If it's not too much trouble, I'd really like to see support for mods "Vanilla Races Expanded - Archon" and "Alpha Animals".
The Archon that appears in the Tribal stage simply wipes out the entire colony, and many spider-like creatures from another mod do the same.

@dominicawb no it's not a bug, the mecha hive is hard codded to do so about campements. you won't get raided at your colony tough

anyone having advice for preventing yttakin in warcaskets murdering my tribal village?

Noticed even with this mod tribals still raid with guns???

seeing what factions get filtered is pretty useful

Still looking for an update to include restricting Siege events.

Hello! First off, I absolutely love this mod. It is essential for my tribal-to-spacer playthrough, as it protects the sense of progression perfectly. Thank you for creating it!
I have a gameplay question I was hoping you could clarify. When the storyteller triggers a raid from a faction that is filtered out by the mod (due to their high tech level), what happens to that raid event? Is the event simply cancelled, or does the mod/game attempt to "reroll" the raid with a faction that is eligible?
My main concern is that I don't want to inadvertently reduce the overall raid frequency and make the game too easy. I just want to ensure the threats I face are technologically appropriate.
Any insight you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I really need this mod to be updated, it would be really great if you added a menu to set what EACH and every possible event was set to what tech level. That way you wouldn't need to update and adjust it yourself.

12 pounder cannons and molotvs can kill every mech. very easily i might add.. but check this mods settings. by defauilt it allows mechs to still raid you i think no matter the tech lvl

sucks that im doing a medieval playthrough and mechanoids still build up stuff and i cant fight them due to CE

This mod is quite good, it adds a lot to a progressive playthrough. For things that aren't covered by this mod, such as in my previous comment, I recommend people use cherry picker to temporarily remove content, as its pretty rare for higher tech stuff to get through.

A camp I settled got detected by mechanoids despite being neolithic, is this a bug?

@veldashok yeah, that's what I suspected.
I'm not making any promises about a patch for that, too buy for now, sorry

Seconded for siege raids from medieval expanded. The way the quest works is it spawns an initial off-map encounter in a nearby world tile, and then tells you in the quest description what it will turn into when it attacks your base if you don't go stop the easier encounter. So its not a classic raid nor quest reward, it's a quest triggered event pretending to be a raid.

Also the new trader's guild added in 1.6 appears to not give any damns about your mod's rules. :P

@FrozenSnowFox it's possible if the normal raid mechanics not used

It seems the Siege Camp event from Vanilla Factions Expanded - Medieval 2 doesn't respect the tech lock. The event will spawn siege camps from high tech factions despite Ignorance is Bliss blocking all other interactions.

Updated to 1.6.
I don't play much RimWorld these days, so I didn't test it too much. Please report back any issues

Temp 1.6: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3525203000

please update

I give kiss if updated

Really hope you update it to 1.6?

Any chance we will get a 1.6 update?

@... comment before you pushed someone else asking that exact same question back onto page 2. It looks like it refers to enemy tech levels so:

"behind" = "enemies x levels behind"

"ahead" = "enemies x levels ahead"

what does ahead and behind mean in the settings? does it mean the raiding faction or you?

It seems viking pillages from VFE - Medieval 2 can occur even tho the faction is not eligible.

@fidelfs Change the techlevel of that faction to something higher. It's a very easy patch to make.

so, using a modpack i've made, i am getting on animal tech level(vfe-tribal start) that n4-infected (V.O.I.D.) are able to atack me, how can i correct that?

Would be dope if this could also restrict hospitality visitors, but otherwise works fine for me. At least so far I haven't gotten any mechanoid raids as tribals.

@silgryn713, it think is not gonna work.. Just received a fucking mechanoid ship in the middle of my base. Check the mod config and it is correct.

Will this work with VFE - Tribals storyteller?

Could you add an option to force the tech level of equipment the raiders spawn with? I had a dude show up with a grenade launcher, lol.

@GwinnBleidd i tried playing with the settings in the screen and only got attacked by mech, so changed it down and seem to work.

settings you have on the screenshot should work

@kongkim if you want any tech behind you to keep attacking you, set it to -1, or any "big" value (3+, depending on your tech level)

Im not sure i 100% understand the raider level settings.
I want so tect level +1 above me attacks me, but all tech levels lower them me still attacks.
If i want that how do i set the settings.
Like this? or is that wrong? https://i.imgur.com/7MIfhhL.png

So if a raid come up that higher tech, does this mod remove it? Or does it change the faction to low tech and still allow the raid to happen? I seem to be getting way less raids.

@NöSTer ofc those will conflict as they do about the same thing and (I assume) derived from the same mod.
For the second question, I'm not familiar with Ferisses' mod version, so I can't speak of particular mod differences

Why do I have two of these conflicting?
I will use the one from GwinnBleidd as it has a descriptive descrption and a changelog.
Whats the differnce between yours and Ferisses?

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3212720579&searchtext=Ignorance+Is+Bliss

@Dametri time control?

OK mod but where is Time Control?

ok, good to know, thanks

@Ranger Tau all techs are counted and affect the %, vanilla and modded

So - some questions, and forgive me if this has been mentioned somewhere I might've missed

For the % option - It takes the % of the completed number of techs to determine your tech level, right?

What happens when a mod adds new techs, or new tech tabs? How do those factor into the equation?
Would those count towards the % too, so we'd need to unlock a ton more stuff to go up a tier? If so, is it just stuff in the standard research tab, or stuff from every tab?
Or is it just a flat % based on the number of techs in vanilla, and unlocking modded stuff makes us progress faster?

Mostly curious so I can judge what an appropriate % to set it to would be

@Avila no, this mod doesn't do such thing

Does this mod also makes it where only same level tech pawns spawn from random recruitment events or is that vanilla/another mod?

I had mine set to the setting where it takes your tech level from other mods and it worked perfectly. Tech level progressed as i advanced the tech with that tribal mod
Babashunday

Does tech level changing work with the one add in Vanilla Expanded Tribals?

@Victor This mod mostly limits raids. It may try limit quest threats, but it's on case-by-case basis, and many of those patches were not updated since the original mod author stopped supporting the mod

I got a quest as a Neolithic tech level from a Cannibal Pirate Gang, that I suppose is industrial, which isn't showing up on the list of factions above my tech level on the mod options, in fact, many factions do not show up there. This faction is optional from Ideology and must be enabled on world creation.
It was from a quest in which a child asked to join but didn't tell what the threat was.

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/ce30d321fdc47c79d9dede98e7b9c80a

I tried to play the game without this mod. "What could possibly come after me? I am just a little group of tribals, sure we might be kind of wealthy right now but we have bows and arrows, ain't my fault I have a lot of corn surplus right now."

Then I was attacked by space pirates with a level 10 psycaster wielding a laser cannon, a man that nearly ripped our entire clan apart.
It was in that moment where we realized that it might be best to embrace isolation, and hide away from the strange fleshy warm ones with their fire cannons.