Please add
<modDependencies>
<li>
<packageId>ludeon.rimworld.ideology</packageId>
<displayName>Ideology [Official DLC]</displayName>
</li>
</modDependencies>
To the About.xml, so you can get a warning when sorting the mod after removing the dlc.

When I Ideology came out I thought Ranching was going to be like the "vanilla" meme... only to find out it basically made everything else harder. Thank you for keeping this mod going!

can you do more

Thanks for continuing the mod.

I never have understood people needing to come into mods like this and cry about balancing. It's a QOL mod for people, and if you think it makes the game too easy, just don't use it?

I see mods like this as an expanded settings menu, which in default Rimworld you can use to make the game a peaceful base-building simulator with zero challenge. It's not that big of a deal.

If you purchase food you should get a mood penalty.

Ironic that you mention Transhumanist, one of the meta ideology picks that have virtually no downside. Let's mention Human Primacy's +1 quality tier buff too shall we?

If you want a ranching themed run just build a farm, why do you want a free 20% increase to all the food you could create? Even better, create a custom difficulty and then set Butchering Yield and Harvest Yield to 500%. You get even more free stuff and you don't even have to download a mod to do it.

Imagine if you used the transhumanist meme but never left the stone age? There's would be no point. Ideology isn't just putting a sticker on your save file that says "We are ranchers! :)", the Ideology DLC is entirely designed to help you immerse yourself in the colony of your own design, but your idea of rancher/ farmers is too generic. There is really only 2 ways to get food that isn't farming/ ranching; you either buy all your food from traders or engage in cannibalism, and this mod actually gives you more meat from butchering human corpses.

"Give your run a theme"

So if I want a ranching-themed run with actual bonuses, why is my only choice to become turbo carnivores who reject vegetables? For a sandbox game there sure isn't a lot of freedom to choose.

>"Doesn't actually forbid eating plants"
>immediately points out that you can't eat plants without mood penalty

Literally the whole point of the ideology DLC is to give your run a theme, if you're going to just replace all downsides of a meme with a free +20% from all food sources (and that means ALL since that +20% butchery yield is also going to benefit cannibals), you might as well not be using ideology at all. There is no objective reason for this mod to exist other than people not understanding why ideology exists.

The worst part is the Rancher meme doesn't actually forbid eating plants, all you get is a -4 mood for 1 day for planting human food crops, no penalty for eating plants as long as your food has ~some~ meat in it

THANK YOU for keeping this mod up-to-date!
I really like ranching AND farming and I enjoy ideologies, but it has always driven me nuts that I couldn't take an ideology that likes ranching due to the diet restrictions. This is perfect.

It's so fucking stupid they hate plants.

Thanks for this mod! I never got why rancher punished the player for planting crops, when ranching in real life is more than just raising animals.

Thank you, THANK YOU! Now I can finally take on a regular, balanced diet without debuffs and STILL hoard lots of animals. Let's play Zoo Tycoon in Rimworld!

Thank you for this and Ideology Simplified - Tree Connection mod. Do you plan on also updating the Raider meme mod?

Best change to Ideology bar none.

May the Allfather smile apon you for your selfless efforts, brotha!

May the Gods of Olympus bless you with wine, honey, and nymphs of your desired gender for your gift to this community.

Perfect, thank you!

can you do the same for the tree connection please?

Could you also update the version of this mod for Tree Connection? It would be nice to have Rimpy ping me about it being out of date.

Default Rancher never made sense to me. Thanks for this!

Thanks for updating!

LEGEND, this is exactly what i hoped this Ideo would have been

Thank you! I was hoping someone would update this mod, glad you did it :)

I like this Meme, but would it be possible to add it as it's own Meme and not an override for Rancher?

That's great. You're the one who really understands what the players want.