Vanguard Framework

🛡️ Vanguard Framework

A modding API & toolset for Solarpunk (Cyberwave, UE5)
Version v1.1.1 • Requires UE4SS for Solarpunk • ✅ Steam & Game Pass

✨ What is it?

Vanguard Framework is a Lua scripting layer built on top of RE-UE4SS for Solarpunk. It gives you a structured API that other mods can build on, plus a full set of in-game console commands for direct use.

It exposes modules to control the player, world, airship, inventory, world devices and more — all without PAK files, new assets, or any change to game files.

💡 Install it and you're ready to go. Open the console with ~ and type vf help to see everything.

Vanguard Framework features

🎮 What you can do

🏃 Player — movement speed, home point, teleport.
🌍 World — time of day, weather, skip night, pause.
🚁 Airship — refill battery, repair hull, teleport to cockpit, summon the ship.
👥 Multiplayer — co-op player list, teleport to / summon players.
🎒 Inventory & Items — give any of 298 items, set quantities, stack-size overrides, chest expansions.
🔧 Tools — durability multipliers (x1 → x10, or infinite).
⚙️ World Devices — Ore Drills, Batteries, Sprinklers, Fuel Generators, Solar Panels, Windmills, Wooden & Sky Turbines, Electric & Fuel Furnaces, Transport Drones, plus BuildAnywhere.
🎛️ Cheats & toggles — refill stats, grow plants, free build/craft, fly mode, infinite survival stats.
⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts — 25 keybinds across 4 toggleable groups.

<details> <summary>📋 Full command groups (click to expand)</summary>

vf player — Movement speed, home point, teleport
vf world — Time of day, weather, skip night, pause
vf airship — Battery refill, hull repair, status, tp, pull/call
vf multiplayer — Co-op player list, tp, pull/call
vf item — Give items, list all 298 known items
vf inv — Slot giving, quantity set, stack overrides, chest expansions
vf tool — Tool durability overrides (x1–x10, infinite) and status
vf cheat / vf cheattoggle / vf cheatdev — Survival refill, grow plants, free build/craft, fly, infinite stats
vf shortcuts — Enable/disable keyboard shortcut groups
vf device — Control all supported world devices + BuildAnywhere
vf config — Persistent key/value settings
vf gameplay — Apply preset configs (requires Vanguard Gameplay)
vf debug — Inventory dump, class finder, item cache rebuild, CDO dump

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🧩 Build your own mod on top of it

Drop a Scripts/vanguard_api.lua file in your mod folder. The Framework auto-discovers and loads it at startup, passing the full VF API as the first argument:

-- YourMod/Scripts/vanguard_api.lua
local VF = ...
local M = {}

VF.Events.On("PlayerReady", function(char)
    local speed = VF.Config.Get("yourmod.speed", 800)
    VF.Player.SetSpeed(speed)
end)

M.HandleCommand = function(Parameters, OutputDevice)
    -- handle your own vf subcommands here if needed
end

return M

Available modules: VF.Player, VF.World, VF.Airship, VF.Inventory, VF.Devices, VF.Shortcuts, VF.Config, VF.Events, VF.Utils, VF.Debug.

📦 Installation

Install UE4SS for Solarpunk in the game's binaries folder (Win64 on Steam, WinGDK on Game Pass).
Extract the download and copy VanguardFramework/ into ue4ss/Mods/VanguardFramework/.
Launch the game. The UE4SS log should show: [VF] Vanguard Framework loaded successfully!
Open the console (~) and type vf help to verify.

📖 Documentation

The docs/ folder ships with full references:

docs/api.md — Full API reference (start here to build a mod on top of the framework).
docs/commands.md — Complete command reference with syntax, arguments and examples.
docs/items.md — Full list of all 298 items for vf item give.
docs/technical.md — Technical notes, confirmed class names, field reference for Solarpunk UE 5.7.1.

⚠️ What it does NOT do

Add new items, meshes, textures, crops, animals, islands or recipes (those need PAK files).
Synchronize changes in multiplayer — all modifications are local to the client running the mod.

🚧 In active development

Solarpunk launched on June 8, 2026, and both the game and this framework are updated frequently. Command syntax and API signatures may change between versions; breaking changes are documented in the changelog. Found a bug or a class name that changed after a game update? Please report it in the comments.

Support

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