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VFE - Ancients: Dragon's Micro Vaults

This mod adds 10 additional "micro" vaults to the Vanilla Factions Expanded - Ancients sealed vault quest pool, inspired by the original vaults from the same mod. By default, these only appear during sealed vault quests, but if you want them to be included in the scenario starting vault selection, you can go and grab my companion mod: VFE - Ancients: Dragon's Playable Micro Vaults. Be aware, that these vaults are designed to be playable, but also very challenging compared to full-sized vaults - perfect for that ice sheet run, maybe?

Each of the added vaults vary in size and complexity, but they all stick to objects available in the base game, VFEA and Ideology. I have put extra effort into making sure that your starting pawn can get access to food, and that all the vaults feature the essentials needed for a functioning vault, and generally feel reasonable.

General overview

• Vanilla-like designs. No hard mod requirements, but without Ideology, a lot of the clutter/decorations will be missing, leaving the vaults feeling rather empty (still playable though)
  
• A heavy focus on small-sized vaults, referring to the available interior space. Sizes vary, but availability of appliances and resources are reduced, compared to regular vaults.
  
• Outer walls are 1 tile thick, with an extra reinforcement layer towards the outside, with ~3 tiles of granite walls as a minimum between vault walls and the outside. Vault walls and interior is all covered by mountain roof, apart from a few exceptions, such as outside areas inside the vaults.
  
• A steam geyser is not always present.
  
• There are no pipeline junctions in these vaults.
  
• There are both generic and themed vaults with inferred storytelling among the designs.
  
• Sealed vaults will also appear in additional quest-given vault sites on the world map.
  
• A few Vanilla Vehicles Expanded wrecks and vehicle parts will be present if related mods are enabled.
  
• Combat Extended Ammo for both firearms, turrets and vehicles will be present, fitting with what is available in the vault.
  
• Minor compatibility bonus for Expanded Materials - Metals , by adding copper piles for making conduits.
  
• Vault names are prefixed with "DRA", so you can easily identify them when editing the scenario.

I didn't want to go too over the top with the vault themes and features, but I have attempted to make every vault feel a little unique, some more than others, while still feeling on parity with the original vault designs. To do this, I mostly stuck with using the same kinds of items and furniture that you may find in the original vaults, and generally just used stuff that seemed sensible to the given vault.

The main idea was to add "more of the same, but different, and smaller" - so there are no vaults that rely on specific mods to function, but there are additional support for some popular mods if those are present. If not, then the respective items simply wont spawn.

Note, that due to the workload of updating the preview images on this modpage, there may be slight difference ingame, as I improve the vaults by e.g. adding support for other mods. This enables me to spend more time on making more vault designs instead.

There are currently some limitations when making custom vaults, terrain covered by floor tiles, do not carry over into the vault layouts (seems like terrain under walls do), and the spawn position of your colonists can only be adjusted horizontally, which leaves 1 vault where you don't spawn in the room that connects to the outside. If the vault has a lot of outdoor open space, and generates on top of a pre-existing mountain, it will normally leave behind any roof tiles that was generated by the natural terrain, causing floating overhead mountain and similar. I implemented a workaround to fix this, by forcing the structure generator to generate undefined roof tiles, which according to my testing resolves the issue. Should you run into any roof-related issues, let me know, as this solution is a bit "hacky".

Just add to your modlist after VFEA - then start the sealed vault scenario as usual. Note that you can edit the scenario, and remove vaults you don't want.

There was a request for smaller vaults. I also enjoy the sealed vault scenario, but wanted more variety, so I figured I would make my own. Publishing my custom vaults only felt natural.

If you want to try your hand at making your own vaults mod, I have compiled a bunch of relevant information here: How to make your own vaults - tips and tricks

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