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Build Item Custom Costs

Much of the Engineering buildable accessories cannot be customized. Costs are not read correctly from the INI files in game even when using correct syntax.

This mod fixes that and allows you to customize the item costs and item requirements. Unfortunately these values are for all difficulties, but most of the existing items in game have the same costs across all difficulties except on Legend so the change is not drastic.

List of affected items and their new costs:

(S=Supplies, E=Elerium, A=Alloys, followed by Corpses)
Bluescreen Rounds, 30S, 5A, 5E, 2 Advent Turrets
Mimic Beacon, 40S, 2A, 5E, 3 Faceless Corpses
Battlescanner, 15S, 2 Advent Captain Corpses
Combat Stims, 30S, 2 Berserker Corpses
Medikit, 25S, 1 Viper Corpse
Nanomedikit, 45S, 2 Viper Corpse
Flashbang Grenade, 20S
Proximity Mine, 50S, 10A, 10E, 1 Sectopod Corpse
Smoke Grenade, 15S
Smoke Bomb, 25S, 2 Advent Shieldbearer Corpse
EMP Grenade, 25S, 10A, 5E, 2 Advent MEC Corpse
EMP Bomb, 45S, 10A, 10E, 3 Advent MEC Corpse
Mindshield, 20S, 5E, 2 Sectoid Corpse
Hellweave Vest, 40S, 5A, 3 Advent Purifier Corpse
Nanofiber Vest, 10S, 2A, 2 Advent Trooper Corpse
Refraction Field, 30S, 5A, 10E, 2 Corpse Spectre
Ultrasonic Lure, 20S, 2A, 5E, 5 Lost Corpses (These are not shown, but you do have them).
Sustaining Sphere, 15S, 5E, 2 Advent Priest Corpse

-= DEFAULTS =-

This mod is loaded with my personal settings, calibrated around WOTC standard values as seen above, for a campaign of halfway normal/classic difficulty. The items cost more Alloys, Elerium and Corpses to make the resources useful and wanted. Supply costs for most items is down significantly, but not below their resale price on the Black Market. You should feel an increased incentive to gather non-supply resources and you'll find use for all those bodies you have piled up. You will even find Elerium or Alloy Points of Interest that popup attractive sometimes.

It is somewhat difficult to find the correct corpses for some of the items, this will limit you in availability but this is on purpose. Powerful items require rare or late game corpses. For example, you wont be able to use Medikits until you meet your first Viper. Remember that if you disagree, you can just change it.

-= CUSTOMIZATION =-

All values are exposed for each item, you can change anything you want. Supply, Alloy, Elerium, Corpse required are all changeable.


There is a strong chance this mod will be updated in the future (bugs, new functionality, etc.) so keep a backup of your changes in the same directory. If you use my settings, just sub and forget.

-= COMPATIBILITY =-

No direct overrides. Works for existing campaigns.

This mod ignores all settings in DefaultStrategyTuning.ini for the items mentioned above and uses the parameters in the INI file instead.

-= VERSION =-
V2.0 - Added all buildable schematics missing (Weapons, Armors, DLC content XPAC etc.)