Groundwork
Pollination boosts honey production and plant growth, rain speeds plants, hoe/cultivator ranges scale with grid views, pickaxes dig scaling, scythes harvest all crops, and Farming skill scales mass/grid planting, plant growth, and beehive capacity.
Configurable terrain tool scaling with radius and cost. Larger terrain ranges can require proportionally more materials, stamina, and durability, making expanded tools powerful but balanced.
Hoe and Cultivator terrain range scaling with precision grid preview. Adjust tool radius with the wheel modifier, preview affected terrain cells, and see range/cost feedback before placing.
Scalable pickaxe terrain digging. Increase radius and depth per pickaxe, with stamina and durability costs scaling from the selected dig size.
Scythe harvesting for all supported crops. Sweep through planted fields and harvest mature crops in a wide arc.
Beehive upgrades and hover details. Farming-scaled honey capacity, cover, pollination, night/rain modifiers, total honey rate, and next honey timing are shown at a glance.
Rain and pollination plant growth info. Hover text shows active Farming, pollination, and rain multipliers, remaining growth time, and total growth speed.
Farming-scaled mass/grid planting and foraging pollination. Plant in clean grids, scale planting count by Farming level, and let beehives boost nearby foraging respawn when conditions are right.
Features
Farming and Planting
- Mass planting scales with Farming level:
- 0-19: Off
- 20-39: 5 plants
- 40-59: 10 plants
- 60-79: 15 plants
- 80-99: 20 plants
- 100: 25 plants
- Hold the tool wheel modifier hotkey and use the mouse wheel to change mass-plant count.
- Toggle grid planting while placing crops.
- Planted crops can grow faster based on the planter's Farming skill.
- Mass planting can grant extra Farming skill.
Foraging
- Edible respawning pickables, such as berry bushes, can be affected by Farming skill.
- Higher Farming skill can increase nearby pickup range.
- Higher Farming skill can speed up foraging respawn.
- Rain can speed up foraging respawn while the current environment is wet.
Beehives
- Beehive capacity can increase with Farming level.
- Newly placed hives store the builder's Farming level.
- Harvesting honey updates the hive's stored Farming level from the harvester.
- Harvesting honey can grant Farming skill.
- Lower cover increases honey production speed.
- Night honey production can be slowed or paused.
- Rain can slow or pause loaded honey production.
- Beehives can pollinate nearby growing plants and foraging targets, except while it is raining.
- Empty hives give stronger pollination bonuses; the bonus fades as the hive fills with honey.
- Growing nearby pollination targets can speed up honey production.
- Beehive hover text shows honey capacity in the title, plus cover, pollination, night/rain rates, and next honey time with total rate.
Terrain Tools
Groundwork.yml controls Hoe and Cultivator piece costs and adjustable terrain ranges.- Hold the tool wheel modifier hotkey and use the mouse wheel to adjust terrain range.
- Preview mode can be vanilla ghost scaling or an exact grid preview.
- Paved Road can optionally skip vanilla smooth-height behavior.
- Pickaxe primary terrain digging can scale radius and depth.
- Pickaxe scaled digging has configurable stamina and durability cost factors.
Hover Info
Groundwork adds compact hover information to:
- Beehives: honey capacity in the title, cover, pollination, night/rain rates, next honey with total rate.
- Plants: remaining growth time, rain growth, pollination growth.
- Foraging pickables: remaining respawn time, rain respawn, pollination respawn.
Config
Main config:
BepInEx/config/sighsorry.Groundwork.cfg
Terrain tool config:
BepInEx/config/Groundwork.yml
Synced entries are controlled by the server in multiplayer. Local entries only affect the client.
1 - General
Lock Configuration = On [Synced]
Locks synced config to server admins.
2 - Terrain Tools
Terrain Tool Range Step = 0.5 [Local]
Range adjustment step. Hoe/Cultivator use meters; Pickaxe terrainDig uses scale units.Terrain Tool Default Preview Mode = Vanilla [Local]Terrain Tool Preview Toggle Hotkey = G [Local]Tool HUD = On [Local]
Shows terrain range and pickaxe dig scale HUD.Paved Road Smooth Height = On [Local]Tool Wheel Modifier Hotkey = LeftAlt [Local]
Hold while using the mouse wheel for Groundwork tool controls.
Terrain tool range costs only increase above the vanilla/base range:
rangeRatio = selectedRange / baseRange
areaRatio = rangeRatio^2
multiplier = 1 + max(0, areaRatio - 1) * factor
Pickaxe terrain digging uses radius and depth:
radiusScale = min(selectedScale, radiusMax)
depthScale = min(selectedScale, depthMax)
rawMultiplier = radiusScale * radiusScale * depthScale
costMultiplier = 1 + (rawMultiplier - 1) * factor
Pickaxe terrainDig enable state, scale, and cost factors are configured in Groundwork.yml.
3 - Mass Planting
Mass Planting Enabled = On [Synced]Toggle Grid Planting Hotkey = G [Local]Mass Plant Spacing Factor = 1.0 [Synced]Mass Plant Skill Gain Factor = 0.5 [Synced]
Spacing uses the selected plant prefab's growRadius * 2, then applies Mass Plant Spacing Factor.
4 - Plants and Foraging
Plant Grow Speed Factor = 2.5 [Synced]
Grow speed at Farming 100 for placed plants. 0 disables.Foraging Pickup Max Range = 5 [Synced]
Pickup range at Farming 100. 0 disables.Foraging Respawn Speed Factor = 5 [Synced]
Respawn speed at Farming 100. 0 disables.Rain Plant Grow Speed Factor = 2 [Synced]
Plant grow speed while wet. 1 disables.Rain Foraging Respawn Speed Factor = 2 [Synced]
Foraging respawn speed while wet. 1 disables.
5 - Beehives
Beehive Capacity Farming Levels Per Bonus Honey = 20 [Synced]
Farming levels needed for each +1 honey capacity. 0 disables.Beehive Farming Skill Gain Per Honey = 0.25 [Synced]Beehive Cover Max Speed Multiplier = 2 [Synced]Beehive Night Honey Rate = 0.5 [Synced]
Honey production rate at night. 1 is the vanilla value, 0.5 is half speed, and 0 pauses night production. Unloaded catch-up uses an average day/night rate.Beehive Rain Honey Rate = 0.5 [Synced]
Honey production rate while wet. 1 is the vanilla value, 0.5 is half speed, and 0 pauses rain production. Rain is not accumulated during unloaded catch-up.
6 - Pollination
Beehive Pollination Radius = 3 [Synced]Beehive Pollination Max Plants = 24 [Synced]Beehive Pollination Plant Grow Speed Factor = 2 [Synced]Beehive Pollination Foraging Respawn Speed Factor = 4 [Synced]Beehive Pollination Honey Speed Bonus Percent Per Target = 10 [Synced]
Honey pollination rate:
1 + targetCount * percentPerTarget / 100
With defaults, 24 targets at 10% gives:
1 + 24 * 10 / 100 = x3.4
When an area catches up after being unloaded, cover and pollination bonuses use half effectiveness:
unloaded = 1 + (currentMultiplier - 1) * 0.5
Eligibility is checked first, so full hives, finished plants, blocked hives, wrong biomes, and rainy loaded areas do not get invalid pollination bonuses.
Groundwork.yml
Groundwork.yml defines terrain tool piece costs and adjustable ranges.
Example:
Pickaxe:
terrainDig:
range:
enabled: true
radiusMax: 1.5
depthMax: 1.5
staminaCostFactor: 1
durabilityFactor: 1
# Exact override for a specific pickaxe prefab.
# Unspecified values fall back to Pickaxe: terrainDig.
PickaxeBlackMetal:
terrainDig:
range:
# Optional: overrides the generic Pickaxe enabled state.
# enabled: true
radiusMax: 2
depthMax: 2
Hoe:
raise_v2:
cost:
Stone: 2
range:
enabled: true
min: 1
max: 5
materialCostFactor: 1
staminaCostFactor: 1
durabilityFactor: 1
Fields:
cost: replaces the build menu material cost. Use {} for no material cost.range.enabled: enables mouse-wheel range adjustment.range.min: minimum range.range.max: maximum range.range.default: optional default range.range.radiusMax: maximum radius scale for Pickaxe: terrainDig.range.depthMax: maximum depth scale for Pickaxe: terrainDig.range.materialCostFactor: material scaling above base range. 0 keeps base cost.range.staminaCostFactor: stamina scaling above base range. 0 keeps base cost.range.durabilityFactor: durability scaling above base range. 0 keeps base cost.
For Pickaxe: terrainDig, min and default scale are fixed at 1. Use range.enabled to turn the feature on or off, and use radiusMax and depthMax to set separate caps. staminaCostFactor and durabilityFactor apply to extra costs above x1; cost and materialCostFactor are ignored.
Specific pickaxe prefab blocks, such as PickaxeBlackMetal: terrainDig, override only the values they specify. Missing values fall back to the generic Pickaxe: terrainDig block, and an exact block can set range.enabled: true or false independently.
On multiplayer, the server's Groundwork.yml is synced to clients.
Notes
- Rain effects use the currently detected wet environment and are not accumulated while an area is unloaded.
Beehive Rain Honey Rate affects loaded beehives only. Unloaded honey catch-up is processed without rain history; current rain applies after the beehive is loaded.- Rain disables beehive pollination while the area is loaded.
- Dedicated servers may not have precise per-position weather history.
- Groundwork does not write transient pollination multipliers to ZDOs.
Groundwork.yml is created automatically if missing.
