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Xenotype: Changeling

In 2 collections by cyanobot
Original Mods by Cyanobot
16 items
Cyanobot Plays 1.6 - Genes and Xenotypes
67 items
Description
Xenotype: Changeling
Hunger rate: x175%

These beautiful, long-eared children always seem to be found without parents. People who take them in find that they eat a lot, sleep a lot, and barely seem to age. Few can find it in themselves to resent the cost of raising these children, as their natural charm endears them to all but the hardest of hearts.

Advantages
  • Total antitoxic lungs
  • Fast runner
  • Beautiful
  • Elongated fingers
  • Precocious (counts as a Child from birth)
  • Optimist (only with Det's Stoneborn, to offset Narrow memory)

Mixed/neutral
  • Metamorphosis: Fairy
  • Afamilial (Incapable of Childcare, no family-related thoughts)
  • Delightful (opinion bonus from others, Delightful Words interaction)
  • Narrow memory (with Det's Stoneborn)

Disadvantages
  • Sleepy
  • Delicate
  • Slow Maturation (50% aging)
  • Unproductive (90% work speed)

Cosmetic

With VPE Psycaster Genes
  • Warlord


Xenotype: Fairy
Hunger rate: x175%
These hulking, aggressive carnivores get their ironic name for being the adult form of the fey and delicate Changeling children. Antisocial and thick-headed, they bear little resemblance in appearance or demeanour to the young. Their endless appetites are not diminished, but finally pay off in size, speed and brute strength.

Advantages
  • Acid spray/Toxic spray (with Outland Genetics)
  • Total antitoxic lungs
  • Fast runner
  • Robust
  • Reduced pain
  • Strong melee damage
  • Unstoppable
  • Tough skin (natural armor)
  • Fast melee hitter (with VRE Archon)
  • Low beauty standard (with Integrated Genes)
  • Great melee

Neutral/mixed
  • Offspring: Changeling
  • Fertile
  • Afamilial (Incapable of Childcare, no family-related thoughts)
  • Prodigious growth (continues growing over adult lifespan)
  • Gluttonous (with VRE - Pigskin)

Disadvantages
  • Hyper-aggressive/Extremely aggressive (with VRE Archon)
  • Ugly
  • Slow study
  • Unstable (mental break threshold +10%)
  • Carnivore (illness and reduced nutrition from eating plant foods)
  • Poor Artistic (Awful with Integrated Genes)
  • Awful Crafting
  • Poor Cooking (removed with VRE Pigskin to offset Gluttonous)
  • Awful Intellectual
  • Awful Social

Cosmetic

With VPE Psycaster Genes
  • Warlord



Features
Compatibility
1.6 only. In 1.5, this xenotype is included in the base mod Cyanobot's Genes.

As noted above, several modifications are made to the genome based on the presence of other mods. None of these are required to play with the xenotype. Personally I recommend Outland - Genetics for the toxic spray and enhanced cosmetics.

Generation
You can control the factionless (beggars, transport pod crashes, etc) spawn rate of both changelings and fairies (children spawn as changelings, adults as fairies) with a slider in the mod settings. Default is rare.

A second slider controls an additional chance for any "foundling" child pawn generated in incidents and quests (defined by reference to pawnKinds Refugee, SpaceRefugee, Beggar, and WildMan) to generate as a changeling. Default is 10%.

If you use something like Xenotype Spawn Control you can also add changelings and fairies to other factions as you please. Note that when an adult tries to generate as a changeling they will immediately become a fairy, and vice versa for children.

Planned features
Infographics. For now, check parent mod Cyanbot's Genes for documentation of the new genes.[docs.google.com]

With thanks to:
- wep of https://wepfont.com/ for Atmospheric font
- Camera+ for allowing close screenshots

Links:
[cyanobotcodes.tumblr.com]
[ko-fi.com]

7 Comments
Maxim Omelchenko Jul 27 @ 1:50pm 
Hey, i was just guessing!(But Very sleepy is debilitating - honestly) That said i'm playing Kitlin no matter what. So do how you see fit!
cyanobot  [author] Jul 27 @ 1:32pm 
I meant tweaking the graphics, but I could take a look at the balance too... I mean they are supposed to be useless cat people though... >_>
Maxim Omelchenko Jul 27 @ 11:43am 
"tweaking a couple" you say!? Let me guess: "Very sleepy" gene is replaced with "Sleepy" - so they are less useless. Or maybe you gonna add something new like - digitigrade legs.
cyanobot  [author] Jul 27 @ 9:57am 
@Maxim Omelchenko
Glad to hear it! They're getting a bit of a glo-up with the update, since their graphics were some of the earliest I did. I'm converting to vectors so the resolution can be better, and tweaking a couple of things I wasn't quite happy with the first time around. Shouldn't be too long now though!
Maxim Omelchenko Jul 27 @ 8:51am 
Can't wait for Kitlin!
cyanobot  [author] Jul 26 @ 3:32pm 
@CryptoTest
Thank you for all your enthusiasm. <3 It means a lot to know people are enjoying my space freaks.
CryptoTest Jul 26 @ 8:15am 
The Fairies have always been my second favourite xenotype of the bunch, and one of my favourites all around. I'm thoroughly glad to have it back once more.