Greetings ~
A Starseeker pawn of mine is unable to cast some spells, such as Whiteout (lv.4 frost spell) or Beckon (lv.3 teleport-to-self). More precisely, pawn seems to spend a single tick "casting an ability", then goes on to do another job. No mana is used and the spell does not fire. The log window does not show anything particular - no red error, nothing related to RoM, and the window stays blank on a failed spellcast. I have read your comment regarding the VE framework, and I imagine the problem comes from the mod Magical menagerie, which I had not used on previous saves.
I have tried most everything I could think of (resetting the pawn's class, recreating the pawn from scratch using Character editor, disabling all mods beside RoM-related ones), but the issue persists. However, the pawn of a newly-created save did not have this problem.
I will welcome any pointers or advice, as I would prefer not abandoning this colony. I will report this issue on the RoM page itself, but I thought it best to come here first, since Starseekers are one of your classes.
Thank you for your time, and for this expansion pack :-)

As written above --

Abilities with a low cast time sometimes don't go on cooldown properly with certain VEF mods. It's generally animal mods that require VEF that cause the problem, such as Alpha Animals, Race to the Rim, Monster Hunter, Witcher Monster Hunt, Magical Menagerie, and Bastyon. Although, a few other ones will also cause it, like VEF Mechanoids as well as their utility belt mod.

It's a fundamental incompatibility with JecsTools. VEF introduces something called the Multi Verb Combat Framework which, when utilized by a mod, seems to destructively modify the casting framework of JecsTools and thus Rimworld of Magic. The two most notable problems it causes are these:

1. Nearly every single ability you cast now causes a cooldown period afterwards where your pawn can't move or take any action, as if you'd fired a weapon. Vanilla Rimworld of Magic doesn't have this.

2. Abilities may not go on cooldown - many abilities won't go on cooldown properly if you immediately issue a movement command to the pawn after casting the ability, but it's especially notable with abilities that have very low cast times, such as Beckon.

There isn't a lot I can do on my end, since it's not really an incompatibility with this mod...it impacts other mods that utilize JecsTools too, like the Jedi mod, and vanilla Rimworld of Magic. It's notable in my mod because I have some abilities with quick cast times, but even if I increased the cast time of those abilities, casting time in Rimworld of Magic is influenced by your shooting speed, which means that simply by utilizing a vanilla Rimworld mechanic, you can boost the casting speed of most abilities to the point where you're going to run into this issue anyways. And I'd prefer not to change my entire mod to work around a three-way destructive incompatibility.

I've brought up the issue with the authors of VEF multiple times, but they've simply brushed me off and pretended it's not a problem. I've tried several different load orders, but ran into the same problem every time, with nothing but a naked testing modlist.

A workaround you can potentially implement on your own if you aren't willing to drop the incompatible mods is you can try not issuing any actions to a pawn after casting an ability, until the ability has properly gone on cooldown. Issuing any command too soon is generally what causes the ability to not go on cooldown.

Thank you for your answer.

The problem I encounter is that the spells do not fire at all, however I go about it. Ordering the pawn to cast a spell, and nothing else, does nothing. When drafting the pawn and pausing the game to issue the order, the pawn's activity changes from "Watching for targets" to nothing, and back to watching the moment I resume the game, and the spell was not cast, even though no other order was issued (the pawn did not even turn towards their target). Also, the Heal spell does not show this problem (casts like normal), even though its cast time is shorter than Whiteout's.

For further testing, I paused the game, ordered the pawn to pick up an item, queued the whiteout spell, then queued another pick up, and resumed the game. The pawn completed the first pick up order, then abruptly stopped, as if they had tried to cast with no line of sight, and picked another job (not picking up the second item). Keeping the pawn selected during this trial made the casting cursor appear, with the highlighted range and area of effect of the ability. I could then only select pawns as targets with this spell (which can usually target pawns or the ground), and hovering over a pawn made the spell's icon appear beside the cursor, which does not usually happen (I think).

Dropping Magical menagerie (and all other mods, actually) from this save did not restore the spells. I can record an extremely short video of either scenario presented above, if you like, or of another situation if that helps. If not, I suppose I will abandon this colony.

I will tinker a bit more to see what interferes with my pawn's magic. Thank you again for your time, and I wish you a pleasant day.

Starseeker works fine on my end, so it sounds like there's some artifact data from a mod incompatibility causing problems in your save.

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here are Logs if it helps: https://gist.github.com/86b5ba77d5d344879b228a60e41dc504

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Thanks

Here is my log.
https://gist.github.com/679f30520da068b518c7b78fc7939028

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https://gist.github.com/f55b2122a1511c1933d6e7971305a343

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https://gyazo.com/335c48a403384a042bc0f9e193132cbd

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Exception ticking Nedali (at (407, 0, 2)): System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, System.Boolean nonPublic) [0x00003] in <567df3e0919241ba98db88bec4c6696f>:0
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x00000] in <567df3e0919241ba98db88bec4c6696f>:0
at Verse.HediffMaker.MakeHediff (Verse.HediffDef def, Verse.Pawn pawn, Verse.BodyPartRecord partRecord) [0x0001b] in <12a8d1a0a5a64eae86579edb3a3b30c7>:0
at (wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.HealthUtility.Verse.HealthUtility.AdjustSeverity_Patch1(Verse.Pawn,Verse.HediffDef,single)
at TorannMagic.CompAbilityUserMight.AssignAbilities () [0x0018e] in <a77e74ee63904b4bb8685fe1224b505d>:0
at TorannMagic.CompAbilityUserMight.PostInitialize () [0x00030] in <a77e74ee63904b4bb8685fe1224b505d>:0
at AbilityUser.CompAbilityUser.Initialize () [0x00007] in <f4b5b252698e4254a6ff9fe2d74f82fe>:0
at TorannMagic.CompAbilityUserMight.PostInitializeTick () [0x0003c] in <a77e74ee63904b4bb8685fe1224b505d>:0
at TorannMagic.CompAbilityUserMight.CompTick () [0x00069] in <a77e74ee63904b4bb8685fe1224b505d>:0
at Verse.ThingWithComps.Tick () [0x00024] in <12a8d1a0a5a64eae86579edb3a3b30c7>:0
at (wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.Pawn.Verse.Pawn.Tick_Patch2(Verse.Pawn)
at Verse.TickList.Tick () [0x0015c] in <12a8d1a0a5a64eae86579edb3a3b30c7>:0
Verse.Log:Error(String, Boolean)
Verse.TickList:Tick()
Verse.TickManager:Verse.TickManager.DoSingleTick_Patch2(TickManager)
Verse.TickManager:TickManagerUpdate()
Verse.Game:UpdatePlay()
Verse.Root_Play:Verse.Root_Play.Update_Patch1(Root_Play)

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This is a screenshot of the issue http://prntscr.com/26o0l42