Even if you mod it hard they're two essentially different games. Personally, none of the mods I saw picked my interest and I'd rather not waste too much time figuring out modding another game.
Here's a question for the knowledgeable fellas: Why is that, when you go indoors, sometimes you can see and hear overworld activity? I have my base at the central spot, and when going down the dungeon at certain floors it becomes a mess of name tags and job icons all over the place.
Indoor distance between adjacent houses is also reduced compared to their overworld placement. Any way to avoid or attenuate these issues?
I want to add my own theory onto this
Think of the game world as a 3D box (which it is)
a 3D box with many layers and Each missions has Layers of their own in different locations
The "Dungeon" for example, its PlayZone layer is roughly around here, high above the skybox
Why do I suspect this?
I got a nice
old base around the
play area and I keep seeing "training" "log" "livestock" "harvest" icon popping up for me when I went into the
Dungeon, after a while those icon disappear and does not appear at the same spot
I think what happen is the
game aren't suppose to show those icons while you're in the dungeon, but those icons will "float" into the player's screen from off-screen map, so when you move around the Dungeon level, those icon takes sometime to disappear from view.
So yea, minor inconveniences if you set your base near the Dungeon or the middle of the map
The other places has their own layers OR just on the same layer as the Overworld
The Gate/Tunnel section for the Three Gem is a good example as it's just slightly lowered layer to the Overworld,
Ask a NPC to follow you and you can set his/her movement near the inner Gate, when Scouts goes near the Gate, your Friendly NPC will detect them and go out and fight them...assuming people are like me playing with no invisible wall option on
(honestly it's more hard since you can't abuse it like where my Old base is, but you can use stone bench to section it off :3 )
The Lab area layer is slightly lowered than the Red Lab Gate, I know because I put the
Man's Son & Son's wife in the Lab area and every time I just see Two heart appear below the Red Lab Gate xD