Fun mod. Does it help if you check «allow temporary colonists to auto-equip» in the settings?

Thought you'd be interested in an odd compatibility error, figured it might help you to know about it incase it reveals anything useful, the mod "one with death" gives you undead minions, they are able to upgrade their gear, but they don't auto equip weapons. Seemed strange enough to bring up incase it tells you anything useful about how the game works.

They will choose the best, from anything rimworld allows them to equip. You will have to tweak the apparel policies. I made it default for…child milita reasons

With new update, will children also search for the best weapon, or they will search for sort of "child" "weapon", like wearable toys and short bows?

Would you mind adding a patch for "Multi Floors" so what your mod would seek upgrades on all connected levels?

is this "weapon tech" compatible?
if no, would you? or nein.

What exactly is supposed to change with the smelting bills? I have an issue in my game where I have weapons like spears but they can't be smelted. Not all of weapons are affected. Upon further investigation, the affected weapons appear to be in the "smeltable" special category but "Micro Designations" do not think they can be smelted regardless. Do you think your mod has something to do with it?

Hi, could you look into making weapon selection compatible with Choose Your Outfit ?

I've noticed the same in my testing. In my pursuit of performance I ended up overdoing it. Expect it to return to normal after the next update

It works great for a while, but after playing for a while in the same game session it seems to stop working. After reloading the game all of my pawns rush to switch out weapons for upgrades. They correctly find upgrades for a while, but then after playing for a while the pawns stop finding upgrades and just forever keep their existing weapon. Each time I load a game after a break I see the behavior where pawns will all upgrade weapons, as if there's a large backlog of upgrades that they weren't doing prior to saving and exiting the game in the last play session. Loading from save seems to trigger the pawns that hey, you should look for upgrades again.

Thanks for letting me know, will see what I can do

This doesn't work well with "Grab Your Tool", as they will pull out their tools for a job, then go "hey, my 'weapon' is crap!" and go swap their good primary with something random. Some kind of compat would be awesome.

Ah, you installed it during a running game. Then you had to configure weapons in your apparel policies and force equip everything you want un-swapped

Yes, this is a full automation mod. You gave me a good idea for a setting though ‘only consider unarmed colonists’

All I want this mod to do is to have newbie colonists automatically equip themselves, I dont need the full automation

Maybe Im missing a setting somewhere, but I had to revert to a save before I downloaded this because my colonists who I had already carefully set up with primary and secondary weapons immediately dumped all of them, in most cases to pickup a single random spear and call it good. I was hoping it would respect the weapons they already had in their inventory, since Im running simple sidearms.

hmm is this mod is able to make pawns to equip different weapons automatically with different equipment they wearing?

@LordBeef21 @saruteku Having weapons as part of the apparel policies is one of the core design ideas of this mod. Altering it now would just make complex code changes with minimal gain. I think a better fit would be Compositable Loadouts by Wiri. I'm not so keen on reinventing the wheel right now when there are already good solutions out there

Forced weapons are working as designed in my testing and in my own games, so I’ll need your debug log and/or mod list to see what I can do to help

I kinda second having Arms and Apparel seperated. I'm playing with Rimworld of Magic and Simple Sidearms, and for some reason right clicking arming weapons isn't keeping it from being switched. My Archer keeps picking up guns, my sniper keeps picking up machine guns, and the mages drop their wands for lead, and though I can alter and fix the mages I don't want multiple Soldier policies just to make sure they keep their main weapon type. Plus, I keep watching them drop special or unique weapons and I have no idea why, especally when the weapon is actually bonded to them.

@Hydra add me on discord(.snues) and send me the full debug log or ping me either in Dubs or official Rimworld dc channel

@Snues So...what do I even do in that situation to figure out what could be causing it? Is it only halving my mod list

@Snues LordBeef21 gave a good explanation of what I wanted and why.

Hi! Could we possibly get a setting or a version of this with separate apparel/weapons policies, like Malware also requested?

Sometimes you want different colonists to wear the same armor, but use different weapons. For example: I want my footsoldiers people with swords and bows using the same armor. I want my leader to also use a bow, but wear a different armor. I fear I'd end up naming things "Soldier Sword", "Soldier Bow", "Leader Bow", and so on. Perhaps all workers should wear the same clothes, but use different tools depending on their jobs, etc.

@Malware I could possibly hide it with a setting, effectively turning it off. But for what reason?
@Pisfil Haven’t tried.

Can you make option to separate weapons/arm policies so that it doesn't mess with apparel policies?

Is it compatible with "Where is my weapon?"?
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1539028008

Thanks for telling me. I can try to make it compatible with the locks mod. Put your slaves on their own policy with all weapons forbidden.

I discovered a small mod conflict when attempting to get my slaves to stop arming themselves. When I locked the armoury with the Locks mod, they would become stuck standing in place attempting to access the weapons. This behavior stopped when I disabled this mod in the mod options.

I can look at that when I get home from my work trip.

Now that you are focusing on features, can you add tools category that have work speed offsets(like VWE Hammer with general/construction speed) as sidearm for simple sidearm?

Could this mod be compatible with CE?

I remember CE loadouts being a complete garbage pain in the 4ss xdd no offense

@Hydra Another mod is feeding an invalid node/category or map argument into the food policies filter UI. Auto Arm does not touch the food UI tree or its filters, and is only active while the apparel dialog is open

Entirely forgot to send the code, longer than I thought sooo pastebin
https://pastebin.com/3fKY0zBH

Seeing this exception on 1.5

Exception in Verse.AI.ThinkNode_PrioritySorter GetPriority: System.MissingMethodException: RimWorld.Planet.Caravan RimWorld.Planet.CaravanUtility.GetCaravan(Verse.Thing)

1.6 code was being used for 1.5, right?

Seems to affect orbital traders as well.

I'm not versed enough with modding language to tell you exactly what's wrong but my food policy keeps being basically deleted from the game, I feel like something is conflicting here but I have No clue what
I just know Auto Arm AND Harmony and the ones that come up

Thanks for letting me know, I’ll get on that

Seems like there's a patch on Thing.Destroy that is causing conflicts with Vehicle Framework. It's preventing vehicles from being destroyed or deconstructed.

Oops, thank you. I’m out of town but will get to it soon.

Just to note for author's reference: The PUAH-related issue (missing JobDef) seems to still be present.

It checks armor penetration and other stats, but combat skills and market value matters most. The mod favors ranged weapons, though you can tweak this in Advanced settings. Make sure they don’t have the Hunting worktype, it gives a big bonus to ranged weapons

nice mod
does it check armor pen too or just crude dps?

also i could use the pawns choosing depending their melee or shooting skin, my best melees are automatically arming ranged weapons

I get that it’s just that you said after a while, while others here make it seem like it doesn’t work at all, so it feels more important to fix that first. To give this perspective, Auto Arm has 26,000+ lines of code so I have to prioritize

But there isn't simple sidearms!

And I am certain one of the pawns never got downed

Oh man, I’m tempted to try that modlist just to see if my PC can handle it. I do believe the culprit is Simple Sidearms, so I’ll narrow my search there for now. Just be aware that if a forced weapon is dropped or lost (for example, when a pawn is downed or in any other way), the forced status is removed by design

Okay, for me, there is neither Simple Sidearms nor Pocket Sand enabled, so no other weapon

The colonists seem to only replace weapons a while after I force them, most of the time without drafting nor traveling

As for the mod list... hooh boy... I did say it's 600+ mods, right? Steam has a character limit, so I instead posted the modlist in pastebin.

https://pastebin.com/HZ2M13C8

If you need the more "accurate" names, then I'll have to ask you to wait a good while for me to type them all out

Uploading a fix for Pocket Sand.

For the problem with manually equipped weapons being replaced: I’m unable to reproduce it, so please help me narrow it down. Does the replacement occur after loading a save, after caravan travel/return, after a drafted/undrafted toggle, or during normal play? Is it the primary weapon or a sidearm? A full mod list would help tremendously

With "Pocket Sand", can we get an option to either unload or just drop the previous weapon after upgrading?

Also having an issue where pawns will replace manually equipped weapons. Is there any way to stop that behavior from occurring?

Doesn't seem to be working properly to me. Not sure if it's the mod itself or if's an incompatibility issue with another mod (600+ mods, why am I like this)

Colonists with "forced" (manually selected) weapons will still switch to other weapons. Also happens to persona weapons, even though the settings menu has "Auto-force bonded weapons" enabled. Unless there is something I'm missing.

Ran into a weird incompatibility with simplesidearms where pawns will upgrade their weapons but not care abou simplesidearm's sidearm limit and have like 8 ranged weapons anyways

Is there any way to force a pawn to carry a specific weapon, or to disable auto-arming, like there is to force them to wear specific apparel? I have Simple Sidearms installed, but the auto-pickup option disabled, and my pawn keep dropping and replacing weapons that is said to 'force use' in SS. Specifically, one melee user keeps replacing his uranium mace with a so-so-rife (despite 6 melee and 2 shooting), and I want my moral leader to keep using her conversion staff until i tell her otherwise.