No lie i ate seasoned dried crickets before and it wasnt that bad had alot of protein so maybe klaus is on to something

klaus schwab

The bug lamp kit that is available for sale in Hives is missing its icon.

This is a nice light. I'm not really in to munching bugs, but if I ever decide to pick up some prisoners, that's what they'll be eating.

any way crispy bugs could be added to the allowed foods to place in a food barrel?

I could get a lamp for 1500 in a waystation but in the build menu i cannot build it (Camping submenu). Needs any research?

any hope at hub? any hope for holy nation?

@luis now available from some swamp vendors & some vendor in worlds end.

no hope of the kit being sold by all vendors?

any chance for allt owns to sel the bug kit?

Updated to include a means to use a lot at a new campfire. They should be droppable now. Also they now require a one-time purchase of a bug kit from hive traders - like sleeping bags (sorry for anyone whos game is far from there)

@tiberius this must have come with an update to the game. Luckily I know how to fix it. I'll have an update out tonight.
@squamous yeah, have thought about i lt might add something like that

There is a CTD bug(not the edible ones either) when you try to remove bugs and toss them on the ground.

Have you considered adding a cookable item like "bug porridge" or something? It'd give your people something to do with all those bugs they collect.

@sleep thanks for the input. It would be great to do something like you said, but I don't think it'd be possible at the moment with the limitations of the editor. The best I could do is make the production time slower or add a building material

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on the hands and arms of the person collecting the insects). there is no need to make the collection of food time consuming, but havind a time consuming recovery would add more balance

This is a great addition. It can make food too easy in the wet areas though. How about a mechanic that in areas where insects are most bountiful there is an insect tax. either biting insects or an increased risk of being infected (probably managed through bleeding wounds that take time to heal

Cheers! :-)

This should be in the main game, life saver.

@NanoGiraffe Yes they are great and this mod is great saved my butt quite abit. Thanks for it. keep up the good work ^_^

@66austin1 awsome! Must have been some damn good bugs! Glad they have their priorities straight.

>was mining a rock next to holy nation town

>starving bandits run up on me yelling GIVE ME YOUR FOOD

>start trying to run away with over 110 pounds of iron on me

>starts kicking my ass.

>good thing I don't have looting on *gets knocked out*

>*starts looting me* WHAT THE FUCK YOU CAN'T TAKES MY STUFF

>*ate insect rises above head*

>they stole my bugs...

I am neither pro nor con your idea.
Just to give some input, not because I think this is such a great idea:
How about you have to use the object for n hours to get food for 2 x n hours? Or 3x?

@ZanyScum thanks! Completely get what you mean, it's definatly a role play kinda mod. I've been thinking about how I could balance it recently. What about the idea of a catcher kit you have to buy? For 700c or so with enough charges for just 4 catches. You'd still be able to travel. But it's not unlimited food. Just a thought

This works very well. But I stopped using it.
It takes too much pressure away.
Where is the fun if I don't fear the hunger?
But thank you very much. It is good to have this mod so more ways to play are possible.

Cool, what did you use for the model?

yeah dont think theres any way to add building to nests you can only add material and debris ect but to make it quicker and since the honey hives need water any way the general rule was just place them by or near the great rivers in the lower half of the map but none in fog or as far as the flood lands

Squamousness, I believe they should be compatible with the general food storage. I enabled it I'm sure.
Abquint - wow you did it manually. Must have taken ages. I was going to suggest making the 'building' part of a custom nest. Then you can just apply it to a biome that you want and it will spawn in semi-random numbers and locations.

it for emergency snack dot storage large-scale bug farming

I'd just like to suggest an idea. Could you maybe make a storage bin for bugs? Like if someone wanted, they could set up a large-scale bug farming operation or something, I dunno.

nahh i think ive just about got it sorted added the honey hives all over the map as part of the mod took ages dotting them around the map haha

they arnt availible to build by players squad just like dotted around the map they either have no faction or just show up as whatever factions closeist to where they are placed, and added a building you can build to make empty honey pots from the stone world resource just balencing the nutition and market value levels can upload it if you want to try and compare to yours?

are you updateing this mod with your version of honey and mead etc and have you had any luck with the fish traps?

Screenshoted where I was upto, feel free to use what you like :-)
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/profiles/76561198008003695/images/?appid=767

its also got a meadery and mead (just for fun)

Do you want the stuff ive already done on the hive and honey? its practically finished as it is. I'd be happy to hand it over and you could tweek and upload if you like

that would be awesome would really add to the game im gonna try the honey hive idea and test it let you know hw it goes

Yeah I've had similar ideas and tried a few things. Actually I think I may have found a land water limit thing. But still have to check it.

new idea have a building that produces empty rum bottles rename then honey vessels give the hives crafting capibility and you simply hae to seek them out in the wild and drop in the empty vessesls to get a full honey vessel? tbh i'm just trying ideas and letting you know them at the minute still trying to figure out all the details to get it working

i'm also thinking how i could help with the whole fish trap idea i think headhunter said i.e how to limit building placement so itcan only be put in water, but tbh i dont think that mechanic is even in game you could just build a box and put in a new item like cheap bait equals fish and place it anywhere i guess

Abquintess that's great, I actually have the building function and parts down for the hive, as well as a meadery for later progression. If you'd like to give it a try that's fantastic. I can help ya with the parts and function etc if you like

i dont know how to use follige like trees and that so you can manually place them on the map

cool

just been trying few things a "building" for bee honey you could place maby the shell of a hive hut building scaled down and paired with a stone mine for the parts i.e look of the building have it use the water functionality and prouduce the custom item bee honey so youed have to manually gather it maby work? use a none faction i.e wildlife and manually place these building all over the map

That's Similar to what I've been thinking. Want to get a tree and make it a 'nest' minus creatures. Then it will spawn randomly and have loot etc. I'll play with it more over the weekend. But want to finish the prisoner mod too...

yeah i like the lone character game sometimes it be nice if the developers put in a few palnts dotted around the map that would give u a single green fruit or summit or some sort of fruit forageing and the like things like that

not the greatist idea nanogiraffe but maby you could add few buildings round the map and rename em as bee infested or summit like that? and save it on your mod useing the f12 option or maby add to spider nests a goodie item like spider necter, ambrosia something like that

it would really help out with running out of food early on and those raptures always destory my farms, it would be a way to get food for lone characters how are low on food in the wild

I agree, I've been playin around with the bee hive idea, and considered a nest in a tree but hit a few bumps (CTD) so might take me a while to figure out.

admiralcross thats a belter idea i always thought the kenshi world needs more life in it i.e stuff like wild plants food, honey bee trees things like that

i don't know I think it would have to be a buildable thing due to the desert theme, maybe have both one that gives only a tiny bit the natural occur and one that give more at a increased speed

Interesting idea, as in a natural occurrence or a buildable thing for your settlement?

cool could you also add in Bee Hives to make Honey?

Cheers!! :-)