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Cool Psycasts

13 cool psycasts to spice up your game, trying to stick to the mind-magic/teleportation theme of vanilla. I will probably add more in the future whenever bugs are resolved/inspiration strikes; don't hesitate to drop your ideas in the comments.


Not compatible with VPE, but hopefully doesn't overlap with other psycast mods. If it does, use Cherry Picker.

For other modders, the C# source is included and the comps are somewhat reusable, so feel free to do stuff with them as long as you credit me.


Uses skipgates to teleport projectiles in an area in place, reversing their momentum; they will be returned to the sender.
Use cases: centipede bullet spam, doomsday rockets, mortars.


Awakens a target, partially filling their need for sleep and negating some coma-causing health conditions.
Use cases: negate comas from medical operations, let your crafter pull all-nighters at the low, low cost of killing rats with a magic thinking sword.


Skips chemfuel into an area. Not only will the ground be flammable, so will pawns in the area.
Use cases: set anything on fire, lets mechanoid take flame damage.


Forces a target to vomit. This empties their stomach and cures gut worms and food poisoning.
Use cases: food poisoning is annoying; otherwise it's a way to stun people.


Spawns an exact duplicate of the caster. The duplicate will be naked, have no psycasts, have no artificial prostheses, and disappears after a duration proportional to the caster's psychic sensitivity.
Use cases: sacrifices, slave trading, decoys, activating that archotech eraser thing from VE, abusing abilities that are not psycasts, extra manpower...


Causes a target to fall into despair for a short time, instantly draining their mood and reducing their consciousness. Also ends inspirations.
Use cases: converting pawns with Crisis of Belief abuse, triggering inspirations on the Tortured Artists, poor man's Berserk if raiders are having a picnic.


Generates a microscopic skipgate linked to a singularity. The gravitational effects are negligible on objects and creatures; however, the light distortion makes it hard to acquire targets, halving the range of anyone in the area.
Use cases: force that Pikeman to come closer to you.


A spell psycast that grows a field of flowers. The radius is proportional to the caster's psychic sensitivity.
Use cases: prettify the surroundings of your base.


Skip the five closest chunks far above the ground. They will fall down in an area around the target location.
Use cases: bombard enemies and destroy turrets.


Create a skipgate inside a target, skipping a random organ or implant to the caster's location.
Use cases: funny warcrimes.


Skips a target forward in time by a couple hours. They will be otherwise unaffected.
Use cases: deal with a dangerous enemy later or save an ally until you can tend to them.


Permanently enslave a target by crushing their mental resistance.
Use cases: controllable Berserk, easy way to take prisoners.


Sends chaotic psychic stimuli into the target's brain. The overstimulation causes mild permanent damage; psylinks enter a feedback loop that causes the psychic energy to violently erupt, damaging everyone nearby.
Use cases: farm Trauma Savant, down raiders, nuggetify prisoners, show the Empire who's boss, explode your psycaster's duplicates.





Q: I don't like this psycast and it's going to dilute the pool of good psycasts.
A: Use Choice of Psycasts or Cherry Picker.


Q: Duplicate doesn't make sense lorewise.
A: The lore primer mentions an archotech duplicating a ship for its own inscrutable purposes.


Q: X psycast is too weak/too strong.
A: Drop a comment and I'll take a pass at balance.


Q: Icons are ugly.
A: I'm a programmer, not an artist. Sorry.


Q: X psycast should also affect Y modded condition.
A: Drop a comment with the mod's ID and the hediff's defName and I'll add it in.


Q: Can you add a VPE version?
A: VPE uses a completely different system from vanilla, which means I'd have to rewrite all abilities. Also, these were not really designed as paths for VPE, since the abilities are fairly unrelated.


Me for everything, except the nice icon for Mass Reflect by Psychosama.