Tribal and outlander children have different available backstories, with just a bit of overlap. Most tribal children will have natural meditation focus and most outlander children won't, though there can be some exceptions in both directions

How does this work with tribal children? Do they lose the ability to meditate at anima trees?

Are you creating custom backstories in xml? If so, can you send it to me and I'll look it over

Every time i create a backstory and save to put on my pawn, it dosen't appear in the character edit, but on the backstory edit the backstory i create is still there

@Myphicbower The closest mod that describes what you want is "Growth Vat Overclocked" - though it's only limited on soldier, laborer and leader for now.

Yeah, vatgrown kids get the vanilla vatgrown kid story. But it's a good idea to add some variety there! I'll keep it in mind for the next content updates

@Myphicbowser sadly vatgrown kids seems to get only 1 "Vatgrown Kid" backstory that does not provide them anything

Does this impact stuff like Vatgrown Children? Such as if the Vatgrown Child happens to have a majority of skill points in Plants, we get a like "Vat Gardner" childhood? Something that talks about how their mind is just naturally drawn to planting because of the experience with the Vat

Updated for 1.6

Iirc, "butchered butcher" should only trigger if the child both performed several surgeries and had several surgeries performed on them. If that wasn't the case, let me know and I'll make some adjustments!

@TheHollyCow

lmao, got fucked

This mod is bullshit. This kid grew up in my colony raised by a loving family. They were on growth tier 8 the fucking maximum growth tier. They get motherfucking "Butchered butcher" with a -2 social and +psychopath trait. What the fuck? Don't install this fuckass mod

Gonna stop using it. Forced on bunch of my kids "Lost child" backstory - even thought they were always just playing and learning up to tier 4

Hello! Just letting you know you forgot to set Biotech as a dependency in the about file. Loaded a mod list without biotech accidentally and your mod popped up a couple dozen errors

Some backstories are said to force the transhumanist trait. But that's not a thing in vanilla Rimworld or this mod. What does it actually do?

My old comment is false, turns out World Tech Level had the backstories restricted to the medieval era. Changing them to unrestricted resolved the issue.

Would it be possible to add more debug info? I had a child that joined my colony at a somewhat older age get the generic background, and I'm wondering if they just didn't fulfill any of the requirements or if something else is going on.
An advanced debug setting that would then log the evaluation of each individual backstory would be really helpful for this.

This might be incompatible with VFE: Tribals. I've used this mod for a while and never had any issues with it until this new run where I added VFE: Tribals and now children are just getting random backstories not from this mod.

Thanks!

not that I saw, but I don't play with Devmode on all the time. If it happens again I can submit a log here

I've never seen that happen. Was there anything in the error log?

Great mod.

two pawns did turn 13 recently and the childhood backstory didn't fire, and they were left with the vanilla "colonist". I'm able to add the custom backstories with Devmode but that completely bypasses the mod's selection process and then we have to adjust their skills manually too. I don't have any other mods affecting this

@GVLT
I imagine that's because the original backstories have exceptions built in to prevent relations from generating, and is probably part of why it's like this in vanilla (Also to let you have your own story).
I would hope it's as simple as making these backstories have the same exception for generated relations.

Probably not, but you can disable that backstory in the settings when doing a transhumanist run

Can you please add an exclusion to the "Surgery Victim" backstory for children who underwent surgery in a transhumanist colony? Seems really weird for a kid to go body purist after spending ten years with a mood debuff for no artificial enhancement.

Hoh, nice

Whoa! This is genius!

Very nice thank you

99% on the child's 13th birthday. It does add records for time as a wild man, and for time spent on various learning activities, but impact is negligible if any.

Hey, love the mod, but how does this affect performance? does it only calculate stuff in when the child is 13 using stuff already in the game or does it keep track of stuff itself?

Im trying to make my next mid/late game colony playable, i need every minute fraction of tps, but i also really want to keep the mod, and if it only does stuff when hitting 13 then no problem.

Most (but not all) tribal children should get the natural meditation focus. Few (but still some) outlander children will. If a majority of your tribal children aren't getting the natural focus, I'll take a look at rebalancing it. If it's just sometimes, it's working as intended.

You could go into the settings and disable backstories without the natural meditation focus, this will prevent children from getting those backstories.

I've got a quite problematic bug for my children: When born they are assigned normally the child backstory. As their parents are both tribal, they have a natural focus type through that. When growing up they get a new childhood assigned through his mod. However that childhood may not have the natural focus type. Any way to fix this?

It seems that with the mod children born and raised in colony can sometimes have relations generated. My 20yo crafter who never stepped outside of mountain shelter recently med his ex-wife for the first time.

Ok, weird. I'll have to do some testing. Thanks for letting me know!

Industrial according to game files.
Weird. I just tested everything on a new colony and backstory generated just fine. But all 3 kids in my original colony got generic Colony child basktory. One of them was born in colony, the other two joined in the rescue quest and they were around 8 and 10 years

Do you know what tech level the Research Expedition faction is? Most of the backstories are tied to tech level, not faction per se

Basically it's the same as a standart crashlanded scenario, but with a few tweaks related to DLC. The issue I guess is that your mod assign backstories from the pool based on player's faction? Like New Arrivals or New Tribe? If this is so, then no backstory were assigned because this new scenario set faction as a Research Expedition.

I haven't played much anomaly, what's the research expedition scenario?

Keep in mind that the backstories in this mod are only for children who grow up in your colony.

Love your mod! Any chances you'll add new Anomaly scenario compatibility? Any kids growing up in Research Expedition scenario are getting default backstory

Hereden - go into the mod options, it lists everything with the option to disable anything you don't want

Wheelchair Angel- thanks! I'll get that fixed

Hi, there is a minor text error with the 'Budding Artist' background where it displays 'Test' as their title in the work tab.

Is there a place or a file where I can read all the backstories that adds?

Yeah, I've been meaning to look into that. Put a multiplier on any required records that scales with the child's chronological age, maybe (capped at the chronological age of a vanilla-speed child)

The feral child backstory shouldn't be showing up in those circumstances, because it should require some minimum time spent as a while man. I'll look into it!

Is there any chance a modifier could be added or a setting to adjust to age rate multiplier? Having children who grow up really fast usually ends up in them having the feral or lost child backstory. Great mod btw!

Update: Added logging for children's records. When a child turns 13 there will be a message in the logs that starts:

[zylle.ChildhoodBackstories]

Show me as many as possible! This will help calibrate backstories correctly. How much time does the average child spend on fire? Inquiring minds want to know!

Thanks for the new backstories!

Updated with 10 new backstories!

No, sorry

Great Mod also possible to give Colonits a Adult Colony Background instead of the generic one?

Ah that makes sense.