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Sustainable Resource Buildings Expansion

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Balance, Expansion, Economy and Buildings, Fixes, Gameplay, Journal Entries, Technologies, Utilities

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Description

This mod cannot be installed mid-game. Starting a new game is required.

Updates

18.06.2025

Updated for 1.9.

What does the mod do?

This mod is aiming to solve the late game resource shortage while trying to maintain the game balance and the characteristics of different regions.
It adds:
- New Resource Buildings with New Mechanisms to determine the resource cap
- New Technologies to unlock the above buildings and to Add Arable Land
- New Journal Entries to unlock these new technologies
Simply adding unlimited resource might ruin the game balance and make all states lose their characteristics. To avoid that, this mod introduces some mechanisms to limit:
- When and where these new buildings can be built
- How many current levels can be built
This means although resources are unlimited for long term, their locations and extraction rate are limited.

How does it work?

The New Journal Entries (JEs) will be activated if there are already enormous resources being sold in the market but the demand still cannot be met (image 6~7).
The technologies to unlock the New Resource Buildings (NRBs) and to Add Arable Land will be acquired after Completing the JEs.
These NRBs and the resources they produce are:
- Coal Mining Center -> Coal
- Sulfur Mining Center -> Sulfur
- Iron Metallurgical Center -> Iron
- Lead Metallurgical Center -> Lead
- Oil Exploration Center -> Oil
- Oceanic Fishery Port -> Fish
- Synthetics Rubber Plants -> Rubber
- Composite Wood Factory -> Wood and Hardwood
NRBs can only be built in states that are already producing plenty of the corresponding resources, which means controlling regions that are rich in resources is still important (image 8~11).
NRBs have max levels, but these max levels can be gradually increased (image 4), which means although the total max level can be increased unlimited times, controlling more resource producing states would make this process much faster.
For Coal, Iron, Sulfur, Lead and Oil, only one type of the NRBs can be built in a state, e.g., it's impossible to have both "Oil Exploration Center" and "Coal Mining Center" in the same state, so controlling different states for different resources is still important.

Important: To make sure the NRBs' type in a state can always be decided carefully, private sector won't build them until the government sector built the first one in a state.
Arable land can be increased once a year when available arable land is countrywide insufficient. Only arable land in states that have great agricultural potential will be increased and the number of states are limited by agricultural budget (image 5 and 12), which means controlling agricultural regions is still important for corps production.

Features of the new resource buildings

Each NRB has almost the same productivity and profit as its vanilla building, but double the construction points and needs more infrastructures.
NRBs can be built in subjects. To do that, either the subject needs to unlock the NRBs or "Technology Transfer (TT)" needs to be enabled first (except NRBs for wood and rubber). TT costs money and has a chance each month to increase the max levels of the corresponding NRBs in subjects.
If you want to build a NRB in a foreign country other than subjects, then this country has to unlock this NRB first (except NRBs for wood and rubber).
If both an overlord and its subject A have unlocked a NRB, then its max level in subject A is determined by:
max level A = max level from overlord TT + max level from subject A itself.
If a subject was transferred to a new overlord, the "max level from overlord TT" would be preserved, the new overlord can't increase it until they can provide higher levels than the previous overlord:
If both an overlord A and its subject B have unlocked a NRB, then both A and B can increase its max level in B's subject C:
max level C from TT = maximum(max level from A TT, max level from B TT)

AI Behaviour

AI countries are also allowed to complete the JEs.
AI countries will also try to use the features when certain conditions are met.
When AIs decide what to build, they consider each NRB as its vanilla building, except "Synthetics Rubber Industries" as heavy industry and "Composite Wood Industries" as light industry.
Because technically resources are unlimited, AIs are less willing to build them in foreign countries when they are also domestically available.

Small Country Patch

To maintain the game balance, the market sell orders conditions are relatively difficult for small countries, if you want an advanced but smaller country to have access to the new resource buildings more easily, please also subscribe this sub-mod:
Sustainable Resource Buildings Expansion (Small Country Patch)

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