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Old Earth Tech - Redux

Big ol' update, enough to classify it as a 2.0!.

The much wanted research overhaul is live, along with plenty of other goodies. Check the Change Notes for deets.

As always, let me know if you come across any bugs or quirks.

Yep, I have the Pursue Hostiles mod (good stuff). I rolled an unlucky seed where all the spaceship wreckage was quite a walk away from the landing point, which didn't help as scrap metal was then a chokepoint. Some maps are probably just not well suited for Insane runs

The key to surviving the beginning of Insane/Chaos is to get as much scrap metal as possible right away, and build a trap grid to kite the bugs/robots into. It'll briefly stun them and do decent damage to low tier enemies, allowing your survivors to go in and shoot/whack them. Don't forget to make stone spears/wooden clubs for your unarmed survivors right away too until some more resources become available to you to make base tier weapons.

Make sure you grab the "Pursue Hostiles" mod too so colonists, when enabled, will actively attack enemies in sight range instead of standing around if they're not weapons range, which is really helpful for melee and short ranged attacks.

Certain non-OP modded characters with pre-equipped weapons and skills can help a lot too. I always roll with Akane and Aurelie with their melee and archery bonuses, and there's others like Elisa Chesterfield that come with a Railgun Sniper 2.0.

So, I started a new game on Insane difficulty because I'm the sort of lunatic who cheerfully goes from Easy to Insane because why waste time on the stuff in the middle once you know the game mechanics lol.

How that went: total party wipeout with the first wave of bugs xD

Research order matters at Frostpunk levels with this mod suite (ie, mess up the research and your people die). I LOVE IT.

In case anyone else was wondering, get your initial lightning rod up and then go straight for weapon making because you will need ranged weapons STAT. Meanwhile, get basic base defenses up. I made the critical error of trying to increase food production before getting my people armed.

I agree, it does make realistic sense to make metal melee weapons on an anvil. This was just user-error me misunderstanding what all the new workstations do and missing a critical step in the weapon tech chain. :)

Correct, as of this time it's only the anvil. I plan on adding CNC recipes for for the nanosteel ones as well.

Not too long ago that was actually the case, the Lathe completely replaced the Anvil and did so pretty fast, and the melee weapons were made at the Crafting table. However, to make the Anvil more useful, and de-clutter the Crafting Table Weapons list, I moved them there. Makes more realistic sense too since most of the work of crafting these is done at an anvil (or, in modern times, springhammers).

Ooooh, that's what I did wrong. I researched the lathe and then deconstructed my anvil thinking the lathe was supposed to replace it being that it's more efficient, but I didn't research the CNC machine yet. To clarify, only the anvil can make the steel melee weapons? Or does the CNC machine do it as well?

Steel and nanosteel melee weapons are made at the Anvil under the Blacksmithing category.

And for additional clarification on the others, early non-gunpowder weapons are made at the Crafting table like other non-tech vanilla weapons, and gunpowder ones are made at the Gunsmithing table, which is unlocked once Gunpowder is researched.

Apologies for the obtuse tech chains, I'm actively working on fixing that so that there's both less of a mystery on what tech unlocks what, and what the unlocked items are and do. I'm hoping to have that update out by Wednesday.

Glad you're enjoying it and my More Realistic Farming mod! Any and all feedback is always welcome. :)

How do I make the steel melee weapons? Thank goodness I chose to play on easy difficulty to try this mod suite out because navigating through the tech chains is not very easy right now xD.

Also, for anyone else reading this, mod suite is awesome at adding fun and challenging tech progression (once you know what leads to what). It feels like you're a real pioneer. If played with the more realistic farming mod and irrigation mod once fixed, you'd better can some vegetables and meat for your first winter or things get a bit lean. Also, don't expand your base too quickly as the amount of items to make/tasks to do blows up as you progress through the tech tree. You really want to be teching with one eye towards survival and the other eye towards getting bots to help with all the tasks.

Thank you!