[DEVBLOG#230] New subroutines! (Patreon)

Hello everyone and welcome!

Let me preface by saying: I have Covid. First my soon-to-be wife got one, and of course now I have it. 40 degree fever, stuffed nose, sore throat, cough, the usual stuff. I'm double vaccinated so should be fine, but that also means my productivity is down. However, that is not as big of a problem, as the mod is undergoing a third round of testing now, and we have already fixed piles and piles of bugs.

We have listened to you folks here, and the guys and gals bravely testing the mod on the testing discord, and added some new, commonly requested subroutines! Let's take a look at them below:

On top of that, I'd like to post both changelogs (one from beta 1 to 2, and one from beta 2 to 3) so that you lot are informed about how hard we're working to ensure the mod is as smooth as a baby's cheek when it comes to release quality:

Beta 2 Changelog

- Gene head types fixed to work with androids

- Added a workgiver to the android part workbench so pawns will use it

- Moved the android part workbench to Biotech tab

- Compatibility fix with Vanilla Skills Expanded to prevent it from working on androids (that also fixes the backstory issues)

- Adjusted android rendering on android stands so they will be standing properly instead of lying down

- Removed surgery fails from android part recipes

- Removed options to remove injured android parts. Options to reinstall parts are present still.

- Removing and reinstalling android parts won't spawn child parts for balance concerning reasons

- Added Android standing spot which acts like the Android stand, except it doesn't provide the bonuses to reformatting speed

Fixes and changes:

- Both the new Android standing spot AND Android Stand can be set to accept prisoners and slaves

- Added a workgiver to carry pawns (including prisoners and slaves) to subcore polyanalyzer

- Fixed a bug where android skill gene aptitudes would show up in genepacks

- Pawns will level up crafting when tending androids instead of medicine

- Androids cannot be resurrected

- Android corpses shouldn't be rotting

- Android corpses won't show "Missing body parts: 100%"

- Unfinished android should be moved back to the station during android creation job if they were hauled off.

- Newly created androids will have 0 age

- Fixed a bug where all pawns would reset their medical restrictions (it was meant for androids only)

- Androids generated by the game will be given age random from 0-25 years, thus ignoring the human age generation logic

- Subroutines "Emotion simulators" and "Anti-awakening protocols" are made incompatible

- Moved hardware component list to the very bottom of the scrollable list

- Removed crafting and med operations for artifical brain, artifical skull, artifical head, artifical torso. There may be some red errors upon save loading, but those can be ignored

- Tweaked the "Set owner" gizmo for android stands so it says "Assign this stand to be owned by a specific android"

- Removed work type age restrictions from androids, so starting from 0 age they can do all the work types

- Disabled birthday effects for androids, thus preventing any unwanted effects like child growth moments

- Prevented drug tolerance hediffs from appearing in androids

- Prevented "Look change desired" on non-awakened androids

- Prevented mood bubbles from appearing on non-awakened androids

- Androids will not able to inject xenogerms into self anymore

- Added 15 new mid-tier android backstories for Awakened Androids

Beta 3 Changelog

- Fixed power drain math. Now android reactors should properly deplete until 2 years (without accounting for power efficiency and rain vulnerability)

- Fixed NRE errors on startup. Should fix issues with Rimeffect Asari mod

- Fixed obsolete patches on FoodUtility.WillEat

- Eating android corpses should be disallowed

- Disallow direct romance options for androids with psychology disabled and without emotion simulators

- Fixed a bug where androids wouldn't be able to use neutrocaskets or other android beds

- General medical operations on androids will be conducted without medicine items.

- All medical operations performed on androids will be using crafting skill, mechanoid butcher effecter and machining sound

- Removed medical care setter buttons for androids everywhere possible

- Losing heads/brains should result in android death

- Indoor need should be disabled when outdoors disabled subroutine is installed 

- Prevented adding missing part injuries to already missing parts

- Fixed errors Tried to add health diff to missing part

- Prevented androids from getting powers from the gene tailoring pod from VFE Ancients

- Compatibility patch with Dubs Mint Menus to prevent unwanted medical operations from androids

- Added missing icons to android install part recipes

- Memory space needs will be refilled instantly if androids weren't spawned (i.e were in caravans)

- Properly save/load android types in the character creation window for all android windows

- Custom android projects should be deleted properly in the character creation window

- Stat part age shouldn't be applied to androids

- Moved the androidtech research project to Vanilla Expanded tab

- Caravans with android only pawns shouldn't show "Out of food"

- Androids are excluded from days of food calculations in the caravan window

- Androids should be able to seek for android stands to reformat right under 10% memory space

- Androids without assigned android stands can claim unclaimed android stands

- Halved costs of all android parts

- Moved neutroamine buildings to a new research project

- Prevented spawning with gears for newly constructed androids

- Prevented extracting skulls from androids

- Prevented androids from using neurotrainers and psytrainers

- Androids will not be hunted by predators

- Non-awakened androids without emotion simulators won't initiate interactions with other pawns

- Added subroutines sleep mode, mechlink support, neutro synthesis, solar powered, extra waste, clear instructions, self-destruct protocols

- Added a way to repair androids without material costs while they are laying in android beds