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Generic, but fitting Taming & Recruitment.

- At the bottom of the page is a list of things to try when encountering unnintentional behaviour. -

/// THIS MOD ONLY ALTERS ANIMAL SQUADS, NOT THE ANIMALS THEMSELVES. THIS MEANS THAT YOU CAN PATCH YOUR OWN RECRUITABLE ANIMALS THROUGH FCS, BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT ANY SQUADS ADDED BY OTHER MODS, EVEN IF THEY ONLY INCLUDE VANILLA ASSETS, WILL *NOT* HAVE THE RECRUITMENT DIALOGUE ///



-Description-

Made this because all the stuff people put into their recruitment mods just ends up getting out of hand. Plus the bad writing, it just completely kills the mood of the game for me.

With this mod, you can recruit animals and people by interacting with them in a cage. If you don't get it on your first, second, third (etc) tries, keep trying, they'll break eventually. It's worth noting that not EVERY animal you encounter will be tamable. Usually uniques, leviathans, bosses and already tamed animals (by other factions) won't be tamable, for a little bit of realism.

Iron Spider taming is a (possibly) work in progress feature.

Some animals aren't and may never be tameable. I'm still deciding on whether or not a garru that was raised by a hive caravan through its entire life would suddenly trust a band of strangers that just beat its brains out.

Future plans:

- OPTIONAL dialog lines for when you have something that an animal would like. They'll give you a higher chance of success, but you can still use the regular taming options if you want. So, let's say swamp turtles like riceweed, or something. You get some riceweed in your inventory, and you'll get the option to feed it, which has a higher chance of making it your buddy.

- More outcomes, like escaping and stuff. Maybe they'll even go on a rampage if they're too hungry.

- A cool way of taming leviathans. You can't just put those things in a cage, that's silly.

- Other ways of taming and recruiting, like bringing someone over to your town and bandaging their wounds. Maybe if they have no life (a hungry bandit, for example), they'll join you.





-----------------> Known bugs that happen occasionally and things you can try to do in order to fix them.




! Keep in mind these issues will not happen to everyone !

- For all issues:

1. Disable any mods that add dialogue, and any mods that may change the vanilla characters' dialogues in any way. Check to see if your issue has been resolved and if not, just turn them back on.


- For prisoners that cannot be interacted with while imprisoned:

1. Quicksave and quickload.
2. Get them out of their cage, quicksave and quickload if you wish, then put them back in.
3. Remove prisoners from cages before exiting the game. (The necessity of this solution is very rare, but still worth mentioning)


- For prisoners that seemingly have no imprisonement dialogue:

1. Exhaust whatever dialogue they may have while imprisoned (usually something along the lines of "go ♥♥♥♥ yourself" and sorts) by interacting with them multiple times in quick succession, until you manage to initiate the proper recruitment dialogue.
2. Tamed animals are unrecruitable in most occasions. They will most likely remain this way, but wild animals, with the exception of leviathans, are tameable.


- For recruited characters that refuse to eat or perform certain tasks:

1. Quicksave and quickload. This will instantly fix them. (This glitch seems to be very common, so I recommend quicksaving and quickloading every time you finish recruiting a batch of characters)