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Cooler Psycasts

27 cool psycasts to spice up your game, trying to stick to the mind-magic/teleportation theme of vanilla, level 10 psycasters, and Empire retaliation!
Three psycasts only appear if you have Vanilla Expanded Framework enabled. One requires Vanilla Races Expanded - Archons.

Not compatible with Vanilla Psycasts Expanded, 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.



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.


Skips away gravitons before they can affect the caster, reducing the effects of gravity on them. This increases movement speed and carrying capacity which decreasing mass. Can be used in a caravan.
Use cases: caravaning, anything that needs you to move faster.


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.


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.


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 mechanoids take flame damage.


Changes the weather to rain.
Use cases: Gets rid of worse weathers, slows raiders down and makes ranged weapons less accurate, and puts out fires.


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.


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.


Create an illusory fighter by manipulating the visual centers of everyone nearby. It can be controlled but cannot interact with anything and will eventually vanish.
Use cases: distractions and free melee blockers.


By temporarily skipping away parts of structures the caster would walk into, lets the caster walk through walls.
Use cases: easy ancient danger, complex, and camp looting; peekaboo tactics in raids.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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...


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




A level 6 psycaster can interact with a psychic neuroformer to transcend it. This is a process that takes time and causes neural heat as work is performed. However, when finished, you are rewarded with a transcended psylink neuroformer, which cannot be otherwise acquired.
Transcended psylink neuroformers can be used to upgrade a psycaster all the way to level 10. Note these psycasts do not have psytrainers.
The Empire forbids the use of level 7 psycasts and higher. Should you use one, the Empire will become your enemy, unless the offending psycaster is implanted with a psychic silencer, an implant which halves maximum neural heat capacity.
The Empire will enforce this with their Inquisitors, powerful melee fighters that come with special anti-psycaster gear and implants.

Discover these psycasts by playing the mod!



Q: CE?
A: Mostly yes. Duplicate, Mass Reflect, and Jitterskip don't work, so they won't appear.


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. Note that Choice of Psycasts won't work on level 7+ psycasts.


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 with your reasoning and I'll take a pass at balance.


Q: Icons are ugly.
A: I'm a programmer, not an artist. Sorry. Help with art is welcome.


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: How do I get a psychic silencer?
A: Quest rewards or trading, though the Empire won't sell it to you. With VFE - Deserters, you can buy it for intel from the Deserters.


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.


Q: I have a cool psycast idea.
A: Great, put it in the comments or DM me on Discord. I will be updating this mod whenever inspiration strikes.


Me for the code and most graphical "assets".
The nice icon used for Mass Reflect by Psychosama.
Inquisitor Rapier graphics by Mad Catter.