- Added "GeneFeedingStyle" to animal definitions, allowing for varied feeding behaviors (grazing vs. gorging).
- Updated animal JSON files to include feeding style genes with appropriate values.
- Enhanced UI localization for feeding styles in both English and Russian, providing clearer descriptions and inspection options.
- Introduced new event logging features in the world scene to track animal behaviors related to feeding.
- Improved animal decision-making systems to utilize the new feeding style attributes for more dynamic behavior.
This update aims to enrich gameplay by introducing more nuanced animal behaviors and enhancing the user interface for better clarity and interaction.
Foundation for the perception system. Adds Smell and Touch capacities (CapacityCalc
dependency chain x consciousness) with organs on the Quadruped body (nose->Smell,
skin->Touch; eyes/ears already give Sight/Hearing) so hediffs and organ damage
reduce them for free. New genes: acuity GeneHearing/GeneSmell/GeneTouch (radius
multipliers, default 1 if a species omits them) and detectability GeneCamouflage
(lower sight), GeneScent (raise smell), GeneNoise (raise hearing) on AnimalPhenotype.
Deer/wolf/boar/chicken get sensible values (wolf smells well, deer is alert +
dappled). cap.smell/cap.touch localized. Build + --check-content clean
(48 genes, 47 traits). Multi-sense detection + memory come next.
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Social species (deer 0.8, wolf 0.6, chicken 0.55, boar 0.3) now school together:
AnimalDecisionSystem scans nearby same-species neighbours (HerdScan) and, when
wandering, a lone social animal steers toward the herd centroid (cohesion) while
close members just mill about (separation). "Safety in numbers" shrinks the
threat-detection radius in a group, so herded prey are calmer and scatter less.
Asocial animals (sociability < 0.3) keep the old random wander. GeneSociability
+ trait; `animal` console prints insulation/sociability. Build + --check-content
clean (42 genes, 41 traits). Not GUI-verified.
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GeneEggLaying (species-fixed) selects the conception cycle: viviparous animals
carry to a live birth (existing path); oviparous animals, after the same gravid
period, LAY eggs instead. New Egg entity (carries the already-bred offspring
genome) + EggSystem incubates and hatches it into a baby. AnimalPregnancySystem
branches on the mother's birth type. Adds an oviparous showcase species, Chicken.
Eggs are serialized (WorldSave.Eggs) like corpses, so clutches survive save/load.
Also lays the foundation for creating any species or hybrid (full command/UI
deferred): AnimalSet.HybridGenome(base, other) produces a cross anchored to a
base species' body/gene-set with shared genes blended Mendelian-style — so
Create(species, GenerateGenome) makes any species and Create(species,
HybridGenome) makes any hybrid.
EggTexture on AnimalDef (defaults to the seed dot placeholder); reproduction line
added to the `animal` console command. Build + --check-content clean (41 genes,
40 traits). Not GUI-verified.
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Adds the first plant↔animal coupling beyond "herbivore eats plant": a toxin/
thorns ↔ tolerance arms race built on the existing gene + hediff engines, plus
the fuller RimWorld capacity set on the health scaffold.
Coevolution C1 — plant defense → poisons/injures the eater:
- Plant genes GeneToxicity/GeneThorns/GenePalatability (GenomeDef + PlantSet
template + PlantPhenotype); animal gene GeneToxinTolerance.
- Hediff Poisoned (non-progressing; grows from eating via HealthState.Intensify,
immunity heals it, overdose is lethal).
- AnimalActionSystem.ApplyPlantDefense on each bite: poison dose =
toxicity × (1 − tolerance); thorns → ApplyInjury (reuses predator-cluster).
- Cost of defense: PlantGrowthSystem growth ×= DefenseGrowthFactor()
(1 − 0.4·toxicity − 0.3·thorns) — without a cost defense would max out and
coevolution would stall.
- Showcase: cactus thorns, poisonous mushroom; grass starts clean so toxicity
can evolve on the staple. Deer/boar get small starting tolerance.
Coevolution C2 — discrimination + the other half of the arms race:
- Smart foraging (reuses A7 intelligence gating): herbivores with effective
intelligence ≥ tier-4 weigh plants by palatability − perceived-toxin −
distance; reflex grazers (or sick animals with dropped consciousness) eat the
nearest plant and risk poison.
- Cost of tolerance: detox raises metabolism (need decay ×= 1 + 0.5·tolerance),
closing the arms race so tolerance doesn't fix at 1.
- popstats reports mean toxinTolerance and a plants line (mean toxicity/thorns/
palatability) to watch the drift.
Health capacities (RimWorld parity, user-requested):
- New capacities BloodFiltration/Hearing/Talking/Eating; CapacityCalc rewritten
to emit only capacities the body declares (a destroyed organ still shows 0%)
with the full dependency chain (blood → pumping/breathing/filtration →
consciousness → moving/sight/hearing/talking/eating, digestion).
- Quadruped body gains kidneys + liver (filtration), ears (hearing), jaw/tongue
(eating/talking). Inspector health tab lists all of a body's capacities.
Localization (ru/en) for new genes' defense line, Poisoned, and the new
capacity labels. Build + --check-content clean (11 def types, 40 genes,
39 traits). Not GUI-verified (headless can't render the world scene).
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Brings the full animal foundation onto main and folds its new defs into the
Defs/ subfolder layout introduced on main:
- animal genes -> Defs/Genes/Animal.json (split out of genes.json)
- animals/bodies/hediffs/needs/thoughts -> own Defs/<Type>/ subfolders
- ProductMeat/Bone/Leather + bigger world presets auto-merged via rename detection
- PawnDef un-sealed (AnimalDef : PawnDef); def-location doc comments updated to subfolders
- engine pointer kept at main's newer 96e19c7 (only adds directional sun shadows)
Build + --check-content clean: 11 def types, 33 genes, 35 plants, 32 traits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Leonid Pershin
