Sweet! Thanx for letting me know.

Looks like the new unstable build fixes your training issue! Might wanna wait until it gets pushed to Stable, but it's technically possible now.

"Improve moddability of animal abilities
- It is now easier for modders to add abilities to player animals without using the Special Trainables system.
- Additionally, adding multiple abilities through Special Trainables is now supported"

I've only had experience with that particular combo to know it works lol

I'm not sure if it's intended for the skills to not show like that, so I'll do some of my own testing and toss a potential bug report at the devs once I have some time tomorrow.

Did some more testing. And it does seem like they can indeed have both comfort and attack target. So perhaps it really is just active commands they can't have 2 of. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

Is it maybe that they can't have 2 active command abilities?

I tried something like that for the Shield Drakes that the Frilleum now have. Did attack target and the war trumpet ability. But for some reason only one of the commands was visible after they had been trained, not both. So I am under the assumption that they can't have 2 functioning abilities.

You can do attack target and comfort! I have it on my Bird Up+ macaws! You just do it like
<specialTrainables>
<li MayRequire="Ludeon.RimWorld.Odyssey">Comfort</li>
<li MayRequire="Ludeon.RimWorld.Odyssey">AttackTarget</li>
</specialTrainables>

I added the package ID to the change notes, for the couple folks that had fancyrat-related stuff.

No problem. Luckily I don't think there are many people making mods that need mine as dependencies. I've just got animals and races, no mechanics or QOL. But once I get all of them named consistently, they won't need to be changed again.

I meant that more as general advice so apologies if that didn't come across. I know that for this mod specifically it's pretty much only Fancy Rats+ getting affected, but if you've done it for your other mods that can obviously ripple out a bit further

Thanx for the heads up. Sorry, I've been trying to get all of them to be consistent in their naming for my own convenience and compulsion to organize. It also makes it easier to find them in my mod list when testing if they all have "AA" as the first part of their name. I will be doing the same until they're all named in this way.

As far as mod dependencies goes, my mods don't generally refer to their own package ID. At least I don't think they do. Guess I'll have to check the patches when I have time. But the only mods I'm aware of that depend on the fancy rats was a pair of retexture mods. So it's not like HAR or VE getting changed up. Minimal damage, if you will. I do still apologize for any inconvenience it might cause anyway.

Just a heads up, it's really bad call to rename the packageid of a mod, as that causes issues for mod dependancy sorting in mod organisers and also for the mods themselves if they refer to the mod by the packageid at all in XML or code

Glad you like it. Tha animals are up to date anyway, since they were easy. The races are all still behind. I haven't had the time or brain cells to work on them.

I haven't played this game for a long time. As soon as I opened the game, the Workshop was a big red. Glad your module version is up to 1.5 I can use it

Make Rimworld great again!

No worries! <3 I thought I’d offer just in case.

I'm glad you like it enough to do that. Though I personally would feel like it's not mine any more if I use soneone else's art. You could probably post it as a graphics patch. I know someone else did that a while back.

I know I forgot the shading for the rats when I made these. It was my first mod, so I was still figuring stuff out.

So... I got a bit carried away and remastered the graphics for this mod for some of my rat-loving buddies. If you want the remastered graphics, shoot me a friend req and I'll send you them <3 https://imgur.com/a/Ptv96jv

Good to know. I haven't really had much opportunity to do Rimworld stuff lately. But that should be a quick fix.

Looks like your mod works just fine! If you add a 1.5 tag to About.xml you'll be all set :D

Aww thank you

absolutely essential mod

Eventually. I haven't had time and energy to look at all the 1.5 stuff and see how it has broken everything yet.

will this be updated for 1.5? <3 I love this mod!

That's awesome! Addicted to petting chaos potatoes.

Also, I recommend "Animals are Fun". Then you can watch your colonists play fetch with the rats.

I also downloaded a mod called Touch animal.My character has become addicted to touching FancyRats.I don't have many points, but I hope that thanks you

making supersized fancy rats. So my rat hoard will be able to haul all the things

But I am glad you are able to enjoy the mod despite its faults.

it is random, there is no controlling it. Unfortunately each coat type would actually have to be a separate creature entirely(which would prevent interbreeding) if I wanted them to black rats to make black rat babies and brown rats to make brown rat babies, etcetera. instead there is just a list of potential graphics that it pulls from at random when rolling a new rat. There MIGHT be a way to have a sort of color breeding system, but that would require a much better modder than myself.

I have however considered taking out the silly rats, like the unicorn and the dragons rats, and making those a separate mod when I get around to it.

How do I control the coat color of the mice, I want to keep my real-life fancyrat in the game, but the skin color in the mod is born randomly,

Thank you very much to the author, you are the first to do the fancyrats mod.

I don't know, friend. It's been up for a couple years. Maybe the game had just updated(again, lols) and I hadn't updated the mod yet?
But I'm really glad you are loving it. Thank you. :)

where was this mod a year ago? why did I not come across it? I know what I've been missing out on, because I've been searching for all the rat mods one year ago. why? why not.

Truly the fanciest rat that has ever fancied

I was so delighted when I saw the special fancy rats, I love them. The dapper rat is truly the fanciest fancy rat!

That's why I made them. :) I like having pet rats and was pretty dissapointed with the lack of ratty-love. They really need more recognition as adorable and smart pets.

At some point I may change this mod to remove the dapper, unicorn, dragon, and metallic rats. Since I kinda want to make a separate "silly rats" mod.

Thank you so much for making this! I just got this game and was appalled to see that Rats had trainability set to none! (and the game is very mean to them in the description!)

No problem. :)

Thank you for your commitment to ratkind.

wow!! thank you for updating!! I love this mod!

Might actually get it done today. Had a little time this afternoon and didn't get any red errors when I made them 1.4, so animals might not have had any changes at all. Gonna let the game run with some critters spawned in for a few in-game days and see if any errors come up.

I am hoping to get around to it this weekend.

please update for 1.4 <3

I'm sorry for your loss friend. My girls are all elderly at this point, so I know I'll be in the same boat again before long.

I enjoy having a rat swarm. But I also play with the Super Animals mod, which allows any animal to haul without training. Getting all your starting equipment put away goes way faster when you have 30 rats. And it's funny to watch.

I lost my lovely ratto, Kiko, the day before yesterday. I'm going to install this mod in her honour! Great work, OP!

<3

I've always been a bit sad that rats didn't nuzzle like other pets did. Thank you for this mod!

I'm sorry for your loss. Despite me having had rodents for 20 years of my life, it never gets any easier to witness a fuzzy friend take their final sleep.
Stay strong. Thanks for taking the time to update the mod.

Ok guys. It looks like the changes to animals were fairly minimal, so hopefully all my animal mods will work now. If they misbehave, let me know and i will try to get to it when i can. but life has been very unfriendly and busy.

Thank you ratty friend. We very sadly lost some of our ratties recently, so things have been a bit rough.