A mod for the game Battle Brothers (Steam, GOG, Developer Site).
Expanded Markets increases the selection of goods available to purchase in settlements. Specifically:
Faction gear: Duelist Hats can now be purchased in marketplaces, provided the settlement has an attached Leather Tanner or Trapper. Zweihander Helmets, Decorated Full Helms, and Heraldic Hauberks can now be purchased from Armorsmiths, provided the settlement has an attached Blast Furnace. They're all about as rare as named items, so don't be surprised if you don't see any right away. When they do spawn, they will be in the variants specific to the faction of the owning settlement.
Raider gear: Barbarian, Brigand, and Nomad specific equipment will now rarely show up for sale in marketplaces. Don't expect to see anything from the super elite enemies (no Barbarian King or Blade Dancer headgear, for instance). Only Northern settlements will have Barbarian gear show up, only City-States will have Nomad gear, etc.
Beast Components: Settlements with Taxidermists will now occasionally have beast crafting components available for sale. Trophies from the rarest and most dangerous beasts will have a markup, so be prepared to pay up if you want Lindwurm scales or the heart of a Schrat. Beast parts are region specific, so go North for white Unhold fur, South for Serpent scales, etc.
Named Shields: Armorsmiths can now sell Named Shields, everybody's favorite.
- Modding Script Hooks (v20 or later)
- Download the mod from the releases page
- Without extracting, put the
sato_expanded_markets_*.zipfile in your game's data directory- For Steam installations, this is typically:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Battle Brothers\data - For GOG installations, this is typically:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Battle Brothers\data
- For Steam installations, this is typically:
- Remove the relevant
sato_expanded_markets_*.zipfile from your game's data directory
This should be fully save game compatible, i.e. you can make a save with it active and remove it without corrupting that save.
This should be fairly compatible with other mods, except where obvious (e.g. mods that change the same thing).
To build, first copy the contents of ini.cfg.example to a new ini.cfg file and set modkitpath and datapath appropriately. Then, simply run the included build.bat script. This will compile and zip the mod and put it in the dist/ directory - it will also print out any compilation errors, if any are present. The zip behavior requires Powershell / .NET to work, but there's no reason you couldn't sub in 7-zip or another compression utility if you know how and want to.
After building, you can install the mod by running the included install.bat script. This will take any existing versions of the mod already in your data directory, append a timestamp to the filename, and move them to an old_versions/ directory in the mod folder; then it will take the built .zip in dist/ and move it to the data directory.