This is my second SPT mod port — the first was BiggerBang, a full trader mod. This one is smaller in scope, but I ran the entire process through Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code: extraction, code review, the rewrite, and the debugging. My role was direction and judgement calls; the model did the implementation. The most interesting part of this post is what it found. ...
SPT-AKI (Single Player Tarkov) 4.0 rewrote the entire server from JavaScript/TypeScript to C#/.NET. Every SPT 3.x mod — loaded as .ts/.js files with a package.json — had to be rebuilt as a compiled .dll against the new C# API. The mod I ported is BiggerBang, written for SPT 3.9 by Thunderbags, whose author had gone inactive. It adds a full custom trader (Boris Bangski) with an extensive inventory — ammo, weapons, magazines, grenades, injectors, containers, armour, equipment sets — and 13 quests. I ported it to C# for SPT 4.0.x, verified it against 4.0.13, fixed five bugs found along the way, and released it to the community. ...