Just wanted to say that this mod is incredible. I've been playing with it for a while but only recently, after learning a lot about Central European culture (which the Empire's culture is obviously based on), I realized how much detail and research went into designing the regalids - it's stunningly accurate!

Pardon if this has been asked before, and since its more a nitpick than a big suggestion or problem with the mod feel free to not worry about this, I was just wondering if there could be some support for VE's anima theme for the Gauranlen content in this mod, for those who use the mod

@JazzimoX
It's been a while since I've played, but if I remember correctly, the psylink genes work like this:

Archotech Attunement - Requires an existing psylink, but rewards levels and new abilities much more frequently.

Latent Psychic - Can grant a new psylink, but works very slowly. The average age to acquire the psylink is about 30 years. Pawns that spawn with the gene also have a chance to spawn with a psylink.

*(and also Gaurankind and VRE Phytokin's Gauranlenkin, which fill the same role but in different ways.)

This is a fun mod! I also want to try the VRE xenotypes but looks like there is some overlap, notably the Latent Psychic (gain a psylink), Archotech Attunement (upgrades a psylink), and VRE Archon's Natural Psylink (have a psylink; also archite and same icon as Archotech Attunement).

There wouldn't be any game breaks as these are all separate genes, but I wonder if either side has any plan to consolidate these (I don't fully understand the difference between Latent and Attunement genes much anyways) or if I should just Cherry Pick my way through as I see fit.
Again, thanks for the content. It's still super unique and fun to have more xenotypes!

@Psyckosama use cherrypicker

Is it wise to load this in mid save?

Hi! I love this mod and the new xenotypes because they integrate very well into established lore. :) Can I make a suggestion? Can Gaurankind be limited to spawn in their own factions/ideologions? I only ask this because it is somewhat annoying to have Baseliner tribes (nudist, etc.) think that the Gaurankind are a preferred xenotype despite that never spawning there. I was wondering if that preference could only exist on an ideo that is with the Grove faction and/or if Gaurankind can only spawn in the groves and not baseliner tribes. :)

The option to disable specific xenotypes would be nice.

@Ithundalië
Could you be more specific? What seems to be the problem?

Seems to break world generation / pawn generation

@Vartarhoz You can use RIMMSqol to tweak xenotypes to your liking.

Regalid something to make them little tankier. This is rimworld where range is godlike and Purslave should be incapable of violence.

with VFE unbalanced

@Turnovus, there is a second thing I'd like to ask you about. Purslaves faint around the intact (not yet open) ancient danger. Is it fixable?

Hi @Turnovus, there is no red or yellow error that I could associate with the title issue I mentioned below. However, there is something general that I have and that might be related: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/2785081f1c326af52d76c4f96c5229f0
I also see that merasmus here has a similar issue. @merasmus can you please share your log or at least mod list?

odd when i do the fallen noble start i don't have an empire rank? are you supposed to??

@turkler Oh, forgot about those

@roko711 are you sure? I was able to get some high quality meals set up before day 1 even ended thanks to the empire rank. just called in some laborers to build me a bedroom and cook my meals. if anything it seems way too easy to me.

fallen noble is impossible because your royal won't be able to eat anything and starve to death, even if they find something they'll daze or berserk and kick an elephant and die

Thank you for your kind reply! Let me have a look at it again

@Nameless
Everything seems to be working fine on my end. It could be the result of multiple conflicting mods, not necessarily Integrated Xenotypes. Please consider sending me a HugsLib log (see the pinned "Bug Reports" thread) and I will take a look at it, to see what I can figure out.

Hi @Turnovus, thank you for your wonderful mod! Can you please add compatibility with VFE - Empire? It seems to break Fallen Noble scenario in the way that no starting title is generated for the starting pawn and no psycast abilities are given.

@Taranchuk
I could look into making a custom patch operation and tying it into a mod settings menu, to prevent them from being added to vanilla factions if the player would prefer not to have them.

Would it be possible to add a patch to prevent gaurankind xenotype from spawning when Vanilla Races Expanded - Phytokin is loaded? To prevent content duplication, when both of the mods are loaded

Seconded with Reyriz, there are Unshackled Dryads in Mods.

Please try connecting your mod with Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Dryads, it adds mega dryads which don't need trees to live, maybe you could make dryad raids with this

I keep getting an error in my logs, something to do with the submissive gene. Just making a normal comment for now before one in the thread in case its something simple/easy to fix. "Exception while recalculating Turn_Thought_Genetic_SubmissiveWantsMaster thought state for pawn Greyoll: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
These errors constantly show up, and only to Pawnmorphed pawns it would seem, so possibly an incompatibility there. Just started getting the same error for Less Attractive/High Standards too for some reason.

Is it possible to make it so this new faction is always automatically enabled?

@fwoosh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Pawns with the gauranlen dependency gene should have their needs refill as long as they are within 15 tiles of a tree - no link or line-of-sight needed. If this is not the case, there may be an bug. Please see the pinned thread titled "Bug Reports" for details.

ah actually it doesn't matter if they're adult or not, if they're not the one connected to the tree they get the -20 debuff even tho its in the home area and they could view it whenever they want

children gaurankind have a -20 debuff because they 'sorely miss the gauranlen tree', but they can't interact with it at all because they're not yet adults

this should be base game ngl

This feels like it would be really incompatible with stuff...

wonderful mod

I love this mod idea! I was a bit...meh at the lack of Royalty and Ideology integration. Like, sure, Yttakins get Animal Personhood as an automatic meme, so...ok.
But this mod really upped the worldbuilding for the game to me. I was genuinely surprised to not see, like, a "cannibalism gene" or an "anima (tree) xenotype" in the DLC. This really helps with that. :)

...Plus hearing the Gaurankind do their warbles whenever they are hurt is certainly an experience (though tbh I don't know when a voice gene activates besides damage)

true enough. If you make other mods related to IG, you could make a collection for it!

@CTH2004
This mod adds xenotypes to the vanilla factions. I figured some people would just want IG's new genes without old stuff being changed around.

hey! Just out of curiousity, why is this not part of the base Integrated Genes mod?

Finally, something to make my characters feel even superior to the plebs... the psycasts and fancy clothes weren't enough... great mod!

totally right @AugustTheTitan !! i love it! Sounds perfectly vanilla

I love this lore! Very well written and fits perfectly in the niche!

This mods looks quite amazing and complex.
I'm going to subscribe but most likely, I'm not going to use until my next colony, until there I hope any bugs or major issues are going to be fix,

If you wanted to integrate with another mod, the awakened dryads from VIE - Dryads might work a bit better as pets, since they're literally just animals. I haven't seen the awakened clawer dryad though, it might be just as slow.

Could you make it so that pawns with guaranlen dependency like Guarankind start with a guaranlen seed as one of their starting items? Like how hussars and other xenotypes with psychite dependence spawn in with go-juice.

this seems really well done bro nice job