Thank you for all the help Slippery Pete. Once the update is complete, should be working now. The developer added a list of three new banned items on bulk trade ships in TraderKinds_Orbital_Misc.xml. Vacstone was one of the new banned items. All fixed. Bulk ships now both buy and sell vacstone. 🗿

Hey, I didn't really know what I was looking for, but I think this is what you need:

<ThingDef ParentName="StoneBlocksBase">
<defName>BlocksVacstone</defName>
<label>vacstone blocks</label>
<description>Blocks of compacted vacstone rock harvested from asteroids.</description>

Got that from the Stone_Various file in the ThingsDefs_Misc folder of Odyssey

If anyone may be able to locate and share what the new "thing def" name is called in the DLC folder, i can always try to add it in. I just won't be able to test, as I sadly don't have this DLC. 😅

meow may not have that DLC

It seems like with this mod installed, Bulk Goods Traders still will not buy Vacstone Blocks.

Ok thanx

For this mod, it just enables the "tradability" flag in the stone blocks' ThingDef property without altering whether traders choose to buy or sell blocks. In most cases, the primary buyers will be orbital trade ships, though other traders may occasionally be interested as well. This approach was chosen to ensure compatibility with other mods that add different types of trade ships or modify trade behavior, avoiding unintended conflicts. Happy stone trading! :)

Does this enable you to buy stone blocks too?

Thank you for the update ^_____^

Thank you for the reminder. I didn't see the game had updated. Should be working now. Enjoy!

1.5 plz

Glad that I've finally found a way to get rid of those block types I never use and do nothing but clog up my storage. Thanks for making this.

Hey Snowcraft. The mod only alters the block's tradability property in the game files. It doesn't change the preference for traders to buy blocks (not sure how I would change that; other modders may be more savvy with that sort of thing). From the original version of the game several years ago, only trade ships would buy blocks from what I recall, so this is still the behavior with the mod.

Does this only affect trade ships, or does it also impact caravan traders?

yes good mod

Thanks for the tip. Just added a new patch file to include PatchOperationFindMod. Please let me know if it's working now on your end. Hope this helps!

You can use either a PatchOperationFindMod or add a MayRequire to the patch Operation line.

The creator of AM made his own thing def for new stone block types. To sell his unique blocks to bulk trade ships, you'll need to add a new patch file to my mod.

Directory will look like this for example
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\1522257424\Patches

Copy/paste the existing Patches.xml and name the new file something like "AM_Patch.xml"

Use a text editor inside the new file to add "AM_" before the StoneBlocksBase reference, and that'll get it working. The final patch file will look like this:

<Patch>
<Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
<xpath>*/ThingDef[@Name = "AM_StoneBlocksBase"]/tradeability</xpath>
<value>
<tradeability>All</tradeability>
</value>
</Operation>
</Patch>

If anyone can point me to a helpful youtube link, or know how I can do a test/verification if AM is installed to run the patch, I can make it part of the mod natively without everyone having to add patches manually.

Could you please add support for pristine limestone blocks from Alpha Memes?

Thanks.

Unfortunately not, only seems to work with orbital bulk trade ships. The mod doesn't change any of the trade desires of the various traders, and in the original vanilla game traveling caravans also did not want stone blocks.

Does this work with Trade Caravans?

I'll give this mod a try and will report back, I have about 130 mods in my list right now.

Hmm. I suppose some experimentation is warranted, then.

Duke, just checked with the latest patch that went out today and it's still allowing blocks to be sold. If you have other mods that impact stone blocks, you may need to change the load order of this mod to be after those other mods, or one of the last in the load order. Hope that may help resolve the issue.

Doesn't appear to be working anymore, at least not in my giant list of mods. Sad.

Just confirmed it's still working as intended alongside a number of very popular mods. Will work if you're adding mid game and can be removed later as well if not needed.

so.... does this mod work with midsaves and other mods or is it just bugged atm?

@meow,
The code posted below contains a bug. The second line uses "PatchOperationReplace" which does not work if there is no subsection "/tradeability" to replace.

It is not some other mod, it is this line of code in this mod.

So Tradable Stone Blocks does not contain any replacement file for stone blocks. There's only one bit of patch code (shown blow). Feel free to verify this by checking mod folder 1522257424. Hope this might help track down which other mods might be causing a conflict.

#<Patch>
# <Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
# <xpath>*/ThingDef[@Name = "StoneBlocksBase"]/tradeability</xpath>
# <value>
# <tradeability>All</tradeability>
# </value>
# </Operation>
#</Patch>

the log file quite specificially states that yes, in fact this mod does indeed attempt to replace "StoneBlocksBase"/tradeability. Right here on line 1684 [gist.github.com]

If the subsection StoneBlocksBase/tradeability is something new added by this mod, then the problem is the patch fails because it cannot replace something that does not yet exist. Use the PatchOperationAdd to create new content.

You may try making this mod one of the last ones loaded. If you have other mods that add additional kinds of blocks or modify blocks in some way, loading this mod after those other mods may help solve the issue. This mod doesn't replace the blocks base def, it just patches in a tradeable quality modifier into the latest blocks base file. Hope this helps!

Everything was working fine until I added and removed a bunch of mods. Then I got an error message saying patch failure on replacing "StoneBlocksBase" Error log [gist.github.com]

Thanks for responding. I added it and haven't noticed any problems since.

There should be no issues adding mid-save, but the mod should be loaded towards the end of your mod load order (in case you have other mods that add new block types). Please let me know if you find any issues.

Can this be added mid save?

thank you... now I can drown the world in blocks

Thank you for letting me know. Now updated to 1.2.

1.2 support planned?

The mod only changes stone blocks back to tradable as it was back in v0.9, but trade caravans still don't request bulky raw resources from what i can tell (similar to how they dont want steel, plasteel, etc). Only bulk good orbital traders are willing to take blocks. There may be other mods out there that create more and different kinds of trade caravans and orbital traders to take raw resources.

Do ground traders offer/buy blocks too?

sweeeeet

Updated to 1.1. Please let me know if there's any issues. Should still work with 1.0.

1.1

Gonna be that person, can we get a 1.1?

Others have pointed out that there may be compatibility issues with “Lets Trade! [1.0]” or “The Rock Trade [1.0]”.

I was able to get these mods to play together by placing “Tradable Stone Blocks” somewhere above these mods in the load order. I usually play with my mod right after the Core game file, as it doesn’t rely on HugsLib or any other script extenders to work.

Hope this helps!

Any hard incompatibilities

I had no idea stone blocks couldn't be sold anymore. I'm glad a mod like yours exists!

I get the error as well. The only thing I can think of is lets trade or the rock trade as as a conflict in my mod list.

I cant seem to reproduce the error message. Are there any other mods you're using that modify stone blocks?