Library changes

DA-Eco is primarily a library-patch mod. Every vanilla-XML file that ships in libraries/ gets patched. This page is a per-file summary of what changes; for gameplay-level explanation of these changes see the Mechanics pages.

wares.xml (2084 lines)

The largest patch file. Contains ~700 replace-patches on vanilla wares plus 3 new DA wares at lines 1887-2083.

Vanilla ware rebalance pattern

Every production ware gets normalized. Standard patch template:

cycle=600s — 10-minute production cycle across all wares (was 60-1200s inconsistently).
Amount ×2, resources ×2 — doubled output + doubled input, preserving ratios.
Workforce effect: product 0.34→0.5, +cycle=0.5 — 50% more output + 50% faster cycle with full workforce.
New effect: type=secondaryresource product=0.1 cycle=0.25 — 10% more output + 25% faster cycle with secondary resource stocked.
New <secondary> block attaching one of the 3 DA wares as secondary resource.

Price amplitude expansion

Example — Advanced Composites:

vanilla min=432 avg=540 max=648 (1.5× spread)
DA min=516 avg=688 max=1168 (2.3× spread)

Wider amplitude = stronger route-profitability signal for NPC traders.

Recipe simplification: hullparts removal from station construction

Removed hullparts from ship construction resources for several vanilla station-build modules. Replaced with more claytronics + energycells.

Why: hullparts shortage was a common vanilla failure mode — when Hull Parts production ran out, ALL station construction (of every faction) blocked. Removing hullparts from station-build recipes decouples this dependency.

3 DA wares (lines 1887-2083)

da_adv_schematics — 100 m³, price 210/280/540
da_mil_schematics — 50 m³, price 90/120/250
da_laborunion_contracts — 25 m³, price 38/50/115

Each with 2 production modules (_01 claytronics+energycells recipe, _02 Terran computronic+silcarbide recipe). All rated cycle=0.5, product=5.0 for extreme workforce boost.

See DA wares for full detail.

Xenon-specific energy cell recipe

New energycells production method with Xenon-tuned values (no workforce assumption). Xenon shipyards get a functional energy cell chain even without habitation. See Xenon specifics → Xenon energy cells.

modules.xml (441 lines)

Module-level patches.

Production limits

For all vanilla prod_gen_*, prod_arg_*, prod_par_*, prod_tel_*, prod_spl_*, prod_ter_*, prod_bor_*:

<limits production="1→25"> — soft cap per station raised from 1 to 25
<maxlimits production="3→25"> — hard cap raised from 3 to 25

In practice the factionlogic_economy.xml ProductionLimit=5 value caps this at 5 per station.

Workforce chance

production chance on any gen-module raised to 100% (was 15-65%). Every attempted gen-module generation succeeds.

Cross-recipe removal

Vanilla modules could produce multiple wares (e.g. prod_gen_antimattercells also produced trace energy/graphene/coolant as side-products). DA removes these cross-recipes — each module produces exactly one primary ware.

Rationale: cleaner economic accounting, easier to model per-module supply/demand.

6 new DA-ware modules

Per DA ware, 2 module variants (_01 and _02 Terran). All defined here with production/consumption tables. Placeholder assets — reuse vanilla generic-production module models visually.

god.xml (1395 lines — biggest patch file)

Station generation & placement rules.

Global module limits

stations/defaults modules production=5→25 (was 3-5), storage=15, coreboundaryzoneheight=30000.

”_new” router pattern

For each production chain (energycells, hullparts, claytronics, etc.), DA adds _new route-entries: arg_energycells_new, tel_hullparts_new, etc. These override vanilla’s product-entries by:

Switching filter="economy" → filter="security" (route to secure sectors first).
Restricting faction=argon (vs vanilla faction=[argon, hatikvah] — Hatikvah gets its own routes rather than doubling up in Argon’s).

DLC factions (Boron, Terran, Split) get their own _new blocks parallel to the base races.

Removed unnecessary Argon+Paranid presence in Split DLC

Argon and Paranid stations are removed from Split DLC sectors — they were “wasting resources and CPU cycles” per DeadAirRT.

Hatikvah extracted from Argon-shared locations

Hatikvah stations no longer share arg_*_new route entries. They get their own hatikvah_* entries so their modules don’t fight Argon for slots.

16 god-quota patches (mlog6 restored)

7 major quota-scaling patches for food/graphene/hullparts/refinedmetals/claytronics/silicon/microlattice were dead through 8.x/9.x. Restored in mlog6 — see mlog6 fork fixes.

jobs.xml (194 lines)

Trader / miner / patrol job definitions.

Trader galaxy caps

stationtrader_m maxgalaxy 10→24 (2.4× more medium station-traders)
stationtrader_l maxgalaxy 3→12 (4× more large station-traders)

Cargo flow becomes non-bottleneck.

Basket rebranding

bio basket split into bio_argon / bio_paranid / bio_teladi / da_bio_split / da_bio_boron — traders don’t ship food across the whole galaxy anymore.
food basket split into foodrations / sojahusk / nostropoil / bofu / terranmre / da_food_split.

Traderoutine switch

Trade ships switch from distributewares aiscript to traderoutine. Effect: NPC traders now respond to demand-side imbalances (someone needs it), not just supply-side (someone has it). Vanilla frequently had “trader knows I have 1000 units to sell but nobody buying” scenarios. DA-Eco fixes this.

+2 Antigone water traders

Vanilla had no Antigone water traders — chronic water shortage in Antigone Republic sectors. DA adds L and M water traders.

+3 Xenon jobs

xenon_free_miner_m_ore_da — 72 galaxy
xenon_free_miner_m_silicon_da — 72 galaxy
xenon_stationtrader_m_da — 60 galaxy

See Xenon specifics.

masstraffic_paranid_criminal + alliance

Adds Alliance of the Word to paranid criminal masstraffic — small mod update.

construction_vessel_xl playeronly=true removed

NPC constructors of DLC factions can now work on player-owned build projects. Vanilla restricted them to player-only.

parameters.xml

Global engine-level settings.

Build pricing

prices/build min 0.25→0.33 — build materials cost floor raised.
shipsalefactor 0.7 — used-ship price factor.

Ware pricing window

resource min 3600→7200 — ware price recalculation window doubled. Prices move more smoothly instead of jumping every hour.

Production intermediates reporting

productioncheck reportintermediates false→true — economy reports intermediate-ware shortages, not just final-ware. Improves DA-Fill and vanilla trader targeting.

Workforce growth

capacity limit 1000→10000 (×10 max habitation capacity)
population step 100000, min 500, max 2000 — population grows ×10 faster than vanilla

Makes DA’s product=5.0 for DA-ware modules actually reachable.

Exclusion zones

ship_l 1100 / ship_xl 2000 — larger ships get more spatial exclusion around stations.

defaults.xml

Ship/station threat scoring.

XL trade/mine threat 14→10 (traders/miners de-rated as threats).
Station default threat 20.
Defence-purpose ships/modules 3→18 threat.
station/build plotsize=10000 (vanilla ~7000).

Threat scoring feeds into DA’s defence module rebalance — higher threat scores mean more defence modules.

baskets.xml (292 lines)

Ware baskets NPC traders route.

Bio-basket expansion

3 DA wares added to bio baskets of all factions. Vanilla-food + DA-schematics travel together.

construction_ships expanded

Now includes all ship-component wares — construction ships carry more variety.

construction_stations recipe swap

Removed: plasmaconductors, advancedcomposites, claytronics. Added: energycells.

Rationale: same hullparts-shortage decoupling as wares.xml.

equipment basket

Added: computronicsubstrate → advancedcomposites and metallicmicrolattice → engineparts.
Removed: claytronics.

modulegroups.xml (63 lines)

Reorganizes module groups (which modules can co-exist in a station design).

Pier groups: removes pier_*_harbor_01 from base groups. Moves _03 / _04 variants to add-groups. Effect: “base is minimal, expansions can be larger”.
Registers 6 module groups for DA-ware modules (_01 and _02 variants of each of the 3 DA wares).

constructionplans.xml (16 lines)

Individual station construction plan overrides.

Argon dockarea_arg_m_station_01→02 — upgrades trading stations from 1M6S dock to 3M6S dock (more dock capacity per module).
Buccaneer storage_l/m similar upgrade.
4 par_tradestation lowtech patches removed in mlog004→005 (dead XPath — vanilla 8.x restructured the plan, patches no longer matched).

loadoutrules.xml (25 lines)

Ship loadout weighting.

Transport drone weight 60 for L/XL trade ships — L-traders get full complement of transport drones.
Deployables (laser/mine/satellite/navbeacon) weights 5-10 — NPCs don’t hoard useless deployables.
Buildmodule build-weight 100, transport-weight 5.

region_definitions.xml

Increased resource yields for factions’ economic-vital sectors.
(Regionyields patches were removed in mlog6 — vanilla 8.x rewrote the yield system entirely.)

mapdefaults.xml

All sectors set economy=1.0 — normalizes the hidden vanilla sector.economy multiplier that skewed station-size generation.

ships.xml

Crew composition adjustments per ship class.

people.xml

NPC crew fill percentages: Regular 50%+, Veteran 75%+, Elite 90%+ of ship capacity. Higher-importance ships get better crews.

icons.xml

Icon registrations for DA-ware wares in the UI.

Mechanics overview — the gameplay effect of these library changes
DA wares — deep dive on the 3 new wares and their secondary-resource mechanic
Xenon specifics — Xenon-only patches
mlog6 fork fixes — XPath fixes restored in the mlog4 fork