Does it cost UPS?

No UPS cost for the hitbox part, and the speed only costs something for the moment you press Apply. The idle check runs twice a second and is spread over those half seconds, so even hundreds of caravans don't cause a stutter.

A caravan stands still with a warning icon. Why?

It has nothing to do: no schedule, no food, or no path. Give it a schedule or food and it walks again. The icon goes away by itself.

Can I turn the stopping off but keep the icons?

Switch off "Stop idle caravans from pacing". Caravans that already stand still keep their icon until they get a job. Pacing ones are left alone.

Do the speed settings carry over from the old speed mod?

No, speed is set in the game now. Type your old value into the window once.

I picked the caravan turd. Do I have to convert all my caravans?

No. Within 10 seconds of picking the turd every older caravan gets the turd speed, and old caravans you place later get it too. The bottom of the Better Caravan settings window confirms it. Only the speed changes, not health.

Feedback and bug reports

Bug reports and ideas are welcome in the Discussion tab. For a bug, please say which of the parts (hitboxes, speed or idle caravans) it is about and which other caravan mods you run.

Credits

Pyanodon's Alien Life and its caravans are the work of the Pyanodon team. Better Caravans builds on their work and is not an official Pyanodon mod.

AI disclosure

Pyanodon's Better Caravans was made with the help of AI. The code was written with Anthropic's Claude under my direction. I designed how it works, made every decision and tested it in my own Pyanodon game.