Extended Pets

Description

Extended Pets is currently in alpha testing and may contain bugs, not work in multiplayer, or present other odd behavior while it's in preview testing.  Use it at your own risk and make backups of any save files you intend to use it with.

The mod allows you to convert downed enemy Order personnel into companions as well as zombies and rat men if you throw pheromone flasks at them.  It also gives you the option to craft pet food boxes to automate feeding.  Please provide feedback if you have issues or observations.  I have not checked their health and damage to ensure it scales well or is fairly balanced.  Their aim and decision to actually participate in combat effectively could also be improved (a lot of this is their AI controller that I need to coax into combat).

Installation instructions

Install like a normal UE4SS Abiotic Factor mod.

You should be able to extract the contents directly to your game install path, such as C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AbioticFactor or similar.  If you want to extract the bits manually:

• []Drop the ExtendedPets mod folder into: AbioticFactor\AbioticFactor\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods[/]

Then just start up the game, load into your save, and enjoy!

Main features

• []Bring an Order personnel enemy to DBNO (down but not out) and press F to convert them instead of E to finish them off[/]

  []Or throw a pheromone flask at a zombie or rat man, then feed zombies brains or rat men wheat or nachos[/]

  []Extended Pets companions should respond like any other companion (be feedable when hungry, have save/load persistence, be equippable as the bound companion, participate in combat, respond to the pet pointer actions, etc.)[/]

  []Pet food box recipes should be automatically unlocked and can be crafted and deployed to help keep your pets automatically fed[/]

  []Giggle over having fun, new companions[/]

  Requirements

  Requires UE4SS for Abiotic Factor.

  This mod also uses UE4SS Lua helpers for Abiotic Factor.

  Shout outs

  Credit to the UE4SS authors and contributors for making this kind of modding possible.

  Extra thanks to the Abiotic Factor modding community for all the weird discoveries that make small mods like this work.