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RimWorld

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Mod, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
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15 Jan, 2020 @ 8:23am
15 Apr @ 11:28am
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Trade Ships Drop Spot

Description
Control where Trade Ships drop your items with a placeable marker in Misc. (similar to party and caravan packing spots).

Drop Pods and Animal Pens
Vanilla picks spots outside of pens by design, I've decided to keep in line with vanilla so if you see your items dropping outside of your base, you probably have pens enclosing the drop spot.

I repeat... Animal pens will cause the drop pods to search for a spot outside the pen.



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Drop pods will only drop at this location for Trade Ships and Quest rewards. This does not affect random drop pod events, nor does it affect raids (enemy or friendly) coming in by drop pods.

Check out Loading In Progress for another useful Transport Pod mod.

Extra Information on Vanilla
Just to clarify to some people, the way that vanilla RimWorld determines where to drop transport pods from quests and from TradeShips is by gathering all of the orbital trade beacons you've placed and pulling from the top to check if it is a valid spot to drop it to. This means it checks if the orbital trade beacon and the cells cardinal to it are roofed, and will not allow those... but literally every other beacon is fair game, which can result in the pods going to the beacon that was placed the earliest in your playthrough. This allows you to overwrite that and send it to the drop spot marker 100% of the time. Also useful in early game when you do not have orbital trade beacons where the game will just toss your drop pods from quests to a random building piece.
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7 Feb, 2020 @ 4:44pm
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ChopSushiii 26 Nov @ 11:54am 
Definitely not compatible with:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3236257897
Realistic Orbital Trade
ODevil 30 Aug @ 11:02am 
Could you perchance make this compatible with Biomes! Caverns? That mod has it's own drop pods for underground delivery, but they ignore the drop spot and probably use vanilla behavior.
crashfly 6 Jul @ 7:55pm 
some people just do not read.
Smash Phil  [author] 6 Jul @ 7:53pm 
It's outlined in the description what the difference is
2962342497 6 Jul @ 7:44pm 
Seems like the game itself has this feature? What's the difference, please?
Arkitekt 27 May @ 9:02pm 
Thank you for the bold disclaimer about pens. Answered my exact issue, haha!
Farron 25 May @ 8:58am 
Does this affect where trade caravans park too or is it just drop pods?
Narlindir 4 May @ 6:22pm 
part of Niilo's QoL too
Clone 3 May @ 5:28am 
@LordXamon maybe it is because you want to have the drop pods land in an animal pen, is that so? Animal pens can't have pods drop in them, make a little non pen area fenced of where you want your pods to land.
LordXamon 18 Apr @ 5:58pm 
Doesn't work for me. Trade ships are still dropping their wares where they feel like.