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Smuggling, Hideouts and Master Builder

This mod primarily does 3 main things:

1. Adds a new 'Smuggling' research and smuggler buildings.
2. Adds a new 'Smuggler' alternate start.
3. Adds a new (cheat) 'Master Builder' alternate start. Think of it like Creative Mode.

#1 and #2 are, I think, fairly balanced. It revolves around one simple issue:

I wanted to build out in the wilderness, without it turning into a player town, attracting bandits and otherwise all the gameplay of an actual outpost.

In short: How do you build a "Hideout", if everyone knows where you are?

Thus, smuggler's buildings, containers, and other objects were born! If you simply wanted a variety of basic buildings and storage containers that you can place in the world without creating a player town, you need look no further.

Smuggling research (costs 2 books, 1 Hashish) unlocks a low-tech way of crafting a variety of items without checking the 'player town' flag, which is what creates an outpost.

The game, by default, creates a player town for virtually every single thing you can place, so the large effort involved was creating versions of the original objects, with this flag turned off.

Smuggling lets you build hideouts, and they are upgradeable. While you can go right to building the Smuggler's Base if you want, you can also start with a shack and build up from there.

In order to keep Smuggling semi-balanced, it will never allow you to do incredibly advanced things that require supremely high levels to achieve. In many cases, the buildings also require fewer building materials (meaning they are also less durable).

You can think of Smuggling like a do-it-yourselfers underground/black-market knowhow of setting up off-the-radar little operations. You will also notice that hashish manufacture is a big part of the tree. In this respect, Smuggling gives you all the knowhow of how to build a secret hash operation out in the sticks. You can build little smuggler's chests anywhere you want, and use them to stash loot or hash or whatever you want, really, and none of them will set any pesky 'Create Player Town' flags in the process.

The smuggler alternate start simply starts with Smuggling unlocked, and even has a fairly decent story, too, in which I just picked up on the existing geography and dialogues that already existed in the area. Check the note in your inventory.

The last is Master Builder alternate start, which has its own custom research (only unlocked via this start) that lets you do truly amazing things, know all research, and have stacks of resources beyond what you could realistically acquire within a lifetime. It's total cheat mode. In fact, I think it may be the definitive 'Creative Mode' mod/start for Kenshi. It also comes with its own series of 'Master Builder' themed objects (more being added all the time), which have several things in common:

1. Master Builder objects will build *instantly*.
2. Master Builder objects require no power/energy or resource/crafting costs and have ridiculous levels of output.
3. Master builder buildings/objects still require resources, as durability is still linked to the amount of materials used in construction...so the resource costs were maintained simply to prevent MB objects from being illusions that can be destroyed by a single hit.
4. Master Builder objects, like Smuggler's objects, do not create Player Towns. (build a single normal object in the center of town if you want to convert it to a player town)

Check it all out, it's pretty rad.

This shouldn't conflict with any other mods, as every object added is brand new, and all of the blueprints were segmented into Smuggling (and Master Builder) research. In other words, not a single one of the original game objects has been modified.

Optional Mod:

Smuggling Enhanced https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1631147846
This just adds a new "The Smuggler (Enhanced Start)" start with enough cats to buy your way into the Shinobi immediately. It also modifies the Shinobi Trader so that he will have a great deal more cats on hand, and higher wages, so you can bulk sell large quantities of illegal goods without having to scramble so much.