Old West Migration

The Old West Migration Mod is a small mod that overhauls the Old West Town. The backstory builds on the existing story in that remaining survivors migrated away from the cities and out into the Old West to hunker down and attempt to begin again. However…

It overhauls the Old West as follows:

• Increases the size of the Old West Tiling system by increasing the amount of tiles in each town.
• Increases the amount of Old West Town settlements that can appear in a RWG.
• Adds a Gateway road and chance for a Trader within the town or at the entrance to a town.
• Adds custom Old West POIs that can be quested and are in context with the Old West theme.
• Converts remnant and decorative default Old West POIs to Quest POIs.
• Adds custom Old West Tiles.
• Adds decoration POIs to the desert and forest biomes.
• Adds roaming zombies to the Old West Town streets, just like in the City or other Tiling Systems.
• Removes the V1.0 Old West Town biome restriction from only desert to forest, burnt forest, and snow. Only the wasteland biome will not support an Old West Town to ensure the Dev’s biome progression features aren’t inhibited.

Here are a few images to demonstrate:

This image is using the RWG ‘circle’ setting with Many Towns on an 8K RWG. This has the chance for 4 Old West Towns to appear, and this shows one in each biome except for the wasteland.

This desert biome Old West Town has a Trader Bob in his own custom Old West Trader compound. The town is large and can range from 6 to 16 Old West Town Tiles.

We also have forest, burnt forest, and snow variants.

A particularly long Old West Street in the burnt forest.

This Old West Town in the snow see a Trader Hugh at the Gateway entrance. There will be no Old West Trader Bob on this occasion.

Here is a small sample of what custom POIs can be expected. Liberty Bank is a T3 POI with T4 Infested. It supports all Quest types. It has a chance to see a Police Car appear as in this image. It sits on a 25 x 50 area. These are usually supporting Old West Strip type POIs with 2-3 in a row.

This Blacksmith POI is guaranteed to have a Pickup Truck.

The whole mod (V1-OldWestMigration) can be placed in the ‘Mods’ folder. 7 Days will be able to read and use the Prefabs from directly within the mod.

Ensure that the mod is not nested with other folders. The hierarchy of folders will be ‘Mods / V1-OldWestMigration / Config, Prefabs, ModInfo.xml, and Old West Migration Tiling.txt’

If it is something like Mods / V1-OldWestMigration-main / V1-OldWestMigration… it will not load as the ModInfo.xml file must be where the game can see it, at the top level within the first folder.

Terms of Use

• Please ask for permission before using this Mod in an Overhaul or Modpack. This ensures there is only one ‘official’ release and reduces the possibility of outdated clones being in the community.
• Please do not add this Mod to a Prefab/POI pack.
• This Mod can be distributed within a closed community. Please do not upload it to an alternative location which is publicly accessible.

If you have any doubt, read the official modding policy here.

Changelog

Here is an update for V1.2 compliance for the Old West Migration Mod:

1. Default spawning.xml now adds an id= feature to assign specific spawning features. The Old West Migration Mod adds its own custom set to the Old West Town. However, it uses a default group of zombies and will function identically to default groups.
2. Old West Trader Bob makes a return on a limited basis. His Trader POI can appear in the Desert Biome directly within the Old West town. This offers a bonus, since the default Trader Bob can still appear on the gateway tile that leads into the Old West. Old West Trader Bob is restricted to only the Desert.

Here are a few images to demonstrate.

Default zombies appear directly in the streets, just in the same way as we see in the towns and cities. It is regulated but ensures the Old West in not a ghost town.

Old West Trader Bob appears on a 42 x 42 plot. These are often located at the end of a junction and in a prime location. Old West Trader Bob can only appear in the Desert Biome.

Depending on how the RWG builds the World, a regular Trader Bob may appear on the gateway tile leading into the Old West. Old West Trader Bob is ‘guaranteed’ to appear regardless of how the RWG assigns this gateway tile plot.

This update removes any spawning.xml warnings. It was also a good time to bring back Old West Trader Bob now that V1 is settling down.

V1
DOWNLOAD for V1 (14,5 MB)
Alpha 21
DOWNLOAD for A21 (9,7 MB)

The forum topic of the mod is here.

Credits: arramus