HAR Compatibility for 1.5 is now live.

This update is new and not yet well tested, be aware that there may be unforeseen issues.


Toddler lifestages are generated automatically from HAR races where possible. The duration of the toddler lifestage is dependent on the age at which the race would become a child. Graphics including body addons are copied from the baby lifestage.

A toddler lifestage will not be generated if:

1. The automated code cannot figure out which are the “baby” and “child” lifestages.
   This is usually because the race doesn’t follow a baby->child->adult pattern and isn’t suited to being a toddler, but let me know if you think a race ought to have a toddler stage and the code isn’t figuring out where to put it.
   
2. The race is born(/hatched/whatever) already mobile.
   In this case a toddler lifestage would seem redundant.
   
3. The “baby” lifestage lasts 1 year or less.
   Pawns only change lifestage on their birthdays, so if they’re only a baby for 1 year, there’s nowhere to fit a toddler stage in between baby and child.

The code attempts to figure out whether a race has a roughly humanoid body plan when deciding whether to give toddlers the “learning to walk” hediff or not – because it doesn’t make a lot of sense for a snake to learn to walk, and I’m not sure what “crawling” would mean for a quadruped or spider person.

A race is considered humanoid enough for the crawling->walking pathway if it has exactly 2 legs and at least 2 arms. Additionally, a whitelist/blacklist system is provided in XML at Defs/HAR_DefLists.xml

I have not attempted to handle any special behaviour (special diets, races that can walk through walls, etc). The extent of my testing has been mostly graphical, due to the sheer volume of races out there. If you find a race with special behaviour that doesn’t seem to interact correctly with Toddlers, let me know about it and I can look into it.


Many race mods do not have their graphics set up correctly for babies, and toddlers inherit their graphics from babies. Body addons (ears, tails, etc) are often misaligned with head and body, etc.

I’m not game this time around for patching a whole bunch of races’ graphics – please report such issues to the race mods in question.

I am also not providing compatibility for apparel - that’s way too much work to take on. Toddlers should work with any apparel that works with the race’s babies. Take any apparel requests to the relevant race mods, please.