Outpost Zero: The Wilds

OutpostZero: The Wilds expands the overworld with abandoned campsites and a collection of camping and survival features built around wilderness exploration.

Discover generated camps stocked with useful supplies, encounter tameable bears, set bear and fish traps, cook over campfires, and make use of practical survival equipment as you explore the world.

The mod is fully standalone and DOES NOT require OutpostZero or any other companion mod. When supported mods are installed, compatible content is incorporated automatically.

Latest Update – Version 1.0.3

OutpostZero: The Wilds 1.0.3 introduces further stability and compatibility improvements.

Highlights

• Fixed baby bear rendering while sitting and eating
• Tamed bears now wander more frequently, making them feel more active and independent
• Added the Catch of the Day advancement
• Additional stability, compatibility, and gameplay improvements

Features

• Naturally generated tents with biome-aware colour palettes and useful supplies
• Brown and black bears with taming and companion behaviour
• Basic and advanced Bear Traps with bait and escape mechanics
• Basic and advanced Fish Traps with different bait and catch options, plus Fish Bait for faster rod fishing
• Buildable campfires with interactive torch lighting and re-lighting
• Interactive campfire cooking with roastable marshmallows and multiple s’more recipes
• Craftable campsite and survival equipment including a fuelled lantern, Healing Campfire, Bear Claws, and Fire Axe
• Wall-climbing mechanics using Bear Claws, including an upgraded diamond-tipped version
• Natural nighttime wolf howling behaviour with an animated head-up pose
• Dedicated Happy Camper advancement progression

Gameplay Systems

OutpostZero: The Wilds includes several interconnected systems built around wilderness exploration, survival, and campsite activity.

Tents

Abandoned tents generate naturally throughout the overworld, providing supplies and occasional encounters while adapting visually to the surrounding environment.

• Biome-aware colour palettes help tents fit naturally into forests, swamps, deserts, badlands, and colder environments
• Generated supplies are drawn from common, general, and rarer campsite loot
• Bears can spawn alongside generated tents, with species chosen to suit the surrounding habitat where possible
• When installed, tents can incorporate OutpostZero Crates, Industrial Workbenches and Industrial Drums, plus Tough As Nails Water Purifiers
• Placement checks help avoid unsuitable terrain and conflicting structures

Bears

Brown Bears and Black Bears spawn naturally in suitable habitats and can be encountered as wildlife or tamed as companions.

• Wild bears can be tamed using Honey Bottles
• Tamed bears can follow their owner, sit, and defend them in combat
• Raw and Cooked Salmon can be used to heal injured tamed bears, while Raw Salmon is used for breeding when fully healed
• Bears use dedicated eating behaviour when fed
• Both wild and tamed adult bears can fish from the water’s edge
• Injured bears fish more frequently, with badly injured bears giving fishing greater priority
• Brown and Black Bears use different habitat and aggression behaviour

Bear Traps

Bear Traps can catch players and living creatures that step into them, holding the victim in place while they struggle to escape.

• Bait can attract suitable creatures toward an armed trap
• Animals respond to appropriate food, while Rotten Flesh attracts Zombies and related zombie types
• Trapped victims take damage and receive the Bleeding effect
• Struggling against the trap builds toward escape
• The Advanced Bear Trap automatically resets and can collect drops from creatures killed while trapped
• Advanced Bear Traps support automated bait insertion from above and on the sides and output extraction from below

Fishing

Fish Traps provide passive fishing from suitable bodies of water, with different bait changing what the trap can catch.

• Bread catches fish only
• Sweet Berries catch Salmon only
• Fish Bait catches fish with a chance of junk or treasure
• No bait catches junk only and operates much more slowly
• Advanced Fish Traps fish faster, improve the junk and treasure chances, and sometimes preserve their bait
• Advanced Fish Traps support automated bait insertion from above and output extraction from below
• Fish Bait can also be used in the off-hand with a fishing rod, reducing bite time by 5 seconds and stacking with Lure

Campfires

Healing Campfires are assembled directly in the world rather than crafted as a finished block.

• Craft Campfire Logs from logs, sticks, and a red mushroom, then place four together to assemble an unlit Healing Campfire
• Breaking a Healing Campfire returns its four Campfire Logs, allowing it to be packed up and rebuilt elsewhere
• Light sticks directly from a burning campfire to make torches
• Realistic Torches integration allows unlit torches to be re-lit directly from a campfire

Campsite Cooking

Marshmallows can be roasted interactively over lit campfires rather than simply being cooked through a furnace recipe.

• Marshmallows progress through Raw → Warm → Golden → Burnt while held over a campfire
• Golden marshmallows provide the best food value, while leaving them over the fire too long turns dessert into a cautionary tale
• Roasted marshmallows can be used to make equivalent Breaded or Cookie S’mores

Bear Claws

Bear Claws provide a climbing mechanic in addition to functioning as melee weapons.

• A Bear Claw must be equipped in each hand before climbing becomes active
• Players can climb suitable walls, descend under control, and move over ledges
• Diamond-Tipped Bear Claws provide improved climbing speed

Licensing and Third-Party Material

OutpostZero: The Wilds is All Rights Reserved except where otherwise stated.

Selected material is derived/adapted from the MIT-licensed Simply Camping by ibex80 and Fish Traps by ktboogey. Those portions remain subject to their original MIT licences.

Relevant third-party notices and licence texts are included with release builds under META-INF.

Credits

• Campsite Cooking: Simply Camping by ibex80, licensed under MIT
• Fish Traps: Fish Traps by ktboogey, licensed under MIT

Reporting Issues

If you encounter a compatibility issue with another mod, or find a machine setup that behaves incorrectly, please report it via the project issue tracker so it can be investigated.