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Sowoboe Bugs
114 Comments
Apr 9 @ 10:33pm 
Hi! Ok. There was a forum; I'll post your modlink there. Maybe someone will make a patch. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about that.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Apr 9 @ 6:40pm 
Currently there is no support for CE. Though, as always, open invitation for anyone to make a patch mod or send me patch xml to integrate.
Apr 9 @ 12:59pm 
work this with CE?
Dec 25, 2025 @ 5:33pm 
Vanilla Cooking Expanded uses milk for cheese and Alpha Crafts uses milk for butter, condensed milk, sour cream, ricotta, and yoghurt (sp). Maybe the recipe could turn 100 Sowoboe milk into 70 normal milk and 10 "Sowoboe curds" that can be used to make meals or kibble
ElTwoFour  [author]
Dec 25, 2025 @ 2:55pm 
I'll see what I can do about that. What mod in particular are you using for Milk?
Dec 25, 2025 @ 10:43am 
I love this mod. Some of the descriptions and capitalizations are minor flaws but overall it's great. It makes sense that there would be some kind of genetically engineered do-it-all animal in the future. I keep a few of them in my gravship in their own little bug pit. The only way it could be better is if there was a stove or butcher table recipe to convert Sowoboe bug milk into normal milk as an easy way to add compatibility with mods that use milk!
ElTwoFour  [author]
Oct 23, 2025 @ 7:56am 
@Speck, I do not know. I would assume not if they require something to be added to its xml for that to work.
Oct 22, 2025 @ 5:09pm 
Is sowoboe milk compatible with cheese making in Vanilla Cooking Expanded?
Aug 7, 2025 @ 4:36pm 
bgug
ElTwoFour  [author]
Jul 16, 2025 @ 10:05am 
Not yet.... But that's now something I might do... Lol
Jul 16, 2025 @ 5:41am 
Does the chitin work as an airtight material for gravships? I'm considering slowly rebuilding it like Theseus' ship.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Jun 16, 2025 @ 11:08am 
They will!
Jun 16, 2025 @ 12:20am 
I hope these things make the transition to 1.6,
May 28, 2025 @ 8:59pm 
sowoboe studied the blade
ElTwoFour  [author]
May 28, 2025 @ 6:33pm 
I... uh... Well. Thats new. lol
May 28, 2025 @ 4:05pm 
My game bugged when I was making a caravan that had a sowoboe bug, and now it has a melee weapon (dragon horn from dragons descent, not too bad of a weapon) and I can't even unequip it

Thanks to melee animations I can have it execute my enemies and its just funny to me to have a bug executing people
ElTwoFour  [author]
May 18, 2025 @ 6:28pm 
@StockSounds, I'll be honest I often think about making them just a tad less common. But then I have a herd of them get pissed off by the raid I couldn't possibly have handled on my own at the time it happened and I'm just like... maybe I'll just forget that...
May 18, 2025 @ 4:10pm 
These things are so splendidly overpowered for how common they are, so much so that one single sowoboe went mad and it took out two of my colonists, injured one, and I couldn't kill it without use of a gauntlet turret.
ElTwoFour  [author]
May 11, 2025 @ 10:14am 
@CharmingCat, I don't use that mod myself but I'll take a look and see if I can't make that work.
May 11, 2025 @ 1:45am 
You know what would make them even better? Compatibility with Vanilla Cooking Expanding to turn their milk into cheese. I desire Bug Cheese.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Nov 26, 2024 @ 7:42am 
Hehe, "a bit overpowered". Thanks! Don't forget to check out Wooleyboe bugs as well for your Cold Rimworld games!
Nov 26, 2024 @ 12:57am 
i love these little guys, even if i think they're a bit overpowered
ElTwoFour  [author]
Nov 21, 2024 @ 10:00am 
Brought to you by Sowoboe Corp. a new exciting product; **Wooleyboe Bugs**!

Do you live in a frigid hellscape? Are you tired of having no cloth, milk or meat? Do you want Sowoboe bugs but they don't like the cold?

Introducing **Wooleyboe Bugs**! Designed for cold climates, these exceptional isopods can haul, rescue, produce both "wool" and a warming milk and are more than hardy enough to traverse the most freezing climes!

So come on down to your local Rimworld and get yourself a patented **Wooleyboe Bug** today!

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Designed for your needs!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3227401279
ElTwoFour  [author]
Nov 20, 2024 @ 11:06am 
You're welcome and thank you!

Hoping to have the Wooleyboe Bug mod out in the next day or so. (Kinda forgot it was more or less finished when I went on my vacation and it just needs some final tweaks to its mod page and a final go over in game to make sure everything is absolutely working as intended...)
Nov 20, 2024 @ 9:53am 
you mod rocks man thanks so much
ElTwoFour  [author]
Apr 21, 2024 @ 10:17am 
Sowoboe Bugs! Now Possibly with 90% LESS Granite Consuming Qualities!

A Sowoboe Corp. Promise*

*Sowoboe Corp is not responsible for the lack of Granite Mountains.
Apr 21, 2024 @ 2:20am 
beeg byg
ElTwoFour  [author]
Apr 20, 2024 @ 11:21am 
Me either. -_- Wooleyboe's are now available to my main testers to fiddle out the rest of the bugs, so now I'm just gathering funds for the textures again and hopefully the curse won't continue and the person will be able to finish it. :P
Apr 20, 2024 @ 6:20am 
Thanks for the Update Sir. Can't wait to see the other ones.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Feb 8, 2024 @ 11:27am 
@Fireclawiswoot, the additional modules will include more Sowoboe Bug types that will use colorations from other types of isopods. Though those are on hold while I gather the finances to have those textures made.
Feb 8, 2024 @ 4:55am 
Isopoooooods!!!

Wonder if you could do more fun colors? Lots of variety in P. Scaber, Lava,Koi, dalmation, orange varients of the previous two, piebald. P. lavis as well, dairy cow is my favorite.
Nov 20, 2023 @ 10:38am 
maybe rubber ducky could be like a sort after breed and breeding them could be considered a way to make money, like thrumbos
ElTwoFour  [author]
Nov 19, 2023 @ 11:20am 
@{Sweg} Xenon2462, The wooley boes will have their own pattern (as will all other sowoboe types) which I think is closest matched to the "Panda King" coloration. And I definitely want to use the Rubber Ducky variant. We are actively trying to make sure that the patterns become representative of the real world isopod pet trade. That said the body types may have considerable change compared to real isopods for the cool factor.
Nov 19, 2023 @ 7:50am 
i love isopods, as an owner of some i'd love to see some real world inspirations like magic potion, red/white/blue powders, rubber ducky variants, maybe even ones like dairy cows species that are literally genetically capable of producing milk.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Nov 17, 2023 @ 7:36am 
@GinRinDragon, I'm glad you like it! Hopefully I will find a new texture artist for the Wooleyboe Bug as they're complete save for the art. Currently I'm also nearly done with the Sowoboe Ranchers factions release as well, who will trade sowoboe related animals and resources (and guns. They love guns.)

Thank you and let me know if you notice and bugs or have any suggestions!
Nov 17, 2023 @ 6:43am 
I love this mod and I can't wait for more, especially the woolly and the silk.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Nov 5, 2023 @ 5:56pm 
@sewnutty, do let me know if they are compatible with them. Working right now on a Sowoboe Rancher faction too. (Though it will be a module to attach to this mod not part of this main one on its own.)
Nov 5, 2023 @ 5:20pm 
Considering i like yak ranches in rimworld this isnt a hard sell for me to enjoy! XD
On another note i should seriously test this to see if it is compatible with insectoids expanded because i want chitin riot armor.
Oct 11, 2023 @ 9:12pm 
They look so truly creepy. Thanks for the mod anyway:Lightning:
ElTwoFour  [author]
Jun 25, 2023 @ 6:24pm 
Because I forgot that collection still existed and was in the middle of adjusting it into a "selection of mods that work well with Mantodeans" collection.
Jun 25, 2023 @ 4:40pm 
why is this part of the mantoaden collection?
ElTwoFour  [author]
Jun 10, 2023 @ 11:04am 
@Graybaby, Aye! They were originally designed for my brother and are indeed meant to be OP. I may offer a Module in the future to balance their stats for those who wish to have a more vanilla appropriate experience with them however.
Jun 10, 2023 @ 9:46am 
They seem pretty fun, but I think they're fallen into the massively overpowered category, takes 2 days to grow to full size for 1450 odd meat and some of the hardest material in the game, you can also milk them every 2 days.

Equally very -very- hard to kill, fun if you want the game to get a lot easier, can feel cheap after a while.

Overall, I like them conceptually and in practical use, but they need to be harder to tame at bare minimum.

I'd personally make them offer less meat/chitin and take longer to produce milk/"wool"and less of it as well as far harder to tame. If they were one of the hardest things to tame, obtaining them would feel earned and such a victory, it currently feels unfortunately cheap.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Jun 9, 2023 @ 3:09pm 
Thick and warm....

...

I know what I just said.
Jun 9, 2023 @ 3:02pm 
I'm looking forward to that thick bugmilk.
ElTwoFour  [author]
Jun 9, 2023 @ 12:48pm 
Update!

I have found a texture artist for the Wooleyboe Bug!
ElTwoFour  [author]
May 27, 2023 @ 12:15pm 
Hello! No update for Sowoeboe Bugs yet but I do have an update on another mod I've done a fair amount of work on!

That mod is The Elden Rim Armory by Sharpie!

I helped with the xml for this mod and its really great for anyone into the Elden Ring series!

Elden Rim Armory brings you weapons and armor (with their own work bench) from the popular Elden Ring series and is a must for anyone looking for that wonderful dark fantasy addition to your Rimworld!

If the mod does well Sharpie will make more modules as well! So drop a like, subscribe, leave a comment and enjoy!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2981408637&searchtext=Elden+Rim
ElTwoFour  [author]
May 20, 2023 @ 11:12pm 
So it seems that my texture artist isn't going to be able to deliver in an acceptable time frame so I'm going to start looking around for a new texture artist. I'll keep you all updated as I continue to look. Wooleywoeboe Bugs will be delayed until I can get that sorted. On the plus side I'm going to get the bits and bobs of the Sweepwoeboe Bugs going as well.

So once I find a texture artist to make the Wooleyboe Bug and Sweepyboe Bug I'll be able to add both modules to the list of Sowoeboe Bug mods.
ElTwoFour  [author]
May 20, 2023 @ 11:12pm 
Wooleyboe Bugs will provide you with a cold zone variant of the Sowoeboe Bug which will carry somewhat less and be less tanky but have a slightly stronger attack itself. It will also produce Wooleyboe Wool and a special milk that when consumed gives a living organism a higher resistance to the cold.

Sweepyboe Bugs will provide eggs and clean filth from around your base. They also will produce a tiny amount of chitin and milk per day. Considerably less than a Sowoeboe bug. This breed is also smart enough to refuel structures!
ElTwoFour  [author]
Mar 19, 2023 @ 8:32pm 
I actually love it when folk bring up the bugs and glitches to me. Lets me know they're actually happening. I'm on my own for the most part with testing so any help I can get in finding more is appreciated.

I'm also super keen on the next iteration but I'm waiting on a texture from an artist. Soon I hope.