CalderaTweaks
Changes Ark of the Exile Rotations, Breath of Darkness, Calygrey Arena Rewards, Lightweight kits, Expeditions, Quest Rewards, Shortcuts, Stashes. All additions/changes are configurable.
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Caldera Tweaks
Adds/changes Ark of the Exiled Rotations, Breath of Darkness Quest, Lightweight kits, Expedition (Evangeline), Sample Weights, Calygrey Arena Rewards, Quest Rewards, Shortcuts, Stash in Giants Sauna, Breath of Darkness Quest. All additions/changes are configurable.
Hope you enjoy!:D
Feedback
If you want to send me feedback feel free to drop by Outward's Modding Discord server, or the official Outward Discord. On the Outward Modding Discord server I have my own workshop channel, johbenji-workshop, so that's probably the best place to have a conversation. I also have a youtube channel if you wanna get into contact there (
Installation
- 1 Download BepInEx
- 2 Download Outward Config Manager
- 3 Download SideLoader
- 4 Unpack the contents of the zip file into the...OutwardDefinitiveEd\BepInEx\plugins\permittivity-calderatweaks
Information
Adds/changes Ark of the Exiled Rotations, Breath of Darkness Quest, Calygrey Arena Rewards, Lightweight kits, Expedition (Evangeline), Quest Rewards, Shortcuts, Stash in Giants Sauna. All additions/changes are configurable. They can be adjusted and completely turned off.
I highly suggest also adding Caldera Samples mod made by Tchernobill. I always run that mod together with this one as they compliment eachother. However, they are able to work independently without any issue:)
Ark of the Exiled
Always changes rotation (clockwise) every 6 hours (i.e. 4 clockwise rotation steps per day). There's no randomness in the pattern anymore. The current position is calculated from the current day/hour. The step speed is also configurable. For rotation less than every day set the value somewhere between 0 and 1.
- For one step every 7 days, set the rotation speed to: 0.14
- For one step every 2 days, set the rotation speed to: 0.5
- For one step a day, set the rotation speed to: 1
- For one step twice day, set the rotation speed to: 2
- For one step four times a day, set the rotation speed to: 4
- For one step every hour, set the rotation speed to: 24
I have set the default to one step 4 times a day, which means it rotates every 6 hours. This means that you can use it as an alternative transport if you use a plant tent inside of it.
Breath of Darkness Quest
You now have toggles to skip certain steps of the Breath of Darkness quest. The default is set to skip all of the steps except killing the 4 dwellers, but this one can also be toggled to be skipped.
Lightweight kits
More ways to get the lightweight kits have been added to the game. You can get it from legacy chesting a cooking pot or an alchemy kit. You can also get them from the new sirocco general store, food store and the alchemy store.
Expedition Rewards
Expedition rewards have been tweaked. The major change is that ore samples are good at returning funds (5000 funds) as opposed to other samples at the drawback of weighing more. However, all resource rewards can be tweaked.
Sample Weights
The weights of Ore Samples (from 6.0 to 4.0), Molepig Specimens (from 6.0 to 2.0) and Plant Samples (from 6.0 to 1.0) have been changed.
Calygrey Arena Rewards
Now can drop rare resource/building materials like chromium shards, petrified organs, etc.
Quest Rewards
The fund reward on the quest 'From the Ashes' have been increased (from 5'000 to 10'000) to smooth the player experience going into the 'Stealing Fire' quest which has a huge fund requirement.
Shortcuts
There are multiple shortcuts that have been added:
- From Caldera to Grotto of Chalcedony. This is more of an easter egg and shows a part of the cave that's not accessible to the player normally.
- The exterior of myrmitaur haven to mainland Caldera. This allows quicker transversal from one side of the map to the main map without having to backtrack through the dungeon. You can access this by walking up and through the hive. It's one of the big holes, and now you are able to climb up and go through it.
- From the River of Red to New Sirocco Mines.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: