Mods / Wilderlands Rustbound Improvements

Tags:
Creatures Tweak
Author:
Faeldray
Side:
Both
Created:
Jul 15th 2025 at 12:57 AM
Last modified:
May 8th at 4:10 AM
Downloads:
3533
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Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.22.0-pre.1 - 1.22.2):
xwilderlands-3.0.0.zip  1-click install

Requires Wilderlands Rustbound

Previously known as Wilderlands Rustbound / XSkills

 

This mod adds a few improvments to Wilderlands Rustbound, including:

  • If Cats is installed, Rustbound drifters will now react properly. Although sometimes they refuse to bow and only stand there staring at the cat, I don't know why.
  • If XSkills or any of its forks is installed, you receive combat XP when you kill the creatures added by Wilderlands Rustbound. This include:
    • Rustborn drifters
    • Shepherds
    • Skulkers
    • Blightworms
    • Blightworm queen
    • Bug nests
    • Caretakers
    • Bonemasses
    • Rotwalkers
    • Rotpillars
    • Golems
    • Itinerants
    • Roamers
    • Boilers
    • Baneflies
    • Parasitic flies
    • Plainsreaper
    • Cave spiders
    • Desert spiders
    • Forest spiders

 

Some of the XP values I copied over from Rust & Rot, others I just tried to gauge what would be appropriate. If anything seems unbalanced, let me know.

 

 

Removed changes

Removed in v3.0.0

  • Resizing Rustbound drifter hit boxes to better match the size of the creatures (Wilderlands Rustbound has added this in their v3.0.0 release)
  • XSkills compat for creatures that were removed:
    • Bell skulkers
    • Bellspires

 

 

If you'd also like more loot from Wilderlands Rustbound (and to get back the loot that was stripped from vanilla mobs), check out Wilderlands Rustbound Drops!

Also check out my other mods:

Mod Version Mod IdentifierFor Game version Downloads Released Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
3.0.0 xwilderlands
1.22.0-pre.1 - 1.22.2
148 May 8th at 4:10 AM xwilderlands-3.0.0.zip 1-click install
  • Removed hit box improvements since Wilderlands Rustbound had added them
  • Fixed the enchanted animations for the updated rustborn models
  • Removed XSkills compat for bellskulkers and bellspires
  • Added XSkills compat for blightworm queen, plainsreaper, cave spiders, desert spiders, and forest spiders
2.0.0 xwilderlands
2034 Aug 31st 2025 at 4:41 PM xwilderlands-2.0.0.zip 1-click install
  • Added drifter hit box improvements
  • Added Cats compat for drifters (including enchant animation)
  • Changed name to Wilderlands Rustbound Improvements
  • Updated icon and logo
1.0.0 xwilderlands
1351 Jul 15th 2025 at 3:56 AM xwilderlands-1.0.0.zip 1-click install

Initial release

4 Comments (oldest first | newest first) (threaded | flat)

propaneko, Aug 31st 2025 at 7:02 PM

Thank you, gonna take my unofficial patch down then!

Faeldray , Aug 31st 2025 at 4:42 PM

propaneko Updated to work with the unofficial XSkills patch (or any other XSkills patch)!

Faeldray , Aug 30th 2025 at 5:40 PM

propaneko If Wilderlands Rustbound is working on 1.21 (I hadn't tested it out), yeah I can do that. It would be an easy change.

propaneko, Aug 30th 2025 at 8:41 AM

is there a chance we could get it updated for the unofficial xskills patch?