Should also work with the Wood fired generator, so removing the "Coal Power Production" research would also be a good idea I guess

@Mlie Thanks, that sounds awesome! Here is the link to that mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3288440994

@son1C I could add such a patch, could you link to that mod?

Hi, would it be possible to include an option to remove the Coal Production research (and it's corresponding coal only items) or maybe auto-detect if "LWM's Fuel Filter" is installed? The fuel filter mod already allows to enable the functionality of the objects added by the research.

how to shut off the coal heaters.

@Flat No idea

is this compatible with Medieval Overhaul?

@Mlie thank you so much ♥ ♥ ♥

@JunoCat竜風 Added vein designator for coal

Wish coal could have vein mine button like other ores in 1.5 I edited coal ore config file and added such thing for myself but after some time it disappeared

Good to know! I had cross-posted the issue already, I'll mention that as well over there.
Thank you!

@Peifmaster The issue is because Commons Sense has a code that checks all Coolers in each room to see (I assume) if the room is meant to have a temperature below 0, making it a cool-room.
However, in their code they assume that all coolers have a temperature-setting. Since the coal cooler has a static target temperature their code fails to find the temperature setting and breaks all gizmos in that room.

Steps to re-create:
1. Have this mod and Common Sense loaded, order irrelevant as it occurs both ways.
2. Start a Dev QuickTest
3. Enable god mode for ease of testing
4. Generate an empty room
5. Place any building with gizmo GUI in the room (I tend to use workbenches)
6. Place an active cooler in the room.

The error pops up at one of the following times:
1. Sometimes the error throws immediately
2. If not thrown immediately, sometimes it throws when the workbench is selected
3. If not thrown yet, will usually throw when saving the game
4. Seemingly always throws on loading the saved game.

I have returned, having followed proper instructions this time. @Mlie, my apologies, it seems sleep-deprived me from yesterday was over-eager and unable to read what was literally directly above the comment box. Error-log has been uploaded:

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/360d4e62613da3d05ef9546d1b6f7567

I managed to narrow it down to an interaction between this mod's active cooler and the Common Sense mod. It is literally only the active cooler that throws this error; I tested all the other buildings from this mod.

That’s fair. I guess I could’ve waited until the weekend when I actually have the time to boot up Rimworld. On mobile, and I guess I got too caught up in sharing my findings. Been poring over web posts and a printout of the error log all week. I’ll send up the log at my next opportunity.

@Peifmaster Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

Apologies for the wall of text, the character limit was met and exceeded, and its the only way i know to communicate the issue, as my coding skill level is below that of a rank amateur--the only thing i ever seem to be able to do right is pseudocode, i'm absolute pants at actually coding using most languages i've tried.

Love your work, thanks for the mountains of effort you perform in service to this game's mod community! A non-negligible number of entries in my 800-mod build have your name on them. My Colony thanks you for your sacrifices on their behalf.

The fact that a very similar and essentially the same error log was being reported to occur in ORK Framwork (a tabletop RPG editor program), I think it's safe to say that the error is almost certainly a bog-standard coding exception in Unity rather than any Rimworld specific bug. The discussions I was reading about this issue mentioned two possible solutions: 1. ensure the code was compiled using the most recent version of unity, presumably so that it can catch the error and report it to you; 2. include an else/exception escape route for all sets of GUI.BeginGroup() / GUI.EndGroup() pairs, in order to ensure that the same number of groups are closed as were opened.

Had a bug that was making my build unplayable, causing all buildings in a room to have blank room stat blacks and not show their gizmos while selected. I eventually narrowed it down to this mod. The initial error throw is a "NullReferenceException" that is caused by the Active Cooler building--though it could possibly be additional buildings from this mod as well, I don't use them and didn't build them test when I only ever use the Active Cooler building from this mod.

The error log eventually spits out around a thousand "GUI Error: You are pushing more GUIClips than you are popping" entries. From my very basic searching and reading, it appears to be caused by a Unity coding exception within the GUI.BeginGroup() and GUI.EndGroup() functions. As the actual buildings were functioning correctly--but were bricking my ability to further use or toggle them--I believe that the error is limited to the GUI portion of the code rather than the functionality.

I forgot that bloomery came from other mods, playing with too many mods make thing blend together, sorry

@SCVL Bloomery?

Can you add recipes to make charcoal at bloomery too, it kinna weird that you can't make charcoal there while campfire can

does the normal brazier is powered by coal too or just this from the mod?

@Stellar Harbour Okay, I have listed steps to report issues just to not have these types of drawn out conversations. But Ill take a look at it when Im done with my other mods

Yep, since you made 1.5 update

@Stellar Harbour Are you referring to some feature of 1.5 perhaps?

Added "Mine vein" designator. This command orders colonists to mine out all connected mineral of a single type with one click.

@Stellar Harbour Sorry, I dont understand what you mean?

There's no new mine vein function for coal ore

gem

Great for a desert mountain game. Thanks

Thank you!

@BlueTressym Coal brazers should be added to the relevant royalty titles now

Hiya. The coal brazier apparently doesn't count as a brazier for the purpose of throne room requirements, which is somewhat annoying. I have 4 of them in there but the 'Acolyte Ceremony' quest is still locked, claiming I have 0/2.

There's no error in the log.

@ZX Zero Strange, they do not show up even if I add them manually to it. On the other hand a grill is hardly an appropriate utility to make baby-food on 🙂

The coal grill dont have baby food

is this compatible with Project RimFactory - Materials?

@Thundercraft. That's exactly what I had in mind. Just be a convenience since letting coal stoves burn out during a heatwave can be annoying 😅

Obviously, there's no way to literally "turn off" a coal-burning stove as if it was a gas stove or a light switch. However, figuratively-speaking, one could effectively "turn off" a coal-burning stove by smothering the flames with either water or something like sand or ash. A coal fire interrupted like this would still retain most of the remaining, un-burnt fuel for use later.

@don Not sure how you could turn off a coal burned stove. You can just not refill the fuel and it will burn out.

Thanks for continuing this mod. Just one question, would it be possible to add an on/off switch to the coal stove? Would be useful for summer times. Thanks again!

@terkmc They should probably add mod-compatibility on their end

Would it be possible to ask for a compatibility with Vanilla Expanded Ideaology's Fire Worship meme? The brazier and stuff does not seem to count for their fire requirement.

"coal for smokehouse and smokepit" The absolute sigma energy of eating beef preserved in the smoke of a mix of Anthracite and Lignite coal.

The charcoal crematory does not work. they will not use it.

Thx for replying

@Shavius Removing defs will cause issues for games where they are already built so that will not happen. Try using cherry picker or similar to remove items you do not want in the game

Could you consider removing all the coal exclusive furniture which has vanilla counterpart to make the mod a bit more lightweight and compat?

@Alessondria You should be able to use it when adding it to an existing map

What happens if I do add this mid save? I have another mod that lets me make coal and seems like there are ways to get it other then by mining it. If I DO add this will I be able to just use it instead of using wood?