Can I pass from this to the new Fireflies 2 in the same save file?

I am happy to report the new mod has arrived:

FirefliesTwo
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3347026598

At this time I will be making no further changes to this mod - it is end-of-life. Thank you for your understanding.

Not really. If you spawn their pawn from the debug menu those fireflies seem to persist through cleanup. I can't say how long they live or what else might go on with them though.

i want to grow them in certain area, is it possible to disable cleanup?

Updated: Fireflies should no longer be affected by animal insanity events.

Updated: Fireflies now deal 0 damage ... still annoying if they go manhunter, but I'm working to patch that out, this is termporary. My apologies and condolences to your colonists.

Fix one problem and two more spring up from the ground.

A firefly went manhunter and managed to kill three people before finally downed.
I think the firefly pawn needs some nerf in terms of attack power and health

Updated: Added a head attack tool to hopefully clear the errors some people are seeing.

Updated: SOS2 maps should no longer spawn fireflies.

Updated: Rimnauts moon/station maps should no longer spawn fireflies.

And if you thought that killing it dead would, well, kill it, joke's on you. [imgur.com]

oh, and...it's still half health. :thumbsup:
picture or it didn't happen [i.imgur.com]

So. XD

I think these fireflies might be tankier than literally anything else I've hunted so far. Even the big shell crabs that make mountains their home from Alpha Animals didn't live this long.

I have 166 conditions that need tending on one firefly, still counting up, 11 bleeding injuries of various severities...and the bleeding tracker says "no immediate danger."

What the actual fuck. XDDDD

You kill fireflies for their essence, which deteriorates quickly (possibly too quickly, I'll take a look).

How do you makes jars???

lovely mod, does NOT play well with the ~forbidden mod~ (often in hilarious ways)

Obviously these are genetically altered fireflies that can survive in extreme environments, totally intended. :)

(Completely unintended ... I appreciate your efforts, I will try to work back on it as well)

they spawn in space environments from Rimnauts, I'll try to solve it on my own. I've made a few personal patch's here and there for other mods

Nah we got fireflies in Rimworld rather than Minecraft.
But jokes aside this is a pretty mod :D

Do fireflies spawn winter or cold biomes? It seems they have -100/+100 heat tolerance.

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Also, thank you Cruel Moose, you suggested the deterioration rate quite awhile back, thanks for your patience!

Updated: Applied various tweaks as noted in the Suggestions discussion. Thanks lol!

No worries! Thanks for letting me know all the same, hopefully there's nothing I need to do, but I stand ready to! Have a good one yourself!

Whoops I apologize Zaljerem, I'm so used to so many of the continued mods being done by Mlie I just assumed without looking! Anyways the error does seem to be on "Camera+"s end but they have comments disabled so I can't really let them know. Will just have to go without it till they get things sorted out cause disabling this mod would make my colony very dark lol. I appreciate the quick response and glad it's not an error with this mod, sounds like other people are having issues with camera+ as well. Thank you for continuing such a wonderful mod and have a great day! :)

I'm Zaljerem, not Mlie. I don't use Camera+, but if I need to do something for compatibility, I will, if I can be told what that something is.

There are lots of people saying that the latest update to camera+ is buggy for other reasons, so I would wait until they fix things on their end, or post under camera+.

Hello Mlie, it appears the latest update of "Camera+" has caused an issue, whenever a firefly is onscreen the UI disappears and I get:

"Root level exception in Update(): System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
[Ref 8F0C41CC] Duplicate stacktrace, see ref for original
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 39)

Exception drawing ThingOverlay for FF_Firefly8905: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
[Ref 88E08F81] Duplicate stacktrace, see ref for original
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 39)"

spammed in the debug log. It only happens on 1.5, 1.4 appears to be working fine.

Yes, absolutely.

one minor suggestion, can fire fly essence have a default deteriorate rate? It makes quite a bit of litter when you got mobs that kill them :S

I set what I thought was the key to prevent that, but it's still happening to me also. I'll dig deeper when I get a chance. At least they seem to be harmless.

Might want to also do something about Fireflies becoming manhunters lol. I've had mad animal incidents a time or two with these guys and they just kind of float around and don't actually do anything.

thx

Thanks! Love this mod!

Updated to 1.5: Hopefully addresses some issues!

Added herdMigrationAllowed = false
Added PawnTrapSpringChance = 0
Added canBecomeShambler = false
Changed combatPower = 1

(I thought I disabled manhunter also, I may have missed it, will verify for next update.)

Note: essence drops are temporarily disabled, will be restored soon.

Fun fact, these adorable little guys will set off traps! My cavalry spikes are coated in glowing blood and I've no spike traps left after a pack wandered into my raid hallway. My researcher just worked out how to build an IED, no way this goes wrong!

(They probably should be changed to have a very low trap trigger chance but also the tiny bug setting things off is hilarious)

I appreciate all the feedback from everyone. This mod is slated for a review during the 1.5 update process, I'll see what I can do about the issues.

Correction: I spoke with my friend that helps me when I stumble with modding. It's more likely the overall point value of the critters. (Man I would love to be able to just edit posts here lol)

The herd size might be related to their size, at 0.00? I might be mistaken, but I think that plays a part in migration/etc calcs? (You'd be surprised how large other creatures are, I wouldn't be afraid to make these unrealistically large lol). Dunno, though. I need to get back into working on my couple mods for the game lol

Looks like I have some things to look into. These reports have been hilariously entertaining though! While most of these bugs have been more benign, I do feel bad about the 2000+ firefly herd that brought the person's game to a crawl.

Correction they are just flashing angrily where they are. Awfully threatening over there.

Update as of now: Something made the 'herd' of fireflies on my map go manhunter, so now I have a swarm of angry bugs racing toward my base. I fear for they are flashing rather angrily out there...

First time playing with this mod - I've had three self tame in a short time. Just have a firefly zipping around my base happily looking into every room while everyone's asleep and then just despawns in the morning, lol.

You would not believe your eyes

Olá, tive um problema com os vagalumes no meu mapa, recebi mais de 2000 vagalumes passando, o que causou uma baixa absurda no FPS. Como eu poderia resolver isso?

you are the best!! thank you

Well, it was fun while it lasted!

Fun firefly fact: I had one spawn with an old gunshot scar on its leg and it had a slower movement speed, so I guess they use their legs to move? lol

I was going to ask you how it turned out. I figured that might happen, good to know, notes updated. Enjoy 'em while they last, I guess!

It lasted about 3 minutes, then it spontaneously despawned. I had it selected and was looking at its food meter to make sure it would eat, and it suddenly disappeared. The food bar was around 10%, but there was no message or letter saying anything about it.