Readable notes and environmental storytelling for Road to Vostok.
Lore Elements adds discoverable notes, letters, reports, lists, and map fragments to existing loot. Each note can be read in a styled multi-page reader, saved into a persistent journal, and, for selected notes, shown as a discovered pin on the in-game map.
- Road to Vostok, current public build
- Metro Mod Loader
v3.1.1or newer - Mod Configuration Menu is optional but recommended
- Download
rtv_lore_elements.vmzfrom GitHub Releases or ModWorkshop. - Drop the
.vmzfile into the Road to Vostokmodsfolder. - Launch the game through the Metro-enabled setup.
In Developer Mode the loader can also read loose mod folders, but packaged releases should keep mod.txt at archive root and the source files under rtv-lore-elements/.
- Find lore notes through normal loot.
- Right-click a note and choose
Readto open the reader. - Use
Prev,Next,Close, or Escape/settings to navigate and close notes. - Press
Jby default to open the journal and re-read discovered notes. - Some discovered notes add pins to the in-game map.
With Mod Configuration Menu installed, open the Lore Elements page to configure:
Lore note spawn rate: multiplies how often lore notes appear in newly generated loot.Journal hotkey: changes the key bound to the persistent journal.
- Source: https://github.com/manova/rtv-lore-elements
- Releases: https://github.com/manova/rtv-lore-elements/releases
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- ModWorkshop: https://modworkshop.net/mod/56568
Bug reports and small fixes are welcome. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening an issue or pull request. Lore/content changes are curated for tone and should start with an issue before a PR.
Code, tooling, manifests, JSON schemas/configuration, and implementation documentation are licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.
Authored lore/content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. See LICENSE-CONTENT. This content license covers data/notes.json, user-facing strings in data/strings/en.json, and lore note text/name content in Items/Lore/Notes/*.tres.
Road to Vostok and original Road to Vostok assets are copyright Plumato Games. Lore Elements does not redistribute copied RtV textures, sounds, or models; it references vanilla game resources at runtime and includes screenshots captured in-game for presentation.
Bundled font: Caveat Regular by the Caveat Project Authors, licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1. See assets/fonts/OFL.txt.