Updated to .NET v8.0 and C# v10.0. Internal benchmarks show 20% efficiency gain from improvements in both over the last 13 years (since .NET v4.5).

I’ve updated this mod for Rimworld v1.5.

@Vardath: I had to spend MANY hours troubleshooting this !! It seems that Rimworld v1.3 and later no longer support MP3 or OGG files, only WAVs, for sounds… See https://github.com/BetterRimworlds/ZatGun/issues/1 for more details...

@KR_man: I have just fixed the bug with animals. Thanks for reporting.

Hi, there is a space in <eventNames />. The zat sound hasn't played in quite a few weeks if not months. Please have a look, the sound is the main reason I installed the mod.

<SoundDef>
<defName>Stargate_Shot_Zat_Gun</defName>
<context>MapOnly</context>
<eventNames />
<maxSimultaneous>1</maxSimultaneous>
<subSounds>
<li>
<grains>
<li Class="AudioGrain_Clip">
<clipPath>Weapons/zat_gun</clipPath>
</li>
</grains>
<volumeRange>
<min>25.76471</min>
<max>25.76471</max>
</volumeRange>
<sustainLoop>False</sustainLoop>
</li>
</subSounds>
</SoundDef>

Is it not supposed to work on animals? I'm asking because I get a red error when the second shot hits an animal (vanilla animal not modded so it shouldn't have any weird hidden effects).
It works perfectly on humanoids.

"Rumors about the third shot are greatly exaggerated."

They'd better be! Elsewise, it would have been stupid for SG-1 to never shoot their enime's 3 times! After all, 2 times, and that Gou'Uld is just brought back! If it truly disintegrated them, 3 times would prevent that!

I added the ability to craft them, but, let’s face it. It requires Spacer tech tree. The quantum core is quite intensive.

They are available in every weapon’s trader.

Q: How can players acquire them? Can they only be found, such as from raiders or in ancient dangers? Can they be bought from traders? Or... can they even be crafted?

So, the zat gun
1. First hit: Paralysis. 85% chance of psychic shock (down ~5-10 seconds), 15% chance of Catatonic Breakdown (unless Psychically Sensitive, then 100%), 10% chance of no effect (25% chance in Psychically Dull).
2. Second shot: Death. 100% of the time. Note, you have to manually aim at a down’ed Pawn and they have to be in a state of Psychic Shock for them to be killed.

So how does it work? The image is not entirely clear. Is the psychic shock what the Zatgun does, or does the shot just lower consciousness?

Now make it spin