@Norvordr
I don't remember how I chose the colour palettes to add to the list anymore. Some of the ‘vanilla’ ones were very similar to others, so I didn't add them, and added a few of my own instead. I might have missed some though.

@Scar
A little overpopulation, nothing special, just keep passing by, nothing to see here

I don't remember if I set the option to make squad size independent of population settings or not... I think I did, for both the "dolls" squad and the merchant squad.
But things like this shouldn't happen anyway.

Fantastic mod, and works very well. Would have been nice to have more of the vanilla colour schemes included, though. There are 35 native colour combos, and while some are pretty close to each other "cool orange" generally creates pretty brown-looking garments -- whereas the Crab Colour and Water Clan/Red Sabres colours offer more vibrant versions. But the latter two aren't available unless you do the old knock out/swap gear stunt to dye your equipment.

(Unless something's bugged out in my game, and the empty pedestals should have belonged to them)

the funch going on here lmao https://imgur.com/a/Wy1mvHy

Works just fine on my end. Make sure it's a colouable item (not all vanilla items are), and make sure it doesn't already have a colour assigned (sell it to a merchant to clear the colour).

doesn't work, i tried it on vanilla items

Problem is skeletons don't wear all items, so they can't dye everything
This.

Back then I was thinking about making a separate race that would look like a mannequin - made of wood, like in Skyrim.
But considering how Kenshi handles NPCs, living and moving wooden mannequins would look even more strange than robotic skeletons.

Wouldn't be hard at all I'm sure. Problem is skeletons don't wear all items, so they can't dye everything. Also, slaves who whose sole responsibility is being a soulless meat mannequin is actually remarkably Kenshi-like in my opinion. xD

how hard would it be to make the dolls skeletons? having soulless meat manikins just feels weird and not immersive

@Surasu Undying
Not all armor or clothing can be dyed. Check the comments below.

I tried using the simplest rags and either doesn't work or i am too stupid to understand how to use it because i put the clothes in the doll and nothing happens even takin the clothes back.

Just wanted to say I love this mod. Thanks!

I don't have an option to put cloth to the Doll
That's weird. You should be able to access the inventory. Like, looting, by clicking on them.

Any video tutorial?
I don't have an option to put cloth to the Doll. The option I have is,
-Pick Lock
-Use Tool
-Use Strength

Are the items dyeable? Only certain items are in vanilla.
There is a list on the wiki:
https://kenshi.fandom.com/wiki/Colour_Scheme#Colour_Compatible_Armours

Also make sure that it isn't already dyed. You cannot dye a piece that is already dyed, you must sell it to a merchant and buy it back to clear the dye.

I put my armor in the dolls inventory and nothing happens. I put it on the doll and nothing happens I tried putting all of them in at the same time and one by one and nothing happens. None of my stuff is getting dyed. Why????

My brand new characters crawled into a Dyer's Guild outpost in the middle of a weird salt flat being chased by monsters, every Dyer's Guild guard immediately attacked my squad and enslaved one of us and turned us into a mannequin to display dye colors. 10/10 mod, no notes, completely in the spirit of Kenshi.

Crashes with Genesis.

me and my squad we're part of the DIERS guild. How do i play this game

Still baffles me LoFi didn't add a dying station thing into the game. Here's hoping Kenshi 2 has more indepth armor customization, thanks for the work Azazellz!

but is there anyway to change which shop is empty?
Nope.
Known random bug with unknown genesis.
At least for me.

Maybe if you delete the location files where the store is placed, and (potentially, if there are any) the squad files that didn't load for some reason, then the next time you visit the location the NPCs will appear in it.

But I don't know, I haven't really done that. Only restored "lost" single NPCs in existing squads (a vendor in ScrapHouse).

This mod is awesome and the Gold and Black paint looks great on Holy Plate, but is there anyway to change which shop is empty? Idk if its always the same one or not but in my case its the one in Okran's Gulf which happens to be the closest to my base. The second closest isnt too much further but it would be nice to have the Okran's Gulf location running.

Petyr - I removed all shops except for the one near The Hub in FCS. Look up how to use the FCS tool in your Kenshi directory and tweak every mod like I do.

Is there any version of this or a patch that only adds 1 or 2 shops? I like the idea of dying the armor but i don't want to add so many buildings

Yeah, it seems that way. As I understand it, the main idea is to give the factions different colored armor to somehow differentiate them visually from other factions and from player controlled characters.
Shinobi wear black, Berserkers wear red, Holy Nation has rank colors, that sort of thing.
The game has a fairly limited set of armor to paint mainly for this reason. Some mods have support for paint schemes, however.

Before (without mods) to paint some armor, you had to capture a NPC with a certain color scheme - now you can do it with my mod.

It seems only equipment that was already dyed, by a faction can be dyed with the dolls. It this just me or does it have to do with how the game dev never intended for this to be used outside of factions?

There isn't a lot of paintable armor in the vanilla game.
Holy Nation armor, some samurai armor, berserkers armor...
I don't remember about mercenary armor. I think when I did my Bounty Hunters armor on those assets, I had to do the color scheme too.
The developers didn't plan to use this system extensively outside of faction colors, I believe.

I can't find a single piece of armor that actually changes...

and still havent found Shek Kingdom colors?

I can't remember if I added it.
If you can't find it, then it simply doesn't exist. All guilds are the same in terms of dolls and colors.

You can try modifying it yourself, it's not very difficult. FCS is very self-explanatory thing.

I've got to 6 different paint guilds, and still havent found Shek Kingdom colors? Theres only berserkers. I know it says several dolls can be lost, but surely there would be one fine in one of the other painter guilds? Do they have a name like "Shek" or "SK" or what?

re: hordes of naked women, i got a screenshot of it >

Ha ha, that's fascinating.
However, I have no idea why this is happening. I've never seen anything like it myself.

re: hordes of naked women, i got a screenshot of it >
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3102210231
restarting my game seemed to stop them spawning but they would spawn continuously on intervals as long as it was loaded, the reason they are outside the dome is that so many spawned inside some were pushed through the wall

Haven't played Kenshi in a while, and never encountered this error myself.
So,I have no idea, how to help here, sorry.

hello, faced with the problem of missing files, after updating the game in October, what can you advise or how to fix it? I tried to do a file check and still swears at the "mod", with this error text: This save is missing zone files. This will likely cause issues such as missing player building Please send us your save.log file to help us track down the problem.
Are there any ways to check or solve the problem with me or with the mod?

could I say, kidnap the dye person I want and keep them at home for ease of access?
Yes.
But you will still need a trader to clean the painted equipment.

could I say, kidnap the dye person I want and keep them at home for ease of access?

Just bizarre watching hordes of naked women with little swatches over their heads being cut down by a handful of guards.

Lol =) I've never seen anything that before.

Lol... I saw a fight in the distance, and it turned out that all of the mannequins from a paint shop had come alive and were involved in a massive brawl with with paint guards. No idea how that happened. They didn't stand much of a chance, as they were all unarmed. Just bizarre watching hordes of naked women with little swatches over their heads being cut down by a handful of guards. But that's Kenshi for ya

Does all of the armor get painted or is it some of them?

Only some - those for which the developers have provided for such a possibility and made the corresponding texture maps.

Does all of the armor get painted or is it some of them? I used starving bandit armor and ninja armor on the dolls and nothing happens and what do the palletes on the shopkeeper do exactly cause I don’t know what they do?

Why are there no people inside the guild residences? pls help

No idea.
This happens sometimes with the game, even with non-modded buildings.
Import should help.

Why are there no people inside the guild residences? pls help

thats a lot of locations man
They are strategically placed so that you don't have to run halfway across the map if you decide to paint your armor =)

You can manually delete the map files from the mod, leaving only the squares you want. It shouldn't affect anything, I think.

Any chance of a version of the mod with only one shop location? thats a lot of locations man

@Azazellz The only times I notice the issue that @Shai-Hulud stated, it's really the guards that walk into the dolls on the cages and push them off. Only happens every now and then if I bring a bunch of people in or there's a big fight outside and the guards run all over the place to fight off people.

I am using a bunch of other mods though, so there could be a conflict somewhere. The best way to fix it is to just walk away from the bugged Paint Shop (1-2 zones away) which causes it to despawn and if you go back in it'll be fixed.

Maybe some kind of mod conflict?..
Perhaps for some reason the game does not consider dolls as prisoners, even if they in their "cages"?
But I can't quite figure out what could be the reason. I've never encountered this behavior in a game.

Try starting a new game without any other mods, leave only this one, and check again.
If you have a lot of mods, save a copy of the file that contains the active mods (mods.cfg, I think) so that you can simply restore everything later.

@shidan
oh, they're on the stands alright. I don't know what's going on, really.

That sounds like they are not on the stand, but are rather standing around the shop. You can only loot them when they are on the stand (which from a technical perspective is a cage, and they are prisoners).

@shidan @azazellz the only options i'm getting are follow, bodyguard, attack unprovoked