v40
- (TWEAK) VFE Art patches now do not fire if Progression: Furniture is detected

We love you Ferny, how do you find the time to do all of these mods.

v39
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Classical
- (NEW) 'Mosaics' now has prerequisite of stonecutting
- (NEW) 'Drama and comedy' now has prerequisite of stonecutting
- (NEW) 'Togas' now has prerequisite of tribalwear
- (NEW) 'Centurion armor' now has prerequisite of smithing
- (NEW) 'Heavy shields' now has prerequisite of smithing
- (NEW) 'Legionary armaments' now has prerequisite of smithing
- (NEW) 'legionary armor' now has prerequisite of smithing

v38
Medieval Overhaul
- (FIX) Removed unrelated core furniture patches

War Crimes Expanded 2 Core
- (NEW) 'Crude torture methods' project now has a prerequisite of Culture

Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids 2
- (NEW) 'Basic hivetech' project now has a prerequisite of Animal handling

Hi, Progression: Core reports an error in 1.6/Patches/Progression Aesthetics ferny.xml.
The patch tries to add a prerequisite to Ferny_PlantPots, but this ResearchProjectDef no longer exists in Progression: Aesthetics. Please check that the parent Def exists before modifying /prerequisites, or remove this obsolete operation.

@Jigain I've already fully moved onto my Node Research mod, which is based on researching foundations instead of completion. From now on all efforts will be focused on that style

Hey ferny, just wanted to run this idea by you. Would it be possible (even if optional) to entirely disable researching the tech projects from VFEC? I love playing with research options limited to my current tech level, but that typically means that before I'm even ready to start doing the quests for the senators to unlock the techs, I'm already at the part of progression where I have to research those techs in order to advance. I also like playing with Semi-random Research, and sometimes that just throws only VFEC techs to choose from. I understand if this is not something you weant to implement or if it's out of scope for this mod.

v37
Core
- (NEW) 'Tree sowing' project now has a prerequisite of Agriculture
- (TWEAK) Removed stonecutting patch, moving to Progression Production

Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Farming
- (NEW) 'Farming techniques' project now has a conditional prerequisite of 'Agriculture'

Medieval Overhaul
- (NEW) 'Textile spinning' project now has a prerequisite of Agriculture
- (TWEAK) Tent wall is now locked behind construction instead of hunting

Epochs - Golems
- (NEW) 'Anima blooms' project now has a prerequisite of Agriculture

Progression: Agriculture
- (FIX) Removed patch for seed packing bench as Agriculture now has its own built in research project for it

(META) New thumbnail

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/369bc4c88781dd3c04372a2321e618cb

"System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
[Ref 127835CD]
at VFETribals.RitualObligationTargetWorker_AnyGatherSpotForAdvancement.CanUseTargetInternal (Verse.TargetInfo target, RimWorld.RitualObligation obligation) [0x0005f] in <7c60b68d78a84b43a02a0839db3ba1c2>:0
- TRANSPILER ProgressionCoreMod: IEnumerable`1" at the start, not sure is it actually this mod

@skizordrone research reinvented locks medical procedures behind researching penoxycycline

@skizordrone definitely nothing to do with me or this mod

Im not sure what progression mod it is, but i believe one of them has locked organ transplants behind a research or just disabled them entirely because i cant install any organs (bionic or otherwise) on my colonists. I only speculate this because whenever i have the progression mods installed, a bunch of medical research gets a ton of medical procedures tacked onto it. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hello @ferny, I want to express my gratitude for your great contributions to the RimWorld mod community. The entire Progression mod suite has become essential to my playthroughs. However, I’ve run into a troublesome development concern.
As a dedicated medieval playthrough enthusiast, I’m creating a mod to make RimWorld more historically consistent with the medieval era. My mod features deleted unnecessary research prerequisites, brand-new research projects, consolidated duplicate tech lines, and other related adjustments.
Since my mod is fully dependent on yours, I’m deeply concerned that future updates or structural changes to your mod will trigger missing definitions and various runtime bugs within my mod. Would you mind offering some guidance on how to mitigate this risk? Many thanks in advance!

So I moved Progression: Core to the last position after all other progressions. I still get the two red errors about bloody pots, but I can start new game now with animal-level scenarios. Just PSA basically.

Also, I do not know if it is related or not, but now I can not select "Animal" category of starting scenarios.

hello @ferny, same red message than @Aargh Tenna:

[Progression: Core - Start of stack trace]
Verse.PatchOperationAdd(xpath="/Defs/ResearchProjectDef[defName="Ferny_PlantPots"]"): Failed to find a node with the given xpath
Verse.PatchOperationConditional(xpath=/Defs/ResearchProjectDef[defName="Ferny_PlantPots"]/prerequisites): Error in <nomatch>
Verse.PatchOperationSequence: Error in the operation at position=1
Verse.PatchOperationFindMod(Progression: Aesthetics): Error in <match>
[End of stack trace]

These two were recent red errors I believe after latest Rimworld base game update

[Progression: Core] Patch operation Verse.PatchOperationFindMod(Progression: Aesthetics) failed
file: [snip]/1.6/Patches/Progression Aesthetics ferny.xml
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch1 (string)
Verse.PatchOperation:Complete (string)
Verse.LoadedModManager:ClearCachedPatches ()
Verse.LoadedModManager:LoadAllActiveMods (bool)
Verse.PlayDataLoader:DoPlayLoad ()
Verse.PlayDataLoader:LoadAllPlayData (bool)
Verse.Root/<>c:<Start>b__10_1 ()
Verse.LongEventHandler:RunEventFromAnotherThread (System.Action)
Verse.LongEventHandler/<>c:<UpdateCurrentAsynchronousEvent>b__28_0 ()
System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart_Context (object)

[Progression: Core - Start of stack trace]
Verse.PatchOperationAdd(xpath="/Defs/ResearchProjectDef[defName="Ferny_PlantPots"]"): Failed to find a node with the given xpath
Verse.PatchOperationConditional(xpath=/Defs/ResearchProjectDef[defName="Ferny_PlantPots"]/prerequisites): Error in <nomatch>
Verse.PatchOperationSequence: Error in the operation at position=1
Verse.PatchOperationFindMod(Progression: Aesthetics): Error in <match>
[End of stack trace]

v34
- (TWEAK) Republic letter now fires 2 days earlier so it doesn't overlap with Royalty's empire quest

v33
- (NEW) Support for the weapons of Mythic Ages: Megafauna Bestiary

Never mind, I see it is with Culture. I must have missed the pop up in my last game, or it got cleared out by accident. Perhaps that letter can be made to pause the game until you pick a choice? If that is even possible, anyways

With an Animal start, how do I get my ideology going? I saw it mention I could get it later but having electricity... well I still don't have it haha. Perhaps I encountered a bug, or incompatibility? I am running a lot of mods so I'd not at all be surprised it if were my fault in some way.

sounds good! thanks!

@DozenthTurmoil Just set the starting faction as one with that era. Might be best to edit an existing medieval scenario.

i want to make my own medieval starting scenario, is there a way to have it as medieval starting tech in the scenario creator?

@Rook You can use any of my mods with only whatever the required mods are on the right of the Steam page

@ferny: Can i use the Progression production if i don't use Medieval Overhaul and VFE Classical? I use Vanilla Factions Expanded - Medieval 2.

I don't have all the DLC so i use a custom, around 200 mods, 90% based on your progression modlist, focused around progression core/scenario with most of the vanilla expanded mods (but not all, like classical).

@Rook Get my mod Progression Production it makes it its own project

Nevermind, i found it, it's under "Complex Furniture" in vanilla expanded.

900 research points together with the basic one, this is gonna take quite a lot of fire dances :)

Ferny how do i unlock the research bench? I'm using all the recommended mods for this :

- Semi Random Research: Progression Fork
- Progression: Scenarios
- Ignorance is Bliss

And i just exited the first animal age (completed all basic research), did the ritual to "upgrade" and i'm now in the neolethic. However i don't find an option for the research bench anywhere, neither in research or under any of the tabs.

@TheAuditor Tech locking was never in Medieval Overhaul

hey ferny, i saw you pack that have Medieval Overhaul, is the industrial removal still occur when i use this mod? or you did some compability to allow industrial era still can be reached even i use Medieval Overhaul?

I think I found a glitch. I have Progesion and TD Enhancement Pack - Continued (3525414162) mods installed.

I start with Animal tech level, and buy some seeds from trader. Then using the "Match" option from TD to create growing zones, I can cultivate without having discover agriculture tech.

v32
- (META) New thumbnail

Could you please patch the VFE Tribals floor paintings not being automatically built by artists despite having nothing else to be doing?

True, ty

@KurtHussein You likely limited your entire planet's tech with World Tech Level

For some reason I can advance tech level even if I research 0 technologies of previous level, and I set requirement to 80%

hey fern you workhorse, could you patch the Edo Themed Expansion mod to tech later than animal. Some of the buildings are available before construction should be possible

When I start a game I don't have the option for tribal gatherings. This resolves if I save and then load though. Has anyone encountered this before?

Is there any way of seeing the number of how many more techs you need to research to go up a tech level?

@Lilly Satou I'll add it to the "best paired with" list on the modpage!

Love this, though I feel like "Ignorance is Bliss" is basically mandatory with this mod since you spend so much time in neolithic era that if you play long enough you WILL get fecked up by industrial level raids with grenades and shotguns or mechanoids. Especially so if you are also using Combat Extended

@MOMO Because they are currently functionally identical, I only bother my userbase with swapping something if there is a reason for it

and by better way i mean a better way to contact you about about the modpack

this does not have anything to do with this mod specifically, but i wantet to ask you something ferny about your 1.6 modpack, do tell me if theres a better way.
its about the Personal Doors mod, my question is if theres a reason for why it has not been replaced by Personal Doors (continued) which is recomended even on the Personal Doors page it self.

very likely, i havent used Classical in a long time, and only trying it with this mod to make it more cohesive.

@Reidlos - pretty sure that's not this mod as I've had similar situations with senators giving quests that don't result in their favor (something I've commented on in VFE:Classical as well) before having installed this mod, such as the quest from VFE:Insectoids to take out a growing hive, or the one from VFE:Medieval to defend against a forming siege. I get the impression Classical just looks through a generic list of 'valid' quests without consideration for if the rewards can actually result in favor.

Was anything adjusted that MIGHT cause senator to give quests that are "find this treasure or check out this random place" style quests that are not really "completable" and dont off the senatorr joining award? dong a new run and noticed 1 or 2 per faction are giving me junk quests. Assume it could be a ton of stuff on my end but figured id check to see if its even a thing from this mods end