ALL DLC Expansion now available!

New Outpost Category “GRiNDTerra NPCs”

Outpost Raid Spawners- Trigger Outpost raids whenever you want! Choose between 5 different styles of raids or place a randomizer to choose a random enemy type for you! These do not count towards the Outpost Attack Cooldown!

Fortifications- Build 13 defensible structures. Some have NPC interaction markers or foundation variations!

NPC Interaction Markers- 60 placeable markers to tell your companions and friendly NPCs to do things! Includes Creatures. (Placeable in spaceships!)

Landscaping Tools- 23 unique tools! Place paths, Biome Specific Rocks, Biome Specific Shrubs or even Biome Specific Trees.

Assault Groups- Spawn a possible of 19 enemy NPC raid groups. These can be NPCs, Biome Specific Predators, or Terrormorphs! No bounties from faction NPCs!

Mercenaries- Hire 23 different types of NPCs. They will stay around your Outpost and use interaction markers.

Warnings!

Please practice placing the items before using in your actual save. It is very hard to undo a mistake. BACK UP YOUR SAVE GAME AND SAVE OFTEN!

You must save and reload placing trees, rocks and shrubs because you are actually placing a random marker, not the object itself. When you reload your game it places the object that the marker tells the game what it is supposed to be. This is how the flora and rocks will match the biome your outpost is placed in.

Outpost Raids are time consuming! If you leave the planet or are too far away from your outpost the Raid may get cancelled.

Please Try to place your raid spawner near the outpost beacon for best practice.

Paths and interactive markers are hard to delete! make sure you know what you are doing before using Interactive markers or Landscape tools.

There is a very specific way to place Biome items!

When you are ready, place the landscape items where you want them. Save your game. Reload your game. All items will appear where you placed them! (YOU MUST RELOAD FOR ITEMS TO APPEAR)

(Most of the time they will appear invisible in the editor.)

NPC Assault Groups

Sometimes you will get an error that the item is floating. (Even when it is not.) Don't worry, all groups work! Usually restarting your game, reloading, or even just leaving and coming back can refresh the placement error.

If you successfully repel your enemy assault group, make sure you delete the flag that spawns the NPCs! I put in a limit to force you to do your own clean up! Deleting the flag will delete the entire raid group. Make sure you loot the bodies before you delete!

Recommended Mods

Liga of Followers- Iggdrasil7

Liga will give you full control over your mercenaries!
possibly other companion mods! (Mercenaries count as CREW)

Tips:

Fortifications:

Rotate Items to be farthest away from you and forward facing. NPC Markers are where your cursor is.

Interactive Markers:

You can see a little box that contains the arrow when placing. It should be to the RIGHT of your cursor, which will have the arrow facing North. (Forward Facing)
The Lean on Wall the arrow points to the direction the NPC is LOOKING. Place with arrow facing away from wall.
Sit on Ledge can be used on chair furniture that doesn't already have it.

Friendly NPCs:

They can die! Place Interactive markers BEFORE you place NPCs for best effect. They will move to a somewhat random interaction marker when placed!

Enemy NPCs:

Place while in overhead mode for best effect. rotation doesn't matter except just to get them to place.
DELETE FLAG WHEN DONE. It's a super nice and convenient way to clean everything up.
Delete flag BEFORE saving!

Landscaping:

CREATE A BACKUP SAVE BEFORE USING ANYTHING IN THIS LIST!
Paths are hard to delete, and it is usually one will overwrite the other. Practice before using as they are hard to delete.

Biome landscape items will work! BEWARE of the large rock, it is really hard to guess its size.

Recommend using small, or medium as the large.
Randomly Rotate them yourself for best effect.

Sometimes but almost never you will be able to see the Biome Object.

This is to be expected as you are actually placing a marker, not the item itself.
YOU MUST SAVE. THEN RELOAD for them to appear.
If you are happy, save again! if you are not, Delete and try again!
You may have to go to BACKUP not MOST RECENT save.