[1.5.1] More Empty Chests, Please!

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Author: NathanAlejver

Last revision: 27 Jul, 2025 at 12:34 UTC

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🧰 More Empty Chests, Please! 🧰

Tired of running all over the archipelago in search of a single empty chest? This mod fixes that nonsense once and for all – and without resorting to cheats!

📌 Why You Want This Mod

Right now, empty chests are ridiculously rare. You’ve got a tiny chance of finding one on a pirate ship, and hopping from port to port checking every usurer is a long-term nightmare.
And when you’re trying to upgrade a ship, instead of focusing on gold, you’re wasting time hunting down these annoying little wooden boxes worth like 20 pesos each – like they’re some kind of endgame legendary treasure. Oh, come on! They’re just pieces of wooden scrap! How can they be so impossibly rare?!

📌 What This Mod Does

📦 Usurers now have a 70% chance to have an empty chests in their stock.
📦 They can have from 1 up to 9 chests (instead of just 2).

Basically, now empty chests are no longer a pain in the ass. They become reasonably available – common enough to not be frustrating, but without flooding your inventory like some kind of cheat. It keeps things balanced. As all things should be.

🛠️ Compatibility

This mod is compatible with any other mod that doesn’t modify the utils.c file. So, probably most of them, if not all. But if you do run into a conflict somehow, just open your version of utils.c file, search for the "chest_open" keyword, and replace the relevant code block with this. And voilà – you’re good to go!

irand = rand(100);
if(irand < 70) AddItems(ch, "chest_open", Rand(8) + 1);


👍 If you like this mod, please rate it – save other captains from chest-related nervous breakdowns.