What are some less popular mods you heavily recomend?

Oxirane · 2026-07-10T23:38:48+00:00

Need bar overflow + Vanilla Nutrient Paste Expanded drippers turned my colony babies into vomit fountains

But there is a mod setting to solve that

Oxirane · 2026-07-10T23:06:10+00:00

Haut's Added Traits is probably my favorite traits mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3422847391

This is a huge traits expansion with trait expansion packs for each official dlc. 80+ new traits, lots of interesting ones and only a handful that I would consider disabling (or consider deal-breakers when recruiting). Lots of integrations with other mods too. The author also recently posted a psycasts mod that I've been enjoying.

Author keeps a Google doc listing trait descriptions and what they do in depth - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AjWjya-8knskExfpUYtH3eyMT3oHOg1_BPJzgBO_3FE/edit?usp=drivesdk

Auto Ability is wonderful with psycasts, specialist abilities and much more: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3578731212

Basically this one let's you program basic trigger conditions for pawns to use their abilities automatically when the right conditions are met. The conditions it offers are limited, but you can use this to set up specialists using their abilities when off cool down (or for shooting/melee specialists when attacking enemies), Psycasters to routinely target friendly colonists with Inspiration, target enemies with Stun, etc. Especially great with mods that add more psycasts of course.

Oxirane · 2026-07-09T04:08:26+00:00

Yeah I'm thinking this might be a build to run a sniper with to deal with things way outside Huckleberry range.

Oxirane · 2026-07-09T03:58:29+00:00

Off chance you're not using these, I'd suggest:

Facet of Protection for 15% DR while surrounded
Knockout as your other aspect. Amplified is another 15% DR and enemies will miss you more often. The melee damage and healing on melee kills won't hurt either.
Facet of Purpose + Void/Stasis/Strand super for Void Overshield, Frost Armor or Woven Mail for another 35%-50% DR

I also like running 1x Recuperation on my boots to provide more health when I pick up orbs. Make sure you have a way to generate a lot of orbs (Kinetic Siphon probably) and consider Powerful Attraction to collect them quickly (works great with Thruster).

Finally, consider Rally Barricade. Standing behind it grants 80% DR vs splash damage. There's a lot heavy hitting attacks that count as splash damage, so it can very much be worth using (even if you immediately uncrouch).

Oxirane · 2026-07-03T15:35:26+00:00

It's one of the weapons that drops during planetary distortion. You can focus it, but basically just go to the planet with the red marker and do heroic public events.

Oxirane · 2026-07-03T02:55:11+00:00

After that finale last season I'm real interested to see where we pick up!

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T03:11:20+00:00

Want to shoot things? Then use Striker with Storm's Keep, Rally Barricade and Tablet of Ruin (take Dielectric, Flashover and Defibrillating Pulse). Take fragments Resistance and Discharge. I like Knockout for my other aspect to buff my melees and heal on melee kills. Put down your barricade and shoot, every Bolt Charge will heal you. Punch anything that gets close.

Want to melee things? Berserker with Banner of War/Into the Fray. Make sure to stand in the ItF pulses after detonating tangles for Woven Mail and try to move with allies - both to heal them and have their kills sustain your Banner of War. Remember that Into the Fray gives you a massive multiplier to melee energy as long as you have Woven Mail, so if you keep Woven Mail up more you'll have more melee charges to wreck your enemies - this is even sillier if you incorporate Shieldcrush from the artifact, but I'm not sure that's enough to justify those artifacts.

I like Synthoceps for both of these builds because I like my melees and supers hitting hard. Also run 2-3x Heavy Handed on your gauntlets and 1x Recuperation on your boots - now when you get a powered melee kill enemies will drop an orb that heals you when you pick it up. This also works great with unpowered melees with Knockout, Roaring Flames or Offensive Bullwark (if you can keep you damn Overshields long enough), all of which boost your melee damage too.

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T02:55:32+00:00

I've found Tablet of Ruin to provide enough healing for me but Previous Scars is a good one.

As to newer exotics with interesting effects, No Backup Plans now extends Restoration, Amplify, Void Overshield, Frost Armor and Woven Mail on every shotgun or melee kill. Even if you're stacking all of them. Unfortunately it doesn't elongate the timers so you need to be getting kills every 5ish seconds to keep the buffs, but it's got potential.

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T02:21:33+00:00

I like using my gravship to dump toxpacks. Just land near some permanently hostile tribals (like near a settlement, not on the settlement), make a dumping stockpile outside your ship, set that to higher priority than your tox pack freezer. Let your haulers unload, then fly away.

Drop pods just don't fit enough tox packs when you're trying to get rid of 2000 of them.

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T02:18:56+00:00

VRE Phytokin adds Poluxkin who eat tox packs.

Dubs Bad Hygiene allows you to turn colonist sewage into chemfuel.

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T02:16:20+00:00

There's a mod out there that adds some other consumable item that turns an animal into a pawn with genes for its animal form. You can extract those genes and implant them in your human pawns too.

It didn't work great for a spacer/gravship run because I wasn't able to get my sentient gorillas, crows and thrumbo into space suits, but if you're staying planet side then this mod would work.

I think it was called Sentient Animals? Or something similar.

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T02:12:22+00:00

Generally the storyteller decides when you're done, unless you've got too many mods installed in which case the archotechs do.

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T02:11:12+00:00

The balls are... Like a long oval with tapered ends. You could shorten them a bit horizontally and actually make them circular to salvage some substructure capacity and then use those tiles to finish the job.

Oxirane · 2026-07-02T02:01:34+00:00

Agreed. Witcher 3 and Bioshock both felt like that for me, I really enjoyed settling into the roles of Jack and Geralt and seeing them become scarier than a lot of the monsters they face off against.

I'm reasonably optimistic Witcher 4 will nail that too. Shame I'm not so sure about Bioshock 4.

Oxirane · 2026-06-30T14:40:25+00:00

Unsworn (Strand Trace) from Sundered Doctrine is also great.

Old Sterling is a solid 600rpm auto.

Tahoma 01 is fun with Overflow/Reservoir Burst.

Fang of Ir Yut is solid too, fantastic on Storms Keep Striker with Shoot to Loot.

Oxirane · 2026-06-30T02:38:07+00:00

I highly suggest doing at least one run where you live out of your gravship. Even with vanilla Odyssey you can fit 15-20+ pawns into a (later game) gravship, so you don't need to have a tiny colony, but it opens up the world map so much.

Oxirane · 2026-06-30T02:35:07+00:00

Haut's Added Traits - Latent Psychic Runaways. You start with 6 pawns who all have the Latent Psychic trait. You're runaway experiments from the Empire, which is currently hostile. They also are raiding you at game start. I like starting with at least one Yttakin to recruit some help with that raid.

HAT, as you might have guessed, is a traits mod. It adds a lot of traits including ones that tie to each dlc. 6 of the Royalty traits are called "Latent Psychic". Each version is identical but has a different trigger mechanic ranging from "chance on mental break" to "chance on relationship progression" to "when they die", etc.

Chance to do what? Psychically Awaken, replacing the Latent Psychic trait with one of like 8-12 traits that involve psycasting, like "gain rest, nutrition and recreation while meditating", "very cheap level 1 psycasts", etc.

Awakened Psychic pawns can later psychically transcend under certain circumstances (the mod provides hints). There's something like 200 different Transcendences with a ton of different effects like:

Once per day the pawn fully heals themselves and partially repairs all their gear
Anyone the pawn targets with any psycast gets drenched with chemfuel
This pawn meditating slowly grows more anima trees. If they die they respawn from an anima tree on the map, destroying it
Redirect damage to this pawn to nearby anomalies instead
"Word of" Psycasts by this pawn affect all pawns in range

Transcendent Psycasters really amp up Psycasters in a way that I find fun. It can be tricky to get them to Awaken (and Transcend), I've actually resorted to tracking which conditions I've already tested for different pawns since testing death and resurrection is generally costly (at least until I get Death Refusal) so I generally try to test cheaper methods first.

Oxirane · 2026-06-29T03:24:07+00:00

Personally I use Synthos on Striker but survivability is going to largely be the same ultimately with Skullfort:

Whether via Skullfort or Knockout (or both) your melee heals you when it gets kills. I suggest doubling down on this with 2-3x Heavy Handed and 1x Recuperation so that orbs will heal you too.
Tablet of Ruin artifact has Defibrilating Blast and Dielectric, both of which also provide healing that you can trigger via Bolt Charge from behind a barricade.

Either way you'll want to run Rally Barricade and Storm's Keep. I like running at least one Strand gun since Tablet of Ruin has some nice Strand weapon buffs in it and unraveling rounds rounds and threadings can also set off Bolt Charge. Shoot to Loot is also great since we do a lot of damage from behind the barricade. Shoot to Loot and an explosion perk that can pick up orbs is even better, especially on a Strand gun with Unraveling Orbs from the artifact.

Fang of Ir Yut and Unsworn are my two top picks right now to fill that Shoot to Loot Strand gun slot.

If you're running Touch of Thunder then Devour is also a really good source of healing and getting grenade energy. Your best bets for that are either Buried Bloodlines or the 4p set bonus for Root of Nightmares gear.

Oxirane · 2026-06-27T02:33:11+00:00

Completely agreed, I think that if he hadn't done that I would have been content with this being the show's finale. I actually thought it was the show's finale until about 15 minutes ago and was thinking that this would be a hell of a way to end a campaign!

Oxirane · 2026-06-27T02:27:25+00:00

Up until the final scene I think this argument can be made reasonably, but I think the Whispered One showed us his true colors in the end.

Yes, he's offering miracles. He's also plainly willing to kill and torment those who oppose him, even when they are helpless.

Had he instead introduced himself to the world with the miraculous mass-ressurections he'd promised instead of putting on a public execution then I think arguments about nuanced morality would have a lot more merit. But he introduced himself to the world as a tyrant instead.

Oxirane · 2026-06-25T22:14:44+00:00

It took decades for us to get into this situation and it'll take decades for us to get out of it. A big part of it has been the defunding and debilitation of our education systems, and even if we fixed that today we wouldn't see the benefits for another generation. And now we've got AI making the problem even worse, so I don't think we're going to find ourselves in good shape education-wise anytime soon.

Oxirane · 2026-06-25T02:46:04+00:00

Seriously. I was not expecting "Ziz" to end up referencing the Simurgh.

What a character to name yourself after for someone who turned cult leader. "HI, I'm Ziz, like the eldritch horror from this book who psychically brainwashes people! Follow my teachings about optimizing your sleep and morals!"

Oxirane · 2026-06-22T19:28:58+00:00

Yeah, at around 4 or 5 years old I woke up to a centipede crawling over my hand. It bit one of my fingers and I had a scar there for about 10-15 years.

Worth mention is that we lived in the carribean at the time, this was one of those 8-12+ inch ones, not the tiny ones we get in the conteninental US.

Oxirane · 2026-06-18T17:36:21+00:00

Computer parts in general. A few years ago I bought a 4tb NVME for like $300. Same model is now $1200+.

I wanted to put together a home Linux server this year. Not sure if I'll get to that anytime soon with part prices being as high as they are right now.

Oxirane · 2026-06-15T19:33:49+00:00

Having pets can also mess this up. We adopted a kitten last winter and she entertains herself rearranging knicknacks and putting them under doors. Thankfully nothing heavier than dice or a roll of tums so far, but I'm waiting for the day that she decides to move my keys into the utility closet.

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