@sleepingpiranha You choose it in the mod-settings

What IS a cat?

I love this mod. I encountered a possibly unintentional albeit funny behaviour where puppies started going after animals way too big for their size. Is the size ratio based on their adult size? Maybe hunting should be gated to adults.

@Cortec Dont know, never tried that mod

Looks like a fun mod, does this work with multiplayer by zetrith?

@flyons_gary 1. Yes
2. No cooldown, as long as they are not doing any specific job they have that chance of hunting if possible.
3. They attack a nearby valid animal and may or may not kill it. They may bring it to their owners bed if selected. Generally, nothing is certain. They are cats.

So clarifying questions since I wanted to apply the category of Cats to the owlcats from Alpha Animals.
1) Would changes to category work midsave?
2) How common exactly is hunting supposed to be? I know I can set a percentage chance, but is there a cooldown?
3) Do they do the actual hunting behavior and then basically have a chance to return with the given prey item?

So far they dont seem to do it at all so trying to figure stuff out

Ah, so a bit of both, it is pre-calculated but it's done at launch rather than being hardcoded. Sure enough RIMMSqol was sorted to load after this mod, which would explain why the change wasn't showing up. I tested using a % (slightly) below where rats showed up in the text and they were still being hunted so it was definitely working, it was just that the numbers for that text preview were pre-calculated so the preview prompt made it look like it wasn't working properly.

@Church.exe I dont know when rimmsqol changes the values. If its after this mod then it will bot see the changed values. I think patching the sizes would be the best way to fix it as its done before any of the assemblies are loaded

I mean is the information on the animals hard-coded. In other words, if another mod (namely RIMMSqol) changes the size of a rat, would the prompt recognize that and behave differently, or does it have a static internal measure of how large various animals should be?

@Church.exe No, the text is depending on your mod-settings and changes based on what percent you set it to

Is the "A standard cat would attack: " text hardcoded? I'm trying to use RIMMSqol to make it so that cats will hunt rats (from the Rats mod that makes them spawn in on meat and such) but not try to 1v1 a megascarab but I've tried tweaking both "mass" and "Base Body Size" in RIMMSqol and for some reason the rats and megascarabs still show up at the same relative size %.

lol, next time I play Rimworld, I am going to make all the many species of dragons in my game count as cats. I fear the ecology may not survive.

@larry.rathbun The cats should only hunt within their bodysize limits in the options, anything else is unintended

@Mlie I appreciate your response. If you saw my earlier one I deleted, apologies, I was in a pissy mood due to work.

I was more looking for the short answer of "that's intended behavior" or "maybe adjust setting x". If your response indicates an actual issue, I am just not going to worry about it. I have way too many mods and too much time invested in the save.

@larry.rathbun Please see the Reporting Issues section described above

My cats keep trying to hunt a herd of Gazelle. I have them set to hunt about 80% body size (chosen to get rat in the displayed list) Gazelle is not in the list, yet all they do is try to hunt gazelle, even the kittens - born today - are fanatic gazelle hunters. Any ideas?

@VISilt They will defend themselves, but they should get stunned at the first attack so it would be a unlucky cat that fails to defend itself

Is there a way to prevent the rats from biting my cats limbs off while they play together?

I had the exact same issue (log spam) as the poster below. I know my log is long, I'll try to investigate best to my abilites.

Exception in Verse.AI.ThinkNode_Priority TryIssueJobPackage: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'CatsHuntForFun.CatsHuntForFun' threw an exception. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: key
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[TKey,TValue].TryInsert (TKey key, TValue value, System.Collections.Generic.InsertionBehavior behavior) [0x00008] in <eae584ce26bc40229c1b1aa476bfa589>:0
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[TKey,TValue].set_Item (TKey key, TValue value) [0x00000] in <eae584ce26bc40229c1b1aa476bfa589>:0
at CatsHuntForFun.CatsHuntForFun..cctor () [0x000b3] in <6eda34fc06ba42c9af4ab8d525cab2c5>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---


https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/645ac563f66a052c4b6283bed29085f5

imma just send the log to you in private message
steam is being demented

@Alexander The Great Do you think you can post the full log? And is this with any other mod loaded?

imma post the lill bug report here.


ive noticed an odd little red log spam from the cats hunt for fun mod of yours suddenly, starting a new game

https://gist.github.com/Alexsys/6dbfa99a0cb62c726729f734c9392110

@roguelovex The check for prey happens as a normal check for activity as with any pawn. When checking for prey they then have a 25% chance of attack each attack

Do the chances of them attacking prey happen only when they spot the prey? Or does it calculate at fixed times?
Like if I have it set at 25% chance to hunt prey and it failed, when will it check to see if the cat will hunt it again?

That's awesome, thank you!

@BadOaks Cats should now ignore animals that have a deathaction that is harmful

I love the idea of the mod but one of my cats just attacked a boomrat and killed itself. Would be nice if the options provided a way to avoid that scenario.

this isnt just cool its just plain true

can you add a mod setting so the animals wont attack animals from other factions

@dragonkade333 Try and find out what mod is triggering it. Some mods that adds animals have been missing some required values in the past. If you find out what mod it is I can add a workaround for it

If I open the mod settings for this mod- It crashes the GUI and I need to reset the game.

yeah, same odd spam that doesnt allow me to play, constantly pauses my game

@Daedalus Thank you, seems that there was an issue in Advanced Biomes where the Mutant Cow used the normal Cow-racedef instead of its own. I updated that mod now and it will no longer cause issues in this (or similar mods).

Same error as @Eyelikegiants. Shows up as red error on startup and then again, when entering the options for Cats Hunt For Fun . Error happend when loaded with the mod Advanced Biomed (Continued) .

Error Log [gist.github.com]

@WormGang Report back if you find out what other mod is causing it

@Mlie Removed Erin's cat overhaul and no dice, same menu closing error. this is the only problem ive noticed while using this mod, i havent had a chance to see if it causes problems elsewhere

@WormGang Found a possible issue connected to populating the list of cats in the game. Can you test and see if it helped with your issue?

@Mlie yep yep, i have Erin's cat mod too so maybe that could be conflicting with something?
here is the link to the log
https://gist.github.com/f1b678e8b043f1aaeee57c874205d254

@WormGang I tested the mod with Alpha animals, Pawnmorpher and all VE animal-mods with no issues. Can you follow the steps described under "Reporting Issues" above?

same issue and errors as eyelikegiants, currently stuck in the mod options menu for Cats hunt for fun, i use alpha animals pawnmorpher and a bunch of VFE mods that add animals and most likely adds different cats. boo womp

@Eyelikegiants Hmm, some animal added by your other mods are triggering the error when this mod is trying to save the settings. It might be an animal that do not have some of the regular properties or similar. Do you have any idea of what mod it could be?

Got an error. Went to mod settings, changed and looked at several different mod settings, no problem. Arrived at Cats Hunt for Fun and instead of any options there is only text about an error and now I am stuck on the screen. My game is still chugging along just fine but when I click "close" to leave the mods settings it only changes the error text. It also changes slightly differently if I click "esc"

Otherwise love the mod.
I'm just going manually close it all and restart, but wanted to report it. <3

Error Text I am stuck on [imgur.com]

Perfect mod to combine with the Rats! mod

Awesome man, cheers!

@Corvet Sure, should be added now

Could you make it so when a cat is bonded to a pawn, there is a chance it'll haul the dead body to the pawns bedroom like cats to? Hell, if its possible, you could have the cat have a chance to grab a still alive small animal like a rat and move them?

there's a mod called Allow Dead Animals that you can run that auto-allows corpses after a small lag upon death, i assume so your colonists dont try to take food away from wild predators *while they're still eating it*
I run it as a matter of course and on high wildlife maps the extra meat source is nice.
This mod means High Lord Floofykins can finally indulge in the wonton slaughter that is his birthright! BWAHAHAHA

Thank you, I already use cats to hunt small animals by not feeding them, I only wanted to maybe see them hunt more often (not especially hunt for me, just don't let corpses everywhere).
But with your other mod it become more interesting :)

@Yoann If you want a mod that lets animals hunt for you then I think the Hunt for me mod is a better choice. This is more of a way to make cats behave more like in real life and take care of pest-control in the base. Also as a companion mod to my Rats! Mod.