Raid Maker - Base Raids Your Way

Now and then a warband turns up at your base: undead, Black Knights, the Umbral Sands or demons. They come in waves, with a champion at the end. Turn it up, turn it down, or start one yourself.

Thanks to oDeathStiX for sparking the idea: they asked if raids from other regions could come to their base. In the base game a raid on your base is always the enemies of your own area (at my Bramblemead base it is goblins). I tried to point the game's own raids at other regions and it cannot be done: a raid that is not tied to a region simply never fires. So this mod brings its own raiders. If you would rather have zombies roaming the wild in other regions than raiding your base, oDeathStiX has a mod for that: Zombies In Starter Regions.

It starts gentle on purpose: the default is about one raid every 45 minutes you spend at your base, two small waves and one champion. If you want more, it is all on sliders.

Here is a raid at real speed:

What it does

• []Raids start on their own while you are at your base, meaning near a bed you have claimed. By default about every 45 minutes on average, and never two raids closer than 20 minutes apart.[/]

  []Or start one yourself: Esc > MODS > Raid Maker > Start a raid now. It starts when you close the menu.[/]

  []Waves and a champion: by default 2 waves of 3 raiders, 25 seconds apart, and one tougher champion in the last wave.[/]

  []They come from outside: raiders appear on walkable ground about 25 m from your bed, using the game's own navigation map, then head for you.[/]

  []They match your area: raiders spawn at the power level of the area your base is in, like the game's own raids, or at a level you pick from 1 to 12. The level really changes them: a level 2 zombie had 120 health against 60 at level 1.[/]

  []They are the game's own creatures: they fight like any other enemy, drop their normal loot and give XP.[/]

  []The game's raid horn plays when a raid starts, with its own volume slider.[/]

  The four armies

  A raid picks one of the armies you have turned on. Each one can be switched off in Mod Menu.

  • []Undead: skeletons, zombies and Rotsworn. Champion: a Rotsworn Marauder.[/]

    []Black Knights: melee, ranged and two-handed knights. Champion: a Flaming Black Knight.[/]

    []Umbral Sands: kalphites and Kot'Haar. Champion: a Kalphite Guardian.[/]

    []Demons: hellhounds and lesser demons. Champion: the demon Delrom, twice as tough as the rest.[/]

  How a raid goes

  • []It starts with the horn and a note near the bottom of the screen, like "An undead horde is attacking your base!". The first wave arrives a few seconds later.[/]

    []Each new wave shows "Wave 2 of 2" and so on.[/]

    []It ends with "Raid defeated!" when the last raider is dead.[/]

    []If you walk away from your base (about three times the base size, for a minute), or the raid runs for 15 minutes, the raiders give up and the ones still standing are removed.[/]

    []If you die mid-raid, the raiders take what they came for and leave. You respawn right at your bed, so otherwise they would just beat you down again. You can turn this off.[/]

    []If you quit mid-raid, the raiders are gone when you load back in. They are never written into your save.[/]

  Settings

  All live in Mod Menu (Esc > MODS > Raid Maker), or in config.txt in the mod folder:

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