Immersive Blackouts [B42MP]

Description

The Knox Event did not immediately bring about the end of civilization. Deep inside the exclusion zone, the remaining personnel are still fighting to keep essential infrastructure alive. Power stations and water systems continue to operate, but without proper resources and maintenance, failures are becoming inevitable.

Expect unexpected outages, temporary recoveries, and a slow decline of the systems that once kept the region alive.

Features

• Dynamic Water and Electricity Blackouts – By default, water and electricity can randomly shut off (1% chance every 10 minutes) and be restored (5% chance every 10 minutes).
• Sandbox Options – configure blackout behavior to your liking.
• Light Flickering – before a blackout occurs, lights will flicker (as shown in the video). Moved from Sandbox Options to Mod Options, allowing each player to configure the effect individually, including in multiplayer.
• Immersive Radio – automated emergency broadcast system from Knox Emergency Regional Infrastructure Service (KERS) on 89.2 MHz. The radio provides warnings about upcoming water and electricity shutoffs, current infrastructure status, emergency announcements, and occasional corrupted transmissions with static and survivor broadcasts.
• Shutoff Days Range – configure a random range for the day when water or electricity shutoffs can occur.
• Safe to add or remove anytime – fully compatible with existing saves, no risk of breaking progress.
• Multiplayer Support

WARNING

Flashing Lights: This mod contains flashing and flickering lights that may trigger seizures or fainting in individuals with photosensitivity. If you experience dizziness, vision disturbances, muscle twitching, disorientation, or loss of consciousness, stop using the mod immediately and seek medical attention.

Note

• Once water and electricity are completely shut off, the mod stops affecting the game and can safely remain in your save.
• You can disable Water or Electricity events by setting their chances to 0%.

Compatibility

• Compatible with - Immersive Water Shutoff
• Compatible with - Exhaustive Power Rework
• Compatible with - Unseasonal Weather & others

For Modders

Immersive Blackouts exposes the following global variables: These variables are intended for state checks only. Modifying them may cause unexpected behavior.

• ImmersiveBlackouts_isWaterShut
• ImmersiveBlackouts_isBlackout

You can use them directly in your own Lua code to check the current shutdown state, for example:

print(ImmersiveBlackouts_isWaterShut)
print(ImmersiveBlackouts_isBlackout)

if ImmersiveBlackouts_isBlackout then
    return
end

Debug/Server admins with Debug enabled

You can toggle events via context menu. (Will not work if the global shutdown has already occurred)

Translations

Available in:

• Russian
• English

If you'd like to translate the mod, please create and maintain a separate translation mod. This allows translations to be updated independently and makes the main mod easier to maintain.

Translation notice

Community translations have been removed from the main mod because they are no longer up to date with its current version. A big thank you to everyone who contributed translations in the past. Your help was greatly appreciated. [hr][/hr] Found a bug? Please report it in the Bugs/Errors discussion! Enjoying the mod? A thumbs-up would be much appreciated!

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Workshop ID: 3607686447 Mod ID: ImmersiveBlackouts