Skaven Settlements: Expand the Under-Empire
The under-empire is supposed to be this massive system of tunnels spanning much of the world, but you definitely don’t feel that when playing as the Skaven. Creating under-cities (the sneaky Skaven way) can be a long and unrewarding process with vanilla mechanics.
This mod simply keeps Skavenslaves busy expanding the under-empire to a valid adjacent region, once a settlement has their settlement building-chain (main building) at level 3 or higher. Each settlement only has a 9%/11%/13% chance to expand (increasing for each level after level 3), and has a (configurable) 10 turn cooldown after doing so. If the expansion target happens to be an unclaimed ruin then a dilemma will ask if you’d like to claim the ruins. If you decide not to claim the ruins, an under-city should be generated under the ruins once they’re occupied by another faction (game limitation).
The mod also replaces the vanilla expansion script for under-cities so that they will also generate the occupation dilemma.
In my tests the AI benefits from this as well, but not as much as a player could.
This is multiplayer safe, so enjoy! And let me know if you have any feedback, issues, or questions.
Don’t forget to check out any other Skaven Settlement mods I may make, they’ll likely compliment each other.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
