@Aelanna
Thanks for the answer.
Oooh, a CE vet, impressive.

@Latex Santa - The first version of this mod was created all the way back in 1.0, where I was using a combination of Combat Extended and Realistic Darkness, which resulted in the double-whammy of colonists having penalized aim in darkness as well as the player themselves not being able to see anything on dark enough nights in bad weather. As CE itself did not have a flare gun at the time, I decided to make this to fill the gap. That it just so happened to be incredibly useful in 1.5 with the release of Anomaly was an amusing coincidence. :)

Is it me, or is this mod purpose-built for night fighting and anti-noctol combat?

The mod linked also mentions a mod "More than capable" that changes the non violence system into a "hated work type" if you're into that too.

@Latica
Here you go
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427988083&searchtext=just+equip+it

I'm not sure how it's going to function with using them exactly, but they should be able to atleast equip them. Comment says it should work in 1.6 and they're gonna be updating it here soon any way.

@Aelanna Ty very much , ty for mod

@Latica - Making the weapon versions usable for non-violent colonists is outside of the scope of this mod, but the packs should still be usable!

is it possible to make incapable of violence use these?

still a cool mod

found this while looking for solar flare shieldings

The Anomaly`s ECC bioferrite disruptor flare Pack: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3429283292

I just found out that they've added flares into the anomaly dlc, although this mod easily tops those in terms of quality!

that answers the question, thanks.

@天哪，那是接近的 - The way that illumination works in Rimworld makes it almost impossible to create dynamic, moving light sources without absolutely destroying game performance. This is a limitation of the game itself and cannot be easily fixed.

@N/A - This mod was originally created as a supplement for Combat Extended and yes, it just provides light. In terms of interaction with Anomaly, it lights up an area enough that Unnatural Darkness won't hurt your colonists and the automatic use on illumination packs can be set to be automatically used if a colonist wanders into said darkness, but it does not stun or reveal entities. The primitive torches in particular can be crafted at a Crafting Spot and thus are a very low tech emergency option for when you neither have bioferrite nor the tech to produce the industrial-tier illumination tools.

skimmed the description and a couple of pages of comments but didn't find anything: how does this interact with anomaly? just generate light? i saw a comment saying it's not a disruptor pack, but disruptor packs do multiple things

Have you considered adding equipment such as flashlights that can illuminate the body in a straight line?

+ to DsW-4s comment

Do you have any plans to add mortar shells or throwable items with disruptor effects?

Works great, thanks!

@dotjson - Thanks for the report! Try v2.5.4, that should fix the error.

Love your mod, however I am currently having an issue where tossing a Chemlite with CE installed causes a "specified cast is not valid" error when the pawn tries to toss it like they would a grenade.

They work fine in the pack when dropped automatically, and I haven't had the same issue occur when using throwable flares or torches.

This fills the error log with a message about a failed "CE.TryCastShot()" function and freezes the pawn until the pawn is undrafted and the items removed from inventory.

@bblkepling - Huh, interesting. I have learned today that shield belts are excluded from desired apparel because they aren't stuffable, despite not being explicitly disallowed. I have a lot of apparel from several different mods that will need to be adjusted. That said, MayRequire does not do anything on primitive fields, so just having the field is enough. Thanks for the heads up!

I'm not sure if it's intended, but the packs can be desired apparel in Ideology. You can add <canBeDesiredForIdeo MayRequire="Ludeon.RimWorld.Ideology">false</canBeDesiredForIdeo> to the apparel node for Name="Eccentric_BaseIlluminatorPack" if you want to disable it.

Thanks for following up on the VF side! Hopefully it doesn't take too long for them to get a fix out.

@Killian - I looked into this with Smash Phil and apparently there is a flaw in Vehicle Framework that is causing this issue. It should hopefully be fixed in the next VF update, thanks for the report!

Additional data: Anomaly's Disruptor Flare Packs do not cause this.

Again: There are no errors, warnings, or other messages in the log. That's the first thing I checked when it started happening.

@Killian - That's strange, are you getting any kind of error message in your console and/or can you provide a log showing when this happens?

I'm running into a very weird issue where Vehicles cease to be able to pathfind around the map after a flare, chemlight, or flaregun has been used from a leg pack. If told to path into an inaccessible area the rightclick menu shows the dropdown notice, but all other rightclick interacts are being silently intercepted. There are no errors, warnings, or other messages in the log.

I've been able to replicate this with a stripped down modlist consisting of just Core+DLCs, Harmony, Vehicle Framework, this mod, and any mod that adds vehicles.

Specifically, it happens as soon as the flare throw effect is brought up. Even if cancelled with a right-click, vehicles cease to be able to receive orders. Weapons cannot be manually targeted, but will still work on auto-target mode.

The flare gun and non-utility flares/etc. work just fine and don't "jam" vehicles.

Siege raids spawn with a lot of illumination shells. It is funny that all they do is making my colony bright but I don't think they should use those shells if they try to murder my colonists.

@Grey Draco - These flares do not stun or reveal invisible enemies like disruptor flares. These were originally created back in 1.0 to supplement Combat Extended and just so happened to have specific uses in Anomaly. :)

@Whisper - Leg packs do not displace belts, as that's their entire purpose.

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Do you have any mods that might be messing with Defs? RIMMSqol and Character Editor can often screw with items if you accidentally enable overrides in them.

Have you considered adding anti stealth effects to illuminated mortar shells?

I love how the mod art accidentally predicted basically the entire unnatural darkness experience, up to and including the eyes.

Flare leg packs displace shield belts. Is this intended? I don't think a LEG pack and a shield BELT are worn in the same spot on the body...

Do those flares work as Disruptor flare pack from anomaly?

@Dogged - It still doesn't make much sense to me, but you can try installing Mid-saver Saver (and only Mid-save Saver at first), turning on "fix hash collisions" and "fix missing stuff materials", create a new save file, and then installing whatever new mods you were planning to add. This may allow you to fix this issue at the cost of temporarily bloating the size of your save file.

Thanks for the mods, by the way! I haven't fully explored eccentric tech yet, but I'll probably do a more dedicated run with the series in the future.

I can replicate the issue by installing this mod, and the problem goes away when I uninstall it. The bug seems isolated to my current base (that is, the bug remains even with older saves).

I also doubt that this mod is to blame. It's likely another error/mod that has existed beforehand, and it's just another cautionary tale when it comes to adding mods mid-save, but I can replicate my steps consistently enough. Does the mod touch how the map generates in any way? I used geological landforms to create a starting map and then later uninstalled it. Seemingly, I had no issues doing that, but I wonder...

The only error I really see in my log is "Tried loading non-compressible thing as compressed thing: Proj_EccentricChemlightGreenCE"

I might have to just live without this mod for now. Debugging every other mod in my modlist might turn up more information, but I'm feeling a little lazy.

@Dogged - This mod only adds new content, it does not add or remove Stuff, nor does it interfere with any existing Stuff types. Even a hash collision from adding mods mid-save should not cause this kind of issue, so the chances of it being a compatibility issue with this mod is infinitesimal.

Adding this mod removed a stone type from my save, essentially deleting most of my mountain in my tile. Likely not an issue with the mod but rather a comp. issue with another one, but figured I should mention in case anyone has stumbled on the same issue.

Ok, so not a mod conflict, that's the important thing for me. Thank you!

@Delmain - Yes, they should drop them as they walk, as darkness affects movement speed. This also makes them useful for Unnatural Darkness. I suppose it's theoretically possible to make specific toggles for movement vs work, but that will have to go on the backlog.

If the flare packs are set to "Auto-Use", are the pawns supposed to be dropping them as they walk through dark areas or only when they start to work in the dark? I'm trying to read the code but it's unclear. My pawns are dropping them as they walk, and I'm trying to figure out if this is a mod conflict or something.

The flare/chemlight pack with its gizmos are extremely beautiful and useful, best addition ever, thank you!
I hope I could mod and make some dangling firefoam grenade pack.

@Tal'Raziid - Ah, nice find! I'll make sure it gets fixed in the next update.

I solved it, the torch pack was inheriting the techlevel from the parent def, so i added a lower techlevel to the torch pack manually so mod iused to restrict things to medieval didnt annihilate it

@Tal'Raziid - What errors I see in that log are simply collateral damage, the game reporting that it can't find the Def because something else has already caused it to fail to load. If you can narrow it down to exactly what mod might be causing it then I can try to reproduce it, but as it stands there's not much I can do about this.

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/03f9d94559be74049015388691a6ae27

My modlist seems to delete torchpacks for some reason on load. There's an error that seems involved