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Off-Map Caravan Loading

@Temmie Are you still looking into making this compatible with vehicles?

@Astrobia Thank you! Makes total sense, I had insects on my map (I had walled them off and forgot about them).

@Dutha insect hives in undiscovered caves and enemies in unopened ancient danger rooms sometime cause that for new colonies. Also wild fires I think. Also invisible anomaly enemies but that's so rare I doubt it's your issue. When you attempt to send a caravan and get that warning, after 4 hours you'll be able to send them fine regardless of what the hidden threat is until you reload a save. And if you are really in a hurry you can use the vanilla send button on the caravan loading screen to have the pawns pack up and walk off the map normally.

is it a ruin of "real ruins"?

I'm not sure if this is a mod conflict or what, but I'm getting the error "Cannot pack, hostiles on map" whenever I try to form a caravan. I don't currently have any hostiles on my colony map, none of my colonists are in any type of "state" that's uncontrollable, and I'm not sure what could be on the global map that would count as hostile (it's just the normal quest objective markers.)

Thanks for letting me know, I'll look into making them compatible.

sadly it seems this mod is incompatible with mechanoid caravans, as it blocks the mechanoid only caravans:

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3253006390

Found this gem thanks to a reddit post. This is now added to my 'essential qol' list.

@Jaded On my game settings, using caravans to flee from raids is depressingly routine. Fixed wealth + high difficulty + low player skill. My personal justification is that if I sacrifice a few animals as bait, it makes sense if the rest of my colony escapes.

Given how many times I've seen caravan loading absolutely just bug out later in the game, this is a huge help and way outweighs my concern about balance on the super rare (if anyone does it at all) instance anyone actually packs up to flee a raid they can't defend from.

I don't think it affects vehicles atm, it will have an option for that in the future though.