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[B42] Buildables Expansion

A continuation of my popular Building Menu mod - rebuilt for Build 42 with new content, new systems, and expanded possibilities.

This mod expands on the vanilla build menu introduced by the developers in Build 42. It continues the legacy of my original Building Menu mod - which pioneered a custom UI for building before the devs added one to the base game.

Buildables Expansion picks up where that mod left off, adding dozens of immersive and lore-friendly buildables not included in vanilla. It extends your crafting freedom with furniture, appliances, stairs, fences, floors, lighting, windows, and more - all with a focus on realism and depth.

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Choose how your character learns to build. Three unlocking styles are available via sandbox options:

• Learned + Sketched (Combined): Find vintage magazines or sketch real objects in the world using your Builder's Sketchbook
  
• Magazine Only: Unlock new items exclusively by reading lore-based magazines like Fine Wood Working, The Family Handyman, Popular Mechanics and more
  
• Sketchbook Only: Using the Builder's Sketchbook by researching items in the world and sketching them manually

Magazines are lootable, limited, and tied to specific buildable groups. The sketchbook offers a hands-on alternative - find the object, examine it, draw it, build it.


The Builder's Sketchbook is crafted with a notebook and pen, and allows you to sketch world objects as you find them.
Sketching does not allow you to build directly from the sketchbook; instead, it unlocks those buildables inside the standard build menu as long as you are carrying the sketchbook in which the sketch for the object was drawn.

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This mod adds a growing library of buildables and construction components:

• Realistic appliances like fridges, stoves, and washers
  
• New floors: wood, ceramic, concrete, metal, and natural
  
• Decorative rugs, road markings, fences, and signs
  
• Craftable beds, chairs, counters, and lighting fixtures
  
• DIY parts: insulation foam, rubber seals, refrigerant bottles, copper pipes, and more

Crafting recipes often mimic real-world requirements - specialized components, salvageable parts, and detailed resources all play a role.

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Buildables Expansion introduces a system where crafting knowledge comes from discovery, not from the start.

Find 1980s and 90s-era magazines such as Home Mechanix, Fine Wood Working, Architectural Digest, and more. Or, draw objects yourself using the Builder's Sketchbook.

Want to rebuild civilization? You'll have to scavenge knowledge - or sketch it.

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Buildables Expansion is only just getting started. Future updates will continue expanding your creative freedom and polish the experience. Here's what's planned:

• Improved Sketchbook UI: A smoother, more dynamic interface for navigating chapters and managing sketches
  
• Controller Support: Make sketching and navigating the sketchbook possible for gamepad players
  
• Painting, Wallpapering & Graffiti: A visual UI system to paint walls, apply wallpapers, or leave graffiti
  
• More Buildables: Even more furniture, containers, fences, and decorative items-especially underused categories

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Originally posted by author:

This mod's permissions fall under TIS's policy On Lockdown [theindiestone.com]
This mod cannot be modified by anyone else, for anything else, at all, ever. Even if the user disappears, they would much rather you didn't touch the fruits of their hard labour.

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Workshop ID: 3463117260
Mod ID: Buildables_Expansion