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Superhero Genes - Base

Note about mod requirements: If, for whatever reason, you cannot or do not want to have one of the listed requirements, this mod will still work. This mod was designed in a way that made it so genes related to the requirements will not be added if the mod is disabled. If you cannot find a power that should be on the list please make sure all listed mods are enabled. Harmony is the only exception to this, and is a hard requirement, but I doubt that will be an issue.

Psionist, Hemomancer, and Radiomancer note, they require an archite capsule. If you can't find them, you probably forgot to remove restrictions. If you can see other archite genes but can't see them, you've found a bug.

Ever wanted your pawns to be able to lift extreme weights? Want them to be able to research things at frankly ridiculous speeds? This mod allows you to give pawns some of the more mundane super powers, like super strength and super speed. Much like in superhero movies, there is little balance in what they can do, but you didn't come here for common sense. In this base, there are 3 categories of powers, and 6 powers within each one, each power influencing a different aspect of the pawn, along with a straggler or two as a bonus. All superhero genes, from this mod or any that may or may not be made after this, have a prerequisite superhero gene that provides boosts to numerous aspects of the pawn at no cost.

This currently adds over 350 new genes that aim to make pawns significantly more powerful without becoming so overpowered that they are completely untouchable.

A list of updates can be found here, along with the next planned update.[github.com]

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Superhero Genes - Villain and Stereotypes adds xenotypes that use these genes and a hostile faction. It's separate from this one so that people don't have a bunch of extra xenotypes filling their list, or a hostile faction of strong opponents disrupting their colony constantly.

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Superhero Genes - Hero Organization adds non-evil super factions, and for those with royalty it adds a few quests including one to two end-game quests. Requires Villains and Stereotypes.

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Dynamic Carry Capacity helps fix a vanilla bug that causes carry capacity to not function outside of hauling.

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For anyone who's tempted to actually make religions based on a group of supers, I made Increased Max Deities in Theist Relgions, which increases the max gods you can assign to a theistic religion from 4 to 20.

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While genes from this mod are not balanced for the game, they are supposed to be balanced for each other. If any one superhero gene feels useless or overpowered compared to other genes in its category, let me know. A monster might have eaten my balance when I wasn't looking.

This mod will remove the armor cap for vanilla.

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Want your superhero to be truly overpowered? The Metabolic Adjusters mod that Green Giggler made throws balance out the window by allowing you to add a bunch of metabolic efficiency for free.

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To help avoid weird inheritance issues, try using a mod like the Better Gene Inheritence mod made by RedMattis. With how the inheritance system is set up in the vanilla game, there's a chance that your pawns won't properly inherit superhero genes from their parents in situations where they logically should, and this mod should help protect you from that situation some.

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If you want to give a pawn a bunch of powers, you may need something like Scrollable Gizmos to make the abilities easier to go look through. This likely won't work with anything else that messes with gizmos.

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The preview and mod icon were made by Elseud
Easy link to all of my Rimworld mods


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For those who are wondering, yes, I have added a CE compatibility patch. Not a particularly good one, but it's there. I do not, nor do I ever plan to, use CE, so the patch is about as balanced as I am personally capable of getting it to. I am not planning on updating the patch unless it's to handle errors that pop up due to a CE update, so outside of CE adding a patch in its own mod, the balance of the CE patches is not likely to change.