Caldera Tweaks

Adds/changes Ark of the Exiled Rotations, Breath of Darkness Quest, Lightweight kits, Expedition (Evangeline), Sample Weights, Calygrey Arena Rewards, Quest Rewards, Shortcuts, Stash in Giants Sauna, Breath of Darkness Quest. All additions/changes are configurable.

Hope you enjoy! :D

Feedback

If you want to send me feedback feel free to drop by Outward's Modding Discord server, or the official Outward Discord. On the Outward Modding Discord server I have my own workshop channel, johbenji-workshop, so that's probably the best place to have a conversation. I also have a youtube channel if you wanna get into contact there (https://www.youtube.com/@JohBenji).

Installation

• 1 Download BepInEx
• 2 Download Outward Config Manager
• 3 Download SideLoader
• 4 Unpack the contents of the zip file into the ...OutwardDefinitiveEd\BepInEx\plugins\permittivity-calderatweaks

Information

Adds/changes Ark of the Exiled Rotations, Breath of Darkness Quest, Calygrey Arena Rewards, Lightweight kits, Expedition (Evangeline), Quest Rewards, Shortcuts, Stash in Giants Sauna. All additions/changes are configurable. They can be adjusted and completely turned off.

I highly suggest also adding Caldera Samples mod made by Tchernobill. I always run that mod together with this one as they compliment eachother. However, they are able to work independently without any issue :)

Ark of the Exiled

Always changes rotation (clockwise) every 6 hours (i.e. 4 clockwise rotation steps per day). There's no randomness in the pattern anymore. The current position is calculated from the current day/hour. The step speed is also configurable. For rotation less than every day set the value somewhere between 0 and 1.

• For one step every 7 days, set the rotation speed to: 0.14
• For one step every 2 days, set the rotation speed to: 0.5
• For one step a day, set the rotation speed to: 1
• For one step twice day, set the rotation speed to: 2
• For one step four times a day, set the rotation speed to: 4
• For one step every hour, set the rotation speed to: 24

I have set the default to one step 4 times a day, which means it rotates every 6 hours. This means that you can use it as an alternative transport if you use a plant tent inside of it.

Breath of Darkness Quest

You now have toggles to skip certain steps of the Breath of Darkness quest. The default is set to skip all of the steps except killing the 4 dwellers, but this one can also be toggled to be skipped.

Lightweight kits

More ways to get the lightweight kits have been added to the game. You can get it from legacy chesting a cooking pot or an alchemy kit. You can also get them from the new sirocco general store, food store and the alchemy store.

Expedition Rewards

Expedition rewards have been tweaked. The major change is that ore samples are good at returning funds (5000 funds) as opposed to other samples at the drawback of weighing more. However, all resource rewards can be tweaked.

Sample Weights

The weights of Ore Samples (from 6.0 to 4.0), Molepig Specimens (from 6.0 to 2.0) and Plant Samples (from 6.0 to 1.0) have been changed.

Calygrey Arena Rewards

Now can drop rare resource/building materials like chromium shards, petrified organs, etc.

Quest Rewards

The fund reward on the quest 'From the Ashes' have been increased (from 5'000 to 10'000) to smooth the player experience going into the 'Stealing Fire' quest which has a huge fund requirement.

Shortcuts

There are multiple shortcuts that have been added:

1. From Caldera to Grotto of Chalcedony. This is more of an easter egg and shows a part of the cave that's not accessible to the player normally.
2. The exterior of myrmitaur haven to mainland Caldera. This allows quicker transversal from one side of the map to the main map without having to backtrack through the dungeon. You can access this by walking up and through the hive. It's one of the big holes, and now you are able to climb up and go through it.
3. From the River of Red to New Sirocco Mines. This allows the player to get the obsidian pet (a requirement for breath of darkness) early as well as speeding up killing scarlet emissaries later into the game.
4. Refinery Outflow pipe (Exterior). I have created a broken bridge at the outside of the outflow pipe in Caldera so that you can more efficiently path to New Sirocco or east without having to walk all the way around.
5. Steambath Tunnels to Oily Cavern. Oily cavern gets little traffic and I found it natural to connect these two dungeons. This will also help speeding up transveral in the region.
6. Tower of Regrets (Exterior). I have added small bridges along the ocean close to the tower of regrets so that you can more easily navigate that side of the map.
7. Oil Refinery. Brings you from the Gargoyle close to the Djinn room, to the ornate chest. Makes for a shorter trek back to the outside.

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Stash in Giants Sauna

You now have the option to access a stash in the Giants Sauna. This means that you can more conveniently do things in Caldera early on in the playthrough.

Config Options

All the features can be toggled on/off and many can be tweaked.

Future

Be on the lookout for player suggestions. :)

Patch Notes:

• 1.0.0 Reducing some minor jank. Main release. Further updates but I have included what I could initially think of. I am happy to take further requests <3
  • Added a secondary shortcut near Tower of Regret (outside in Caldera).
  • Added a secondary shortcut at the southern part of Myrmitaur Haven (outside in Caldera).
  • Adjusted some map boundaries such that you can follow the lava flow of the left when traveling from New Sirocco to Grotto of Chalcedony.
  • Teleporting bugsfixes/adjustments:
    • Added a short camera fade when teleporting between locations inside the same scene to make the experience feel more smooth.
    • Setting the camera direction in the right direction upon teleporting.
• 0.6.0
  • Added toggles to skip parts of the Breath of Darkness quest. Default is set to skip.
  • New shortcut added inside of the Oil Refinery. see shortcut 7.
  • Reduced the ark timer from rotating one step every 48 hours to one step every 6 hours. An alternate way to transverse the region. Configurable.
  • Fixed a bug with the ark rotation where it didn't always override the vanila roation.
  • Fixed the Myrmitaur Haven (outside) toggle.
  • Added area bounds to:
    • The Chalcedony Cave secret area, see shortcut nr. 1.
    • Outflow Pipe shortcut. , see shortcut nr. 4.
• 0.5.1 Fixed some typos in the description
• 0.5.0 Initial Release