Calling monsters with 600 hp that could easily beat cat-lon a "formidable threat" is fucking stupid.

Is there a Shut the Fog Up Patch or a Fog Hunt Patch for this? :)

So I found the issue but I haven't the faintest idea how or why it happened. In my particular Hives Expanded file, the material had been removed from the Heavy Hiver Legplates. Put it back on and we're golden, but it's so random.

Hopefully that helps anyone else who has white textures on their armour randomly.

Tried it in the past Pico but I found my custom mods got deleted somehow. It's something I'll go back to tinkering at some point to see if I can figure it out.

@TheThornyKnight
While I can't help with the texture issue, I do have to ask: What do you mean with "FCS edits"? Did you edit the vanilla FCS file directly? If so, you should really just turn it into a personal mod instead. You keep those when verifying files (and can back them up as you please).

Has anyone encountered a bug where some of the armour in this set appears white in texture? I've spotted it with the Western Hive shop guards. I've tried to redownload this mod or any other hive armour one (crafting ones) but no fix. Want to avoid verifying files if possible as I have a lot of FCS edits.

@pico oh thanks for clarifying but when i was testing it seems that all the squads over there were like that i just ran around the entire fog isles 3 times on 3 different saves but was never attacked, so i guess the normal squads are not there anymore somehow ?

@Nectarune
This is not a bug, or caused by Hives Expanded. Some types of squads just have different AI goals and don't attack all enemies on sight. You most likely saw a prince/praetorian squad.

Found a bug with the fogmen in the fog islands they don't attack you when they see you, they just keep running and running

@akirus
Hives Expanded by default doesn't have any weapon blueprints (due to texturing issues). You'll need an addon to enable them.

it seemse i cant find the blueprint for the cresent glaive (polearm weapon) is it a bug or a conflit with other mods ( i only use this mod)

@H0tD4amn
UWE already uses this mod, from what I can tell.

is this compatible with mods UWE ?

i didnt need to import my save, liar

Hive praetorian subraces are set as unable to wear shirts. I'm not sure if it's an oversight, because some of the NPC praetorians are actually set to spawn with shirts, but cannot.
There are addons that enable their shirt slot, but do keep in mind the authors might have made them able to wear human shirts too, which will look broken.

unless its just because im playing as a southern hive praetorian

Why cant hive praetorians wear shirts?

Looks compatible enough, from skimming the description. Hives Expanded mainly changes the hive factions that already exists.

is this compatible with the mod "Free Hive"?

con recluitable priioners solo es poswible reclutar a los pretorianos morados y a los fog pero no a los normales

El mod añade razas que el juego no puede encontrar el modelo es estas error...

Compatible with reactive world?

I just realized I can't actually equip the bone armor as a scorchlander, sadness abound. Whatever I've just gotta find an equally creepy set. It is nice though, love the mod.

Can your recruit the praetorians with the recruitable prisoners mod

As long as you don't have other mods that change the notebooks, you can find them in Western Hive shops, in Western Hive caravans (less), and loot a few from hive buildings that aren't shops.

cant find the hiver notebooks

good to know, I like editing towns in my game, ty

The mod doesn't make substantial edits to hive villages, it modifies the existing squads in those villages if I recall correctly. The locations and amount are the same.

Does this mod add or edit hive villages ?

The subsequent raids will usually never trigger if one of them "ends" without defeat. Importing can fix this (make sure the queen isn't trapped in the import), and I also have an addon that can fix this by just letting the raids trigger whenever the conditions are met.

So does importing fix the raid event? I've kidnapped the Southern Queen but it seems that the subsequent raid doesn't spawn in even after waiting for a while.

@bob did it just now
playing "uwe/kaizo lore friendly" modpack and got attacked by southern hive's last raid, or how its called, was able to beat it almost without losses (rip unlucky hive prince who tried to pass by), Tsep is a beast and realy hard to deal with, but my party was stronger

Hello. Your mod is great! I used it in my maksimum kenshi mod set, I hope you won't mind. I will definitely indicate your mod in the list of used mods. Thank you in advance.

Beating the southern hive attacks is hypothetically possible, but I think your chances are slim without major preparation or lots of cheesing - in the latter case, it can actually be quite easy, and I've succeeded before. But otherwise, you'd stand a much better chance if you kidnapped the queen and took on their raids in separated groups instead.
The biggest threats are the wildly tanky praetorians, of course. But all of them come with exposed weakpoints, as none of the NPC praetorians ever spawn with heavy arm protection. Even Tsep becomes a cakewalk if he gets one of his arms broken, leaving him to attack in slow-motion with downgraded martial arts stats.
I'm sure if you prepared a large enough defensive position with harpoons, you could inflict major damage on any hivers you target before the fight begins in earnest.

Has anyone ever overcome the Praetorian counterattack after killing the Southern Queen? I don't believe it's possible, especially if you have the x3 attack slots (like me).

Might be a bit overtuned given the density and size of patrols in Royal Valley.

Someone else asked recently, but you should probably import your save if you install this mod. It changes the NPCs found in hiver villages and especially the homes of the 2 queens. But if you've never entered those areas yet, you can try it without importing and it should be fine.

i think there was an answer for my question but theres 50 pages so i gotta ask.(sorry if i bother you with that one) Can i download it on my current save?

Is there a mod for just the helmet part of the hive soldier armor? i love the way the helmet looks but i want to put something else for the body

The hiver armor is in the heavy armor station. Large mods may change this.

Where do we go in order to craft the hiver armor once we researched it? The "cannot craft armor" discussion wasn't helpful/outdated

For some reason I can not edit the hive praetorian fogman at all and there is no menus popping up for me. Im just stuck in a blank editor screen everytime.

You can only play praetorians if you have an addon that enables it.

Can you play a pretorian

To shops? You can already buy a bit of the armor, but shops in Kenshi have faction-based limits on how good their armor is, so a lot of it is shoddy-grade.
You would get better results if you crafted it yourself. I also have some patches that make more of it craftable.

Can some one make a pathc/mod that adds the armor from this mod to shops

No, I had a look at the file in the FCS and Fog Heavies are only set to 30 combat stats, with a randomization of 3. Their strength is then given a 10% bonus, but obviously that shouldn't bring them to 70.
Do you have any modpacks or other broad mods that make difficulty adjustments?

Does this mod give Fog heavies 70 strength or is that just their normal strength? I looked on the wiki it says like 23 - 33, i have no idea what mods causing this

Yeah, both the fog praetorians and the princes have a very small chance to spawn with contaminated bone weapons (about 2 in 104 if I understand the math correctly)

awesome mod, i love the new added weapons, is it possible to find a contaminated bone polearm on one of the praetorians ? I really want one