Hopefully I have made a decent successor here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2564042934
Comments and suggestions are as always welcome!

Looking forward to your solution of making it generic without cluttering the interface too much with all the variants of the same animal some mods do add. :)

And yes, feel free to use "Disable Wild Animal Spawns (continued)" as a title. Thanks!

An honour to have you here, Mlie! Deep down I always wished you'd adopt this mod - or rather expand on Sarg Bjornson's codebase. And thanks Sarg for always having been on the pulse of this thread.

I'll leave the continuation up to you.

Mlie, don't use this code, I made it years ago and it's obsolete. Contact me on Discord ;)

Could I expand upon this to make a generic version so users can modify any animal, and release it as a continued version?

It's ok i fixed the problem. I deleted VAE Temperate. The versatility your mod brings is far more important to me

Thanks for looking into it. Your mod might be neccesary for alot of people who don't jump across to 1.3 till it's stable. I wish more people knew about this mod earlier, including myself :)

@WinterWolf: I had a quick glance at the source code but couldn't find anything that would cause trouble - I think it worked when I tested it. I'll look into it again.

But as Sarg Bjornson pointed out, my mod won't be necessary anymore with their updated version for 1.3.

@ claustro - Thanks for the great mod. Do you have any ideas about why the VAE Temperate animal section would be missing in the mod options? I've tried placing DWAS high and low in the mod order. For testing purposes this is the mod list i am running. Thanks in advance.

Harmony
RIMMSAssemble
Core
Startup impact
HugsLib
Vanilla Expanded Framework
JecsTools (Unofficial)
Disable Wild Animal Spawns
Megafauna
Dinosauria
VAE - Boreal
VAE - Tundra
VAE - Temperate

Oh, thanks, I thought this had become maybe a feature of Rimworld's planet creation itself. :)

I will eventually remove the mods you've listed from mine then.

Alpha Animals, Magical Menagerie, the Joris Experience, Forsakens: Fauna and Vanilla Animals Expanded will all include animal toggles. The mods I don't control like Dinosauria and Megafauna won't, of course

Wait, "will work natively?" Will Rimworld itself give control over animal spawns?

@Sarg Bjornson: Thanks for the heads up!


I'll update this mod to 1.3 eventually, it shouldn't be a biggie but I have not really played RimWorld in a year, so my motivation is utterly low.

The whole system will work for all VAE animals natively in 1.3 ;)

I know it's been a while since there's been any activity here but i thought i'd ask anyways.
Has anyone else had trouble getting VE Temperate animals to show in the mod options?
(other VE animals display without issue)

Having given it some thought, I think it's not *that* trivial to implement. It might happen in the distant future, but you shouldn't wait or have your hopes too high up for it.

Ya, a simple check like that is possible, but I point you at the big blue text at the beginning of the description. My focus does lie elsewhere and this mod should be re-written from ground up. And I'm unlikely the one to do it within the next few months - I haven't really played rimworld in half a year.

Can you make a mod where way less animals spawn in winter? I wanna feel like I would have to store food to get through winter...its way too easy now surviving winter even if you cant farm you can just go out and hunt for food whenever u want. Is there a way to disable animal spawning but only in winter?

Cheers, that's a start! I'll give it a go.

Thrumbos can be deactivated to no longer spawn randomly, however, this mod won't prevent events involving them.

Can I use this mod to get rid of thrumbos and other fantasy animals? Cheers!

Thanks, Sarg! I've had a look at the code you are now using for alpha animals.
It's a lot more straightforward that way. :) I'll have a look but I am not quite sure if I will keep maintaining this mod. I guess within the next few weeks I can redirect everyone to your animal switch mod.

I do not remember anymore the details of the decompiled RW code, but basically one could just use some method to call every registered animal. It would however result in a bit of a clunky UI, too, because of the many varieties some mods add.

Looking forward to your solution. :)

Let me work on the code a bit then and create a Git you can access

As for wild reproduction: I thought as it was a Xpath only patch, it should work with this mod.

Oh, surely I'm interested, Sarg. The only trouble I faced with the XMLs is that mods often add a boatload of varieties of the same animal that need to be summarized. Have you found a workaround for that?

Yeah, basically any mod that goes around the vanilla game wild spawns will undo what this code does.

By the way, now that we are talking about it... This mod's code is obsolete and inelegant to the extreme XDD I have coded a new system that gets the animal defs from XML, allowing veeery easy adding of extra mods and animals, would you be interested in it?

@Sarg Bjornson: Would you recommend removing it from the list as an alternative to wild animal sex then?

Yeah, don't use Wild Reproduction

I still have unwanted wild animals spawning, even though they are marked to not spawn (red x) in the mod options. I'm using Wild Reproduction, and both are loaded last, with Wild Reproduction being second-last.

I'd put the blue text on top so it's the first thing people see!

No worries. :) I bet I will get another few requests in the future, because the blue text is not big enough. :D

Oh, sorry. I somehow missed the big blue text. ;w;

@Tox. As stated above, I won't work on this mod anymore. I have not played Rimworld in quite some time now and my focus is elsewhere.

Possible to include HC Animals?

@Pavlentine I tried again to disable Biomes!Islands animals but it does not work, even when using a minimalist approach.
What you can do though: Just remove all undesired animals from the island biome defining xmls in e.g. Somewhere-on-your-computer:Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\2038001322\1.2\Defs\BiomeDefs. Though, you'd have to repeat that step after every update or learn how to write a xml patch. It's no biggie but takes some effort. Best of luck!

I've updated Magical Menagerie and added Monster Hunter, but this update won't include Biomes!Islands.
I don't know why it does not work, but basically it breaks this mod and makes any animal spawn. It might be due to a trivial error on my side [most likely] or something more arcane [who knows]. Biomes! doesn't use a spawning mechanism of its own, so I reckon something minor went wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To anyone who'd like to adopt the mod: I've attached the source code to the upload. There is a wee, commented python 3.7 script which will extract all the animals from the relevant xmls. Just copy them into the same folder and let the script run, it will then create the code that is ready to copy and paste. You might have to amend the animal entries a little though, as the script does not check for abstract defs [lazy, i know] and some mods feature many variants of the same animal and I try to reduce them to one single entry, which does require some double checking and ||'ing them all together in the harmony patch checks.

The latter has not been done very elegantly as it is a horribly long list of if statements, but it does its job. Thanks again @Sarg Bjornson for the quick responses
whenever some problem came up. If anyone figures out how to properly implement spawn control for Biomes!Islands, I'll be glad to learn what did the trick. :)
Thanks and happy crashlanding on the Rim!

Alright, there appears to be some bug in my update which i have not located yet. I'll try to fix it but if i cannot ill just upload the source and script and someone else can take over from here :)

Or the scenario editor. They aren't a wild spawn in any case.

@Sarg Bjornson
Nope. You disable them in custom difficulty.

@Rim Baby. Ya, it should show up again.

Insectoids are not a wild spawn, you disable those in the scenario editor in the base game

There doesn't seem to be an option to disable the cave bugs, which is the actual reason I installed this mod.

Can I reenable an animal I disabled? Like will they show up again if i change the setting mid game?

A short note: I've added Biomes Islands and Monster Hunter, I'll need to get around to testing it still though. So, quite possibly next week there will be an update for that. My mod will then be free for adoption by someone as I do frankly lack motivation in keeping it maintained. Albeit it's not that much work, as a fair amount of it is done by a python script, keeping a mod updated for a game I haven't really played in quite some time is a rather bland activity. :)

@Pavlentine. At some point in the future, but likely before christmas. :) For the time being I will only fix mod-breaking bugs.

Is it possible to make thios mod compatitable with Biomes Island? There is so many onnoying new animals and also not CE-compatitable, but I want to play on islands without them all. (pleeease)

@DigiDragon Maybe at some point, but I do not play RW these days.