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Persona Mechanoid Pawns 2

Ever find it odd your mechanitor never found a use for those hyper advanced human-equivalent AI cores you have laying around? This mod is here to help!

This second release focuses far more on improving the parallels to standard mechanoids while rewriting the mod, it now features proper mechanics for charging, gestation, resurrection, and more!

Do note that to make it available for Odyssey, not all mechs have NEW assets and largely use the textures from the older version of the mod, this will be amended once they are done. The mod is still fully functional regardless and the transition will be harmless to existing saves. Other minor features such as some upgrades are missing too, they will likely be added in future updates.

• New personae driven mechanoid pawns with proper mech-like game play elements!
  
• A fully functional persona gestator building for persona mech creation and revival!
  
• 3 new charging related buildings for persona mechs and their energy need. Ranging from mech equivalent standing chargers, specialized repair beds to offset the their power costly operations, and the bioelectric cell charger and cells which are used for travel.
  
• 2 new "scanner" buildings to collect persona data, an interesting new resource used to craft your own persona AI cores from scratch.
  
• New "Persona Engram" item and mechanic, an imperfect way to transfer or copy skills, passions, and traits to personae, may or may not have some risks involved.
  
• 17 Persona mechanoid only upgrades.
  
• 108 Custom backstories! Only for Persona mechs.
  
• 8 Head variations.
  
• 1 New starting scenario with a custom mech themed player faction.
  
• A new crafting station for almost all the new items.
  
• A Friendly Mechanoid Faction with mechanoid caravans.
  
• A new mechanoid themed ideology style.
  
• Interesting lore-friendly and helpful descriptions!

You can start with one by simply selecting their xenotype when rolling pawns in almost any scenario, although you may want to trade with a settlement of their custom faction quickly, since they always carry one recharger. Useful before you have the research to create your own. (Not that they can not starve, but they will be forced into dormancy without power for extended periods!)

You can find some useful links to items like the Persona Core Mechlink and info on other specific items to them in their Xenotype info page.

Load with Vanilla Expanded Framework for minor bonus features.

Credit to "Rim-robots_" , the main inspiration for this mod! And a thank you to Vex in general for even providing some of the new "gene" icons.

Also a big thank you to DetVisor for working on the new mechanoid textures, and giving good advice for the new assets in general!

Note: While you can add genes during creation (e.g. via dev mode or outside the custom scenario via a new xenotype.) The mod doesn't fully support custom gene combos. Most vanilla and many modded genes should work, though xenogerms aren't usable in standard gameplay specifically. Feel free to experiment - for example appearance genes can be mixed in or the mech visuals can be removed, just be mindful of head types being reset and other quirks when forcing such edits. Do not report issues if you are using a non-stock gene configuration unless you are sure its unrelated

You can find the legacy version of the first edition here, which supports older versions but lacks key content: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2925172029

If you are using the facial animations mod make sure to disable it affecting persona mechs, otherwise their heads will be invisible.

• Fancying the trader carvan mechs? you can checkout my other mod that lets you get them for yourself Logistics Mechanoid!
  
  
• Want to balance out some of the challenge around acquiring mechanoids? Try out my other mod Mechanitor Balance Tweaks!
  
  
• Maybe try using some interesting adjuster buildings that these pawns are largely immune to, you can checkout my other mod Reverse Engineered Region Adjusters.

If you enjoy the mod, consider rating it up!

Version changes are posted in workshop item "Change Notes"

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