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Salvaging

Salvaging is a simple mod that overhauls how components are obtained in the early game. Now, instead of mining out Compacted Machinery from mountains, you must dig out the remains of the ancient civilizations and scavenge their remains.



- Compacted Machine no longer naturally spawns in mountains. It is however kept in the game and sizeable pockets of it can be found using long-range mineral scanners. This ensures full compatibility with any and all mods that modify compacted machinery.

- Three new junk types have been added, all with 8 unique sprite variations.

- Clumps of junk added by the Ideology DLC now have a new use: These junk piles can be dug through for useful salvage. This job uses the mining skill. Ideology's junk scatterer presets have also been adjusted to prioritize spawning the scavengable junk piles above any other item.

- Clutter spawn groups have been redone from scratch to make sure every group has at least some usable salvage.

- Various 'clutter' items that also spawn alongside scavengable junk piles have been made deconstructable and their steel slag chunk yield have been significantly increased. Many items have been given appropriate WorkToBuild values as to fix the problem of deconstruction being instant.

- Salvaging uses the mining job type. Various tooltips have been adjusted to reflect this.

- Some other minor changes. For example, you can sleep on ancient beds in vanilla but you can't move them, so I made them moveable.

- All of these changes have absolutely no impact on performance. Vanilla features are used to scatter salvage, patches are made as light as possible to ensure compatibility with other mods. Infact, the mod doesn't even have any compiled .dlls.


Q: Is this mod compatible with X/Y/Z mod?
A: The mod removes no defs, only using patches as necessary. I tested it with many mods like Vanilla Factions Expanded - Ancients and things seemed to work correctly. Tweaks Galore users must disable Tweaks Galore's 'Deconstructable junk' setting off as this mod performs a similar patch. The setting on Tweaks Galore's end is redundant with this mod.

Q: Why use the mining job for salvaging?
A: For several reasons:
- Digging out components is a mining job in vanilla and changing it to something else would disrupt the balance of the game.
- Not using a custom JobDriver lets the mod benefit from job optimizations of mods like Performance Optimizer.

Q: Why does the mod require the Ideology DLC?
A: The mod uses both various functions and sprites from the DLC.


Vanilla Mech Detritus Retextured
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3067752768

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