Made this a while back. Still works despite me being lazy keeping the version tags set (its just a simple XML patch) that removes the dummies from taking damage. If your playing on normal settings there still some risk your pawns will try to repair walls and whatnot around the dummies due to stray shots damaging them (I usually play with FF off so I don't have to deal with the micro)

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2897480620

@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm No automated way no. Either exclude/include them from the home area when needed.
I made a mod called Repair Priority that may help as well

Great, thanks! Just saw your other comment as well.

@Maddog Just exclude them from the home area

Am I able to make it to where my colonists dont repair the dummies as they are being shot at?

I change Colonists skill level saturated for the day, no 4000xp. In this case Colonists won't train if their skill level has been saturated for the day 4000xp?

Same, auto equip does not work. At least not with Simple Sidearms. Also for some reason the colonists seem to repair the dummies as if in priority 1.

bro nothing is working,i have to make a pawn equip a bb gun near a dummy for him to train, if not he doesnt do anything

I'm having an issue with the Training Bow, my colonists aren't dropping it when they're done training like they do with the Training Knife. I'm unsure if it's something to do with Simple Sidearms, but it's strange that they drop one and not the other.

@Inflamel Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

Hello I'm on version 1.5, and I'm still running into an issue wherein there are cases that after a pawn trains. there are random cases wherein instead of dropping the training weapon, they keep it equipped while their main weapon stays in their inventory. Is there a fix for this or is this a common problem?

@TheBronzeWarrior No idea, you should probably ask on their discord

CE? sorry to be that guy

Might be related to Mad Skill or just this mod itself, I was setting the daily cap to 1 in mad skill, then the colonists would train once then spam the job in tick error and get stuck. It doesn't always happen, after changing the settings in mad skill to a higher number, it would work normally, and then it would properly leave because of reaching daily cap.
It's probably a bug in edge case.

is it possible to make the target dummies not take durability damage when they are hit?

and are using them*

@Liselko . If you refer to a massive error spam upon reloading, thats easily fixed by forcing all pawns current having a training gun equipped to drop it.
Then wait a few seconds.
The error only persists as long as they have those weapons equipped.
Now you may continue as normal

@Liseiko Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

Noticed issue with some other mods, can't tell witch one exactly, when equiping training bb gun saving and reloading it corrupts the save.

@=[ZMP]= Updating all my mods, see Discord for progress

Would love to see this one updated to 1.6. Thanks.

@DiademDracon I assume so

So something like Un-limited would work?

@DiademDracon It just uses the vanilla code so you will have to look for a mod that allows you to override that for skills

Can you adjust the saturation cap?

I originally made it for a different issue but the friendly fire risk was also an occasional pain point when not using the training weapons.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2897480620

@Totally Not Ed Yea, you should probably not repair it while training

Set to train shooting, all colonists shoot it. Risks the colonist trying to fix it.

thanks for the tip. Sadly that one doesnt work either for me I tested it a hour ago...shame shame but thanks

@Wish I had the same issue (though I also have a long mod list).

My workaround was to just use the BB gun, because that one works without issue for me.

Hey @Mile. You got any idea what could be causing isses with Simple sidarms? Sometimes it works, sometimes they just keep the training bow in the inventory and wont re - drop it, causing the next dude to fire his FA machine gun at it.
I couldnt figure out yet why sometimes it works, sometimes not. Ill continue testing it.

Would it be possible at all for the melee training sound to be quieter or a mod option to switch it? Or a very different sound like the bb gun?


Some of us play with no raider warnings on. But that means its hard to tell the difference between being attacked and someone just training.

@weregamer I was having the same issue. I switched to Pocket Sand, which has similar features to Simple Sidearms, and they stopped hoarding the weapons

I wonder if what I'm seeing is a three-way interaction with SS and PUAH...

I'm seeing a pretty unfortunate misbehavior with Simple Sidearms. The pawns never drop the BB guns. Even limiting them to carrying only one ranged weapon, they still hoard the BB guns (I had one pawn carrying two) until I manually make them drop them, and they don't even switch to the carried BB gun when they come back for training - that guy with 2 BB guns in his inventory still started using his real weapon on the dummy.

I've been using the simpler Misc. Training for a long time, but I've gotten really annoyed recently by the sound of the gunfire on the training range - especially when I discount the sounds of real combat because I've been hearing it so much. Are these BB guns quiet? A soft whuft that doesn't sound anything like a real gunshot would be nifty, but just a mod option to turn off the sound would be great.

@jangsanbeom You should probably report it to the ce team and see if they can add support for the mod.

This is a serious problem.
Gain level 5 or more in an instant.
when to use a gun no bullets
So I load my gun quickly
because, my level goes up quickly.
I use CE And I turned on the ammunition system

Finally figured out. Its about the guns that equipped. If gun is not compatible with training dummy pawns never intend to train even training room has training guns. That's why they never change to training guns etc.
So modded guns not working well I guess.

@dBurva Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

Suddenly my pawns stop shooting training also I can't force them to do that but when it comes melee training they do it with pleasure. So do u have any solution for that ?

Also tried deactivete mods which I installed after and remove clothes,armors etc. but still same.

Oh I should add, I use Simple Sidearms too so it works with that, they pick up and drop the gun as intended.

While it does work with CE, there's an issue; I play with ammo off (dunno if this is why) and the bb gun counts as having an ammo type of some sort and actually does damage. I dunno if that might be an easy fix somehow but I've no idea how to mod lol. Functionality-wise everything seems to works just fine though.

I know, just tryin´ to save time for those who use it

@Zmetek CE usually have the patches included now so you should probably ask on their Discord about it

NOT patched for CE

@Sliver Remove the home area

is there a way to make constructing pawns not repair while another pawn is shooting?

Sure thing.

@Fiendix I have no plans on expanding on the mod