Black Wolf’s Better Loot Spawns

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First of all, a massive thanks to Morph3usx and AuroraGiggleFairy for their patience and help.

This mod improves the loot spawns of several VANILLA items, and it was designed based on my considerations as some of these items simply cannot spawn in the loot or spawn extremely rarely, also, it is designed for servers with increased difficulty like wasteland only with more zombie spawns etc.

Mind that the spawn chance of some items has been lowered to balance the mod out, it should be unlikely for you to find something really good too early, though, i will do more adjustments as i play and test if needed.

Note: All new versions contain every previous change from version 1.8; Version 1.7 uses a different spawn chance system and is not being updated. I left it there for whoever installed it and would like to change it or use it for themselves. This should be totally safe to install on an existing save.

List of Changes

Ammo Spawns

All loot containers that have a chance to spawn ammo can now include special ammo as well like:

  • Shotgun slugs (AP)
  • Shotgun Breaching slugs
  • AP rounds for all ammo calibres
  • HP rounds for all ammo calibres
  • Rockets HE/FRAG

Explosives, excluding timed charges, i figured out that vanilla dynamite is simply better in every aspect.

  • Explosive/steel arrows/bolts
  • Incendiary/steel arrows/bolts
  • Steel arrow heads as a resource for who enjoys crafting those juicy explosive arrows.

Vehicle Mods

PassNGas crates now have a chance to spawn any type of vehicle mod!

Medical Items

You are now more likely to find better medical items in loot containers that are supposed to spawn them.

Food

  • Candies that you can usually purchase from vending machines have been added to the food spawns!
  • Lategame and early game food that would never spawn in any food container (e.g pumpkin bread, boiled egg, spaghetti, pumpkin cheesecake etc…) now has a chance to spawn! Refrigerators can now spawn various cooking ingredients.

Drinks

Stuff like mega crush, strong coffee, yucca smoothie and pure mineral water now should spawn a little more often, as well as the grandpa’s beverages.

Farming

Super corn, its schematic and farming plots now have a chance to spawn.

Rare Gems

Coffins and caskets now have a higher chance to spawn rare gems.

Mods and Tools

Firefighters helmet as well as firefighter axe mod can now spawn inside firetrucks. Diamond tipped tool mod was added to the pool of melee mods. Increased spawn chance of an extremely rare tier 0 axe tool which is better than the vanilla stone axe.

Books

Firetrucks now have higher chance to spawn their respective perk books. All broken workstations will now spawn a guaranteed forge ahead magazine.

Miscellaneous

Increased spawn chance of water filter in broken dew collectors. Lockpicks should spawn a bit more often in the trash and inside purses. Acid should now spawn a bit more often inside sinks. Sewing kits should spawn more often inside medical loot containers.

Clothes

Significantly improved spawn chance of High Performance running shoes.

This mod is server-side which means that clients don’t need to have it installed. Should be EAC friendly, if not just play without it, it’s only an extra bother anyway.

Changelog

Version 4.0

Improved gas pump loot. Improved Archery ammo spawns.

Version 3.9

Added back all small safe lootcontainers and adjusted their spawn properly.

Version 3.8

Improved loot inside gas barrels, ATMs and added cloth to a bunch of loot containers. Fixed loot not spawning properly inside small safes.

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morgan696
morgan696
September 3, 2024 5:35 pm

any chance you can make a loot everything mod that works with 1.0 like in war3zuk?

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
September 7, 2024 8:49 am
Reply to  morgan696

I’m not sure what kind of mod it is, how does it work?

mr.devolver
mr.devolver
July 24, 2024 2:36 am

Black Wolf, you’re removing groupSmallSafeLoot01, groupSmallSafeLoot02, groupSmallSafeLoot03 and groupSmallSafeLoot. While you’re re-adding groupSmallSafeLoot01 and groupSmallSafeLoot, you’re not re-adding groupSmallSafeLoot02 and groupSmallSafeLoot03. This could cause an issue not only for mods that rely on those containers, but also for vanilla itself, because they are simply missing, so users may get errors about missing loot containers in the console if the game chooses to use those for any reason (one such reason could be adding this mod to an existing game where there are already containers tied to those missing groups). If I may, rather than removing the entire containers, I’d suggest to use a new alternative way which may not be so simple in your use case, but it may be a much safer and future-proof option – csv xpath with op=”remove” to only remove individual items from the containers, if at all necessary.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
July 24, 2024 3:02 pm
Reply to  mr.devolver

yeah this was mostly just a test because i was getting crazy with the loot not working properly inside the safe, i’ll fix it now and update the mod

Popeye
Popeye
July 16, 2024 3:54 am

Is it compatible with alpha 21 ?

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
July 16, 2024 1:07 pm
Reply to  Popeye

This one is for 1.0, but here’s the link to the A21 version.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BG-CMYwJ97bH5LssvFYUo5a5MbkBp_Xp/view?usp=sharing

JamRacked
JamRacked
July 10, 2024 1:09 pm

This mod is awesome, after spawning in on my fresh new random gen world i find candies. I never found candies in 7 days to die before, i thank you.

Not sure if requests are allowed, would love to see maybe some military gear sets if that’s something that can be done with a weapon mod for each gear set?. I’m sorry if this is out of place just wanted to know if it could be done.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
July 11, 2024 8:42 am
Reply to  JamRacked

I’m not entirely sure what you mean, i unfortunately do not have any experience with 3D models so modding weapons into the game is out of my league (hell I don’t even know how i managed to get to this point, i usually give up on everything i try.)

You can check out my full set armor bonuses mod which improves certain weapons depending on the armor worn.

Chaos
Chaos
June 29, 2024 7:27 am

I’m not sure whether it’s better loot or better perks but one of them makes the armor up books not work, i’ve read multiple and it’s still 1/100

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
June 29, 2024 5:17 pm
Reply to  Chaos

It’s better perks, i have updated it already, just re download it

Drazixs
Drazixs
June 28, 2024 7:59 am

does this raise the possibility of getting maps to?

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
June 28, 2024 9:20 pm
Reply to  Drazixs

I haven’t increased chances to get treasure maps, though now that you mentioned it i just might add them in some special loot

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
July 3, 2024 8:00 am
Reply to  Drazixs

Updated, you’ll now have a good chance to find maps inside safes

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
June 28, 2024 12:44 am

Added compatibility for Update 1.0

Demon
Demon
April 18, 2024 10:21 am

currently getting no looting prompts when using this mod and i get an angry red wall of errors. when its not a wall of text and i get to an individual error it says
“ERR LootContainer ‘birdNest’ unknown
EXC NullReferenceException. object reference not set to an instance of an object”

does this twice as i cant move until i hit escape where it posts the second error

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
April 19, 2024 1:05 pm
Reply to  Demon

My mod does not change the loot inside bird nests, so this problem is not caused by it.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
April 19, 2024 1:18 pm
Reply to  Demon

And i remember something like this used to happen im early tests of this mod. Are you sure you’re using the latest version?

Demon
Demon
April 19, 2024 11:55 pm
Reply to  Demon

found the issue. misplaced it in the main config file and not the mods one

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
April 20, 2024 8:17 am
Reply to  Demon

Alright, enjoy the mod ^^

Darryl
Darryl
March 28, 2024 11:20 pm

Does this mod include loot from drop bags as well? I get tired of seeing the same items over and over again. I more 44 ammo and brass than i know what to do with.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
March 31, 2024 6:58 pm
Reply to  Darryl

Brass spawns haven’t been touched as you can get plenty even in vanilla.
As for the ammo, the chance of an ammo group to spawn is decided by the vanilla game, my mod only adds a couple of grenade types, standard and special ammo to the vanilla 44magnum ammo group.
The ammo group gets picked randomly based on chance (which i did not touch). 9mm/44 has higher chance to spawn when you level up gunslinger perk.
Both of these items, for some reason, can indeed spawn inside loot bags.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
March 31, 2024 7:02 pm
Reply to  Darryl

Also, brass sells for GOOD MONEY. So just go and sell it!

hawaiisam
hawaiisam
March 8, 2024 11:32 pm

everytime i download it says not a vald file.. is it no longer working?

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
March 9, 2024 12:30 am
Reply to  hawaiisam

I can download it just fine.

lordneg
lordneg
January 11, 2024 12:38 am

I am finding a lot of 9mm ammo in birdnests. is this part of the mod? thanks

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
January 27, 2024 5:17 pm
Reply to  lordneg

It absolutely isn’t. You must have another mod that adds the 9mm lootgroup into birdnests container.

Cherie
Cherie
December 2, 2023 9:13 am

I was really hoping for a better chance at getting a water filter mod for my helmet with this mod. So far I have played for hundreds of hours and in different worlds with 200% loot abundant, lucky looter and lucky goggles and still haven’t found a water filter mod yet. I feel like I’m going to find bigfoot before I’ll find a water filter mod. I also don’t get it as a trader reward either event with points into better barter and daring adventure fully maxed.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
December 3, 2023 10:02 pm
Reply to  Cherie

Hello, the water filter mentioned here is not the “helmet mod” but the item needed to craft dew collectors. It’s a rather low level mod tbh i usually find it quite often.

Ognar
Ognar
November 26, 2023 7:21 am

You might want to dial things back a bit.
On day 2 when I got to my first ATM, I have 47 lockpicks and 9 farm plots.
And that pretty much goes for the rest of it too.
Its a little cheaty at this point rather than a slight increase.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
November 26, 2023 7:41 pm
Reply to  Ognar

I’m still adjusting the lockpicks spawns. As for farming plots, farming is already underpowered enough so i feel like it should stay like that, remember you have to wait TWO real life hours for a single crop to grow.

Black Wolf
Black Wolf
November 26, 2023 7:52 pm
Reply to  Ognar

i reworked the way my lockpick lootgroup gets picked, should reduce their frequency.