I've published a 1.4 continued version of the mod here: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3012844546
If Slashandz comes back to maintain original version I can remove it

Please update

This mod is straight up common sense that should've been in the game already. I dont know what they were aiming for with the weird cowboy cult thing. Thank you and looking forward to using this

Sure you can edit the About.xml file to add 1.4 to the list of supported versions, but folks letting the mod author know their mod was appreciated is also fine. Why gripe about it?

@Felnel, it works perfectly

Please update for version 1.4. Thank you! 2

I can confirm it works just fine aside from the version warning.

It's just a patch file, edit About.xml and it'll be good for the mod menu.

Would love a 1.4 update on this if you find the time. Essential mod! Thank you.

Just a thought, but this makes it so the Farm Life Meme isn't incompatible with the Animal Personhood Meme anymore in function, but they are still marked as incompatible. Is it possible to change that/is an Animal Personhood Simplified mod on the horizon? I've always found the way Animal Personhood handles meat eating to be odd - I think it would make more sense to not have a diet restriction at all because making it so you can't/shouldn't slaughter or hunt already severely limits access to meat. Why can't I eat animals that went manhunter and I had to kill anyway? Or that died of old age etc and I scavenged?

I would love it if this had a feature (an option, maybe?) to give a negative thought for buying food! since the point of it is to grow/produce your own food that would make sense as a drawback to me :)

Would love to see this as a standalone addition instead of changing the meme and precept. Love the concept, just don't want to replace those.

Thank you so much. Tynan is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weird.

I too really hated how Rancher is implemented in the DLC. Thanks for this!

Thanks for making this. I always hated how Rancher was a High Impact meme and restricted growing crops. Being able to make a proper ideology that involves doing both of these is what I wanted.

@DarknEdgy that last part is exactly why there are different levels of impact per meme, if you don't want drawbacks, don't pick high impact memes.

I there a specific place in the load order that this needs to go? I get a single red error on startup that doesn't seem to link to any other mod as far as I'm aware.

Bruh thank you for making this. I absolutely agree in how ridiculously restrictive most of the memes in the game are. Even VFE's Fishing meme has a ridiculous -25% malus to ranching activities...like how or why is that considered fun? Memes should be styled more like perks than monkey's paw perks.

Immediately subscribed. Thank you Slashandz, the game needs more mods like this! I fully agree that many, MANY of the current both Vanilla and Vanilla Expanded Ideologies are too-punishing/extreme, and it really takes away from the enjoyment of the game. I'm borderline at the point of just turning Ideology off because of it, but mods like this one are helping save Ideology as far as I'm concerned.

Hope you're doing well and staying safe, whoever and wherever you are!

Does this also help with VE? They have a new fishing based meme and it disables ranching and vice virsa. it's really annoying because fishing is also a part of animal husbandry in my undertsanding as much as farming and forestry are.

Thank ancappa god

Cant say how badly I needed such a mod for my ranching colonies.

i really wanted to try an ideology that was more farming focused but the original ranching meme wasnt quite what i had in mind. this is much closer, thanks for making it!

Hey. Can you make it so the Archist ideology base (archotech whorshipers) could get mood buffs by having archotech bionics maybe?

Could you add back in the mood de/buffs somehow? I really like this version sooo much better and it fits what I THOUGHT this meme was going to be, but missing out on the mood buffs and debuffs makes me sadface.

[Qty of Animals] all unchanged
Plant Harvest +2
No plant harvest in 10 days -2

Nice! Wish I had this on my first Ideology save
Could there be a positive boost if for number of animals if it's well and thriving? Not a massive amount but just a simple to encourage making a bit of a thriving farm

Thank-you so much for this mod! I like being able to have vegetarian colonies, but still be able to keep sheep, cows and chickens for wool, milk and eggs.

i wanted to do a cowboy but i cant because cow boys aslo eat vegs

can there be a seperate version, i kinda want to have opposing factions with the rancher meme, but i also want the farming bit in instead of having the only meat for times when there are very little animals on the map, like in some modded biomes like gallatros graveyard, mechanoid intrusion, and one where fishing is more apparent, atolls

Nice mod, I found it stupid when I was trying to make a cowboy faction only to find that it has the precept "meat - required"

Can you make those meme's seperate? So there is the Ideology Ranching meme with lots of pain and brocoli hating and Farm life as a level 1 or 2 difficulty?
Personally, I'm just waiting for the Animal personhood rework into Animal tamers or something like that so they stop being hardcore vegan and dont mind if we recycle the dozens of corpses predators left on the ground after their hunts

Okay, I should like this idea a lot in theory, but I can't help thinking this doesn't really work as a "simplified version of the Ranching meme". Removing mandatory animal sacrifices and symbol burning? Sure, that's way too weirdly specific anyway, and is the kind of thing that led me to install the unlimited ideology mod. Removing the dietary requirement? Okay, that's going a little further, but that was weird too, since it's not like real-life ranchers are obligate carnivores. Expanding the meme to cover plants as well as animals? Now that's going beyond the bounds of a simplified Ranching meme. If you need to go so far as to give it a different name so that it makes sense, why not just make make it a new meme?

Can you make a mod that simply removes the "Meat eating" precept from Ranchers? I'm interested in your current mod, but I even would really like to play "Rancher" meme without this annoying precept.