skill Plugins
This is a table showing the Skill Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 10
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 3
Equip Plugins
This is a table showing the Equip Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 7
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 1
This is a table showing the Status Menu Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 6
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 2
Gameplay Plugins
This is a table showing the Gameplay Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 19
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 3
Movement Plugins
This is a table showing the Movement Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 3
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 2
Quest Plugins
This is a table showing the Quest Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 3
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 0
This is a table showing the Options Menu Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 4
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 2
Eventing Plugins
This is a table showing the Eventing Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 15
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 12
Utility Plugins
This is a table showing the Utility Plugins from the Yanfly Engine Plugins library and whether or not they're a part of the freebie bundle.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 49
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 21
Non-Yanfly Engine Plugins
Something that many people don't know is that the VisuStella MZ Cores also have plugins from Olivia, Irina, and Arisu, too.
These three are a part of the VisuStella MZ team and the rights to include some of their plugins into the Cores has been bought from them.
They also ported their own plugins from MV to be a part of VisuStella MZ.
Aries of Sheratan is also another individual that we have plugins from.
However, she is not a part of the VisuStella MZ team.
Instead, the rights to her plugins has been bought for their incorporation into the VisuStella MZ Cores.
Olivia's Plugins
This is a table showing the many from the Fallen Angel Olivia library and whether or not they're freely available.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 25
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 4
Irina's Plugins
Something that many people don't know is that the VisuStella MZ Cores also have plugins from Olivia, Irina, and Arisu, too.
This is a table showing the many from the Atelier Irina library and whether or not they're freely available.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 15
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 4
Arisu's Plugins
Something that many people don't know is that the VisuStella MZ Cores also have plugins from Olivia, Irina, and Arisu, too.
This is a table showing the many from the Arisu's Dollhouse library and whether or not they're freely available.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 8
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 3
Aries' Plugins
Another person that we have plugins from is Aries of Sheratan.
Though she isn't a part of the VisuStella MZ plugin development team, we bought the rights from her to include some plugins within our Cores.
This is a table showing the many from the Aries of Sheratan library and whether or not they're freely available.
In the third column, this table lists which VisuStella MZ Core plugin it is a part of.
Total Plugins for MV Category: 4
Total Incorporated Plugins for this Category: 2
Total Plugins Included
So with all that said and done, how many plugins are actually included within the VisuStella MZ Cores?
Let's take a look and tally them up.
- 17 from Plugins from YEP's Core Category
- 20 from Plugins from YEP's Battle Category
- 6 from Plugins from YEP's Item Category
- 3 from Plugins from YEP's Skill Category
- 1 from Plugin from YEP's Equip Category
- 2 from Plugins from YEP's Status Menu Category
- 3 from Plugins from YEP's Gameplay Category
- 2 from Plugins from YEP's Movement Category
- 0 from Plugins from YEP's Quest Category
- 2 from Plugins from YEP's Options Menu Category
- 12 from Plugins from YEP's Eventing Category
- 21 from Plugins from YEP's Utility Category
- 4 from Olivia's MV Library
- 4 from Irina's MV Library
- 3 from Arisu's MV Library
- 2 from Aries' MV Library
Grand Total: 102 plugins
With everything tallied up, there are 102 total plugins added and condensed into the 10 VisuStella MZ Cores.
This is a massive increase from the 40 freebie plugins that were included with the Yanfly Engine Plugins freebie bundle.
Don't let "10 Free Cores" fool you as there's lots and lots of features packed into them.
What does the incorporation of 100+ free plugins mean?
It means the number of plugins included is well over half the entire size of the Yanfly Engine Plugins library.
It also means that there is a far, far, far, FAR lower chance of plugin placement errors with the VisuStella MZ Cores.
Plugin placement errors were an incredibly common user-error found prevalent when using RPG Maker MV.
With 40-ish free plugins to install versus 10-free plugins to install, this user-error likelihood is prevented in addition to other methods that we have implemented.
So when you're thinking of whether or not that I, Yanfly, have scammed you all by giving you only 10 Cores to use with VisuStella MZ when I gave out 40 Freebie plugins with Yanfly Engine Plugins, just remember that inside these 10 Cores have over a total of 100+ plugins inside of them.
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