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Artifact Traders: AI Cores, Ancient Books

There are already few mods in the Workshop that deal with rare artifacts renewal at vendors, however none of them handled the case to my liking. I did not like that most of them affect other traders from vanilla factions.

This mod introduces Artifact Traders, who specialize in sourcing the Ancient Science Books, Engineering Research as well as AI Cores mainly from the Deadlands Wastes. They offer them at insanely inflated prices, while the gathering and finding process takes time, which results in lenghty period before they can be acquired again. Furthermore, their Faction laws allow only sale of the artifacts while resticting the purchase from anyone, inlcuding the Players. It is done to prevent abuse or resell of the artifacts for higer prices at their outposts.

They are friendly with other trade-like factions, won't report escaped slaves and don't care what you carry in your bags at their outpost.

Don't get caught stealing while visiting them, they are skilled fighters and always employ a guard.

Prices of the artifacts as well as their availablity in other places is not affected by this mod. It should then not affect your enjoyment of the game in more vanilla like experience. After some tweaking and balancing, I think I have arrived at a point where the system does not feel cheaty.

INFO: Please see screenshots for example loot tables for this trader.

• Adds Artifact Traders outpost near Scrapyard in Deadlands
  
• Artifacts available there are sold at highly inflated prices and only small numbers of them is available at a time
  
• It takes about a week in game time before their supplies restock
  
• While there should be always an artifact available to purchase, there might be times when only one category is available (for example: only Science Books, or Engineering)
  
• Thir laws prohibit re-purchase of the artifacts, so think twice before you buy! They also won't buy any of your own research artifact-like items.
  
• Should you try to sell any of the artifacts to them, they will inform you it being illegal, but they won't put a bounty on you or inform the guards.
  
• Map to the location can be bought at Waystations, some Bars, and at the Hub.

Be sure to check the attached screenshots to see the possible artifact spawns and their numbers. Hopefully it helps decide if the rates are acceptable for your gameplay. As you can see there, sometimes randomization gods are merciful and very generous, other times there is not much there. I think it adds up to the overall experience of the game.

Future plans:

• Caravans visiting player outposts, offering selection of goods to sell, at even higher prices. Profitssss.
  
• Different outpost specilizing in different activities in games.
  
• Dialogues and unlockables

This mod REQUIRES a savegame import.