v1.4.0

New features and compatibility updates:
- added a subtle aura animation for the active ancient protective aura
- added SoS2 feature allowing ancient aura protected pawns to absorb incoming heat produced e.g. by incoming fire on shields and convert it into psychic heat for an aura protected pawn until their limit is reached or the pawn collapses due to psychic shock if overload is allowed. A new toggle/gizmo was added for aura protected pawns to enable ship protection (The conversion rate and the percentage of heat absorbed can be adjusted in mod settings)
- added SoS2 patch to avoid hypoxia for ancient aura protected pawns
- added feature to the ancient protective aura to regulate the protected pawn's body temperature in case of hypothermia or heatstroke
- all newly added features above can be fully disabled or adjusted in the mod's settings
- added further options for more silver exchange amounts for bounty credit
- excluded regrowth's wasteland biome from becoming a possible quest shrine location
- added winston waves compatibility patch separating story locations from the storyteller raid logic
- added improved Chinese translation by MZM_GOW

Fixes:
- fixed story quest breaking when worlds are switched (SoS2), however hostile factions seem to no longer be hostile to other npc factions after a world switch which is a current SoS2 bug, so possibly hold off with world switches during the story until that bug is resolved
- fixed silver exchanges for bounty credits in space (SoS2), trade beacons are no longer required
- likely fixed a compatibility issue in the bounty system's veteran generation in case used traits were disabled by other mods
- improved story pawn creation behavior to possibly avoid a rare incompatibility case
- adjusted roof for final boss room to be mountain roofed
- added option to leave invisible camp center behind when packing up the camp without leaving, so the control options to leave immediately can still be used (needs to be enabled in options)
- adjusted faction used for the prisoner in a caravan event to primarily be hostile to avoid faction relation changes
- added VFECore patch to ignore the no longer needed mech story faction in their faction dialog
- started preparations to safely remove the no longer needed friendly mech faction included in the mod
- reduced friendly quest caravan size
- fixed story quests being set to hidden when the colony is being moved during the archonexus quest
- excluded hidden and temporary factions from mechanoid bounty dialog
- allow insect meat option for automatic camp generation not correctly applying for butchering recipes
- fixed preselecting pawns or items to be automatically selected for the caravan screen not updating the weight value
- potentially avoided a rare case of the story pawn being generated naked in case of a mod incompatibility
- fixed passive ancient protective aura cost label
- added debug button to finish the storyline
- improved internal debug logging

v1.3.4

- added missing psyfocus regeneration info to the ancient gift's hediff tooltip
- fixed bosses not being detected as killed by the story when fully destroyed under certain circumstances (e.g. being nuked)
- fixed the story generated sacrileg hunter village not restocking trade items after 30 days
- reduced social and mood impact of negative CA relations by half
- fixed a caravan event assigning an incompatibly trait for the event pawn on rare occasions
- camp and camp-builder access modifier fixes
- removed duplicate shrine localization text key "VisitAncientMasterShrine"
- adjusted the skill drop rate for levels beyond 15 (if the general skill feature is enabled)
- fixed camping and night travel gizmos being disabled by the wrong mod category setting
- adjusted the burn for fuel filter of camp's mini biofuel refinery to disallow fresh human corpses, if ... there shall be hats
- fixed a few story related typos

v1.3.3

- fixed bosses being instantly killable using a psychic shock lance on them
- fixed miner error that appeared when scythers called with the ancient mech signal spell died after loading a savegame
- limited the smallest map size for ancient story master shrines to medium to avoid issues with shrine generation on small maps
- fixed items not remaining on animals or pawns if "storing items in storage tents" modsetting was disabled
- fixed crash in camp generation when having certain tent types disabled
- fixed a mod with... questionable pawn spawn limitations interrupting the camp building process
- improved bounty faction compatibility check
- adjusted camp mod setting order
- fixed typo in third wheel relation text

v1.3.2

Camping:
- added compatibility for the new caravan hitching post item used to form caravans added by the beta (not for 1.2)
- added mod options to allow storing and processing human and insect corpses, aswell as their meat for automatically applied storage zone and job use
- when human corpses/meat is allowed an extra job to burn tainted apparel is added to the camp fire

Story:
- added mod setting to story options allowing to set a number of days the story should additionally be delayed by
- added mod setting allowing to disable the quest faction starting help and apply max weapon biocode chance and DeathAcidifiers
- fixed tree whisper sound proceeding if the ancient gift is being denied and not accepted with another pawn

Story Abilities:
- nerfed the ancient signal spell by reducing the default number of called scythers to 2-4
- added mod settings allowing to set the amount of scythers to be called by the ancient mech signal spell
- moved the melee attack hit chance and half of the dodge chance from the protective aura to the ancient gift to render the coordinator boosted protective aura a bit weaker and complement melee combat capabilities for the gifted pawn a bit more earlier on
- added missing melee attack speed buff label in the hediff for the ancient gift (introduced in 1.3.1)
- added missing caravan speed boost label in the hediff info for the mystical guiding light spell (not for 1.2)

Mechanoid bounty:
- acquired veterans now gain the main ideology of the player faction (not for 1.2)

Translation relevant:
- new key: CA_Story_DeniedGift in Keyed\StoryStart.xml
- (v1.3.1) adjusted CAAncientGift Hediff description

v1.3.1

Story:
- limited sacrileg hunters to ideology memes that make sense (not for 1.2)
- added option to set the sacrileg hunter faction hostile or friendly towards natural enemy factions (not for 1.2 yet)
- reduced bounty on the endboss as the player additionally gains reward bounty credits for finishing the story

Story Abilities:
- added an attack speed buff for melee attacks to the ancient gift, can be adjusted in mod settings
- switched the used faction for the ancient mech signal spell from the added friendly mech faction to the player faction; the added mech faction is no longer in use and may be removed in a future update
- added mod setting allowing to disable slaves to be included in the Ancient Coordinator spell (not for 1.2)
- added compatibility avoidance entries in the CompatibilityDef for the Ancient Coordinator spell which allows to add races or mod def extensions of races to exclude them from the coordinator ability

Camping:
- added an option to disable the settlement proximity goodwill impact when camping close to other faction's settlements
- improved item sorting and placement for storage tents so items should now be more correctly grouped together
- improved storage tent calculation to better fit the amount of storage tents needed
- added a light source to camp trade beacons so players using mods that reduce the ambient light at night can still see what's stored there
- removed packaged survival meals from foods to be stored in the freezer tent, as they don't spoil
- improved approximate camping supply cost indicator shown on the "settle with camp" icon
- improved camp generation to cancel the generation correctly if the camp center couldn't be built
- improved camp generation to not use supplies for tents that couldn't be built

Travel Companions:
- added mod setting allowing to exclude slaves from the travel companion feature (not for 1.2)

v1.2.3

- added caravan packing spot to camp center and an option to disable it
- added slave corpses as allowed default to camp biofuel refinery filter
- added packaged survival meals (10 per pawn) and pemmican (180 per pawn) to the campfire bills depending on camp type
- limited bonus spells from the ancient gift only to pawns that do not have abilities yet
- increased timeout delay for another caravan event in cases where a compatibility error is thrown to 1 day
- preemptive incompatibility fixes when applying inventory to zones

v1.2.2

- normalized decimals on bounty credits
- fixed oversight that led to situational log spam with an info message when the story was disabled and the mod's debug messages were enabled

v1.2.1

- fixed story caravans being generated in space (SOS2 compatibility)
- fixed minor error when removing the portal of a boss encounter

v1.2.0

- added shotcut-button to open the forming/trading preset filter options from the caravan forming/trading dialog (suggestion and button-icon by Madman666, thanks!)
- added ability to pre-selecting items additionally to pawns that are then automatically toggled in the caravan forming dialog (suggestion by Madman666, thanks!)
- added slave apparel to automatic production tent bills if the caravan making camp contains slaves
- added the ability to cast the ancient mech signal on a pawn, scythers will then escort the pawn
- fixed ancient mech signal scythers walking away from the spawn point, if no hostiles are around to engage
- increased ancient mech signal spell psyfocus cost by a third
- adjusted animal roam free camp setting to only affect trainable animals, farm animals will always be placed in the animal area now
- switched stonecutting table camp mod setting to default (needs to changed manually if mod already installed)
- updated Korean translation done by inbae (thanks mate)
- fixed typo in a story event text

v1.1.5

- fixed some camp buildings not displaying the out of fuel icon upon running out
- improved mystical guiding light spell to display the duration and it's now being refreshed when cast again while active
- set trees (plants) disabled for the pack up caravan forming preset default
- adjusted whispers to stop when tree was killed
- added mod setting to entirely mute the story whisper sound
- fixed issue that, depending on load order, kept other mods from applying custom settlement generation changes
- fixed spacer and makeshift fabric being used in resource drop events
- fixed portal showing text that it can be destroyed
- fixed typo in settings