I was just wondering if there was an addon to make use of Anomaly for a phytokin addon. You filled that empty space perfectly, thanks !
(and at last, another Anomaly mod, this DLC seriously lacks mods smh)

That's actually a pretty cool reason. If not already you should make that in to the cannon background story for the race with the parts changed you did. I have seen people download zenotypes purely for their lore.

@Sera

It's actually a concept from a book series I read a long time ago that I enjoyed, a race of dryads, always female (as dryads typically are in mythology and the clear inspiration for the phytokin). When an corrupting sickness infects the forest, the first (and only) male dryad is born as a result of the sickness (and sorta serves as a "last herald of a dying race" thing, but I wasn't going for that part :P). I always enjoyed it so I opted to have the corrupted phytokin be male.

Finally, i wanted a way to have male phytokin for all phytokin colonies since typically phytokin are 100% female and can't breed without introducing non-phytokin pawns.

@Crimson Apostle of Chaos
If so fair enough. I have used far worse reasons to make something a female.

@Sera Because dudes rock.

This is cool but why always male? It seems like a very weird change More so because you have to do the exact same thing as making the always female ones but for some reason flesh makes male while biologically croupting one with unknown power twisting it in strange ways stays all female but a little bit of strange magic meat tree make guy. Is there a setting to make them all female? Otherwise these guys feel the odd ones out but not in a "warped by unknown magic" way and more in a "Hear me out. Tree DILF that loves to smack me around before eatting me." way. and it really make me question the others now. A tree woman that eats toxic packs? That's not nice thats a tree that hard pushes toxic fallout.

im more curious then anything.

This is awesome, but yea kinda wish it used the phytokin hair modes. As a long haired dude I just prefer long hair styles XD

Yeah, I second what Darkequation said - this is a really cool mod, and I also wonder what could be done with Archeankin. Maybe some gene that gives them 'rooted sleep', which makes them happy to sleep on the bare (non-constructed) ground, and while they sleep, they progressively turn the non-soil natural ground around them into soil, and soil into rich soil. So, overtime your pawn's assigned sleeping spot becomes good farmland.

Or just straight up while they sleep, they nourish all plants around them, increasing growth speed, so you can just plop a sleeping spot in your field and they'll be happy.

Terrific! Are you instrested in making a Archeankin?

Oh this is a cool idea

they are for people like me at least :P

@mytigio thanks G, i might do that, i would love to see some theoretical custom hair styles, but i didn't request it because i knew it would have been a ridiculous thing to ask from a logistical standpoint, apparently art assets are the hardest part of rimworld mods, or so ive heard.

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Harbinger_tree it has purplish flowers (sorta bruise colored) then this is the bark color

Am I stupid or is the harbinger tree exclusively red?

@StockSounds
Yeah, they looked too much like polixkin with the primary harbinger tree purple for hair, the brownish harbinger tree color just looked like a normal skin tone so they weren't distinct at all. you're of course free to change it how you like in the xml or post a mod that requires this one that tweaks those genes as a patch if you prefer

@SalSalvador13

They did originally but they did look very feminine so I removed it, if you want it back you can just add the gene in the xenodef xml file and any new harbingerkin spawned will have the hair.

If I was better at replicating the rimworld art style I'd probably make custom male versions of thorny hair or something, but it looked goofy

I'm not a fan of the colors, the harbinger trees have their own perfectly good colors for you to borrow.

This mod looks so peak, the only critique I have is with the hair, I kinda wish they used a red recolor of the phytokin hair, even if the phytokin hair is more “femanine”

this is such a cool idea that i hadnt even thought about, great job man

Love the idea!

You are a beautiful soul, this looks beautifully executed

Are you asking if my name is Harken? It's not

Harken is that you?

Great mod, well done!

I was as well, and if they end up adding one to the Phytokin mod, I'll probably take this down in preference of theirs.

I'll probably create one for the new odyssey tree if the VE team doesn't end up adding it as well.

I have been waiting for the VE team to add a harbinger phytokin. Glad to see someone did it.

Sweet thanks mytigio!

I'll subscribe so I can revisit this after you added a couple of images. :)

I like the idea of planting the sapling child next to the harbinger tree to get one! I will definitely give it a go when I upgrade to 1.6 👍

oh, sure, I can post some more screenshots, it'll probably be tomorrow though, today is for odyssey! :P

For the dread leather: I'll have to check, I can't recall if the Vanilla Expanded Framework makes your flesh type work like that.

Is it possible to have an in-game screenshot of a HarbingerKin?

question, since they are made of dreadleather, does this mean they can wear it without issue?

yo brotherman, add a couple photos of the pawn, and the biotech gene screen please!

yay i have been wanting this thanks its awesome.