- Merged pull requests from royallyTipsy, thank you!
-fixed water meditation icon when using VE
-fixed backstory def

- Fixed a bug where the water meditation focus was applied by default to everyone, regardless of gene status.

- Aquatic pathing has been fixed using the innate pathfinding update included in version 1.6. Pawns will now prioritise moving on wet tiles if they move faster on them.

Merfolk Mod, Version 1.6 Update

After my own playtesting and feedback from otehrs, some adjustments have been made to improve game balance and better align with established lore. Below are the key changes.

Balance Adjustments
Siren Call
This ability was previously too powerful, pushing enemies into berserk states or even turning them into allies. It has been simplified to focus on its intended infatuated effect to align with merfolks' evasive fighting style. Now, it only applies the Infatuation hediff, which reduces enemy accuracy. To reflect the reduced utility, its Met point value has been adjusted from -2 to -1.

Rain Call
The psychic amplification from Rain Call was overtuned, giving casters a boost equivalent to Super Psy-sensitive. This has been scaled back to the standard Psy-sensitive level for a more balanced progression. Rain duration has also been reduced from 1.5 days to 1 day to match the new power level.

Keen Reflex
Previously, this gene granted a standalone 20% dodge bonus, which became overpowered when stacked with 'Combat in Darkness' from Ideology, allowing near-untouchable pawns. This additional bonus has been removed. However, to preserve the gene’s value for both ranged and melee combatants, its melee-to-ranged dodge efficiency ratio has been improved from 75% to 100%. Pawns now dodge both attack types equally well.

Lore and Functionality Adjustments
Deep Dive
This ability better fits the Aquatic gene than Fishtail. Many aquatic species can swin effectively without tails, so the ability has been moved. The Aquatic gene now grants Deep Dive and has been rebalanced with a Met point cost reduction from 4 to 2.

Fishtail Gene
With Deep Dive removed, Fishtail’s value has been re-adjusted. Its Met point cost has been increased from -2 to -1 to maintain balance relative to the Aquatic gene.

Aquatic Need
Aquatic pawns now experience need decline during overland travel unless they move across rivers, lakes, or coastal tiles. This reflects realistic environmental dependency and encourages strategic settlement placement and travel planning for aquatic races.

- Fixed a bug where the mod throws error when merren get resurrected by deadlife dust

- added support for pathfinding framework as a soft dependency, now having both mods will grant the merren amphibious movement type thus they are smarter while moving between land and water.

[Auto-generated text]: Update on 4/10/2024 9:54:29 PM.

Fixed a bug relating to the siren song ability for Royalty DLC non-owners

- Adjusted the hydration need to be locked during caravan trip. This is an intended design to trivialise management, as not everyone use mods like 'set up camp' and can replenish the need mid-travel.
- Fixed a bug where aquatic babies cannot be washed while DBH synergy is on.

- Fixed a bug where female merren pawn recruited from event sometimes fail to give birth
- Fixed a typo in pawn's information panel: water meditation type is added by 'raincaller', not 'rain veil'
- Added description for quackweed (food); it was sharing the same description with its plant.

- Fixed a bug where the fin ear gene icon has incorrect resolution.
- Fixed a bug where water meditation type in pawn's information panel was glitched.
- Changed the light requirement for quackweed from 0% to 30%, it was not supposed to be a caveplant.
- Adjusted the description of Siren Song ability to accurately reflect the ability effect.
- Added rainy thunderstorm to Raincall ability, now it can be properly summoned.
- Reduced Siren Song's effective radius from 50 → 28, this is a balance patch.
- Added synergy between Hydration need and Dubs Bad Hygiene, now taking shower and bath will restore it
*(This is defaulted to off, player wish to use this function will have to manually turn it on.)

- Fixed a bug where hydration need could go down even while pawn was suspended

- Fixed a bug where the deepdive ability was missing from pawns
- Fixed a bug relating to nullifyingGenes appearing twice