Were the hackable Large Hermetic and Ancient Supply crates removed as well or reshaped somehow? I really enjoyed the Incoming Supply Drop event.

Is it intended for the lab equipement to drop nothing on deconstruct ? Also I have no option to turn the power off for most of them

I think there is a slight typo on the mod page. E352 - Contain the seized vault quest has "reconnaiussance" instead of reconnaissance in its description.

@King Doom

A hidden vault faction that never leaves their vault and prefers to stay hidden behind huge, indestructible gates getting all their cargo delivered by huge parachute crates that everyone can see for miles made very little sense in my eyes. Instead, I chose to take inspiration from the 1940s pneumatic tubes.

This looks fantastic, thankyou for all of the hard work VE team

Hi, can anyone suggest a mod that would make it easy to share items between floors? The caravan/vehicle screen in vanilla Rimworld is so offensively cumbersome it makes living underground in the vault a major hassle.

The old version was good, this version is INCREDIBLE. Why the change from the catapult to the tubes though? the catapult was the one thing the old mod had going over this one. Absolutely amazing way of dealing with junk from other mods that hadn't been marked as tradeable.

Update on 12/11/2025 12:54:17 PM.
Added the cargo cult scenario, which was present in the old Ancients mod. This time it depends on the Pneumatic tubes system instead of the supply catapult.
Added props for pneumatic tubes variations
Added customEffectDescriptions to Masterful Skill genes, so the player has more information about what they do and how
Added Biotech dependancy to about.xml
Spliceling, Splicehulk, Splicefiend and Splicetoot blacklisted from appearing on quests

@I.A.N.A.S
The quests provide their rewards for completing them. You should not download quest mods if you dont plan to do those quests, and you should not expect a reward of some kind for just having the mod enabled.

Quests Expanded series was created because the community asked for more stuff to do on the world map. Base game lacks in quests, and our series aims to fix that. By just enabling the 4 quest mods currently released, you're adding 4 really cool and long quest chains, each with unique reward. While I understand these quest mods may not be down your alley, saying that we have 'fallen from grace' is dishonest and disrespectful. We're releasing other mods too. We're reworking older mods (Medieval, Insectoids, Furniture, now Ancients).

I suggest you try to see our mods as something that aims to cater to the whole community and not just individual, personal tastes.

also, mercenaries from VFE: pirates seem to have spawned with some ancients backstories that caused them to spawn like test subjects from the cryptosleep caskets in the new scenario meaning they have archite genes and downside genes. i AM playing with the scenario so i'm not sure if that's to blame or not. assuming it's unintentional of course.

an ancient cooking station won't make a room a kitchen like a stove normally would, it just says a regular unaffiliated room.

ah cool

Yeah, they should refire

ah thats a good question - i was thinking about that too, i havent been good at completing many quests in rimworld in general - they keep expiring lol :)

If I fail to complete the initial quest in time, will it eventually recur? (The quest descriptions seem to suggest so, but just making sure…)

It certainly doesn't beat the time I got called "a force for darkness", though

See?

Nonsense? I'd call it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but Steam will probably censor it

@Lekoda The description has the genes listed and what they do, for your convenience....

@I.A.N.A.S What a load of nonsense

Can the old super powers make a come back too like being immune to explosions, never missing, and always hitting vitals?

alr im not gonna lie. vanilla expanded has really lost its edge lately. back in its prime the mods they made would have the game almost unplayable without. now the new format of fun gimmicks in quest chains feels just meh. i think the downfall where i stopped being excited for new drops began when they started using quest chains. theyve started using a method that makes it so that unless you plan on focusing on a chain of quests that there is nearly no reward for choosing to follow them E.g the deadlife quest. TLDR: vanilla expanded has fallen from grace in my eyes after a series of bad ideas

ok but why the malfuction chance? why does the charater have his negitive? This is a weird thing i keep noticing. Hey spent a year in game fighting mass hoards of strong things in a time gated way that if you fail has long lasting permanent negitives that could end the world easy? GREAT! heres a simi useful thing that barely helps as is comes with lots of drawbacks and requires this one charater to do anything with. Also for what ever reason they are impossable to get or if you do die fast extremely hard to work with or go 100% the opposite of what they are trying to destroy or undermine your tiny boon.

Why? Seriously not mad i really want to know why something balanced by taking a long time fighting powerful things on a timer to effective dooms day gets so violently beat with the nurf bat just because I can use it?

I just counted the number of archite genes I saw on the xenotype editor, excluding the morph genes, and it totaled to 643. They all range in usefulness, from sizes giant to illegally smol, to most if not all the individual aptitudes cranked up +100% to +400%. Asexual fission is an exponential resource drain slowly going off with every tumor-baby, and cell-stability pandemonium will just make a basket-case Deadpool.

Ranting aside, I really don't want to have to wait for everyone to patch their gene mods around this one, if they will ever. I realize I have zero coding skills at all, but can't there be some kind of configuration settings that can be coded in instead?

@the dutchman
I'm Rather dumb, so thank you for the help

? Same way you do with cryptosleep caskets, right clicking the pawns

how does one put things in the biobattery? I have a few prisoners I dont want and my processing plant is full so...ya know, extra power.

@Petrus Aurelius FAQ exists for a reason

Just in time for Fallout season 2!
Also was the repair bench removed? Was that in the original ancients VE? 🤔

Started a new vault, generated a Hussar to see if you could give Archites to non-germline Xenotypes, encounter something while somewhere (no spoilers) and try out the weird superpower thing.. some sort of eyebeam.. blow it and myself up instantly, Game Over..

This mod is easily never leaving my list. Up there with Empire and Deserters for some of the coolest stuff VE has made, absolutely blown away by what is considered lootable and the sheer potential. Time to restart and see if I can get confirmation on if I can add more archites to a Hussar or if its a one off 'bug' because I'm starting as one.

"Why not just give the superpowers their own internal tag so the archogen injector will only select from those specific genes?"

Why? It objectively makes the mod worse. They already have a way to limit the genes you dont want.

Will you guys ever add the minigun turret back? It was so peak!

Also got a blank book. Blank name, story, everything.

I was using the pneumatic tubes and I got a beam graser, a mechanoid weapon. Is this a bug?

Request: please make the beds claimable for non vault starts. Depending on the vault roll ad-hoc hospital beds would be peak.

@Salvador
The black list is exposed to xml and genes can be patched not to appear there. If for some reason some archite gene is a drawback instead of a benefit, that to me sounds like a fault on the design side of that mod. Archite genes are powerful, non-negative genes in the base game.

After playing with this mod for a couple of days, I think genes from other mods should be opt in. The other mods should have to specify that this gene can be used as a "super power" I have several mods running that adds genes and I can say I am seeing some really bad results from the Archogene Injector.

I am seeing crappy Archogenes that aren't meant to be an "op" gene be used as the super power and having negative side effects passed along with them turn decent pawns into really crappy ones. The Archogene that comes from another mod can be more of a negative so you end up with pawns you just get rid of because they are so bad.

If you guys aren't willing to make other genes from mods opt in, then at least give us an option in the mod settings to disable integration with other mods when using Archogene injector.

@Hugalafutro, you have to claim the stuff inside the starter vault, same as if you are going through a normal colony and want to use it as your own.

Are patient gowns supposed to have 50% blunt armor?

I'm enjoying what I've played thus far, but I have a question.

For the mod's starting scenario, the sealed vault under your starting base, how do you claim it? I've found the deconstructable buildings, but aside from plain steel stools and the like, I don't seem to have any options to deconstruct anything else.

I've not yet tried ordering a pawn to smash things, which I assume will work, but there are benches, for example, that I was able to deconstruct for resources upstairs that I'm unable to do so for downstairs. Is there a way to claim them or am I required to manually smash them?

The dmg of the Splice creatures is a bity silly. Acid burn one shot a fully healthy colonist in full flak, and burned off the liver and lung off the second colonist through marine armour.

Upper floor of the vault you start in doesn't count as yours, manhunter animals and raiders walk straight in.

@saltyrockspew hi did you get anything from removing the ancient concrete flooring?

(ive got a bunch of mods, and various deconstruct return fix mods, but basically i think everything found in a rimworld game should give "a something" when deconstructing. so ive been using rimmsqol to add killed leavings, onto a whole bunch of generic rimworld "ancient" items, so that they give something back (its just how it works in my mind, deconstruct something get a something to reprocess etc) but i hadnt been able to find a way to force some floorings to return items. i think its because that floor type might need an actual recipe to exist which can make that floor type but not 100% sure, so usually i just use dev mode whenever a dlc or mod has a floor type that gives nothing, and manually spawn in 1 concrete block per floor tile removed) :)

Ive been getting a bug with the sealed vault door where once i unblock it and try to use it it says the destination is blocked. is this just a me issue?

welcome back Ancients!

>ancient concrete flooring has a 48% walk speed
>lay steel over ancient flooring
>colonists rip up ancient flooring in order to lay steel
>underneath the ancient floor is water
> :(

Why is ancient concrete flooring so bad just make it 100% walk speed please half my vault is a freaking wooden bridge because my idiot pawn has a research skill of 2 and would take seven morbillion years to research heavy birdges

@The Dutchman The butcher table also designates rooms as kitchen.

@ObscureParticle Bc its also a butcher stattion

The ancient cooking station does not categorize the room as "kitchen" on its own, therefore reducing the work speed unless you have another kitchen facility present in the same room.

@Lonibux Explained multiple times in the comments

@Sarg Bjornson I started a new colony just with this mod and character editor to test, gave the pawn the substance impervious gene, gave him the same drugs and he got overdose again