I asked Mlie to continue this mod and he made an even better one over here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2583236920
Please us this one instead now.

Can't turn off Biocoding, or indeed change the numbers at all.
Menu works fine but the mod reboots to default values.

Could not find type named CompProperties_BiocodableApparel from node <li Class="CompProperties_BiocodableApparel" />
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.Log:Verse.Log.Error_Patch1 (string)

For me, even after setting biocoding chance to 0.9 no weapons are biocoded at all ;c

I rewrote it a bit. It now supports all "Human" races dynamically and reduced filesize. Now it should be compatible with all factions as long as they are from the "Human" race. I don't play Rimworld myself anymore so please let me know if I messed something up.

I have the royalty faction, The Fallen Imperium same as caz, the royalty factions must have multiple names for selection.

Cool cool.
Slight correction to my initial post: It's the shattered empire faction. The royalty added faction. It just happens to be coincidentally named Broken Empire in this save.
Dunno why it's doing that, though. Never had that issue until this save and I haven't added anything that adds new weapons that wasn't in previous saves where it was working. (did that sentence make sense? lol)

@Caz: I would have to check that when I have time. It's possible that, that specific race is missing.

Just had some broken empire units show up with biocoded weapons even though I have everything set to 0. I don't see a broken empire option in the config, though.

awesome!

Updated for game version 1.3.

+1 for a 1.3 update!

Thanks for the all the mod work

Currently the mod-menu is broken in game version 1.3. It still seems to work but if you can't configure it, it's not that great. I'll see if I can make some time perhaps next week or something to look into it.

It would be nice to have a mod that allows you to decode items on a high-precision workbench.
Naturally after studying expensive technology with the purchase of blueprints.

@Squirting Elephant You too ^^. Great work btw. Love this mod idea. Wouldbe aweosme if you could get it to work with all animal like pawn kinds, not just this one.

I see. Interesting. I would have to make exceptions for those then, if I have time someday ^^.

For now: happy new year!

@Squirting Elephant
https://gist.github.com/aed050f850cc2b7887dcbc16824d4153
Just your mod and nothing else relevant. I've put the all the sliders on 0.75. What I gather it tries to spawn a lancer with the charge lance as a bicoded weapon and it can not, because it's not a human like pawn.
Both the Empire Janissary and Cataphract pawns also spawn with charge lances. These have a chance of being biocoded by default.
That would mean something in the code makes an exeption for the lancer mech so it will never spawn with a biocoded weapon.

Anyways, as it stands, if you put your sliders anywhere that isn't 0, there is a chance that a Mechanoid raid will not spawn. Your method has to break something.

@Spürgelwürg
This mod only makes changes to the DefDatabase. There's no overwriting of code anywhere and the code to change the biocode is just a single line that only changes a DefDatabase integer value:
pkd.biocodeWeaponChance = biocodeData == null ? SquirtingElephantSettings.Settings.BCD_Other.BiocodeChance : biocodeData.BiocodeChance;

@Bear: Did you try deleting your settings first? I haven't played Rimworld in a while and the update to 1.2 was a bit quickly done.

Yeah, there is an overside in this mod. The charge lance can be a biocoded weapon and the lancer Mech can have it. The game cannot give an animal like pawn a gun that is biocoded so there has to be an exeption build into the code somewhere that this mod overwrites.

Would be cool if you could add an option to exclude mod pawns individually.

Just an idea but what about an item that allows decoding?

It looks like the settings randomly reset for me, I may have a conflict with my other 300 mods.

Updated to 1.2.

Note that if you upgrade from the previous version, please delete the Configurable Biocoding settings in (for Steam Windows users) in this directory:
C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Config\

It'd be fun to have an ability to bypass the biocoding in game. Like a "Hacking" tech tree branch that allows you to hack weapons' biocoding. Alternatively, it can also give opportunity to players to biocode their own weapons to specific pawns... I don't see use in that myself but I bet some players would've liked it

any chance for an update for 1.2?

Thank you for allowing us to disable the stupid biocode... !

does this work with 1.2?

You Ma-am are a Goddess! Thank you Very MUCH for this mod!

Thanks for this one, I actually like playing where pretty much everything is biocoded, making research, crafting and trade more critical than waiting for raiders to drop off gear for you.

I´d leave both as is except for the disclaimer on existing weapons. I found a way around, just spawned me an uncoded weapon and deletet the coded one. For future hardcore playthroughs I am looking forward to push the settings up a notch though

Thanks for the feedback. I didn't save the "all-setting" slider on purpose but I understand now that this might be confusing for others. I'll probably also save this value in the next update then.

If I find time I'll try to make a button to remove the biocoding from all weapons currently in the game. But I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble because any new weapons won't have it so it only affects existing savegames with tons of biocoded weapons already; otherwise I'll just add a text-line like you suggested.

Hehe, yeah RNG sometimes...

First of all, thanks for your simple but effective mod :) For me the settings are also being saved. I checked it by restarting the game. The only "setting" which remains at 0.1 is the preset for setting all values to 0.1. This is great, because it makes it easy to restore the vanilla settings.

As I observed, the mod does not affect weapons already in the game. Maybe you should mention this in the description just for the sake of clarity.

I had the first stranger drop the one weapon that I desperately needed (chance maybe 1:100) and Rimworld kindly gave me the 0.1 chance for biocoding :D.

I just double checked and they're being saved for me. Are you sure? Try setting all settings to an odd number, close the settings menu, exit the game, restart and check if they were saved.

If they aren't saved for you, could you please make sure that you don't have any other mods that are causing serious errors first? Usually when another mod crashes, partial code of other unrelated mods doesn't get executed either. Could you maybe post me a pastebin link of your Rimworld Log?

i think the settings are still not being saved

You, sir, are a gentleman and a saint.

Thanks much.
This mod can be renamed to DISABLE BIOCODING

thank you :)

Oh indeed. I uploaded a new version that should fix this.

the mod settings reset on every load, putting all values back to 0 everytime you start the game, please fix this

The real MVP.. can't wait to try this out!

That would be an idea for a different mod.

Ok, that's cool. But why not to make an recepy to de- or un-code such gear?

Nice