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Shuttle Start for Mechanitor

The reason I mentioned the minifiable is because what you're describing is exactly what this mod is doing, adding a shuttle as a spawn nearby similar to the ship chunks. For something like the shuttle to be included on that list in a custom scenario, it's generally required it be minifiable. As for making a new arrival method, those aren't defined as basic defs, which is what makes them far more complex than what I'd want to mess with for a mod like this

I'm sure it's entirely possible to make a shuttle arrival method, but that is more complex than what this mod is intended to do.

@Alite Why would the shuttle need to be minifiable? Wouldn't it be theoretically possible to instead add the shuttle as a completely-new arrival method that can be selected when creating/editing a custom Scenario the same way the vanilla drop-pod and standing arrival conditions are handled - essentially equivalent to standing arrival, but automatically places a shuttle next to the starting pawns in a similar manner to how the vanilla Crash Landing scenario spawns a bunch of ship wreckage chunks near the landing site?

Unfortunately not without creating some weird side effects. For something like the shuttle to be placable with custom scenarios it needs to be minifiable. In the case of this mod I'm just skipping that check completely by adding it directly, but for a custom scenario to do it you'd probably need something like minify everything or a more specialized mod if it's available.

Do you think it would be possible to add the ability to add a shuttle start to a custom scenario? I tried but couldn't find a way to besides just using the mechanitor start/rich explorer start as a pre-set. Also would be really cool to be able to add the drone from odyssey transport shuttle.

This is just what I wanted, cheers

many thanks mate

This is dope

That's awesome dude, thanks!

Updated the mod to use the mechanitor shuttle in Odyssey Transport Shuttle when available