Dont Hurt The Children

****1.6****

You can get the updated version from github, steam workshop keeps failing when I try to update. I will remove this once I get it to work.

Details

This is a mod for those of us who didn’t want to install any child mods in the past because we didn’t want to have to deal with the heartbreak of them getting attacked. While it might be better to just disable kids all together, personally I wanted aspects of the system with just some extra protections in place. The mod works by changing the targeting aspects of hostiles to ignore children who are unarmed. This is done via harmony in a non-destructive way to hopefully work with all mods and not cause issues. This will also prevent predators from hunting your babies. By default, this will not prevent your children from being harmed, just not directly targeted. So, you should still make sure they are in a safe place should any danger come. I have included an experimental option that would prevent them from taking any damage. Though, I can certainly foresee some potential weirdness using this setting.

FAQ

Q: What if I want child soldiers? A: You’re a monster :P But I don’t prevent it by default. Any protections are only applied to children who are unarmed and not attacking someone. Q: Will this prevent raiders from having Child soldiers. A: This is disabled by default in storyteller settings. I'm not sure why you'd turn it on and have this mod, but if you do it would in theory still work as they'd be armed. Q: Why A: Because I prefer some horrors of reality to not be a part of my leisure time.

Features

As the number of features has grown a bit this is all the mod can do. Everything has its own setting so pick and choose as you wish. 1. Raiders wont target children who are unarmed and not attacking - Default on. 2. Children can be hunted by predators - default off 3. Children can be hurt - default on -This works by reducing any incoming damage to 0, this may have unintended consequences. 4. Children can be capable of violence - Default on 5. Improved child flee - default on -This works by having a child try to flee to their parents, their room, or another colonist in that order based on if that location is safe. If all those options are not possible it reverts to the vanilla which is roughly 23 cells away. 6. Children can be sold by traders - default on 7. Man in Black will appear when there is no adults left standing in the colony rather than no one standing - default on 8. Refugee kids won't betray - Default on -With this on a group of refugees containing children will never betray or attack you. If its a mixed group, and you prompt an attack from them. Children will flee the map, while adults attack.

Mod Compatibility

There shouldn’t be any direct conflicts. However I can’t guarantee the protections will apply to enemies added by various mods, though it should for the vast majority.

Credits

I stole the 1.4 in my amazing preview art from Alpha Memes. (All code is available on Github) Rimworld is owned by Tynan Sylvester. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)