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[ZAV] Better Mech Node

Inspired by “Beautiful Mech Node (Gloomlight)” mod.

Often when playing low-tech colonies, I thought that it would be nice to have some sort of non-fueled/free light source. For a while I used “Glowstone” mod, but with 1.4 release it was clearly abandoned. Then I found “Beautiful Mech Node (Gloomlight)” mod and started to use it, but I still had a small complaint. The thing is, I'm using “Simple Utilities: Ceiling”, which adds a ceiling version of mech node, but it doesn't inherit updated stats from a regular mech node. I wrote to mod author about this small problem asking him to add a patch, but to no avail.

I then decided to add a patch myself on a local version of the mod, but found out that original mod rewrites "Buildings_Mech.xml" file, which is actually very bad. In the end I decided to just make a new mod.

• Patches glowRadius of the mech node from 3 to 12 and makes it visible.
  
• Patches Beauty stat from -20 to 20.
  
• For version 1.4+ added color picker and normal / darklight toggle.
  
• If “Simple Utilities: Ceiling” is loaded does the same for a mounted version and changes its name from “mounted gloomlight” to “mounted mech node”. It seems like the mod author forgot to rename it.

This is a simple xml mod so it’s unlikely it will ever conflict with anything (future versions of Rimworld included).