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[Discontinued] OSDs and Element Veins for Aberration
   
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[Discontinued] OSDs and Element Veins for Aberration

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Description
Note:
Due to real-life things, i no longer can bear the time or focus to continue those mods, as they are a real hassle to update and fixing stuff. Sorry y'all D:
I'll upload the source at some point so other people can continue this work if they want to.

What is this mod?
This Mod is an Map Extension, which adds Orbital Supply Drops and Element Veins to Aberration!
You should NOT use this mod with any other map, as the Map Extension still will fully work and you'll have floaty rocks with OSDs and EVs on them!
If you've got any structures nearby the spawn points, move first, or there's a good chanche that stuff will get destroyed by Corrupted Dinos or an spawning event!


Where do they spawn?
There are a total of 4 Spawn Points on Aberration. 2 of them spawn Easy Events. One only for Crates and the other for Element Veins only.
The other 2 Spawn Points (Medium and Hard) can spawn both, Crates and Veins.
They are placed strategically across the map, so there's the least chanche they could bother anyone.
You can find a spawn map in the images above this description.
The spawners have a large rock beneath them, so you can orient on those.
Each spawner has a quite large Structure Prevention Zone around them, to prevent accidental base bulding near them.

A Note about the Difficulties
Although the system was set up exactly like on Extinction, the spawn points somehow choose another difficulty than which was set for them.
So the spawn map is not always correct in terms of difficulty.

Random leftover Dinos after a Wave
This happens due to the nature of corrupted Dinos. They will attack everything that is a non-corrupted Dino.
This leads to them getting way off track and you have to hunt them down.

What about the corrupted Dinos spawned during the event?
Spawned Corrupted Dinos are set to despawn after the event has ended and they got stasised once. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for every single one and some may stay. (This actually is the vanilla way of getting rid of them)

Useful Stuff
Those commands start a Level 1 OSD and Element Vein respectively.
Replace the 1 with 2 or 3 to start a medium or hard one.
Keep in mind that they also spawn naturally and don't have to be forced.
Both, Crates and Element Veins still need some time after being Force-Spawned to actually appear. With EVs taking the longest, while you can't even see any indicator of them existing.

Spawn OSD
Cheat StartNearestHorde Crate 1
Spawn Element Vein
Cheat StartNearestHorde Element 1

Mod ID
1906755910

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15 Comments
DeadMe 19 Apr, 2024 @ 8:05am 
are there gonna be OSD for center map??
Ferodra  [author] 6 Sep, 2020 @ 7:06am 
After the next update dropped, i won't be supporting this Mod(s) anymore, due to Real-Life stuff. Will release the source code shortly after that.

The Update will fix the long ongoing issue that events take massively increased damage.
Ferodra  [author] 30 May, 2020 @ 1:04pm 
General Update:
I've actually found a way to increase the range you're allowed in, so the Event doesn't despawn. It's quite some work to implement it into all the mods, so it'll take a while. But it's coming!
Maybe i can even make this available through the GUI.ini
jesus 3 Apr, 2020 @ 11:44pm 
Guys if you want to not damage your own osd activate PVE mode and you wont damage it.
Grieving_Tatsunoko 3 Mar, 2020 @ 11:14am 
soooo...are tames supposed to be able to damage/destroy the element veins/OSDs? because my Rex army trampled an OSD to death within seconds as we fought off a wave,
and is there a way to turn that off? like an .ini option?
为你披上雪白前嫌 31 Dec, 2019 @ 5:28am 
What's this?
Kradian 11 Nov, 2019 @ 2:58pm 
This is a great idea. I will test soon!
Ferodra  [author] 8 Nov, 2019 @ 11:59pm 
@Grox?
Already tried that - and it didn't quite work out, as you can read from Big Chung Bus down there :D
Grox 8 Nov, 2019 @ 8:53pm 
I think it would be more immersive for the OSD's to be on the Surface. Ones farthest from the Obelisks are easy the ones close to the Obelisks are medium the ones closest to the Obelisks are hard and legendary. Still this is just a suggestion and it does not have to be added.
Big Chung Bus 8 Nov, 2019 @ 5:11pm 
um , hm theres some spots in the upper and lower blue zones , red zone still has the queens but they dont spawn nearly as often as the surface reapers. i would need to load up abb on my single player again and search for remotely good flat areas too put the spawner platforms that you were talking about