Resource Roulette

Resource Roulette

Description

Beef's Resource Roulette allows you to randomize the locations of resource nodes in the gameworld.

Unfortunately, Singleplayer only. I won't invest the time into multiplayer unless the rumors of vanilla node randomization turn out to be false.

Features

• Randomizes Resources in the world, and updates their visual features accordingly.
• Includes ability to randomize all solid nodes and crude oil resources
• Includes compatibility with modded resource nodes from Ficsit Farming and Refined Power and easy ability to add more
• The total number of pure/normal/impure nodes in the world is identical to playing without this mod so it neither increases nor decreases availability of resources in the world, only how hard you have to work to find them (unless enabling Full Randomization)
• Handles odd node locations resulting in angled resource nodes gracefully with automagically world-aligning logic
• Configuration Options (Currently only applies to new sessions, will be addressed in future update)

Configuration Options

Seed Options (Not visible in New Game Savegame Settings, only in-game)

• Click To Reroll Nodes - Be careful, clicking this menu option rerolls immediately.
• Resources are randomized according to the options chosen in the rest of options below
• Resource randomization values are saved to your savegame so if you do accidentally click this, load a previous save to revert.

Randomization Options

• Use Full Randomization - If used, ignores grouping/purity/distributions/exclusion zones and completely randomizes resources. This could theoretically result in a world only Uranium nodes that's impossible to complete, but is truly random.
• Purity Exclusion Zones - If used, tries to exclude higher-purity nodes from starting areas to increase challenge.
• Individual options to randomize specific resources (E.g. Uranium, SAM, etc)

Grouping Options

• Max nodes per group - The maximum number of nodes that can be in a single "group". Default is 5
• Grouping Distance - For nodes that are close together, the radius to recursively search to find nodes that should be included into a "group" and have similar types and purities.
• Higher values result in groups having more nodes that are further apart. Very high values result in "regions" of specific resources
• Lower values results in higher diversity and randomness among nodes.
• Individual options to group resources that are not grouped by default (E.g. Uranium, SAM, etc)

Admin Options

• Click to Reset Nodes - Doesn't alter the seed value, but simply refreshes existing nodes and causes them to re-settle into the surrounding terrain.
• Due to bugfixes, this can alter node types and randomization settings.
• Click to Prep Savegame for Mod Removal
• If you intend to remove the mod from your savegame, click this button and then save the game to prevent CTD.
• Removes all vanilla extractors from the modded nodes. The vanilla game doesn't have functionality to re-assign miners if the node changes.

Known Bugs/Issues

• Nodes visually shift as you get closer to them the first time, this is the result of automagically aligning them. This only occurs once per node in each save, when it is about 250m away from the player location. I'll look into smoothing this motion in the future.
• Singleplayer only
• Crude oil and resource node meshes have grass spawning through them sometimes, this should be able to be resolved in roadmap later on
• May have conflicts with some resource mods, please notify me if you find anything and I will add compatibility.

How to safely remove this mod from your savegame

This can be used if you intend to remove the mod permanently, it can also be used to update a savegame from version 1.0.x to work with the 1.1.x and later versions properly

1. Load your Savegame with current version of Resource Roulette installed and enabled in SML
2. With the game loaded, open the Mod Savegame Settings (accessible via the mod's settings menu in the game)
3. At the bottom click the button labeled "Click to Prep Savegame for Mod Removal"
4. This will remove all vanilla extractors associated with custom nodes added by Resource Roulette
5. Save your game so the changes are also saved
6. In your mod loader, either deactivate the Resource Roulette mod or remove it entirely from the mod loader
7. Now, when you load the game without Resource Roulette, you will have no issues