It doesn't make sense that the toxflu effects artificial lungs. However the toxflu itself is really interesting. I went on a frenzy of replacing lungs, then realized it wasn't going to help. It was a fun crash out though.

Hi! I wanted to give some feedback on the Toxic Flu mechanic in your mod.
Honestly, it feels very frustrating to deal with. Not only is it impossible to treat, but it also leaves a permanent debuff on colonists, which feels overly punishing.
In a large colony, the situation gets even worse - colonists keep infecting each other in a loop, even after being treated. I even tried giving one of them artificial lungs, but the disease still affected them, which really doesn’t make sense.
I understand you may have intended this as a challenge, but right now it feels more annoying than engaging, especially since players don’t have any real way to deal with it strategically.
Maybe consider adding a treatment, or making the infection less punishing in some way?

We considered it, but ultimately decided against it, as their spawning is tied to presence of pollution and wastepacks in the map

Honestly i think these critters should also appear inside of the new Scarlands

I just use cherry picker to disable the lions. The animals are awesome.

Wasteboar is my absolute favourite animal in all of Rimworld. Love this mod :D

You should think about adjusting the pollution flu, it's terrible, it's much more terrible than the Resident Evil, if it wasn't the plague but it that happened in Europe back then, I think humanity would have been extinct

Damn, this poisonous flu is really powerful, I never thought that a lion just hit me once, and the whole base was in vain, this is the strongest illness I have ever seen, no injury, no rest, no isolation, no air transmission, no treatment, no antibodies, have you really looked at the intensity of this flu? I was defeated by it at 750 difficulty, if I send a doctor to treat it, I will be infected, if I don't go then he will die, it is the doctor who is infected, at this intensity I can't lose the doctor, I can't lose the warrior, but because of the existence of the poisonous flu, this lion is undoubtedly the existence that can kill any colonist in seconds, if you are hit by him, you can give up directly, and I don't, I think I have the best doctor and ward, I saved the warrior, and the warrior infected the doctor, After the ensuing battle, everyone was infected, and I didn't seem to have to go any further, this shit destroyed the game

I see I'm not the only one dealing with toxflu

Okay toxflu is genuinely kinda bullshit. People can be infected before it crops up on the healthbar, so even though im using character editor to get rid of it (because theres no effective way to treat it for a large colony), it just keeps coming back

does the moddebuff to toxbuild up from the meat only apply to raw consumption or also to cooked meat?

Amazing mod!

Long Toxflu. Man that's on the nose for me.

I love all the VE mods, but after my first encounter with the toxflu, I'm gonna disable this one again. I dev-spawned healer mech serums to get rid of it after trying to micro-manage and isolate my pawns for half an hour. 20 minutes later it suddenly popped up again in my colony without any waster-animals around. I guess a world pawn from a trader caravan or a guest from hospitality dragged it back in....

Does colonists still get the mood debuff from the flesh If They have toxic immunity in their genes?

I'm not sure whats up but my Mega scorpions are now the size of regular scorpions.

I miss VAE - Cave

Those that are, are. Those that aren't, are not

The FAQ doesnt mention whether these animals are trainable or not.

Just vanilla things

Are there known incompatabilities? I'm having an issue where none of the tox beasties spawn

also long toxflu is scar tissue so it needs to be fixed with 'regrow limbs', thank god for dev commands

Tox flu has to be one of the dumbest things I've seen in this game, not only do you not get a notification for it, you also can't gain immunity, so if your colony is big enough, guess what you are never getting rid of it, it seems like it has needed a rework for ages

Feels odd having waste animals wander in because you have 1+ wastepack in storage. My wastepacks tend to go straight to recycling. However, even if all of my tiles are unpolluted, just having a single wastepack can cause animals wander in. Makes me feel like the game is calling my place a dump just because I'm harboring a trash bag. It would make more sense if waste animals wandered in if you had a certain percent of polluted tiles, or some other trigger related to having polluted tiles. If I have waste but I’m properly preserving it, animals should not be wandering in because of “pollution.”

Made a junkyard with toxfoxes and a recycling plant from the recycling mod. Floofs dig up wastepacks, and the fat guy that lives in a shack in the junkyard recycles them lol

Hiya, just here to say I love all of the unique creature designs (the Toxscorpion led to one of my favorite stories for my colonists).

That being said, I echo the sentiment that I've seen thus far about Toxflu.
It feels very annoying and micro-managey. Also extremely volatile in a way that I don't feel like I have a large amount of control over when it comes to larger colony sizes.

That is all! Thank you for your amazing work.

Just having a single wastepack would count. Other packs are not detected

Do trash and stabilized alloypacks count? Or rather, are they supposed to? I only ever have a few toxic wastepacks at a time in a waste crate before they get recycled.

Either pollution in the map, or having wastepacks

What actually causes the waste animals wander in event? This is happening in a map with no polluted terrain at all. I'm using Vanilla Recycling Expanded. If this isn't the intended behavior and I can figure out steps to reproduce this, I'll make a proper bug report.

I fucking love Megatardi. Great mod.

toxflu isn't by just wandering around you manage it by taking care not to fuck with toxlions in melee

Toxflu needs a serious rework, there is zero warning of it until colonists start dropping dead. Unless you micro-check every few seconds on every colonist, your colony can go from healthy to dropping dead with no warning. It also spreads way too fast. One infected can spread it to the entire colony in seconds.

Worse still it's not implemented in the health system, meaning treatment is impossible and every infection is a roll of the dice, unless you burn expensive healing serums on a disease you can get by walking around outside.

Toxflu is more deadly than any disease in the base game. I don't recommend using this mod until these issues are addressed, as having an entire colony go from perfectly healthy to straight up dead in the street in literal seconds with zero warning is almost unplayable. I have to use dev mode to keep the thing under control

Nooo, thats what i was going for! haha. I wanted a herd of megatardi

So megatardi can't breed. My ranch is a complete failure...

Ya the megatardi eat waaay too much waste packs, forced me to lock it up so i could spread toxins across the map. A quest dropped 125 of them in my jungle map, and he ate them ALL before they exploded.. lol.
Would it be possible to nerf the rate they devour them? Especially at 99% full food.

Also, the megatardi is at 99% full food right now, and still rushes over to eat waste packs? lol. is it bugged?

Do megatardi eat normal plants and kibble..? Their profile says they do, and does not list waste packs, but the one i have on my map is eating waste packs atm..

Would allowing these animals show up during toxic fallout weather too be a good feature?

I ask since I am in a crippling long 22 day toxic fallout in my colony and would like to see some level of life. Or does this mod already do that feature and I am just cripplingly unlucky.

/relatable

It will start clawing its own brain out and die.

what does it mean by toxbear kills itself?
If i tame one, will it just randomly die at some point?

Suggestion: Fallout's Mole Rats.

"It's a snake".... hahahaha... I don't know why.... but just browsing through comments and seeing that exchange was pretty amusing.

It's a snake.

Man cannot wait to use hydra in my playthro... OH WAIT, it has intelligence none. Like, what is even the point of giving him less than 100% wilderness if you cannot use it because it has none intelligence?

the wastefallow reminded of the Brahmin from fallout

ive only just discovered this mod looking for 1.5 compatible mods coz im scottish the fucks a muffallo? i want my highland coos but im looking through this and im thinking, did this cunt just add covid to rimworld in an animal expansion pass?

Retrying the upload now!

Hey the Patreon said this was updated, but it isn't updated on the Workshop yet