Vertical Infinity Dusk
[i]A RimWorld mod inspired by Horizon Zero Dawn.[/i]
A shameless Biotech cheat mod dressed up in lore clothing. If you've ever wanted a steady supply of advanced components, spacer components, and uranium without building half a dozen deep drills, this mod is for you. Tame the right machines, harvest them on a schedule, and your colony becomes a Biotech production line.
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Overview
They are Archotech infrastructure — harvesters, scouts, siege platforms — seeded on this world centuries before your ship broke apart on entry. Whatever directed them has long since gone silent. The machines have not.
The machines do not sleep, do not starve, and do not leave.They follow old routes, harvest old resources, and execute directives issued to them by something that no longer exists.
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VID class field guide
[b]Recon class[/b]
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[*] [b]Watcher[/b] — Lightweight optical drone. First line of territorial awareness. Small, fast, and the reason everything else knows where you are.
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[b]Acquisition class[/b] — passive wildlife. Low aggression. High value if hunted.
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[*] [b]Grazer[/b] — Solar-metabolic harvester. Yields chemfuel.
[*] [b]Scrapper[/b] — Component stripper. Drops advanced components.
[*] [b]Bristleback[/b] — Armored agri-drone. Produces raw chemfuel slurry.
[*] [b]Strider[/b] — Long-limb fuel transport. High-volume chemfuel yield.
[*] [b]Shell-walker[/b] — Cargo chassis. Secretes advanced component residue.
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[b]Combat class[/b] — active threats. Engage with preparation.
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[*] [b]Corruptor[/b] — Mid-tier assault drone. Disables equipment before closing in.
[*] [b]Ravager[/b] — Fast-assault frame. Outruns your response and picks colonists apart one at a time.
[*] [b]Thunderjaw[/b] — Heavy siege unit. Treat any confirmed sighting as a colony-wide emergency.
[*] [b]Deathbringer[/b] — Apex-class termination unit. The logs simply note its presence and stop.
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Features
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[*] [b]10 machine creatures[/b] across three threat tiers, each with distinct behaviour and role.
[*] [b]Biotech progression shortcut.[/b] Acquisition class machines are low-risk, farmable sources of components, advanced components, and chemfuel. Combat class drops subcores. The Deathbringer drops high-tier subcores. Hunt what you need instead of waiting for it.
[*] [b]Factionless wildlife.[/b] No faction dependencies. Spawns and roams without any faction framework — safe with virtually any load order.
[*] [b]Scales with your colony.[/b] Smaller machines appear early. Boss-tier encounters are rare.
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Credits
[b]CrimsonKing[/b] — design, code, art, lore.
Inspired by Horizon Zero Dawn.
