Improvements and more bug fixes

Hi everyone!

We’ve been pushing updates with hotfixes and improvements for 1.4 and Biotech over the last week. We tweaked fixes to make them more mod-friendly and have been collaborating with modders to make updates more seamless for everyone. I’ve added a cumulative changelog below for your enjoyment that covers aaaall of those updates.

Here are some highlights:

1.4.3527, released Oct 24, 2022

– Updated tutorial end message to point players to the correct place for changing storyteller settings.
– Flamebow now triggers “pyromaniac has incendiary weapon” thought.
– Growth moment flavor text no longer appears when a baby becomes a child.
– Ensure severityPerDay doesn’t become 0 between save/load cycles.
– Tox gas research requires machining instead of electricity.
– Reduced mechanitor ship combat points by half.
– Remove the option to close the birth letter if the player has not yet named the baby and it’s the last tick available to do so.
– Babies born outside the player faction are given a real name instead of just “Baby”. Players may still change the name if they adopt the NPC baby within a day of their birth.
– Add a new icon texture for the circle which shows the current color on the copy/paste/change color widget icons.
– Fix: Using reimplant ability doesn’t give the recipient the correct xenotype icon for custom xenotypes.
– Fix: Embryo implant float menu options missing pawn icon.
– Fix: AbilityOnCooldown key missing Resolve() call.
– Fix: If a downed enemy is teleported using farskip they will be drafted upon entering the destination map despite being downed.
– Fix: Never sleep xenohumans still rest when caravanning alone.
– Fix: Scenario text cut off if tiny text is disabled.
– Fix: Genetic metabolism doesn’t actually affect hunger rate.
– Fix: Double slab bed is not next to single slab bed in the architect menu.
– Fix: Abandoning colony pawns text doesn’t mention mechs.
– Fix: Control Sublink (high) can take up the lower 3 sublink levels preventing use of the normal sublinks.
– Fix: Can train shooting and melee on colony mechanoids.
– Fix: Abandoning a colony with mechs in it and making new a base will cause a mech control group error and show mechs are still active.
– Fix: Non-grouped control groups have their label pluralized.
– Fix: Hostile pawns try to path to destroyed structures.

1.4.3528, released Oct 25, 2022

– “My child is happy” and related thoughts can now trigger if a pawn is being carried.
– Fix: Charity-believing pawns will get negative thought from “rejecting” refugees when the quest hasn’t even been accepted yet.
– Fix: Letting a pawn die on the world map with wastepacks will not pollute terrain.
– Fix: Eye cut out graphics are misaligned.
– Fix: Ancient exostrider remains are failing to generate in swamp maps.
– Fix: Diabolus has two ‘first’ body rings.
– Fix: Mechs not entering transport pods.
– Fix: Lifters can try to haul themselves to a transport pod.
– Fix: Bossgroup drop pods don’t use mechanoid drop pods.
– Fix: Mech gestator draw size.
– Fix: Mech charger exceeding 100% full of waste if partially emptied.
– Fix: Do a better job of displaying hulk body types in the pawn portrait in the rename UI.
– Fix: Psychic drone now properly triggers for colonists being carried.
– Fix: Held babies/children will now have thoughts about how their parents are happy.
– Fix: NRE when right clicking on prisoner being carried.
– Fix: Mod requirements wrapping instead of truncating
– Fix: Save modlist saving the filtered mod list.

1.4.3529, released Oct 26, 2022

– Added missing fill percent for gene and mech buildings.
– Update go to bed float menu option if pawn is waiting for surgery and no doctors can do it.
– Fix: Comms console float menu options error.
– Fix exploit: Unwaveringly loyal can be bypassed by enslaving prisoners.
– Fix exploit: Capture>Enslave>Imprison>Release recruits pawns immediately.
– Fix: Some Biotech buildings can have unreachable fires in the center cell.
– Fix: Clicking drums without Royalty installed produces a missing Royalty message.
– Fix: Some mechs cannot load into a shuttle.
– Fix: Highmates can create bonds with quest visitors and vice versa.
– Fix: Error if clicking a mech booster blueprint.
– Fix: Hemogen extraction can get “stuck” on.
– Fix: Babies can carry items in caravans.
– Fix: Deathrest buildings use hemogen when not in use.
– Fix: Some randomly chosen genes not overridden properly.
– Fix: Growth tier gizmo displays incorrect percent value on bar.
– Fix: Giving a pawn xeno and germline hemogenic genes results in two hemogen gizmos.

1.4.3530, released Oct 27, 2022

– “Genes regrowing” hediff from gene extraction lasts 12-20 days. (Down from 25)
– Gene extractor takes 12 hours to extract genes. (Down from 24)
– Remove addictions when adding chemical dependency genes.
– Added a toggle to the hemogen gizmo which allows configuration of whether or not a pawn can ingest hemogen packs to satisfy the desired hemogen level.
– Reduce growth points of generated children by ~25%.
– Fertility stat is no longer capped at 100%.
– Deathrest buildings only drain hemogen while in use. A fully loaded deathrest building supplies 10 days of deathrest.
– Don’t display pick up options for drugs that the pawn will drop immediately anyways.
– Re-cache CachedTextures on ResetStaticData() calls.
– Minor adjustments to pigskin and impid pawn kinds. Force them to use faction xenotype set.
– Babies that have fallen asleep in someone’s arms no longer immediately wake up.
– Fix: With toxic fallout active, inspecting items from trade ships causes errors.
– Fix: Children gain growth points in cryptosleep.
– Fix: Errors if bossgroups are called with the mechanoid faction disabled.
– Fix: Comms console diabolus threat cannot be called by mechanitors if mech faction is disabled.
– Fix: Paramedic not counted as doctor in solo mechanitor run.
– Fix: Archonexus quest allows taking mechanoid weapons with you to a new colony.
– Fix: Psychically bonded pawns in the same caravan still get “psychic bond distance” mood malus in some circumstances.
– Fix: Removing passion-adding genes doesn’t revert the effect.
– Fix: Update steel tile description to match them having 0 beauty.

1.4.3531, released Oct 28, 2022

– Increase the tunneler’s armor stats.
– Allow children to wear shield belts.
– Increase the radius of the pollution pump by 1 so it can reach the edge of the map.
– Increase the effect of the temperature genes.
– Clarify that the implanted genes’ ability overwrites the target’s xenogenes in the tooltip.
– Update the comms console spawned message to give more info on mech bosses.
– Slightly reduce damage and increase ranged cooldown for militor’s mini-shotgun.
– Signal chips reduced to 0 flammability given how much fire the diabolus makes.
– Increased EMP resistance for mech bosses.
– Children can now do basic work at age 3.
– Added alert for incoming bossgroup.
– Adjust prevalence of nicknames among pigskins.
– Add null check to StyleForThingDef.
– Updated player name-in-game content.
– Fix: Some hemogenic abilities can be queued without enough hemogen.
– Fix: AI sanguophages can use longjump without any remaining hemogen.
– Fix: Atomizer is backwards by default.
– Fix: War urchins are not newborn when created by a war queen.
– Fix: Pawns won’t haul wastepacks to an atomizer unless there’s 10 wastepacks on the map.
– Fix: Bossgroup mechs do not attack if mechanoid faction is disabled.

1.4.3534, released Oct 31, 2022

– Mechlord armor satisfies royal title requirements.
– Added more allowed work types to lifter and fabricor mechs.
– Cleansweepers are now ‘basic’ mechs.
– Reduced volume and frequency of yttakin sounds.
– Added more feedback to subcore scanners.
– Added ‘humans only’ option for bills.
– Ensure GeneDefs don’t have null icons on incorrect iconPath.
– Fix: Working combat mechs will attack berserk colonists.
– Fix: Forced lowercase in prisoner tab.
– Fix: Abandoning home doesn’t unlink deathrest buildings.
– Fix: Deathrest buildings not unlinked on starting new colony for archonexus quest.
– Fix: Melanin genes can be extracted by gene extractor.
– Fix: Cannot build some things without ideoligions active (with Ideology installed)
– Fix: Diabolus’ fire burst shoots fuel through the walls.
– Fix: Deathrest bonuses are not removed if deathrest gene is removed.
– Fix: Mechanitor buildings are considered “natural” by natural meditation sources.
– Fix: Error on drafting pawn with hemogenic ability gene with no hemogen gene.
– Fix: Pawns will continue to create a xenogerm until they pass out.
– Fix: Yttakin settlements can have mortars manned by animals.
– Fix: Thrall reinforcements can be passive in certain circumstances.
– Fix: Same pawn listed twice as owner of bedroom if they have a deathrest casket and bed in the same room.
– Fix: Genes can be given to children who do not have prerequisite gene.
– Fix: Unwaveringly loyal sanguophages will offer to join your colony after the quest.
– Fix: Ranged enemies come into melee range consistently when shooting positions are available.
– Fix: Spacedrone hack quest can spawn a spacedrone with an interaction spot in an inaccessible spot.

1.4.3535, released Nov 1, 2022

– Adjusted gene set generation. The first gene added to a set is not restricted by metabolism limits.
– Potential fix for mod-created meat defs with no source causing errors on hemogenic pawns consuming it.
– Fix: Food poisoning chance is 100% for fabricors.
– Fix: Pawn capacities are still affected by overridden genes.
– Fix: Pawns get thoughts from overridden genes.
– Fix: Exception viewing info card of things in orbital trader inventory with noxious haze active.
– Fix: Lactation hediff explanation displays after gene factors on stats page.
– Fix: ‘Any mech’ bill config not copied when copying and pasting bills.
– Fix: Mechs sometimes not getting into transporters.
– Fix: Rain rate displays as deterioration reason even with a roof above.

1.4.3536, released Nov 2, 2022

– Potential fix: Modded terrain randomly has far more value than it should.
– Fix: Players can bypass metabolism limit of implanting xenogerms by implanting via surgery bill menu.
– Fix: Firefoam poppers can trigger wastepack dissolutions even though no damage is done to them.
– Fix: Fully formed combat mechs in a gestator have 10% energy fall per day.
– Fix: Mechs with human makeable weapons spawn with varying quality.
– Fix: Gestating mechs can be drafted from the mech table.

1.4.3537, released Nov 3, 2022

– Remove “Flesh purity” meme from waster pirate ideo choices.
– Send a message to the player if a pawn is taking a baby to a safe place.
– Mechs can be multi-selected from the mechanitor’s control group gizmo by shift-clicking.
– Added some missing [MustTranslate] and [NoTranslate] attributes to FactionDef.
– Send a message notifying when a subscore softscan has completed.
– Display “deathrest connection limit” and “deathrest effectiveness” stats for non-built deathrest buildings.
– “Fertilize” float menu option displays whose ovum it is.
– Reduced “got some lovin'” thought stacked effect multiplier from 0.75 -> 0.6.
– Updated player name-in-game content.
– Fix: Typo in “kind instict” gene description.
– Fix: Wind turbine auto-cut toggle not working.
– Fix: Multiple deathrest gizmos from having both inactive germline and active xenogene deathrest genes.
– Fix: Genes losing pawn references after death->save->load->resurrect.
– Fix: Players can create xenogerms missing prerequisite genes.
– Fix: Drafted colony mechs remain drafted after their mechanitor develops a mental state.