It's dead, Jim.

Not 1.4 :(

@GarbageDay I hope you can return to this mod one day. It's a very cool concept.

i understand your hongry, me too

hongry

i suppose no 1.4?

@GarbageDay This mod sadly appears to be incompatible with Terraform Rimworld. With Crystosentients in my load order, even with god mode on, I cannot place any terrain tiles with Terraform Rimworld (like I used to before). I think the terrain type technologies were also blank, as in, they did not unlock anything.

I'll drop by sometime later with the error message, as I have removed it for now from my load order. Which is a pity, since it sounds like an interesting mod.

Tested most the default stones/metals now and they're working (although my mod version is ahead of the workshop and its possible i found and fixed something i don't remember)

It *shouldn't* be a race mod causing it, perhaps if you're using some sort of mod that changes the default stone's def? The patch system i had to make for stone eating is eye-crossingly complex and probably where an issue would come up.

If you want to trouble shoot yourself making a game with no mods besides this one and it's dependencies enabled would be a good place to start. Then add on a few mods at a time until you find the break.

Though I do use alot of race mods.

They ate vanilla chunks for me, weirdly. Havent tried a colony without a big crystal.

i'm testing a big crystal/human colony now and the vanilla rocks seem to be off limits to humans as normal

@Pipe-Cleaning Rat Whats the name of the thought eating rocks gives them? Whats the type of rock you notice them eating called and what mod is it from?

Also /do/ your humans colonists eat the same type of rocks if you're playing a colony without the crytsal?

I feel like it isnt normal that whenever I have this mod running that my colonists eat rocks. Then again, I played a large producer or whatever they were called in a colony of other normal people. Is this what causes it? Or is it just something else breaking?

nevermind, their bodies would just turn into a wall, there can't be a corpse to butcher

is the whole meat amount thing mean that you can butcher the crystosentients?

GarbageDayIsHereToStay [author] Just now
@the guy who ask many quests Bast_VibrantGelatinousMass45901 and RimWorld.Hive.Tick are not related to my mod. I'll do the wall thing but more crystal types are going to have to wait until i sort all the balance/assets/ideas into their final versions, each line of crystals add a massive amount of editing. Why i removed citrine and smokey quartz for 1.3.

Anyway mod updated, gem biome added (works with alpha/advanced biomes, may conflict with others atm, biomes hard), fixed a bug related to cleavlings and not having a food need & medical care needing a hunger stat.

Lots of other stuff listed in the change log top right of this page.

Exception while saving Exception ticking Bast_VibrantGelatinousMass45901 (at (244, 0, 247)): System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at RimWorld.Hive.Tick () [0x00014] in <cdbd0ed5089a418da09b9a259f9dbd8f>:0
at Verse.TickList.Tick () [0x0015c] in <cdbd0ed5089a418da09b9a259f9dbd8f>:0
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
Verse.Log:Error (string)
Verse.TickList:Tick ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.TickManager:Verse.TickManager.DoSingleTick_Patch3 (Verse.TickManager)
Verse.TickManager:TickManagerUpdate ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.Game:Verse.Game.UpdatePlay_Patch2 (Verse.Game)
Verse.Root_Play:Update ()


this is only a section of the issues

i think that the coolest things to do next is to create new types of crystals and not only allow for the cleavlings to manually create the walls but also last much longer so that things like combat is actually viable for them

Is it intended that the crystosentients are giants or a texture bug?

There's an issue with the idoe DLC spamming ritual alerts due to the little crystals increasing the colony size quickly then dying+ a render issue due to 1.3 changes i was hoping would be fixed coreside before i updated, otherwise it'll require the use of a special renderer mod to fix what they did. So i been delaying release.

Since you seem like you're in pain i'll update in the next few days (with those issues unresolved)

can you tell me if this mod is being worked on?

i would assume this mod is dead

are they going to update this mod?

will this be updated?

can you make it work in sos2 where they survive in space? that would make space rocks

Hey, I found a mod collission (with JDS simple storage and haul urgently). Basically, after adding this mod, which I think is a fun concept, anything from JDS stops working as a storage. Nothing can be put inside it and anything that is inside already gets transported to normal stockpiles. haul urgently allowed me to discover that bug, because it highlights which items designated for hauling doesnt have a free spot to haul to. initially, it's not a big problem, but when you use only JDS for storage and have thousands upon thousands of items sitting there, it becomes a problem. I;m not sure if the same bug occurs with LWM deep storage, haven't tested that. Hopefully you'll be able to work it out, as I'd love to add this mod to my game.

also, I think it will be good to redo the capabilities of a large player crystal for division.
for example, add "abilities"?
enable-disable the automatic generation of small crystals. You can add a different indicator of how many crystals a large crystal can generate, turn off reproduction and release all at once at 1 moment. This way, in principle, you can better manage reproduction, what and where you need to do

ideas? each faction is hostile to the crystals, I think it would be nice to redo this.
it would be more logical if all the factions are absolutely neutral to you, but at the same time you can add a faction that will worship crystals, aborigines, as opposed to the same faction that hunts crystals for their value

@Krazyfan1 I have a loose plan right now to have the big crystal pop out a larger, permanent, cleaving, every once in a while who'd you'd be able to collect up over time and have set up sustainable, permanent bases. Maybe when thats in i'll give them a way to make a big crystal as a big project.

Small guys won't dig through there own gems walls, thats how you're suppose to control their movements (i might even make them non draftable). Think i'm going keep it .

and mine the walls instead, not sure i've even tested deconstruct myself

So im waiting for a few things to update to 1.3 before i get back to work on these, i'd like to hear ideas in the meantime if you have them.

@dchy Hunger only negatively effects spawns by stopping them when the bar gets to low. Creating hot areas (your pawns generate a lot of body heat) speeds up the spawnrates (gives a whole second spawn hediff) and also adds another more powerful layer of regeneration. Think i put this on the "Crystalline entity" tooltip?

Stranger in black joining and giving you access to a techtree (i think you're saying) is something i'll see if i can solve for 1.3 + i'll look into the far wall spawns

Also whenever i try and deconstruct a fragment wall, the colonist immediately rebuilds it

Also maybe a way to stop the newly spawned shards from automatically digging could be useful?

Is there a way to turn the smaller crystals into the large ones? so that if a colonist one dies, you can potentially get one back?

A very strange error has occurred.
A black stranger came to me.
Now I can develop myself through capturing other pawns and crystals.

Quite recently, there was news about the 1.13 update with ideologies.
it will be fun to see the Aborigines worshipping crystals

I also wonder what makes the crystal grow so quickly.
Is a large crystal capable of creating smaller crystals when consuming certain rocks?

I noticed a small problem with crystals-small crystals turn into walls for a long distance relative to where they were standing. why did my crystal turn into a wall 5 tiles away from where it was standing?

@Dchy They'll join as wanderers/randomly. For raid defense i guess you just run and try to bog them down with mini crystals/burrow into a mountain.

The "be the crystal" faction is more a for fun + race demonstrative than a complex long play race, although there's no reason you can't caravan around indefinitely eating everything. These are foremost a raid enemy at the moment, although im getting ideas on what direction i want to go and it would include building up both what a big crystal can do + adding a more humanlike crystal tribe.

There is a question. is there a way to increase the number of huge crystals?
With the huge price of crystals, and a very small life span, it will be very difficult to repel raids

I've been waiting for such a fashion since the very beginning of my adventures in rimworld.
Thanks.

They are playable @dchy

It would be nice if these crystals were playable. what could be better than a quiet life in a huge mountain?

What a cool idea! Glad you've released it, I can't wait for my colony to be eaten by crystals. I could try the crystal race and fight against them.

Thanks

Ok.

They should eat stone automatically when hungry, like the second your transport pod lands they'll start going for food because they're always hungry. You can test this by starting a game without any other mods but those required for this one (MOHAR, etc) enabled.

I have custom C# and ingest jobs so they eat direct off the ground (Which i've been using for a few weeks in another mod without your reported issue) but if thats whats broken for you and it's not tossing an error code that gives clear and understandable information then you'd need to go down your modlist testing to see where the break happens so i would know where to even start.

The Crystal things aren't eating unless I make them eat stone and stuff. Why is this?

Added a sentence, pretty basic mod (complex backend though).

i'd like more description of how it changes the game please?

Note: Expanded Materials - Metals is made by Argon, not Sarg. Anyway, looks like a really cool mod!