Martial Plot Type
The martial plot type allows your settlers to build structures that generate defense and security for your settlement.
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How it Functions
Each martial plot will act as a job for a single settler and add to the overall defense score of your settlement. Martial plot structures are designed to provide far more defense than you could get with a vanilla guard post. Even if you can't/don’t upgrade them they'll still have a huge positive impact on your settlement and will give you a reasonable alternative to just spamming turrets.
Plot Size(s) / Foundation Options
- The martial plots come in 1x1 and 2x2 sizes.
- Available foundations are none, wooden stilts, and concrete.
Multiple Upgrade Levels
Like every other Sim Settlements plot type, structures built at a martial plot will have the ability to upgrade to level 2 and level 3 versions. Each upgrade of a martial plot structure’s level will increase the amount of defense provided to your settlement.
Like every Sim Settlement plot type, martial plot structures may use more of your settlements resources as they upgrade (food, water, etc.)
How to Upgrade to Higher Level
Martial plots have 3 basic requirements to trigger an upgrade in a structure’s level:
- They require power
- They must have a settler assigned to them
- You've got to have a reasonable happiness level in your settlement.
They also have a unique requirement/dependency and that's that you have to have a certain number of operational Industrial plots in your settlement in order to upgrade them. The logic behind this is that as these martial plot structures upgrade to higher levels, they'll start integrating new technology which is represented by your settlement’s industrial capabilities.
- Level 2 - you need to have at least three operational Industrial plots in your settlement
- Level 3 - you have to have at least five operational Industrial plots in your settlement
Holotape Options: You can turn off the tying of martial plot upgrades to number of industrial plots in the holotape options either on a global or local level. This is the Martial Tech Requirement
Sim Settlements Base Mod
While the core Sim Settlements mod has the capability of martial plots (and provides support for martial plot “building plans” from Sim Settlement addons), there are currently no “building plans” for martial plot structures included in the core Sim Settlements mod.
Thus if you have only the core Sim Settlements mod, the martial plot type will not show up in your workshop menu. However, as soon as you also install one of the expansion packs or addons that do have martial plot “building plans”, the martial plot type will show up in your workshop menu.
Sim Settlement Expansions
Industrial Revolution: comes with 1 guard post building plan (1x1 plot)
