could you decrease the min values for faction distance and density?
i'm playing on a tiny planet so faction bases can be much closer together

would this work with invisible factions

This mod is not responsible for faction bases not spawning.

Nearly every time I've run into that issue it's because there was something causing a faction leader not to be generated which is usually some form of missing def from a mod which it expects to be there.

can i generate a faction but remove them from raid pool so they cant raid me?

I would like a mod that makes it so more factions can spawn as the game goes on

Can you create an option for new settlements and factions to spawn as the game goes on?

Yeah same problem, faction bases not spawning on world gen, this mod is the problem. I have also found Vanilla Expanded Aspirations to be a culprit for conflicting against modded race and faction mods, also having red errors constantly while aspirations is active until a full freeze which will force you to crash within about 3-5 minutes. Stay away from this mod and VEA until these problems are fixed.
Manually add factions after you start the game with Vanilla Expanded Framework to solve the problem of not being able to add in all the factions you want on world gen.

My faction base density is stuck as 15 permanently after turning it on, i can only fix it by disabling it, loading the game, then reenabling it

How to make 1 faction has more bases than the others?

I have managed to resolve the issue. I'm not entirely sure what the cause was, but I realised that you had updated the mod well before the issue occurred, so it had to be something else even though it happened with only this mod active. I ended up have to unsubscribe to all my mods (I had over 2000 mods subbed, most of them not in use.
After spending the day resubbing to what I actually use, I've loaded it up and the issue is gone.

I noticed as well that I was getting errors regarding mods, even with nothing active, so if you do have a lot of subbed mods, it may be worth culling the way outdated and unused mods to prevent possible issues.

I am having an error with the mod, which I am not sure is related to the other issues that some are having.
Every time I go to generate a world map, I always encounter errors spawning the majority of factions. I get multiple errors of "Failed to find faction base tile for (insert faction name)"
It is definitely due to this mod as even if I only load this mod, I get the error.
The only other oddity I have noticed in general, is that every map I've generated seems to have separation from the main land mass from the north and south poles (In essense, the map generates, though the poles are mostly disconnected from the mainland every time, which usually doesnt happen) though this happens even with no mods running.
I have verified cache and such and still have the issue. I will add the error logs into the bug reports, as it doesn't give me the option to upload them.

Ok on closer inspection its vanilla expanded framework

This mod causes existing saves to show just one single faction after adding new ones, the world map doesn't show any of the new factions and it just vomits 0800 00 1066 red error messages per nano second, i have no idea what happened here or why its started doing this but its starting to get frustrating to play with this mod when adding new factions

@Potato0 You wouldn't happen to be running VRE Android Faction, would you? Because that's the same experience I had until I removed it.

is anyone else having problems with it not spawning extra faction bases, and instead spawning almost none

I'm having an error at world creation, the world creation UI doesn't show, if i click generate, it generates the world again, if i do back, it softlocks me in another menu eventually after i go back enough times. Does anyone know what it can be? I'm trying to single out the incompat, but game takes a long while to load to do that on a decent speed.

For people having issues, your situation might be the same as mine. The problem was load order. On autosort, the options on world creation didn't show up.

I had to set the mod to be directly below the game DLCs for it to show up

@PvtGrumpy ok found the solution for me, for some reason RimSort puts faction control in a weird spot, but after using in game auto sort it worked just fine.

Boots Sensible Factions seems to actually work

does adding this after game start do anything

@PvtGrumpy same issue

Mod doesn't show up in the mod settings list, nor in the world creation menu. Not sure if that's an issue others are having or just me.

Does this mod make it so you are only raided/trading with nearby factions? I didn't know if such a mod existed but my playthrough seems to be doing exactly this (which is perfect btw), I was just wondering if it was this mod causing it or perhaps a different mod like Dynamic Diplomacy

I don't know if it's some faction problem or the Faction Control itself, but it keeps throwing this error on world generation:
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https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/d5bd6b2b02af16390097ffc37b5447e2
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Failed to find faction base tile for The Blue Delta Settlement
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch3 (string)
FactionControl.IncreaseAttemptPatch:Prefix (RimWorld.Planet.PlanetTile&,RimWorld.Planet.PlanetLayer,RimWorld.Faction,bool,System.Predicate`1<RimWorld.Planet.PlanetTile>)
(wrapper dynamic-method)

Wow. I can't believe this mod is still around. I remember it from the ancient times.

The world gen has suddenly started failing to populate with factions and I have narrowed it down to this mod, and the mod is now missing from mod options. Has there been an update?

Dunno if the mod just updated or not since I noticed a new trader fix with odyssey, but worldgen with this (As of 7/24/2025) isn't working properly with Odyssey. Orbit layer is failing to spawn, and crashes on the gravship scenario. It's merging the asteroid layer with the planet layer. It was working fine just about a week ago so I think it's a recent issue.

I'm a bit confused on what the population override values equate to in terms of settlements. Is the min/max values 1:1, so if I put in 15 for min and 20 for max, will that mean every faction will have somewhere between that many settlements in total? If not can you please tell me how to make it so I have like 20 to 30 settlements for every faction.

Failed to find faction base tile for The Black Lake Settlement
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch2 (string)
FactionControl.IncreaseAttemptPatch:Prefix (RimWorld.Planet.PlanetTile&,RimWorld.Planet.PlanetLayer,RimWorld.Faction,bool,System.Predicate`1<RimWorld.Planet.PlanetTile>)
(wrapper dynamic-method)
..
on world generation:
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/3ba23e5cee31669971a1c91880cda508

@diorsavage you have to left click then press delete on your keyboard

how am i able to remove a faction settlement on the map? when i right click the city icon nothing happens

No worries, these look like partial logs, full logs include all mods, all patches, things loading and initializing.

Hi Lemon! Thanks for responding so quickly. Here's a link to my log (I think):
https://pub.microbin.eu/upload/eel-goose-emu

Upload the log to pastebin or better yet use https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2873415404

Have a bunch of mods (and all DLC) and this was causing my game to have an error on trying to generate a map. Disabling this allows me to play my game. I tried to post the log but it's too big.

@walrusMan, if you're talking about not all factions are spawning, then its the VRE- Android mod that is conflicting with another mod.

Alright I don't think it's actually this mod. It's some kinda bug, probably a mod conflict. Very confused by it, but other people have had similar problems online it seems looking it up. No idea what could possibly be conflicting

even with everything turned off, all the faction density toggles and distance and such, I'm getting very few settlements per planet.

I seem to be getting very low settlement density with this on, only a few on the entire planet. Thing is, on the previous version before the orbital fix it was working with these same settings. It seems like something might be broken? No matter what I do there are barely any settlements on the planet

Thanks for the quick fix, and awesome of azrazalea to help you out getting the dlc. This mod will be a must have for me going forward I hate how factions are just spread scattershot around the map with no sense

https://i.koen.ovh/wu2o7gg93q.mp4

UPDATE!
Bug is fixed!
New saves should work directly.

People with old saves please:
1. Load your world
2. Open the mod options
3. Press the Fix Odyssey Bug

I'm sorry for any inconveniences.

Thanks to azrazalea for allowing me to get Odyssey sooner.

om thank you @azrazalea Im working on a fix right now

Damn man I finally got a mod to make factions spawn in a less nonsensical way around the surface, and it breaks Odyssey. Hope OP is able to get it fixed up soon enough. Maybe I can just turn off orbital traders for now, not sure how much that'll reduce Odyssey's content.

@thereallemon Not sure how much fees and tax and such you'll have but hopefully that'll cover it!

I've got a dirty fix.

It looks like if you change <tile> xxx,0 </tile> to <tile> xxx,1 </tile> in your save file it will move a settlement straight up into the orbit layer.
Search for "SpaceSettlement" to locate the mistakenly-grounded orbital platforms.

If, like me, you have only 1 space platform then you can still fix your save it's just more annoying. What I did was:
- Generated a new save with proper space stations.
- Changed the <faction> of these new stations to match my broken save.
- Changed the <ID> to 12 new world object IDs that didn't exist in my save yet.
- Copied the 12 new space stations into the correct place in my old save file.
- Prayed they didn't overlap with existing asteroids because I did not bother checking.

I'm not responsible for what happens to your save, you better back it up before you open it in a text editor like VS Code or NP++.

Whenever I get Odyssey I'll fix that, and look into if existing ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up saves can be fixed retroactively by like moving them into space (?)

Same as khaelion . 80 hours deep into this save and just realized that this mod ♥♥♥♥♥♥ my world up.... damn.

TherealLemon, this mod makes obital spaces to spawn on the surfaces of the planet instead than in space.

@azrazalea you really don't have to but if you want theres a kofi at the top of the page