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[1.5.1] More Empty Chests, Please!

Tired of running all over the archipelago in search of a single empty chest? This mod fixes that nonsense once and for all – and without resorting to cheats!

Right now, empty chests are ridiculously rare. You’ve got a tiny chance of finding one on a pirate ship, and hopping from port to port checking every usurer is a long-term nightmare.
And when you're trying to upgrade a ship, instead of focusing on gold, you're wasting time hunting down these annoying little wooden boxes worth like 20 pesos each – like they’re some kind of endgame legendary treasure. Oh, come on! They’re just pieces of wooden scrap! How can they be so impossibly rare?!

📦 Usurers now have a 70% chance to have an empty chests in their stock.
📦 They can have from 1 up to 9 chests (instead of just 2).

You should also know that...
▶️ Mod is save compatible. You don't have to start a new game!

Basically, now empty chests are no longer a pain in the ass. They become reasonably available – common enough to not be frustrating, but without flooding your inventory like some kind of cheat. It keeps things balanced. As all things should be.

This mod is compatible with any other mod that doesn’t modify the utils.c file. So, probably most of them, if not all. But if you do run into a conflict somehow, just open your version of utils.c file, search for the "chest_open" keyword, and replace the relevant code block with this. And voilà – you're good to go!

irand = rand(100);
if(irand < 70) AddItems(ch, "chest_open", Rand(8) + 1);

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