Looking for a mod that disables Royalty nobles' apparel/bedroom/throne room reqs

Started by Skazz, October 20, 2020, 02:34:49 PM

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Skazz

Hiya folks. Crossposting from Reddit and Steam hoping to find a little help here:

I'm playing a Viking game with the Vanilla Factions Expanded - Vikings mod, and have allied myself with the empire to milk them for their psylink neuroformers.

All well and good, but my Jarl doesn't want to sleep in a fur bed anymore, because he's a noble now. I don't like this, fluff/flavor/role-play-wise. I agree with the creators that a stinky hay-stuffed fur bed won't satisfy the delicate tastes of a pampered empire noble. But it's good enough for Ulf, a mead-swilling, fighting and fornicating pig of a man who's just after the empire's resources. Putting him in a regular double bed just because he's a yeoman now really chafes with my internal narrative, not to mention the aesthetics of my stronghold. To quote the man himself: "Nobody told me that heathen neuroformer would turn me into a milk-drinking wimp! Besides, you try sleeping in one of their fancy modern beds when it's cold enough to turn your piss to snow!"

In the comments on the Vanilla Expanded Royalty patches on Steam, I suggested adding an option to the mod settings to let the player decide per item whether it will satisfy nobles. This may or may not happen. In the meantime, I'm looking for a way to disable all royalty requirements, so my Vikings will stop whining for royal beds and unvikingly apparel.

Anyone aware of a mod that does that? I couldn't find any on Steam or elsewhere...

Canute

I don't think the bed got completly removed, you maybe just can't build it with your current techtree.
Enable Dev mod, enable God mode and check if needed furniture are there and then place it, and destroy the proper amount of resources.

Skazz

That's not the problem. The bedroom of a yeoman specifically requires a double bed. Up until now, Ulf has been sleeping in a fur bed added by the VFE Vikings mod, which doesn't satisfy these bedroom requirements.

I can build the regular double bed just fine, I just don't want to. I don't like the way it looks, and it doesn't fit the story in my head. (Practical minded viking war band leader rescues noble pansy to get at the empire's resources, with no intention whatsoever to assimilate into the empire's culture and/or change his mead swilling, fighting and fornicating ways.)

Again, I've already suggested to the mod authors to add an option to the mod settings where the player can decide what items will satisfy what Royalty requirements. Until they possibly do so, I'm looking for a mod that disables all Royalty requirements.

Skazz

Given the lack of response, I assume that I'm looking for something that doesn't exist yet.

Is there an experienced modder around who could give an indication of how hard it would be to create a mod that does what I want? I have a little experience modding other games, but that was just text files, not XML.
Any recommended approach? One way would be to disable all checks for appropriate furniture and apparel, the other would be to patch the relevant items to satisfy the requirements, but I have no idea which would be easier to achieve.

Any input?

Canute

Try to ask at the official Rimworld discord at the Mods section. I think you will find alot more modder then here.