Dine

Commentary

Dine has had a pretty turbulent development history. It's not an exaggeration to say it gets transformed in basically every major update, at this point.

As of v73, I feel like it's finally so different from Rend that the two don't really step on each other's toes anymore, so I suppose that's "good enough" for me. I think most of my tweaks are fairly minor now.

In a more casual setting, having to collect 200+ items a day is pretty restricting and annoying to deal with, so I like the idea of spawning fewer items that are more valuable to compensate. The Consolidate option significantly reduces the bottom line, so it is a hard limit of sorts; but I think it should at least be a lot more comfortable to make decent profits on a daily basis.

I liked Dine being one of the "mineshaft moons" in v80 and it's an additional way to differentiate the experience from Rend, so a setting to restore the mineshaft chance makes sense. I intend for this to be used with Reduce Butler Chance (and Increased Manor Chance in the butler's settings), because Dine is still "the butler moon", and butlers are unusually oppressive in the claustrophobic setting of the mineshaft.

Adjust Outdoor Enemies is kind of a "for fun" setting. Outdoor spawn rates are a lot more reasonable after v80 but I just think dealing with 75% giants is boring. Also, Old Birds look really cool in blizzards :)

Fix Floods isn't a necessary change - you can still reach main entrance before you drown, even in vanilla. I just think it feels cleaner being able to see the entrance doors above the water, and either way, fire exit access is still limited for most of the day.