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Craftable Gravcore and Mech Chips

The purpose of the mod is to un-softlock Mechanitor and Gravcores for general use following the completion of the final Gravship quest.
Consequently, the recipes, particularly mech chips, are deliberately prohibitive. The idea is to 're-enable' accessing these items reasonably, compared to the effort previously required - i.e. hitting Odyssey sites or calling mechanoid bosses to farm chips.

The research requires studying an item - the 'blueprint' - that is only found in the final area of Odyssey's DLC, and the completion of Advanced Gravtech research. Biotech is not required, but will only add mech chips if it's loaded.

You're not supposed to be able to craft these items, ever. They're far beyond the technical limits of human understanding. A colonist should sit there for years trying to figure out how they work, and vast quantities of resources should be wasted during the crafting process. It's a veritable miracle anything was discovered, at all.

SneezingSeal, for the blueprint texture
thoma5nator, for the mod banner/preview image

• Biotech - Loads mech chips in as research/recipes, otherwise only Gravcore will be loaded.
  
• Alpha Mechs - tier 4, 5 and 6 chips included as further research/recipes in the series, if the mod is loaded alongside Biotech DLC (see recipes for more details)
  
• Recipes of the Rim - Gravcore and Biotech chip recipes will appear in the RotR research tab (if using vanilla research tabs, of course). AM chip research remain in AM tab.

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I redesigned my old mod (now unlisted), but couldn't just push an update there in case some people had the techprint laying around on a shelf or something, as it could've wrecked saves. Probably wouldn't have, but any chance at all is still unacceptable.

Techprints are generated into the game in a way that I can’t completely control, and had not foreseen this when making the first version of the mod. It also means you'd need Royalty DLC. This mod does exactly the same thing, but now uses a study item instead of a techprint.

Any users of the old mod who wish to switch to this new one should
- destroy the techprint (only if they possess it in-game)
- save the game
- unsub from that mod
- sub to this mod
- reload the game/save
- save the game again
You may receive a red error upon loading, after switching from the 'old' mod to this mod. As long as you followed the instructions above, you can simply ignore this; you won't get the error again after saving.

Q: I don't like the recipe ingredients, please change them?
A: I believe the recipes are fair/balanced, however I understand you may disagree. You may wish to add RIMMSqol - it should be part of everyone's modlist anyway - open the mod settings, navigate to Recipes, search for recipes from this mod, and do whatever you want to them.

Q: Why not just release them as general recipes?
A: Because I wanted to work around what I see as an issue after completing Oddysey's 'MSQ' - the softlocking of some mechanitor and gravship stuff - and not just hand them to me. I can use devmode, after all, if I wanted to make it easy. You can always devmode the blueprint/research in if that's what you want to do.

Q: I accidentally lost the study item/already done the quest before adding this mod!
A: Please ensure to let me know if you left the map without picking the item up because it will give me a good laugh. Anyway, I suggest just using devmode to spawn the blueprint, as you've 'earned' it and there is no other intended way to get it. If you somehow find another way to get it, please let me know.

Q: Will you patch other items/recipes in?
A: Probably not, unless there's some other popular mechanoid chips mod, or Ludeon add more of this stuff, or whatever. I made another recipes mod (see compatibility above) and scope for any other recipes is likely for that mod.

Q: I have a problem/suggestion[...]
A: Please comment below!