Upgrade and Expand Shops

Description

Upgrade & Expand Shops adds a new progression system for Dinkum’s permanent stores, giving you a reason to invest in the town and expand what each shop can offer.

Speak with Fletch and choose the Town Discussion option to start upgrading an eligible shop, which includes essentially all except the Salon and Laboratory.

Each shop upgrade costs around 175,000 Dinks. You can either pay the full cost upfront or place the upgrade on the town tab and contribute toward it through donations.

The upgrade also requires materials. You can provide them immediately, return to Fletch later with the required materials, or deliver them directly to the shop owner.

Once you provide both funding and materials, the shop upgrades the next day.

Upgraded shops gain a new dialogue option that gives you access to an expanded catalog containing a much larger selection of items associated with that store.

The catalog does not provide unrestricted access to the shop’s entire item pool. Availability remains limited, and most catalog items can only be ordered once per day.

Seeds remain an exception and can still be ordered in bulk.

The goal is to make shop progression feel like a natural extension of Dinkum’s town development rather than simply increasing the amount of stock sitting on store shelves.

Ordered items cost a little more for the postage and arrive in your mail the next day.

Additionally, for John's Goods, I've added the tin bar to his active display items pool for the 2nd display slot and the catalog item pool. I've also included a random copper tool you have unlocked, which only shows in the catalog.

Installation instructions

• []Install BepInEx 6 for Dinkum. [/]

  []Download Upgrade & Expand Shops. [/]

  []Install with Vortex, or manually extract the DLL to:

  Dinkum/BepInEx/plugins/ [/]

  []Launch Dinkum normally.[/]

Main features

• Upgrade supported shops through Fletch

• Each shop upgrade costs 175,000 Dinks

• Pay the full amount upfront or fund it through the town tab

• Shop upgrades require materials in addition to Dinks

• Give materials to Fletch immediately or return with them later

• Materials can also be given directly to the relevant shop owner

• Completed upgrades take effect the following day

• Upgraded shopkeepers gain a new catalog dialogue option

• Catalogs provide access to a larger selection of shop-specific items

• Most catalog items are limited to one order per day

• Catalogs do not expose every possible item

• Seeds can still be ordered in bulk

• Designed to extend Dinkum’s existing town and shop progression systems

• Priority sale of undiscovered items for Carpentry Store, Laboratory and Threadspace (toggleable)

• Tin bar added to John's Goods display, good, and catalog. Random unlocked copper tool added to his catalog too.

Requirements

BepInEx 6 - URL: https://modding.wiki/en/dinkum/users#bepinex-6-setup

Notes

Pairs well with my Mod Menu Manager for editing configs and toggles: https://www.nexusmods.com/dinkum/mods/479

You can also check out my many other mods here: https://www.nexusmods.com/profile/littlelodgegames/mods