The Plate Jacket is broken, its material file is removed. Use this patch https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826203804

I think it's bugged out (at least for me) because the samurai armour has all gone bright silver.

Wish there was a version that only had the colormaps.

This mod is really great! I love the new colormaps and being able to finally color my own armor!
I ran into an issue where Leather shirt-slot items couldn't be crafted. I noticed that this was an issue with the mod that's since been fixed (Change notes say it was in 2022). Has anyone else encountered this issue since that change?

(sorry had to split this reply)

I've also read that what is supposed to happen is that special recruits with a non-Drifter faction (like Kang being part of the Shek Kingdom) are supposed to retain their original colors, which would also be true for any recruited through a recruitable prisoners mod. This would seem to imply that your game is actually working as intended. Ironically enough, mine changes all recruits' colors to my faction's default on save/reload, but retains previously dyed gear, so I have a short window of time to dye with the new recruit's faction colors if I want to. I actually wish my game worked the way yours does so I could easily have more variety without having to try to dye everything before I save and load. Sigh, Kenshi.

SirCuttlefish1 that is definitely odd. Reminds me though, in the years I've been playing Kenshi, I've seen a lot of weird inconsistency around armor coloring. My leather turtlenecks randomly stopped getting dyed at one point and I looked for solutions everywhere, found nothing, and no one who tried to help was able to reproduce it. I didn't even have any mods then — trying to solve it was what led me to the first mod I ever installed, which is this one right here. (It didn't fix it either, lol)

@Cavanoskus Oddly yes. I even tried importing my save and this issue still persists. They won't stop applying their old colors. I've been having my first character dye every peace of armor before distribution as a work around. It does the job but it's a little inconvenient.

SirCuttlefish1 they usually retain their old colors until you reload the game. This mod does not affect that functionality.

Have you tried equipping gear on the recruits again after saving and reloading? Do they still have their old colors then?

I've run into a strange bug. It seems that NPCs recruited from other factions (using recruit prisoners mod) retain their old colors. The odd thing is that this seems to be new development because it was not an issue with my last play-through. If anyone one has any advice that could help it would very much be appreciated.

Is there any chance we might get a separate version of this mod that only adds the better colormaps & doesn't add any extra items like the Martial Artist Chain Wrap?

Cavanoskus: thank you, i am on some new meds now and things are possibly getting better. As for the community spotlight... yeah, I dunno, that would've been nice but it seems not many people ever found out about or use this mod so maybe they go by current subscribers or something. I had fun making it anyway, i hope to update it for the fixes sometime soon. It's been so long i need to re-learn how to do it right.

And if Kenshi 2 has the same monotone uniformity, i'll make it for the sequel too =)

@Cavanoskus thanks 👍

There are several fixes for the plate jacket available, including a patch on page 2 of the comments: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826203804

@Dragoler The bug with the plate jacket is still not fixed. well, at least now I know which of my million mods causes this problem.=)

A must use mod for kenshi, makes easy to spot wanderers and know from wich faction they are, otherwise can't difference betwen tech hunters and bounty hunters or mercenaries and UC samurai fast.

So a few problems I've noticed with this mod - the plate jacket is lacking its material property, the leather hive vest has been removed from the leather armour crafting bench, and icons frequently become partially or completely invisible, though this may be due to having a player faction specific colour scheme. Besides these issues, which are mostly easy enough to fix, I'm really enjoying this mod.

10/10 ration packs. Good mod.

Also @spacefiddle I'm sorry to hear about what you've been going through, I empathize greatly as this last year has been similar for me... like, obviously I don't know the particulars of your situation but I also lost my career and now my health has been getting sketchy, so yeah, it's a lot to deal with and tbh it sounds like your situation is tougher than mine. But I feel you. I greatly appreciate your work and I'll be extremely happy when you can continue it, but I understand the obstacles you're facing in the meantime. (I also find it odd that this mod hasn't gotten attention via community spotlight... it enhances the visuals so much!!)

Am I remembering incorrectly? I feel like the description actually used to be a lot longer and did have all the added items listed in it. I remember noticing that the description had been trimmed down and wondering why. But now I'm not sure if maybe I'm just misremembering it completely lol. But I want to say that they did used to be listed in there and I got the impression Spacefiddle cut them in the middle of reorganizing the description and then got pulled away from the project before completing the description reorganization. That was how it came across to me at the time, I mean. For the record I don't think having them only in the change notes is clear enough, tbh — I read change notes but usually only when something updates, not the first time I install it.

I was trying to find which mod the items came from in a long list of mods I have installed. You can't see the change notes of mods from your mod list, only the name and description. I had to go to the mod page of each mod individually one at a time to read the change notes to find out it was this mod that the items came from. If it was listed in the description I would have been able to see it easily in the modlist, and also could have searched for it in the workshop easier. very easy thing to add to your description

....however, i have not abandoned it and while I never got anywhere near as popular as the top mods, I appreciate each and every one of you who's downloaded and enjoyed my work, and I thank you. I just want to be up-front about not knowing when exactly it will be done. The last few years have been a disaster, and it's now been so long that I have to re-learn what I was doing and what I figured out when I made this mod.

Thank you for sticking with me.

Momayo, thank you again for your work in my absence. I greatly appreciate it, even tho all the Kenshi community spotlights don't seem to appreciate all the color i brought to their grimdark world lol. Oh well. I just didn't like everyone and everything looking the same....

I have been struggling with a number of things for the past few years, including losing my home and career and much of my health. So I just want to be honest that I do not know how soon I will be able to give this mod the attention you all deserve for supporting it for this long.

The changes are in the change notes... that's what change notes are for... they're notes... on what's changed..... o.O

There's also a screenshot in the images of the items

i give you words and pictures both! You get to choose!

Not a fan that this mod stealth adds items to the game. you could at least list that in the description, just spent a long time trying to figure out which mod they came from and it's only mentioned buried in change notes people have no way of searching for

is this mod getting fixed?

@Momayo, thank you very mutch :)

@Kajshi I post this here again.
I've made the patch mod, named "ver.11" but this still effects on this version.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826203804

Several of armor are missing from some workbenches in the crafting section, like a "leather hive vest".

Hello. In your mod at the "plate jacket" armor you have no "color" and "material" parameters at all, which makes the armor look like a white piece of the model.
And your mod needs more detail in description as it adds a lot of unspecified things like shoes, goggles and etc, which is very disorienting, because I didn't add any armor and it is there all of a sudden.

Yeah unusable as the samurai chest plate is pure white other wise great mod, but I cant stand the white samurai chest plate

Just came here to check if it was a known bug but yeah, the Samurai Chestplate is pure white, like it's untextured. Also, it might just be with me, but the mod doesn't seem to be working at all anymore, as the Police, Caravans, Merchants or even Player Faction isn't colored anymore.

I have the same issue with the empire samurai chestplate being just white

The empire samurai chestplate i'm getting is pure white instead of my faction colors, its colored right on UC guards but its bleached white on my guys

Your mod is cool, thanks

Hi Lemon,

That was my fault, i gave everything the same map so it all has the Empire logos. It's one of the things I'm working on fixing now but i want to make sure the texture is high quality :)

I love this mod! however I am having an issue where the Samurai Armor and its blueprint gets replaced with Empire Samurai Armor and its blueprint, I even went to Black Scratch and the Armor King and they ONLY sell the empire version, (I have played around with loading and unloading this mod and it seems the empire armor and its blueprint just completely replaces regular samurai). I really want to use regular samurai armor with this mod, do you have any advice on how to fix this? thank you

I had that problem with the regular Plate Jacket until I followed some instructions farther back in these comments — I think the fix was to reattach the "Police" material to it or something similar. @spacefiddle maybe that will help you track down the issue. In my case, the Plate Jacket is not being altered by any other mods.

Ya sure, is there a way to DM through steam?

Hmm, sounds like someone else may have altered the mesh or material of the plate jacket. (The colored variant is from Shidan's mod, which i recommend, but it isn't a vanilla armor - however, since it references the same material file that i've changed, it also gets the same effects of complete color, more metalness, etc).

I'll see if i can find which exact conflict is causing this - must be a popular mod since it keeps coming up. Mind DMing me your load order?

Also only the "Plate Jacket" was turning invisible and cause a crash on equip. Not "Plate Jacket Colored" I will still use this mod because it is great.

I tried checking the crash dump logs but wasn't sure what to look for.

I really like this mod but it seems this in combination with other mods or possibly vanilla can cause plate armor to be invisible and once you try to equip it the game crashes.

Thanks! :)

Stone Rats will no longer be primer-white. Next up: the Mercs in the swamps, as soon as i track down which squads are theirs.

Thnxs for all this updates!!! The mod look amazing!!! <3

Huh.

So, looking deeper, it seems that the Mercenaries' Guild heavies and captains and whatnot were all explicitly wearing *empire* Samurai Armor in the base vanilla game. They're already defined as colored version with the logo. I'm no longer sure where we got the idea that a logo-less version of samurai armor was being made in the world but i think it went unused.

I might be able to add it as a new thing if people want it, but for the moment going to focus on continuing the cleanup and making sure these weird errors some people report aren't reproducible.

Note also that you can get the same version on the Nexus if you prefer:
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/760

and if you prefer the previous shiny version and had no issue, go into Steam's "change notes" on the sidebar -> and pick the previous version.

TODO:

Lots :D

Next up will be properly separating the Empire-logo samurai armor from the normal, logo-less Sam chestplate, sorry about that - when I first started the mod I didn't realize how that was being done. Now I do. As it's been so long, I will also be looking at all other pieces some more and making sure nothing seems out of balance, but mostly, the pieces look about the level of color and grunge combo i was going for.

Again - i am having none of the weird bugs or issues reported. So i can't do much about them.
Try starting a new game, or even a cheat-start game so you can get armor, with only my mod active. And see how they look.

GOOD NEWS, everyone! A new, cleaned version has just been uploaded (12). It has some old unused files stripped out, and most of all, the Samurai Armor has been dialed back a bit.

More work is ongoing but as people are reporting issues, I wanted to get a clean update available asap. Please note that this mod is still working 100% ok for me with the exact version I upload; no crashes, no invisible armors, etc. I'm afraid you have a mod conflict - more than one mod trying to change the same thing. I might be able to help, but you'll have to do the first part of looking yourself.

The Samurai Armor should no longer blind you from 20 miles away. It still looks like metal, and looks like it's been taken proper care of, but with more of the Kenshi grit and grime vibe (especially the boots should be a litle dustier) while still keeping the faction colors.

this mod makes plate armor invisable and crash the game if interacted with

Lets go! I hope you could fix the polished look of some armos like the samurai and such. Good luck and thanks my friend