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 :-)
Changes in 0.2.4
- ✔️ Support for latest game version 0.2.3773.18265, which is the latest version as of Jan. 16, 2023 (all credit to @ThndrDev for this support)
Existing features
- ✔️ No more lava/bedrock texture at unrealistic depths
- ✔️ Doubled GPR (ground penetrating radar) scan radius (configurable)
- ✔️ Lowered bedrock depth - default 4x deeper than vanilla (configurable)
- ✔️ Increasing ore yields the deeper you go
- ✔️ Faster drilling speeds (configurable)
- ✔️ Larger ore stack sizes (configurable)
- ✔️ Configurable mining tool completion time and mine amount
- ✔️ Configurable maximum ore stack size
Compatibility
With existing saves
- This mod is compatible with existing saves. However, users should be careful when reloading modded saves in vanilla as any items/structures below the vanilla bedrock depth will be deleted
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
- Download the zip in the binaries section below
- Install BepInEx to your Stationeers folder in Program Files (x86) https://github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx/releases
- Run Stationeers once to complete the BepInEx installation
- Install
DeepMineMod.dll
to the Stationeers/BepInEx/plugins folder - Run Stationeers once to generate the config file
- Change the config to your liking in /Stationeers/BepInEx/config/com.dl.deepmine.cfg