It seems like they changed stuff in Empires, because I'm getting this error on startup and also not finding the path myself when I look. Empires is loaded first.

Any tips or something wrong?

Error:
[Progression: Scenarios - Start of stack trace]
Verse.PatchOperationReplace(xpath="Defs/FactionDef[defName="VFEE_NewFamily"]/startingResearchTags"): Failed to find a node with the given xpath
[End of stack trace]
Source file: D:\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\3378384387\1.6\Mods and ♥♥♥♥\VFE Empire\Patches\vfe empire patch.xml

UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch1 (string)
XmlExtensions.ErrorManager:PrintErrors (string,Verse.ModContentPack)
XmlExtensions.PatchOperation_Patch:Postfix (Verse.PatchOperation,bool&,System.Xml.XmlDocument)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.PatchOperation.Apply_Patch1 (Verse.PatchOperation,System.Xml.XmlDocument)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.LoadedModManager.ApplyPatches_Patch2 (System.Xml.XmlDocument,System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2<System.Xml.XmlNode, Verse.LoadableXmlAsset>)
Verse.LoadedModManager:LoadAllActiveMods (bool)
Verse.PlayDataLoader:DoPlayLoad ()
Verse.PlayDataLoader:LoadAllPlayData (bool)
Verse.Root/<>c:<Start>b__10_1 ()
Verse.LongEventHandler:RunEventFromAnotherThread (System.Action)
Verse.LongEventHandler/<>c:<UpdateCurrentAsynchronousEvent>b__28_0 ()
System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart_Context (object)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:RunInternal (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object,bool)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object,bool)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object)
System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart ()


I'm also getting this error for Spacers:

[Progression: Scenarios - Start of stack trace]
Verse.PatchOperationAdd(xpath="/Defs/FactionDef[techLevel="Spacer"]/startingResearchTags"): Failed to find a node with the given xpath
Verse.PatchOperationConditional(xpath=/Defs/FactionDef[techLevel="Spacer"]): Error in <match>
[End of stack trace]
Source file: D:\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\3378384387\1.6\Patches\patch.xml

UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch1 (string)
XmlExtensions.ErrorManager:PrintErrors (string,Verse.ModContentPack)
XmlExtensions.PatchOperation_Patch:Postfix (Verse.PatchOperation,bool&,System.Xml.XmlDocument)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.PatchOperation.Apply_Patch1 (Verse.PatchOperation,System.Xml.XmlDocument)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.LoadedModManager.ApplyPatches_Patch2 (System.Xml.XmlDocument,System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2<System.Xml.XmlNode, Verse.LoadableXmlAsset>)
Verse.LoadedModManager:LoadAllActiveMods (bool)
Verse.PlayDataLoader:DoPlayLoad ()
Verse.PlayDataLoader:LoadAllPlayData (bool)
Verse.Root/<>c:<Start>b__10_1 ()
Verse.LongEventHandler:RunEventFromAnotherThread (System.Action)
Verse.LongEventHandler/<>c:<UpdateCurrentAsynchronousEvent>b__28_0 ()
System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart_Context (object)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:RunInternal (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object,bool)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object,bool)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object)
System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart ()