send settlement scavengers similar to state of decay

[nexus626]

sup guys, my first post. :D

 

anyways, i hope you guys are familiar with the gameplay of state of decay, particularly about requesting scavengers to a specific location to gain resources. (here's a vidya for reference : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5IVH_SIzY)

 

i'm hoping someone could make a settler scavenging mod about this. here's the idea :

 

1)player is given a holotape

2)use the holotape to see a menu that says, send scavengers from colony X to cleared dungeon Y (cleared dungeons are the ones where you look at their map icon, it should say "Cleared")

4)your assigned scavengers in the chosen colony will create a caravan (just like provisioners or caravan traders) to go and enter the chosen "cleared" dungeon.

5)once they are inside, a scavenging timer will start and they'll stay there until the timer ends, then exit the dungeon and head back to their colony along with the loot.

6)all the items inside the dungeon cells (including the items in corpses) will be retrieved by the scavengers.

 

this way, the player don't have to pick up everything by themselves. (it's not very immersive), so they can just request scavengers to pick up the items for them.

 

but i'm not sure if all inventory items of all containers in an area (cell) can actually be retrieved? ie : read the data for a cell, then check all containers, then check inventory items inside those containers. <------ if that is possible then, it would be cool.

 

but if it's not possible to retrieve the item data within the containers inside a cell, then i suppose an alternative could be that sending scavengers inside a cleared dungeon would just generate random junk items (more rare junk) compared to normal scavenging (settler job).

 

also, the provisioner/caravan part can be optional. it can just be simulated instead.

ie : what's the fast travel time needed to get from colony A to colony B? then travel time(round trip) + scavenging time = the time it takes for the settlement to receive the scavenging loot.

 

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gist is : it would be more immersive to just send scavenger teams instead of hauling all that junk alone by yourself (or using your companions as pack brahmin) while you also do the fighting.

 

with this mod. the player and his main squad would be more like an "assault and reconnaissance team", while the scavengers would be your "item retrieval team".

 

especially cool if you assign your extra companions as scavengers to be part of your scavenging teams. (this way they don't just mope around in your settlement, nor would they get in your way when you use with multiple followers mods)