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People who lost their minds after the third little timmy who took a nature walk during a raid or wild animal attack

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Hmmm, I'll check it out thanks.

@Kalter Stahl You could use School Defense. No shield belts for them unfortunately, and the turret is dropped on the ground but you can at least equip them with a turret backpack to drop and run away.

I don't suppose I could get some child ranged shield belts and turret backpacks? Back before Biotech I didn't let the kids out to play until they could run away in full panic with shields and a turret firing in the opposite direction!

@Nepenthe, Many thanks for that explanation. I'll give it a go, fortunately the items I want to modify are relatively simple. This mod has saved at least 3 of my child colonists from harm so far when they were nature wandering - even loaded a save to test without their child armor and it was fatal for the child.

I extracted the original textures from the game's datafiles and manually adjusted them to fit child sized bodies. It's a simple process that doesn't need artistic skill; you just put the clothing texture over the child body texture and resize/move it about until it fits. Do that for north, south and east facing views, and save them with the proper filenames & path so they get picked up automatically by the game based on body type and facing. Test the clothing out and adjust a bit if needed.

If you have a look in the mod directory you'll be able to see the modified textures.

Are the textures resized from the originals or new assets based on the originals?

There are a couple of mods for which I'd like to make child versions so I wanted to see if it was worthwhile doing considering my lack of artistic ability.

I'm really enjoying making sure the kids in my colony are well protected given how often predators come after them.

kids in power armor DESTROYED grug and his neolithic raiders
A+

好变态，不过我喜欢(❤ ω ❤)

你雇佣童工！

lovely.
i just like my children being safe
armor=safe
armor=good
also i want my child POW's to be able to fight

Yayo to my understanding changes gun mechanics and armor value to some degree.

@Mbos What do you mean by "change armor values"? Anything that iterates through all armor and makes changes will work fine, anything that only looks at a pre-defined list of items to change will ignore this (and every other modded piece of apparel)

@gnarrily This mod is just using XML copied from the original armour pieces and does not add any new layers, body locations, games mechanics, or code changes. I don't play with CE but there is no reason to expect any issues if you do.

same kinda quiestion as below but then for yayo how does this mod play with mods that change armor values ?

do these armors have the same value as normal ones so that combat extended can work with it?

The child-sized power-helmet now support styles if ideology is installed. (morbid, totemic, and the adorable animalist)

Great, less children being mauled to death by mice while going on nature walks.

That would be awesome, thanks if you can do it - I know it's a lot of texture work. I got a legendary child power helmet in a quest, but the hussar kid that would have used it was a refugee and left 😢

@Holgast I wasn't going to, but then I realized how cute an Animalist recon armor helmet would look so I'm going to have a try making that work.

Thank you for furthering the pursuit of war crimes in Rimworld

I love the description

great stuff - any chance of royalty armour and styled versions?

Tbh, this is useful even if you don't intend to use it for child soldiers. I had a group of 55 man-hunting wolves spawn literally on top of my 'nature-running' toddler. Toddlers are accident-prone and Randy is cruel.

You see... There are only child soldiers if there are any left alive.

That kid in power armor is adorable, and probably quite lethal

Perfection if you care to give them armor. Also perfection if you send them to fight with nothing, knowing you had armor for them the whole time. Little jerks...

Theres literally already child labor even without biotech, as you legally cannot work in agriculture until 18, and there are kids as young as 14, so therefore child soldiers are fine.

i was gonna learn how to mod just to make something like this but thank you i am lazy so would have taken me a long time lol

If I had a nickel for every time a child had their nose bitten off by a racoon even though they were wearing power armor I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

I think I found out why Sparta didn't last as a society ...

Whoever survives the raids gets to live long enough to grow up.
It is the SPARTAN WAY.