deepmine

The goal of the mod is to enhance sub-surface gameplay and make it worthwhile to build structures and explore deep below the surface. Personally I find the surface (placer) mining mechanic of the game to be the weakest gameplay loop in an otherwise amazing game. I'm striving to make mining in Stationeers a more enjoyable experience :-)

I want to emphasize this mod is very very raw. An alpha version of sorts. I'm hoping to get some feedback from the community on balancing and requested features!

Features

Completed features

• ✔️ Lowered bedrock depth - default 4x deeper than vanilla (configurable)
• ✔️ No more lava/bedrock texture at unrealistic depths
• ✔️ Increasing ore yields the deeper you go
• ✔️ Faster drilling speeds (configurable)
• ✔️ Doubled GPR (ground penetrating radar) scan radius (configurable)
• ✔️ Increased ore stack size to 100 (configurable)

Planned features

• 🔸 Increasing vein size/frequency at deeper depths (conversely, sparse veins at the surface)
• 🔸 More mining drill tiers. Including tools with larger mining radius.
• 🔸 Threats and dangers below the surface. Gas pockets, and various pressure/temperature

Compatibility

With existing saves

• As of version v0.1.0, this mod is compatible with existing saves and will not corrupt them when you install the mod. When uninstalling the mod, note that any items/structures below the bedrock depth will be deleted by Stationeers.

With other mods

• Not sure about this one, but I'd be hesitant to run this mod with any other terrain generation/ore rebalancing mods.

Installation

0. Download the latest release of Deep Mine https://github.com/daniellovell/deepmine/releases/latest For the latest pre-release (typically for the beta branch of Stationeers) check here: https://github.com/daniellovell/deepmine/releases
1. Install BepInEx to your Stationeers folder in Program Files (x86) https://github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx/releases
2. Run Stationeers once to complete the BepInEx installation
3. Install DeepMineMod.dll to the Stationeers/BepInEx/plugins folder
4. Run Stationeers once to generate the config file
5. Change the config to your liking in /Stationeers/BepInEx/config/com.dl.deepmine.cfg

Contributions

• I'm reaching out to any modders who are interested in the project. If you have any experience with BepInex + Harmony patching, and especially use of Harmony Transpiler, please DM me :-)