Genes as Body Parts

The way that some of the vanilla genes are described to work is that they alter the pawn's body parts which then alters certain stats. This is not how they are mechanically implemented, however, since instead of giving those body parts a hediff, the gene itself would directly alter the pawn's stats. This is most notable in cases of the genie xenotype's elongated fingers, and pigskin xenotype's trotter hands and robust digestion. This mod remedies this by adding hediffs the moment the gene is applied to a pawn. Elongated finger hediffs will be added onto each of a genie's fingers and pigskins will have trotter hands on their hand and multi-fold stomach on their stomach, as the gene's description suggests.

This mod is inspired by Yehoria's Better Hand Genes which works very similarly using Vanilla Expanded Framework. I made this mod because I have code sitting around that I'd worked on for a different project that does more or less the same thing, and I decided to improve on it and iron out the kinks, mainly to fix a part of the Vanilla Expanded Framework's system that I find leaving more to be desired for my own use, which is that whenever a missing body part is restored (i.e. using a healer mech serum) the body part doesn't get the hediff again.

For now, this mod covers only three genes from Biotech. Elongated fingers, trotter hands, and robust digestion (from strong stomach gene's description, it technically adds a gland on the stomach and there's no easy way to make two stomachs work together, so I exclude it out). Yehoria covers more modded genes, but I'd like to see how this mod goes before I work on adding compatibility for mods that I don't use.

Another note, I saw that Yehoria made their hediffs invisible, which is not a bad idea. Ten finger hediffs will absolutely clutter the hediff list. I made mine invisible too except for the multi-fold stomach. One stomach hediff is hopefully not too disruptive, and you can harvest and sell it too, so you probably want to see that hediff. It ties in nicely to the lore that pigskins are grown as organ farms at that.

List of affected genes:

• Elongated fingers
• Trotter hands
• Robust digestion