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Mental Mutation Overhaul

Adds new functionality to some of the more underwhelming mental mutations along with further balancing to make lesser used mental mutations more desirable to invest in over a run.

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Psychometry:

• A new ability has been added at mutation level 5 called "Scour History" which lets you destroy an artifact with a chance to learn a random secret (or multiple if the artifact's value is high enough). Chance is affected by Psychometry level, artifact value, and a pity system.
  
  
• Increased base mutation cost from 3->4 (How the mod was balanced prior to v1.0)
  
  
• Now gives Tech Scanning to the user.

Mass Mind:

• A new secondary functionality has been added: An attempt to focus your tapping of energy to nearby minds and silence other espers within the current zone, setting their mental mutations on a long cooldown. Base chance of 50% that increases with mutation level.
  
  
• Mass mind's base cooldown has been reduced from 500->300 and its minimum cooldown decreased from 100->80, but the amount of cooldown removed per level decreased from 50->20
  
  
• Base mutation cost increased from 4->5

Disintegration:

• Added a new Instability feature. You can toggle between three levels of instability, level 1 being default Disintegration while levels 2 and 3 have increased damage, slightly increased range, but also an increased cooldown and exhaustion time.

Burgeoning:

• Spawn tables have been reworked to make it less suicidal (Aloe Pyra and Vantabloom removed, Aloe Porta and Vantabud spawn chances greatly reduced, weights distributed to other plants like Aloe Volta or Death Daccas, though lemon rolls are still possible so mutation cost unchanged)

Confusion:

• Base mutation cost decreased from 4->3

Spacetime Vortex:

• Base mutation cost decreased from 3->2

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Note: I do not recommend using the Precog Secrets mod along with this as it's really easy to cheese the new Psychometry ability with it. Also, this mod may not be compatible with other mods that tweak the same abilities (Though mods for non-affected abilities like Light Manipulation or for abilities with no scripting changes like those only receiving mutation cost changes should be fine).

Most changes will work if the mod is enabled mid-run. Only exceptions are tech-scanning on psychometry and the instability toggle on disintegration if the character already has the respective mutation.

The stunning force, pyrokinesis, and cryokinesis mutation cost tweaks have been made base-game, thus they have been removed from the mod for v1.0.

Let me know if you have any ideas for further changes/tweaks you'd like to see or especially if you find a bug.

Thank you to Books and gnarf from the discord for their help.