Green Landscape: Border Zone Area
What if the moon of Kenshi was not all pink? This mod changes the Border Zone and its Surroundings, to lusher and actually green landscape. I have edited also the fertility, weather and the water yield to match. Added some birds too. Tried to add green on logical places. Kenshi is still a sandy place, but with this slightly less pink.
Areas changed:
Border Zone
Skinner’s Roam
Okran’s Gulf
The map squares affected are 2,2 2,3 2,4 3,2 3,3 3,4 See the Map Biome areas Region correlation article on kenshi.fandom
The mod also adds greener ingame GUI map. The map does not show exact 1:1 greenery lines, but I am sure you’ll manage.
BETA BETA BETA This mod is first of its kind, so we do not know what issues may arise.
WARNING
Altho I have used mostly vanilla assets, it is possible the added foliage may cause frame rate drops. It is not nearly as lush as the swamp is, so if you can tolerate that, you should be fine. YOU MAY NEED TO ADJUST YOUR GRAPHIC SETTINGS. I myself had to do no adjustment at all (AMD, mid range, no shadows). VRAM crashes -may- occur, but should be rare (mostly region crossings with full game speed). I recommend a large page file.
DISCLAIMER
I am not responsible for the placement of the foliage. All I did is change what plants should grow in the area, the game does the placement automatically. For this reason you may encounter floating or overlapping foliage. There’s really not much I can do about that.
MODDERS
As usual, feel free to open this up and see how I did what I did. This time I did not add any custom mesh work, so all assets are vanilla. All I did is change couple texture’s colors. Feel free to use the greenery GUI map to make your own map versions.
LOAD ORDER, CONFLICTS AND IMPORT
Will conflict with other mods that change the terrain overlay textures and/or game biomes (not many of those as of yet if any). Load after all such mods if you want this to work.
If you want to use some other ingame GUI map mod, load it after this one. Do note you will lose the greenery on the map then.
Otherwise no load order requirements.
IMPORT or A NEW GAME absolutely required. I highly recommend a new game, as I seem to get few more VRAM crashes after import (I have AMD video card). BUT you may never encounter any crashes.
SAFE TO DISABLE.
Asking the community to play test, so I’ll know what is the actual ratio for issues/ no issues.
Proposed crash fix. It has been suggested, that if one pastes manually the overlaymaps from this mod OVER vanilla overlaymaps and THEN removes the overlaymaps folder from the mod, it is possible the game does not crash anymore. It is important to remove the folder from the mod. Renaming does not work. Just the overlaymaps folder. Please test.
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