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Tiny Tweaks

Tweaks some aspects of the game and various mods, generally removes stuff I personally find to be unbalanced, redundant or not fun to play with. I'm open to suggestions on what should be tweaked or removed, though do note I'll only implement changes I agree with.

- Shield cores can now be bought from various traders and can occasionaly be found as a low frequency quest reward.
- Low-shield packs now leave behind a component after being used.
- The shield belt now requires a shield core to craft.
- Various mechanoids from the Biotech DLC which have shields now require a shield core to gestate. These mechanoids, when faced as enemies, will also drop shield cores.

You can have as many of the mods below as you want, patches will only activate for what you actually have loaded.

- Fixed the issue where tribal factions did not inherit the VPE patch that allowed them to have psycasters in their raids.

- Removed the Casual T-Shirt. It was just a normal shirt with the Rimworld logo, which breaks my immersion.
- Balaclava Mask can now be worn under helmets.
- Glasses and Sunglasses now render under main head apparel but above masks like the Balaclava.

- Removed the ranged shield belt. I think shield belts not allowing you to fire out of them is a really nice gameplay mechanic.

- The Backpack now also grants +35 personal carrying capacity.

- Siegebreaker armor and its prestige variant now require a shield core to craft.

- Sunglasses and glasses, despite having apparel tags assigned to them, had a generateCommonality of 0 and thus would never actually spawn as apparel. I tweaked this to 0.03, allowing them to rarely spawn on pawns.

- Removed the Planter Box, I thought it was too powerful as it allowed you to have decent soil even in maps where not having fertile soil is the challenge.

- Removed the Log Wall. It's a redundant type of wall, especially with ReBuild: Doors and Corners which adds unique textures to walls based on their stuffable material.

- The shield generators now require the shield cores from the Royalty DLC. The construction costs of these shield generators were adjusted accordingly.

- Reduced the build cost of Barbed Wire to 5 steel per tile. It was way too expensive for the little benefit it provided, it now has its niche alongside walls and traps.

- Removed the research requirement for trenches and platforms. They were pretty useless by the time you unlocked them at mid-industrial (They had a prerequisite of mortars, ffs.), they are now a low tech defense tool.

- Completely removed the Trench Warfare research, the few things it unlocks are redistributed to other research projects.
\- You get the HMG Complex with Gas Operation, which is when you get the HMG in vanilla.
\- You get the Decoy with Complex Furniture.
\- You get Barbed Wire with Smithing.

- Renamed the Military Turret to the Twin Turret.

- Large Passive Cooler has been nerfed, it can now only bring temperatures down to 2 degrees. This is enough to refrigerate, but not freeze, foods. It's description and stats have been tweaked accordingly.

- Warcaskets with shields now require a shield core to craft.

- The Standing Cooler, the electronic variant of the Passive Cooler from the base game, no longer requires components to build. This is inline with VE balance as the ceiling fans, removed with this patch, also did not cost components.

- The various wall-mounted appliances, alongside the ceiling-mounted ones, have been removed. They just felt redundant and ugly to me.

- Moved around some research requirements to compensate for the removal of the Trench Warfare research project.

- The Combat Handgun is now unlocked with the Specialized Weapons research instead of Blowback Operation. The Combat Handgun is a straight upgrade compared to the Autopistol and it was odd for the two to be unlocked at the same level of research.

- Added ideology agreement/disagreement tags to many traits. A big thank you to Warachia for letting me borrow some of their code for this!

- Several traits from VTE now trigger highmates' psychic bond effects. A big thank you to Warachia for letting me borrow some of their code for this!

- Some structures from ReBuild: Doors and Corners that lacked tech requirements have been assigned some.


Techprint Expansion
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2910923103
This mod adds new Techprint requirements to several research projects, forcing the player to buy, gain or receive as a quest reward technologies like Gunsmithing from factions of relevant tech levels.