no idea why the list doesn't want to work but oh well

wanted to test this one out for a bit and then just forgot to update the mod...

[list]
[*] increased performance (caching and throttling mostly)
[*] fighter divided into fighter and hunter (no hunters throwing themselves into raids)
[*] more work types supported
[*] no more sowing plants above skill requirement of 0
[*] better swarming behaviour (no more claiming targets for hunting and seekig. they also look for random a target in range instead of closest)
[*] better danger detection (no more seeking behaviour when there is no danger present)
[*] refactoring (I initially made a monolith class)
[/list]

tl;dr: Everything is better now and if something broke I will cry myself to sleep and work on it the day after...

already working on it :)

i found something


VPE_RockConstruct49992 tried to find food to bring to Tugba but VPE_RockConstruct49992 is incapable of Manipulation.

I'm currently working on the mod and already have improved performance and split up fighters and hunters. Once i'm done testing and refining this I'll upload this version.
After that i'm gonna try to split it into vanilla-ish roles as well as introduce some more trainability/body size/predator based options so you can use more generic assignments.

Loving how much better haulers stuff like my dryads are, but I wish the worker roles could be more split up. Going from being able to do only hauling, to then to be able to build, plant, mine and clean is a big jump, but as far as I can tell I can't make it so some stuff cleans and some stuff only mines and others can only plant, it's one or the other... could we have more roles possibly?

thanks

@Rince you can do that yourself in the settings tab
just click on "assignment" and then "add animals"

can you add summons from https://steamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3466657119 please?

i haven't had that issue yet but i'll check :)

noticed animals set for the mod will clean filth instead of joining caravan

❤

I'll probably add settings for trainability for hauling and working and predators for hunting so you don't have to select everything manually

a whitelist for animals with advanced training please ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)
ignore i have read and learned it is a thing

epic

i made a stupid when i allowed fire fighting and enemy seeking to interrupt other jobs

@OhBrod just updated :)

found the issue
i'll update it later

@OhBrod are you also using animal leader ?

I'll look into it

Fighter is not on, I've tried to restore defaults as well in case the config somehow bugged but that didn't work either. Setting the aggression range to 20 seems to help a bit.

that should already be the case
have you set rock constructs to fighters in the settings?

My rock construct keep killing themselves chasing enemies, can this behaviour be changed so only fighters will seek enemies?

Okay thank you

nope
that's outside the scope for this one
there's a few other mods that let you do stuff like that

Does this mod let you equip your animals with weapons

oh and ticking is staggered now so not all animals look for a job in the same tick
they also only check every 3000 ticks (3 seconds) and it goes up to 10000 if they can't find anything for a while

Updated changes I've been working on over the past 3 days.
Should be much more performance friendly and sowing should also work but I haven't really tested it.

Firefighting and hostile seeking behaviour now work when a pawn is resting. They also are the only jobs that can interrupt other jobs now.

Please tell me if anything isn't working anymore because testing this mod in a controlled environment can't compare to actually playing the game with this active.


technical stuff:
-removed reflection where possible
-reworked scheduling relying on the vanilla schedule manager
-cached common behaviours where possible
-cached defs that don't use quality for building
-hostile seeking behaviour is now limited to hostile pawns and exits early if they are downed, fleeing or unreachable
-added verbose logging

i'll add the sowing no problem

If I can somehow use this in tandem with the VFE Insectoid mod to make my insectoids manage small rice farms my soul is yours.

yeah that's intentional on my side
though considering i'm providing options for pretty much anything i might as well add it
I wanted to have some reliance on actual colonists but others might not

I had noticed that while the animals can harvest plants and cut plants, they cannot sow plants, aka they can't grow more plants in fields

Okay thank you

I'm pretty sure it isn't.

Is there compatibility for the mining job with the Quarry mod?

Good!

It basically means active. I'll rename it in the next update.
This is for when you want to deactivate an animal but still keep the preset.
Remove removes it from the list entirely.

This looks great now, loving the new stuff, but what does the includes column do in the assignment tab?

W mod, great updates and great idea initially!

My mod is also very very powerful if applied to all normal animals. It is intended to be used for special animals like thrumbos and dragons but i wont stop you from making a rat army that is constantly working.

game

i can't say for certain but i don't think it should be much of an issue
my mod is checking whether an animal is currently busy or has unfullfilled needs
so whenever an animal isn't doing a Animal Commander job then they will be doing one of mine.

If animal commander uses similar logic then it might happen that it checks if an animal is busy while it is doing one of my jobs.
I don't think there will be anything gamebreaking though.

Crisis averted and VPE dependency removed.

will this have incompatibility with Animal Commander if i tried to use this on animals ?

I have just noticed how incredibly stupid I am. Summons from VPE are always tamed so I never needed to check. Now that I added other animals...
Anyway, the wildlife is building my base now.

Pushing out an update soon that checks for tameness and needs like sleep and food.
If you don't add any extra animals in the settings then functionally nothing has changed.

Another massive update. Settings are no longer summon specific but group type specific.
I have now allowed to EVERY animal to be added to a group. This means that you can now add any animal of your choice to a group for fighter, worker and or hauler.
This is intended to be used with intelligent creatures like Thrumbos, Dryads and Dragons but if you wanna go nut then be my guest.

thanks :)

this looks ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome

Massive update with additional work types like hunting, building and harvesting.
Massive performance optimizations. Now runs decently with 200+ working summons in vanilla Rimworld.
Compatibility with skeletons and steel construct as well with mod settings to go with it.

it seems that i have so many mods installed that i can only set items up to starting with an s as a required mod
i had to favorite VPE for it to work but VPE is goated anyway :D