@Droider

There's a Mod for that: https://www.steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3507100313 !

You'll need the Alpha Rim Bees Mod to make it work, but if you breed Slaver and Insectoid Bees, you can bees that enslave Mantodeans and produce Mantodean goods. From there, you can get Mantodean Silk, Mantodean Mutate, and even Mantodean Twisted Jelly (with "Anomaly" EP) or Mantodean Royal Jelly from it!

it would be cool if you made a wolly aphid as another way for mant silk

Not yet but I've been trying to get my Bombardier working right... Also have the Centurion and Skewers being worked on... I'll definitely let ya'll know more when I can.

any new lesser casts

I appreciate the understanding. Halloween is a big holiday for my family so I'll be busy with that mostly until the weekend. :P Gonna try to get a few things fiddled though.

take your time, its only a lil visual bug. i probably point out too many things here lol

I'll try to fix that this weekend. I know what likely happened

sentient mant corpses seem to not have a rotten / skeleton texture as they turn into red X boxes when they rot

I am indeed doing well. Hope you're also doing well

Hello! Things are going... I hope you're doing well!

Hey wassup El how things been. It's been sometime since I've commented on this page

All right I'll take a look soon as I can! Thanks for reporting it!

burning apparel i the bioalchemy station does not seem to work. tested with a vanilla smelter and it DID work.

Ah ok. I was afraid I'd accidentally dropped it again.
I set up the 1:1 one for early colonies. :P

ah okay, my bad, i tried to rush chem jelly since i got some fuel from a trader.

There should be additional conversion on the refinery.

why is the only conversion from chemfuel to mant chem 1>1? its super time consuming lol

@Eltwofour

IMO, the coolest way to do that would be a "body, not mind" thing. As in, they become Mantodeans, but they don't suddenly get merged into the Hive. Alternately, go for the VFEI route: too much Royal Jelly Addiction Withdrawl causes a Megaspider to jump out of you, killing you on the spot .

The main issue I've seen, when it comes to this, is that the limit is that changing the Race changes the Backstory. The Hellsing Mod ( https://www.steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2834801420 ) allows you to turn Pawns into Vampires, keeping their personality, Skills, Traits, and so on, but it has to change their Backstories and reset their Health, Social, and Needs tabs.

You could have royal jelly turn them into the mantonid xeno?

yea the eggs should be uneatable

bro why do they eat their own eggs what the fuck lmao, i dropped all of my mutate into eggs and the broodmother fucking ate all of the eggs that were made

What I'd love to do is have it convert other pawns into Mantodeans if used too much. As well as convert lesser castes into different lesser castes over time.

But that's gonna be a bit till I can really nail down what I want to do and pay someone for code.

you could make golden jelly be a material to make an upgraded jellyphid+

it could be 20 golden jelly for a green jelly phid thath has golden accends and produces 50% more and faster

Nothing at the moment. It's a WIP that I forgot to remove when I was transferring files about.

Cool! What does the Golden Jelly do?

We're working on some things at the moment. There is a bug with the Red and Corpse Jellies I've been trying to get fixed thats slowing me down a bit.

please update some more,i love this mod somuch

They should spawn... Odd.

Does the mantonid race appear naturally? Ive tried devmode spawning mant slave traders to no avail

first off, dont talk about my wife like that. second off, mant eggs seem to be under "animal products", so you could take that off of their diet. sure, they wont be able to eat milk, but a mant colony won't have milk.

Mantodeans are perhaps the least waifu-like race I've ever seen, but I like your attitude Major Mutant.

Re: eggs: is it possible to just remove their nutrition altogether, or does the game not allow that? I think removing the legitimate risk of unguarded eggs being eaten by wildlife would be worth it to also negate this issue, if it happens to be easy enough to change.

at last, insectoid waifus have returned to the rim

@Droider, If I can get them to stop eating them I will... I've actually been trying to fix that for ages and its driving me up the walls.

could you possibly take mant eggs out of the non-sentient mants' food table? normally animals automatically assign themselves to the area their parents are in, so you can just set storage outside of their allowed zone, but because the eggs are crafted, their area is unrestricted and they eat the closest thing next to them since all animals are hungry at birth, usually being a valuable egg

@Droider, Yeah I need to review those things...

you might wanna turn down undifferentiated egg prices but until then im spam making broodmothers and buying out every caravan

Thank you so much for updating this! I missed my Mantodeans!

More features are coming! I will probably do some placeholder graphics for bits and bobs as I can for now until I can pay an artist to make them.

Sometime this weekend though you will see a Mutagen for space activities for sure to start.

do you plan to add new features for any of the dlc? i always though of mants flying and raiding bases to tear them down and use the materials for their own gravship hive

my mod manager still thinks this is out of date

Oh! Forgot to mention here! Red jelly and Corpse jelly are not fully working. Red jelly still kills and corpse jelly still gives bonus consciousness but neither will grant research right now! Please use responsibly!

>::) <-- mantodean smiley face. the ">" is horns/crest, not angry/sinister eyebrows.

BUGS!! :)

YES!! YES!!

Feeling like I should have the initial out by Thursday. This is not a hard for sure thing, as I've a lot of work to be doing for my job nowadays, but I think I'll have initial ready by then.

@Turtleshroom, I didn't change any def names during the update however some code based thing did change a bit on the C# side. I doubt this will effect your stuff but let me know if you notice anything.

Silksong is the second installment in the Hollow Knight franchise. They're great metroidvania type games. Turtleshroom though is referring to a mod that adds in some of the clothing and weapons from Silksong into Rimworld.

Honestly Hollow Knight and Silksong are great games if you're into that genre and ya'll should give em a look.

whats silksong?

Too late,I am already adding Mantodean compatibility for the Silksong Mod: https://www.steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3569666107 .

God's please don't compare me to Silk song... It won't be nearly that good. It'll be running.