Path of The Muffalo

Vanilla++ | Performance | Fast Loading | Improved Visuals | Greatly Expanded Pre-Industrial Game | Carefully Curated Expansions | QoL

A Vanilla++ mod pack with incredible cohesion and care. Thousands of hours have been poured into the mods that make this all work together in a nice, clean way. Special care has been taken to ensure that the player gets that nice, un-modded feel, and that it loads up quickly and performs well.

Priorities

• Keep load times at a minimum and performance up. Mods are cut if they if they don't justify their loading and performance costs.
• Add enough content to flesh out every system possible
• Have the right QoL, Tweaks, UI, and Visual enhancements to make the game feel fresh and premium, as if the official devs had an extra year or two to improve it.
• Maintain balance, challenge, and intrigue, while supporting new scenarios, play-styles, features, and content.
• Keep everything cohesive and as intuitive as possible. That un-modded, Vanilla++ feel is essential.
• Allow the player to progress through tech tiers, from Wild Men to Ultratech.

Instructions

- Two-Click Installation: Just click subscribe to all, and overwrite subscriptions (Steam will give you the option to save your old subscriptions to a collection). - Custom Installation: Start with the core, overwrite subscriptions, then add the modules. - The modules contain all the same mods in the main pack, just organized for convenience. If you don't have a DLC, you can look in the organized DLC-dependent module for which mods you should remove. No mod manager is required, and the built-in auto-sort is all you need to get in! That said, I personally recommend RimSort. It allows you to sort mods before launching the game, includes nice tools for updating mods, compressing textures for faster load times, and more.

Community, Help, Support

Please feel free to join the Discord for help, discussion, whatever: https://discord.gg/uF56a4D6sg Please consider supporting me on ko-fi to help my justify spending so much time on modding https://ko-fi.com/koberiddle

FAQ

What is "Vanilla++"?

Vanilla++, like Vanilla+, means that things shouldn't stand out as modded or unofficial. Everything should meet or exceed the quality of the base game. However, we don't want to stop at improving what already exists, and we want to expand and tweak the game in significant ways, while maintaining that un-modded feel. Hence, the extra "+".

Is this Progression Lite?

Yes and no. It began as my personal slimmed down fork of Progression, it shares many of the same goals, and it contains many of the Progression series of mods. Some of these mods have been forked by myself in order to better fit. However, it also includes some mods which Progression omits, for one reason or another. So, yes -- it's similar to Progression and is smaller, but no -- it's not just a subset of Progression.

Credits

Image Credit: Ren7z, the author of the excellent Clean Textures (click the link and give him money, please ;) )

P.S.

Also recommended is Progress Renderer, but it's not included in the pack's modules because it requires each user to configure where the screenshots are saved (lest they just get dumped onto the desktop), and it doesn't unload the screenshots from memory until the player quits to the main menu, so playing for a long session will see gradually degrading performance. It's really great for watching a playback of a colony's progress, though.