I removed all the mods that did NOT add new animals to the game, and the time went from 20 secs down to 5 secs. I am not using that many animal mods to begin with - Vanilla animals expanded, Regrowth 2, More songbirds, Erin's fluffy fauna, and Opossum Friends. It probably just scales with the number of mods in my list.

20 secs is not the end of the world, so if there is nothing wrong with the mod, then don't worry about it.

@VitaKaninen I have no idea, my guess it has to do with the mods you have that adds animals. Perhaps you can test to see if anyone of them triggers this delay as this mod iterates over animals to find those that may explode.

I have a relatively long mod list, but this mods adds about 20 secs to my startup time. Here is what it looks like in Startup Impact: https://imgur.com/a/8RJBu1a

What do you think causes this, and how can I reduce this time?

Awesome !
Its one of those mods you never knew you needed.
Thank you !

Fixed compatibility with the changes in Vanilla Expanded Framework

@polat.cal Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

I'm getting red error with this mod. Here is log, thank you for your all precious efforts @Mlie.

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/ad0ab3c0b8c96836e385c2105c81377d

Oh my bad
This is the entirely wrong mod lol
I thought this was that mod that entirely removes them. I was so sure it was this one I didn't even bother reading it, which would explain a lot. So that's my bad, sorry about that.

@Smiley Face Killer Not sure what you mean, how should the biome affect the explosion chance?

Pretty sure the new grasslands biome (where it's like always hot and there's dry grass everywhere) in Odyssey needs patching

Thanks, no pressure!

@VitaKaninen Yes, VAE changed a lot of their namespaces. Ill get to it

This mod is causing an error when used with Vanilla Expanded Framework, with no other mods installed.

I think this mod goes well with one I created and added a link pointing to it on my description: Hunting Grounds: Prey Overpopulation Control

@Mlie - already made a report on your Discord, but here: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2860715703&searchtext=prehistoric

@DragonKing Please link to the mod and Ill take a look

Just witnessed the Boomasaurolophus from Biomes! Prehistoric explode in my face when "finishing off" with unarmed melee.

@MrUregancho Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

@dinhkhiem199833 Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/b5026a55894c82c23514b2f55808df08
And here's pastebin for error though Visual Exceptions mod:
https://pastebin.pl/view/70fa3268

@polat.cal Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

Is there something happened with latest updates? Because this mod is not working anymore.

@thorman123456789 It should work, I have not tested them specifically

Okay, but does this mod work with that mod? Because that mod that you updated has emp, toxic, and fire foam versions of the boomalope. So they aren't all explode on death, like the EMP is a stun with no explosion, and the smoke creates smoke with no explosion. I figured since you made/updated both mods you would know before I start a new game to test both mods.

@thorman123456789 It should work with anything that has an explosion on death

does this work with your Elemental Boomalopes (Continued) Mod?

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2988725537

Thank cod for this, I managed to get some aerofleet to harvest blue gel, but I always set things with manager to avoid having too many animals. Well, today I learned they explode lol.... Awkward as heck to have things exploding all around my base every few days. Hopefully this helps!

@Coleroni I need a log for this, and check your mod-settings

If I shoot the boomalope once, it eventually goes down, and then I "finish off" the boomalope, they still explode. even in the rain. I have a p long modlist but I wanted to bring this up. 1.4

With the setting Explode for Melee or medieval, a Boomalope didn't explode on a greatbow arrow (in the spine).

Yeah, looks like it was an unupdated version, because now things are indeed less explody.
Thanks for the tip about the log at game start

@Gariba Check that you have the latest version of the mod. It worked in my test. The supported animals are listed in the log at gamestart

Was the latest update supposed to prevent crystalopes from the Biomes! Caverns exploding on slaughter? I just had an... unfortunate chain reaction in my barn

Whoops, I didn't even think about that. It was my dusk prowler from alpha animals, as far as I know it only has a melee attack but maybe it has a special category?

@Doomchibi The steelope is listed as supported on game-start so they should not be exploding. As long as the killing damage isnt some fire-based attack or bullets etc.
Perhaps your hunting animal has some special attack.

Of course, thank you for looking. https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2597025655

@Doomchibi They may not use the vanilla explosion-comp. Can you link to that mod?

Would it be possible to include Multilopes (continued) in this mod or add an option for it? I recently started using them and was surprised when a steelope exploded when one of my animals was hunting it. I have the settings for no exploding on melee death but i'm guessing they are not considered boom animals. The raging forest fire would have made me guess otherwise though.

@China Its one of the mod options as you can see from the second previw

Would there be any way of preventing the fires caused by slaughtering the animals? AFAIK, that's a vanilla feature, but it's just as annoying as the actual explosions.

@Robosium You want them to explode on bloodloss death?

could we also get an option for bloodloss caused deaths?

Note to self, turn off the melee option so things still explode on melee, otherwise wargs will kill your poor aerofleets. Great mod tho. Being able to slaughter things normally is super helpful.

The mod lists all animals that it has found and supports on game-start

@Thundercraft I should think so, any animal that has explosion defined on death and is not using custom code for it.

"...works on all pawns that explode on death..."

Q: Should this include Boomaphants ?

Mk. That's fine, then. Thanks for the speedy reply!

@Svela I think since both mods changes the deathworker the first one that does it just makes the second one not trigger.

So, uh... as I was going through my mods to slim down I realized that I had both this and the original BoomMod loaded for most of my previous saves. I'm going to remove the original one now and keep this one, but what't the potential consequences of having both installed together? Could some of my lag and problems had something to do with this situation or am I overthinking things?

@Ascythian, because Hollywood has taught us that bullets make things explode but arrows don't unless you're Rambo or Hawkeye.

I wouldn't mind a % chance of medieval weapons causing an explosing unless it's using the "finish off" option.