SandboxPlus

Watch the Video

Supported Languages

Join my Patreon to Support me -  https://www.patreon.com/bloctheworker 💪

What is Sandbox+?

Sandbox+ is basically an extended Sandbox for a bit of unique gameplay. Both Campaign and regular Sandbox always start in the same year, with the same clans, factions, and so on. I find this very boring, and I don't think it reflects the Sandbox feeling as it should. With Sandbox+, all of your campaigns will be unique to you. You will see different lords, different balances, and even different kingdoms. You will also have the opportunity to have siblings and even nephews at the start. I think this type of gameplay offers more uniqueness and more fun. Honestly, this "mode" is something I would expect from Taleworlds as well, but well...

Features

When you click on Sandbox+, you will be welcomed with an options page before proceeding. I know most of you like to have some control over your gameplay, and this page does exactly that. I think most of the options are self-explanatory, but let me explain each one very quickly.

Years to Fast Forward: This setting fast-forwards the years. The maximum you can advance is 500 years, and the minimum is 50. Every year will affect the family trees. This is something I spent a lot of time on. Unfortunately, real simulation (i.e., moving the game day by day under the hood) causes an insane startup delay (sometimes up to 8 minutes), so I had to use a different technique. The current system doesn't cause any delays. It simulates the passing years and border change (if allowed) and also generates kingdoms and such (if allowed) throughout the years.

Allow Border Change: Enabling this will allow border changes between Kingdoms. Basically, I'm creating a Convex Hull for each faction and finding the "border" settlements between factions. Based on the aggressiveness, these border settlements change owners based on some random value. Increasing aggressiveness will result in more variable borders than you are used to from the normal Campaign. This system is designed in a way that - rather than me putting the border settlements by hand, it simply checks the map and creates the change based on that. This practically means, it can support any mod that changes the campaign map (that adds new towns and whatnot). If mods are heavily relying on some factions to own those settlements, then it won't work.

Allow New Kingdoms: This is something I designed for quite some time, but then I decided the most logical version would be branching out a clan and becoming independent over time. Finding the banner color for these new kingdoms was the biggest challenge. For that, I searched through all colors, too