Greetings fellow explorers of the stars!

Have you ever found a nice place on a planet, where you wanted to build an outpost, but - it had extreme cold, corrosive atmosphere, or even no atmosphere at all?

Well, fear no more! You can now make it an Eden!

The Dome

The Dome is a machine that helps form the habitable environment on otherwise unhospitable planets and moons.
Based on the idea from Future-Tech's G.E.C.K. project, it spreads the Earth-like atmosphere around itself, and allows you to start terraforming process, and run around without a protective gear even on an airless moon!
If you build one near the Outpost Beacon it will cover roughly the same area, and will do so in a sphere shape.
Legal Notice - we will not assume responsibility for deaths caused by (but not limited to) : encounters with alien life forms, explosions by meteor impacts, spontaneous combustion from fire vents, despicable acts of madness by gas vents, face melting acid rain or acts of god!

Explanation

In less marketing speak and more human language:

• Dome comes in 2 variations, main one and the "mini" version
• Dome (bigger one) covers whole outpost radius in a huge dome-like sphere
• Dome-mini (smaller one) is suitable to covering area of a single building od a medium size, or almost whole large foundation
• Dome will generate breathable atmosphere inside it's area of effect
• Dome will stop atmospheric radiation, extreme cold or heat, fight the corrosive atmosphere, all so you can walk in your undies and breath without fear
• Dome is not a fixed barier - you can pass through it, and so can your ships, cargo ships, etc.
• Dome is not a shield! Enemies and alien life forms can pass through it same as you can! Build walls and fences for defense!
• Dome will not remove gas vents or other hazards in your outpost radius, if there is a fire - walk around it!
• Dome is not a roof! To protect from rain (plain, acid or freezing) please build your buildings with the roof and stay in until the storm passes!
  

See video for visual effect of The Dome!





Donations

If you feel generous today (or in the future) remember you can always buy me a Ko-Fi! Part of the donations will be forwarded to xEdit Ko-Fi/Patreon, and I will use the rest to keep me energized while I am spending hours upon hours staring at the screen trying to get snaps to line up properly! :-)

Note: This mod will always be free, all updates are free, any request you have (if I can do it) will be made free! Have fun playing, the same way I'm having fun modding (and playing :-) ) ! This is just a small way for me to feel better at the end of the day (week, month... decade) :-)



Installation

This mod requires Plugins.txt Enabler which also requires SFSE or ASIL (GamePass) because it was made in xEdit and is packaged as .ESM plugin file.

Please read detailed instructions provided by SFSE and Plugins.txt Enabler if you have not used any ESM mods yet! Open their respective pages and the instructions are all there!

After you have requirements taken care of, please add the following lines to your Plugins.txt file, complete text file should look like this:

# This file is used by Starfield to keep track of your downloaded content.
*BASE-TheDome.esm


From v.2.0 you will also need to place meshes of The Dome into path such as:

C:\Users\[your username]\Documents\My Games\Starfield\Data\meshes\Lux\thedome01.nif

and / or

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starfield\Data\meshes\Lux\thedome01.nif

For this to actually load you also need to enable loose files in the file:

...\My Documents\My Games\Starfield\StarfieldCustom.ini

... by adding the following lines (if you haven't done that already for hundreds of other mods that use the same system of installation):


[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=


Save the .txt and .ini files and start the game using sfse_loader.exe. (Or for GamePass follow instructions provided by Plugins.txt Enabler and ASIL)

Note that this mod should work just fine with GamePass version as well, please just make sure to follow Plugin.txt Enabler instructions specific for the GamePass modding and ASIL. I only have Steam version so can't provide any support unless you get the Plugins.exe Enabler and ASI Loader to work on your installation, as I have no experience with GamePass version.



Suggested mods

The Dome came to life as part of my main mod:
B.A.S.E. - Building Advanced Space Encampments

If you like outposts in general, make sure to check out B.A.S.E., and scroll to its own recommended section for couple more awesome outpost building mods!



Thanks

First and foremost huge thanks to the xEdit team lead by ElminsterAU - without the tools it would be impossible to mod at all!
Please visit official Nexus page for xEdit / SF1Edit and check out the donations, Patreon and other options. If you want to donate to mod makers make sure to also donate to the people that made the tools enabling us to mod!

I am not going to name each person individually, but big thanks to everyone on xEdit and Collective Modding Discord servers, you've helped a lot with your suggestions, tips, tricks, guides, YT videos, how-to's, testing, and general support and cheering for the success of this mod! Thank you all - you know who you are!

But special thanks for this mod goes to MXNovaKnight author of Outpost Construction Expanded (Even More Outpost Objects) ! Not only for support during development, ideas, and making the sure all legal aspects were covered ;-D but for also spending few hours extracting this from my main mod to this standalone version (despite Vortex fudging his whole installation and losing his own work made in the past few days)! The Hero! Thank you a lot! :-)

Not to forget the obvious, thanks to Bethesda for this awesome game :-)