This Mod is still broken, and the same issue that I reported last year is still a problem...

I reported the issue a long time ago, but I guess OP was busy.

@Chewy Yui

To my understanding, the Vanilla Factions Expanded Medieval Mod does not add Backstories.

Regardless, the Patch that replaces the VFEM Pawns with Medieval Backstories is broken, and has been for a long, LONG time.

@Lunyicon I dont have an issue with it. Most are from the VFE Medieval mod tho so maybe best to ask Oskar

Can I use your BackstroyDefs for a school project? Thanks in advance!

https://www.steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/2413945145/3802776999611886836/#c3802776999611895358

I checked your Change Notes, and it seems that you forgot to add Spurgelwurg's changes last April!

@Spürgelwürg

Thanks! You’re a star, I’ll try to upload it tomorrow and credit you in the description

Apparently, body types need to be defined in Adult backstories, otherwise you get invisible pawns.
Went through your mod a bit and used to opportunity to make it compatible with Medieval Overhaul too.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/630020584251588620/1092143202405990510/Backstories_for_Vanilla_Expanded_Factions.rar

@lonely knightess
@gravius

I haven’t a clue to be honest, I’ll take a look at the logs over the weekend but if it’s this mod causing it I wouldn’t have any idea how to solve it.

I know people had issue with android tiers before and erroneously claimed this mod was the issue. This mod adds nothing but backstories so shouldn’t be the actual cause of any issues graphically. Rimworld can make it seem like an unrelated mod is the one causing problems tho, I’ve experienced it myself before

As I say tho, I’ll look in to it and see what I can determine

Sorry for the issues you’re having

I have a problem similar to problem from previous comment: invisible pawns, plus can't use PrepareCarefully mod. Removing the mod seems to fix my problem. Logs has the similar error messages (in the bottom):

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/81eefa92714b207198c9b51553c97488

It appears there is an issue where this mod can generate pawns with missing graphics, narrowed down the issue to here. Here's a link to my Hugslib law from it:

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/511264a357ef48aee94d952815943886

Not sure if it was an incompatibility with another mod, but realized that all the pawns spawning invisible and shooting off thousands of errors were from VFEM, after a bit more debugging I realized they all had backstories from this mod.

If I have an older version of the mod then it's because Steam downloaded an older version - I just picked this mod up yesterday.

Texas might have an older version of this mod or something. I believe RimPy reads dependencies from the About.xml file and this mod only depends on the VFE Medieval Module.

I don't believe I am having the same issue, I don't use HAR. I will double check later today.

@Texas Redhawk

HAR was required pre 1.4. I removed the requirements as Vanilla has its own backstories framework now, all I can think is Rimpy is community managed (?) and the database isnt updated for this mod's new requirements

Rimpy throws a missing dependencies error for this, saying I need Humanoid Alien Races. The description however says otherwise.

Hey Turtle, sorry! It wasn’t intentional, I will readd it back in and reupload tomorrow.

Thanks Chrewy, I think I will check this out my next medieval playthrough!

Thank you for the update. Why did you delete the V1.3 version, though?

Hello James, in total 40 backstories are enabled for the faction spawning.

17 new children backstories, 2 enabled from vanilla

14 new adult backstories, 9 enabled from vanilla

If you check the change notes you can see all the names of new etc.

I plan to do some more work at some point to adapt vanilla backstories to be medieval themed

How many new backstories does this add?

Updated for 1.4

This Mod worked on V1.3 . Does it work on V1.4 ?

@Cookie is that found in the appdata folder? Is it as simple as just removing ctrl + F search 1.2 and replace all instances with 1.3?

will this give me more backstory options to choose from using prepare carefully mod?

fine to add on an existing save?

This Mod appears to still work now that the Vanilla Factions Expanded Medieval Mod is on V1.3 .

This mod is working fine on 1.3, its just some backstory files. You might get a "version incompatible" error, but you can ignore it. Or you can also just edit the About file inside the mod folder with the correct version.

Medieval got updated and now works.

Considering the fact that VFE-Medieval is unplayable (ie: broken) in 1.3 currently, I think this mod can wait until VFE-Medieval is fixed/working on 1.3.

The Vanilla Factions Expanded Medieval Mod is unplayable without this Mod. I can't play the game without it. I beseech that you provide a V1.3 update as soon as possible.

Hey i'm sorry for asking as I imagine you're going to be getting this a lot but do you plan to update this mod to 1.3?

Have you considered expanding this Mod to include other Factions, especially other medieval ones, like this: https://www.steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2330850570 .

The link I gave you is about another Medieval Faction that currently uses generic Backstories. I would really appreciate if you could try and add this framework onto that Mod.

@A Randumb It shouldnt matter but try after. If it doesnt work, then load before VFE

Does anyone know whether it matters if you load this before or after Vanilla Factions Expanded - Medieval? The prior Editable Backstories required that according to the VFE Medieval mod page for integration purposes.

@Burmins HAR has a framework for custom backstories.

I will likely release an update/release mod that uses Stories Retold for this purpose instead, but not anytime soon

Why is there a Humanoid Alien Races 2.0 requirement? Just curious.

Thanks a lot for this mod man, I was just looking for something similar like a month a god but I couldn't find anything. You are a true life saver.

@5Katz re-read what I said. I said someone had the issue as you that VFEM was causing to happen FOR THEM. They remove THAT MOD, and issue is gone. I too had the same issue because of AT and some other random unrelated mod I added. Literally none of these mods cause an issue with AT because of their functions. Someone on reddit had the same issue 25 days ago (before this mod even came out) https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/lhrqno/guest_android_of_android_tiers_is_a_purple_square/

There's nothing I can do, all this mod adds is XML code, none of which touch pawnbody selection (you can look yourself if you dont believe me). Any issue is caused because of AT. You can try using the FixList version from Dubs' discord server, I have no other suggestions. Sorry it's not worked for you

plainly and simply: no.
AT might be a clusterfuck in terms of code, but i have used it with VFEM since VFEM came out and it never had any issue, now i add your mod, load the save that worked fine with VFEM and AT on it, and voilla, pawngen is broken, then i remove your mod, bingo, pawngen fixed.

dont take this the wrong way, i dont want to tell you your mod is bad or badly coded, all i am saying that there IS an issue between this mod, and most likely AT, if thats rooted on the side of you or AT; i dont know, but i do know that the issue does not appear without your mod in the modlist, so you can ether look into that, ask the AT team to optimize their mod, or blame two mods that work totally fine together and have your subscribers have issues that wont fix themselves.

@5Katz the issue is with AT, if you look on VFE:Medieval, someone has recently commented the same issue but disabling THAT mod (not mine which they probably dont have) has solved the issue for them.

AT is coded badly

y e s - it did indeed give AT bodies to the human pawns, but since removing your mod solved the issue there is no log left of the errors, i'll see if i have time later to go back and deliberately cause the issue to send in a log, but i do suspect a conflict between the two - although the pawns also spawned with the FemaleBB body from "Kijin", which also should not be available for humans, especially male humans

@5katz do you have android tiers installed by any chance? I had that issue before uninstalling Android tiers (before even made this mod)

Please post an error log, this mod touches nothing to do with pawn generation in that regards

This makes the pawns spawn with very weird bodytypes, hairstyles and other wise thigns they shouldnt have, throwing errors and spawning them with purple squares as they seem to spawn with bodytypes not even available for their race

Man, don't listen to that FAQ section Chewy, that thumbnail is great

Now We Can Roleplay Medieval Stories (Thanks ChewyYui)

@Geojak I shouldnt have any issue but please feel free to send them Kira Alteric#0698

If you are interested I can share the 3 files over discord to you. But it was easy, you can do it better propably

Sorry don't know either. Only changed the medieval vanilla backstory relates patches to the stories retold def structrue

@Vengyr @Geojak

I'll probably swap over to Stories Retold and package the assemblies with this mod. Thanks for the feedback.

Do you know if Stories Retold offers any enhanced functionality for the backstories? I have been trying to restrict adult backstories to childhood sets, but havent had any luck. Apparently EBN 1.0 did it

Hey, I have done the same thing a few weeks ago when I stumbled over the broken medieval Backstories in vanilla expanded, but never published it. I used the assembly from more Backstories which is based on stories retold.

More Backstories mod uses Stories Retold's engine for backstories and it's a better one, since Humanoid Alien Races backstory module disables specific backstories (Rika Voort the mad scientist etc). Stories Retold does not.