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RimWorld

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Mod, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
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Jan 15, 2020 @ 8:23am
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Trade Ships Drop Spot

Description
Control where Trade Ships drop your items with a placeable marker in Misc. (similar to party and caravan packing spots).

Drop Pods and Animal Pens
Vanilla picks spots outside of pens by design, I've decided to keep in line with vanilla so if you see your items dropping outside of your base, you probably have pens enclosing the drop spot.

I repeat... Animal pens will cause the drop pods to search for a spot outside the pen.



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Drop pods will only drop at this location for Trade Ships and Quest rewards. This does not affect random drop pod events, nor does it affect raids (enemy or friendly) coming in by drop pods.

Check out Loading In Progress for another useful Transport Pod mod.

Extra Information on Vanilla
Just to clarify to some people, the way that vanilla RimWorld determines where to drop transport pods from quests and from TradeShips is by gathering all of the orbital trade beacons you've placed and pulling from the top to check if it is a valid spot to drop it to. This means it checks if the orbital trade beacon and the cells cardinal to it are roofed, and will not allow those... but literally every other beacon is fair game, which can result in the pods going to the beacon that was placed the earliest in your playthrough. This allows you to overwrite that and send it to the drop spot marker 100% of the time. Also useful in early game when you do not have orbital trade beacons where the game will just toss your drop pods from quests to a random building piece.
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Feb 7, 2020 @ 4:44pm
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crashfly Feb 17 @ 1:32pm 
generally yes. if the games uses a drop pod to get you something, then it will be directed toward a drop spot.

only exception is when a random gift is sent via drop pod. that is usually random somewhere on the map.
Tachikoma Feb 17 @ 6:05am 
does this include drop pods from quests where you take care of an animal ?
crashfly Jan 6 @ 4:00pm 
@T.N.Tobin - is your beacon in a pen? beacons do not work in pens.
this mod does not fix that default rimworld behavior.
T.N.Tobin Jan 6 @ 3:56pm 
This doesnt work at all. Not once did it drop it where i wanted it to, in fact it keeps dropping it in the same area as before. i even moved it around... not once...
ChopSushiii Nov 26, 2024 @ 11:54am 
Definitely not compatible with:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3236257897
Realistic Orbital Trade
ODevil Aug 30, 2024 @ 11:02am 
Could you perchance make this compatible with Biomes! Caverns? That mod has it's own drop pods for underground delivery, but they ignore the drop spot and probably use vanilla behavior.
crashfly Jul 6, 2024 @ 7:55pm 
some people just do not read.
Smash Phil  [author] Jul 6, 2024 @ 7:53pm 
It's outlined in the description what the difference is
2962342497 Jul 6, 2024 @ 7:44pm 
Seems like the game itself has this feature? What's the difference, please?
Arkitekt May 27, 2024 @ 9:02pm 
Thank you for the bold disclaimer about pens. Answered my exact issue, haha!