KEEP AN EYE ON MY CHANGELOGS 

What This Do

Changes the difficulty very hard to a more survival difficulty. With that being said You HAVE to change the difficulty to Very Hard to get the full effect of this mod.
Continuation of my previous mod Into the Grindfield text overhaul and is still considered a WIP. 

Grind UI (optional)
Edited the Vanilla UI to remove Hit markers, hit detection markers, Red on crosshairs when rollover enemy, enemies on the compass (minimap) Enemy Name and Health Bars, and the XP gain bar that pops up in the middle of the screen every time you get a kill. Removes red tint around watch when enemies are around.


New Earth Biome (Optional)

• Added cloudy and stormy weather to Both Biomes.
• Changed Earth's Biomes. Now they are Volcanic in nature. 
• To support these changes made changes to temperature and atmosphere and other stats. 
• ADDED HUMAN ACTIVITY TO EARTH! ADDED FLORA! ADDED FAUNA! NEW PLANET TRAITS!!!
• No Spoilers but discover the REAL reason everyone is told to avoid earth!

Combat

• Really changed how the combat AI thinks. It’s 1 priority is to get in cover and survive. 2 priority is to suppress you as their teammates move up. 3 priority to flank you and flush you out. All while staying in cover or moving up only with cover. The ai will do a better job fleeing when losing, and chase when they are winning. More ai will follow you through doors, they will work with each other a bit better.
• Increased amount of damage taken and given 
• Reduced amount of health you and Ai get in leveling.
• Increased level scale multipliers to help with having better enemies.
• Blocking blocks more damage. 
• Better AI melee reactions 
• Faster block cooldown 
• A Lot less combat dialogue 
• No combat music
• Can shoot mines to disarm
• Turrets now reload, no longer being a consistent laser beam.
• Slightly reduced min time on mines help make them seem dangerous 
• Adjusted and reduced recoil
• Adjusted reaction times and awareness.
• A lot more hard to remember it all but lots of math.

Companions

• Better follow distance and will do a better job staying around you.
• Changed affinity a little bit. Made negative actions weigh as much as positive so now. No more 1 good deed erases three bad ones. 
• Will lower weapon sooner after combat.

Economy and Looting System

• Rent is 500 a day 2500 a week 
• enhance now 2500
• Sell price has been reduced a lot. 
• Added a lot of extra credits to all vendors including ship vendors.
• Vendors respawn in 5 days.
• Ship registration fee set to half.
• increased starter home mortgage amount and interest payment.
• increased kid stuff weekly percentage and max amount given.
• Less Ammo loot 
• Less Credit loot 
• Credit Loot is no longer leveled but more random.
• Replaced in most, but not all instances All Resource Loot with misc junk. 
• Chance that your loot is Valuable Junk. 
• Valuable Junk marked with a v in front can be used to make common resources at industrial workbench. Not valuable Selling wise. Includes vacuum tape for adhesive. 
• Slightly less digipicks or med pack loot
• increased value of contraband and crates of misc items(from missionboard quests)
• Increased rents and costs of housing.
• Increased cost for committing crimes.
• Quest Credit rewards are no longer leveled. Now fall into basic categories by size for payout.
• 5 payout amounts for ALL quests and missionboards rewards changed to match.
• Increased payout from missionboard and radiant and misc quests to match the sizing and pay of regular quests.
• Faction and companion are same as main.
• No change to looting in space (asteroid and wreckage) 

General 

• no auto aim
• if use a controller better controller handling
• better jump grab reaction time and strength
• increased number of characters allowed in custom names to 30
• increased star map zoom
• Dead bodies and gun shells last longer
• changed messages to 1st person 
• Changed ship looting, docking, and transfer distance to 50 meters
• increased materials needed for research by a lot. No sudden developments. (Free resources)
• increased chance amount and max amount of missions at missionboard
• increased chance of space encounters
• increased chance of boarding encounters
• increased chance of derelict encounters 
• increased amount of npcs in boarding and derelict encounters

NPC

• Allowed up to 100 npc brains active and allowed in combat.
• Eye tracking fix. Better blinking. 
• Smaller convo radius 
• Increased durations for lunch, dinner.
• Increased duration of time it takes npc to eat sitting and standing. 
• Will remember intimidation and crimes up to 5 days.
• When escorting will escort at closer distance. 

Outposts

• Craftable Ammo
• Turn some junk into resources
• vacuum tape to adhesive
• Decreased clipping threshold 
• Doubled build limit
• increased resource need 
• halved distance allowed between harvesters
• Better camera distance
• power generators produce more power
• Doubled Distance of Scanner Booster

Perks

• increased ship command crew capacity amount to max 50.

Planet Generation

• Changed how Man Made POI Generate. Man Made POI and buildings/flavor Spawn ONLY in "civilized space." The farther you get from the settled systems the less Man Made POI's you will see. On top of this Man Made POIs will no longer spawn on EXTREME ENVIROMENT planets. 
• THE UNIVERSE NOW HAS UNTOUCHED NO HUMAN AREAS LIKE ADVERTISED BY EVERYONE IN THIS GAME
• Increased density or spawns of all creatures from human to flora and fauna on planets by 100%
• Increased biome density.
• To offset Increased Density added a SMALL chance that either predators or prey will spawn. 
• POIs have a better chance to spawn closer to each other on playable map.
• *Lowered min and raised max chance for POI on planets on playable map. Will feel more random than the usual three spots loaded around you when you land.
• Hazards and creatures can spawn closer to each other and POI. 
• *Increased number of POI generated on planet surface by a lot.
• Only two landing zones will be saved instead of three. Doesn’t include outposts.
• Longer weather.
• Creatures will warn you less they are angry and are more curious. 
• Predators have an extra minute cooldown before hunting a new prey. Prey will graze more.
• Increased fade and draw distance to help with LOD issues.
• Tried to max out playable distance X Y Z 

* In settled or civilized systems only.

Scanner

• No fill in scanner
• No map markers until at location
• Thinnest outlines possible
• Halved the length of the waypoint arrows showing you where to go.

Ship

• Turned on a bunch of maneuvers for the ai that were turned off. Still unsure if this actually does anything.
• increased boosting speed by a little bit 
• small ship combat tweaks for AI mins maxs and stuff. 

Shipbuilder

• USE with caution. Increased max amount of pieces and size of ship allowed to be created. 
• increased amount of owned ships to 50

Stealth

• Smaller npc view cone
• Better sound and light and sleep multipliers
• Hidden stealth meter
• Changed view and search distances 
• Will notice dead from farther and react better
• Better reactions to sounds

Survival stuff

• The orange or yellow env damage bar can now kill you
• Your infections can spread and get worse
• Changed the 1 addiction from stimulants to substance addiction. Added a movement penalty to addiction. (Half of the aurora movement penalty)
• Alcohol has a small chance to give you a substance addiction.
• Increased chance to get an addiction from aurora to 50%.
• Added chance for substance addiction to AMP. 33% chance 
• AMP increased all effects by 25%. Shorter duration now 90 seconds. 
• Sorry but it is just too much fun now and caution you can kill yourself from jumping too high.
• Auroras visual and movement duration changed by a lot, slowed time by half as much.
• Changed how food NOT drinks work.
• no duration healing, no buffs or debuffs 
• Instant healing only 
• increased amount of hp gained by all food sources 
• Increased multiplier oxygen to co2
• increased strength of most afflictions.  

Changes to Vanilla Backgrounds

• Xenobiologist      Slight Description Change. New Perks: Surveying, Zoology
• Space Scoundrel Changed name to Smuggler
• Sculptor        Description Change. New Perks: Medicine, Geology, Commerce            
• Professor      New Perks: Astrodynamics, Research Methods, Persuasion
• Pilgrim  Slight Description Change
• Long Hauler  Changed name to Space Trucker
• Beast Hunter                Changed name to Big Game Hunter
• Homesteader                Changed name to Settler. New Perks: Boost Pack Training, Weightlifting, Surveying
• Gangster                        Description Change. New Perks: Dueling, Boxing, Theft
• Explorer                         New Perks: Planetary Habitation, Surveying
• Industrialist                   New Perks: Scavenging, Geology, Research Methods
• Diplomat                        Description Change. New Perks: Persuasion, Commerce, Negotiation
• Cyberneticist                Changed name to Robotics Engineer
• Cyber Runner                Changed name to Goon
• Combat Medic               Slight Description Change.
• Bounty Hunter               Slight Description Change.
• Bouncer                         Slight Description Change. New Perks: Boxing, Fitness, Persuasion

New Backgrounds

• Spacer        No Starting Perks. Blank Slate.
• Low Life      Theft, Security, Boxing
• Space Junkie     Boostpack Training, Surveying, Gastronomy. * Additional 25% chance for All Addictions.
• Inner Amos                 Neurostrikes, Boxing
• Belter                          Boostpack Training, Piloting, Surveying
• Ace Pilot                     Piloting, Targeting Control Systems, Engine Systems
• Xenobotanist              Surveying, Botany
• Star Child                     Piloting, Astrodynamics, Persuasion
• Unknown                      Robotics, Manipulation
• Miner                            Geology, Surveying, Demolitions
• Serial Killer                  Dueling, Shotgun Certification, Stealth
• Con Artist                     Persuasion, Intimidation, Negotiation
• Athlete                          Gymnastics, Weightlifting, Fitness
• Corporate Employee    Commerce, Persuasion, Gastronomy

New Traits

• Dreamer                       25% XP Gain    25% Reduced Sell Prices
• Bigger Dreamer           50% XP Gain    50% Reduced Sell Prices
• New Grindfield Trait and Grindfield plus Dreamers Trait. x3 Amount of mines allowed to be placed and x3 Player Commanded Actor Limit *Experimental not sure if it works but doesn't break anything through testing.

XP

• Decreased by 50-25% from most sources.
• Will get full value from radiant and missionboard missions to help make missions more lucrative.
• Survey missionboard gives good xp now.

Quests

• increased chance for a different ng+ universe to 50%

Install Instructions 

PLEASE install manually I set it up super easy to do yourself. Follow the instructions provided. I don’t and won’t use mod organizer tools or vortex. I have had way too many issues with both in the past which is what made me want to do this in the first place. 

You need to either Use my starfield custom.ini and starfieldprefs.ini or Add all of the content to your own and replace whatever you have making the same changes. Please see below.

This still has a bat file and inserts commands through the console as I am unable to make all changes I intended through other mod tool means. Please do not change how I set this up as it runs through a couple times to make sure all changes do happen. Includes a bat you can run yourself to pass time by 5 days. Highly recommend if you just added this to your save so all changes will be present, Just type bat new into the console and you are good to go.

As of now this requires sfse and plugins.txt enabler. It is the safest way at the moment. You should not use the testfile way but do at your own risk. these will be removed once mods are officially supported and in time will have no requirements.

Follow plugins.txt install instructions and then add *grindfield.esm to the top of your list or right under starfield community patch which is highly recommended. 
Put rest of files where instructed.

Ini changes 
you can change these back yourself by opening the prefs and custom ini in notepad.
half resolution clouds I found no performance impact if there is any. Turned off
inverted pitch for space flight (this is my personal pref but just switch to 1 if you don't want it)
Essentials take no damage
stealth meter hidden
Auto save on quit off   EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A PROMPT IT WON'T SAVE ON EXIT feature not bug.
auto save on wait off
auto save on travel off
removed crosshairs
auto save general is set to sixty 
auto save while sleep is on
turns off floating quest marker 
DONT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE
after installing you must change your graphical presets to whatever you prefer I do not mess with anything I don’t have too. All other changes are required to help make this function.

*if using other mods and my compatibility mods in your plugin.txt it should look like:
*starfieldcommunitypatch.esm
*Grindfield.esm
*other mod a
*Grindfield Compatibility Patch a
*other mod b
*grindfield compat patch b
*if compat patch a and b

 There can’t be any real compatibility issues as this just overrides vanilla and adds unique content. Other mods that make the same changes whichever mod is lower in your list is the value that would be used. Mods that add the same content you will just have both and clutter whatever you added for example craftable ammo you would have two different but probably same names recipes.

The only compatibility issues are with the optional but recommended UI*
*Compatible with all starui components except starhud. I use all his other modules except the configure one. Only bug found is when removing space suit it will make body disappear temporarily. Just change to a different menu and back and it will fix itself.. unsure if this is starui or mine but I didn’t touch any menu interfaces so it should be a vanilla starui bug.
Any mod changing the files provided are incompatible with the UI. 

Warning: Once installed and loaded you cannot revert the bat file changes after a save. Un installation will not revert bat file changes. Please always make a save before adding to your current play through.

Uninstall: Just delete all files provided and remove from plugin.txt


Bugs 
Some prices and credit amounts are displayed incorrectly as a few are written in scripts or elsewhere. Will post ones I encounter.
Rent is 500 a day 2500 a week 
tried but cannot add ammo weight until Bethesda patches in survival.

Credits 
elm for the Xedit 
Rfuzzo for his game setting ini tool 
Made with Xedit and JPEXS Flash Decompiler.
Aurreth for his Planet Data.

Recommended Mods

• SKK50s Fast Start New Game SKK Fast Start New Game (Starfield) at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• Deadly Hazards Deadly Hazards at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• Human Activity on Earth Human Activity on Earth - Man-made Points of Interest at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• StarUI Series
•  StarUI Inventory at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• StarUI Ship Builder at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• StarUI Workbench at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• StarUI Outpost at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• Community Patch Starfield Community Patch at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• Plated not Crated Plated not Crated at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)

SKK50's Fast Start New Game compatibility patch
 I changed the 5 loadouts to 1. Argos miner (not same inventory as skk) 2. Civilian 3. Neon thug (not same inventory as skk) 4. Basic spacer and 5. Spacer without a weapon.
Start with basic clothes basic miner spacesuit 1 med pack 1 rando food item lodge key 500 credits and weapon based on choice. Kraken for spacer, shank for thug, eon for citizen and cutter for miner.

Links to my other mods:
Into the Grindfield Survival TEXT BASED Overhaul: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/4589/
Grindfield UI only: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/4583/
No Sudden Developments only: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/4281/