It seems this mod isn't compatible with the psycasts or psylink from Royalty DLC, and now I'm wondering if the same applies to Ideology DLC content. Unfortunately I don't see any real benefit to this mod over Biotech's children system, and there are lots of severe penalties for interacting with this mod, so I think I'll have to stop using it.

Also you can't merge babies or anyone too terminally ill to walk themselves to the chamber.

Up 1.6
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3534324945

@everyone

Has anyone seen user @SilkCircuit or anything that'd tell me their whereabouts? It appears they haven't even been on Steam for, if I had to estimate, several months. Their most recent comment I've seen is from March.

@SilkCircuit

Any chance of a 1.6 update?

Just found this, looks hilarious. Hope 1.6 happens soon so I can try it!

also note make colonists that are merged have idenity crisises

I CAN SMELL THE EUGENICS FROM HERE PLS NO

jojolion

I will literally pay you to update this so you can merge 2 prisoners (and maybe make the paradoxical dissonance harsher and the sprite of the chamber take up 5x2 blocks of space rather than 5x3 so it matches the graphics better), hmu

Is the chamber supposed to be a half-tile misaligned vertically?

Would love a medievil adaption of this, perhaps ritual based.

Having trouble getting this to work, for some reason my colonists just sit in it for actual days until I'm forced to cancel the merge so they don't starve to death, do I just need to set up some way to keep them fed during it or am I doing something wrong?

Is there a config to make pawns addition their skills? So they stack?

pretty cool mod. I wish the initial drawbacks were longer and worse though. if possible maybe add a mood debuff as well ^^

vegito machine

How does merging affect psycasters and bionics?

we playing merge rimworld out here

this is basically signalis if you think abt it

@Lex Weapon upgrade lets you do that for weapons and armour
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3395769930&searchtext=weapon+upgrade

Will there be an added ability to connect prisoners? I want to experiment with prisoners, if I get a good specimen I will recruit him to the colony.

I combined two women and got a man.
Also wouldn't it make more sense for them to have a 'merged' person background instead of randomly assigning one?

Am I just crazy, or was there a mod like this but it let you combine items of lower quality to get a higher quality one?

Equivalent Exchange

man made horrors beyond my comprehension. would be cool if stacking it made side effects worse until you basically have a catatonic corpse full of a billion screaming thoughts

Finally I can make Tuvix a reality again.

Could you make it so that you can configure which parts get merged? E.g. suppose you want everything aside from genes to be combined? Or maybe the name output?

The universe struggles to tolerate this level of heresy.
I love it

Will there ever be a colony splitter? A device that could split one colonist into two new colonists.

i imagine this doesn't play nicely with the cortical stacks from the Altered Carbon mod

would be funny to have Psylink level merged as well, scenario of merging 100 1 lvl pawn into one emperior of humanity

Thank you for this great mod!

Please, add some mod options to disable the solar flare, make unlimited chambers on the map, and make the skills go over 20 when the "un-limited" mod for skill limit is active.

Fucking Karen. She’s probably praying she doesn’t wake up as herself either @Punch.

Lets goooo fear and hunger marriges in Rimworld!

funger moment

You wanna set the base ammo storage on fire again Karen? Merging you with the Wretch, let's roll the dice and see if you get lucky enough to stay yourself after.

Couple divorced. Nope, you two made a commitment to be one flesh, let me enforce that. Hold my beer.

@SilkCircuit Oh it's more that some of us have mods that increase the default traits from like 2-3 to be higher, or have mods like one of the VFEs that can randomly give you more traits upon mental breaks/illness recovery, or races or genes that add traits. Plus even without that if you raise a child right, it'll have 3 traits by the time they grow up, I think? Having a more complex "source" resulting in a more complex (more traits) pawn result "makes sense" made sense when I was thinking about it, not sure though.

For a way to make it balanced and "added-trait-mod neutral" maybe take the number of traits of both merged colonists and average them, so if you have a pawn with 3 and a pawn with 2 it'll pick (3+2)/2 2.5 -> 2 to 3 traits picked randomly between the 5 available?

If you have the standard 2 on each pawn that leads you to having a resultant pawn that has 2 (picked from 4).

This mod merges skills and traits, but since there's a limit on the final stats, how about improving basic attributes like health, similar to 'Compressed Raid'?(There may be strange expressions using a translator)

@KiTA I can look into the tech level and psylinks—potentially ancient powers—for a future update. Regarding trait handling, the mod pulls one random trait from each merged colonist. If one of the merged colonists doesn't have any traits, only one trait is added to the hybrid. If neither colonist has traits, no traits are added. So, it’s working as expected. I can also look into a potential update to make the number of traits variable, but no guarantees—I don’t want it to feel like a 'dev tool' in-game for vanilla, non-dev tool users.

@Kiana Will look into the memes further.

@Everyone on Fear and Hunger Marriage.. I can look into adding a different texture visual option or a replica as a different thing with different visuals to emulate more of a ritualistic vibe.

Let me know your thoughts. Thanks all for the feedback.

Hm. Does not seem to grab the Colonist Tech Levels or VFE Ancients powers, or psylinks. And if you have more than 2 traits the mod doesn't seem to handle that... Maybe that could be an option ("number of traits to give merged colonist")?

The Tech levels mod has it's tech levels implemented as a special trait, which is fixable with Character Editor, but having it be built in would be neat.

@csc001

do you remember the name of that movie? souds interesting...

@mageofsomethingorother
yeah! Surprised I didin't see that untill you pointed it out!

@TikkiGaning
way ahead of you!

Tuvix mod...

RAHHHHG JOJOLION REFERENCE💥💥 WHO TF AM I????

Yet another great literature genius lost to modding

Well this is an absolutely terrible thing to do to people... even in the context of this game. I'll be installing this immediately.

Wow, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension......*adds to modpack*

Oh great, now we can do the Fear and Hunger Marriage in the Rim now. Yippee

This mod is the closest we're ever gonna get to "Mage: The Ascension" and I'm all for it. lol

It's scary, and that's the best part of it.

Thinking about it, I'd love if it had interaction with the Gestalt meme from Vanilla Ideology Expanded. True hive mind, treating any given body as simply a tool of the collective. Maybe by making the personality paradox debuff milder for them (because the minds are already in harmony) or giving a colony happiness bonus as they exalt the truest unification possible.