BaseDefenseWard

Base Defense Ward

Tower defense for your base. Build the Base Defense Ward (Hammer, Misc tab; vanilla ward model and cost, glows red) and a countdown starts. When it ends a wave spawns around your base and goes for the ward. Hold it and rewards drop at the ward; lose it and the challenge is lost. The ward then rests and re-arms, with bigger waves each time.

• Mobs hunt players who are out in the open and ignore players who are roofed and walled in.
• Mob tiers and rewards unlock with boss trophies hung on the sacrificial stones (Meadows only on a fresh world).
• One ward per player; build a new one to move it. Locked while a wave is in progress.
• Press E on the ward during the countdown to start the wave now. Optional pause hotkey.
• HUD rows under the minimap for every running ward (yours first, other players' by name) and a map pin on each.
• Countdown and rest run while the builder is logged in, at any distance. They pause while the builder is offline.
• Requires BepInEx 5.4.23+ on every client and on the server or host.

Options (BepInEx/config/com.night.basedefenseward.cfg)

| Key | Default | Meaning | | --- | --- | --- | | CountdownMinutes | 10 | Build (or end of rest) to wave | | WaveTimeLimitMinutes | 5 | Hold this long and the wave counts as beaten | | RestMinMinutes / RestMaxMinutes | 30 / 120 | Random rest between a defended wave and the next countdown | | SpawnRadius | 55 | Spawn distance from the ward (its protected radius is 32) | | BaseMobCount / MobsPerCompletedChallenge / MaxMobCount | 4 / 2 / 30 | Wave size | | SpawnIntervalSeconds | 1.5 | Delay between individual spawns | | PlayerHuntRange | 40 | Exposed players within this range of a mob get hunted | | StartNow | true | E on the ward during the countdown starts the wave immediately | | PausableWards | false | Allow pausing a ward's countdown or rest with PauseKey within interact range (not during a wave) | | PauseKey | P | The pause hotkey | | RewardMultiplier | 1 | Scales reward amounts | | DeleteWorldOnLoss | false | Destructive. Losing deletes the world save; dedicated servers exit so a wrapper can restart | | BuildDeadlineMinutes | 0 (off) | A ward must be built this many minutes after world creation or the challenge is lost | | BossKeys | bdw_hung_* | Global keys that unlock each tier, in order (use defeated_* keys to count kills instead) | | ExtraMobPools | empty | Override the built-in tier pools: tiers separated by ;, prefabs by , |

Source, issues, contributions: https://github.com/GustavHenning/base-defense-ward