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Latest revision as of 21:06, 18 January 2019

Version 4.0.0

Pre-Conqueror Patch Released - 18 January 2019

• Reduced calls to WorkshopParent dramatically across Sim Settlements code, this should result in better script processing of settlement related activities.
• Made changes to the foundation selection code to try and eliminate an issue for some Xbox One players where the game would freeze when accessing the menu.
• Altered foundations menu code slightly so it would spam less messages in the corner.
• Terraformer foundation options now have the correct texture when previewed in the Change Foundation screen of plot customization.
• Added new Building Skin system.
  • Building skins offer material or other alterations to Building Plans. These skins can be applied without resetting the level of the plot.
  • Anyone may create an add-on pack to provide new skins to any building, even buildings from other add-on packs.
  • By default, when a building plan is selected, if there are additional skins available, it will randomly select from its default state or to use one of the skins. This option can be disabled in the holotape.
  • Skins can be changed or removed at a plot by activating the ASAM Sensor and choosing Customize Plot.
• Added a large variety of paint job skins to the 2x2 Residential and 2x2 Commercial buildings in Sim Settlements.
• Added new 3x3 Agricultural plot.
  • This plot requires power to surpass level 1.
  • It produces 50% more food than a 2x2 Agricultural plot and requires additional water and defenses, but still only requires a single settler to run it.
• Fixed a bug that could cause plots to become unresponsive after being built from a City Plan or after changing their type from the ASAM Sensor menu.
• The original small plots (original as in way back in version 1.0) and plots with foundations baked in are no longer supported, which means changes to certain plot functionality will no longer be applied to those models. The models and forms remain for backwards compatibility so saves will continue to function.
• Original Plot Size and Foundation Plots are no longer available to unlock in the holotape.
• Added Auto Apply Skins option under Gameplay Options > Usability in the holotape (and under Usability in the MCM menu). While ON, if a building plan has skins available, settlers will choose randomly between the original version and one of the skin versions when building.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing NPCs from pathing inside of buildings from Sim Settlements and its expansions. (This likely would not have affected add-on packs).
• Dynamic Soundscape system can now play various subtle background music, similar to what occurs when you arrive in major cities like Diamond City or Goodneighbor.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the RotC County Crossing City Plan to spawn too many plots, some of which would overlap with others.
• Added Faction Control Overrides system. These allow Sim Settlements to interact with the Workshop Framework Capture System to make changes to settlements dynamically when they are captured by certain factions, for example - setting the flag, or automatically applying faction based skins to buildings.
  • By default, Sim Settlements includes no data for factions. These overrides need to be configured by add-ons or expansions. For example, Conqueror includes an override set for its Raider gang.
• Changed all companion flags to use different normal and spec maps, they were previously using one that didn’t match up well.
• Fixed the Tech Tree icon for the Excavation Pit.
• Leader requirement to build a City Plan is now optional. This can be turned off in the Holotape/MCM under City Building.
• Switched Agricultural plots to use the scaffolding during construction instead of fertilizer/rolled fencing, as it makes it easier to tell at a distance whether an Agricultural plot is in the process of being built.
• Added Refresh Local City Plan tool to the holotape.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent Recruitment Beacons from working in a settlement.
• If a City Plan is used in a NukaWorld raider outpost, any Recruitment Beacons will be replaced by NukaWorld Radio Transmitters.
• [For Addon Makers] Added many new texture options/material swaps for various building materials.

Version 3.5.2

I've Gotta Have More Foundations Released - 07 December 2018

• Removed a pop-up that could show on start-up that would tell you the tax system was migrated to a new data format. That was a Debug message I had failed to comment out before release of the previous patch.
• Improved snapping on the 2x2 foundation blocks.
• City Plans from community packs should appear much more quickly at the City Planner Desk options.
• Improved the speed of the City Plan code dramatically. This should make it less likely to cause stack dumping when a large number of City Plans are upgrading one after the other.
• Eliminated some unnecessary files to reduce overall file size of the mod.
• Terraformers placed after this patch will now have the edge and corner pieces move with the terraformer instead of needing to be respawned each time they are moved.
• Non-foundation plots can now spawn their own foundations. These will attach to and move with the plot.
  • You can find an option to make this happen automatically in the holotape/MCM under Usability > Autoplace Plot Foundations.
  • Dynamically spawned foundations can be scrapped separately from the plot.
• Added new option to ASAM Sensor menu “Customize Plot”.
  • Moved Change Plot Type option to the Customize Plot sub-menu.
  • Added Change Foundation option to the Customize Plot sub-menu, this will allow you to spawn a dynamic foundation to attach to the plot.
  • Added Set Default Foundation for Plot Type option to the Customize Plot sub-menu, this will allow you to choose which foundation spawns automatically when you build that plot type in the future. This only occurs (and this option only appears) if you have Autoplace Plot Foundations enabled.
• Mechanist’s Lair, Sanctuary, Red Rocket, Covenant, and Nukaworld Red Rocket are all set to not allow City Plans until the quests/events they could interrupt are completed.
  • Mechanist’s Lair: Complete the main DLC quest.
  • Sanctuary: Complete the first part of Out of Time.
  • Red Rocket: Recruit dogmeat.
  • Covenant: Complete the quest there.
  • Nuka World Red Rocket: Complete the main DLC quest or kill the leaders.
• Cleanup project team has completed the cleanup and rebalance of the following settlements:
  • County Crossing
  • Oupost Zimonja (Note that there are several wires and a lightbulb that will not scrap with code, they are scrappable in WS mode though)

Version 3.5.1

The Second Coming of Mr. Clean Released - 23 November 2018

• Removed “[O]” from all of the RotC City Plan names.
• Fixed the names of several DLC City Plans.
• When Citizen Needs Requirements is off, or Involvement is Low, happiness in City Plan run settlements will always trend towards 80. This essentially represents a neutral happiness level if all needs were met, and those two options are signaling to SS that you aren’t particularly interested in micro-managing happiness. Previously, you would have had to pay attention to happiness to avoid losing control of the settlements.
• The Castle City Plans are now locked until you collect the artillery plans.
• Settlements with City Plan locks (currently Vault 88 and The Castle), now offer you an opportunity to bypass the locks if you accept the risk when selecting a City Plan. Otherwise, once the appropriate quests are completed that involve those settlements, you will receive a message telling you City Plans are now unlocked there.
• Added Mad Scientist trait to the Explanation screen.
• For new saves, most plot notification messages will start disabled, with the exception of Upgrade notifications. This should alleviate some of the spamminess of Sim Settlements notifications.
• For new saves, the startup wizard after loading the holotape the first time is greatly simplified. You can still access the original Wizard from the holotape under Tools > Configuration Tools > Configuration Wizard.
  • You will be asked whether you are a New or Returning user.
  • Answering New simply sets your game to the Automated profile (see below) and skips to the Performance mode select screen.
  • Answering Returning offers you several profile options:
  • Automated: Most gameplay in SS is set to easy mode and just about everything that can be automated is enabled, all difficulty features (such as Dynamic Needs) are disabled.
  • City Simulator: This is akin to playing without the wizard prior to this patch. The options are set so that many things are automated, and a few of the difficulty features are enabled.
  • Hardcore Mode: All difficulty options are turned on, some things are automated where it makes sense, otherwise this mode assumes you would like a lot of control over everything.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent the Flare Factory from Industrial Revolution from producing any flares.
• We’ve started a project to clean up and rebalance the RotC City Plans. The goal of these clean-ups is to eliminate some floating or poorly placed items and to reduce the power, water, and defense levels to make playing with Maintenance Costs on less stressful. There are exceptions to certain settlements whose themes were designed with creating a large surplus of something to share with neighboring settlements.
  • The following City Plans were cleaned up for this patch:
  • Abernathy Farm
  • Coastal Cottage
• Reduced overall script data usage in Sim Settlements by around 8 MB.
• Reduced overall script data usage in RotC Complex plans (separate download) by around 7.5 MB.
• Discoveries in Sim Settlements will now be queued if you haven’t yet launched the holotape to activate the mod. This will prevent certain messages from popping up at the start of a new playthrough before you’ve even encountered Sim Settlements.
• The cooking recipes for the Meet Stew magazines should now correctly show up at cooking stations.
• Fixed an issue that could make the owner of a Body Armor Technology building act erratically.
• Changing tax rates via MCM should now work correctly.

Version 3.5.0

Modistential Crisis Released - 9 November 2018

• All complex City Plans have been removed. They are now available for Nexus users as an optional download. (If you are an Xbox user using complex City Plans, you will likely want to hold off on this update until after your current cities reach Level 3. Though in general, Xbox players should NOT be using the complex plans, so I don’t anticipate this being a problem for many of you).
  • Bunker Hill is the one exception as it does not have an Optimized version, so the complex version remains in the mod.
  • For information about why this was done, check out: https://simsettlements.com/scriptlimit
  • If you install the separate complex City Plan esl files, Sim Settlements will detect them and transition seamlessly.
  • If you choose not to install them, Sim Settlements will switch your existing Cities to the Optimized versions.
  • If your Cities are already level 3, they don’t actually need to maintain a City Plan unless you intend on refreshing them (which should never be needed after they are already level 3 if you discovered no issues that required it).
• The “Take Back City” option on the City Planner’s Desk has been split into 2 options.
  • Dismiss Leader: This will allow you to clear the current leader from a settlement without terminating the City Plan (instead the City Plan will just hold at its current percentage until you assign a new leader).
  • Remove City Plan: This will remove the City Plan so that the settlement won’t build up any further and allow you to continue building manually where it left off.

Version 3.5.0a

• Fixes a bug where City Plans could get stuck. Either plots would stop being built, or the percentage would get stuck at 100 and never go to the next level.

Version 3.5.0b

• Removed the script dependency on Vault Tech Workshop DLC.

Version 3.4.6

Better Living Underground Released - 26 October 2018

• Added the Vault 88 City Plan for players with the Vault Tec Workshop DLC.
  • This City Plan will become available after you finish the quests (or fail them).
• For Addon Pack Creators: Added kgSIM_Helper*_Marker_ForClutter variants of the helper markers. The Builder’s Toolkit tells you to use the ones without the _ForClutter suffix, but those are no longer compatible with the SCOL step - these new _ForClutter versions will work correctly.
• Minuteman Ally and Children of Atom Ally Leader traits will now be correctly cleared from the settlement if the leader with that trait is removed.
• Depending on how you complete the Vault Tec DLC quests, Overseer Barstow may become an available leader.
  • She has the leader traits: Mad Scientist, Futurist, Taskmaster.
• Added Mad Scientist leader trait. This trait recruits an extra settler each day (up to the max allowed based on your settings), and each day there is a chance one of your settlers will die.
• City Plans can now be gated by global variables to make them not available until after certain conditions are met.
  • This was used with the Vault 88 City Plan to ensure you complete the quests before using it, as the City Plan may conflict with your ability to complete the quests.
• For Addon Pack Creators: Added new flag to City Leader Cards: bIgnoreCommandableFlag. This will allow you to make certain NPCs leaders without having to edit their commandable flag on WorkshopNPCScript. WARNING - Be sure to test what happens if you remove them as City Leader and scrap the desk. Many non-commandable NPCs can end up in a broken state if you change what they are doing, unless you script a method for them to return to their former activity.
• For Addon Pack Creators: Added new Requirements field to City Leader Cards. This allows you to set global requirements before your City Leader becomes unlocked. You can use this in combination with anything you like to gate access to the leaders.
• City Leaders assigned to a desk when a City Plan is not being used will now correctly sit at the desk (assuming they are humanoid with appropriate animations).
• All code that scraps items will now test each to see if there’s a chance this item is in the power grid, and if so will never actually delete the item but instead will just hide it. There is currently no way to test this directly, so it will just be assumed that all items that COULD be in the grid are actually in it, which will eliminate the chance of deleting those items causing the Scrap Crash. (In the future, those items will be properly deleted for F4SE users.)
• Added necessary code and assets to prepare for the upcoming City Plan pack.

Version 3.4.6a

• Removes the Lite Mode flag which would make Sim Settlements skip the building stages, it was accidentally left on for all versions, instead of just the Xbox Lite version.

Version 3.4.5

The Boring Patch Released - 12 October 2018

• Fixed an issue where plots could get stuck during a refresh.
• Fixed several bugs that could occur if you ever had more robots than non-robot settlers in a settlement.
• Fixed several issues with the Happiness Report.
• Cinematic Mode will no longer trigger in Vault 88.
• The boxes of ASAM sensors found in the museum and a few other locations now correctly have physics. (Thank you KKTheBeast)
• Spotlight scripts from SS will now confirm the spotlight is loaded before trying to create the markers needed to pan. This should fix an issue where the spot light scripts were getting stuck for some users.
• All Industrial Revolution scrap (such as Dirt, Clay, etc) now correctly counts as donatable scrap and will work as expected in the Remelting Facility.
• Donated scrap for calculating percentage towards Scrap needed for a City upgrade is now configured to be based on the component value. This means that junk items with lots of valuable components will now push the percentage higher than cheaper junk items. Previously, the value would only be calculated on raw scrapped components.
• All medicines learned from the Medical Grade Plastics building will now correctly have a description of their effect on the inventory screen.
• For City Plan Creators: The finalcheck command will no longer highlight plots yellow. This was an old feature from before the findobjects command existed. The findobjects command is much more convenient for this task without screwing up your ability to record video in your settlement. (Note that the yellow effect goes away after a couple hours in game if you already had it happen in a save).
• Workshop HUD will now show an unhappy symbol next to the City Upgrade percentage if happiness is too low for the next City Upgrade.

Version 3.4.5a

• Fixed a bug that could cause the Sim Settlements workshop HUD to get stuck.
• Added support for the Happiness Report to work when Workshop Framework is installed.
• Fixed an issue that was causing large amounts of log spam.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the marker objects to not correctly disappear at the correct times to match your settings.

Version 3.4.4

Framework Prepwork Released - 28 September 2018

• Adjusted City Planner’s Desk code to attempt and prevent City Plan’s from being restarted for some users.
• Added notification when a city level has finished. This will make it clear to players who aren’t using Cinematic Mode when things have finished.
• Rad Chickens spawned by the marker objects will now correctly be flagged as friendly.
• Using the RotC Covenant City Plan will now force all of the citizens to be commandable so they can be assigned to plots.
• Afterglow magazine perk should now work correctly. Note: There is no perk for this listed in your stats, you’ll just find that killing the appropriate Glowing enemy type will begin to drop an extra crafting component you can use.
• Added Optimizer to City Details plaques of RotC City Plans.
• Fixed an issue with the New Bugle article “Out in the Open” which could prevent it from displaying the text correctly.
• Max Unemployed setting in the holotape will now correctly display 3 as the default.
• Updated the Reset All to Defaults option in the holotape to correctly reset all settings. Many of the new ones added since after Rise of the Commonwealth was released were not being affected.
• Once a leader is cleared, they will now be unassigned from the City Planner’s Desk, which should prevent them from retriggering a City Plan immediately.
• Solar Panels should no longer leave light beams behind when moved.
• Adjusted happiness report so it will no longer display negative numbers when displaying the X/Y scores for Food, Water, Shelter, etc.
• Auto-assignment to plots should now work more quickly and reliably.
• Fixed a conflict with the Unofficial Patch, where a settler assigned to certain plots would not be unassigned from previous vanilla objects they owned.
• For City Plan Creators: Altered code that does calculations for balance to better account for what plots will provide regardless of whether or not you have leveled them up in your design yet.
• Added support for plots to correctly interact with layers from my new mod Workshop Plus.
• For Mod Authors: City Plan code will now send out events via WorkshopParent’s WorkshopObjectBuilt and WorkshopObjectDestroyed when a new WorkshopObjectScript type object is placed or scrapped by a City Plan or the Town Meeting Gavel.

Version 3.4.3

Rise of Far Harbor Released - 14 September 2018

• Added City Plans to all 4 Far Harbor settlements.
  • Starting at Level 1 of Longfellow’s Cabin, you will find a museum which adds new exhibits as you complete various tasks/quests in Far Harbor.
• Cat Spawner will now correctly spawn cats instead of dogs.
• Fixed a bug where the findobjects console command/Mark Objects tool would double-count blueman bed markers if you were in workshop mode.
• Made additional improvements to the workshop marker code to try and make it more reliably hide/show markers when necessary.
• Interior Plots should now have many more snaps to make snapping floors and walls to the outside of them easier.
• Improved detection of workshop mode, which should make the City Marker objects react a little more quickly.
• Scrapping at the start of a city plan or with the Town Meeting Gavel should be more reliable, especially at Echo Lake Lumber Mill which was built in such a way that the original code was often leaving things behind that it shouldn’t have.
• For City Plan Creators: Finalcheck command will no longer track plots that had previously been scrapped.

Version 3.4.2

City Planner's GO! Released - 31 August 2018

• Cleaned up startup code to try and eliminate thread backup that can occur if you load your game and then save and exit again before it finished running.
• Cleaned up location change code to try and eliminate thread backup that can occur if you travel quickly between several settlements.
• Navmeshed many of the vanilla floor objects that are made buildable by the Project Blueprint mods included with the City Planner’s Toolkit.
• Added snaps to tons of the vanilla objects made buildable by the Project Blueprint mods.
• Fixed an issue where location change code could fail to fire on a new game running Sim Settlements.
• Flagged many clutter type items unlocked by the Project Blueprint mods as “AnythingIsGround” which will make them easier to place on surfaces.
• Fixed Longfellow's City Leader flag, it was previously displaying Porter Gage's texture.
• Improved the workshop marker object code so that it will be more efficient and should no longer fail to unhide those objects if you have the appropriate option enabled in the options.

Version 3.4.1

Pack and Play Released - 24 August 2018

• Fixed a bug that could prevent City Plan pre-build scrapping from working correctly.
• Corrected the Simple Objectives holotape explanation which was showing in reverse.
• Fixed an issue where Terraformer blocks could end up spawning grading while you held them in workshop mode.
• Plot spawned defense and power objects will correctly avoid maintenance costs (this should fix issues with legacy building plans that haven’t updated to the current method of providing resources from plots).
• The default generator in Vault 88 is now immune to maintenance costs and damage. This exception was made because it’s too much of a burden to acquire Vault 88 with maintenance costs enabled since you’re essentially stuck with that generator and you can’t repair it once it becomes damaged. The exception does not apply to other generators from that DLC.
• Altered faction of the Protectron that spawns in the level 3 version of Security Office, this should make it less likely that it attacks friendly NPCs.
• Confirmation messages when toggling the Immersion > Visitor setting should now match the actual setting.
• Improved bed detection script. This should make City Plans more likely to spawn beds at the appropriate time as well as improve the accuracy of the HUD’s settler support count. (For City Plan Designers, this should improve the check commands used to count beds in the settlement).
• Altered build limit calculation code to hopefully eliminate some of the log spam that was occurring for many players.
• Extended threading to support an additional 10 threads up to 30. This should help those of you on PC who are running into script lag as most PCs can easily handle many more threads than SS is currently limiting itself to. You can increase the thread count in the holotape under the performance options.
• Made several optimizations to the City Plan spawning code, this will speed up City building and upgrades slightly.
• Greatly improved performance of the Cinematic Mode code. The transitions should be much smoother and less script heavy.
• Changed the way the Sim Settlements Shelter Fix works. (The shelter fix is a solution to the vanilla game bug where you get a happiness penalty for beds not having a roof, even though they have one.)
  • The shelter fix no longer runs automatically by default. This was done because it was likely a cause of some player’s crashing, and not everyone needs it to be run.
  • Added a new holotape option under Options > Gameplay > Usability to allow you to change it to run automatically when you arrive in a settlement.
• Added a new tool to the holotape under Tools called Shelter Fix. This will apply the shelter fix to your current settlement.
• Removed Crash Watch notification option from the holotape as it is no longer a feature.
• Restored a number of missing mesh files to the archive of the main mod and three-in-one.
• Added support for some background functions that will help players during the upcoming City Plan Contest.
• Added a new feature to City Planner’s Desks where they can be deployed from your inventory. This will make it much easier to set up new settlements as you won’t have to remember to bring all of the specific scrap required to build a City Planner’s Desk.
  • Packed City Planner’s Desks can be crafted at an existing City Planner’s Desk.
  • City Planner’s Desks can be picked up and put in your inventory by choosing the “Pack Up Desk” option on the terminal.
  • Dropping a Packed City Planner’s Desk from your inventory will cause it to be setup where you are standing and it will link itself to the nearest settlement.
• For City Plan Designers: The finalcheck command will now use your character as the origin when checking for things like the Radio Beacon or the City Planner’s Desk, this should help in settlements like Spectacle Island where the objects can easily be more than the max distance from the workshop. The command also now tests food and defense for balance recommendations.
• For City Plan Designers: The findobjects command should now correctly find turrets when searching for “defense”.
• Added Complex City Plans and Shelter Fix controls to MCM menu.
• Town Meetings setting in the holotape should now correctly display as one option.
• Simple Objectives will now be turned on by default after the setup Wizard, unless you choose “Throw everything you’ve got at me.”.

Version 3.4.0

Rise of the Commonwealth 2.0 Released - 11 August 2018

• Fixed a bug with the reward for the Microfusion Research Assistant quest. If you have this, refresh the plot to ensure the reward is updated with the new script.
• Fixed several conversion issues from the Medical Grade Plastics objects. For example, certain Melon types would be converted to versions of Mutfruit.
• Disabled remaining Crash Watch code as it was more likely to create a false positive than actually catch an actual infinite loop in code due to how much more Sim Settlements is doing now.
• Recruitment Station now has a switch inside so you can turn it off.
• Reduced the water and power in the Egret Tours Marina, Greentop Nursery, Tenpines Bluff, Oberland Station, Nordhagen Beach, and Taffington Boathouse City Plans to a reasonable amount for each level. This should make it much easier to meet defense needs and reduce the maintenance costs.
• Improved audio quality of several voice files (and reduced their file sizes thanks to some quality compression!).
• Added optimized versions of most RotC City Plans (the exception is Bunker Hill, which may come in a future patch).
• Added new performance option: Complex City Plans. When this is disabled, Sim Settlements will check for a simplified version of the City Plan to use.
• Complex City Plans will be disabled by default for everyone but PC users who choose the Ultra setting.
• Added a new option creator’s can use on City Plans, so that they warn players with Complex City Plans disabled, that they shouldn’t use the plan on their system.
• Made some minor improvements to the Sanctuary City Plan to help reduce framerate drops. Refresh your City to see these changes.
• Terraformer blocks used in City Plans will no longer spawn extra copies of the grading pieces.
• Soundscape objects will no longer be linked to the workshop on creation for new games. (This won’t have much of an effect, other than making it easier for other mods who handle workshop items to ignore them).
• Medical Research Assistant will now hide its objective after you complete the final recipe. Once we add more recipes in a future patch, it will show you a new objective.
• City Plans that use vanilla crops or guard posts will now spawn multiple of the planned items when creating jobs for settlers, rather than just creating one at a time. (It will likely create more than are necessary due to a limitation in the way the code was designed for multi-threading, making this create the exact correct amount would require a massive rewrite and likely result in performance drops).
• The New Bugle article “A Taste So Good It’ll Kill Ya” is now linked to the appropriate trigger.
• Fixed an issue with the Thread Manager that could cause Sim Settlements to become severely backed up if you saved the game shortly after loading it and then exited the game. This could cause the startup event to double-fire and result in thread-lock. **To resolve this on existing saves, the next patch will auto-clear all thread locks from the thread manager.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent some scrappable items that are needed for a City Plan from correctly being restored. (Non-vanilla scrappable items still cannot be restored, so if you used a scrap mod and tore down most of a settlement, you’ll likely want to avoid using City Plans in those settlements).
• Made additional changes to workshop marker objects to reduce the likelihood they remain visible during City construction.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Cue to despawn from the Advanced Weapons Facility.
• Compressed the Dynamic Soundscape down further to reduce the overall filesize of Rise of the Commonwealth and Three-in-One by close to 50MB!
• For City Plan Designers: The finalcheck command will now also let you know if you have more power and water than would normally be necessary for the settlement (an excess or detriment is fine, it’s just helpful to know by how much).
• For City Plan Designers: The findobjects command will no longer highlight plots with a negative.
• For City Plan Designers: The object type names for the findobjects command have been opened up a bit, you can now use “farms” or “food” to find food, and “guardposts” or “defense” to find defense providing items.

Version 3.3.3

Another Round? Released - 27 July 2018

• Added new quest to the Distillery.
• Medical Grade Plastics now generates the correct version of Sterilized Plastic. The version it had been generating up to this point required that you have it in your inventory, and would not allow you to craft items using it if the plastic was in your workbench.
• Fixed a bug with the AnimatedObjectSpawner script that could cause some items to travel strangely.
• Added several snaps to the 2x2 foundations so that they can be snapped to each other even after a plot is on top of one.
• Reduced the file size of many sounds files.

Version 3.3.2

SimPunk 2287 Released - 20 July 2018

• Fixed a bug that could prevent leader traits from being applied correctly.
• Fixed a few of the research notes from Medical Grade Plastics that were far too vague and required testing thousands of combinations instead of a small number as was intended.
• Beaker should no longer be able to be knocked over in the Medical Grade Plastics building.
• Visitors setting in the holotape should correctly loop through On, Limited, and Off settings.
• For Building Plan Makers: Added Requirement_Globals field to Building Plans. This will allow you to setup whatever requirements you like for a building plan, as you can use your own methods to control the global variables you set up as requirement(s).
• SPOILER ALERT - Automatron DLC -

• • If you have this DLC, you’ll find that the Mechanist’s Lair now has a City Plan!

Version 3.3.1

Post-Nuclear Alchemy Released - 13 July 2018

• For City Plan Makers: linkscrapobjects will now display a percent complete notification in the corner periodically.
• Fixed an issue where Leaders could be assigned to settlements set up as Vassals to the Raiders via Nukaworld gameplay.
• Fixed an issue where Leaders could be assigned to player homes.
• Cinematic Mode should no longer trigger on interior settlements.
• Improved the City Plan code used to count beds in a settlement when determining whether to place another.
• Critters should now spawn towards the front of the plot to reduce the likelihood of accidental drownings.
• For Building Plan Makers: Animated object spawn code should now work with multi-stage items, it will also base it’s rotation on the plot rather than the object itself. This will mean that you can rotate the marker itself to orient the spawn rotation of each object. Previously, if you altered the rotation of the spawner, it would adjust the rotation of all transition points as well.
• When arriving at a settlement that is over the build limit, you will now be warned that plots will not build or upgrade. This was added due to the high number of bug reports about plots getting stuck - the reason has almost always been due to the build limit being reached.
• Terraformer blocks should no longer show up in the build menu if you are not using Industrial Revolution (they require materials only accessible if IR is installed).
• Eliminated a script that would run after each patch to recalculate plot resources (such as food or water production). This was designed to ensure we could seamlessly rebalance plots, but the script takes far too long to run given how infrequently we rebalance the plot resources, so instead this will only be called as needed. This should speed up patch startup.
• Added new holotape setting to the Visitors option under the Immersion section. You can now set it to Limited, which will cap the number of visitors to a low number to help with performance. (MCM support for this option will come in a future patch)
• Camera should now be forced to 1st person while using a climbable ladder.
• Swapping a plot from a city plan should now correctly flag the swapped plot as being self-powered.
• Swapped plots should no longer have a strange offset to the position of the new one. Note that plots added with the 2.0.0 patch (Martial, Recreational, Advanced Industrial) have a slightly different pole placement, which is normal.
• Animation Markers should no longer show up twice in the Performance Options section of the holotape.
• For Building Plan Makers: the test function should be more reliable.
• Designer’s Choice and Respect Build Limit can now be set on a per settlement basis under the Local Options.
• When Involvement is set to Low, Designer’s Choice will default to On. The assumption being that you would like the settlement to look the best it can and won’t want to fiddle with each design. You can still alter a design later with Designer’s Choice on, this only affects the initial selection.
• Afterglow magazines should no longer be invisible when viewed a second time.
• Fixed some issues with the Nuclear Enrichment building model.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the Newspaper article to get stuck looping a small number of articles.
• 2x2 Concrete Foundation sinking should now work the same as the other blocks.
• Fixed a bug that could cause objects placed by City Plans to end up rotated at bizarre angles. (thanks woodfuzzy for solving this mystery!) If you already experienced this bug, use the Refresh City option on the blueprint of your City Planner’s Desk in that settlement.
• Recruitment will now correctly spawn Far Harbor settlers in Far Harbor.
• Recruitment will no longer cause brahmin to show up in settlements with AllowBrahminRecruitment disabled.
• Fixed several missing models and material files.
• Adjusted some objects in the Advanced Weapons Facility to make for a smoother experience during the quest involved.
• Medical Grade Plastics is now open for all of your Medical Research needs! Refresh the plot if you already have one and search inside to begin the quest.

Version 3.3.0

The Great Big R&D Patch Released - 1 July 2018

• Advanced Industrial Scrap Yard, Scrap Processing, and Tech Salvager buildings now each have unique models instead of re-using the basic industrial models.
• Added a brand new Tech branch, the level one building is available immediately and is called the Excavation Pit. Like all other Industrial Revolution tech branches, the community will have to discover the secrets it holds!
• Many Industrial Revolution building plans have brand new secrets to discover or additional content!
• Munitions Factory now produces more ammunition each day.
  • Munitions Factory ammo types can be selected by activating the machine. Once activated, a container menu with a single bullet of the types it is currently producing will appear. Any types of supported ammo in the container will determine the types the factory can produce each day.
  • Supported types include most non-energy, non-explosive ammo types. Will work with DLC and mod-added ammo types.
  • If you want it to produce a specific type each day, simply remove all of the items and add in one bullet of the type you would like it to create. If you have several types, each day it will select one of those types at random to produce.
  • Note that if the plot becomes refreshed, you will most likely have to reconfigure the ammo production if you changed it from default.
• Fixed collision of Advanced Industrial plot power poles so there’s not invisible collision above the post.
• Fixed a bug where plots could get stuck at level 2.
• Recalculate Build Limit will now notify you when it has completed.
• Altered City plan object spawn code slightly to hopefully eliminate the crooked item bug that some players are experiencing.
• Added several new CustomEvents for other mods to make use of:
  • CinematicModeStart, CinematicModeStop, NewPathDiscovered (when a building on a tech tree is created for the first time in a play-through)
• Added control to disable Animation Markers (Blue Men) to the Performance Settings. These animation markers are low impact, but if you find you’re receiving a lot of crashes in your settlements, it will be worth disabling to avoid potential AI pathing issues. (If you’re on PC, you can test if this would have an effect by disabling AI with the console command “tai” before you go into a settlement that sometimes crashes. If disabling the AI prevents the crashing, there’s a small chance disabling these markers and refreshing your city plan will have a positive impact).
• Added Clean Up Settlement tool to the holotape.
  • Currently this will remove orphaned smoke from Maintenance Mode damaged objects that you have already repaired or that have been moved/scrapped, in the future it will also remove other items Sim Settlements detects in the settlement that were left behind by a failed script.
• Fixed healing bonus of Nuka Cola Melon (it was WAY higher than it was meant to be).
• Added Ice Cold records for all Sim Settlements beverages. (Thank you Gambit77!)
  • These currently cannot be created by default to avoid editing vanilla records, but if anyone would like to create compatibility patches for various mods that add refrigeration functionality - this will make it much easier.
• Separated out furniture from clutter in most Advanced Industrial buildings so they won’t be quite as empty when Clutter is disabled.
• Advanced Industrial Plots, and other plots using branching building plans, will no longer attempt to upgrade during the first minute after loading a save. This will prevent issues where some of the upgrade options haven’t finished being registered which can result in certain branches being more prevalent than others.
• The New Bugle newspaper now covers just about every relevant quest and event in the game, including DLC, and even some Sim Settlements events!
  • The reporters will do their best to take on breaking news stories and keep up with your accomplishments!
• Added 14 new magazines to collect.
• Added 2x2 Wooden foundation to the Sim Settlements > Foundations section, as well as Structures > Wood > Floors.
• 2x2 Concrete foundation will also show up under Structures > Concrete > Floors.
• Plots with foundations built in can no longer be built by default. If you desparately want them, they can be re-enabled in the Advanced options.
  • Reducing the plots themselves to only existing as standard and interior models will make it much easier to control how they function. It’s also much easier to build additional foundation options if they are separate and don’t require the heavy configuration involved in a new plot object.
  • In the future, this switch will enable some new features that aren’t possible with foundation plots. One such new possibility made it into this patch and is described below.
• Added a new option to the ASAM Sensor menu to change a plot to a different type.
  • Only works on non-foundation 2x2 plots and Interior plots.
  • Can take several seconds to process and the code will attempt to transfer ownership of the newly placed plot to the previous owner before destroying the original plot.
• You can now build Terraformer blocks, these can be found under Sim Settlements > Foundations.
  • Terraformer blocks require materials created by an Excavation Pit.
  • Terraformer blocks use a system I call Intelligent Grading. After a few seconds a rounded edge will be added all along the edge of the block. If blocks are snapped together, the edges will place themselves so that they aren’t intercepting each other.
  • When scrapping the main block, the grading will be auto-removed as well.
  • You can choose to scrap individual pieces of the grading.
  • You can independently build the grading pieces as well, there is even a full corner piece so that you can quickly surround a block with the grading. This is useful if you turn off Auto-grade placement.
• Tech is automatically shared with all of your settlements. Once you build an Advanced Industrial building, it can be built in any other settlement. (It still has to level up from the base building plan, but you can pre-select it in the new Manage Upgrades > Pre-Select Upgrade menu mentioned below).
• You can now pre-choose any unlocked upgrades on the ASAM Sensor’s Manage Upgrades menu under Pre-Select Upgrade Path. If you choose a building plan from a different base path, the plot will reset to Level 1 and start on that building plan instead.
  • This system will be useful for planning out things like power plants once you’ve unlocked them so that you don’t have to keep manually upgrading those plots.

Version 3.3.0a

• • Altered snaps on foundations and 2x2 plots so the plots will be much simpler to snap to the foundations.
  • Fixed an issue with the Terraformer blocks that would cause them to keep generating grading each time you returned to the settlement. They will no longer do this, and if they already did, they will clean themselves up automatically after this patch.
  • Terraformer blocks will now remove/replace collision when picked up or moved.
  • Improved collision on Terraformer blocks so that they are easier to place without Place Everywhere.
  • Eliminated a pop-up debug message that was left in by mistake.

Version 3.2.4

It's Just Like a Mini-mall! Released - 8 June 2018

• Rebuild Local Data will now detect if multiple settlements ended up with a shared Data store and will separate them if so.
• Vertibirds from the Brotherhood Ally perk will now fly in from afar instead of spawning awkwardly nearby.
• Fixed issues with several of the new power poles.
• Added one additional power pole option.
• Flag selection container should no longer build up extra copies of each flag. If your container already had many copies, the code will now attempt to clean them up.
• Added MCM hotkey to toggle the Citizen Needs HUD.
• Added MCM hotkeys to toggle the individual ASAM Vision modes.
• Added MCM hotkey to toggle the Sim Settlements tracking.
• NOTE: Please update to the latest version of MCM - it includes a fix that is required for all of the Sim Settlements options to work correctly.
• Fixed an issue with the City Plan creation web app that could prevent Designer’s Choice from working on some plots. Any City Plan designer’s who were struggling with this should rebuild their City Plans through the web tool. (Note that esl based building plans will not work with Designer’s Choice until Transfer Settlements is updated again and those plan creators re-export with the updated version.)
• Added a Furniture Store. (Requires Rise of the Commonwealth)
  • Furniture stores are a new commercial shop type. They sell unique pieces of furniture that you can buy and then place in workshop mode. Each level of the store introduces a few more pieces of furniture.
  • This system is expandable by add-on packs.
• Added option to change whether or not settlers will follow you during a Town Meeting. This can be found under Usability.
• Adjusted the way Designer’s Choice is handled so that Player Select Only building plans will work with it.
• Added new Cinematic Mode custom music track.
  • Added holotape/MCM controls to choose whether to randomize all available tracks, play the main theme only (what you’re used to), custom music only (which will be especially useful for Youtubers trying to avoid copyright strikes), and for those of you who just like to fly in peace: OFF.
• Moved Cinematic Mode music files to main mod so that players who remove Rise of the Commonwealth can still have access to it when using third party city plans.

Version 3.2.3

MCM, At Last! Released - 25 May 2018

• Vault Boy animation will play after a City Plan is selected and confirmed to make sure you’re aware that the City Plan selection worked. Since it can take a bit of time before the process actually starts, this will act as a clear indicator. (Thanks RuinedWorld for the awesome animation!)
• Changed the way settlement data storage objects are handled to eliminate data storage corruption. (Data storage objects are used to hold Sim Settlements information about particular settlements - these objects could previously end up corrupted under certain circumstances.)
  • If you had a settlement that was showing the wrong name on the blueprint, fast travel wasn’t working, or a leader was being assigned to it as well as multiple other settlements, they were most likely a victim of corrupt data storage.
  • To correct this, head to each settlement you had an issue in and use the Rebuild Local Data option under Tools > Configuration. This will update things like caravan resource sharing, maintenance costs, etc. Most importantly, it will clear out corrupted data storage objects and start fresh ones. After doing this, things like City Leaders, City Plans, Flag Selection, Banned Building Plans, and other things you had manually configured will most likely be reset for that settlement and will need to be selected again. In the case of City Plans, they will have to be restarted from the Foundation Level.
  • The good news, is that the settlement is now usable for Sim Settlements again in that save file!
• Rebuild Local Data will now fix several issues that could result in a City Plan getting stuck from progressing.
• Cinematic Mode should no longer try and use a different settlement’s camera markers as the path.
• Disabled the Crash Watch monitor as it generates false positives far too often due to changes since the 3.0 patch.
• HUD settings should update much more quickly, including after altering them at the City Planner’s Desk terminal.
• Included MCM integration! This allows PC players with the mod MCM installed to control most of the options from Sim Settlements from the pause menu.
  • Note: There are some tools that still require the City Manager holotape as MCM does not currently support confirmation prompts. These include the Tools and Reports sections.
• Added a collection of interesting new power poles that will transmit power.

Version 3.2.3a

• • Fixed the Build Limit tools in the holotape. Released - 28 May 2018

Version 3.2.2

Better City Planning Released - 11 May 2018

• Added Minutemen Ally and Children of Atom Ally traits to the Leader traits pool.
• Made wide-scale improvements to the Murkwater City Plan. Including eliminating beds from spawning in strange places and adding some new props.
• Fixed an issue where you could continually be asked every time you return to a settlement (or get near it) if you want to allow going over the build limit.
• Fixed an issue where some notification messages could fail to display a settlement name.
• Made improvements to the Bunker Hill City Plan to avoid duplication of furniture markers for the vanilla NPCs that live there, as well as fix the number of plots required at each level.
• Changed the plot script that detects if expansions are installed to ensure that weird timing issues won’t trigger them to be reset when switching a save to the Three-in-One version. If you still have this problem after the patch, you’ll want to continue your current play-through with the individual files and delay switching until your next character.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent Refresh from getting a plot “unstuck” when a model fails to be created for a build stage.
• City Plan created Advanced Industrial plots should now correctly use the appropriate base plan when plan selection for the City Built Plots is set to Designer’s Choice.
• Added Mechanist’s Lair and Vault 88 to the “No Fly” list so that settlement leaders with the Brotherhood Ally trait won’t ever bring Vertibirds.
• Improved efficiency of City Plan object spawning slightly.
• Made adjustments to Cinematic Mode to smooth the transitions and prepare for support of custom Cinematic Mode markers for City Plan makers.
• Fixed an issue where assigned blue man markers could fail to scrap correctly when a City Plan removed them.
• Screen should no longer twitch during the Hydration Research quest’s experiment stage. Known Issue: This may cause your characters hands to not show up when playing the drink animation - this may be fixed in the future, but we decided to live with the issue because the camera twitching was unbearably bad.
• Fixed Immersion Breaker Breaker (100% certain this time!).
• Removed Audio sliders, these weren’t supposed to make it into the last patch as they don’t actually work correctly.
• Changed the way Commercial sandwich board signs work so that they can use a much smaller texture file. Reducing overall size of Sim Settlements by about 14 MB.
• Third party City Plans that require Industrial Revolution or Rise of the Commonwealth will now correctly work with the Three-in-One version of Sim Settlements.

Version 3.2.1

The Third Battle for Bunker Hill Released - 21 April 2018

• Fixed an issue where Butcher animation markers would not correctly hide themselves.
• Marker objects, such as blue men and navmesh blocks, should no longer require changing a setting or toggling in and out of workshop mode to hide.
• Fixed an issue where build limits would not be updated when plots built objects.
• Fixed the Immersion Breaker Breaker.
• Tech Tree HUD should once again display the tech data correctly.
• Looping spawned objects such as the newspapers or ammunition plants from Industrial Revolution will have their paths corrected after a refresh. The script controlling those had a problem with the change in patch 3.2.0 that allowed objects to spawn in their correct final positions on plots.
• City plan objects that are meant to be removed during an upgrade should be attended to more quickly. Previously it would require that you had visited another settlement since the last upgrade before the cleanup code would run which could result in clipping objects for much longer than expected.
• Location change events and game load events now use the thread pool, this should allow for Sim Settlements to process things much more quickly when arriving in a settlement or loading your game. If you experience fast travel crashes after this patch - you’ll want to reduce the Max Threads to a low number (such as 5 or less). This can be done under Options > Performance Options > Configure Multi-threading.
• City Planner’s Desk flag should disappear immediately when the desk is scrapped.
• Added “Back to Work!” option to Town Meeting Gavel.
  • This will find all actors lacking assignment and confirm their variables are setup correctly so that they can be assigned things.
  • It will move all actors to where they should be depending on time of day. For daytime, at their jobs, for evening, at some sort of leisure activity, and at night their beds.
• Added “Time for Reassignment” option to Town Meeting Gavel.
  • This will unassign all NPCs in the settlement from everything (except for Caravan routes). Note that the game’s default assignment code can’t be turned off, so many of the NPCs will be auto-assigned again immediately if you have vanilla beds or jobs in the settlement.
  • This will also offer to start a Town Meeting immediately so you can quickly re-assign everyone.
• Added confirmation message to New U building plan.
• Martial plot flag options will be returned to the selection container after being swapped.
• New U sign is no longer flagged as clutter so it will appear even with that performance option disabled.
• Brewery table and beer crate are no longer flagged as clutter so they will appear even with that performance option disabled.
• City plans can now assign non-commandable settlers that count towards population to beds.
• Third party mod City Planner’s Desks should be better supported as functionality of Sim Settlements revolving around the desk now searches based on a keyword rather than a specific form.
• Altered location detection code slightly to hopefully eliminate issue of the holotape and sensors not spawning in the museum for some players starting a new game.
• Camera will attempt to point at the settlement after Cinematic Mode ends.
• Taking Point no longer requires saving and loading the game for it to register the Recruitment Beacon.
• Added Player Select Only option to City Plans. This will allow City Plan designers to release more variations of their designs, knowing they won’t be added to the randomization pool.
• Added Bunker Hill City Plan.
  • This is a special plan that will change depending on how you approach the main game quests.
• Ally guards should no longer attack Edward Deegan.
• Increased response time of workshop hud by about 40%.
• Bunker Hill added to “No Fly List”, so that Vertibirds will not be spawned there from the Brotherhood Ally leader trait. The area is too sensitive to crashes and the Vertibirds would often drag a large amount of enemies into battle with the settlement, increasing the risk of crashing.

Version 3.2.0

Respect Your Limits Released - 6 April 2018

• Sim Settlements will now clear the build limit after starting a city plan or using one of its methods to destroy a settlement.
• Plot spawned and City Plan placed items will now affect the build limit in an approximation. This should help players on low - mid tier systems know whether they should risk continuing to upgrade or build more things.
  • The default build limits were put in place by Bethesda due to it being a known issue that building too much would crash the game. There is no native way to update the build limits which is why Sim Settlements can only do an approximation (though it should be a fairly accurate one).
• Added new options to the holotape under Tools -> Configuration.
  • Build Limit - Increase Max: Increases the max build limit of the current settlement by 25% (if you are over the build limit already, it will offer to first set the max to what you are using before increasing by 25%).
  • Build Limit - Recalculate Use: Analyzes your settlement and plots to figure out how much of the build limit you’re actually using and updates the meter.
  • Build Limit - Restore max: Restores the max build limit to the original max determined safe by Bethesda.
• Altered power up code slightly to potentially reduce likelihood the game will corrupt a settlement power grid. (There’s still no clear explanation of what causes a power grid corruption as it can happen in an unmodded game.)
• Fixed an issue where donations might only process the first scrap item donated correctly.
• Fixed a bug where guard NPCs from Leader Traits could end up fighting each other.
• Fixed a bug where visitors could spawn too close to another NPC and end up in combat with them.
• Vertibirds from the Brotherhood Ally trait should now correctly patrol the settlement rather than just fly straight up into the air.
• Fixed a bug where Vertibirds from the Brotherhood Ally trait could spawn constantly.
• Patch 3.1.6 introduced a means for SS to self-repair plots that had become bugged in earlier versions, this repair method unfortunately locked the plot from updating while it completed, which could make them feel broken. Plots that are in the process of being repaired by Sim Settlements will now be responsive when you interact with them (meaning assignments, building plan changes, and refreshes will correctly take place).
• Added confirmation messages for building plan selection to Checkpoint and Central Park which had been missing them.
• Interior Plot building plans now correctly work with the ban system.
• Fixed a quirk in Sim Settlements auto-assignment code where an NPC could end up auto-assigned to extra plots under certain circumstances.
• Any Creation Club dogs found installed will be added to the potential pets that new settlers can show up with.
• Made changes to HUDFramework integration code to prepare for a change to disconnect an unintentional dependency. May be a minute or two delay after the first time loading this patch for the HUD pieces to display again.
• HUD power meter should be more responsive to wiring up plots.
• Added Close Menu option to Leader Traits Explanation. It’s not necessary to select this to close the menu (selecting any will do so), but this acts as a buffer to push the message box UI down far enough to prevent display errors on the trait details (Close Menu option may still be cut off by this UI quirk).
• When donating a large supply of junk/scrap to a level 2 city, if the amount donated exceeds what the settlement needs, the extra will be correctly returned. Previously, if a huge portion of a single type was donated, it would all be used, even once 100% was collected at level 3.
• Added Respect Build Limit option to the Performance section. When this is enabled, City Building and Plot item construction can be interrupted if it would push over the build limit. This will default to off unless the performance wizard is run and you choose Low/Medium/Xbox One/Xbox One S.
  • If a plot is refreshed when the settlement is over budget, an option will be given to allow that plot to exceed the build limit. This will be most useful for fresh plots that are built after the build limit has been hit, which will otherwise never build while the Respect Build Limit is enabled.
  • When upgrading a City, if the build limit would be hit or exceeded, you will be prompted to choose whether or not to allow the level to continue building beyond the limit. If you were away from the settlement when this happened, you will instead be prompted when you return to the settlement.
• Fixed an issue where a plot could start building before it had finished initializing. This could result in lots of strange behavior later on, such as the plot spontaneously resetting to a fresh plot.
• Plot objects will now spawn in the correct orientation immediately. This means you no longer have to wait for tons of plot refreshes when returning to a settlement that had a lot of upgrades while you were away.
• Fixed an issue that could cause City Plan placed City Planner’s Desks, Fast Travel mats, and other objects to become connected to the wrong settlement.
• StageItemSpawns set to appear at stage 0 will now show up immediately after the stage 0 StageModel, rather than requiring a plot refresh.
• Increased build time variance on plots. This will reduce the likelihood that a large number of plots upgrade simultaneously and spread the load out over a larger period of time.

Version 3.2.0a

• • Fixed a bug where the notification that a City Upgrade had begun would appear, but the City would never actually start the upgrade process. Released - 7 April 2018

Version 3.1.6

Performance 101 Released - 23 March 2018

• Fixed issue with Robot Morale Officer leader trait spiking happiness much too high.
• Fixed an issue where plots could reach max level and then all items would disappear until you refreshed the plot.
• Altered code used to pick up loose objects during the foundation phase of a city build so it’s less likely to pick up items from areas outside the settlement.
• Fixed potential issue where the FinalCheck function, used in the City Planner’s Toolkit, could incorrectly report the job counts.
• Accessing the flag selector on the City Planner’s Desk should be much faster when using a large number of flags from add-ons (users of World Flags should notice a substantial improvement). There will still be a slight delay before flags appear in the list as it has to be built each time you start your game.
• Supply safe on the City Planner’s desk will now attempt to connect itself to the correct settlement if it detects it is attached to a distant settlement.
• Fixed an issue where plots would sometimes fail to update their clutter when you returned to the settlement if they had upgraded while you were elsewhere.
• Improved settlement clean-up code so it’s less memory intensive.
• Objects should no longer flicker in and out after you scrap them.
• Maintenance costs are now recalculated after running Refresh City, Scrap This Settlement, or one of the holotape Destruct Sequences.
• Added Rebuild Local Data tool to the holotape (under tools Configuration Tools), which will force Sim Settlements to rebuild the maintenance costs, plot counts, and tax data. This is designed to help players who had previously run into a lot of script back-ups or other weird quirks that resulted in the maintenance or tax amounts not matching what is actually built in the settlement.
• Fixed a math error that could result in problems with caravan resource sharing.
• Stored Food and Water will no longer be consumed if a caravan is providing resources.
• Automatron robots will no longer be auto-assigned to Residential plots.
• City Leader tracking should now function correctly. If you were having trouble with this, use the Rebuild Local Data tool in the holotape to have Sim Settlements redetect the leaders.
• If Far Harbor is detected, 2x2 Recreational plots will now occasionally spawn Rad Rabbits. Add-on pack authors may disable these on their building plans. All critters can be disabled in the performance options by turning off NPCs and Pets.
• New recruited settlers will no longer have a chance to arrive with pets if NPCs and Pets are disabled in the Performance Options.
• Fast Travel mats will no longer be placed on Xbox by City Plans. After much Xbox testing, we determined one of the most common causes of crashes was having a fast travel mat too far from the settlement which meant that much of the settlement wasn’t actually loaded into memory correctly when fast traveling.
• Added debug console command to plots which will output most of the variables from the plot to the Papyrus log which will be useful for troubleshooting user issues without having to share save files. To use the command, select the plot in console mode and run the command cf debug
• Interior Plots will now play sounds while under construction.
• Lowered volume slightly on background conversations from the Dynamic Soundscape.
• Reduced likelihood of background conversations at night from Dynamic Soundscape.
• Selecting a building plan that has a shared path will now work correctly. This would have been most noticeable when trying to choose Watershed from Ruined Homes and Gardens or Community Well from Industrial Revolution.
• Rewrote supply safe donation code to make it virtually impossible to crash your game. It can now support up to 1000 different item types per donation, but will prevent you from making additional donations until the previous one has completed processing. (thanks wim95 for finding the code flaw and solution!)
• Basic Industrial plots will now generate a small amount of scrap directly towards the City Upgrade in addition to their normal scrap generation.
• Fixed an issue where settlers could be recruited indefinitely if you turn on Ignore Charisma and don’t visit a settlement for a long time.
• Fixed an issue where refreshing a City could remove non-plot assignable objects and fail to ever recreate them. If you had this happen, please refresh your City again to restore them - note that some of City Plans will require an update to allow those objects to appear before the City has reached level 3 (City updates will becoming over the next few patches).
• Non-plot work objects created by a City Plan will attempt to find an available worker whenever you arrive in the settlement again.
• Fixed an issue where some shopkeep markers could fail to auto-assign.
• Added Performance Wizard. When you first load this patch on an existing game, you will be asked to select your graphics settings (or Xbox model), you will then be offered to auto-configure performance settings based on what we found works best in testing. For new games, you will just be prompted to select your graphics/model after loading the holotape.
• Added 19 new leader trait effects add-on pack authors can make use of. (Many more to come!)
• Fixed an issue where marker and leveled bed objects would not count towards the City population max on the HUD.
• Fixed an issue where HUDFramework could fail to load the Sim Settlements HUD pieces correctly (if you were experiencing this, there may be a 30 second delay while it repairs the issue).

Version 3.1.5

My Covenant to Optimization Released - 9 March 2018

• Changed the way maintenance failure targets are chosen so it’s less likely to keep breaking down the same things every time.
• Fixed an issue where 3rd party City Plans could be prevented from ever showing up, depending on how long things took to load.
• Sleep Marker objects should now be assignable when City Marker objects are set to WS Mode.
• Fixed a potential problem with Spotlights on plots where they could cause tons of log errors, or else fail to ever activate.
• Spot lights used on other types of plots will now correctly emit light, rather than just the faux light beams.
• Greatly expanded the Dynamic Soundscape options so there will be more variety of sounds.
• Added Covenant City Plan. This is the first plan that actually changes the number of settlers it requires at each level so that it will grow more organically.
• Redesigned events used when arriving at or leaving a settlement to greatly reduce script load.
• Added additional snaps to Interior Plots to make them function better with Vault Tec pieces. (thanks Samutz!).
• City Plans will now acknowledge most Performance Options. Things like clutter, extra lights, and special effect settings will now apply to city created items.
• Fixed a bug where plots imported with Transfer Settlements would not correctly spawn an ASAM Sensor.

Version 3.1.5a

• • Fixed several bugs involving building plans, these could prevent your selections from working or allow you to select building plans that you were lacking assets for - resulting in pink-colored buildings with missing items. Released - 11 March 2018

Version 3.1.4

City Planners Assemble Released - 1 March 2018

• Fixed an issue where multiple city plans could start at the same time if a City Plan was selected before a Leader was assigned.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent 3rd party City Plans from registering with Sim Settlements.
• Fixed an issue where a plot design with lots of objects could fail to refresh correctly.
• Fixed an issue where a special type of “leveled bed” could end up creating extra copies of itself.
• Auto-assignment of plots built as part of cities should occur more quickly.

Version 3.1.3

What Happens in Starlight Released - 24 February 2018

• Leader Trait provided ally NPCs should no longer attack the Caretaker.
• Fixed an issue where pets were almost impossible to spawn, unless one of two leadership traits were in effect.
• Leaders that start out as settlers should no longer be assignable as a leader until after you’ve gained control of the settlement they are a part of.
• Fixed a bug where only Major Traits and Weaknesses were being applied for city leaders.
• Fixed an issue where Ally factions guarding settlements would keep spawning more guards beyond the max.
• Moved additional code into the thread pool to reduce likelihood of crashes when fast-traveling or walking through complex settlements.
• Added support for add-ons to separate building plans from DLC and other mods, so they can include additional buildings without needing complex installers. This will allow for things like including DLC, 3rd party mods, and Creation Club content in the add-on that is only enabled if you have that content installed.
• Added a system for building plans to alter plot items such as mailboxes, rent signs, sandwich boards, etc.
• Cinematic mode camera will now center at approximately the central point of the settlement, rather than the workbench.
• Added Starlight Drive-in City plan.This plan is unique as it experiments with several new things.
  • This is the first plan with certain items that will not spawn on Xbox or if you have the Detailed Models performance option disabled on PC. Primarily these are lighting objects which have one of the largest effects on FPS.
  • There are extra items spawned if you have Far Harbor, Vault Tech Workshop, or the Creation Club Arcade kit installed.
• Fixed a certain type of sleeping marker used in city plans so that they correctly count as beds.
• City Planner’s Desk tracking option will now just show the desk nearest to the player when in a settlement, rather than all known city planner’s desks.
• Going forward, new city-built plots will record their positions so they can be updated during a city refresh. This will allow players who find those items positioned incorrectly, due to engine failures or who accidentally moved them, to fix the positions.
• Fixed an issue with the dynamic soundscape that could result in tons of papyrus log spam.
• Changed the way that the City Planner’s Desk Blueprint object detects the location it is in. This should reduce the likelihood the incorrect settlement name is displayed.
• City percentage on hud will now correctly hide when the current settlement doesn’t have a City Plan applied.
• Made changes to city percentage display code, this should eliminate the percentage seeming to go down before the city finishes the current level.
• City plan progress percentage on the City Planner’s Desk blueprint menu should now always match the HUD percentage.
• Added several plot spacer objects based on the mod Wedges of the Commonwealth. Thanks to PCDug and Ethreon for permission and 3ds work, respectively.
• Updated City Manager Holotape texture to correct spine (thanks Pra!).
• Updated Sanctuary build to remove excessive power in levels 0 through 2, huge amount of power is still available at level 3 so you can use the power plant the settlers have built. The primary connectors are on the roof of that building.
• Made additional improvements to cell loading code to further reduce likelihood of crashes when arriving at a settlement.
• Workshop HUD controller should no longer attempt to interact with HUDFramework until after the City Manager holotape is loaded for the first time. This will hopefully eliminate the issue where players could be stuck in a loop trying to boot the holotape on a new game.
• NPC isn’t interested in leading message should no longer pop-up if the NPC is already assigned as the leader of the settlement.
• Redesigned the add-on pack loading method to be less likely to interfere with each other.
• Added support for third party mods to add City Plans. The toolkit for doing so should be released very soon!
• Added Remote Destruct Sequence to Tools section of the holotape.
  • This will find nearby settlements and offer you the option to tear them down. Once you start, you should stay in the area until it finishes.
  • If you are having trouble with a settlement crashing and want to destroy it with this, be sure to turn off Demolition FX before you do so, or the extra graphics might crash your game.

Version 3.1.3a

• • Fixed a bug where add-on pack content could become unselectable shortly after loading a save. Released - 25 February Date 2018

Version 3.1.2

Praise Be to Glorious Leader Released - 11 February 2018

• Altered code to reduce likelihood animations would attempt to be played on objects that aren't loaded yet.
• Fixed an issue where Interior Plots could skip level 1.
• Scrapping non-city built items via the Town Meeting Gavel’s “Scrap This Settlement” option will now correctly return scrap to the workbench.
• Player built objects that are attached to city built items will no longer be scrapped during a city refresh.
• Adjusted City Planner’s Desk code slightly to make it less likely to display information for the wrong settlement.
• Refreshing plots will now correctly start construction again if the player changed the Realistic Build Times setting while the plots were in the process of building.
• Recent construction map markers for plots in a settlement will now be cleared after you visit and leave that settlement.
• Toggling most tracking options in the holotape under Tools -> Tracking Options will now clear out any removed item map markers. *For example, if you have an old City Planner’s Desk still marked on your map that is no longer there, turning the tracking option off and then back on should remove that marker.
• Added custom transforms to all building plans, this will make it easier for 3rd party mods to create preview models.
• HUDFramework meters will now have an up arrow next to happiness if it’s increasing.
• Added new section HUDFramework meters for city info.
  • For settlements using the city building feature, the current population, max supported population, current city level, and the percent towards the next level the settlement is.
  • The percent is based on either the time remaining, or the plot level construction required, depending which is further behind. **For example, if 50% of the plot construction is complete, but the time is 75% past, the percentage will show 50.
  • For settlements without a city plan, only the current population will be displayed.
• Fixed looping sound issue for many Industrial Revolution buildings.
• Made adjustments to Dynamic Soundscape.
  • Reduced volume and frequency of most animal sounds, especially dogs barking.
  • Reduced frequency of gunshot sounds.
• Fixed several beer recipes from Industrial Revolution that were being spawned in the wrong locations.
• Recruitment setting for max unemployed settlers now defaults to 3, this will ensure the few settlements with 1 or 2 unassignable settlers will still continue to recruit additional.
• Implemented Leader Traits system.
  • Each settlement leader has a series of traits, one major, one minor, and one weakness.
  • These will provide bonuses, penalties, and flavor to the settlements the leader is in charge of.
  • Leadership traits are in effect as long as the leader is assigned as the leader of that settlement.
  • Leadership traits do not require city construction, they will work even with settlements you have built yourself or imported with Transfer Settlements.
• Made further adjustments to the last 3 visitors that weren’t playing nice.
• Televisions used by Sim Settlements are no longer animated and won’t display anything on screen. This is an unfortunate sacrifice made to avoid a Fallout 4 crash bug they trigger.
• Made adjustments to all city plans.
  • Added water and power resources to most levels so they require less manual intervention.
  • Added settlement signs to the last few that were missing them: Castle, Zimonja, Jamaica Plains, Tenpines Bluff, and Coastal Cottage.
  • Eliminated the use of foundational plots so there would no longer be a feel of “stairs to nowhere” in the foundation level - the stairs will now lead to appropriate sized platforms where it will be clear a plot will be placed eventually.
  • Removed floating objects such as flags suspended in mid-air.
  • Added some beds and work objects to help balance out some of the builds.
  • Altered some of the Designer’s choice building plans to work better with the space.
• City Planner’s Desk items should now be removed much sooner after the desk is removed during city construction.
• Metal Prefabs house select message no longer references the name Max Shack.

Version 3.1.1

Come On In, The Water's Fine Released - 23 January 2018

• Further optimized scrap code during foundation construction.
• City construction and upgrades should now complete much faster.
• Fixed a bug where settlers that were assigned to a plot that was scrapped by the new city construction would never be re-autoassigned to any other plots.
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash for some players when powered objects were created during city construction or upgrades.
• Fixed a bug where the City Planner’s Desk would leave items behind when it was scrapped.
• City Planner’s Desks will no longer be tracked by the Sim Settlements tracking quest after they are scrapped.
• Made slight adjustment to Cinematic Mode to reduce the likelihood of the player being dropped mid-air at the end of the sequence.
• Refreshing plots should be faster now, this includes using the Refresh Local Plots tool.
• Plots should now process their upgrade and build code more quickly.
• Removal of old objects after a city upgrade will now work much faster. This will improve performance for players using Manual upgrades as many of the objects will be removed before the new ones are placed, meaning less things for the game to render.
• Added framework required for community created city plans. (Toolkit release date TBD)
• Taking Point quest should be more likely to be completed immediately when a beacon is built or turned on. If it doesn’t, saving the game and then reloading will definitely advance the quest.
• Fixed issue with the add-on support quest which was preventing new commercial interior plots from working correctly.
• All tax penalties and bonuses will be re-calculated when you first install this patch to correct any issues due to previous bugs in the calculations.
• Tax/Vendor Income will show correctly on the Manage Supplies screen even if the settlement has maintenance costs. Previously the Tax/Vendor Income field would always show 0 if that settlement had maintenance costs.
• Maintenance costs should no longer be applied to settlements that aren’t controlled yet.
• Local Self Destruct with Full Charges option show now correctly remove marker objects.
• Assign leader prompts should no longer come up multiple times after you recruit your companion back from city leadership.
• Companion home location will now be set to the settlement they are leading when assigned.
• Fixed a bug in the resource sharing code.
• Caravan icons should now only show up on the HUD when a settlement is actually receiving resources from another settlement.
• Dynamic Soundscape will now be correctly reset after a settlement is scrapped with the city building functions or the Town Meeting gavel option.
• Altered all visitor AI to hopefully stop them from attacking people they shouldn’t.
• Cinematic Mode will no longer run if the player is sitting, this will prevent the player being stuck unable to move until it finishes.
• Roll-up doors in Sanctuary RotC city build will no longer auto-close.
• Removed option to Refresh City in Cinematic Mode. Refreshing with Cinematic Mode would often cause part of the settlement’s 3d to unload which would interrupt the process.
• Fixed a bug where Martial 1x1 plots using the Checkpoint building plan could get stuck upgrading to level 2.
• Added hook for the mod Salvage Beacons to be able to send items as donations, requires update to Salvage Beacons as well.
• Sim Settlements now uses a combined thread pool.
  • The thread pool helps prevent the mod from overloading the script engine by limiting the amount of actions it can make simultaneously.
  • For this first launch of the thread pool, a few very intensive functions are now using it, and as the mod is updated and expanded, more functions will be routed through the pool.
  • The Max Threads can now be controlled in the holotape under Options -> Performance -> Configure Multithreading.
    • By default this setting is set to Auto, which allows Sim Settlements to determine how many threads to use. Currently this is 10, but in the future will adjust dynamically based on the other mods you have installed.
    • You may adjust this from 1 to 20. The higher the number, the more resources you’re allowing Sim Settlements to use. Warning: Going too low could cause Sim Settlements to become incredibly slow, and going to high could cause it to crash - so it’s advised you leave this setting on Auto unless instructed to do otherwise.

Version 3.0.3

Community Exterminators Released - 11 January 2018

• Changed supply message slightly to say Caps/Tax Day since without Maintenance mode you don’t actually receive the caps every day.
• Fixed several missing texture issues, including the chair in the L3 New U commercial building.
• Barber chair at level 1 of New U should now work correctly.
• Fixed an issue where if another mod included an older version of ObjectReference.pex (which is a core Bethesda script), Sim Settlements could end up generating controller objects forever which will eventually force you to uninstall Sim Settlements in order to stabilize your save.
  • If you are experiencing extreme crashing that seems to not be tied to anything other than having upgraded to 3.0+ of Sim Settlements or installing it for the first time on your save, this could be your issue. To fix this - disable Sim Settlements, load your save and then make a new copy of this save, this creates a clean save without Sim Settlements. Now update Sim Settlements (if you haven’t already), re-enable it in your load order and load that new save. Your progress with Sim Settlements will be reset, but your save will be fine.
• Fixed issue where your taxes would increase by your settlement surplus.
• After Cinematic Mode ends, the player will be attempted to be returned to a nearby fast travel mat instead of the location they started, which should avoid players ending up dropped high in the air or inside of structures. Note: All city plans from Rise of the Commonwealth should include a fast travel mat so you don’t have to place one.
• When visitors leave your settlement, if they had taken over a suit of your power armor due to a raid or some combat situation, they will now be forced out of it.
• Added an option control the camera direction during Cinematic Mode. This is especially useful if you find the camera stutters for you during Cinematic Mode, which is due to your game struggling to keep up with the non-stop calculations required to keep your camera centered. This setting is overridden if you are on Xbox and always operates as if you have it set to Manual.

• • This new option can be found under Options -> Gameplay -> City Building -> Cinematic Mode Camera.
• Town Meeting Gavel’s “Scrap This Settlement” option will now work correctly again.
• Scrap phase of city building should now correctly move loose objects to the workbench.
• Using the Local Self Destruct Tool with full charges should now correctly remove marker objects created by a city plan.
• Beacons created by the city plan will now default to turned off if you have the Beacon Recruitment off in your holotape options. This will allow player’s looking to slow down recruitment, or play without beacon recruitment to do so.
• Changed the default Involvement setting to Medium so that the Scrap collecting mechanic is still in place. The settlers will still naturally collect junk on their own, just like the Stockpile system of IR.
• Added a new Involvement option called Defaults, which will make your cities use your global settings.
• Changed the Recent Deaths section of the Happiness Report to Temporary Adjustments, and altered the explanation accordingly. Recent Deaths was misleading and didn’t cover the full scope of what that line was doing. In reality, it includes deaths, settlement quests, and donations.
• Happiness donations now correctly factor in the population so that the more settlers you have, the more you have to donate to have the same increase in happiness.
• Reduced effects changing taxes have on Agricultural output.
• Increased base tax rate on Agricultural to make reducing taxes less of a perceived obvious move. The real penalty for reducing any taxes is the defense hit (unless you’re using Maintenance Costs).
• Barriers blocking the lower levels of the Castle are now scrappable - this is a temporary solution until we get a chance to update our Castle build.
• Martial Plots will correctly no longer incur maintenance costs.
• Redesigned City Planner’s Desk so that the terminal is on the right. This ensures that the game’s terminal animation, which requires sitting from the left, will work no matter where you place the desk.
• Soundscape now has protections against the game incorrectly reporting more plots than actually exist, which could result in the soundscape playing sounds way more frequently than intended.
• Fixed a bug where the local Maintenance Costs option would not correctly sync to the global setting if Reset Local Laws was used.
• Maintenance costs will now correctly be lowered when power providing objects are scrapped.
• Fixed issue with massive defense penalties being applied when taxes were adjusted.
• Maintenance costs will now be recorded even if maintenance mode isn’t on at the start so that you can turn it on mid playthrough. The numbers will just be ignored until you enable them.

Version 3.0.2

Autonomy Now Released - 6 January 2018

• City Planner’s Desks will no longer be left behind or duplicated when a city is refreshed or upgraded.
  • If the city design itself mistakenly has multiple desks, they may still appear in duplicate, this will be fixed in a future patch.
• Fixed a bug where the camera could zoom out much further than anticipated during Cinematic Mode, especially on Xbox.
• City building scrap phase should now run smoother and will finish before the actual construction starts so you won’t be left wondering if it completed.
• The scrap and cleanup phases of city building can now be handled remotely. This should reduce crashes caused by walking into a settlement that had a lot of queued cleanup steps to do.
• This also means that once construction starts of the foundation level, you are free to leave the settlement without having to watch it all build and can come back to see it completed.
• City plan sirens should no longer power up immediately.
• Settlement scrapping during City Building is now multi-threaded, this speeds up the process substantially. Your system may not be able to handle this, so it can be turned off under Options -> Gameplay Options -> Performance. Additional elements of the city building code will be made to take advantage of multi-threading in future patches. The ultimate goal is to make a city finish it’s foundation level or upgrade level in a single song play.
• Fixed an issue where visitors would never leave and you could end up with literally hundreds in your settlement.
• Visitors will now correctly spawn throughout the settlement instead of an a big clump when you arrive.
• Visitors should no longer attack innocent cats and Carlas.
• City will now resume construction if you assign a leader to it if you took them as a companion thus interrupting construction. **If you used the Take Back City command, it both removes the leader and ends the city plan so that you can take over the construction, which means the city resume won’t apply if you assign a leader, instead it will start over offering you the initial scrap option.
  • If your settlement appears stuck and you think you may have pulled the leader away at some point, pull them away again by talking to them and telling them to follow you, then re-assign them as leader once more which should clear the “paused” flag now.
• City Leader field on the blueprint menu will now show N/A if a leader is not managing that settlement.
• Taking Point quest should no longer be prevented from completing, if you have one that won't appear to complete after you create a beacon, save your game and then load that save.
• Fixed the Change City Leader confirmation message so that it will show the correct settlement the other leader is currently running if you move someone from one settlement to another from the leader select screen.
• Throttled donated supply processing. You should now be able to dump as much as you like into the donation system without causing a crash.
• Sim Settlements will now appropriately regenerate its invisible data storage objects if you were to have used a mod or the scrapall command to scrap your settlement which destroyed them.
• Replaced a model file that could cause some players to crash when upgrading Outpost Zimonja to level 1.
• Fixed issue where taxes would never actually be deposited in the workbenches for some players.
• Nuka Cola now boosts settler happiness when donated.
• Donated items should no longer be duplicated.
• Fixed grammar error on blueprint menu, Lead was changed to Led.
• Removed the Checkpoint and Central Park model files from Industrial Revolution which will reduce the mod size slightly.
• Interior plots should now correctly show up under either Special or the Sim Settlements menu.
• Marker objects should be less likely to show up when initially created as part of a city plan.
  • If they do appear, go to Options -> Gameplay -> Visual and change Marker Objects to WS Mode which will allow you to show/hide them by entering exiting workshop mode. Once they are hidden, you can disable the option again.
• Dynamic Soundscape will now correctly turn itself off after you load a save where you set the volume of it to mute.
• Residential tax rates can now correctly be modified.
• Maintenance Costs set on the local level will now function correctly.
• Fixed an issue where if you refreshed the city, restored scrap items would be removed.
• Added new Involvement setting under the City Building section of the Gameplay Options.
  • Involvement settings change a series of local options on each city the player establishes to be managed by someone else.
  • There are three settings:

• • • Low - The player only has to be concerned with happiness.
    • Medium - The player has to donate supplies and be concerned with happiness.
    • High - The player has to donate supplies, help ensure enough food/water/defense, and be concerned with happiness.

Version 3.0.1

Hotfix #1 Released - 2 January 2018

• Fixed an issue that was preventing cities from upgrading for many players.
  • IMPORTANT: If you have a lot of cities you believe are now ready to upgrade, please change the City Upgrade option to Manual before installing this patch or immediately after loading your game with it. It can be found in the City Manager 2078 holotape under Options -> Gameplay Options -> Upgrades. If you leave automatic upgrades on, there’s a chance all of your cities trigger within a very small timeframe and cause your game to crash. After you've checked your cities for manual upgrades, you can safely switch back to Auto.
• Changed the supply screen percentage to show 100% if you have City Supply Costs off in the holotape.
• Extra Workshop Workbenches that are incorrectly included in a City Plan will no longer be created.
  • If you already have an extra workbench, use the Refresh City option on the City Plan menu, this will recreate your city and remove the extra one in the process.
• Improved city building code to increase build speed and stability.
• Plots scrapped during the foundation level of a city build should no longer leave items behind.
• Made adjustments to scrap code to make it less prone to cause crashing.
• Starting the Castle build before finishing the Old Guns quest will no longer result in important items being scrapped or passages being blocked.
• Turning off Citizen Needs Requirement, either locally or globally, will now correctly allow that city to upgrade regardless of happiness - allowing you to virtually ignore the needs of that settlement (you’ll still want to help out some with happiness as it controls the percent chance of new settlers arriving, and if it falls too low, the vanilla game makes you lose control of the settlement).
• Plot count data will now be regenerated each time you return to a settlement, this will make taxes, city upgrades, and many other systems more accurate.
• Improved Donation system code to reduce the likelihood of duplicated items and crashes.
  • Best practice is to donate items in small batches to see if your game can handle the load as donation processing is very script intensive.
• Add several new debug functions that can be used to help players troubleshoot issues.

Version 3.0.0

Before We Rise Released - 29 December 2017

• Usability Options menu items now work correctly.
• Removed illegal character in the name of one of the beer recipes.
• Added Interior Plots.
  • Interior plots come in 6 types: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial, Martial, Recreational, and Residential.
  • Interior plots function similar to other plots, except that they have a height limit and are designed to fit inside existing game-world structures or snapped to structures you build yourself.
• Added City Plan system. IMPORTANT: Actual City Plans are not part of the base mod, they are added with community created add-ons and official expansion packs (such as Rise of the Commonwealth which will ship with plans for 24 settlements in the Commonwealth).
  • City Plans can be selected from the City Planner’s Desk. These allow you to make one of your companions act as the leader of that settlement. As long as a leader is in charge of a settlement they will build it, including placing plots for new settlers.
  • City Plan settlements will level up over time just like plots.
  • You will need to help support these settlements by setting up supply lines and/or donating extra goods to help them meet their needs.
  • Tools so that you can create your own City Plans will be released in the coming weeks!
• Added Donation System - the City Planner’s Desk now has a safe, accessing this will bring up the supply management screen. From here you can donate weapons, armor, food, water, drugs, junk and caps to help your settlers in various ways.
• Added Maintenance System (disabled by default) - the Maintenance System requires you to provide caps to pay for the fuel and ammo used by generators and turrets or they will begin to fail over time.
  • This system can be enabled under Options -> Gameplay -> Difficulty
  • Maintenance costs are subtracted from your settlement taxes.
  • Maintenance costs are equal to the amount of power or defense generated by the item.
  • Wind Power, Guard Posts, Traps, Martial Plots, power-producing Industrial Plots do not incur maintenance costs.
  • The system is designed to prevent turret and generator spam and encourage the use of alternative means in the early stages of a settlement as well as make things like Martial plots and power-producing industrial plots useful for longer.
• Changing tax rates will now influence the chance of new settlers arriving at your settlements, income rates, visitor rates, production levels, defense bonuses, happiness bonuses, and upgrade times.
• If you have Far Harbor installed, your Agricultural plots may attract Rad-Chickens.
• Prefixed all building plans with [SS], [IR], or [RC] to designate which expansion they are from.
• All building plans point to a custom copy of the note nif, this should allow mods to alter the preview of the building plans without applying esp edits.
• Checkpoint and Central Park building plans are now part of the core Sim Settlements experience, which means a new player will instantly have access to all 6 basic plot types without any expansions or addons. This was done to expand the possibilities of the City Plan system without requiring end users to need an entire add-on pack or expansion to gain access to a third of the plot types.
• Added additional animation markers to the 6 original shops in Sim Settlements.
• Fixed a bug where after manually selecting a building plan could lock up plots until after you load your save the next time. This would only occur if you had the “Bans Applied to Plan Selection” option turned on.
• Added Visitor system whereby NPCs are attracted to your settlement as your Commercial and Recreational levels grow. These NPCs will amuse themselves in your settlement and do odd jobs, all while generating income.
• Recruitment of new NPCs is now handled by Sim Settlements, this is done without altering the vanilla scripts or forms in any way.
  • This allows for holotape options to alter the rules by which new settlers are attracted.
  • Chance of getting a brahmin no longer replaces the settler you would have attracted like it does in vanilla. Instead, that chance determines if your settler arrives with a pet, which currently can be a Brahmin, a Dog, or a Cat.

Version 2.1.8

Last of the 2.Xs Released - 15 December 2017

• Altered navmesh of non-foundation plots to work better with the phantom collision.
• Made improvements to Ban code to further reduce likelihood that a plan is assigned to the wrong plot type.
• Removed the “All Work Counts as a Job” option. Non-plot jobs will always count towards the Residential Job requirement and filling the Job meter now.
• Removed the “Beds are Homes” option. Beds will always count towards the Commercial Home requirement and filling the Home meter now.
• Redesigned City Manager Holotape with an emphasis on making it both easy to navigate and clear in what each option does within the game. This was done to help new players as well as prepare for a host of new options that will be added with the upcoming expansion.
  • Added new Options section where all changes can be made and relocated all option related submenus there. This clears up the main screen of the holotape so that Reports and Tools are easily accessible.
  • Configure Zoning Laws has been renamed Gameplay Options under the Options submenu.
  • Previous Zoning Laws have been re-organized under many sub-headings to attempt and give a logical means of finding each option. Most of these options now have a detailed explanation about how the option will affect gameplay and some even explain the reasoning behind the options.
• Added new option under the Options -> Gameplay -> Visual category to allow you to disable non-critical indicators. These are the objects that appear on an occupied plot, such as mailboxes, shop sandwich boards, and the ever-hated floating hoe.
• Added a Random option to building plan selection which will pick a new random building plan for that plot.
• Optimized many files to further reduce the file size of both Sim Settlements and Industrial Revolution.

Version 2.1.7

Better Plots, Better Pathing Released - 01 December 2017

• Settlers assigned to Martial plots will now correctly be flagged as guards in code - this will alter their AI so that they spend more time manning the plot.
• Items on the City Planner’s Desk will appear rapidly instead of fading in one at a time.
• Non-foundation plots have been greatly improved.
  • Converted the collision style over to “phantom collision”, this will allow for improved snapping and prevent NPCs from appearing to float slightly above the plot if the building doesn’t have a floor.
  • No more invisible barrier near the edges of an agricultural plot.
• Applied a new navmesh method to Max Shack, settlers still may not naturally walk to bed due to furniture placement, but they can absolutely path the stairs and upper floor now and will successfully use the bed (albeit via teleport). Looking for feedback on the building now to determine if it’s worth switching the other multi-story homes to use this method.
• Sim Settlements Lite edition now skips the build stages in between levels, this allowed for reducing the file size by a good amount more.
• Added a new option for add-on authors to use on building plans to tag them so they won’t be auto-selected by settlers.
• Fixed an issue where recently placed plots that had no construction complete yet would show up as “New Construction” on the tracker.
• Changed some of the plot initialization code to make tracking for taxes more accurate.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some plots to be counted multiple times by the counting code which is used to determine taxes and upgrade eligibility.
• Added support for Transfer Settlements to be able to import VIPs and branching building plans (such as the Advanced Industrial buildings).
• Plot snaps have been standardized. Previously, the new plots introduced with Industrial Revolution had a slightly different snap configuration than the original 4 plot types, the original plots were updated to match the new snap style, which will allow for more easily snapping plots to each other, regardless of type.
• Refreshing a plot will now correctly attempt to resume construction, if eligible.

Version 2.1.6

Death to the Dead Zone Released - 18 November 2017