Wilderlands Panning Overhaul

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Wilderlands Panning Overhaul</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A module within the Wilderlands ecosystem.</span>

<span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">⚠ Version Compatibility Notice</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Panning Overhaul v1.0.1 is not compatible with versions of <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Vintage Story</span></span> prior to 1.21.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are running VS 1.20 or earlier, use a previous Panning Overhaul release.</span>

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<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Overview</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilderlands Panning Overhaul fundamentally rebalances resource acquisition through panning.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In vanilla gameplay, the sheer volume of sand and gravel in the world makes ore acquisition via panning disproportionately abundant. This mod significantly reduces that availability and makes panning a deliberate, exploration-driven process.</span>

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<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Core Changes</span>

<span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sand Panning Removed</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Players can no longer pan sand.</span>

<span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gravel Panning Nerfed</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Most drops from normal gravel have been reduced.</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ore acquisition from standard gravel is far less generous.</span>

<span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">New Resource: Rich Gravel</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Introduces Rich Gravel, a new surface deposit type.</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Provides a reasonable chance to extract basic metal nuggets and minerals.</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Designed to be the intended medium for meaningful panning.</span>

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<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Rich Gravel Generation</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Spawns as surface deposits in gravel biomes.</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Can be difficult to spot in certain rock strata.</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Visually identifiable by a subtle sprinkling of muted, colorful pixels indicating embedded minerals.</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Does not affect or modify bony soil.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">With this system, panning becomes less about volume and more about locating the correct material.</span>

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<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Design Philosophy</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The goal is to rebalance early-game ore access.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Given the massive amount of sand and gravel in the world, vanilla panning creates an overabundance of accessible metals. This mod:</span>