Have been having a lot of fun with this mod and the facelessman xenotype! only wish the hediff for the leader wasn't just "queen", something like Primary Node, Neuralweaver, or borrow the flavor text from whatever is in the ideology ruler title, other than that, heaps of fun..

the fact you can force assimilate, turning a previously useless pawn into a basic drone is a interesting approuch, that, paired with alpha genes where you can create pseudo-shamblers, easily accessible with the facelessman xenotype mod, you can easily create your own army.. it was cool when they could just lose it and get confused, especially if you turned them into pseudo shamblers

I love how much such a simple design mod can change so much in ideology.

@Macal Media @QuarianRex I've been thinking about this, so I add a new ability to froce assimilate, but there are some side effect, of cause, you can close the side effect in the mod setting

Similar sentiment on the drone conversion ritual. 20 day cooldown while suffering non-hive mood debuffs for the whole colony is a showstopper. If you can't reduce the ritual cooldown (not sure how that works) perhaps consider adding an additional conversion ability to the queen on a 2 day cooldown or somesuch.

That way, the Queen is responsible for actually growing the hive while the ritual is a supplemental option to kickstart a new hive.

can we get a cool down slider in the mod setting cause 20 days is crazy

Update, now AI faction will generate drones, added surgery to remove drone heidffs

@Bastard This is what I said "If you found that your queen haven't the hediff for queen, you may probably just need to use the special differentiation ability to one of your drone, I conducted a preliminary check to add the hediff."

My leader has "not part of the hive" mood debuff. Do I need to assimilate a drone and then make them the leader? Is the leader default part of the hive mind?

Perfect for my techpriest with army of servitors run. Good ol' lobotomization + hive mind protocols.

When I saw the icon I though "this is very much a Stellaris reference", and then I saw the Devouring Swarm premade ideo

this is amazing and I am going to give this a wholesome award. this mod is wholesome.

im doing a 40k genestealer cult run so this is perfect

@dc123 Fixed, it should work fine now, thanks for your report

The hive mind meme says it requires one of the following precepts:
"Eating Nutrient Paste: Don't mind
Hive member: Hive member"

When making a Hive Mind ideoligion, i can't select the "Eating Nutrient Paste: Don't mind" precept. Are they both meant to be required?

@Legendary G I tried before, but failed

Could you add a way to make custom drone roles? Or have it so all faction rolls other than the leader count as being a drone?

@ Phreeze Thanks for your advice, I patched some screenshots of ritual and ability, but I think the hediff detail need you to explore, just keep some mystery

Been looking for a mod like this for a while.

The Ix'ldar Star Collective approves of this mod.

Can we get some screenshots of the stats of the hediff, the ritual, and so on? I would download this, as I'm a HUGE stellaris fan, but... I dunno what it does yet.

@UncleRippu Yes, like other rituals, you can set the reward, too

@TurtleShroom No, it is hard to design by code for me, and if all the raiders are warrior drone, you will be crazy

does the ritual have a cool down like other rituals? im sure with the kind of ritual it is it wont matter but i still wanna know

Will computer controlled Factions with this Meme spawn Drones? I'd love to see an actual Hive Mind in the game that isn't mine.

insectors + this= Peak

Oh brother, this sounds amazing

May there be some examples of what these new hediffs do?

黑盒来的 支持一下

好好好

很酷的Mod!