@Flockerkill Yeah, I'll add them in the following week or two, didn't know there were insectoids in that mod.

@silverwisp Sadly no, because that would require code (I think?) and my expertise is in def making. Also it's kinda out of the scope of this mod, which is just additional hives.

Is it possible to request a patch which will allow creep to spread onto Odessy Ships, Oskar doesn't seem to want to add it when asked about it but I think its are real shame not to be able to live a fantasy of a space fairing hive. I would do it myself but I have absolutely no tech literacy lmao

could you add the ice insectoids from the VQE cryptoforge mod aswell?

@KharnTheKhan No, because there aren't any new space insectoids in Odyssey. The locust from Odyssey is accessible in the VFEI2 sorne hive and the hivequeen is in the large sorne hive from this mod.

Noticed you said Save Our Ship adds artificial space hive is this also true for odyssey?

Added the queen from Odyssey and a new hive which can spawn the royal insectoids.Cheers.

Sure, will add it later. Probably the royal insectoids too.

Can we get queen from new DLC?

No problem, most of the work was done by the vanilla expanded team. All I needed to do was to change 1.5 to 1.6.

Thank you for the update.

Thanks, it's nothing serious, I just don't feel like playing or modding rimworld recently. I might return to it in the future.

idk what caused you to lose motivation but i hope your doing what you enjoy now

I've kinda lost the motivation for making rimworld mods so I won't be adding any new hives. Anyone is free to do so themselves of course, this mod is xml only so it's not that hard. Especially since the vanilla expanded team made it xml accessible to make custom insectoid hives.

I'd love to see a royal hive as well. The royal insects look so cool.

i agree, we need a royal sorne hive / patriarch implant that works lie the empress implant

i second the royal insectoids.

I think that only way of getting a Patriach is by the risky vanilla taming methods. And even then, tamed Patriarchs lose the ability to make burrows as they are no longer connected to the hives, thus making the only option of getting Royal Sorne Insectoids also the risky way.

yeah just checked there was an update BUT the method to get Royal Sorne insectoids revolves around getting a patriarch & have it make burrows to get friendly bugs to your base & it doesn't say how to get the Patriarch so i'm thinking you implant a male prisoner/colonist or something I agree Royal Sorne hives would be better than relying on an unknown method to get a boss level unit.

@FelipeGames2000 There has been an update? I wasn't active on rimworld for some time, I'll have to check it out.

Any plans on adding the Royal Sorne Insectoids from the recent update?

@Torkkar Yeah, those are some cool ideas, however the genes would require some code and I don't feel like learning making genes. Also, the space thumper would require a space insectoid boss and I'm not good at making textures.

actually that MAY need to be its own mod now I think lol

so I've an idea for the lacking "Spacer pherocore" or SP as I'll call it so first we need one second its thumper should only be usable in space (duh) and lastly insector genes should be 1.) a gene for immunity to vaccume exposure, 2.) a Gene for 0g movement compatible with "jump" genes as this gene does nothing planet side, 3. a Gene that increases Psychast sensitivity but blinds, & Deafens the pawn as its adapted to space & guiding the colony by sensing targets & pray, a Geme that "Fuses" the pawn with the ship similar to Pilot from Farscape (google if needed) this pawn becomes incapable of moving from the console they've fused too and are immune to going down unless "Severed" from the ship as the ship IS their body now.

Thanks for letting me know, this mod's black hives have been removed.

Update should be up now!

haha, ok!

@Sarg Bjornson Sorry for not asking, but it's not that much of a deal for me. It took me like 20 minutes to add them to this mod, I'll just remove them once you add them yourselves.

I will eventually add the Black Hive to nests, so this will basically make this mod not work... you should have asked!

@DrwalZ I wasn't subbed to the thread so I missed your response, but I wasn't asking for that functionality from you. Rather, I was lamenting the sorry state the queen is in. You can't grow her from a hive, you can't tame her with alpha memes' insectoid herder, you can't create her via a pherocore implantation, and finally royal jelly was reworked and royal bugs deleted so you can't even pray to rngsus a royal jelly withdrawal will spawn you one. Such a heavily restricted bug for the player to acquire... for a 'we have thrumbos at home'. I guess the one upside is that you can summon them with thumpers at round 3 or 4+, which is more than can be said of thrumbos.

Oh, and a queen being an inferior empress... like every part of her and the empress's design suggest, is the farthest thing from silly that I can think of.

This might be a whole different can of worms to try to add, but what about the Xenomorphs from the Alien vs Predator mod? That mod has some issues as it stands... but who knows, it might be a huge hit with the fans.

Added artificial space hives, which can spawn astromites, stellapedes and cosmopillars from Save Our Ship 2.

@Flamestealth Thank you for your suggestion. I will add the space insectoids from SOS2 in the following days.

Would be awesome if you added the space bugs from Save Our Ship 2

Yeah, the black hives make black hive insect jelly, so that you can get more of them over time.

do the black hive create black hive jelly?

oh, black hive, neat o.O

enemy insects building hives and stuff and spreading automatically on your map, that´d be insane

oh you added the black hive, love to see them not eating my face off.

Maybe a 'fastgrown' hive or something that requires more maintenance but can spawn insectoids faster.
Or some kind of expensive but still balanced hives that spawn insectoid bosses for your hive colony.
Ooor maybe a special kind of royal-jelly-overgrown-hive that you have to give a lot of care, time and love to so it can be harvested for pherocores.

@~Nols~ Actually, that's a great suggestion. I'll add them soon.

I'm sure Sarg would eventually get around to it himself, but would be cool to have hives for the Alpha Animal insects.

@meep34524 I'm not entirely sure that would work. The hives track specifically the insect that was spawned from the hive, when the grubs transform they are basically despawning and spawning a new entity, which would not be tracked by the hive (unless you had some overly complex code that made the hives be able to track that new entity)

@Maty the Fluff That's not the point of this mod.

@GoldRider They're strong enough as it is, and making them work as a discount basic hive would be silly and not the point of this mod.

@cooldude808 I would maybe make something like that, however my art skills are nowhere close to the skills of the vanilla expanded team and the insectoids I would've created would look horribly out of place.

@meep34524 Not a bad idea, I'll see what I can do, but I'll make it cheaper as getting one of each pherocore would be quite a hassle.

you could make a randomizer hive that cost one of each pherocore and spawns those little swarmlings that turn into random insectoids.

maybe you can make a whole new geneline of insects dedicated to building insectoid structures from the mod. normal infestations in vfei2 are just base line infestations
however you could make them build structures and spread creep in the mod so that insectoids will turn from a major threat to a colony ending threat. I believe in you and don't give up.

Queens aren't discount empresses? Despite being so when not player-owned? Man that's disappointing... Even if she ended up being a discount basic hive, that'd be better than "just" a thrumbo with royal jelly "milk"

Any way you could give queens the ability to convert organic matter into insect jelly?

You're mistaking the queen and the empress. Injecting pherocores into a pawn creates an empress, which is very similar to a queen, but it also works as a mobile sorne hive. Queens, on the other hand, are just insectoids capable of creating royal insect jelly and fighting. The author of VFE Insectoids 2 has stated that it is not possible to get the queen.

The thing is, you can make your own queen by injecting pheromones into a colonist or prisoner. The resulting queen, like the other bosses, will belong to your colony. But nice mod

ok, ty