Interactive World : Kenshi+

"This mod is a complete overhaul of the Interactive World mod, originally created by Stupendous Man. The original mod IS AMAZING and brought significant depth to Kenshi, offering a rich survivalist experience with new resources, crafting options, and immersive gameplay. This patch aligns the mod more closely with vanilla systems and the current mod ecosystem, while preserving the creativity and early-game intent of the original work."

Tonechild, the modder that began this whole project said it better than I ever could. Go here and read the rest of the great description and breakdown of the work they have done to create a solid foundation for us to play on:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3306565543

What started out as a simple attempt to fix a missing mod requirement from Tonechild’s Interactive World (IW) patch has turned into a full blown, Interactive World Kenshi+ (IWK+) patch that sits on top of their IW Synergy patch (IWS). But it STILL has the mod load error, lol. Just ignore it, we will get it fixed.

Let’s do those acronyms again.
IW = The OG Interactive World Mod
IWS = Tonechild’s overhaul to IW
IWK+ = My overhaul to Tonechild’s overhaul

Who am I to do this? Just some guy that loves this game and how Stupendous Man’s mod IW can help transform it into a more fully fleshed out survival game. I think IWK+ has the potential to be a wide and deep branch of the Kenshi world.

This sub mod is in active development. I would appreciate feedback and guidance from players and the mod community. Please give feedback, pushback, bug reports, ask for features, test, and join the Interactive World Kenshi + project!

MOD ORDER
Interactive World
Interactive World: Vanilla Synergy Patch
Interactive World: KENSHI+ (This mod)

Below are a few highlighted changes, which sit on top of IWS and sometimes modify changes in IWS.

BUILDING MATERIALS
Building Materials now require lumber!
Repeat, Building Materials now require lumber!

Building Materials are now made in the Building Material Fabricator and require:
1 raw stone
1 lumber

ECONOMICS
Lumber now affects the price of building materials, and building materials affect the cost of almost everything. Therefore, I tried to make lumber close to equal value of raw stone, while still putting in a bit of margin for the extra time it takes to process lumber. This means building will require an entirely new resource chain. In IWS it requires 2 stone and 2 lumber, but I felt this was a more balanced approach.

Added to vendor lists more:
Yuca and other cooking ingredients
Logs, sticks, lumber
Changed the sizes, stacking, weights, qualities, descriptions, and build requirements of some items

RESEARCH
The outdoor workbench and logging research no longer require you to find the blueprints. Research takes only time, no books. These basic IS buildings are a little too important to leave to chance in my opinion.

NAMING / MENUS / DESCRIPTIONS
Where it made sense, altered and enhanced some descriptions. For example animal poo is now animal droppings. Healing powder is now a healing Poultice.
Cleaned up building menu structures even more.

BEDS
Put the leaf bed back in, balanced bed rates and added additional bed variations:
Camp Bed (Ground) 125
Camp Bed (Fabric Blanket) 150
Camp Bed (Hide Blanket) 200
Camp Bed (Fabric and Hide) 250
Camp Bed (Hide Blankets) 300

Crafted Beds
Camp Bed (Crafted Hides) 350
Camp Bed (sleeping Bag) 400

REMOVED:
Saltpeter and some other obsolete references

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This mod makes it so that building materials (for slackers) in Interactive World : Kenshi + (IWK+) are back to the default of using two raw stone, instead of one stone and one lumber.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3399130029
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Thanks again to Tonechild for getting this started, I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. And to Stupendous man for creating this wonderful mod and allowing us to work with it.