@tap29812 What I did was go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\2455173560 (This is where the mod is located, depending on where your drive is)

Right click on the 2455173560 folder, properties, then the previous versions tab. Pray that there's a previous version available that you can restore to. If you do, restore it then make a local copy of the mod so you don't have to do this again.

Move the local copy of the now fixed mod into C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods which is where manually installed mods go

How do I undo the update or whatever it was that deleted half my colonists

peak heh

This is the part that confuses me too. If you want to release a save-breaking update, why not make the older patch available for people who want to continue without breaking their saves? As it stands there's no older version of this mod available, so I had to use Windows' file history function to revert the changes myself.

Not nice. I read many user's have the same issue like I have - I write about vanish pawn from old save - if you want make so drastic change, maybe better make mod patch in other Steam workshop position or "unstable version mod" in Steam workshop, not destroy someone game.

For now I uninstal this mod to avoid future use and lose my game - I somehow angry about that, because I make realy stabile colony and I must just throw this to bin - well, I lower rate for this mod and probably don't come back.

can u consider add bear head UwU

To elaborate further, Prepare Carefully was made before Harmony patching was a standard, and so it uses very destructive methods for patching.

Don't use Prepare Carefully, use Pawn Editor.

Wait, I noticed that in my game, only the Anthro colonists that had been edited with Prepare Carefully disappeared. This mod also seems to prevent Prepare Carefully from initializing. Not sure if it's an issue with this mod or that mod. Can anyone confirm my suspicions?

Ah, so that's why I opened my save to find an empty colony...

PLZZZZZZZZZ MAKE IT AN GENE/XENOTYPE AND ALL SOOO MAKE IT WHERE THE FURR BODY'S ARE FOREST TO HAVE A HEAD OR JUST ADD FURRED EARS PLESSSS

Is there at least a way to revert back to before the patch that nuked everyone's saves like a GitHub repo? This was seriously not a cool move. If there isn't even a way to revert, then I will not be using this mod in the foreseeable future as this felt like a betrayal.

Out of curiosity, I wonder about slicing this mod up and creating a xenotype or two with the assets. Vanilla xenotypes can have tails and custom heads and such so that made me wonder how that would work and if anyone dared to attempt it.

Welp, there goes half my colony on my first play through. Is what it is I guess

My pawns got deleted recently.
I was pretty bummed out about it.
But I think whoever is to use this updated mod is more happy than i am sad to lose my pawns.
The total happiness in the world increased.
So, whatever.

Thanks for the update!!!! Finally 1.6 is playable!!!!

Please don't be mad at R-MK about any nuked saves, that's 100% my fault and I'm truly sorry if anyone ended up losing a cherished irreplaceable colonist! I do think the benefits for future new colonies and mod updates should probably outweigh the bandaid being ripped off here, as mentioned above.

There *was* a preemptive fix that seemed to work back in 1.5 to stop pawns from outright poofing, and it just didn't work when we tested the update for 1.6. We tried. But from the errors R-MK was getting (and I couldn't reproduce), the game was stubbornly insisting on finding old file locations despite the updated defs pointing at new ones.

thank you for the update! in my 1.5 save my anthro's heads got all swapped around but i fixed it with character editor

When are the new heads?

Hey, this might be dumb, but I'm still running on 1.5 and I noticed all the characters I had stopped showing up today? like just disappeared. Is there a way to get them back, or is that safe file
scrapped?

hmm idk im pretty comfortable with my local edit....but i guess one could back up all the pawns with character editor before changing over.

Let's GOOO

Aight 1.6 update is out!
If your current 1.6 anthros got poofed then well, I'm sorry .w.)

yepeeee

Aight news!
Thanks to Arakk, they've restructured and redone a lotta spaghetti coding and it's fit for 1.6!
You can even import 1.5 save file anthros over to a 1.6 save file just fine.

Tho now bug testing and we found out that if you already had the mod(1.5version) running on a 1.6 save file, then update the mod(1.6version), your pawns will cease to exist, no idea why specifically that but yeah fair warning, no idea how to fix that.

I'll push out the update in 24-or less hours.
Or if a fix managed to be discovered in the meantime.

i just edited the files and added a folder called 1.6 dumped the files from 1.5 into it went to defs>pawnkinds> Anthro_Pawnkind.xml and deleted
<backstoryCategories>
<li>Offworld</li>
<li>Tribal</li>
<li>Outlander</li>
</backstoryCategories>

no more errors.

I did try running the mod on 1.6 and it appears the game cannot read the mod files. Just completely borks if you try running it.

thx for the update

Shoosh, the update just came out and I'm too busy being busy .w.)
So far still testing running the same 1.5 mod on a 1.6 game, I don't see any problems *yet*

You all can try running the mod and see if anything broke.
I don't have the new expansion yet, so can't test there.

1.6??

1.6

love this mod piz 1.6 piz OwO

Need this for 1.6 =(

@redstonethunder - they're considered different species, i dont think you can make two different species have kids together

Hopes this mod gets update for 1.6.

Because of the vast variety of heads and animal types for this race, is there some way to filter what species appears in the game?

1.6?

Is there a way to make like a certain xenotype, like otters or ferrets?
The Anthro xenotype seems to be the only one that includes every xenotype in it.

Tried installing it but the new xenotypes or genes don't show up at all for some reason.

hello i have a problem where now Anthros and Humans cant have babies together. is there any reason why and or is there a mod i have that you know of that does this?

@[99th HC] Damacles💀 You were totally right. Thanks a bunch mate! <3

@ShankZ Check if you had "[NL] Facial Animation - WIP" installed. I did and it worked fine with this mod forever but the other day they just stopped being compatible. Disabled all my mods one by one until this one and after removing this it fixed it. Otherwise look for mods that alter the looks of pawns and try disabling those until this mod works. If all that cant help, copy the error log that pops up after loading mods by clicking the "Save Log" at the bottom left of the popup and post it here along with a description of the problem and installed mods

They are just multi-colored humans now :(

Ok, just found a workaround for the genetics tab. First, you select another colonist, open their bio, then click on their gene set (baseliner, etc.), which opens the genetics screen for them. Then, click on the portrait of any of your colonists and the screen will switch to that colonist's genetics. Hopefully the issue gets fixed soon, but this works as a workaround until then.

Any other gene sets, predetermined or custom, does show up. Just not the baseliner set.

Ok, I figured out the issue, for some reason if you have an anthro colonist, if they have the baseliner gene set, it will not show on their bio nor the colonist screen when starting a new game. Does anyone know of a fix for this?

I noticed that my starting colonists don't have any way of viewing their genetics. Any fixes or do I need to add them in dev mode? (No tabs telling what kind of genetic base they have, like baseliner or neanderthal.)

For some reason after installing the mod it just doesn't work, like, there's no sign of anthro neither in creation nor game ;;-;;

I can't say this is working, I can't select the parts, they aren't in the character editor or in the bio DLC Xenogenes. They aren't in the visual editor, they just don't exist.

Also having this issue. Curious if its been solved yet.