Functional Vending Machine

Functional Vending Machine

Walk up. Point at a button. Press Activate. The vending machine, made real.

The vending machine in your base looks like it should do something. Now it does. No menu, no inventory shuffling, no keybinds to learn — you look at the button you want, press your normal Activate key, and the snack or drink is dispensed and used on the spot. It's the little convenience the game never had, built right into the prop that was already sitting there.

Version 2. 0 is a full rebuild. The original mod let you heal at the machine and little else. This is a different animal.

Right at the machine

Everything happens on the machine itself — you interact with it like any other object in the world:

• []Lit buttons. A glowing bulb over every button: green when it's ready, red while a buff button "restocks." Whichever one your crosshair is on brightens, so you always know what you're about to buy.[/]

  []Labels + board. A name and price beside each button, and a side "PROVISIONS" board listing the whole menu, buffs and all.[/]

  []Ring feedback. The frame ring flashes green on a successful purchase and red when one's denied — too broke, or still on cooldown.[/]

  []Interior lighting. Six lights inside the cabinet so the shelves actually glow at night.[/]

  The menu

  Eight items, ordered so the things you reach for late-game sit low where the crosshair naturally falls:

  Nebula Candy Bar      +35 food    2 TT

  Nova Meal Pack      +100 food    5 TT

  Protein Ration Bar    +60 food    3 TT    Sustains hunger      (buff)

  Crafter's Coffee      +15 water    8 TT    Faster mining        (buff)

  Oxygen Fizz          +20 water    7 TT    Offsets O2 drain    (buff)

  Turbo Energy Drink    +25 water    8 TT    Run + walk speed    (buff)

  Electrolyte Water    +50 water    6 TT    Offsets thirst drain (buff)

  Spring Water        +100 water    FreeEverything is paid for in TerraTokens (or flip one setting and it's all free). Plain snacks and drinks are instant and repeatable; only the buff items put that button on a short cooldown.

  Buffs that are actually yours

  Each buff shows a countdown pip on your HUD, and the strengths are fully configurable. Rather than borrowing the vanilla food's locked values, the mod runs its own effects — so a speed boost can be +90% instead of a hardcoded +50%, and the oxygen/water/hunger sustain rates are numbers you set.

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  Installation

  • []Install BepInEx (the standard Planet Crafter modding loader) if you haven't.[/]

    []Drop the Davemuziek - Functional Vending Machine folder into ...\The Planet Crafter\BepInEx\plugins\. Overwrite the old one.[/]

    []Build a Vending Machine in-game after finding the blueprint in portal wrecks (or set UnlockBlueprint true to grab it early).[/]

    Configuration

    [] — master on/off, UnlockBlueprint, Verbose, Diagnostic[/]

    [] — cooldown, duration, and every buff's strength (mining %, run-speed %, and the per-second oxygen / water / hunger rates)[/]

    [] — ChargeTokens (set false and everything's free)[/]

    [] / / / — an on/off switch for each

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    What changed since 1. 0

    • []The heal-only interaction is gone — it's a full snack/drink/buff dispenser now.[/]

      []No menu: physical, per-button interaction using your own Select/Activate binding (keyboard/mouse and controller).[/]

      []Emissive button bulbs, per-button labels, a menu board, ring vend-flash, and interior lighting.[/]

      []Self-managed, configurable buff strengths, plus a new hunger-sustain buff and HUD pips for the custom buffs.[/]

      []Free +100 Spring Water and a late-game-first button order.

    ━━ REPORTING A BUG ━━

    Please attach an ATLAS support bundle. ATLAS is a free diagnostic mod of mine that records what is actually loaded on your machine — mod versions, patch conflicts, keybind clashes, and the errors your logs have been repeating. It turns "it broke" into something I can act on in one pass instead of five.

    How:

    • Install ATLAS, then play until you hit the problem

    • Return to the main menu, or quit the game normally

    • Open BepInEx\ATLAS\Scans\ and grab ATLAS_support_bundle.zi