thank you, I shall attempt to do that my good sir

Yes, you can use this mod’s file to see how to do the same thing. First you need to find it in Steam’s workshop folders (find Kenshi’s number ID and the numbers from this page’s URL) then you can move this mod to the mod folder in Kenshi’s own files and rename the numbers into the proper mod file name - that should let the modding tool recognize and open it.

You would have to do the same with the mod for primordial hivers, and make a new mod that has primordials as a dependency. From there, you can look at mine and see what you need to do to make the same kind of recruitable hivers.

Is there a way that I could create/edit this mod to also make there a chance to spawn primordial Hivers?

Taking inspiration is fine with me, I'm glad the mod was able to provide some ideas in that sense.

Hey Pico! Love your mod, just wanted to let you know I took inspiration from this one to add similar lost drones to my hive mod. I wrote my own dialogue, have half the spawn rate by doubling the vanilla roaming squad odds, slightly different zones, and different ratios of soldier/worker/princes. If you have any issues with that let me know and I'll gladly change or remove it.

Learning blender and a texture program so I can add leather variants to the hives expanded armor, but good lord is that a slow process. 3D artists are impressive.

ooh I found the add-on. I'll give it a try. Thank you!

If you are familiar with using the FCS, you can open my mod and find the fugitive character. Their race chances will be in the character info.
On the other hand, I uploaded an addon for Hives Expanded not long ago that has more recruitable southern hivers if you're interested in it. I gave the soldiers a closer chance in that.

Hmmm I'm attempting a Southern hive playthrough and I need more soldiers and workers, I've had Princes spawn 5 times in a row when travelling around greyshelf and the royal valley. May I ask where in the FCS did you edit the spawn chance for them?

I was acting off lore considerations at the time, picturing soldiers would be less likely to separate from the hive due to their simplicity.

Just curious why you chose to make the soldiers spawn less than the princes or workers

There should be no need to import, since the fugitives are added to the random spawn pool and will continue to appear at random.

Nice! Does this mod require import to function?

I don't think making them unrecruitable would solve the issue. I wanted there to be physically less of them so it didn't feel like you're running into fugitives every few steps.
As for the names, it's a simple thing that could be edited in a patch, but I think it'd be best if I kept the name as-is right now. I was working off how similar characters like the Lost Drone don't have unique names either.

If you wanted to make them rarer you could have their stats range over the recruitment limit like the HN skeloton refugee recruits so not all spawns would be recruitable. Also any chance of real names?

I don't know what you're trying to tell me rn

Oh, sweet. For a bit I was pondering if I should tinker with the Southern Hive, particularly to change things like their dialogue aggroing them to neutral players.

Cool! I'm actually planning on doing something kind of similar for a hive overhaul mod. Glad to see other people had the same kind of wavelength.

@Nobody If you aren't a no-hive, how come you believe you are a seperate individual of the hive...? No-hive...

I woulnd't help any hiver that called me the n-word (no-hive) they don't know me or my potential hive-like past

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