For starters, thank you for this amazing mod! I love all the new xenotypes but especially the undead. Since post-brainwash was added I think I like them more than the badass ashen now.

Anyway I was wondering if there was any more info on Thralls other than what the wiki provides. I can never seem to make the thrall I want to make. I think it is the backstory changing that throws me off on what I expect to what I get along with genes being removed in the thrall process.

Some things don't seem to mix well either. So I needed an artist and I seen I could make one via thrall but unfortunately the artisan thrall comes with inhuman which lowers art by -12 I believe so it seems counter intuitive.

Another question I had was about undead coming back to life. Do they always morph into resurgent or is it possible to get an ashen morph?

Thanks again for this amazing mod. It has gotten loads better since last I played with the post brainwash gene alone!

Originally posted by Ghevd:

Anyway I was wondering if there was any more info on Thralls other than what the wiki provides. I can never seem to make the thrall I want to make. I think it is the backstory changing that throws me off on what I expect to what I get along with genes being removed in the thrall process.

Thralls' backstories are reset, and skills are copied from the master, so it doesn't matter much what the pawn's backstory is or what it can do. Thralls' skills largely depend on who resurrected them. So if you need specific skills, you first need to "create" a master with the necessary skills.

Genes are preserved only in a small percentage, so that the pawn's geneset does not swell (the game does not like this). If I am not mistaken, then ~20% that the gene will be preserved, provided that the geneset has a sufficient metabolic window, so the final chance will be even less. One way or another, the feature with copying genes is just a nice bonus.

Originally posted by Ghevd:

Some things don't seem to mix well either. So I needed an artist and I seen I could make one via thrall but unfortunately the artisan thrall comes with inhuman which lowers art by -12 I believe so it seems counter intuitive.

This is largely a "feature" exclusive to the anomaly. To get a really good artist from a thrall, you will have to try to find a master with a high art skill. Perhaps in the future I will add something to balance this anomaly debuff, but for now I decided to only slightly compensate for it with the remarkable gene.

Originally posted by Ghevd:

Another question I had was about undead coming back to life. Do they always morph into resurgent or is it possible to get an ashen morph?

Yes, they can morph into any of the 3 sub-xenotypes. But the chance for a non-resurgent is significantly lower. This is done intentionally, since the other two xenotypes are meant to be rarer and more self-sufficient than resurgents. Weight (not chance) for resurgent is 0.80, featherdust is 0.33, ashen is 0.11

You can also add any xeno- xenotype to them and then they can be morphed into any random xenotype in the game.

Awesome. Thank you for the info!