Vortex Gaming

• ✅ Introduces a comprehensive beekeeping system with new structures, foods, and medical items.
• ✅ Features three bee types: honeybees, bumblebees, and zombie bees, each with unique traits and honey gathering speeds.
• ✅ Bee activity is influenced by temperature, weather, time of day, and hive location (indoors/outdoors).
• ✅ Hives can be upgraded with frames to boost honey production, which also provides a growth bonus to nearby crops.
• ✅ Wearing a hazmat suit or Spiffo mascot suit prevents stings when handling bees.
• ✅ A honey extractor is used to harvest honey from hive frames, with a small chance of damaging the frame.
• ✅ New honey-based foods offer more calories and carbs, and honey bandages/patches stay clean longer.
• ✅ Beeswax can restore weapon durability.
• ✅ Bees and wild hives can be found while foraging, and bait hives can attract wild bees using honey or sweet items.

Item	Effect
Honey Bandage	Stays clean longer than normal bandages
Beeswax	Restores one weapon count on a weapon

This mod is great for new foods, healing items, farming bonuses, and honey production.

• ✅ A quality-of-life add-on for Neat Crafting and Neat Building mods.
• ✅ Displays the exact XP gained from each crafting or building recipe, including the skill that receives the XP.
• ✅ Shows the mod the recipe comes from.
• ✅ XP display is customizable with four styles: Base XP, Final XP, Multiplier mode, and Breakdown mode.
• ✅ Compatible with Build 42 and safe to add/remove mid-save.
• ✅ Requires loading mods in the correct order: Neat UI, Neat Crafting, Neat Building, then both XP display add-ons.

This add-on provides clear XP info, mod info, and a clean, auto-adjusting UI, improving the crafting experience.

• ✅ Completely changes how water works, allowing players to build pumps, run pipelines, and bring water from sources directly to their base.
• ✅ Allows setting up sprinklers for crops and controlling the water network with valves and flow meters.
• ✅ The Build 42 version is rebuilt with new features, better performance, and smoother building tools.
• ✅ Pumps require electricity and must be placed next to a water source (lakes/rivers for tainted water, wells for fresh water).
• ✅ Pipes have no length limit and can connect to original buildings.
• ✅ Sprinklers automatically water crops, valves control water flow, and flow meters display water flow.
• ✅ Pumps can be repaired and charcoal can filter tainted water.
• ✅ Pipes block cars.

Component	Function
Pumps	Extract water from sources (rivers, lakes, wells)
Valves	Control water flow in specific sections of the network
Flow Meters	Display the exact water flow moving through a pipe
Sprinklers	Automatically water crops in a tile radius

This mod automates water supply, runs advanced plumbing networks, and makes farming easier.

• ✅ Adds a system that spawns small story-based items in buildings, making them feel more lived-in.
• ✅ Spawns items based on the room type (kitchen items in kitchens, tools in garages, etc.).
• ✅ Scales spawn chances with sandbox start and peak settings.
• ✅ Includes built-in story types like propane tanks in garages, supermarket carts in stores, and ridable items in garages.
• ✅ Stories are optional, modular, and can be added through submods.
• ✅ The creator recommends lowering loot settings to balance the extra items.
• ✅ Performance is optimized to process one unexplored room per tick, minimizing lag.

This mod enhances world-building, making each building feel more natural and believable.

• ✅ Completely overhauls how vehicles handle, fixing issues like floaty cars and unrealistic reactions.
• ✅ Adds dynamic traction, where steering, braking, and acceleration change based on road surface, weather, and tire condition.
• ✅ Redesigns towing, making towed vehicles glide smoother and steer slightly.
• ✅ Overhauls transmission with accurate 3-speed, 4-speed, and 5-speed automatics, and up to 8-speed with Project Summer Car.
• ✅ Steering is customizable, and slowdown from hitting zombies is adjustable.
• ✅ Tire pressure affects performance, with visible lock-up during handbrake turns.
• ✅ Horsepower tweaks from other mods now work properly.
• ✅ Requires manual folder installation.

Feature	Details
Dynamic Traction	Steering, braking, and acceleration change based on road surface, weather, and tire condition.
Transmission Overhaul	Accurate automatics with torque converters, up to 8 speeds with Project Summer Car.
Tire Physics	Low conditions cause spinouts, high pressure reduces drag, and low pressure helps off-road.

This mod makes cars feel heavier, smarter, smoother, and more believable.

• ✅ Increases the number of sprinter zombies over time, adding danger to long-term saves.
• ✅ By default, increases the sprinter percentage by 1% every month.
• ✅ Can be added to existing saves, automatically calculating the current sprinter percentage based on world age.
• ✅ Offers sandbox options to customize the increase rate and delay the appearance of the first sprinters.
• ✅ Includes a reverse mode that starts with 100% sprinters and decreases the percentage over time.
• ✅ Compatible with most mods and can be added/removed mid-save.

This mod adds slow progression, late-game tension, and escalating difficulty.

• ✅ Simulates indoor and outdoor temperatures, making winter dangerous and summer potentially overheating.
• ✅ Advanced indoor temperature system with air flow through doors, windows, and gaps.
• ✅ Buildings lose heat over time, and rooms share temperature based on size and openness.
• ✅ Supports large buildings like malls and hospitals, with climate control if power is on.
• ✅ Rebuilds the character's body temperature system, making clothing insulation more important.
• ✅ Adds four new heaters (electric and propane) with custom UI and auto shut-off timer.
• ✅ Supports vanilla heat sources like fireplaces and car heaters.
• ✅ Includes a new digital watch UI that shows custom temperature values.

Feature	Details
Indoor Temperature	Warm air moves based on outside weather, air flows through openings, buildings lose heat over time.
Body Temperature	Clothing insulation matters more, hypothermia is faster and more dangerous, overheating is possible in summer.
Heat Sources	Supports new heaters and vanilla sources like fireplaces, grills, and car heaters.

This mod makes the world feel more realistic, with deadly winters and threatening summers.

• ✅ Upgrades the generator window to show the exact number of days and hours left before the generator runs out of fuel.
• ✅ Offers an option to switch the fuel timer to real-world hours.
• ✅ Adds a fuel gauge and a power range overlay that highlights the generator's coverage area.
• ✅ The overlay works when holding a generator, showing which floors will be powered.
• ✅ Works on Build 42.12 and up, and can be added/removed at any time without issues.

This mod provides accurate fuel timers, clean power coverage, and a better UI without changing the vanilla style.

• ✅ Brings car heaters to life with a dynamic fan sound system.
• ✅ The heater sound reacts instantly to AC controls, with smooth fade-in/out.
• ✅ Engine condition affects fan speed, making older cars feel more worn out.
• ✅ Volume changes based on heater intensity, engine performance, and interior conditions.
• ✅ The sound only plays from inside the vehicle.
• ✅ Compatible with almost every sound or car mod.

This mod adds atmosphere, making winter drives feel more alive and vehicles more believable.

• ✅ Made for players who love wilderness runs or challenge starts where modern tools are scarce.
• ✅ Adds rough planks, wooden nails, a bamboo sieve, and rough hinges.
• ✅ Allows crafting from logs, twigs, branches, and clay.
• ✅ Enables building pottery wheels, wooden shelves, basic floors, door frames, and doors using primitive materials.
• ✅ Includes a flint searching system where players can find flint by right-clicking boulders.

Item	Crafting Ingredients
Rough Planks	Log
Wooden Nails	Twigs
Bamboo Sieve	Branches
Clay	Dirt, Water, Bamboo Sieve

This mod is perfect for back-to-basics survival, allowing players to live off the land and progress without relying on looted tools.