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Cables and plumbing

Description
Do you find it weird how pawns directly build power cables out of a single piece of steel on the bare ground in under a second ? Do you wish to run a wiring/pipe theft operation? Do you just desire to make your game slightly more complex for masochistic reasons? Well! Look no further!

I offer you Cables and plumbing, inspired by the mountains of utilities sitting in my storage in Prison Architect and my will to make the game slightly more complex. (not for masochistic reasons, unlike you)

Cables and plumbing adds two new items, all in the manufactured category:
- Electrical cables
- Pipes

And that's it!

Electrical cables can be made at the crafting spot, after unlocking electricity, from steel and cloth, and alternatively at the machining table with steel and chemfuel.
Pipes can also be made at the crafting spot from steel, and then at both the machining table and the smithy
Do note that due to improper tools, recipes at the crafting spot are inefficient, and not profitable. I advise you instead to use your trustyworthy machining table.

MOST IMPORTANTLY

Power conduits are PATCHED, and now cost you actual electrical cables! (Who would have thought?)
Same thing for waterproof conduits (except you still need another protective steel layer).


Compatibility

The awesome thing is that other utilities from mods have also been patched!
(Load this mod after them)
So far, you can expect proper building costs with:

- Dubs Bad Hygiene
- Rimefeller
- Rimatomics
- Vanilla Chemfuel Expanded
- Vanilla Helixien Gas Expanded
- Underground Pipes Rebalanced
- Underground Power Conduits
- Expanded Materials - Metals
- VFE Mechanoids
- Subsurface conduits
- VRE Sanguophage
- VRE Android
- Vanilla Nutrient Paste Expanded
- Fortification Industrial - Citadel
- Milk pipe network
- Dubs Central Heating
- Rimforge power poles only / Rimforge
- Geneforge
- Akeron - Decorations
- Bill Doors' Plasma Weapon

Other mod suggestions are of course welcome!

If you encounter any errors, conflict with other mods or balance issues, please tell me in details and don't simply complain that "mod no work", bonus points if logs are present. Details and logs in bug reporting vastly help me in improving this mod.


FAQ

Q: Can i safely add/remove this from my save?
A: Add, yes. remove, yes BUT only if no items/recipes are present ANYWHERE on the map, even then i cannot guarantee anything as items are still present in hauling zones menu.

Q: CE?
A: OF COURSE. You can't hurt people with pipes though.

Q: Can I update/maintain/expand on this mod?
A: Of course. I would be more than happy to see this mod live and be expanded upon.

Q: Cable drums aren't supposed to be stored like that.
A: Organs aren't supposed to be extracted from unwilling prisoners.


License & Credits

You're free to update, modify, expand on, copy, redistribute as long as you give credits where its due (or as long as you don't pretend you made it)
This goes particularly for the art, you can dissect the xml the way you want, i do not particularly care.

Some items from the previews come from Vanilla Furniture Expanded, VFE - Props and Decor and Dubs Bad Hygiene (both great mods btw), credits to their respective authors.

MedicalPol for everything (else, of course).

A similar section to this one exists in the mod files, please keep it there when redistributing or reuploading this mod.
91 Comments
Colonel.EXE Mar 3 @ 10:12pm 
Speaking of the expanded materials - metal patch,
The patch needs to use EM_Copper as opposed to the VMEu_Copper its using now, since the new version of EM changed the defname.
Cline West Jan 28 @ 5:44pm 
Speaking of the expanded materials - metal patch,
The patch needs to use EM_Copper as opposed to the VMEu_Copper its using now, since the new version of EM changed the defname.
JamEstHamEst Nov 30, 2024 @ 5:43am 
Speaking of the expanded materials - metal patch,
The patch needs to use EM_Copper as opposed to the VMEu_Copper its using now, since the new version of EM changed the defname.
questionable Nov 9, 2024 @ 2:02pm 
the expanded materials - metals patch doesnt seem to work with the newly updated and separate version of the mod and breaks the crafting recipe for the electrical cables
Senilia Aug 22, 2024 @ 8:05am 
thx
MedicalPol  [author] Aug 21, 2024 @ 2:02pm 
Late to the party but it has been updated for 1.5. And with it, i patched the vanilla hidden conduit, which takes two cables to build instead of the two steel.
喵酱official May 29, 2024 @ 7:42pm 
please 1.5
Nishe May 19, 2024 @ 1:36am 
waiting for 1.5 for this dope mod
Senilia Apr 13, 2024 @ 2:58am 
1.5?
Tourman Apr 7, 2024 @ 8:10pm 
Need an official patch