Thanks for a mod.
It would be cool to see the mechanoids fight to the last and cover the retreat, and not retreat along with the pawns.

is there some way to config the mod or try going crazy?
i'm using this as a replacement for 'faction blender', that one made 2 completely random factions and one is enemy by default, besides random xenos it allowed all animals and mechs (included modded) and iirc it also allowed all the other factions to use animals and mechs
if not well, sad, but i got tired of faction blender since it forced me to use humanoid alien races and it is a tps hog

I've gotten siege error spam with mechs too.
2 things that kinda come to mind:

- When I look at Yttakin Pirates files in Biotech folders, it seems that
<disallowedStrategies>
<li>Siege</li>
</disallowedStrategies>
is used to prevent certain raid compositions like all-melee from sieging. This might be usable to prevent mechs from appearing in siege raids, preventing the error.

- The Corporation is a mod that mixes mechs among its humans when raiding you, but I can't find any comments mentioning this error (just folks mentioning something with Hospitality). This likely means its creator figured out a way to prevent the error spam, so you could ask them what they did.

sieges spam error

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/4039e15922d577c354db8151cf2284ba

Same problem as Ratboy, siege raids throwing sh!t tons of errors because I assume it's trying to make the mechs build

!UPDATE!

Log: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/b3258edb36c3afde8e0a22458f7bb6fc


Yeah, this mod is causing this error. In a mod list with just the expansions (sans Anomaly) and this mod, I get this error spammed.

Log: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/b3258edb36c3afde8e0a22458f7bb6fc


A siege seemed to spam my error log whilst there was a militor on the enemy's side.

Using dev commands to delete the militor fixed my issue.

I'm assuming that since sieges require the enemy to build the mortars and such, it bugs out since some mechanoids can't build.

I'll test this later on a modlist with just this mod to make sure this is the culprit.

just got a pigskin raid consisting of single militor, no other pawns. I think this shouldn't happen.
thanks for your work btw :)

well i can use this while i wait for 'faction blender' to update

thankee!

Are VE factions supported?

Thanks for updating!

The 1.6 update here now with the necessary changes and adaption for the new DLC.

The mod works in 1.6 as is but I'll take a bit of time to update it properly for more cross-content.

Will this function in 1.6?

1.6?

Does this mod also add entities to the spooky raids? (I assume this is clear enough without spoiling anyone), because whenever these raids happen the humans will instantly turn around and leave the map, and the entities stay around in a semi hostile state where they wont seek out colonists but will attack if someone gets too close but generally seem to ignore being attacked.

Something similar happens to mechs brought by normal raids, they seem to go non hostile and just sort of mill about after the human raiders start fleeing.
However educational it is for the kids to send them out to Molotov idling centipedes, it does not really seem like intended behavior ;)

I think the volume of mechinators can be excessive at times, I had four in a raid with a single pikeman!
Also notices sometimes the mechs dont flee with the rest of them if the raid is abandoned, but that might be something like CAI 5000 not playing nice

Im not sure if you know, but when you defeat raids, the mechs dont leave/flee the map

really cool and healthy for my fps. but why are the mechs blue lol? they have a blue square on top of them

NPC vehicles is a system that needs to be fully implemented from the Vehicle Framework side first, the AI should become able to use vehicles properly to give them various different vehicles so yea, have to wait for that.

Do you have something like this but it gives raiders tanks and such with vinilla viechles expanded how would i do that?

...No clue whats happening but this is the closest mod I can think of, I think a mech is trying to build a mortar??
Exception while ticking lord with job RimWorld.LordJob_Siege:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
[Ref 65056DB] Duplicate stacktrace, see ref for original
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch4 (string)
Verse.AI.Group.LordManager:LordManagerTick ()
Verse.Map:MapPostTick ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.TickManager.DoSingleTick_Patch4 (Verse.TickManager)
Verse.TickManager:TickManagerUpdate ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Game.UpdatePlay_Patch1 (Verse.Game)
Verse.Root_Play:Update ()

Nope.

Currently playing on a medieval modpack, would this mod still add mechanoids to medieval faction raids?

Sounds good! Thanks for the quick reply!

Mechanitors rarely show up in raids and the mechs are part of the faction and not attached to a mechanitor.

I'm thinking about adding this, but I worry I'll end up drowning in Mechlinks. Do the raider mechs require a mechanator, or do they 'cheat' and just make the mechs part of the faction they fight for?

It's as you assumed, the added mechs and animals take away their own portion of the raid points and are not added on top. But as mechs are, they can be more difficult that normal humans.

I assume that militor/wargs also use available raid points, right? Which means that they replace extra Raiders which should be there instead. I'm asking because when I play this, raider seems harder than expected from available raid points as if the mechanoid/animal are just added without replacing anything.

Poop. Good mod. It helped my bowls empty.

As mentioned in the description too, I've only added the extra pawns to base game and DLC factions.

this is exactly what I needed!!! can you tell me if this works with the Yuran and MoeLotl factions (mod) ?

Yes it does.

Does this work with any storytellers ?

Woo! No militors left behind ^.^

The issue with sad little mechs getting left behind when traders leave your colony is fixed now.

@Indigo Cactus Yeah I have noticed the 'mechs getting left behind' issue with my mod and RS Spacer too, I might just drop the mechs from caravans as the game is not able to handle their AI.

@Stinkyjim What exact sort of "compatibility considerations" are you talking about? My mod works as is and does what's advertised without any problems.

Small issue with the mod, a lot of the time mechs won't leave with their caravans. Fairly often a caravan will just leave a sad little friendly pikeman roaming around my territory.

Otherwise this mod is awesome, I absolutely love the variety it adds to everything and it has seemed 98% stable which is more than most mods of this scale!

Sounds like an issue if your'e not willing to make compatibility considerations for the biggest mods the community uses. Nobody is going to choose your mod over three or more of the most popular mods that have existed for 10 years

As I'd explained in the replies, it's not caused by my mod.

I see a few comments down that there's conflicts between vfe factions, alpha animals, and giddy up mounts. Do you know if that is still a problem?

@xXDarknessCedric13Xx it's probably a mod conflict, the mod alone doesn't mess with the base gen system. You might be able to fid the culprit with some binary searching through your mod list.

@Karasik Erohin, Mounts are added by Giddy Up and not this mod, I have not added modded animals and mechs to the factions in the first place either.

with alpha animals and all VE mods I observe classical factions having ultratech spelopedes as mounts and such. definitely some more patching has to be done.

that's s strange, whenever i use this the faction base generation gets scuffed and only generates a small ammount of the factions that i have selected to spawn. was searching like a maniac to see which mod was causing this and it stopped doing that when i disabled this. maybe something's messing with it?

I've extensively tested to mod to make the mechs/animals rare enough in the raids.
Yes, it's safe to remove.

Or at least，is this mod can remove in a mid-save？

Is there any possibility to add some setting to make it can change the proportion of mech/animal to human？In my game this mod makes my raid has full of mech/animal

Between this, CEGE, and PCA, I have to say I really love your work.

No settings but you can go in the mod folder and delete the patch file for the mechs.