Archotech Appearance rates.

[Son of Jaws]

Has anyone else noticed that they went from been rare to straight up non-existent? i might just be on a run of bad luck but i previously enjoyed collecting and using the parts allot. made for a bit of a thrill to obtain one and get a pawn who can flip a truck. Usually i caravan around and get them from trade ships without much issue. I was getting about 1 Archotech part every 3rd exotic goods ship and every 4th to 5th caravan (mine going to another settlement or an exotic trader coming to mine).

Iv been playing a game since royalty came out and over the whole thing iv found 3 and only from trade ships. I sent out a big caravan trip to my local setlments and after visiting the 6 no one had a single part. this is the 3rd time iv tried to do a big caravan to these same 6 after restocking. considering the caravans that have come to me and the ones iv sent out its a bit off that in 30 or so different trade interactions that it came up with 0 parts. Eventuraly i pulled up dev mode and just zapped my caravan to all around the planet and still a solid 0.

So im thinking 1 of 4 things has happened. 1 is that im just really bloody unlucky. 2 is that im dumb and skimmed over archotech drop rates in the patch notes. 3 is that the introduction of so many new and rare parts (link weapons and the new implants) have sort of minimized the Appearance rate of archotech way more than intended. 4 is that its actually an undocumented change that archotech is just super bloody rare now.

This is by no means a game breaking thing and regardless im still really enjoying this rimworld update. make more plz. but yeah im curious if anyone else has run into this and if its intended.

[The Pistol Experience]

I think the main problem is that quest rewards are a little borked at the moment, some quests give ridicilous rewards in royalty content, some give nothing but royal favour or just relations

Most of the time quests are never worthwhile, and the fact that there is so many new items for the quest generator to pick from to choose rewards. That also makes archotech parts even rarer.

Hope this gets fixed soon.

So far in my save ive only seen Royal favor or a few royalty added bionics but nothing else. No archotechs in quests at all, and thats were i got most of mine, as they are ridicilously expensive to buy for silver.

[Helios]

Last version i got most archotech from map event quests , these events were removed i heard 2. i noticed i cant spawn archotech items with devmode only add them as headif on pawn wich seems strange to me.

[Artaniz]

Are you talking about archotech prosthetics ? If so i found that i could always buy two pieces from any house faction on the map i was ally with , usually an eye and a leg or arm.

Also exotic goods traders tend to always have one piece .

However this is all in 1.0 so if they literally no longer have them at all then it seems for sure rates were changed. As it wasnt an occasional thing but an always thing in my most recent randy brutal playthrough. I only know this because i was buying all the legs and arms and eyes i could get in an attempt to cybernetically enhance my entire colony for funsies .

[Son of Jaws]

glad im not just dumb or unlucky. yeah iv had some quests that i really want the reward in but somtimes its like 10 psychic harmonizers and all you can think is, the hell would i want that for? yeah lets hope it gets fixed latter.

[Evil Overlord]

Originally posted by Son of Jaws:

3 is that the introduction of so many new and rare parts (link weapons and the new implants) have sort of minimized the Appearance rate of archotech way more than intended.

I believe this is the issue. Since I picked up the dlc I've been keeping an eye out for bionic and archotech parts for my colonists and noticed damn near every caravan sold psychic goods but not what I was looking for. My theory is that psychic stuff is set to the same category as bionic and archotech stuff for vendors only with a higher chance of appearing.

[Birds Aren't Real]

I haven't seen one in about 20 hours, I'll let you know when I do.