Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity

Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity

A utility module within the Wilderlands ecosystem.

 

**Notice: This mod will no longer be updated/maintained. The features contained in this mod have been moved to a new project:  Wilderlands Geology

 

Simply put:

There is far too much ore available in the default world for my taste.

This mod does something about it.

Developed for Vintage Story, Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity dramatically reduces ore abundance and reshapes deposit distribution to make mining more meaningful and exploration more necessary.

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Design Philosophy

The goal is to make:

• Trade more valuable

• Exploration more important

• Ruin scavenging more impactful

• Panning more worthwhile

• Mining operations more deliberate

Especially early on, players should not be able to rely on abundant nearby deposits.

Large iron deposits in particular may require:

• Traveling significant distances

• Establishing remote mining sites

• Coordinated transport logistics

On multiplayer servers, this encourages infrastructure and cooperation.

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World Generation Changes

Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity modifies deposit spawn rates and size variability across the board.

Core Adjustments

• All ore and coal deposit spawn chances reduced to ¼ of default values (less for some types)

• Iron deposit spawn chances reduced significantly more than ¼

• Greater variance in deposit sizes

• Some smaller iron deposits can generate closer to the surface in certain rock strata

• Some iron deposits can generate much larger than vanilla

• Some copper deposits can generate very large

The world contains fewer deposits overall — but greater diversity in scale.

Ore becomes something you work for, not something you trip over.

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World Config Compatibility

The mod establishes a rare baseline.

You can further modify abundance using the Global Deposit Spawn Rate setting when creating a world:

• Increase it for a more forgiving experience

• Decrease it for harsher scarcity gameplay

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Compatibility

Compatible with:

• Geology Addons
  (Includes proportional adjustments to GeoAddons deposit spawn rates.)

⚠ Not compatible with early versions of Wilderlands Tweaks (pre-Dev4).
Always use the latest releases.

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Recommended Pairing

For a fully scarcity-driven experience, consider pairing with:

• Wilderlands Panning Overhaul

The two were designed to complement one another, though each functions independently.

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Community & Support

If you have issues, suggestions, or feedback:

Please post in the Wilderlands Rustbound thread in Vintage Story's official Discord.

Interested in following development more closely?
Join The Wilderlands Community Discord server.

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Other Wilderlands Modules

•  
• Wilderlands Adjustments
• Wilderlands Behaviors
• Wilderlands Block Adjustments
• Wilderlands Caves
• Wilderlands Custom Sea Level
• Wilderlands Echoes
• Wilderlands Environmental Stability

• Wilderlands Ethology

• Wilderlands Forests
• Wilderlands Ground Layers
• Wilderlands Lunarbound

• Wilderlands Panning Overhaul

• Wilderlands Rustbound
• Wilderlands Spawnbound
• Wilderlands Stonebound (WIP)

• Wilderlands Tweaks (Set of adjustments for Wilderlands servers)

• Wilderlands Waymarkers