Megaliths

Megaliths has been updated for Visions 1. 77.

Megaliths is a mod that reintroduces existing assets as immensely-sized objects, picked from a roulette, into the game to further diversify the visuals and distinguishability of existing biomes but without having to alter the biomes themselves.

This new release for NEXT qualifies as the newest installment of the mod since Foundation!

HOW IT WORKS

Megaliths attempts to list as many vanilla procedural assets and picks two to spawn on every planet. One variation is larger but sparser in density, while the other is smaller but also denser in population.

Imagine dice rolls - for each planet, you roll two dice. You have 25% chance of having no Megaliths, 50% chance of having rocky (rock formations, stalagmites, spikey rocks, etc.) Megaliths, 25% chance of having flora (trees, plants, shrubs, flowers) Megaliths for each dice.

INSTALLATION AND COMPATIBILITY

Just drag all .pak files into your PCBANKS/MODS folder and delete your DISABLEMODS. TXT from your PCBANKS folder. Megaliths has been configured with intent that all .pak's included are to be used together but further choices are presented below for personalization.

In order to offer up more options, the mod has been divided into various PAK's. Listed also are any critical files Megaliths has depenencies over for compatibility notice.

_MOD. MSSP. MegalithsNEXT. Core.pak - Contains Megaliths' various object lists and rules. REQUIRED

_MOD. MSSP. MegalithsNEXT. CoreSpawner.pak - Contains the base spawner. The spawner uses LEVELONEOBJECTS FULL and FULLSAFE. REQUIRED

_MOD. MSSP. MegalithsNEXT. NotOnHugeBiomes.pak - Overwrites the vanilla HUGEBIOME settings to NOT include any Megalith objects, as these biomes already contain big objects. Overwrites HUGEBIOME settings.+

_MOD. MSSP. MegalithsNEXT. OnDeadPlanets.pak - Allows Megaliths to spawn on dead planets. Overwrites the DEADBIOME settings.

_MOD. MSSP. MegalithsNEXT. Underwater.pak - For a far smaller chance, Megaliths can spawn in underwater areas of any planet. Overwrites all UNDERWATEROBJECTS settings.

+ Megalith objects are not intended to spawn in WEIRD biomes as those biomes have a specific theme, and WEIRD biome objects are purposely excluded from Megaliths.

IMPORTANT NOTES

Megaliths may cause a change in the composition of flora and rocks in your planet but should not cause any other change.

A Megalith object may potentially spawn over your base but is guaranteed to no longer ever spawn over planetary structures. (thanks to HG for the DistantObjects support!) Megalith objects retain the entity settings of their originals and thus large trees will still give the same output as regular old trees and so will rocks, crystals, and so on. Megalith objects inherit collision settings from the original assets including vehicle/starship collision behavior. If it does not have collision, terrain-manipulating the origin of the object will cause it to disappear if desired.

Some objects are extremely large - beware of your decent as you enter a planet.