A bit late but if you want to decrease the rate of crystal brick ruins, just raise the market value (like 0.08 since it's small value). The file is at BiomeExpansion/ZARS_Arctic_Expansion.xml

Minor fixes added.

There is a major issue on playthroughs due to difficulty ramps unique to ZARS and Biotech combination.

Major QoL update incoming. Currently alpha testing right now.

So far...

2 NEW MEDICINES!
- Glittery Fibrous Medicine, made from pulp and mineral dust. It is better than herbal medicine. When desperate for any medicine.
- Crystal Herbal Medicine, made from herbal medicine, mineral dust, encased in resonating crystal packaging. Used in the arctic. Better than industrial medicine, almost as good as Glittertech, because as far as anyone knows, this might be the remote field site version of it. ;)

- Tiny Fire will now keep above minimum warmth. The first 2 days shouldn't be RNG anymore. It was annoying, not difficult.

All this will be unique to 1.4 due to Biotech DLC.

Phase 0 Survival Working...

As soon as rimworld stops screaming at me and I can test, this late update can be done.

Hmmmm.....

Ah yes, it's all 3 of the ZARS series that I am waiting for, however will I fulfill my colonies energy needs without Glittery Crystal Fusion, The Rims most efficient fuel based generators? So much so that I go through lengths to terraform an icy patch to grow them on, and also use them to grow other plants as a source of light in enclosed rooms?

Need 1.4, Cannot survive without.

Just started using this mod myself and also getting that issue with Dubs Bad Hygiene. Anyone found a solution for it yet?

@dracoix 🐉 Brosef, could we please eventually get a compatibility patch with Expanded Materials - Metals (mod by Argón)?

Great mod, but the world really likes spawning glittery crystal ruins now.

I've released a texture pack for ZARS Core:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2740177445
And if you use ZARS, you will definitely like it :D

Preface: not a modder, just noticed a red line in the debug logs that bugged me enough to grep

I believe there is a typo in line 206 of v1.3/Defs/ThingDefs_Plants/Plants_Cultivated_farm.xml. I don't think the <min> and <max> tags belong in that field - rather, something like 0.4~0.7 should be there. I made a local copy of ZARS Core with this edit and the red line disappeared.

First of all, I really like your mod and that it lets you survive on every tile on a world.
Unfortunately, there seems to be some incompatibilities with Dubs Bad Hygiene. If both are used together, the arctic harvest patch and the wooden planter box (I think that's its name) are recognised as hydroponics and get a water bar, which is supposed to be filled once they are powered. But, as they were never intended to be powered in the first place, they cannot be used. (If deactivtating this option, they need power instead, which also does fail) So they cannot be used.
Interestingly, this is not the case for the Slag Harvest Box, which works as intended.
It would be great if you could adjust it, so that both of them can be used together.

Normal (vanilla) Glowstool now added to harvest boxes.

Normal (vanilla) Haygrass now added to plant boxes. Go nuts.

1.3 officially updated for more Extreme Desert fun!

is there ever going to be an update to this mod?

any chance of a 1.1 update?

I really like this mod, can it be updated for 1.1?

In reference to my earlier post this is for the current version of the game at the time of this comment.

Everything except the artic grow patches and the mineral dust food work

is ther a 1.1 version of this?

1.1

You can get mineral dust from crafting spots @kaori

hello, I don't figure how to use this mod in arctic biome : to grow fibrous you need mineral dust, to get mineral dust you need fibrous, but you only can get fibrous hay from nothing on...sand? ;) I think I missed something :)

One very minor tweak that would make sheet ice naked brutality starts possible would be to increase the temperature that the tiny fire was capable of by 2 degrees. Currently it can heat a space to 60. A baseline naked pawn has tolerance down to 61. At 60 they won't die but they will not shed accumulated hypothermia.

There is a path around this: grow crystals, build boxes, grow haygrass, make hat, but it is exceedingly long and a very limited path and makes the games first season repetitive doing it that exact way every time.

Using the cargo ship jettison start (or any other start with clothing) this isn't such a problem because you can spread the hypothermia across a few pawns when they venture outside for resources. With only one pawn it's not possible.

It's kind of the same issue in extreme desert starts, but resources are a little more common and hay grass can be directly grown without the planter boxes. The tedium and balancing act are much less cumbersome.

@dracoix, I can't figure out how the bofire works for growing plants, could you lend some insight?

I love that idea, @thegrandseraph!

You can find snow as deep drill resource, lol

Needs a little more closer to mid game. Once you get plasteel sieves there is no further up for getting resources. I suggest adding something difficult to get to at first that gets you nearly to the same resource aquisition rate as mining.

Also, this would be great with a biome twist. I imagine a stranded in the middle of the ocean playthrough. Problem is someone would have to make the ocean biome playable, like what was done for impassable mountains. And your colonists would need to know how to swim. Maybe start with a 9 rafts, basically bridges for deep ocean. From there fishing and diving would be your primary resource gathering.

Early arctic game is pissing me off so much that I'll be buffing and adding stuff to it. I have yet to attempt a desert survival playthrough for a year.

Tribal Reborn (Tribalism) is in its own little box because of how massive it is. Anything that needs to be fixed in it literally requires me to dig through it.

been looking forward to you re-doing the tribal reborn stuff. You mentioned it forever ago and it seems to e coming along. Thanks.

@SwiftGeek75 it does not, it should be loaded after [CORE] MDK patch, which should be loaded after core.
so:
Core
Hugslib
Jec's Tools
Other frameworks
[CORE] MDK patch
ZARS Core
ZARS (other)

From what i've observed, ZARS' Version 19 is for the most part compatiable and stable with Rimworld 1.0

Some issues will crop up, and while red text in the Dev log is not a good sign, the difference between concern and an issue is the number of logs made, I.E if some error happens once, its probably not a serious problem, but if it logs say 462 times it needs to be investigated.

Really the only errors i've noticed are that some items are missing a weight, but from what i've observed it doesn't explode the log with errors, just a handful of exceptions.

Awesome, thanks 404!

From what i've seen while using this mod in 1.0 along with a LOT of other mods, it seems pretty stable. Most of the pieces are present (from an ice sheet perspective) not sure about deserts but the mod works as well as the other mods

Does this mod replace the normal rimworld core?

is this coming for 1.0?

[h1]@Synagogue Bullet Sponge[/h1]
Mineral water is required during severely desperate times, as a sort of life support for people with moderate to severe malnutrients, crafting a single mineral water will do hardly anything, but having 200 or 800 on hand (which suprisingly is not hard to make) can keep away death from malnutrients, while it may make things also worse with food poisoning

This mod is currently working fine for 1.0, feel free to use it

Could you update this for 1.0?

Are there any mid or late game applications for collecting mineral dust for electric smelting? A potential idea is that deep drills could harvest a fair quanity of mineral dust per operation in the same way they usually harvest stone chunks, at a slightly higher speed and efficiency than the crafting spot.

Isint mineral water supposed to give nutrition? Whenever I cook mineral water my pawns drink it and their food meter stays the same.

I didn't see the MDK Terrain Patch line. There weren't any snow/dirt/sand walls in the desperation menu before. I see them now. thanks

You need to use the Snow walls found in the Desperation menu, it's a multi-select of Dirt, Sand, and Snow. Also it requires MDK Terrain Patch now.

It is no longer possible to survive on an ice sheet with naked brutality. previously you could build dirt walls that would last while you waited for enough fibrous hay to grow. However now. the earliest wall you can build is Fort Wall (arctic reinforced) which requires glittery crystal and steel. However the Glittery Crystals won't grow because you can't make any building and they say bad seasonal temperature.

Biome Expansion update pushed. I'll fix the hay bug later.

they fiberous hay is not edable to animals it seems, is that intended?

Update will be fun, making sure Extreme Desert at 88C is survivable.