Black Market Shipyard

 

 

OVERVIEW

Shipyard Overhaul
This Mod 'aims' to unlocks all availlable vanilla ships + hidden ones + all customization.
So that ultimately every ship is directly and cost-effectively available to the player,
including access to hidden/previously unusable content plus more customization options.

I plan to offer several versions of this mod, as well as various add-on modules.
I'm also working on a UE4SS mod variant, which will then be available as an additional version.

This is a WiP Mod (Work-in-Progress), that means more features are planned and will be added over time,
since there are no guides, no modkit/officially availlable tools - everything is done by reverse engineering.

The use of this mod is at your own risk; a corrupted game save may result,
and this cannot be completely ruled out with current means and knowledge!
(Always backup your character-saves! - Its your own risk to use this mod!)

FEATURES (Main Version)

⏺ Unlocks all 9 vanilla ships:

- Ketch Stock - Ketch Brethren - Ketch Blackbeard
- Brig Stock - Brig Brethren - Brig Blackbeard
- Frigate Stock - Frigate Brethren - Frigate Blackbeard

⏺ Adds 2x hidden ships + Boat:

- Cutter
- Black Cutter
- Boat
(more planned) - both 'Cutter' already equipped with cannons by default!

⏺ Costs for building AND repairing all the ships - reduced to 1 rope per ship

⏺ Unlocks almost all hidden ship customizations at the Shipwright's Workshop + several more on the fly  - Cost per customization bundle = 250 Piastre

INSTALL

Install Step:

• Download and extract the mod-folder "AL_BLACK_MARKET_SHIPYARD" into:
  *\Windrose\R5\Content\Paks\..

Final folder structure:
\Windrose\R5\Content\Paks\
 └── AL_BLACK_MARKET_SHIPYARD\
  └── ZZZ.AL_BLACK_MARKET_SHIPYARD_P.pak
Delete the old folder and files if they exist:  AL_BLACK_MARKET_SHIPYARRRRD (*.pak)

Done.

UNINSTALL

First of:
Before you can safely uninstall the mod,
you need to remove ALL items from the ships, and then sell ALL the ships you bought with this Mod!

This is purely a precautionary measure, I can’t guarantee that simply deleting the mod right away won't damage your save file later.
I simply cannot test this, and proper troubleshooting is not possible at this time to be 100% sure.
I tested deleting it right away, and did not noticed any errors, but that means nothing without proper debugging functionality tbf,
so better safe than sorry.

Uninstall Step:

• Remove all items from the ships, and then sell the ships you bought through the mod.
• Then delete the mod-folder "AL_BLACK_MARKET_SHIPYARD" in:
  *\Windrose\R5\Content\Paks\..

Done.

KNOWN ISSUES

Formerly hidden ships - hulls not displayed in dock:
The hulls of the formerly hidden/newly enabled ships currently fail to render/are not displayed in the preview at the dockyard. – [under investigation]. (This mainly concerns the 'extra' ships like Boat, Cutter, Cutter Black)

Will not work together with any other .pak mod, that alters/modify the ship category..
-> including dockyard, ship equipment stations, ships itself, or ship customization etc.
This is a limitation of .pak modifications, not an error or bug, and nothing i can fix.

SUPPORT & FEEDBACK

none. - the same i got back.