APC Home on the Move

brief description; introduction

APC or Armored Personnel Carrier is a mode that adds a "mobile" home base to the game. You can travel through 11 key locations evenly distributed across the map (even in survival zones). It uses fuel to do so without immersion damage. Additionally, it has its own custom interior that includes several buildable workbenches, plenty of containers for all your loot, and a fairly comfortable couch to rest your head between adventures. This is a standalone mod, it only works with the vanilla game, but if you already have a lot of other mods, don't worry this shouldn't interfere with any of them. This mod also has its own "tutorial" which walks you through some of the basics, so if you've had enough to read then download this mod now and head to concord to find the APC, good luck.

Feature list

11 travel locations (Sanctuary, Super Duper Mart, Boston Police Department, Diamond City, Fort Hagen, Boston Airport, Castle, Medford Memorial Hall, Lonely Chapel, Coastal Cottage, Vault 95). Once you discover them, they will only appear on the fast travel map.

Immersion refueling system, requires 1 Fusion cartridge every 3 trips. You can craft a single fuel cartridge at a ChemStation using Fusion Core and 2 Acids.

sleeping bed

Seat to sit (wait until sunrise?)

Switchable overhead light (in case you find the mod too dark)

Chemistry workbench, food workbench, armor workbench come in 3 different styles (light, medium, heavy) and weapons workbench, come in 3 different styles (light, medium, heavy). Foldable with upgrade pack (3 adhesives, 2 gears, 4 screws, 2 chemical working steel). The style can be reset using the options in the utility table.

Many different types of containers, including gun cabinets, medical kits and drawers.

Water sources appear when building food benches (for their survival needs)

Save manually (even in survival)

Work terminal (play games or read patch notes)

on game clock

Where to find APC

If you make the effort to find the APC go to Concord and stand in front of the museum (Preston tells you to pick up the rifle) then turn right and walk towards the power lines in the background (you should have a white church on your left) keep going and follow the path to the right and you will see a bunch of old tree trunks and a hill where the APC is. Find images in the gallery for reference.

How to use fast travel

When you enter the APC you can travel by looking at pins on the map on the right, note that pins unlock when you discover a location, for example if you have never been to Diamond City the pin won't be there but it will show if you have visited before or discovered it after installing the mod.

After completing the "mini-tutorial", the map and pins will be revealed, then return to the APC's shelter.

Noob Disclaimer

I'm a professional environment artist and this is my first time trying to script, I tested this mod and spent a long time trying to optimize my abilities so everything should work as expected with as little impact on performance as possible. However, as I said, I'm new to scripting, so if something goes wrong I can try to figure it out, but there's no guarantee I'll be able to do it.

Things have decreased

As I mentioned above I cut the bubbler holder and magazine holder for space, but there was a feature early on that made the bench travel and crafting take time, like using the wait command, unfortunately it was bugged and instead of e.g. 2 hours it moved the time 4 days 2 hours which made it a nightmare to survive. I spent countless hours getting this thing to work but I couldn't and decided to cut it. If by some miracle I'm able to fix it, I'll make an updated version of the mod using this feature.