@toetruckthetrain

If you use More Quests in Space it should work with that mod, since my Orbit2 PlanetLayer inherits from SpaceLayer just like the Odyssey Orbit Planetlayer does.

if you ever do find some way to allow quests to spawn here it would be awesome but regardless of that this is easily top 5 odyssey mods for the visuals alone

Thank you, I had error after previous update when opening the game, but now it is fixed. Thanks!

Okay it should be fixed now. If you have any other errors please let me know and I'll jump on it as soon as I can.

oh thanks :3 was just about to remove it from my new play :P amazing fast answer

Aha I see what it is. I just need to add a conditional to my one patch for starting scenarios that are already patched for Odyssey. The red error right now is the same as before - it is just saying my patch to add Odyssey support to custom scenarios is not needed - it's a harmless error. I'll filter it out and post an update shortly.

anyone else getting error from this mod?
not sure if its because a combination of this and another mod

I just used ScenarioBase and added almost the same starting things as the vanilla Yuran scenario. But it does allow both Deep Orbit and Sky Islands to generate correctly—just like the vanilla scenario.

Thanks! I will take a look. I tried to patch the Yuran mod before but the mod itself has a weird patch implementation checking for Biotech. I might just hardcode a patch for that mod.

https://pastebin.com/awue9uhu
Well, it's basically the Yuran scenario I modified. Since the Yuran scenario could not generate the Islands from the Sky Islands mod, I created it.

do you mind sharing your custom ScenarioDef via github or Pastebin? I'm specifically interested in its <scenario> section and <parts> sections.

Yes, the latest. I’m using a custom scenario directly edited through xml, but it uses ScenarioBase.

Do you have the latest version from steam? Are you running any mods with a custom start?

It seems the red error still persists, indicating the xpath for PatchOperationAdd does not exist.

There are no naked starjacks in this mod? I thought we were getting naked starjacks in this mod.

Fixed the harmless red error.

After removing my testing mod I see there is a harmless red error on startup in some specific mod combinations. It can be ignored. I'll add some conditions later so it doesn't show up.

You're welcome! It was fun and I learned a bunch of new stuff when it comes to conditional XML patching.

it worked. <3 thank you for this nice mod and fast patch. =)

08/21/2025 Update:
After much effort, I've rewritten the compatibility XML patch DeepOrbitPatches.xml. This should now work with all custom scenarios, and the ability to edit starting scenarios in game now works. No impact to existing saves.

@Malonumas this should let you do what you were trying to do now.

The XML patch should be the only thing that has changed

@Malonumas you can see my older versions on https://github.com/broms122/DeepOrbit if that helps.

sad. but i can understand it. than i play no custom scenario and dev the other stuff =)

sorry this will take a bit longer. I've decided to rewrite my patches from scratch since my first attempt was effective but sloppy, it has made debugging take more time than intended.

I think I have solved it. Gonna test it with several other mods and if it looks good I'll have the fix out soon. Thanks for the report.

I think I see what the issue might be. I'm working on it now

The problem is. I dont get a error. I only cant continue or save my edited Scenario. https://imgur.com/a/RTbkx85

I will look into this

how can i do that?

Yes i resuped and re installiert everything 2 times. Yesterday on my last scenario edit it worked fine.

Hi @Malonumas, please provide a Player.log containing the error.

Hallo, i cant edit scenarios after you last update.
Error:
incompatible: planet layer type, planet layer type

Okay after much effort I've created some conditional patches that should dynamically patch any and all custom starting scenarios from mods, so that the Deep Orbit layer will show up. I even added a patch that will add the Odyssey Orbit to world gen if that modded starting scenario hasn't done it yet.

It seems Regrowth 2 has a Harmony Prefix patch on asteroid generation that I need to figure out how to account for. I've asked Helixien for tips so I'll work on this as I can. The current impact of the red error when visiting a Deep Orbit asteroid w/ Regrowth 2 is that the resource veins (gold etc), simply don't generate but the rest of the asteroid generates as intended.

Ty for the report. I'll check out what regrowth 2 is doing.

I don't think your mod works well with ReGrowth 2. It throws two errors when flying to a deep orbit asteroid.

I'm gonna work on a nested conditional patch that should patch all scenarios dynamically so I don't need to patch modded scenarios manually.

@The God

08/18/2025 Update:
Added support for Vanilla Factions Expanded: Pirates starting Low Orbit Crash scenario.

I'll look at their starting scenario now.

Vanilla expended pirates, it has a pirate start scenario. I'll share the log soon

If you're using a custom start scenario from a mod there is a decent chance I can add a patch to my mod here so that it will work, I just need more info is all.

I suspect you may be using some kind of start scenario that is not inheriting the changes my mod patches to the vanilla starter scenarios, or there is a mod conflict somewhere with a similar root cause.

Can you share a Player.log / error log? I am able to see the second orbit just like the screenshots in the mod page show.

@Broms Nope, I tested it twice, once making a whole new world to test it and it didn't appear, as in I could not see the deep orbit layer, there was no button until I got one of the later gravship researches. And now on another save I had it from the start and I just don't see that layer, it is not accesible.

@The God this is not tied to any research. It's part of world generation. Did you add this to an existing save?

It seems to be blocked by a research of some type, which exactly is it? It seem to be the third gravship upgrade, either that or it's not working at all

I figured out the compatibility issue. It is because this patch in AddSkyIslandLayerToScenario.xml <Operation Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>Defs/ScenarioDef[@Name = "ScenarioBase"]/scenario/parts/li[1]/connections</xpath> , is patching the via iteration instead of targeting. The fix is super easy, just load Deep Orbit after Sky Islands. I've updated Deep Orbit's About.xml to enforce the load order.

@Stupid Contrarian probably overlapping connection layers to Orbit. I'll take a look

compatibility issue I think
Tried to run it together with the Sky Islands mod
The world took 10 minutes to generate and neither the deep orbit nor the Sky Islands seem to work, there is only one layer of orbit like normal.

thanks!