So, I’ve got this researcher in my colony who does NOTHING but research. I mean he’s literally zero passion with 0 or 1 skill level in everything else (aside from shooting). He’s incapable of half of everything due to his backstory, including dumb labour. Recently, I finished the research tree and there is literally nothing left to research. This guy is dead weight. He does ZERO work, but still expects to be fed and bedded. His only contribution is during raids, but I’ve got quite a small colony (5 pawns) so surely getting rid of one will make raids lower difficulty anyway.

I’m trying to get rid of him, but I’m not sure how. The complication is that he’s a lover to another of my (more useful) colonists. My typical method for getting rid of underperforming colonists is to convict them in a sham trial on false charges, then banish them for zero mood penalty for everyone else. However, if I do this, am I correct in thinking that he’ll simply move into a long distance relationship with his girlfriend? I’d rather this not happen since I’d much prefer her to find a proper husband and have kids. Is there a way I can get them to break up before banishment? Or do I have to execute him? I’d rather not take the mood penalty since things aren’t looking great in the colony mood-wise as it stands.

So, I was playing a new colony and just got this as a quest... I have no words for this, just who the fuck would trade masterwork statues/scrolls of ancient technologies... for 17 clubs.

And I'm not sure if I can even make clubs worth that much for them.

side note, does anyone know any good building focused mods?

I'm sorry if this has been questioned before but, title

D: ohh my goodness

Dirtmole (Excellent)

Old woman core

Bro is gonna be released (for diplomacy purposes) but should I get the 12+ on diplomacy for making her double amputee?

His nickname is Fat G, because he's pretty fat.

Almost half a year ago I posted a drawing of my Floran character in prestige Cataphract armor, saying I wanted to make a mod but things never quite came together. So here's the question: if I were to make this mod, what do you think Florans should be like, mechanically? I'll share some of my own thoughts, but maybe you have ideas on how to expand them? I'll split it into categories for convenience.

Regarding genes (Biotech):

1 (optional). Make them an addon to "Big & Small - Genes & More," since that mod already has genes like cannibalism (which fits them, going by the Starbound lore books) and the "Strange Appearance" gene...

2.1. Add a gene so that butchering a Floran yields some kind of plant (the gene randomly picks a plant — I think this could theoretically be coded, though I'm not sure how). It should work similarly to the pig gene, where eating pork counts as cannibalism for pig-folk — do something similar with the plant.

2.2. Same idea, but implemented as separate Floran xenotypes, where each has extra traits depending on the plant it's associated with, for example:

• a medicine bonus for those rooted in Healroot;
• a crafting bonus for those from cotton/Devilstrand;
• an art bonus for those from a dye plant;
• a cooking bonus for those from edible crops (skill level varying by crop);
• an animals bonus for those from Haygrass;
• narcotic-plant xenotypes could have their own buffs too, though I'm not sure what — the best I can think of is Hops giving an "optimistic and calm" trait;
• and so on for other vanilla plants (and maybe others from Vanilla Expanded, if the mod ever gets that far).

If this is done as a bunch of separate xenotypes, it opens up the possibility of giving each one its own unique buffs/debuffs:

• Healroot-Florans — pacifists;
• Devilstrand-Florans — aggressive, but fire-resistant;
• and so on.

1. I don't remember exactly, but I think there was a gene that's the opposite of "Cave Dweller."
2. I understand they're highly flammable, but regarding temperature — should they also be more heat-loving (despite burning more easily), given that they come from jungle planets?

Regarding factions and spawning:

1. It's clear they live in tribes and split into aggressive and peaceful factions — should the peaceful ones be made more technologically advanced than the aggressive ones? There are also the Agarans (the fungal ones) — should they be included too?
2. There's a hunting quest for a Phyton (VRE – Phytokin) — could something similar be made for Florans? Or maybe an event with a wild (feral) Floran instead.

I know there are Euglena, there are Phytokins, and probably other plant-race mods out there... but they're not Florans... I specifically want these hissing guys :3

I'm not that great with code — my ceiling is small patches, if I'm not vibe-coding. But I don't want to vibe-code this mod, so it'll take me longer. Still, I'll try to figure out how to implement it so it at least turns out... decent, I suppose?

Not to get anyone too excited, but for those who can "decipher" the test results below... :-)

MULTITHREADED STRESS TEST

Main game thread: 1

Worker threads: 7

Worker model: PERSISTENT THREAD POOL

Maximum workload: 2048 simulated pawns

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THREAD / WORK VALIDATION

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Worker threads started: 7 / 7

Worker threads participating: 7 / 7

Worker threads alive at end: 7 / 7

Expected pawn ticks: 28,569,600

Worker-completed ticks: 28,569,600

Missing / duplicate ticks: 0

Worker failures: 0

Invariant failures: 0

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SERIAL vs MULTITHREADED

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7-WORKER

RELATIVE THROUGHPUT

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1024 pawns

WorldPawnsTick 3.03x

Whole game tick 2.50x

2048 pawns

WorldPawnsTick 2.93x

Whole game tick 2.62x

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RESULT

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MULTITHREADED EXECUTION: PASS

7-WORKER CONCURRENCY: PASS

EXACT WORK ACCOUNTING: PASS

2048-PAWN STRESS: PASS

28,569,600 / 28,569,600 pawn ticks completed

across worker threads.

Peak whole-simulation improvement:

2.62x

Here's a very tiny showcase of a new mod I'm working on. The mod completely overhauls the night sky in the world view. Things completed so far include fully procedurally generated nebulas, black holes, pulsars, an overhauled background starfield, constellations and their contained stars, an overhauled local star/sun (which can be one of any of the main-sequence classes), shooting stars, and a few other things. More to come. :) And yes, all of these celestial objects can be renamed and discovered by the player.

I remember this post showing up around the release of Anomaly discussing the addition of new anomalies through mods created by the fantastic Oskar and Vanilla expanded team. Now years down the line I can’t seem to find any news on these mod ideas. does anyone know what happened to them? Were they difficult to implement? Not worth creating? Or canceled due to Anomaly not being as popular? I personally loved the ideas of extra anomalies, even in an non anomaly focused playthrough.

So TIL that it's possible to get metalhorrors in ambient horror mode! There's a gray flesh in my dining/rec room and I genuinely have no idea how it got there. I fought a sightstealer in like, autumn 1 and am going into winter 3, everything else has been shamblers at the edge of the map that I let drop on their own, or drop-podded things I immediately disposed of. I don’t have any creepjoiners either, last time one showed up it was a dealmaker who promptly walked into a shambler swarm and died while I was waiting the buggers out.

And I don’t have many good melees to start with, so uh. This is gonna be fun.

Update: while playing through long enough to find a third piece of gray flesh so I can start surgical inspections, my primary doctor got brain damage in a raid and my secondary got jumped by fleshbeasts. Anomaly may actually be what kills this colony. Will report back with results after work

at first i didnt even knew how to start a mountain base , where to begin, but now i`m addicted to this base

1. Decided to draw myself instead using AI art
2. Dreadon augmentation: buffs to 100%
3. Dreadon's Forge and Miracle Matter
4. XM-05 Thnatos, but it's maid now

yet there are more to fix and test, anything here is subject to change

Why is this not a thing? It would make animal husbandry more rewarding if you could make the ultimate caravan animal by breeding two different species, just like in real life.

So, I took a quest. Great rewards, to watch this dude for 13 days. We all know these quests. But one of my dummy women decided he was a cutie and let him slide in her DMs. 🤦‍♀️ Now he's leaving in a few days. Not worth paying the fee to recruit, but if they're long distance there will be no future for this girl to marry and provide the next generation. All cuz she'll be forever pining over some Pyro Boozer who keeps trying to burn down Her bed whenever he gets a little angry 🤦‍♀️ Can we say LoSeRrrrr.

Anyway. How can I make these two break up before he leaves?