I'd like to suggest the following:
- Make all food sources equal. Cooked, raw, insect meat, human meat etc. But don't give the profaned mood bonuses from cooked food and high quality meals, to balance it out.
- Either cut their need for recreation or add some undead-specific recreation like a torture rack (it feels uncanny that your undead warlord is mad because he can't play horseshoes)

That aside thanks for a great mod! I love these guys!

Hey Botch, I wanted to bring something up after starting a Profaned game recently.
I started in a mountainous ice biome and I thought that it was perfect because of the profaned cold resistance. Since no animals go there, I figured I would have to live entirely off of human meat. That also seemed very on-brand.
Colour me VERY surprised to find the Profaned get massive mood buffs from eating human meat. Of course I understand that you can choose to be good guys that would never eat people, and you can use prepare carefully to pick the cannibal trait, but wouldn't it make more sense if they weren't at all affected by the need to consume human flesh? Additionally they're also bothered by food being raw, which seems such an odd complaint for walking corpses that just needs any sustenance.

My console is being spammed by this https://imgur.com/a/Wq8BrDh it started happening randomly when a colossus spawned on my map and was downed. I deleted it was dev options but my console is still being spammed tanking performance heavily

Hey, sorry i missed the last message. After being revived a pawn will be in a coma for a few days which shouldn't last long enough for them to starve.

They will have a sickness after that though that lasts a little while and lowers consciousness, if they have something else going and their consciousness drops too much they'll be downed. At which point you might have to tend them.

Figured it out! you need a medical bed and have to feed them.

Hey botch, how do I raise my profane? When I do bestow curse they eventually die of malnutrition before waking up.

botchjob. Idk didnt work out so I made a new savegame.
so far it works again. Rebuilding/moving etc didnt work out

Using an older local copy of VEF I had lying around appears to resolve the issue

With just "Vanilla Expanded Framework" on version 1.5 the cosmetic genes are missing with red errors on startup:
"Could not resolve cross-reference to Verse.GeneDef named BotchJob_SkeletalBody (wanter=genes)"
Similar errors aswell for RottingFlesh twice and ProfanedShield.

I think VEF changed again in preparation for 1.6.

@ArmyOfLight I've heard about that happening in the past and thought it was fixed :/ I think it can happen based on the angle pawns approach it, you could try moving or rotating it and see if that fixes the issue.

@LaSchuii The Undead Warg is technically a different race than the regular warg so it would need a patch to work, if you are at all familiar with XML you could add to the def for the Warg armour. It might look a bit off though.

BoneReapers faction was updated here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3516603515

Lightless Empyrean biome was updated here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3517488959

the undead wargs can't wear the warg armor from Animal Gear (but I love them and want to protect them) - is there a way I can tweak this manually?

got a bug with my pawns not being able to use the ritual circle at all. they are stuck in an endless motion to deliver the undead creatures walking up and down. kinda started today/yesterday? beforre it was fine

Thank you for updating this glorious mod.

Just updated with a fix to the starting scenario for both 1.5 and 1.6.

I've disabled the starting crypt from spawning in 1.6 for now as it doesn't seem to be be working.

@Banshee Are you using 1.5 or 1.6?

Found a fix, had to edit the scenario and remove the custom crypt spawn for the map!

Hi there, Really love this mod. However when selecting the Profaned starting scenario and trying to load on any map ( tested with the map made for these guys and regular forest) I am getting a (failed to generate map) error and I go back to main screen. I tested this with another scenario, works fine.

Just updated with the fixes for the 1.6 VE Framework, everything seems to be working as it should but let me know if any issues pop up.

Also, big thanks to Zaljerem for providing a fix for the the melee special weapons counting as ranged weapons.

Cool thank you. hope this is ready soon io love this mod but sadly VeF is what i started the game on

Botch_job, i just came here to ask about that. looks like it is already on your radar. thanks for working on this to make it compatible with ve. i like my stable of ethereal horses.

Yeah unfortunately it looks like the 1.6 update to VE framework broke a bunch of stuff with Divine Order and Profaned, I'm looking into it and will update with a fix as soon as I can.

This mod is not yet compatible with Vanilla extended

same issue as draylynn :( would me an amazing combination!

Won't load with Vanilla Expanded Framework/Harmony. Causes the new game 'next' button to fail to progress.

Finally, Ossiarch Bonereapers in rimworld

Hi, are undead colossus supposed to heal? I had "created" one, I used it in a fight against a cluster mech (wouldn't be noticed by the proximity beacons, by the way), it got hurt pretty badly but it was rescued and "healed". After that I had a permanent message that it was starving despite having his food bar completely full and also it wasn't healing. It spent several days in 35% health and at some point I decided to harvest it so at least I could get useful stuff out of it.

@harhell they need to die first :)

Hey people, apologies been busy IRL but I've just updated my mods to 1.6. Everything seems to be working as it should but let me know if any issues pop up.

Also, bear in mind this mod utilises VE framework for a lot of things which hasn't been updated as of yet. It works without it but a lot of features will be missing until the framework is updated.

I have a human settler, but I can't cast a curse

Are they getting old or not

That bug I mentioned is probably just a visual glitch

when mod is going to be updated?

There is a bug which occurs every I reload the save. If I have the Profaned as allies, the goodwill with them always resets to 60.

There is mention of research. But I'm not understanding how you gain access to researching this stuff or what you can even research.

In addition is one of the researches going to let me instantly turn a corpse into the new xenotype? Can my vampire end up raising someone just by doing a certain research chain?

If not able to do a research that raises dead, do you think maybe patch so that people using Vanilla Expanded Psionics will see one of it's necromany powers create these instead of doing the 24 hour raise dead effect?

Rotten Limbs, Jaws, Hands, and Eyeballs as "prosthetics" would be cool. Either have them harvest able from corpses or craft them through the work bench would be a cool way to go.

Loving this mod, although i wish to know if there's possibly a way to actually "re-attach bones" as the "gravetender robes" description actually mentions

my guys are suffering from starvation and malnutrition...

ahh but it seems all profaned for me just have skeleton body be the dominant gene, i even tried spawning in a couple of raids to check

To follow up on Psyduck's question, manhunter pack threats can spawn the undead animals and almost immediately be cured of scaria which makes them no longer hostile. It seems rather strange for a major threat to just defeat itself.

this is a very cool mod. my undead horses, spectral and skeletal, have gotten the plague. should they be immune to this and other forms of disease or it is intended?

No worries, glad you figured out what the issue was.

Actually, apologies it looks like its on the Kraltech mods end. I found another item not part of this mod that wont smelt. Likely because those materials have a flammability of 0%

I can destroy other materials. Super Steel Alloy and Mech variant material Profaned items wont smelt or be destroyed

@SS5DEJAN Are you able to destroy it if it's made out of other materials or just the Kraltech material.

@Shiraba Sorry not quite sure what you mean, it should be craftable with any metal or stone + 1 wraith orb.

The Wraith Orb Pedestal cannot be crafted with other materials. This comment may not be translated accurately.

Idk if its something with this mod or the Kraltech mod but profaned apparel made out of Super steel alloy (from Kraltech) is not able to be smelted or destroyed. All other apparel of the same material is able to

@Addaward The regular profaned can have either body, they have both genes but it should be random which one shows.

im having an issue where profaned are only appearing with skeleton instead of decaying, is that normal? it seems only the cursebears have rotting body

It could be a conflict with one of my hundreds of mods... But apparently reloading the save without changing anything also works.