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Vanilla Races Unlocked

BIG UPDATE INCOMING

I'm currently working on a pretty big update which will add appropriate fight or flee responses to almost all vanilla NPCs, meaning that you will no longer be safe as a Fishman or Southern Hiver among Greenlanders. To compensate for the (lore-friendly) overall hostility, I'm adding alternative game starts for each of the naturally unfriendly races, making them start in their faction's major locations with 100 relation points (ally status) towards them. I'll be also adding simple traders for the races / starting zones that lack them, so that you'll have a place to sell your junk at in the beginning. There's one exception though: I'm not going to add game start for Cannibals, since lots of people including myself are using the Reactive World mod which splits them into many opposing tribes, which makes things much more complicated.

Vanilla Races Unlocked is a really small and simple mod that unlocks all of the pre-existing humanoid races and sub-races for character creation menu, making them fully playable.

Take in mind that these races are not some "copies" designed with player in mind, in the base game they're used almost exclusively by NPCs (technically Southern Hive Worker Drone, Soldierbot and P4 Unit can be recruited, but not created), which means that none of their health statistics, immunities or racial bonuses have been adjusted, you're getting exactly the same values as the NPCs use, with all the perks and cons that come from that absolute lack of balance.

All of the unlocked races and sub-races have new or extended (in case of Hivers and Skeleton models) descriptions that I tried to keep as lore-friendly as possible, going a little further into the Skeleton design category though, basically implying that they've been designed with different purposes. The descriptions themselves are rather short and hopefully informative as they include mentions of racial immunities to weather effects or their lack of.

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Human

• Cannibal
  
• Cannibal Skav

Skeleton

• P4 Unit
  
• Soldierbot
  
• Screamer MkI
  
• MKII Screamer
  
• No-Head MkII
  
• P4MkII
  
• Log-Head MKII

Fishman

• Fishman
  
• Alpha Fishman

Western Hive

• Hive Queen (technically also belongs to Southern Hive)

Southern Hive

• Southern Hive Prince
  
• Southern Hive Soldier Drone
  
• Southern Hive Worker Drone

Fogman

• Deadhive Prince
  
• Deadhive Soldier
  
• Deadhive Drone

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• For some reason Fogmen / Deadhive appear in menu as a sub-race for Western Hive. I have no clue why is that since in FCS they're separated into their own racial group, just like all the others. Unless I somehow manage to figure out why is that, it's probably going to stay that way.
  
• No, I'm not going to change any of the racial stats since I wanted to keep them as vanilla as possible, besides, I'd have to make copies of the existing races or else all the changes would also impact the NPCs and possibly screw things up.
  
• No, I'm not gonna add some cheesy 20 recolors of Sheks like some other mods do, if that's what you want then go download them instead.

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• I'm planning to add some dialogue conditions depending on the unlocked sub-races so that, for example, you will be able to join Skin Bandits while playing as one of the unlocked skeleton sub-races, currently it only works for the basic skeleton (UPDATE: This interaction in particular should already be fixed in the current version), I can't promise that I'll go out of my way to add different / hostile interactions for people who decide to play as Fishmen, Fogmen or Cannibals, but there's a chance that this race choice will have some impact on at least few dialogues.

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If you encounter any issues while playing as one of the unlocked races or sub-races, or you have a GOOD idea on how I could improve the mod, then feel free to comment below.