Decor Essentials

Enhance Your Oxygen Not Included Experience with Decor Essentials

Looking to add a new layer of challenge and depth to your Oxygen Not Included colonies? The Decor Essentials mod offers a refined approach to decoration mechanics, subtly altering the game’s scoring to introduce a more demanding yet rewarding experience. Designed for players who enjoy a steeper learning curve, this mod empowers you to fine-tune the impact of your colony’s aesthetic on your duplicants’ morale.

Rethinking Decoration Bonuses

Decor Essentials reworks the way decoration bonuses are calculated, offering extensive configurability. The core of this mod lies in its ability to adjust the maximum decoration value, making it harder to achieve positive morale buffs. This encourages more thoughtful base design and strategic placement of decorative items. The mod also introduces negative morale bonuses, meaning unsightly environments can now actively detract from your duplicants’ well-being, adding a critical layer to base management.

Key Features of Decor Essentials:

• Adjustable Maximum Decoration Value: Control the threshold for positive decoration bonuses, ranging from 120 up to 500.
• Enhanced Decor Overlay: The overlay now displays item counts per decor cell in a standard color, providing clearer visual information.
• Customizable Effect Colors: Assign distinct colors to positive and negative decoration effects for easier visual identification.
• Optional Single Count for Positive Decor Items: Choose to have positive decorative items contribute only once to the overall score.
• Introduction of Negative Morale Bonuses: Implement penalties for low decoration, ranging from -1 morale to -5 morale based on the severity of the decor deficit.
• Expanded Overlay Information: The decoration overlay card now clearly shows your current decoration alongside the maximum achievable value.
• Visible Maximum Decoration in Duplicant Panel: Easily track the colony’s decoration potential directly from the duplicant information screen.
• Reworked Positive Morale Thresholds: Experience a more granular system for positive morale gains, with specific values tied to increasing levels of decor.

Seamless Integration and Customization

Almost every aspect of Decor Essentials is configurable through an intuitive in-game mod menu or by editing the configuration file. This allows for a truly personalized gameplay experience. While the default settings are tuned for increased difficulty, the flexibility ensures you can tailor the mod to your preferred challenge level. The mod also aims for broad compatibility, working well with mods that manage visual elements like wires and pipes, though it may conflict with other mods that directly alter morale or decoration scoring mechanics.