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[Cosmic Horrors updated to 1.5.9.]

Cosmic Horrors updated to 1.5.9.
Small bugfix for spoiler-related null exception regarding Chthonians.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/8150563

[Factions 1.8.5 Bug fix update:]

Factions 1.8.5 Bug fix update:

I've tested this on my end, and recruited agency people should no longer cause problems with faction discovery.
Also, the cult discovery description was fixed.

Thanks for your patience all.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/8240391

[Factions 1.8 Released]

Factions 1.8 Released

Major features:

• The Agency now has a custom faction base that loads when attacking them. They have a special internal storage room for artifacts that will be expanded in a later update.
• The Agency now detects if you are a cult or not when they visit your base. Keep your research station and altars hidden from view.
• Coastal Fishing Villages now always spawn by ocean tiles (finally).

Minor updates:

• Changed straw hat definitions
• Fixed (remove this) references
• Changing Coastal Fishing Village to Coastal Fishing Town
• Changed fishing town icon
• Added over one hundred new names to the name generator

https://www.patreon.com/posts/8240391/

Hi! The mod looks awesome, playing a cult was fun, but I wanted to ask/suggest something. I had encountered Inquisitors (My own colonists who turned against the cult), and wanted to really expand on that idea.

Can we get the option to form an Order of Inquisitors rather than a Cult? Can Inquisitors be added as a faction (or is the Agency already like this?)

I really would love to see an expansion on the premise that being a cult or an order of inquisitors costs you allies and enemies, and makes specific types of raids more common (Being a cult means being hunted, being an order means horrors unleashed on you). I would love to do a playthrough where I raid and destroy cult colonies, with an ending where my faction becomes a 40k-esque Ordo Hereticus.

HERESY!

We have a Detectives expansion in the works. Inquisitions would be good fun as well. I'll probably get around to it sometime. =3

Straitjackets V1.1 Updated

Video preview of Straitjackets update.

New in this update:
Right click to restrain colonists in straitjackets.
Straitjackets cannot be removed normally, and they require another colonist to remove them by right clicking on them and using "Remove straitjacket" from the menu.

[Star-Spawn of Cthulhu]

I just wanted to give my feedback on what I've experienced with the Cosmic Horror events and raids so far, ranking from the least dangerous to the most dangerous.

First and foremost, thank you for the feedback. =3

Star-Spawn of Cthulhu, N/A: I've only been attacked by these once, so I honestly can't say much about them. Only two spawned, and 2 improvised turrets and a few colonists beat them.

Agreed. These need to be updated with something special. I'm thinking of giving them their canonical ability to warp.

Chthonian, fairly slow moving, only spawns alone in the pit, and doesn't attack/become maddened if it's out of range. Can be easily taken out with concentrated fire from 2-3 individuals. I've even killed them with 2-3 great bows, while 1-2 people have tanked the damage. I'm very much more afraid of mechanoid ships.

As per your suggestion, I increased their speed and made it so they would aggro attackers even at a long range.

Star Vampires, I've only seen spawn one at a time. The amount of time it gives me to prepare allows me to pull most of my colonists into a single group and take it out in 1-2 concentrated fire bursts.

I was worried about this! I lowered their warning time for the latest tweak for you.

Dark Young: These seem to come in two forms, a "Strange Creature" event, and a "Manhunter Pack" event. In the Strange Creature event, I've only seen a single one spawn, and if taken care of immediately poses no threat at all. It only becomes a threat if you leave it alone and get caught off guard. The manhunter pack is fairly dangerous if you try to take it head-on, but they'll starve to death in a few days if you leave them alone, assuming your colonists don't have mental breaks and accidentally kill themselves (and possibly others, if you have low health doors.)
I would honestly prefer if they spawned in a pack of 2-3 during the "Strange Creature" event, and if attacked it would enrage all nearby Dark Youngs. In this way, you would have to wait for them to separate before taking care of them, which could lead you to forget about it making them much more dangerous.

I increased the minimum number to at least two spawning at once. Let me know if it's too much.

Shoggoths move slowly and are very vulnerable to concentrated fire. They seem easy to prepare for, but I've only had a single one spawn at a time.

I'm not entirely sure how to increase their threat at this time.

Mi-Go are fairly dangerous without personal shields, and can drive a colony to the brink of madness very quickly. Without personal shields, they are a very dangerous foe. Their high damage and high numbers require tactical movement to avoid death.

I'm glad they provide a challenge.

Deep Ones seem to be the most dangerous and unreasonable cosmic horror in the pack. They're fast, they have very high damage, fairly high armor, and tons of health. They spawn in large groups, light things on fire, and kill everything in sight. Concentrated fire will not work, because they take out melee units without power armor in 1-3 hits. They also tear turrets to shreds.

At one point I started a tribal colony on Randy Random, and was raided 3 times by Deep One's before the end of the first year. The first raid only spawned one of them, the second raid the same, the third raid (when I made Pemmican) spawned 3 of them and I stood absolutely no chance. Maybe I'm just trying to deal with them wrong, but without cheesing them, I can't seem to ever fight them off.

I've halved the armor of a standard deep one. Hopefully that should prevent them from completley tearing through your colonies. Sadly, I can't currently find a way to easily make it so they don't start fires. I'll keep looking into the issue though and I'll try and fix them for good in the coming weeks.

This is wonderful feedback. Thanks again.

Cosmic Horrors 1.5.3 Updated

Options have been added to Cosmic Horrors!
Changes in 1.5.3

Now you can adjust how long until your first raid encounter.
Deep Ones have been slightly debuffed.
Chthonians now become aggressive and chase after your colonists when fired upon from far off range.
Dark Young can now spawn in groups.
Mood debuffs have been limited to a stack of 1 for observing cosmic horrors.

Sadly, the result is an error.

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Could not execute post-long-event action. Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for CompDeflector.HarmonyCompDeflector ---> System.Exception: Parameter "absorbed" not found in method Void PreApplyDamage(DamageInfo, Boolean ByRef)
  at Harmony.MethodPatcher.EmitCallParameter (System.Reflection.Emit.ILGenerator il, System.Reflection.MethodBase original, System.Reflection.MethodInfo patch, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2 variables, Boolean noOut) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Harmony.MethodPatcher+<>c__DisplayClass7_0.<AddPrefixes>b__0 (System.Reflection.MethodInfo fix) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Reflection.MethodInfo].ForEach (System.Action`1 action) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Harmony.MethodPatcher.AddPrefixes (System.Reflection.Emit.ILGenerator il, System.Reflection.MethodBase original, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 prefixes, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2 variables, Label label) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Harmony.MethodPatcher.CreatePatchedMethod (System.Reflection.MethodBase original, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 prefixes, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 postfixes, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 processors) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Harmony.PatchFunctions.UpdateWrapper (System.Reflection.MethodBase original, Harmony.PatchInfo patchInfo) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Harmony.PatchProcessor.Patch () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Harmony.HarmonyInstance.Patch (System.Reflection.MethodBase original, Harmony.HarmonyMethod prefix, Harmony.HarmonyMethod postfix, Harmony.HarmonyProcessor infix) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at CompDeflector.HarmonyCompDeflector..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers:RunClassConstructor (intptr)
  at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.RunClassConstructor (RuntimeTypeHandle type) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Verse.StaticConstructorOnStartupUtility.CallAll () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Verse.PlayDataLoader.<DoPlayLoad>m__6F8 () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Verse.LongEventHandler.ExecuteToExecuteWhenFinished () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

This is what I'm trying to do~~

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namespace CompDeflector
{
    [StaticConstructorOnStartup]
    static class HarmonyCompDeflector
    {
        static HarmonyCompDeflector()
        {
            HarmonyInstance harmony = HarmonyInstance.Create("rimworld.jecrell.comps.deflector");

            harmony.Patch(typeof(Pawn_HealthTracker).GetMethod("PreApplyDamage"), new HarmonyMethod(typeof(HarmonyCompDeflector).GetMethod("PreApplyDamagePostFix")), null);

        }



        //=================================== COMPDEFLECTOR

        public static bool PreApplyDamagePostFix(Pawn_HealthTracker __instance, DamageInfo dinfo, ref bool absorbed)
        {
           .......(Code snipped, let me know if you need to see it) absorbed = true;  return false;
        }


I've cut it off there, because I'm not sure you need to see the whole method.

Also, the original method's parameters etc look like....

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Verse.Pawn_HealthTracker
public void PreApplyDamage(DamageInfo dinfo, out bool absorbed)

Any clue how to use Harmony to handle "out" variables?

Let's say I want to modify....

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Verse.Pawn_HealthTracker
public void PreApplyDamage(DamageInfo dinfo, out bool absorbed)

...
with a Prefix.
My goal is to have it return the absorbed as "true" before the main method and prevent the main method from occurring.

How could I do that?
Thanks!

I've started actively using this in my mods in internal builds.
Magnificent job.

[Hastur the Unspeakable.]

Cults 1.2 Updated

NEW DEITY: Hastur the Unspeakable.

Hastur grants your cultists the ability to brainwash their colleagues, summon flying beasts, provide much-needed relief for a season, and even grants an Oathtaker a form of immortality that restores them after death.

Happy culting.

Love the mod! Maybe you can add yog sothoth in a future update.

Yog-Sothoth is quite a popular cult figure, eh?
What kind of spells would Yog-Sothoth have?

I changed it to this ...

<version>6</version>

But nothing happened. Am I stuck with my current saved game?

Says that "Probe occult deities" tech has already been researched.

I apologize. You're absolutely right and this was my fault entirely Hydro. I "assumed" it was possible, but you're the first person to give it a good try and let me know the results. I'm fiddling with this right now as I'm adding a new deity to the official release, and I did NOT put in a section of code for assimilating new deities in the current saves.

Also, yes it could be possible to create deities for the mod in a generic fashion as a mini-mod. I'll probably need to allow for custom chanting sounds as well, because I'm sure there are people who do not want the spooky chant.

[@jecrell]

@jecrell

Ok i was able to make a new Deity using existing spells. However it never showed up in the research list. How do I add it to that? All I can do is replace the fields in one of the default deities.

I have a "version" set up so that if you update your deity and give it a higher "version" number it will update the lists in-game. You'll have to search for deities again at the research table for your new deity, I would imagine, after adding to the version number in XML.

Hydro: get IlSpy:
http://ilspy.net/
open "CultOfCthulhu.dll" with it and poke around (see screenshot)

Unnecessary! I have the source code included in the Patreon links (no donation required to download).