What Is This MOD?
“FNS Make Quest Rewards Great Again” is a quest reward rebalancing MOD by the author FinFNS. According to the author’s description, its goal is to restore trader quest rewards to the level they were at during Alpha 21 (A21).
In the current version, even after completing a quest, the reward choices tend to be underwhelming—something like “300 wood”—and the thrill of opening the reward screen has faded. Quite a few players seem to feel this way. With this MOD installed, the chance that appealing items like weapons appear among the reward candidates goes up, and according to the author, “on average, a weapon should show up as a choice about one in four times (roughly 25%).”
Key Features
- Raises the quality of quest rewards: More practical items—weapons chief among them—become likely to appear among the reward candidates.
- Faster early-game progression: Since you can get good rewards sooner, the pace at which you round out your gear picks up.
- Intentionally “a bit strong”: The author himself states plainly that “TFP’s (the developer’s) intended balance is broken, and it becomes somewhat overpowered.” It’s positioned as an option grounded in a design philosophy that “respects your time.”
- Suggestions for compatible MODs: As candidates for combined use, the author lists “IZY – All in One Gun Pack” for adding more weapons, “Sensible Lootz” to make weapon bags actually drop weapons, and “Black Wolf’s Better Loot”–style MODs that place special ammo in vanilla containers.
Installation Tips
For a typical, server-side-leaning quest reward MOD, the basic approach is presumably to extract it into your Mods folder and place it there. That said, MODs that touch the reward tables may conflict with other loot/quest MODs over the same edit locations. We recommend backing up before installing, and first checking the behavior on its own or with a minimal set of MODs. For multiplayer, please confirm in advance how it should be handled on both the server and client side (see the Nexus distribution page for details).
Who It’s For
- Anyone who felt “I completed the quest, but the reward is lame”
- Anyone who wants to recapture that A21-era feeling of rewards that were genuinely satisfying
- Anyone who wants to gear up early and keep their playthrough moving at a good pace
Conversely, it’s not for people who prefer the slow, gradual growth of vanilla’s pace. The author writes bluntly that “if you like a slow game, just don’t use it and don’t complain,” so it can be said to be a MOD meant purely to respect “your own play preferences.”
Reference: Nexus Mods distribution page (Author: FinFNS)