WINDROSE COMPLETE QoL v2.6.0

A complete quality-of-life overhaul for Windrose focused on faster gathering, larger inventories, improved production, better ship travel, and multiplayer-friendly ship respawning.

The mod is designed to improve progression and reduce unnecessary grinding without changing quests, combat balance, shops, or normal treasure rewards.

FEATURES

Resources & Gathering

• Most normal resources, materials, and eligible usable items stack up to 100

• Trees provide 3x resources

• Mining provides 3x resources

• Ore gathering provides 3x resources

• Animal drops provide 3x resources

• Normal gathering provides 3x resources

• Shipwreck salvage provides 3x resources

• Resource nodes respawn after approximately 1 complete in-game day

Crafting & Production

• Cooking outputs are 3x

• Smelting outputs are 3x

• Direct stackable crafting outputs are 3x

• Charcoal Kilns process items 2x faster

• Smelting Furnaces process items 2x faster

Ingredient costs are not intentionally changed.

TOOL STAMINA

The following actions consume no stamina:

• Axes

• Pickaxes

• Shovels

• Terrain shovels

• Fishing actions

Combat stamina remains vanilla.

This means:

• Sprinting is unchanged

• Dodging is unchanged

• Combat attacks are unchanged

INVENTORY & STORAGE

Player Inventory

Default player inventory:

16 slots → 32 slots

Ship Storage

Cargo capacity on player-owned ships is increased to:

3x vanilla capacity

Chests & Containers

Normal chest and container storage is increased to:

3x vanilla capacity

Improved Inventory UI

Inventory interfaces have also been widened to better support the increased storage.

This includes:

• Player inventory

• Chests

• Containers

• Ship inventory

• Ship management inventory

SHIP SPEEDS

Player-controlled ships have increased maximum forward speeds.

The following remain unchanged:

• Reverse speed

• Lower gears

• Turning

• Buoyancy

• AI-controlled ship speeds

The shallow rowboat remains completely vanilla.

SHIP RESPAWN

The mod includes server-authoritative ship respawning.

When you die, the game can safely respawn you aboard your current owned ship when that ship is valid and available.

The normal bedroll/default respawn system is automatically preserved if your ship is:

• Sunk

• Sinking

• Destroyed

• Broken

• Invalid

• Unavailable

This prevents the ship-respawn system from overriding Windrose's normal fallback respawn behavior.

WHAT THIS MOD DOES NOT CHANGE

The mod does not intentionally modify:

• Normal treasure

• Chest loot

• Human enemy loot

• Undead enemy loot

• Quest rewards

• Mission rewards

• Shops

• Vendor inventories

• Starting items

• Ingredient costs

• Weapons

• Armor

• Keys

• Unique items

• Combat stamina

• Sprinting

• Dodging

The Adventure / Journal interface and quest data remain vanilla.

MULTIPLAYER

IMPORTANT

For multiplayer, everyone must use the same version of the mod.

Install the mod on:

• The host

• Every joining player

• The dedicated server, if one is being used

Gathering, production, storage, and ship respawning use server-authoritative systems.

Clients must also install the matching inventory and interface files.

If one player is missing files or is using a different mod version, multiplayer behavior may not work correctly.

INSTALLATION

1. Close the Game

Completely close:

• Windrose

• Windrose Dedicated Server, if running

2. Open the Windrose Installation Folder

In Steam:

Windrose → Right-click → Manage → Browse Local Files

Open:

R5\Content\Paks

Create a folder named:

~mods

The completed folder should be:

Windrose\R5\Content\Paks\~mods

3. Install the Mod Packages

Copy these nine files into:

Windrose\R5\Content\Paks\~mods

Files:

KasperTripleResources_P.pak
KasperTripleResources_P.utoc
KasperTripleResources_P.ucas

zKasper_PlayerInventory_P.pak
zKasper_ShipInventory_P.pak
zKasper_StorageInventory_P.pak

zKasper_BetterInventory_P.pak
zKasper_BetterInventory_P.utoc
zKasper_BetterInventory_P.ucas

Important

Only place the actual mod package files inside the ~mods folder.

Do not place files such as these inside Paks or ~mods:

README
JSON
manifest
TXT
installation instructions

UE4SS INSTALLATION

UE4SS is required for the ship respawn system.

1. Install UE4SS

Copy:

dwmapi.dll

and the complete:

ue4ss

folder into:

Windrose\R5\Binaries\Win64

Your installation should look similar to:

Windrose
└── R5
    └── Binaries
        └── Win64
            ├── dwmapi.dll
            └── ue4ss
                ├── UE4SS.dll
                └── UE4SS-settings.ini

2. Set the Unreal Engine Version

Open:

R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\UE4SS-settings.ini

Make sure it contains:

[EngineVersionOverride]
MajorVersion = 5
MinorVersion = 6

SHIP RESPAWN SCRIPT

Copy the complete:

KasperShipRespawn

folder into:

R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods

The final Lua script must be located at:

R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\KasperShipRespawn\Scripts\main.lua

Enable the Script

Open:

R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\mods.txt

Add:

KasperShipRespawn : 1

Do not add the line more than once.

DEDICATED SERVER INSTALLATION

If you use Windrose's bundled WindowsServer, the mod must also be installed there.

Mod Packages

Copy the same nine package files into:

R5\Builds\WindowsServer\R5\Content\Paks\~mods

Create the ~mods folder if it does not already exist.

UE4SS

Install UE4SS under:

R5\Builds\WindowsServer\R5\Binaries\Win64

Use the same Unreal Engine version override:

[EngineVersionOverride]
MajorVersion = 5
MinorVersion = 6

Ship Respawn Script

Install KasperShipRespawn under the server's:

R5\Builds\WindowsServer\R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods

Then add:

KasperShipRespawn : 1

to the server's:

mods.txt

QUICK MULTIPLAYER CHECKLIST

Before joining a multiplayer game, make sure:

• Host has Complete QoL installed

• Every player has Complete QoL installed

• Everyone is using the same mod version

• Dedicated server has the mod installed, if applicable

• UE4SS is installed

• Unreal Engine override is set to 5.6

• KasperShipRespawn : 1 exists in mods.txt

• The KasperShipRespawn Lua file is in the correct folder

UNINSTALLATION

Close Windrose before removing the mod.

Delete only these package files from:

R5\Content\Paks\~mods

KasperTripleResources_P.pak
KasperTripleResources_P.utoc
KasperTripleResources_P.ucas

zKasper_PlayerInventory_P.pak
zKasper_ShipInventory_P.pak
zKasper_StorageInventory_P.pak

zKasper_BetterInventory_P.pak
zKasper_BetterInventory_P.utoc
zKasper_BetterInventory_P.ucas

Then delete:

R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\KasperShipRespawn

Open:

R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\mods.txt

and remove:

KasperShipRespawn : 1

If you installed the mod on a dedicated server, repeat the same process inside:

R5\Builds\WindowsServer

Do not uninstall UE4SS if another installed mod requires it.

COMPATIBILITY

Complete QoL v2.6.0 was tested with:

Windrose: 0.10.0.8.10-dd411cfd
Steam Build: 24094645
Unreal Engine: 5.6.1
UE4SS Experimental: b872ad11

Game updates may modify cooked assets, Blueprint structures, or runtime functions.

Because of this, a future Windrose update may require an updated version of Complete QoL.

If the game has recently updated and the mod suddenly stops working, check whether a newer version of the mod is available before reporting the issue.

SUMMARY

Windrose Complete QoL is intended for players who want less grinding and more time exploring, building, sailing, and playing with friends.

Main changes:

3x gathering • 3x production • 100 stacks • 32-slot inventory • 3x storage • faster production • no tool stamina • faster ships • ship respawning • multiplayer support

Compatibility

Tested with:

Windrose:      0.10.0.8.10-dd411cfd
Steam build:   24094645
Unreal Engine: 5.6.1
UE4SS:         Experimental b872ad11

Windrose updates may change cooked assets or runtime functions and can require an updated mod version.

report any bugs please