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🌌 Are you S:AD – Mod Collection 🌌

Welcome, survivor.
This is a hand-picked collection of mods for Stranded: Alien Dawn focused on immersion, QoL, and expanding gameplay while staying true to the cinematic, post-collapse tone of the game.

Whether you're crash-landing for the first time or optimizing your colony on the brink, this pack helps you survive better, build smarter, and feel deeper.



🎯 What's Inside
  • Essential QoL tweaks
  • Smart building tools
  • AI behavior adjustments
  • Expanded farming & resource systems
  • New survivor traits or options
  • Visual polish & UI improvements
  • No cheat/godmode mods – this is grounded survival



🧩 Mods in This Collection:
  • Humans Run — Survivors run when traveling long distances; customizable range.
  • Restart Map Options — Re-roll seeds and tweak map parameters when restarting.
  • No Idle Power Consumption — Powered stations only use electricity when active.
  • Terrain Recovery — Restore terrain and regrow vegetation.
  • Temperature Overlay — Displays heat gradients around cursor; toggleable.
  • SAD_CommonLib — Core library required for many mods.
  • Passability Overlay — Color-coded overlay shows where units can walk.
  • Lights Overlay — Visualizes light radius for lamp placement.
  • Survivors Sorting — Reorder survivor portraits manually.
  • Social Control — Adds social behavior like relationship boosts and fidelity rules.
  • One Meal A Day — Controls survivor hunger behavior to eat only when needed.
  • Jaggid’s Improved Fermenter (& Distillery) — Expanded recipes and batch brewing.
  • Third Person Mode — Play as a survivor in third person when drafted.
  • Camera Options — Customize zoom, pitch, FOV, and camera movement.



🎩 Recommended Setup
  • Play on Hard for balance.
  • Combine with custom scenario: "Are you S:AD – Story Start" (optional).
  • Load mods in the listed order for best compatibility.



🎥 Cinematic Experience
These mods are curated for a visual and emotional vibe:
Golden hour sun, soft shadows, atmospheric haze, slow tension, and storytelling through struggle.
Not just survival — reflection.



💬 Feedback?
Feel free to leave a comment or suggest mods you think fit the tone.


Last updated: 2 April 2025
Curated by: Shteryan / S:AD Project
Items (21)
Alba
Created by lukeh_ro
A snow covered planet, Alba, for a new challenge in a cold region. Further gameplay and balance changes and even new buildings and resources may be added depending on my time, suggestions are welcome. Added: + Geysers - will increase the temperature around...
Expanded Dawn (ENG)
Created by Tigu
Content Expanded Dawn expands the game with: - 104 building options - 16 characters - 10 expeditions / 32 storybits - 13 game rules - 35 pieces of equipment - 374 recipes - 154 research options Settings The aim of the mod is to create additional upgrade op...
Lightning Strikes Overhaul
Created by injto4ka
This mod adjusts lightning strike behavior to be more physically accurate: Bulky, pointed, or metallic objects are more likely to attract lightning strikes. Objects placed on higher ground have an increased chance of being hit. If lightning strikes a non-g...
Mod Utility Helpers
Created by injto4ka
Mod designed to help modders. Will try to update it with new stuff. Please do request if you have ideas. After the introduction of the second debug executable for modders, some of the features in the mod are deprecated as they have a vanilla equivalent. As...
Field Research Seeker
Created by Haemimont Games
The mod adds "Observe" button to the unit's info panel. When the button is pressed, the game is put on pause and the mod displays all rocks, animal and plant species nearby that are available for observation. After the game is unpaused, the overlay will be...
Show/Hide Ground Cables
Created by Mnementh
This mod adds a new overlay button called 'Ground Cables,' which allows users to hide or unhide the drawing of surface cables connecting devices....
Passability Overlay
Created by injto4ka
Adds a new overlay to display passability information. The game uses a grid of tiles to know where are the obstacles. These tiles are marked as impassable and the units cannot traverse them. A unit can find a path only if there are adjacent passable tiles ...
Lights Overlay
Created by injto4ka
Adds a new overlay displaying the lighting area of lights. Doesn't work well for ceiling lamps, unless placed beneath a roof. Version: 0.02-026...
UkrainianMod
Created by AgeNTsGame
Українізатор гри Стан перекладу: 100%(первинний) На даний момент переклад чорновий, знаходиться на редагувані. Ініціатор: AgeNTsGame Куратор проекту: Mega0n Перекладачі/Редактори: - Mega0n - Gerwge - Lavanda - Swapq - BipolarBearBringsBeer - werewolfthunde...
Survivors Sorting
Created by lukeh_ro
Allows sorting survivors in the pins list by control clicking on their pictures. To properly work, the grouping per work area was removed. Buy Me a Coffee Paypal Support Version: 1.00-002...
Social Control
Created by injto4ka
Additional social control The player has various mod options to influence the relationships of the survivors. Mod options Roommates People sleeping in the same room receive affection bonus to each other Friends with Benefits Roommates have an increased pro...
One Meal A Day
Created by Mnementh
This mod makes people want to eat when their Fullness drops bellow 25%, causing them to consume food once per day. They will look to eat with priority 1 when below 15%. Moreover, the mod adds an option in the Options menu that allows users to adjust the th...
Jaggid's Improved Fermenter (& Distillery)
Created by Jaggid Edje
Adds large batch recipes to the fermenter and Distiller, allowing you to make larger batches at one time. Also adds the following new things and changes to the game: Cactus Hooch - Liquor made from Cactus Slime, which is unlocked when beer is researched. M...
Third Person Mode
Created by injto4ka
Experience the game from 3rd person point of view. Adds third-person control mode to drafted units. Just select a unit, draft them and select the new Third Person Mode action button. For now the mode is an extension of the draft mode, so there aren't many ...
Camera Options
Created by injto4ka
Provides controls to change the default camera as mod options. To access it first make sure that the mod is enabled in the Mod Manager. Then go to the game options, navigate to the tab on the right named "Mod Options" and then select "Camera Options". The ...
Humans Run
Created by Mnementh
This mod sets the minimum distance to the target at which survivors decide to run, instead of walk, to 10 meters. It also adds an option in the Options menu to adjust this distance to any number between 10 and 100 meters. Additionally, the mod adds an opti...
Restart Map Options
Created by injto4ka
Allows to tweak or randomize various game parameters (like the seed text) when restarting the map. Version: 0.00-032...
No Idle Power Consumption
Created by lukeh_ro
Powered crafting, research and relaxation devices consume electricity only when in use. Also supports DLC's Surgical automaton. Should work out of the box for modded devices too if they are added similar to vanilla ones. When added to already started game,...
Terrain Recovery
Created by injto4ka
The terrain is slowly recovering after being altered. The recovery is possible only where there are no obstacles nearby (buildings or debris). The recovery will not happen for terrain that is already altered in the original map. Terrain changed in saved ga...
Temperature overlay
Created by injto4ka
Displays a visualization of the temperature around the mouse pointer. There are two possible display modes, that can be selected in the mod options: Absolute - The area colors are defined based on absolte temperature thresholds. Relative - The area colors ...
SAD_CommonLib
Created by injto4ka
Common Modding Library Made by the sad modding community. Please find all fixes, improvements and new features in the mod discussion page. Source code available at Gitlab If the mod's version doesn't match the one below, please verify the integrity of the ...