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Makes a number of tweaks, fixes, and improvements to mines. Adds 2 new mine types. Have enemy NPCs use mines in combat. SUMMARY: This is a general overhaul of mines with the goal to improve their usefulness and importance, fix various issues and bugs, and make using and encountering them overall more interesting. Summary of changes made by this mod: • Mines are more deadly. All mines have had their base damage increased by 50% • More “realistic” blast radius. Range of effect has been increased overall but damage now falls off with distance from the mine • Increases the difficulty of detecting mines with Awareness. This makes Awareness more important and mines more of a threat • Mines are now completely invisible until detected. If your character can’t see them, neither should you • Though you still can’t set them off, you can now be damaged by your own mines if within range of a blast, with a reduced DC • Despite their description, in vanilla all tiers of Flash Mines are identical in all but name and cost. This mod fixes this and restores the intended DC difference • Fixes several description errors and inconsistencies • Fixes a bug which would cause incorrect damage to be applied when there are multiple targets of a mine • Integrates the mod No Mines on Malachor by Thor110, which removes the mine models from the gas vents on Malachor • Includes an option to give enemy NPCs the ability to set mines in combat • Includes an option to populate the Dxun jungle with mines, leftover from the Mandalorian Wars • Adds 2 new craftable mines: Shock Mines and CryoBan Mines DETAILS: Damage & Radius All mines have had their base damage increased by 50%. Their credit value has also been increased by 25%. The blast radius has been modified in a few ways. First, the range of effect has been increased for all mines, making it more likely to catch multiple enemies. Second, the damage inflicted by mines will decrease the further you are from the blast, instead of being a flat value at all distances within range. For Flash mines and for the DEX effect from Sonic mines, the DC will fall off in a similar way. The radius also increases slightly with mine tier, as one would expect for stronger explosives. While mines can deal more damage to enemies, you can now also be damaged your own mines as long as an enemy sets it off nearby. However the difficulty class is reduced so it is easier to resist the effects. This will make it a little more challenging to use them for cheesing melee fights, and you’ll want to be strategic to make sure you’re out of the way before they go off. Detection In vanilla, detecting mines is very easy, making them a trivial threat. I personally can’t remember the last time I ran into an undetected mine. On normal difficulty, you don’t actually need any points in Awareness to detect Minor, Average, and Strong mines, giving Awareness very little use. This mod increases the difficulty class for detecting mines by 10, meaning that now only Minor mines can be detected without Awareness, while Average mines require a minimum of 5 points, Strong mines require 10 points, and so on. This is modified by +5 on Hard and -5 on Easy. To compliment the increased detection difficulty, mines will now be completely invisible until your character detects them. This means you will not see the model of the mine on the floor at all before making a successful Awareness check. It doesn’t make sense for you to see them when your character doesn’t, since you could just walk around to avoid them. If you haven’t memorized the location of every mine in the game, you’ll want to invest some points into Awareness to avoid surprises. This mod also includes an option to add mines throughout the Dxun jungle. I think it makes sense for a former battleground of the Mandalorian Wars to have unexploded mines left over, yet there are no mines in the vanilla Dxun jungle outside of the Mandalorian caches. Currently the mines are added via script. Fixes & Inconsistencies In vanilla, all tiers of Flash Mines have the exact same effects, despite being named differently and costing different amounts. According to their descriptions they’re supposed to have different difficulty classes that make them harder to resist, when in reality they all have the lowest DC of the Minor Flash mine. This mod restores the intended DC differences. The base DC of Flash Mines has been increased by 5 across the board to balance the radial drop off in DC. Vanilla descriptions contained a number of errors and inconsistencies. All descriptions have been updated to reflect the mines’ actual effects. Fixes a bug in vanilla where a successful save by one target would also halve the damage of all following targets, compounding if another save was made. The Reflex save against the DEX decrease effect of Sonic mines has been changed to a Will save, to be consistent with the Sonic grenade. Integrates No Mines on Malachor, Only Gas by Thor110, which removes the mine models from the natural gas vents on Malachor. New Mine Types New mines have been added to the game which are craftable at the Lab Station and can be found in some locations. CryoBan Mine: Based on the CryoBan grenade, deals cold damage and can freeze enemies. Some can be found on Peragus. Shock Mine: Deals electrical damage calculated as a base damage + Nd6 roll. It doesn’t fall off with distance and can’t be saved against like other mines. Some can be found on Goto’s Yacht. NPCs Use Mines This mod includes an option to give enemy NPCs the ability to set mines in combat. This includes some Sith Troopers (Grenadiers, Elites, and Commandos), Peragus Mining Droids which can place Sonic Mines, and Fire Suppression Droids which can place CryoBan Mines. They will place mines when appropriate, taking into account their surroundings and location of enemies. INSTALLATION: Note: while it’s likely OK to install mid-game, a new game is recommended for the best experience. To install, run HoloPatcher.exe and select the Main Installation option. (Optional) After installing the main mod, install any of the optional add-ons: “NPCs Use Mines” gives enemy NPCs the ability to use mines, “Mines on Dxun” places mines in the Dxun jungle. Unaltered copies of any modified files will be placed inside a "backup" folder in the location of HoloPatcher.exe. A separate backup folder will be made for each installation. UNINSTALLATION: This mod contains multiple installation parts with separate backup folders. Uninstall in reverse order. 1. Remove the following files from override: 2. Remove 351NAR.mod, 901MAL.mod, 902MAL.mod from the Modules folder. If uninstalling NPCs Use Mines, remove 102PER.mod, 103PER.mod, 105PER.mod, 410DXN.mod, 411DXN.mod, 851NIH.mod, 852NIH.mod from the Modules folder. If uninstalling Mines on Dxun, remove 402DXN.mod. 3. Move any .mod files from backup/Modules to the Modules folder. 4. Move dialog.tlk from the backup folder to the main game folder (outside override). 5. Move any files from backup/Override to the override folder. Alternatively, you can run the uninstall script via HoloPatcher (Tools > Uninstall Mod). COMPATIBILITY: Not compatible with mods that edit k_trap_generic.ncs. Otherwise, should be compatible with most mods. PERMISSIONS: For the most part, you are free to incorporate this mod’s edits into your own mod as long as credit is provided. This does not include files from No Mines on Malachor which have been included in this mod by Thor110’s permission. Redistribution of the files, assets, or edits of the included mod are subject to the terms of the original author. CREDITS: offthegridmorty Thor110 - No Mines on Malachor, Only Gas Thank you to the folks on Discord for scripting help. KOTOR Tool - Fred Tetra TSLPatcher, TLKed - stoffe, Fair Strides HoloPatcher - Cortisol, th3w1zard1 K-GFF - tk102 Holocron Toolset - Cortisol Screenshots use Fire and Ice HD by Cinder Skye and Hi-Res Beam Effects by InSidious

Introducing: Sleheyron Story Mod. A brand new planet expansion to add to your next KOTOR play-through: Sleheyron! Built upon the Sleheyron demo mod by the legendary SithSpecter (with his permission), this new mod adds a huge new story that brings this lost-absent planet back to KOTOR. This mod contains the following new content: I was inspired by SithSpecter’s work, and I’m hoping in the future my mod will be compatible with his. It would be a worthy venture for me to undertake to make our Sleheyron stories co-exist. After all, I owe him a HUGE debt of thanks for permitting other modders to build off his Sleheyron demo! This new mod is my first ever project, and I’m quite excited to share it with you. Sleheyron will feature: 1: A roughly 5 hours long story, voice-acted (no AI voices either). 2: A fully-voice acted new party member, complete with a post-Sleheyron story and romance (A future update will include a Leviathan rescue). 3: 25 new modules of various shapes and sizes (including the four published by SithSpecter, which are amazing and I owe him a huge thanks!) 4: New weapons and armor. 5: Lots of connections to Tales of the Jedi, as I am a big fan of those comics. Regarding compatibility: This first version of the mod was NOT designed with compatibility in mind. There will be a later release this summer of "Sleheyron+" that will use HoloPatcher to create a mod-compatible version of Sleheyron. Because compatibility was not a goal for the 1.0 version of the mod, this mod does not yet use a Patcher program. There is a detailed and simple ReadMe with installation instructions within the zipped folder, however. If you are interested in using other mods, I'm afraid the best thing I can say is "do so at your own risk!" If you are interested in using other mods, my tester has found that you can install the entire of the most recent Neocities Mod Build with Sleheyron; just be sure to download Neocities first, then Sleheyron (he also said this caused an animation glitch with Selkath, but that can be resolved by then installing the Custom Selkath Animations and NPC Overhaul Mods to fix it. But, again, these were not intended when developing the mod- it's just an interesting solution to an unforeseen problem. The story for Sleheyron: Story Mode starts shortly after the player gets their main mission from the Jedi Council on Dantooine. There is a save file in this mod that will allow players to skip right to that moment with a pre-built character. Then you just need to fly to Sleheyron... But I also encourage players to make their own characters, too! Sleheyron can be visited at any time between Dantooine and the Unknown World. I, of course, recommend going early to enjoy the new companion as long as you would like. Some acknowledgements! Modders: First and foremost, the absolute biggest thanks to SithSpecter: Not just for creating the Sleheyron Demo that this mod is built off of, but for granting permission to use that Demo. When the day comes your Sleheyron Restoration Mod is complete, I know that it will be the very best Sleheyron mod out there! Thor110, for helping me out with the basics of module design, as well as introduced me to some cut modules to use. DarthParametric, for teaching me to retexture NPCs as well as two "larger creature" mods that became resources for Sleheyron (is there a single KOTOR mod out there that he hasn't been credited on?). SithHolocron, who early on helped teach me how to retexture modules. ZobiZob, for amazing YouTube tutorials for how to use Holocron Toolset and solving my problem with playing movies. GlaspyLawson, who learned modding at the same time as me, and shared his knowledge; and for contributing a side quest to Sleheyron! JC for just answering so many of my questions through the entire modding process. Really, the whole Mod Development KOTOR Discord Group! Thank you for either offering advice or tolerating my simplistic questions! Testers: Mikael, the absolute most enthusiastic alpha tester anyone could ask for. The_Chaser_One, a painstakingly thorough beta tester that made sure this mod was ready for launch (and also providing the cover art). StellarExile, who helped me out with learning how to use the patcher. MistahJayGarrick for his high praise of the story content (and occasional blunt, but necessary, advice). Tool Developers: Cortisol and W1z4rd designed and kept updated the incredible Holocron Toolset, that was instrumental in this mod's design. I owe them a massive thanks for their work, and the hours they spent helping me out with bug-fixing! Voice cast: LadyandSaoRS, the talented actress that gave us the incredible voice of Vima; giving this long-standing fan-favorite character a perfectly excellent rendition. Mikael, for various voiceovers around Sleheyron that made the planet feel alive (including the dulcet tones of an exhausted Hutt). C4 for the excellent performance as Commander Forcay, praised by a tester as "Sounds exactly like a NPC from KOTOR!" PuckShadows for his Sith Lt. Savage. Juice Phanta for a pitch-perfect protocol droid. Black Rose for literally hundreds of Iridorian mercenary lines, giving me an impressively huge range of pitches to work with. Schofield-HD for an officer of vice and virtue (and more roles to come in Sleheyron 1.1!) Gwoopp and MerakiSky for two fun little roles in the Sleheyron cantina. Companies: Of course, BioWare and Lucasfilm, for making this game that we all enjoy so much. NexusMods and Deadly Stream for being the places to discuss and host mods. Discord for enabling communication that made this mod a collaborative effort. Final Dedications: My wife, who tolerated me spending nearly six months isolated to make this. To a relative who isn't around anymore to enjoy Sleheyron. I think this mod would make you proud! (even if you did spoil this game for me) My apologies if I missed anyone else; but I appreciate all of your hard work! I hope you all enjoy Sleheyron: Story Mode!