ahh yes inventor is so good at being traitor that he use schism even tho you don't have it and break your whole ieology <3 (i mean it's still there he just took the rituals aways)

@salt_babe Thank you very much, I'll go try your method!

Actually, all the quests from the Vanilla Quests Expanded series currently have issues, and I had to disable them before starting the game due to errors. At first, only 'The Generator' seemed to work, so I took the risk and played with it. However, even it turned out to have some problems.

@Kirrouk It's a bug I also encountered
Scroll down to the comment in this mod, I post a solution there.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3497226454&tscn=1752856130

Does the second quest take long to appear? I completed the first one, but a lot of time has passed and still nothing. (I'm playing on the Graviship)

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So i Failed a quest in the chain I guess I didnt study everything I was supposed to? will a quest appear to retry or continue the quest chain?

its gonna be so good now with gravship, will do the quest on it and build in space and power my meteor base with the arc, amazing mod

I can play Frostpunk now thank you :b

A scenario where the player tribe is worshipping a slowly falling apart ARC and has to figure out how to maintain it would be cool.

I made a patch that make you build ARC on a Gravship.
Can't wait to play it myself.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3524903134&searchtext=

do even the non-geothermal versions require a geyser?

It requires a geyser lol it explains in the mod description mate :D

It is a nice mod however a lot of things to right-click study in the second quest, and for some reason it would not let me build the first wood upgrade for the ARC? I don't believe it threw an error, does it fail if a regular colonist without ARC study tries building it or something lol. Thanks for the great mods, cheers

is there any way to get this onto a gravship? and if not do you have any plans to do so

Can people Dev spawn a steam geyser on the Gravship?
Building and developing an ARC on the Gravship will be fun.

Yes! 1.6 Perfect mod for Odyssey

This is cool and all, but is there a point for so much power? There doesn't seem to be a way to use so much power.

this mod is definitely not inspired by the game frostpunk and has no references to it and whatsoever lol

hell yeah, now i can put kids in a coal mine and make sawdust meals

A question, during the battle against the tribals in the 3rd mission the terminal was destroyed and I failed the mission, does another mission appear later? Either from scratch or continuing that one, or is that line of missions lost forever?

Has anyone else had an issue where trying to enter the bunker map results in an instant quest fail and losing all pawns who entered?

I love that Art and mod itself its a nod toward Frostpunk 1 and its DLC where you build a generator from ground up before the Endless winter comes.

The nuclear ARC can generate more than 1 M

Personally, I think this is one of our coolest mods.

This is probably the weakest VE mod I've played thus far just because of how awfully tedious it is for a reward that ultimately doesn't feel up to par with the effort required.

You need to do 4 quests, which spawn really far away from your colony (that means, if you do not have vehicles, a months long caravan journey), and are required to find the proprietary rare uncraftable (and in my experience - unbuyable) components.

Once you start making the reactor, it's a really slow process, you need to spend genuine years to reach the 'sexy' rewards - You want a nuclear ARC generator? Well first you need to upgrade the arc to a wood burner... Then a chemfuel burner...

Then do another quest... And then you finally get to play with a nuclear arc.

There is a foundation here that is cool, but as it stands, good stars above is the entire process really tedious and boring. It's outdone by VE's power modules for 1/8th of the hassle, just space inefficient. It should be Rimatomics powers output.

Anyone know why my game is crashing when trying to enter the ARC industrial complex site? Its only this site that is doing it and its rather annoying.

They are hidden

On further review- If I type VQE into the devmode search bar it will show every single item except for the actual ARC. I can even summon in the prototypes to try and study, but not the actual device. This is more of a question to anyone in the comments who happens to be reading- Is it POSSIBLE to even spawn in the arc or did the modders somehow hide something from DEVMODE?

Can you complete the questchain via devmode to unlock the generator in the architect menu? Or alternatively, what would be the item ID to just spawn one in entirely via devmode? I genuinely prefer the part of this mod where you actually *have a generator to upgrade*, I don't care about spoilers.

@Advanced Component Love the user name and picture

@zoroththeawesome only if you have VE Temperature active

so... does it generate heat like frostpunk for a cool winter base or does it just do power?

update: figured it out, you gotta keep upgrading it, once you reach a point, then you can fork off into different variants.

in other words, i was a bit slow (mostly impatient)

i dont have the chemfuel arc at all.

non other arc has popped up for me, other than the Wood fire one.

Well, do you have a max rank chemfuel ARC?

ive been playing with this mod for a while, and despite doing the quest for them, i cannot build (nor spawn) the geothermal or nuclear ARC. Are you even supposed to build them? ive searched the mod's files to try to find the IDs for em (but i am tech stupid so no luck) and havent found them.

is it an error on my end? (no error fires for me to tell me) am i running an outdated version of the mod? or am i just slow?

@Sarg: I think I need to call my local Democracy Offi- no, wait, hang on, maybe the Inquisition...

@Vanyor: I had that thought. Or I had the smarter realization as I laid down to sleep - the ARC can't be symmetrical, but it doesn't mean the BUILDING its in couldn't be...

@Oskar Potocki @xkuripuri Thanks for the info! I'm also not a fan of the lack of symmetry (Looking at you @Sarg Bjornson) what I did a long time ago however was putting 4 geothermal with 1 tile of space from the center. (2 on top and 2 on bottom) so you still get a middle line in all 4 sides and a symmetrical bases.

Thank you VE team for a wonderful addition to the game.

I do have a question - I might be missing something in the mod settings, but is there a way to be notified when the ARC is ready for the next step, whether through a notification or letter?

Thanks in advance!

Reject symmetry, embrace chaos

@Vanyor: You can just complete the first part of the quest chain, then turn on dev-mode, then god mode and it should show up in the Power menu to be built as long as you've done that first part. Just teleport to it to speed up your testing. Maybe make sure you deconstruct the one ruined ARC part.

After a long time, I've actually started enjoying this quest chain. I am slightly annoyed at the ARC being a 6x6, due to my playing 275x275, meaning it can't be centered on the map... but it does share that curse with the geothermal generator, so...

You need to complete the quest to unlock ARC for it to appear in architect menu.

Btw, using Character Editor mod, I can put an ARC in my inventory pawn and place it in the world but that doesn't solve the issue.

Also gave the Arc inventor and Arc Inspector backgrounds and still nothing.

Hello, thank you for the mod! I'm trying to use God Mode to spawn an ARC to test it but I can't find it on the menu. In fact, when I type "arc" the tab "power" should have been highlighted but there is nothing there (even with God Mode enabled).

I'm not sure but I have reasons to believe that I have a compatibility issue. Even building categories we don't have the technology to build will get highlighted even if we can't see it there.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? Any help anyone can give me?

Is there a different way I can spawn it?

Great mod, but i thought that it will be somehow connected to the temperature. Ive made the whole scenario where temperature goes lower with time, and thought that when i would build this thing ( and upgrade ) it will produce heat. But got disappointed, when it worked as a normal generator atp. My fault, but i didnt want to read about mod a lot in order to not get any spoilers about quests and etc. Like the whole theme of the mod about low temperatures and when you get to build this thing it does nothing. Overall, really great mod, i enjoyed going though quests and stuff, but i was expecting something different.

PS: it even looks like from the FrostPunk, maybe thats why i got confused

Sounds good. How would something like this be corrected or is the game a wash at this point?

It's not a conflict in this case, it's some error on the logic in the code

Hello, me again.

So I tested it all out with the following steps.
- I removed all my mods other than this and the Character editor.
- I started a new file and used Dev mode and the Character editor to get to the quest where I could get the "Tinkerer" and had them test it. It worked.
- I slowly added the mods back in until they were all back into it and it continues to work on each attempt.
- I go back to my original save, same error that I need to target Advanced Components, even though I am.
- I start a new game and do my test, it works.
- I go back to my original save and spawn a new Advanced component, same error.
- Create an advanced component in Dev mode and test it, same error.

I am really willing to help figure this out as I have already spent WAY too many hours getting the tinkerer on Tribal start, I really don't want to restart on this.

Currently stuck on the Forgotten Structure part of the quest chain. For whatever reason Rimworld just crashes shortly after I enter the map. I am not sure if this is caused by Geological Landforms or not as it sometimes tells me in visual exeptions that it and VE Framework along with Map Preview are the cause, but this time it just said "Scatterer Verse.GenStep_ScatterThings could not find cell to generate at." without mentioning anything in visual exeption. I am seriously confused on what is causing this.

@Sarg
No, I am doing tribal and haven't even researched electricity yet.

@Ambrosse: Is there a hidden power conduit in that tile? It's a known bug

Anyone know why I would get getting the error message after I tried to make an ARC Component saying I need to target Advanced Components when I am?

I figured it might be a Mod conflict but I don't have anything really installed that would cause that. Anyone have any thoughts? If it is a mod conflict, anyone know what one it could be? Thanks.