Alpha Genes - genepacks disappearing

[fitznorway]

I've had all *kinds* of trouble with Alpha Genes, which is breaking my heart:

- mixpacks override one another if I manually haul them. i.e. if there are three distinct mixpacks on the map, and I haul them to somewhere other than a genebank - say, when I'm at an abandoned lab - the game will select one of them, and simply stack all three as the same mixpack. I havent seen this happen with anything but mixpacks, and it is mostly avoidable by simply not allowing my pawns to haul them, and loading them onto pack animals directly, one at a time. Painful, but not a big thing.

- mixpacks just...disappear on the way home. Like, they are in the caravan list, and then at some point, just...gone. Every mixpack I've found with 4 genes has disappeared before I could get it from 'caravan has arrived home' to the genebank. I am still not sure when it is happening, and its not throwing errors - there might BE errors, but I dont know where/when to look. This doesnt appear to happen with alpha packs or normal genepacks.

Anyone experienced anything similar? I've found some *incredibly cool* stuff out there, and then it goes up in smoke, poof! I'm confident its a conflict I have somewhere, I just cannot seem to troubleshoot this.

[Astasia]

Gene packs aren't supposed to stack. People had the same issues with the base Biotech genes when the DLC first released because stack mods were causing things to stack that shouldn't and the "metadata" on those item types was being deleted when merged into another stack. Your first issue is probably going to be solved by finding the item def of these "mix packs" and adding an exception to your stack mod to prevent them from stacking. I wouldn't be surprised if your second issue was related and those genes were just instantly being merged into stacks inside your gene bank and being lost that way.

[fitznorway]

Thank you, Astasia, I dont know if I will be able to do all that, but its real nice to have some place to start trying. I hadnt thought of it being a stack mod issue - I only use Ogre, but maybe I'll begin there. Much obliged!