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Guaranteed Meat Printing

thought you should know, I just got meat printing from exploration... again... in the same playthrough. it seems the game isnt recognizing your version as a replacement of the breakthrough so it keeps trying to give it to me in the random pool of breakthroughs that can be obtained. may be simpler to just leave it as a breakthrough and somehow force the breakthrough to happen at game start or pop up when 3d printers are unlocked or something. there is no catastrophic conflict here, just losing a portion of probability to get something useful to something already obtained. i did however have a save right before this happened and reloaded multiple times until i got something useful, but meat printing showed up several times in the mix.

Seems like the Research UI is misbehaving a bit, but it's nothing more than a cosmetic issue. Thank you for the information, @SantasHelper.

Mnementh, it seems relaunching the game made the duplicate meat printing (the one in breakthrough) vanish from the save. pretty weird. unless there was an update i didnt notice, i just launched it to play today and saw it was gone from list.

You already fixed the issue, but I had the bug too. I was messing with Project-X mod, and noticed that Human Meat Printing was above Meat Printing, both were greyed out.
But when I unsubscribed/resubcribed, that fixed the issue.

That's fascinating! For all intents and purposes, there should be just 1 technology in existence. Let me know what happens when you research it.

this is amusing, but i just had an exploration find for meat printing breakthrough, so i have both meat printing research topics in my list now. i am sure that is expected, wonder if the other will vanish when the other is done.

seemed to have fixed it on old saves once i got the mod to actually update, had to uninstall/reinstall while game was closed to get it to finally overwrite the old version. nice work!

It should now unlock for research, @Santa's Helper.

I tested it in a broken savegame, and it seemed to work fine. Please let me know if the problem persists.

I can hardcode the research to unlock itself if the prerequisites are met upon loading of the savegame, but I don't see a reason to do so at the moment.

Thank you for letting me know, @SantasHelper! I thought that my change wouldn't cause conflicts, but I will have to check what I am missing.

update to help narrow it down:
i researched nearly everything and it never unlocked.
i think it may have to do with the breakthrough existing or not in a play through, or possibly the fact you changed meat printing from a breakthrough to a general research and some flag isn't checked somewhere. which lead to an idea i had about a new research task that unlocks the breakthrough, so you dont have to change meat printing itself, only add a new research that guarantees you can unlock it. and for that matter, other breakthroughs could be unlocked in a similar manner, like a general research for "brainstorming: {topic/item}" which unlocks the various breakthroughs to then research. i dont know... anyhow, please look into if the 3d printer being already unlocked is the cause or if it has to do with changing a breakthrough to be a general research or something else.