LooseEnds

Loose Ends - Bodies That Matter for Schedule I

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Hide your bodies, or face the heat. In vanilla, police and citizens walk over a corpse like it

isn't there. Loose Ends makes living NPCs who actually see a dead body react - citizens call the

police, police enter the game's real "Investigating" pursuit - and makes carried corpses heavier,

so hauling a body to its hiding spot has real weight and stress.

What it does

• Witnesses react. A living NPC (citizen or police) who actually sees a dead NPC reports it:

citizens get the police called, police enter the game's real "Investigating" pursuit state. A

body that is hidden from sight - in a dumpster, behind a wall, indoors, underwater, in bushes - is

never seen, so nothing happens. That is the whole point: hide your bodies.

• Corpses are heavier. While you carry a body you move noticeably slower (and the body drags more

sluggishly), scaled by a configurable multiplier - adding weight and stress to hauling a corpse to

its hiding spot.

Features

• Real line of sight. Detection uses each nearby NPC's own vision cone (VisionCone.IsPointWithinSight),

so it honors field of view and the game's occlusion layers. A hidden body is genuinely unseen.

• Killer attribution. The heat goes to whoever actually did it, captured at attack time. Unknown

(environmental / NPC-vs-NPC) deaths fall back sensibly (single-player blames the local player; co-op

uses a scene response).

• Configurable realism. Hunt the killer / Scene investigation / Escalating, line-of-sight on/off,

which NPC types react, pursuit level, reaction delay, cooldowns, weight, and more.

• Cheap when idle. With no corpses in the world the mod does effectively nothing; the witness scan is

throttled and only runs while a body exists.

• Host-authoritative. Detection and every police/pursuit write run only on the server/host through the

game's own networked calls, so they replicate to clients.

Requirements

• Schedule I (IL2CPP) with MelonLoader 0.7.3+.
• S1API (pulled in as a dependency).

Settings

Editable in UserData/MelonPreferences.cfg

(category LooseEnds_01_Main):

| Setting | Default | Meaning |

|---|---|---|

| Enabled | on | Master switch. Off = fully vanilla. |

| EnableInMultiplayer | off | Force the witness system on in co-op (experimental, host-authoritative). |

| RequireLineOfSight | on | Use the NPC vision cone so hidden bodies are unseen. Off = pure radius. |

| ResponseMode | 0 (Hunt) | 0 Hunt the killer (reliable), 1 Scene investigation (experimental), 2 Escalating. |

| PursuitLevel | 1 | 1 Investigating, 2 Arresting, 3 NonLethal, 4 Lethal. |

| ReactionDelaySeconds | 3 | Delay after the first sighting before the response fires. |

| OncePerCorpse | on | Respond at most once per body. |

| CorpseWeightMultiplier | 5 | How heavy a carried corpse feels (1 = vanilla, up to 20). |

Plus ReactCitizens, ReactPolice, ReactEmployees, DetectionRange, ScanIntervalSeconds,

ResponseCooldownSeconds, WeightMode and more - see the in-game settings for the full list.

Multiplayer

The witness system is host-authoritative and off by default in a real co-op lobby

(EnableInMultiplayer) until it has been tested with two players. Set EnableInMultiplayer = on to opt in.

License

MIT. See the included LICENSE.md.