Rustwall

Rustwall - Overhaul mod for Vintage Story

Synopsis

Rustwall is an overhaul mod designed for use on the MudRustwall server.

This does not mean you are forbidden from using it on any other server, but it is incomplete and may cause catastrophic damage to your save when updated or added to an existing world. Additionally, while updates are intended to be compatible with previous versions, the main source of testing will be the main Rustwall server, so it is strongly advised to copy your server's world to singleplayer and test things there before updating.

THIS MOD WILL, BY DEFAULT, AUTOMATICALLY REGENERATE LARGE PARTS OF THE WORLD. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Conceptually, the goal is to provide some balance between the two different types of Vintage Story server:

• Perpetual, never wiping
  • These servers are characterized by never wiping their maps, always keeping the same world. These worlds suffer from a lack of new content and player burnout as players complete all of their goals and have no reason to continue playing.
• Seasonal, regular wipes
  • These servers are notable for regularly deleting the world and starting fresh, or perhaps carrying forward some amount of items.

Rustwall bridges the gap by providing both experiences side-by-side, with the following features:

• There is a safe zone at the center of the map, 1km x 1km in size. This area never wipes, and houses special machinery.
• Expanding outward from the safe zone are 'rings' of various different world gen settings that are randomized.
• On a regular basis these rings regenerate, randomizing themselves completely. Players can maintain a set of machines inside the safe zone that prevent some or all rings from regenerating based on the state of repair the machines are in, they wear out overtime so players need to keep them up or risk losing everything outside the safe zone.
• Administrators can add and remove these machines to balance regeneration as the amount of the map regenerated each cycle is based on a percentage of machines that are still repaired.

A good balance is intended to be one where a small group of players can manage to keep the machines repaired in such a way that at good portion of the world remains unchanged for sustained periods of time, while a concerted server effort can keep them almost fully repaired, only ever having to worry about regeneration in the farthest reaches where only the pioneers dare roam.

We've got a lot of ideas for different features, so while the base ideas will stay, there may be crazy new additions made to the formula as well.

-To be continued...