Better Satellite Dish

Adds a number of much-requested features to the Satellite Dish. --- WARNING: This mod will not work unless you install Stationeers.Addons OR BepInEx 5.x. Read how to install Stationeers.Addons by clicking the link above. For BepInEx scroll down. --- Support me on

Signal strength no longer outputs the strongest signal

Instead, the logic value Quantity shows the total number of contacts. And the logical value Setting allows you to choose which contact you wish to retrieve the signal strength and ID of. Setting is a zero-based index, meaning the first item is at Setting = 0. The order is the same as it is displayed on the computer.

The signal strength has been increased from two decimal places to six.

The dish now has a Mode that can be read/written to via logic. The modes are in the same order as the computer+coms motherboard display. This filtering happens before the data is sent to a computer.

Mode 0: All Mode 1: Trader Mode 2: Satellite Mode 3: Unknown

Example: You set your dish's mode to 1, and read the Quantity. Which is 3. If you wish to read the SignalStrength and SignalID of the second contact, you would write 1 to Setting.

New! Trader Type

You can determine the type of trader by the last two digits of the SignalID. This list is available in game on the Satellite Dish's Stationpedia page. (English only)

• TechTree Electronics 1
• Organicon 2
• Spes'mall Basics 3
• HydrauliKit 4
• MineRiteOres 5
• Microwares 6
• Chem Lab 7
• Color Corp Paints 8
• Tool Corp 9
• Hall Corp Security 10
• Kolders' Assorted Goods 11
• ExoTech 12
• GasTrade 13
• Spes'mall 14

To get the last two numbers of the SignalID use the mod command:

    [code]
    l r0 dSat SignalID
    mod r0 r0 100 #r0 = last two digits of SignalID
    beq r0 3 label #trader is Spes'mall Basics
    

BepInEx Install Instructions

[olist] [*]Click BepInEx 5.x [*]Download the appropriate zip file, x64 for Windows, unix for Linux/Mac. [*]In Steam right click on Stationeers, hover the mouse over "Manage" then, click on "Browse Local Files". [*]Copy/extract the contents of the zip folder into your Stationeers directory. [*]You should end up with a BepInEx folder inside your Stationeers directory like: [*]Run the game once. Then exit. This will initilize BepInEx creating some new folders. [*]Navigate to the BepInEx folder in your Stationeers directory. [*]You should have "plugins" and "patchers" folders inside that directory like: [*]Now we have to jump through some hoops to get BepInEx to work with Steam Workshop. To tell BepInEx to look in our workshop folders we need to make a symbolic link to that folder. A symbolic link is like a advanced shortcut. You only need to do this once to get all BepInEx workshop mods to work. [*]Navigate to the plugins folders inside the BepInEx folder in your Stationeers directory. [*]Copy the path to the plugins folder. [*]Now run the command prompt as an administrator. [*]Windows: Right click on the start menu, and select "Command Prompt (Admin)" [*]Mac: Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, type Terminal in the search field, then click Terminal. [*]Linux: press the Ctrl+Alt+t keys at the same time. [*]Type the drive letter of the Stationeers folder, followed by a : and press enter. [*]Type cd follow by a space, then paste the copied path to the plugins folder and press enter. [*]Now we need to find our workshop folder for Stationeers. [*]From the Stationeers folder, navigate up (the up arrow by to the left of the path) to the "common" folder, then up again to the "steamapps" folder [*]In the "steamapps" folder, click the "workshop" folder, then the "content" folder, then the "544550" folder. Ex: SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\544550 [*]Now copy the path of the "544550" folder. [*]Now we make the link. [*]Windows: Back in the command prompt type mklink /D workshop " then paste the 544550 folder path, type another " and press enter. [*]Linux/Mac: In the termal type ln -s "paste/path/to/544550/folder" "paste/path/to/plugins/folder" [*]Repeat steps 10 to 24 for the Stationeers\BepInEx\patchers folder. Hint, you can press the up arrow a couple of time to repeat the mklink command. [*]The end result should look something like: [/olist]

Known Issues

Mode and Setting are not saved. I probably woint fix this as it would make uninstalling the mod break your saves.

Updates: v1.1 7/12/22: Update to work with refactored patch. Tested with Addon mod loader 4.0-pre3. Note: The addon mod loader will not work if any of your addon mods are outdated. Even if they are unchecked. v1.11 8/09/22: Minor update to force the satellite dish to update when logic values are read/written. v1.2 9/30/22: [list][*]Mod now works with either Stationeers.Addon OR BepInEx. [*]BepInEx version: Added a check that prevents to mod from applying patches if disabled. Will still try to compile with Stationeers.Addon. [*]BepInEx version: The added Logic Types will show up in the Satellite Dish's Stationpedia. [/list]