v1.8.0


Patchnotes for 1.6:
- Update for RimWorld 1.6
- Removed custom materials that were used for caravan camp buildings. Walls aren't using specific materials anymore, and bedrolls use vanilla materials
- The hightech camp version received a new color for tents. The orange was a bit meh
- The Research bench in the production tent is adjusted to not suffer the malus of not being placed in a laboritory
- Removed a custom friendly mech faction, that is no longer needed
- The ancient protective aura protects pawns from vacuum in space


Patchnotes for 1.5 & 1.6:
- The ancient gift will no longer be passed on to another pawn, when the gifted pawn dies with death refusal charges available
- Fixed the sacrileg hunter story faction not identifying insects as enemies
- Removed no longer needed VFE patch, that led to an error on startup
- The ancient coordinator spell now picks pawns to be linked based on distance towards the caster with the ancient gift
- Added an option that allows to disable the ancient coordinator ability from killing pawns past the configured limit
- Overhauled passions for pawns bought via the bounty feature
- When the ancient gift is being passed on to another pawn (due to death or via talking to the anima tree), other psycasts can now be transferred as well
- Fixed an error popping up when the game was started without having the Biotech DLC active
- General Settings option to increase available silver and food now also applies to orbital traders, instead of just settlements
- Added SOS2 compatibility to via ancient ability spawned scythers, or CA mechs in general
- Scythers spawned via the Ancient Mech Signal no longer drop plasteel when deconstructed
- Spawned scythers via Ancient Mech Signal no longer increase raid points by an unreasonable amount
- Increased the amount of genes that the camp gene bank can hold
- The diabolus can now be called via the mini camp console
- Camp fabrics are less valuable to decrease the overall camp value a bit
- Improved detection for age of adults when determining relationships


Known issues / things to be improved soon:
- when calling reinforcements via CA's bounty hunting functionality in space, they currently don't behave correctly, will investigate
- landing on story related ancient master shrines with the grav ship is currently possible, when the shrine was discovered beforehand which is not intended. Due to a bug in vanilla this is currently possible, but will likely be fixed. Landing with the grav ship shouldn't be possible, as it exposes the player to hostile reinforcements for too long, in case the grav engine requires multiple days until it can launch again

v1.7.1

- allowing the ancient protective aura to cure some of the more annoying anomaly impairments, like metalhorror infections
- fixed sacrileg hunters being neutral to anomaly entities
- fixed sos2 patch... again
- mystical guiding light should now be usable by non-violent pawns
- fixed a beta issue with tome trader stock generator checking for the storyteller, which is null when patches are applied
- added additional bounty point reward configurations for VFE Mechanoids, Alpha Mechs and Integrated Implants provided by Giltiti, thank you!
- increased the available silver in settlements a bit more (option can be found in general settings, disabled by default)
- ancient gift can only exist once and disappears from anomaly dupes, added setting to disable the limitation
- fixed kidnapped pawns not passing on the ancient gift
- fixed a renamed category def that caused a HAR patch to fail

v1.7.0

- updated for RimWorld version 1.5
- disabled fleshbeasts in CA's story related ancient shrines
- added babyfood to campfire recipes
- fixed camp's animal area food shelf importance
- added info about additional genes in packs to the bounty credit reward listing

v1.6.0

Added:
- added performance mode for the storyline, that reduces the amount of used pawns noticeably, can be adjusted in a setup window or in mod settings
- added ability setting to adjust incoming aura damage reduction
- added melee engage toggle, that allows to have melee pawns engage new enemies automatically when they come close *
- added a new sorter in the caravan forming menu that allows to sort by pawn title (unchanged titles will remain unsorted above changed ones) *
- added a compact gene bank to the high tech camp, making travel with gene samples easier
- added current temperature info to tile inspection string when having a tile selected
- added feature to disallow dropping worn out gear on hostile maps when undrafted and a apparel hp limit is set *
- added optional feature to increase the firefoam popper trigger range to 5 cells *
- added some more dismantle materials for bosses, so looting them offers some reward

* disabled by default, enable in general settings. Restart of the game may be required to apply the changes

Adjustments:
- equalized passions on soldiers based on new pawn creation rules
- adjusted passion distribution for hired veterans
- rebalanced archite gene chance in bounty credit shop
- added tax for credit purchases with silver for the bounty system which reduces the gained points by roughly 70% when buying with silver as an incentive to hunt mechs rather than just buy with silver (adjustable in options)
- increased ancient prototective aura psyfocus cost to 1% each 5 seconds
- disabled worksites for sac hunters, they were just annoying

Compatibility
- added support for rimedieval, when detected, insects will be used as the primary hostile faction instead of mechanoids. Doesn't change any lore, text or textures yet, but the story should be playable now
- fixed sos2 experimental error for a missing method, that could no longer be patched, as planet to planet travel was removed, added support for new pressure system
- added new biotech mechs to possible mechs in shrines
- fixed possible compatibility issue with camping mood bonus canceling the camp creation
- added ce patch for the friendly scyther that was previously missing

Fixes:
- fixed apocalypse temperature slider in mod options not working correctly
- fixed skill decay level increase in general options not considering passions
- fixed sac hunter relation changes in mod options not applying until story progresses
- added missing rarer archite gene to pool of genes purchasable via bounty system
- added missing boss to bounty reward compatibility table
- fixed mass not updating when pawns were pre preselected when opening the caravan forming screen
- possibly fixed damsel in distress faction issue
- fixed detection patrols not attacking immediately
- improved sac hunters fleeing in colder temperatures too early

v1.5.2

- fixed slider to configure the ancient gift's attack speed buff percentage
- adjusted the ancient gift's default attack speed buff to 250% from 200%
- fixed a typo in bounty mod settings

v1.5.1.1

- fixed CE patch

v1.5.1

- adjusted medicine shelf importance in medical tent
- added biotech mechs to bounty rewards
- added genes to bounty rewards (can be configured in options)
- fixed deathrest items not resetting when packing up a camp
- nerfed ancient thunderbolt usage against biotech bosses
- fixed winston waves compatibility error message and added option to disable ww events for camps
- fixed changed CE def names
- excluded children from ca's relationship mechanic

v1.5.0

- RW 1.4 compatibility
- added a shelf storage tent type to camps to store items more practically
- added a swirrl-ish animation for the guiding light ability (can be disabled in options)
- added optional feature to the "General" mod settings category allowing to show a "P" or "T" suffix in the caravan forming dialog for psycaster or tough pawns respectively, disabled by default
- added bounty credit option to purchase veterans with tribal origin for a significant price bump
- fixed bounty credit attempting to trigger when no bounty faction was found or set
- fixed veteran generation error when story was disabled
- added grill snacks recipe to tribal camps
- should the gifted story pawn die, the gift is now passed to the most psy-sensitive pawn (can still be transfered at the tree)
- when passed on due to death, the newly gifted pawn will unlock psylevels according to the amount of ancient spells unlocked
- likely fixed tent leather being spawned by events even tho it shouldn't
- fixed the debug "reset story" action from preventing to trigger the mech bounty for the restarted story
- added story village respawn in case it is destroyed or taken over by another faction due to mods
- reworked parts of the sacrileg hunter faction and pawn kind defs
- added hq camp option to create chemfuel from meat
- suspended default recipe to burn corpses for fuel if... making hats is allowed
- renamed some camp items to give them unique names
- fixed ancient thunderbolt not triggering when cast on a filled cell
- added rimwar compatibility patch
- added SoS2 holograms to the excemption list for the coordinator ability

localization relevant:
- added CABountyExchangeVeteranRecruitment_EnlistTribal to Keyed/BountyExchange.xml

CA's older RW versions won't receive further content updates, tho fixes will still be provided.

v1.4.1

- disabled gaining additional vanilla spells when receiving the ancient gift if Vanilla Psycasts Expanded is installed
- fixed a compatibility error in story shrine generation if the mech faction isn't present
- added support for SoS2 experimental version

v1.4.0

New features and compatibility updates:
- added a subtle aura animation for the active ancient protective aura
- added SoS2 feature allowing ancient aura protected pawns to absorb incoming heat produced e.g. by incoming fire on shields and convert it into psychic heat for an aura protected pawn until their limit is reached or the pawn collapses due to psychic shock if overload is allowed. A new toggle/gizmo was added for aura protected pawns to enable ship protection (The conversion rate and the percentage of heat absorbed can be adjusted in mod settings)
- added SoS2 patch to avoid hypoxia for ancient aura protected pawns
- added feature to the ancient protective aura to regulate the protected pawn's body temperature in case of hypothermia or heatstroke
- all newly added features above can be fully disabled or adjusted in the mod's settings
- added further options for more silver exchange amounts for bounty credit
- excluded regrowth's wasteland biome from becoming a possible quest shrine location
- added winston waves compatibility patch separating story locations from the storyteller raid logic
- added improved Chinese translation by MZM_GOW

Fixes:
- fixed story quest breaking when worlds are switched (SoS2), however hostile factions seem to no longer be hostile to other npc factions after a world switch which is a current SoS2 bug, so possibly hold off with world switches during the story until that bug is resolved
- fixed silver exchanges for bounty credits in space (SoS2), trade beacons are no longer required
- likely fixed a compatibility issue in the bounty system's veteran generation in case used traits were disabled by other mods
- improved story pawn creation behavior to possibly avoid a rare incompatibility case
- adjusted roof for final boss room to be mountain roofed
- added option to leave invisible camp center behind when packing up the camp without leaving, so the control options to leave immediately can still be used (needs to be enabled in options)
- adjusted faction used for the prisoner in a caravan event to primarily be hostile to avoid faction relation changes
- added VFECore patch to ignore the no longer needed mech story faction in their faction dialog
- started preparations to safely remove the no longer needed friendly mech faction included in the mod
- reduced friendly quest caravan size
- fixed story quests being set to hidden when the colony is being moved during the archonexus quest
- excluded hidden and temporary factions from mechanoid bounty dialog
- allow insect meat option for automatic camp generation not correctly applying for butchering recipes
- fixed preselecting pawns or items to be automatically selected for the caravan screen not updating the weight value
- potentially avoided a rare case of the story pawn being generated naked in case of a mod incompatibility
- fixed passive ancient protective aura cost label
- added debug button to finish the storyline
- improved internal debug logging