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Sowoboe Bugs

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The Sowoboe Bugs are a genetically modified isopod created by Heather Sowoboe, to give rimworld peoples a hardy and sturdy mount for traveling, trade and exploration.

They are trainable to defend, haul and rescue and are capable in a fight though less so in prolonged combat.

Their study shells are long and broad with plenty of room for saddlebags and rider. 14 legs give them surprising speed for their size and allow them to carry immense loads.

Sowoboe Bugs also produce a nutritious milk, and their shells are shed every 3 days allowing good colonists to harvest their strong chitin.

Later additions to this mod will add new types of Sowoboe Bugs, a new Sowoboe Rancher Faction that will trade in Sowoboe Bugs, and possibly incorporate patches for other mods.

THESE ARE CONSIDERED OVER POWERED BY DESIGN. Do keep in mind that Sowoboe Bugs are extremely overpowered by design and will either eliminate your entire colony when one goes mad or make your world much easier with their simple strength in combat. A patch to make them more balanced with Vanilla is being considered as an additional module.



- There have been some reports of Sowoboe Bugs apparently making granite mountains disappear. This appears to have been fixed as I cannot get it to reproduce currently. Please report any missing mountains.



*All future major additions will be their own expansion mods to this one.

-Add a Sweeping Sowoeboe Bug made to clean filth and refuel buildings as well as produce eggs for food and a small amount of chitin and milk.
- Add a War Sowoboe Bug made to take heavy hits and deal moderate damage, but slower and unable to carry as much weight.
- Add a BoomBoe Bug a Sowoboe Bug variant that creates chemfuel. Unable to haul, considerably less intelligent and dangerous to use as a caravan animal, these Boomboe Bugs will mostly just produce chemfuel and chitin.
- Add a Sowoboe Rancher Faction who starts friendly with player colonies. Focused on trading and ranching their Sowoboe Bugs and their products, they should allow easy access to these wonderful variants even if you do not live in a biome they frequent.
- Add a smaller faster but much less capable of hauling jungle variant of the Sowoboe Bug. Very very fast and still usable on the road, shows up in larger herds but is less effective compared to the standard Sowoboe Bug.
- Add a Neutramine (or however thats spelled) Sowboe Bug, genetically modified to produce a primary component of medicine.
- Add a Silkboe Bug, a Sowoboe Bug variant that produces silk that can be used in place of cloth. Good for hot biomes.

- And many other concepts that I'm not sure exactly how to do yet so I've not included them here!


- Special thanks to the texture artists who have worked on this mod including Pphhyy and Blackmarket420.
- Special thanks to my testers Eriakit and Kiff44.
- Special thanks to my Rancher Tier members!

Rancher Tier Memberships:
- Luminous Newt
- DevilKitten
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2 Dec, 2022 @ 10:22pm
PINNED: Bugs and Suggestions Discussion
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ElTwoFour  [author] 21 Apr @ 10:17am 
Sowoboe Bugs! Now Possibly with 90% LESS Granite Consuming Qualities!

A Sowoboe Corp. Promise*

*Sowoboe Corp is not responsible for the lack of Granite Mountains.
whatnow 21 Apr @ 2:20am 
beeg byg
ElTwoFour  [author] 20 Apr @ 11:21am 
Me either. -_- Wooleyboe's are now available to my main testers to fiddle out the rest of the bugs, so now I'm just gathering funds for the textures again and hopefully the curse won't continue and the person will be able to finish it. :P
Quadraxis 20 Apr @ 6:20am 
Thanks for the Update Sir. Can't wait to see the other ones.
ElTwoFour  [author] 8 Feb @ 11:27am 
@Fireclawiswoot, the additional modules will include more Sowoboe Bug types that will use colorations from other types of isopods. Though those are on hold while I gather the finances to have those textures made.
Fireclawiswoot 8 Feb @ 4:55am 
Isopoooooods!!!

Wonder if you could do more fun colors? Lots of variety in P. Scaber, Lava,Koi, dalmation, orange varients of the previous two, piebald. P. lavis as well, dairy cow is my favorite.
Xenon2462 20 Nov, 2023 @ 10:38am 
maybe rubber ducky could be like a sort after breed and breeding them could be considered a way to make money, like thrumbos
ElTwoFour  [author] 19 Nov, 2023 @ 11:20am 
@{Sweg} Xenon2462, The wooley boes will have their own pattern (as will all other sowoboe types) which I think is closest matched to the "Panda King" coloration. And I definitely want to use the Rubber Ducky variant. We are actively trying to make sure that the patterns become representative of the real world isopod pet trade. That said the body types may have considerable change compared to real isopods for the cool factor.
Xenon2462 19 Nov, 2023 @ 7:50am 
i love isopods, as an owner of some i'd love to see some real world inspirations like magic potion, red/white/blue powders, rubber ducky variants, maybe even ones like dairy cows species that are literally genetically capable of producing milk.
ElTwoFour  [author] 17 Nov, 2023 @ 7:36am 
@GinRinDragon, I'm glad you like it! Hopefully I will find a new texture artist for the Wooleyboe Bug as they're complete save for the art. Currently I'm also nearly done with the Sowoboe Ranchers factions release as well, who will trade sowoboe related animals and resources (and guns. They love guns.)

Thank you and let me know if you notice and bugs or have any suggestions!