Came here to say that a single neanderthal with the tough trait almost soloed my whole colony. Man had almost forty wounds on him before he was downed.

Mod looks great, but given how often my colonies are wiped by neanderthal raids I think installing it would make the game unwinnable for me lol

in the list of xenotype changes you provided in the description, it says you added super strong as one of the changes. it also says you added terrible melee to imps. i think you just used the wrong name for terrible melee as the one listed on rimworlds wiki for genes is called weak melee. that or you didnt list terrible melee as a new gene in your link. As for super strong i also couldnt find it in the wiki or your link of new genes added

https://github.com/IPN-1/VanillaXenotypesImproved/blob/main/Summary%20of%20Changes

@Hades the King What is the name of the "super strong gene" that you're referring to?

what does the super strong gene do on the pigskins? I cant find anything about it anywhere. Also how much does terrible melee decrease an imps melee by

nvmd just found the list

Where can i find all the changes to the vanilla races/xenotypes? pls and thank you

@IPN Okay. I just prefer to implement translations into mod. It's more user friendly and allow you use less mods (literally 1 instead of 2 :D). But if you disagree, I'll try to upload my translation standalone

@Raul Moreau Hi Raul! You can upload the translation on steam workshop as your own mod so long as it only includes the localization files and lists my mod as a dependency. You can reuse my title picture as well (the one that says Vanilla Xenotypes Improved) as long as the picture indicates that it's a translation.

Hello again! :D I made Russian localization for your mod. Where can I send it?

@IPN Okay. I'm not a coder, but will try. Thanks for attention!

@Raul Moreau I'm afraid that's one mod I won't make a patch for as it's not available on steam for me to test. Feel free to make your own patch for RJW. A simple xml patch should be sufficient. You can also use cherrypicker to remove the insatiable gene.

Hello! Thank you for great job! Can you please make a patch for RJW? I mean that charming gene causes a lovin' need, but it seems more logic if this gene going to add a sex need from RJW if it is enable.

@Piss Guy and @Rancher of Slimes - Dynamic enabling/disabling of xml features is only very poorly supported by the game. I've seen the way VE does it and it requires a full restart of the game. It's way too heavy-handed of an approach for what's supposed to be a lightweight mod, and it's really not very modular.

I recommend cherrypicker instead. Otherwise, feel free to upload your own mod that rebalances mine. You should be able to patch add or remove whatever you want.

I agree with Piss guy. An option to disable certain balance changes would be a benefit if we want to change some xenotypes, but keep others the same.

Suggestion: add options in the mod options to disable certain vanilla xenotype balance changes. I prefer sanguophages with mild UV sensitivity

Love this mod! Love the new xenotypes, genes and factions. Nerve stapling helped me engineer the perfect dumb laborer and soldier.

I'd have two suggestions though:
1. human fur is superior to human leather (better sharp armor, temperature insulation and beauty), and is presumably rarer in-universe (furskinned humans being a minority), yet it is worth less than human leather ($4.00 vs $4.20). I'd buff its price to e.g. $4.50.
2. I think "polyethnic" or "multiracial" would make more sense than "multicultural" for the xenotype-diverse faction name. Granted, xenotypes are not races, and they're very different things from ethinicity, but the connection between these concept is somewhat less tenuous than between "xenotype" and "culture".

hey, can you add a Major Cell Stability gene to mirror the Major Instability one? I mostly want it for the even bigger lifespan increase, if its not asking much

Hi, after i enable the mod the nephilim xenotype (other mod) doesn't appear in my game. Is there a issue?

is it possible for robust digestion to take priority over strong stomach when having both? (for preexisting xenotypes)
robust also making you immune to foodpoisoning gives it a bigger advantage because of the rawfood multiplier.

i see, thanks for responding

Hey everyone. Had a chaotic few months, but I should be back to address some of the xml patching compatibility soon.

@Dog_Guarada I cannot replicate your issue but I will keep looking into it. According to the log you posted, you have several errors for multiple mods going on, which is not unexpected with a 300+ mod list. Maybe the unofficial rimworld discord server can help you figure out what the problem is.

There is a problem with the mod, that i am not sure if it's only for me due to my current modlist, but it makes so that all factions only have one single settlement in the world
(from what i saw briefly before it has something to do with the Phytokin from VE, but ofc i am not a modder so i ain't sure)

logs: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/d4c51a593ca57f5bdfcf9aaaade4d8d4

@k147
use cherry picker

Hi, would you be open to adding settings to disable or enable some parts of this mod? I would like to use the rebalanced genes, mixed-gene factions, and custom xenotypes, but don't want double xenotypes.

Thanks for improving the vanilla xenotypes mechanics

Would you consider having your stomach combination gene be separate rather than modify robust? With this change, I no longer have any way to make predators able to eat raw meat without also giving them access to eating rotten meat which is just too much.

Is there a russian translation of this mod somewhere?

@IPN Can you add a check when patching the Ageless gene for if there is already exclusionTags? Using this with the Big and Small framework causes an error since they add an exclusionTag and then when this mod adds one it adds another exclusionTag section instead of adding to the existing one.

You can absolutely make a cave-only playthrough:
- Biomes! Caverns
- CaveBiome (Continued)
- CaveWorld Flora (Continued)
- Geological Landforms
- And then get silly with ReGrowth: Expanded World Generation to turn the whole world into a giant network of caves. Say the surface is irradiated from a war or something.
- If so inclined, use Xenotype Exporter and Xenotype Spawn Control to make the under-dark home to some other things for variety. Shroom-themed phytokins using Fungoid genes, perhaps?

I'd also recommend Vanilla Plants Expanded - Mushrooms, and using Tweaks Galore to enable growable mushrooms.

@Dr Jimothy see this guy gets it. That said, the reason they have Mild instead of Severe is probably because they already have slow runner, so the modder disliked the double slowdown. But again, they are genetically engineered by mining corporations to live in Darkworlds, to mine and carve underground only. The fact that you can't make a Cave-only playthrough is a separate issue

@Rat Catcher
I agree. The dirtmole changes feel contradictory to dirtmole lore, too. They were made to *survive* underground, form whole societies, not simply extract resources, so extra mining yield feels off.
Mild UV sensitivity feels off cos, well, they're meant to live DEEP underground their whole lives, not pop into the mine a couple hours each day before going home to some above-ground house. Fast wound healing is good for places that are prone to collapse, or megaspiders, or where melee combat is the norm, or where getting scrapes in the dark is common.

All that said; Xenotype Exporter Tool. It's an absolute godsend of a mod. Like 99% of a xenotype mod, but dislike that one little thing? You can just change it, easy as that. Plus you can make your own xenotypes that get recognised as modded rather than custom by the game. It's awesome.

maybe make the Stone Sense give a bigger bonus? like +15% or +20%? Losing Fast Healing for High Mining Yield Precept doesn't feel fair

Error vith VRE Phytokin.

[Vanilla Xenotypes Improved - Start of stack trace]
Verse.PatchOperationReplace(xpath="/Defs/GeneDef[defName="VRE_AnimaAffinity"]/biostatMet"): Failed to find a node with the given xpath

Could not resolve cross-reference: No RimWorld.XenotypeDef named VRE_Animakin found to give to RimWorld.XenotypeChance RimWorld.XenotypeChance

have error with your mod and wvc xenogenes, can you please add mark that your mod must be loaded before it? or just change something in
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>Defs/GeneDef[defName="Ageless"]</xpath>
<value>
<exclusionTags>
<li>Pawn_Aging</li>
</exclusionTags>
</value>
</li>
seems like wvc xenogane patch this too but in different way so it doesnt patch this line if it is already patched.

@PlinkPinko I'll consider it. The pigskins seem to have taken up explosives because their poor eyesight doesn't make them worse at using them. This is actually mechanically true too, as some weapons (including explosives) are not affected by eyesight.

@Dauntless1942 Thanks!

I like this mod

Would it be fitting for Pigskins to have some kind of Explosive Resistance? It's either their Xenotype description, or their Faction description that mentions them having an affinity for explosives, taken from the wiki page, "trotter-shaped hands that make it more difficult to manipulate tools and objects and their nearsightedness results in their preference for close-range - or explosive - weaponry."

[2/2] I don't change the genes for VRE races, and will instead remove some redundant genes (that I added) from being displayed. I also tweak some VRE gene metabolisms to keep xenotypes in line with the original version from the mod. Vanilla xenotypes may see some mixing of genes that I've added and genes that VRE added, but in general I try to make sure you're getting the VRE version of that xenotype since that's why people would install it in the first place.

If you are concerned about specific mods being redundant with this one, it helps if you tell me what mod you're referring to so I can look at it.

@alonlystalker [1/2] Sexuality genes add or suppress traits. When I checked this mod with Way Better Romance, it seemed to function just fine. But it's not like I did a deep dive into it. The asexual gene, for example, always adds the aromantic asexual trait. I think I may need to go back and make sure the heterosexual gene works properly.

If you just want to remove the sexuality genes, then I suggest cherry picker.

There are no hard incompatibilities with my mod and any xenotype mod, even unpatched. There's only soft incompatibilities due to changes in metabolism, redundancy, and sorting of genes in the menu.

how exactly this compatible with VRE mods? did it change genes in this races? also, is there a way to disable sexuality genes? there are mods that already have something like this and i think they'll conflict (dont know exactly how its works if pawn have homosexual gene and straight trait from way better romance at the same time)

@Syrup Orwell popularized the term, so in that sense it's a reference. But the word's been around a lot longer than from when 1984 was published.

Is the prole name a reference to 1984?

ah my apologies for the misunderstanding!

@Oddbase It's clearly stated in the compatibility section that all of the Vanilla Races Expanded mods were checked for compatibility and have patches included if they were needed. Pigskins was one of those. Just make sure my mod is loaded after it.

doesnt your mod modify existing xenotypes? wouldnt that make it incompatible with pigskins expanded?

Thank you!

@Brawler All the existing gene changes are done in XML, which unfortunately means it's difficult to make purely modular. I'm in the process of documenting all of the changes to be seen more easily, but you can view them yourself in [mod folder]\1.5\Patches\VanillaGeneStatPatches.

I'll update the mod description with a link to a documenting all the changes when I'm done with it.

@Oddbase It should already be compatible. Are you encountering an error?

Is there a way to see/disable the balance changes to existing genes?