About this mod
Festooned means to be adorned with decorations. Fesstooned is my take on adorning the Starfield universe. The aim is to start off simple with items you can add to ship and outpost habs. From there, I want to add alternative ship habs. We'll see where it goes from there.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
- The directory structure for constructibles needs improvement. As I hold out hope that BGS will do something to improve it, I'm using the vanilla categories as much as possible. I don't want to get stuck in the trap of having a fesstooned specific approach that potentially conflicts with other mods and future BGS tweaks.
- Trays with plants (4) - These have been added to spice up botany/hydroponic labs (eg closed hydroponics tray with rosemary). Open trays such as one with what the game calls cabbages but look more like artichokes are sized to fit in the empty hydroponic machine.
- Bonsai (WIP) - None currently in mod but will use scaled down versions of trees and shrubs to create decorative bonsai for desks, etc.
- Same directory location as vanilla items in ship and outpost build mode.
- Item types:
- Planter sets (8) - Starfield packins make creating clusters a breeze, but BGS doesn't make all the vanilla packins available in build mode. This fills the gap. A single plant is placed into a small number of nested planters (eg 3 planters arranged in a L-shape, each with a broadleaf rose). The role play idea here is that you need more than one sample to have a sustainable collection and to beautify your star system.
- Individual planters (81) - Many Starfield plants you see can't be placed in your habs. This addresses that. A representative example of vanilla plants (non-woody plants, shrubs, trees) and fungi are placed in a single planter. Shrubs and sapling trees have been scaled down so they don't look like they'd be rootbound and so they can fit within the habs.
- Collection planters (4) - This expands on the existing collection. Multiple specimens often including different species will be combined in all-in-one display.
- Not going to edit vanilla items so computers are in their own sub-category separate from the vanilla Old Computer. Most are already in game but haven't been made accessible to build.
- Item types:
- Computers (+10) - Computer towers of various sizes and components. The tower of 5 is about the size of a metal office file cabinet.
- Servers (+5) - A select number of configurations. Most are vanilla. Create a few custom variants. They resemble padmounted transformers (big electrical boxes near buildings) but have computer gizmos attached to them.
- Miscellaneous (+1) - One example is the laptop. A non-interactive version of the laptop will now be constructible.
- Own sub-category under decorations. The vanilla ones one sees for example in Kreet during the opening mission are too big to fit inside the outpost habs. These have been resized.
- Packins are really useful at creating mashups without the need for Nifskope/Outfit Studio. Downsize is effects seem to get neutralized (eg bubbling water in tanks with water effect)
- Item types:
- Aquarium with wheels (+2) - At least one version with kelp and vanilla water effect. An empty one with no water effect added for those that was that vibe.
- Aquarium without wheels (+5) - Custom tanks with various in-tank decorations: kelp, kelp grass, bivalves (SF version clams), rocks, static crabs, static fish. An empty tank with no water effect included.
- None of the existing sub-categories fit so made own sub-category under decorations.
- Item types:
- Hydroponic sampler (+5) - These are machines with white tubes running down to or toward little plants in small white cups. 3 vanilla and rest customized w different seedling trays.
- Greenhouse equipment (+5) - Shelves with seedlings on top, misting tent, seedling accelerator, etc. Basically, the types of things one would expect to see in a traditional greenhouse but not as fancy or complicated as what you see on the ECS Constant ship.
- Not ready for release. I have the interior done using planters and potted plants above but having trouble getting the hatches inside the hab to pair up with the other habs. May release ship habs separately.