mlieNPC Bonus Mod allows you to adjust how well-equipped NPC factions are by modifying their gear allowance values, helping balance gameplay when using modded content that introduces stronger or more expensive items.
NPC Bonus Mod Features
NPC Bonus Mod provides configurable tools to tweak NPC equipment quality by adjusting minimum and maximum allowance values used during pawn generation.
Allowance adjustments
- Custom scaling: Apply percentage modifiers to NPC pawn allowance values for equipment and items.
- Flexible balancing: Increase or decrease NPC gear quality depending on your desired difficulty.
- Negative offsets: Lower allowance values to make NPCs weaker if needed.
- Variance preserved: Maintains randomness in equipment generation while shifting overall quality ranges.
Technology-based scaling
- Pre-industrial: Covers Neolithic and Medieval factions.
- Industrial: Applies to Industrial-level factions.
- Post-industrial: Covers Spacer, Ultra, and Archotech factions.
- Category breakdown: Adjusts allowances separately for weapons, apparel, and hediff-related items like prosthetics and bionics.
Additional options
- Minimum weapon guarantee: Option to ensure pawns can afford at least a basic weapon appropriate to their tech level.
- Dynamic adjustment: Combines minimum thresholds with percentage scaling to determine final allowance values.
- Configurable settings: Designed as a tuning tool to match different mod setups and playstyles.
Gameplay impact
- Difficulty tuning: Changes NPC equipment quality without altering overall raid strength scaling.
- Mod integration: Helps NPCs make better use of added modded gear, including new weapons, clothing layers, and items.
- Balance trade-offs: High values may lead to stronger but less varied NPC equipment.
Compatibility notes
- Save compatibility: NPC Bonus Mod can be added to or removed from existing saves.
- Load order: Recommended to load after faction mods or near the end of the mod list.
- Mod support: Works with mods that define pawn allowance values and faction tech levels.
- Settings behavior: Changes require a game restart to take effect.
- Validation warnings: Extreme or invalid values may trigger warnings during game load.
- License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
When troubleshooting the NPC Bonus Mod:
- See if the error persists if you just have this mod and its requirements active.
- If not, try adding your other mods until it happens again.
- Always post your log using the Log Uploader.
- For best support, please use the Discord channel for error reporting.
- Do not report errors by making a discussion thread, as no notification is received that way.
- If you have the solution for a problem, please post it to the GitHub repository.
- Use RimSort to sort your mods.
Additional credits: pelador.
