BetterCarts

Better Carts makes hauling with Carts more pleasant with quality-of-life features, all configurable in-game

Features

• Chain Overflow - when a full Cart picks up an item, it is passed to the next Cart in the chain with a free slot. Nothing is left behind until every chained Cart is full
• Bucket Priority - prefer grabbing an empty Bucket when unloading a Cart
• Cart Release Fix - releasing a pulled Cart never grabs a different Cart on the same press
• Cart Capacity - set how many items the vanilla Carts can carry (0-64, default 4). The Mercury cart-capacity blessing adds a configurable bonus on top (0-64, default 1), and Eject Overflow drops anything above the limit beside the Cart when a world loads. Modded Cart types are not covered
• Cart Overlays - the item count is shown above a Cart carrying more than 5 items, and a Cart that comes loose from the chain by itself says so. Counts for ordinary capacity and for empty Carts can be turned on too
• Collect Range - Carts automatically pick up loose items within a configurable range (0-10 tiles, default 2). 0 = vanilla
• Deposit Range - Carts deposit matching cargo into Material Storages within range (0-10 tiles, default 2). 0 = vanilla
• Connect Range - free Carts are pulled toward a Cart the player is pulling once in range (0-10 tiles, default 2). 0 = vanilla
• Stockpile Range - Carts take resources from building output stockpiles within range, into free slots and empty Buckets on the Cart (0-10 tiles, default 2). 0 = vanilla

Configuration

All settings (master toggle, per-feature toggles etc.) are configured from the Mod Settings button in the main menu (added by Mod Settings Menu), or in BepInEx/config/com.beesq.romestead.bettercarts.cfg

Requirements

• BepInExPack_Romestead (Mod Loader) by Ice Box Studio
• ModSettingsMenu (Settings Menu) by Ice Box Studio

They are installed automatically as dependencies by your mod manager

Multiplayer

Server-side - only the host needs the mod, joining players do not need anything installed

• Chain Overflow
• Cart Capacity - the host's values apply to everyone, but each player needs the mod to SEE cargo beyond the vanilla slots
• Collect Range
• Deposit Range
• Connect Range
• Stockpile Range

Client-side - applies to each player that has the mod installed

• Bucket Priority
• Cart Release Fix
• Cart Overlays - the cargo count appears for every player with the mod, and the disconnect message is shown to whoever was pulling the Cart

Compatibility

• Iron Cart by burdock12 - compatible but not supported by the Cart Capacity feature
• Cart Capacity by Specsfo/Encordeo - not compatible
• CartEnhancements by chuxiaaaa - not compatible (it does not currently load, with or without Better Carts)

Install

Automatic (recommended): click Install with Mod Manager on this page, works with Thunderstore Mod Manager, r2modman, or Gale

Manual: download the zip and extract its contents into Romestead/BepInEx/plugins/

Notes

• The mod stores nothing in your save unless a Cart actually carries more than the game allows on its own - more than 4 items, or more than 5 with the Mercury blessing
• Eject Overflow is the only part of the mod that moves your cargo: on world load, a Cart over its capacity drops the surplus beside itself
• High capacity values can cause stutter and stack cargo into a tall tower above the Cart
• Before removing the mod, change Carts Capacity and Mercury's blessing values back to vanilla, leave Eject Overflow on, and load each affected world once so extra cargo is released
• Deposit Range takes only matching resources from Cart cargo
• Stockpile Range takes only from output stockpiles, a building's input storage is never drained

Known Issues

• The game rarely stops responding while saving. Reopening the world loads the last completed save

Bug Reports and Feedback

Please submit through GitHub Issues on the source repo (link below)

Credits

Thanks to Beartwigs for creating Romestead

AI Disclosure

• AI does the writing - the code and all the text that comes with it
• I write the rules it follows: what gets built, how it works, how it reads
• I test every build

Links

• Source code (MIT): https://github.com/BeesQ/Romestead-BetterCarts-Mod
• Also on Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/romestead/mods/91
• More from me: https://solo.to/BeesQ