# Wedge Adds The Wedge — the Black Division "Icebreaker" boss from EFT 1.0.5 — and his guard squad to most maps. He turns up in his own kit and comes looking for you. ## What it adds His own spawn type and brain rather than a reskinned existing boss — wearing his real 1.0.5 face, coat and trousers, speaking with his own voice. Spiritus LV-119 plate carrier, Team Wendy EXFIL with L3Harris PVS-31A night vision on a Wilcox mount, an Avon M53A1 gas mask, and his weapons: SCAR-H, SA58, MDR or MP7, a USP .45, a SOG tomahawk, and his Model 8230 CS gas grenades. Gear spawns at near-perfect durability and he has 880 health, roughly double a PMC. The brain is the part worth caring about. He pushes toward the nearest player instead of holding a corner, opens with gas and flash on the approach, and hands the actual gunfight off to SAIN so he still shoots like something you know how to read. He calls orders his guards actually follow — cover, hold, push — and the Black Division Operator escort spawns in the same zone and rushes with him, so you get the squad arriving together rather than trickling in. He and the wider Black Division are one side: his squad and any other Black Division patrol treat each other as allies, never targets. And player scavs pay no Fence rep for killing him or his guards — they're an invading faction like Raiders or Rogues, not scav bosses. Nobody's weapon is rolled. Every gun in the squad is a fixed build, one part per slot, one optic and one laser — his own five and the USP, and for his escort the Black Division armoury they fight out of, since that is who they are. His MP7 always carries the FAB Defense ARS stock adapter and the SureFire SF3P flash hider it should. The gas is real. His 8230 leaves a cloud that drains anyone standing in it without a filter, stings your eyes until the edges of the screen wash white the way they do in 1.0.5, and sets you coughing. A full-face mask shuts it out completely — his own M53A1, a GP-5 or GP-7; a respirator like the Ops-Core SOTR or a 3M keeps it out of your lungs but leaves your eyes stinging. The list is editable in F12. His face and voice are also selectable for your own PMC in character creation. ## Spawn chance Scales with level: 10% at 15, another 5% every 5 levels, capped at 25%. Level 20 is 15%, level 30 and up is 25%. Solo that's your level; in a Fika session it averages everyone who has pinged the server in the last 15 minutes, so one high-level player doesn't drag the lobby's odds up alone. All of it is adjustable from F12 — see *Config* below. ## Where he spawns He picks a fresh zone every raid, drawn from the ones on that map that hold a scav-side boss spawn. Zryachiy's island is off the list by default; add or remove names with `excludedZones`. Ground Zero (low), Labyrinth and Labs are not in the map list. The first two carry no boss spawn zones at all, so nothing the server sends can place him there. ## Install Extract into your SPT folder — the one holding `EscapeFromTarkov.exe` and `BepInEx`. Merge `SPT` and `BepInEx` when Windows asks, then restart the server. Upgrading from 0.1.0: that build put the server mod in `user\mods\Wedge` at the install root by mistake, where the server never read it. Delete that stray `user` folder — the real one is `SPT\user\mods\Wedge`. ## Requires All four of these. None are optional — he won't run without them. - **MoreBotsAPI** (`com.morebotsapi.tacticaltoaster`) — supplies the custom boss role he spawns as. The server mod references it directly, so it won't load without it. Needs DrakiaXYZ-BigBrain itself. - **WTT-ContentBackport 1.1.0 or newer** (`com.wtt.contentbackport`) — his guards' Black Division gear and clothing, and since 1.1.0 his own face, coat, trousers, voice, gas grenade and the two MP7 parts as well. This mod no longer carries copies of those: they are the same files, and shipping them twice meant a 48 MB download nobody needed plus a boot error for whichever mod lost the race to claim each one. **1.1.0 is a hard floor** — on an older ContentBackport those pieces resolve to nothing. Its server half needs **WTT-ServerCommonLib 2.0.22 or newer** (`com.wtt.commonlib`), which this also uses directly to register his kit items and the names the end-of-raid screen shows. Installing the WTT set normally brings WTT-ClientCommonLib along too. - **Black Division** (`com.blackdiv.tacticaltoaster`) — the faction he leads. His guards are Black Division soldiers and share its content. - **DrakiaXYZ-BigBrain** (`xyz.drakia.bigbrain`) — the rush layer registers against it. BepInEx skips the plugin without it. MoreBotsAPI, WTT-ContentBackport and Black Division each ship as several parts — a plugin, a patcher and a server mod. Install them whole rather than picking out files. Optional: **SAIN** (found by reflection, no assembly reference — without it he still spawns, rushes and throws grenades, he just fights on the vanilla brain; a failed interop logs a warning and carries on) and **Fika** for co-op, which is also what the group-average spawn scaling needs. ## Config Spawn frequency and balance live in F12 as well as in the config file. The file is the default everyone starts from; the menu overrides it for raids you host, and nothing is written back to it. F12, section *Wedge*: - **Spawns** — whether he turns up at all, the level curve (or a flat chance), party averaging, a minimum distance his squad keeps from everyone's raid-start position (default 200 m; small maps fall back to the farthest zone they have), and an optional spawn delay. - **Balance** — guards per party size, his and his escort's difficulty, and their health as a percentage. - **Maps** — a checkbox per map. The Lab starts unticked, and stays off no matter what while Blackout is installed — its own Wedge already garrisons the place. - **Brain** / **Command** / **Gas** — how he fights, his squad orders, and how hard the gas bites. These are simulated on your own machine and are yours alone even in co-op. In a Fika session the host's Spawns, Balance and Maps settings are the ones that count — the server keeps everyone's and uses whoever created the raid. Yours apply when you host. *Push Settings To Server* under General turns your half of that off entirely if you'd rather leave someone else's server on its own config. Leave the two Layer Priority values alone unless you know what you're doing — the rush has to stay below SAIN's combat layers at 20+ or he'll rush while he should be shooting. `SPT/user/mods/Wedge/config.jsonc` holds the defaults, server restart to apply: | Key | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | `enabled` | true | Off keeps the mod loaded but stops him spawning | | `levelScaling` | true | Off falls back to `flatChance` | | `baseLevel` / `baseChance` | 15 / 10 | Curve start | | `chancePerStep` / `stepLevels` | 5 / 5 | +5% per 5 levels | | `chanceCap` | 25 | Ceiling | | `flatChance` | 15 | Only used with scaling off | | `groupScaling` | true | Co-op: average the session instead of the host alone | | `groupWindowMinutes` | 15 | How recent a ping counts toward that average | | `escortAmount` | 3 | Guards, when `partyScaling` is off | | `partyScaling` | true | Bigger parties draw more guards | | `guardsByPartySize` | [3, 4, 6] | Guards for solo, duo, and three or more | | `bossDifficulty` / `guardDifficulty` | normal | easy, normal, hard or impossible | | `bossHealthPercent` / `guardHealthPercent` | 100 | Percentage of their normal health | | `spawnDelaySeconds` | 0 | Seconds before he arrives. 0 is raid start; anything else counts as at least 10 | | `excludedZones` | Zryachiy's island | Spawn zones to keep him out of | | `enabledMaps` | 10 maps | Reserve, Streets, Customs, both Factories, Interchange, Lighthouse, Ground Zero 20+, Shoreline, Woods. Delete an entry to switch a map off. | ## Removing the mod Uninstalling has one catch. Once Wedge or a guard turns up in your kill history, your profile stores their role by name, and the game only knows those names because of Wedge's *prepatcher*. Delete the prepatcher while the profile still references them and the client throws on load. So to remove Wedge safely, **leave `BepInEx\patchers\Wedge\` in place** and delete only: - `SPT\user\mods\Wedge\` - `BepInEx\plugins\Wedge\` The patcher on its own does nothing but teach the game two extra names, so it's harmless to keep. He stops spawning and your profile still loads. The other catch is his gear. Any Wedge item still in your stash, kit or mail when the server mod goes away — the helmet, the goggles, the 8230s — is an item the server no longer recognises, and SPT flags the whole profile invalid at the next boot. Sell or drop his gear before uninstalling, or set `removeModItemsFromProfile` to `true` in `SPT\SPT_Data\configs\core.json` for one restart and let the server strip what's left (it deletes attachments with their parent, so a helmet goes goggles and all). ## Build `dotnet build -c Release` with the .NET SDK 9+. Three projects: `Client` and `Prepatch` on net472, `Server` on net9.0. They resolve the install through two different anchors — `SptRoot` (the game folder) in Client and Prepatch, `SptServer` (the `SPT` folder inside it) in Server. Override both if your checkout isn't three folders down. Built against SPT 4.0.13 / EFT 0.16.9.