This is a really neat mod. If you come back to it, it'd be great if pawns also chose research based on health effects - like if they slept in the heat or have heat stroke, they'll research air conditioning. And if they have a peg leg or wooden hand they'll research prosthetics.

I have a researcher with both of these problems and she's hooked on researching microelectronics in stead of anything useful.

@Mlie Thank you <3

Made an update if this:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2904905818
Hope it helps anyone!

hopefully, it's a really cool mod

Is this mod still being maintained?

Broken Patches:
MedPod
Project RimFactory

So my pawn went straight for an advanced research that costs thousands, leaving all the much cheaper Neolithic researches that can be done. of note, I use the tech advancement mod , I started as new arrivals but tech level was changed back to Neolithic

I don't think you have a pawn doing research in that second image. This mod calls the Job Driver tick 0 times. It does postfix the JobDriver report if you have the pawn selected to show the research. I was shocked by the difference in your image so I just ran my own test and got the same number of calls (2000) with or without the mod.

This mod seems to call the research job very often, causing some lag. Here's what the custom job calls look like with the mod: https://i.imgur.com/UcvGBlx.png And here's what they look like without the mod: https://i.imgur.com/73qEunA.png

@HellWatcher - I created the log for recording history as a separate mod called ResearchHistory

Awesomeness, thank you for making that an option <3

From the description: Restore Player Control - temporarily return control over research to the player. This preserves a pawn's memory of their research project so they can continue where they left off when the mod is re-enabled.

Does this mod allow the player to command a particular research project be investigated, but otherwise leave the decisions to the pawns, or is it an enforced loss of control?

@HellWatcher - I might look into recording histories. The other idea is interesting, but it doesn't really fit well with how the current code is written.

Also would there be a way to log who researched what in history? I think this also would be an interesting bit of story.

I think the coolest part of this mod is that each pawn will research their own personal project. I feel that it gives them each an interesting story.

Got an idea while doing a no tech start. Would it be possible/sensible to make a weight towards temp/clothing tech if a pawn has experienced hyper/hypo?

As long as What's that Mod works with a particular mod, your idea would be possible, but I don't think I'm going to integrate it. Anyone who want to do a patch mod to add that is welcome to.

I will, however, take a look at patching the research from those mods into appropriate categories, which should make them a little more common to research.

Got a random idea:
Pawn are more likely to do research about element from their own mod.
Currently, if you got Epona, Anty or MoonRabbits, they don't prioritise their "own" techtree.
This is especially bad for Anty and MoonRabbits.

Do you think it would be possible to add a weight for research that come from a mod for pawn of that particular mod?

You fixed it, thank you so much.

@DonutMAL Okay, I think I found the problem. See if it works right now.

Enabling the trait got rid of the Failed to find RimWorld.TraitDef named VTE_Technophobe. There are 144 defs of this type loaded.

But they are still standing instead of researching, even after giving them the trait with character editor. The other error is still the same.

@DonutMAL Go into the settings for Vanilla Traits Expanded and make sure VTE_Technophobe is enabled. I suspect Enga has that trait but you disabled it in the settings, so this mod is looking for a trait that exists on the pawn but not in the database.

Also here's the full log

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/670585db941bc95e3d144c87b16128ab

Failed to find RimWorld.TraitDef named VTE_Technophobe. There are 144 defs of this type loaded.

Exception in JobDriver tick for pawn Enga driver=JobDriver_Research (toilIndex=1) driver.job=(Research (Job_8185) A=Thing_SimpleResearchBench48203)
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object


They pick a research that pops up, then they pick another. It does that till the log is full.

@DonutMAL Can you past what the log said? It might be something I can fix.

I figured it out, Vanilla Traits Expanded was breaking it. The log kept mentioning the Technophobe trait over and over when they were standing in front of the research table.

I have a pawn that's just standing in front of a research table, it says researching when walking to it but then says standing when they reach it. Other pawns can research and I have plenty of research available.

Updated for 1.3.

1.3 :(

Update please 1.3

Will this get a 1.3 update soon-ish™?

Even if it works okay in v1.3, if this mod got updated, then I think this would encourage derivative mods like Pawns Choose Vanilla Books and Pawns Choose Tech Sales to update soon-ish™, as well. Just saying...

as far as i can tell i haven't noticed any bugs with the current version on 1.3

This mod is one of my very favorite. I hope you're planning on updating to 1.3, it really has unlocked a much more fun playstyle, IMO, of reacting to what the pawns research rather than simply researching the same pathway I always do when it's left up to me.

Thanks!

Also, i know for sure Call of Cthulu cults requires a forbidden knowledge center, which will automatically forbid itself if the main research isn't one of the techs from that mod. this makes it just break when you have collaboration research off as the main tech will jump around and when it hits this issue, it actually makes everyone stop researching for a moment. that's probably a problem with that mod specifically though. (oh hey, i complained about that less than a page ago, lol) that mod also has a repeatable tech, that honestly should be changed to be a new work type as it's just for training your social skill for sermons. so that also screws it all up.

i had an idea that could make this mod allow for a little more control without breaking away from it's theme entirely. Do you think you could add a modifier for adjusting the likelyhood that pawns choose a certain type of research? so that maybe you notice you're very behind on guns research and so the player can adjust the weight given to shooting in relation to the pawn choosing their research.

@Mlie I have a few mods that require linkables to research (Sparkling World for example), since they work like the Multi-Analyzer, they are locked in the research screen entirely until there is a linkable. Same with tech-print research. The pawns didn't choose those for me until they were opened. So I would imagine it depends on if the mod locks the research too.

If a research requires a specific building (like the shadow chamber in the xcom mod) will the pawns ignore that research if the building is not built?
Because it seems they try to start that research, fails and then no research will be done.

Once I restored control in the mod settings it immediately took off again. Not game breaking, just weird.

It looks like my pawns got to the literal last research project and now they aren't making any progress. Is this because they don't like the topic that's the only choice or something? It's pretty weird, they just end up "Standing" at the bench. Nothing else has changed since it was working to when it's not, just that there's only one research option available.

Oh, but of course, Walsh, I mean you COULD research how to make prosthetics or painkillers better defences or better energy sources, but you're right, if we're going to survive the next raid it is absolutely VITAL that we have hot tubs.

;)

Any way to disable the popup?

Try using 切れ間ウォーカー's patch. It solves that issue nicely.

The "Avoid too advanced researched" setting doesn't seem to be working in my current game. I'm playing a tribal colony, neolithic tech. My pawns are split almost 50/50 in their research between drugs and genetic engineering (listed as spacer tech).

yeah, i feel like this just needs a patch that makes research benches act like forbidden knowledge centers, and some way to make pawns not drive themselves insane by researching too long...

it did, but research successful cults does nothing if not at the proper research table as far as i can tell.

I noticed a bug with Call of Cthulhu cults, someone wants to do a cult research that requires the forbidden research table, will go to a normal unforbidden table and it will cause every pawn researching to stop researching, kind of killing everything in that regard because of their research being redoable. Going to see if just removing the table as required fixes the bug

Safe to add to ongoing save? =)

I forgot I need to make it public

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2499045338

sure, just for you. :P

mod for adding basic prereqs for research that doesn't normally have it. also patches some mods to have interdependent prereqs

@切れ間ウォーカー

Would you mind posting that mod, please? :D