@Goldengear1111 The campfire doesn't work? Nor a table?

My tribal gathering spot is missing

Welp disregard my previous comment. Thanks to Ferny the research requirement is now configurable with his Progression: Core mod. Still would be nice to have as an option natively though.

Slight bit of criticism but the requirement to have ALL of an era's technology researched before moving on to the next era seems a bit tedious/silly. Especially in a heavily modded environment in which tons of new research projects will be required. You could just say "well don't play with them" or "no ones forcing you to use those mods" but that feels a bit disingenuous considering the type of player a mod like this appeals to. Torn between this and Tech Advancing as I think Tech Advancing handles the progression better but I like the additional content this mod provides

I played with this mod before, and its a lot of fun, but i did in a normal rimworld setting with all the tech, now, i wanted to play with a medieval overhaul modpack, and i thought this would fit perfectly, sadly, when i choose the storyteller and/or the wild men start, it bugs out the number of factions it generates at start. It should be ok, all are tribal or medieval. when i choose Maynard Medieval story teller, and any other start it works fine, just the story teller and wild men start. Probably its from one of the mods i dont know, but its not even a big modpack, 200+/- mods. Anyone experienced this?

Is there a way to change how much of the research is required to be completed to advance an era? Like change it to 50% instead of all?

any notes on what factions to start with? It auto selects a bunch of things like wasters, but I assume those are modern tribes? I've just switched those off and added every tribe, removed mech too, because I assume mechs would wreck this.

Anyone found a mod to know when 4 days passed since the last research? So you don't get a raid

I just finished culture research and advanced to neolithic, however there is no research spot in my productions tab to continue researching neolithic techs. if i enable god mode it shows up.

is there a way to see which tech i have left to research before advancing

@Hedgehog if your question about custom xenotypes is still relevant, you could try https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2891975564 . Takes some time to configure all spawn probabilities, but it's worth it IMO.

One suggestions i have, that would make this mod even better, is disallowing all the quests until you actually reach culture. Why would a spacer level empire contact pre cavemen tribes to help them assist in labour or research projects. Or some strange research/mining site quests. How would a monkeh even know what that is or interact with it in any way.

Does research requirement included like all mod researches? Basically, all other tabs of research in order to progress era? Or just the vanilla tech?

since i have passed from the very 1st age to the 2nd one, how the hell i am advancing to medieval since there's no researches for it?

I faced with sad problem. When i reform my ideology, tables stoped to show Gizmos buttons (such as deconstruct and build copy). I've start new game only with VFE -Tribals, but this problem still happends.

Are floor paintings a priority for the colonists by themselves? I have them assigned to both art and construction, but they wont work on the floor painting unless I manually assign them to it.

Oooooh neat

It adds temporary wild men factions and serves as a bridge from animal to tribal. Classical mod serves as a bridge between tribal and medieval.

Vanilla Factions Expanded - Medieval covers medieval. Vanilla Factions Expanded - Settlers covers Industrial. Vanilla Factions Expanded - Empire and Deserters covers spacer tech and ultratech.

There's a method to our madness.

oh well. I guess I can't imagine you all didn't give great consideration when you did that.

While we're at it, why is it called "Vanilla Factions Expanded - Tribals" when it doesn't affect factions and revolves mostly around the animal tech level which isn't that of the tribal factions?

I don't really get it. Why not just make it clear to anyone interested that Ideology is optional if it can be?
Personally, this mod, (though, moreso Ancients), is one of the main reasons I got Ideology, and I don't even like Ideology.
(Remade the comment because I worded it bad

Because people don't read. If we don't add an automated system, people would load the game without any DLC, notice it doesn't work, and report it endlessly. There is no "making things clear". It needs to be a physical check. And the one in place is the only one that Steam let's us do.

In a perfect world there'd be a check, either in Steam or in RimWorld for "this mod requires ANY DLC" but that doesn't exist, so we have to do it with Ideology, for example.

Yeah, but it's worthless, the only important thing is what is on the about.xml, as that makes the game NOT EVEN LOAD if the player doesn't have the DLC

But you realize there's a big THIS MOD REQUIRES IDEOLOGY graphic anyway?

You mean a custom disclaimer that people won't read? :)

In that case, why specifically force it to be the unrelated Ideology DLC inatead of using a custom disclaimer?

Rituals require ANY DLC. There is no way to specify that on Steam

Ideology doesn't add rituals, that's why you can launch a gravship in odyssey, do a speech in royalty, give birth in biotech, and do a different kind of ritual in anomaly, so why does this require ideology?

im confused. I have researched all neolithic and under techs that are not anomaly and yet i still can't tech advance, does this mod take anomaly techs into consideration???

is there a randome chance what xenotipe the whild men from the ''whild men joyns'' event has?
started with custome xenotyxpes and the whild men is a baseliner. is this intentional? :)

I finally managed to become a tribe but in the map it still names my colony as a Garo, does anyone know any mod that changes how the colonists are refered as they progress through the tech levels?

Advancing to culture no longer gives ideology options.

Can the research spot be placed outside without any penalties? I'm asking because I'm confused with the values from the information window.

I have one placed outside with a base value of 25%, Outdoors penalty mentioned of x75% but again a total of 25%.

Shouldn't that be 0.25 * 0.75 * 100 = 18.75 % ?

Is the penalty completely ignored or am I missing something?

For anyone who played with Fluid Ideo and realized it was broken, I made a discussion with the steps needed to revert a fluid to a normal Ideo.

@StockSounds Uh.. The foundation of this mod revolves around doing 'research' which is conducted as a ritual. Which comes from Ideology. I found this page 5 minutes ago and learned that. You just gotta read the page.

I still can't tell what about this mod requires Ideology.

when this mod is installed any saved ideology that you try to load erases the faction and the ideology creation screen from the map.

@Sly Marbo Totally agree. My workaround is to change the background story manually in dev's mod but that is not very immersive. Hope the VE team could fix this.

Very disappointing that the children produced by my wild men turned tribals have child backstories that don't allow natural meditation focuses. It makes no sense that my original pawns all have natural unlocked but their children don't.

The in-game description of Talon Tribal is incorrect. The description says that he will retaliate if the player completes research projects more than twice within a four day period, which is not the same as "at least 4 days between research projects", like it says on the mod page.

Are you supposed to be able to build the cobblestone walls from "VFE Medieval 2.0" at the start? I wonder if that's maybe a bug. Might be worth checking out :>

hello hello its me again i used a mod named "tech progression mod" and it was that, that was making my faction go back to the tribal age

hello,i have a problem i started on wild men start and every time i restart the game it make my faction go back to the tribal age even tho im in the medieval period

I reformed my idealogy after receiving 10 points and I'm no longer able to have a tribal gathering. I'm still neolithic.

dunno if it is intended or not, But when progressing from wild men to neolithic and making your ideology you are unable to use war masks, tribal headdresses or tribal clothes in the ideology for preferred or role apparel.

probably why it works now maybe because i dont have that mod anymore

" they don't go to draw themselves, only if I tell them"
I've found the reason - it was due to Quality Builder mod.

totally fixed it thank you!

To other people who have this issue: VFE: Tribal actually changes your level of tech - remove the Tech Progression mod

Maybe it's an interaction with another mod, but it seems like every time i reset the game it moves the faction back to tribal, forcing me to do the faction advancement ceremony again. I already have 4 cornerstone points and im just in medieval.

Very nice mod ! But wouldn't it make sense to make the floor painting don't count as an artificial building (for anima tree purpose) ?