CaravannerUnbound

Unchains the Soroborean Caravanner's fast-travel service in Outward Definitive Edition.

In vanilla DE, each caravanner offers only one random destination, re-rolled every 72 in-game hours — and caravanners outside cities rarely offer anything but Harmattan. This mod makes every standing city — Cierzo, Berg, Levant, Monsoon, Harmattan, and New Sirocco — available at once, from anywhere the caravanner will talk to you.

Features

• Travel from anywhere — the vanilla "only in cities" restriction is lifted (and can be restored in config if you only want the expanded destination list).
• Story-aware — destroyed or blockaded cities stay off the list, and New Sirocco only appears once its caravan trader is established. Turn RespectStoryEvents off if you'd rather ignore that.
• Configurable destinations — individual on/off toggle for each city in the config (works with the in-game Configuration Manager, default F5).
• Update-resilient — the mod validates everything it touches at startup and logs a precise warning if a game patch changes something, instead of failing silently. Story-event IDs are read from the game's own constants rather than hardcoded.

How it works

The vanilla destination logic runs completely untouched — including its random 72-hour destination roll — and the mod then appends the cities the roll didn't pick, using the game's own route data. Vanilla multiplayer syncing is preserved: in co-op, only the host expands the list and clients receive it normally.

Requirements

• Outward Definitive Edition on the Mono branch (Steam: Properties → Betas → default-mono)
• BepInEx pack for Outward

Config

BepInEx/config/com.spencer4792.caravannerunbound.cfg (created on first launch):

Background

I noticed a lot of mods that altered the Soroborean Caravanners were no longer functioning properly on Definitive Edition. Rather than patch up old code, CaravannerUnbound was written from scratch for DE with a different approach: additive, config-driven, and resilient to game updates.

Source

Source code is included and MIT licensed — fork it, learn from it, build on it.

Changelog

1.0.0

• Initial release for Outward Definitive Edition
• All six cities offered as caravanner destinations from anywhere
• Config: master switch, per-city toggles, story-event respect, optional vanilla in-city rule

1.0.1

• Fix: destinations were not added because DE's caravanner only offers one random destination (re-rolled every 72 game hours) from its candidate pool; dedupe now checks the actual offered list by TravelData.Destination instead of the candidate pool

1.0.2

• Fix internal assembly name (was a generic build artifact name, which could collide with other mods built the same way and prevent them or this mod from loading)
• Rebuilt against BepInEx 5.4.8 / HarmonyX 2.3.2 to match the Outward BepInEx pack; removes the version warning on launch