There's a bug causing torches to depend on the machining research to make. It looks like an interaction with CE since the torch recipe inherits from CE's GrenadeRecipeBase which requires machining.

Nah, unfortunately the submod is broken for CE. Can't load the map.

Oh great, thank you! :)

@Jan2607 - I took a quick look and it seems like someone actually did create a submod that adds bioferrite variants of this mod's flare packs. :)

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3429283292

Thanks for your quick reply! Any chance for you adding a disruptor flare to throw by hand? Because I'm really annoyed that I have to use up my utility slot for those vanilla disruptor flare packs...

@Jan2607 - They do not. This mod predates Anomaly by many years and exist purely for illumination, which affects movement speed, work speed, and with Combat Extended, shooting accuracy. They will prevent your colonists from being hurt by unnatural darkness but will not stun pawns nor reveal invisible enemies.

Do these flares also work like Anomaly disruptor flares to uncover and stun creatures?

Sorry for the delayed reply. Leg packs and belt packs. Held too I think. The use the passively but actively not so much. I believe there was some kind of error but its been so long I don't have a copy of it anymore.

I'll reconfigure my list and see if I can get it too you this weekend.

@darkzero - The held (weapon) flares or the packs? Are you getting any errors?

As a heads up this mod doesn't play nice with Modular weapons 2. It doesn't allow the flares to be tossed manually.

@RaidianaS - I just pushed v2.6.2 that should fix this (again), thanks for the report!

@RaidianaS - Strange, I thought I'd fixed this issue. I'll take a look at it!

One issue I've notices is with siege raids. Raiders will seldom bring explosive shells, and will instead just fire illumination flares at my colonists. This makes siege raids trivial.

What an awesome mod concept. This and chem-light leg bags.

just wanted to chime in, if you added this mod(any more really) mid play through a rare situation could occur where rimworld's engine replaces a reference id of a specific item with that of one from a newly added mod. When this happens reference ids get shuffled and if they dont make sense, it causes errors like missing mountains. This can happen when adding any mod, not just this one.

@LotLP - Well, if you change your mind, I'd appreciate some help in diagnosing what mods might be causing incompatibilities. Mod authors can't improve or fix mods in a total vacuum.

Yeah it seems weird, and I'm sure someone that doesn't have my specific my specific modlist won't have my issue. But when I activate this mod in particular, the issue that I mentioned happens. But if someone else happens to have this issue and look in this mod description, maybe it'll help them :)

Thank you for your hard work and excellent mod that just so happens to not work for me!

@LotLP - There is nothing in this mod that explicitly alters buildings or structures of any kind. Do you have a log or anything that would actually indicate that this mod is causing your issues?

Neat mod, just a shame it seems to delete large parts of the mountains in my map, making all of my defensive lines suddenly useless. No clue how this could happen but I definitely prefer having my map functioning over having this mod.

Gotcha, I'll test later tonight (if i remember!) and see if i can narrow that down for you!

@Tal'Raziid - I'm afraid this isn't enough to go on, as there are a lot of mods patching the equipment draw method (of which this one isn't one of them), a lot of errors that are happening before the one that I presume is relevant to the use of a flare, and as far as custom weapons go, the flares from this mod go they are pretty much almost entirely vanilla.

I'll need help narrowing down exactly what mod is causing the incompatibility. The error in question is being thrown from Altered Carbon's prefix, but it is unlikely that that mod alone is causing it. If you can reproduce the error with the exact minimum number of mods required to trigger it, then I'll be happy to take another look!

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/30f78b9eac60298aaa4e19444652778f
I get a repeating error whenever i try to use something from this mod
The flares and whatnot go out but the error is annoying

@Aelanna
Thanks for the answer.
Oooh, a CE vet, impressive.

@Latex Santa - The first version of this mod was created all the way back in 1.0, where I was using a combination of Combat Extended and Realistic Darkness, which resulted in the double-whammy of colonists having penalized aim in darkness as well as the player themselves not being able to see anything on dark enough nights in bad weather. As CE itself did not have a flare gun at the time, I decided to make this to fill the gap. That it just so happened to be incredibly useful in 1.5 with the release of Anomaly was an amusing coincidence. :)

Is it me, or is this mod purpose-built for night fighting and anti-noctol combat?

The mod linked also mentions a mod "More than capable" that changes the non violence system into a "hated work type" if you're into that too.

@Latica
Here you go
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427988083&searchtext=just+equip+it

I'm not sure how it's going to function with using them exactly, but they should be able to atleast equip them. Comment says it should work in 1.6 and they're gonna be updating it here soon any way.

@Aelanna Ty very much , ty for mod

@Latica - Making the weapon versions usable for non-violent colonists is outside of the scope of this mod, but the packs should still be usable!

is it possible to make incapable of violence use these?

still a cool mod

found this while looking for solar flare shieldings

The Anomaly`s ECC bioferrite disruptor flare Pack: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3429283292

I just found out that they've added flares into the anomaly dlc, although this mod easily tops those in terms of quality!

that answers the question, thanks.

@天哪，那是接近的 - The way that illumination works in Rimworld makes it almost impossible to create dynamic, moving light sources without absolutely destroying game performance. This is a limitation of the game itself and cannot be easily fixed.

@N/A - This mod was originally created as a supplement for Combat Extended and yes, it just provides light. In terms of interaction with Anomaly, it lights up an area enough that Unnatural Darkness won't hurt your colonists and the automatic use on illumination packs can be set to be automatically used if a colonist wanders into said darkness, but it does not stun or reveal entities. The primitive torches in particular can be crafted at a Crafting Spot and thus are a very low tech emergency option for when you neither have bioferrite nor the tech to produce the industrial-tier illumination tools.

skimmed the description and a couple of pages of comments but didn't find anything: how does this interact with anomaly? just generate light? i saw a comment saying it's not a disruptor pack, but disruptor packs do multiple things

Have you considered adding equipment such as flashlights that can illuminate the body in a straight line?

+ to DsW-4s comment

Do you have any plans to add mortar shells or throwable items with disruptor effects?

Works great, thanks!

@dotjson - Thanks for the report! Try v2.5.4, that should fix the error.

Love your mod, however I am currently having an issue where tossing a Chemlite with CE installed causes a "specified cast is not valid" error when the pawn tries to toss it like they would a grenade.

They work fine in the pack when dropped automatically, and I haven't had the same issue occur when using throwable flares or torches.

This fills the error log with a message about a failed "CE.TryCastShot()" function and freezes the pawn until the pawn is undrafted and the items removed from inventory.

@bblkepling - Huh, interesting. I have learned today that shield belts are excluded from desired apparel because they aren't stuffable, despite not being explicitly disallowed. I have a lot of apparel from several different mods that will need to be adjusted. That said, MayRequire does not do anything on primitive fields, so just having the field is enough. Thanks for the heads up!

I'm not sure if it's intended, but the packs can be desired apparel in Ideology. You can add <canBeDesiredForIdeo MayRequire="Ludeon.RimWorld.Ideology">false</canBeDesiredForIdeo> to the apparel node for Name="Eccentric_BaseIlluminatorPack" if you want to disable it.

Thanks for following up on the VF side! Hopefully it doesn't take too long for them to get a fix out.

@Killian - I looked into this with Smash Phil and apparently there is a flaw in Vehicle Framework that is causing this issue. It should hopefully be fixed in the next VF update, thanks for the report!

Additional data: Anomaly's Disruptor Flare Packs do not cause this.

Again: There are no errors, warnings, or other messages in the log. That's the first thing I checked when it started happening.