Something that personally bugs me about the VE-Accessories mod is that the quiver and ammo pack can be used together and both stack their functionality to any weapon. If it could be made to where only apply the quiver to bows and only apply the ammo pack to guns... I would actually love the idea.

Rejoice for 1.6 :D

We're back, baby.

Oh yeah I removed most of this mod's patches because they're kind of redundant. So it's mostly just VAE accessory balance and putting a bullet into Specialized Firearms' head. But maybe people still find that valuable so here it is! I don't run too many VE mods at a time anymore and the mods are a bit less janky nowadays so it's a bit unlikely that I add more patches but ehh it's always a possibility!

confirmed not CE compatible, and also probably doesn't work for newer version of VFES because i'm seeing this patch trying to patch something that doesn't exist

is it safe to remove midgame?

Any plans for 1.5?

update?

@Inventor Raccoon ok thank you!

@Narada Doesn't affect the fishing mod. I thought I saw a mod that condenses the fish into just large/medium/small but I don't know it off the top of my head.

I mostly just use fishing, does this one cover that too? I would love if there was just fish, and not different kinds. Quite odd to have only potato rice and corn in my game, and then 500 different fish :D

come across a very weird bug/major problem for some resean this mod alone likes to shut down my steam hence forth if you have a similer problem this is the calpret

can there be a mod-settings menue added for this mod, to allow for more configurability on which patches are enabled/disabled? i like raiders using belts from accessories expanded, but im also a HUGE fan of throwing rocks, and id like to keep them aswell!

I always thought the weapons should link together more fluidly but have no idea how to make such things happen. I wanted to make something like this with a focus on multiple weapon mods but again, no clue about modding RW.

I know it wasnt VE's point to link everything together fluidly so not blaming them.
Its just personally a little jarring to have VFE Medieval include a "Gunpowder" tech that is not needed for vanilla "Gunsmithing" and then also have the VFE Weapons Expanded - Frontiers added tech to come after "Gunsmithing"

Its like you get the ability to make guns without understanding gunpowder and then get the ability to make old west guns after gaining the ability to make modern guns.

Id have made it where if you had Medieval you need to research gunpowder before gunsmithing and if you had VFEWE-F that would be like a middle ground before the more modern stuff was available.

Might want to change out the ResearchPal dependency for ResearchProwl, 1.4 fork of ResearchPal 1.3 fork

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877856030

much appreciated for making the artillery actually useful <3

Thanks for updating, the ranged shield belts being cheap as hell and only usable by colonists in particular kind of ticked me off. The massive research tree bloat sucks with semi-random research too.

1.4 now! See changelog. Or don't, because I changed essentially nothing. As a reminder, this is primarily a personal patch and I will update it as I feel necessary (and only when I'm in a Rimworld mood).

any chance for an option to re-enable tools?

I mean it hasn't been touched in half a year

@Jelly Creeper Wtf do you mean? They don't have to update 24/7

Abandoned?

@MrPainting its due to the fact the way it edits the Research path

@Coolchilion I'm running a local copy of this patch with a few things changed. The patches themselves are impressingly well labeled and even someone with very little knowledge of modding should be able to edit out changes as they desire.

Why does this mod need ResearchPal?

is this safe to remove from saves? i was enjoying it but i kinda miss my tools

So this mod includes modifications for:
Vanilla Apparel Expanded - Accessories
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Vanilla Weapons Expanded
Vanilla Furniture Expanded

and nothing else?

Is the mod like totally dependent on ResearchPal or could you run it without it?

I want to second wanting the accessories feature only. I actually enjoy using tools as melee weapons so I especially would never get rid of that, but I like the idea of raiders using accessories. (I use a sidearms mod, so colonist use tools for their jobs and then have something available to whack people when they are disarmed, since I never have melee fighters unless it's a brawler. I could give everyone a knife to be more real to life, but that's kind of boring imo.)

Unrelated but was looking up at the bee up there and wondering is anyone ever added giant bees to this game? Could be fun alternate to old hive infestations, with bulletproof ceramic-paper walls and giant space bee honey...

is there a way to only get the accesoires feature?

Since you mentioned it, is this compatible with Clean Vanilla Expanded?

Thank you for this, all great changes.

@President Matt Damon Thanks for the heads-up, that sounds like an issue on CE's end (though I can't blame them for expecting the weapons to actually exist).

combat expanded isn't compatible it seems. weapons it patches are removed and causes the patch operation in their patches for VWE to fail

I might look into separating this single patch mod into a few separate ones. It already seems like it'd be best to have another one for upcoming changes to VFE Mechanoids, for technical and convenience reasons.

If/when that happens, I'll be sure to put all the bloat-removal in its own mod so people who like whips and wrenches can still have them, and look into a mod-settings menu.

Seconding Darktoes' suggestion. I could totally go for this mod, but I'm kind of a fan of weapon/tool bloat just because the variety in enemy equipment makes things more interesting.

some good ideas in here, I like the changes! is this compatible with "Uncompromising Tribal Faction"(mod that adds VE accessories to tribals) or "Immersive Technology Tree (BTTP)"(mod that tweaks the research trees for the VE series) ?

Yeah i agree with darktoes, having setting menu would be cool

Personally I quite like the tool melee weapons, they're nice to give a little work speed boost early on when you gun down a horde of tribals and can give them to your farm worker as a sidearm.

Have you considered making a mod setting menu that lets you choose which items are disabled?

Fuuchan released a mod to make the VWE tribal gear show up on tribal raids. If you decide to rebalance/remove stuff from that VWE tribal please keep it in mind so compatibility doesn't break.

@Ezoteryco Oh, hello there, and thanks! Definitely not neglecting my modding duties in another community, hah... hah...

@Farnhain Possibly? I'd load it after this mod.

INVENTOR RACCOON! taking a break from Starsector I see, nice to see you around here, nice tweaks, I'm really looking fowards to see factions getting more integrated with VFE, especially with accessories the miniturrets, plus mods like dual wield should make for some very interesting foes.

can i have this and clean vanilla expanded at the same time?

@turkler check the VAE Accessories patch, it's at the end