Ritual Pattern Integrity Fix

Ritual Pattern Integrity Fix

Fixes rituals that open under the wrong ideology or use unrelated ritual rules because the save paired a ritual precept with an incompatible source pattern.

The confirmed bug

When starting Tribal Gathering at a campfire, RimWorld could skip the player's primary ideology and open the ritual from a minor ideology instead. The dialog then showed the wrong roles, requirements and rewards. In the affected save, the primary ideology's Tribal Gathering pointed to an unrelated Maddening Chant pattern, while the minor ideology's copy pointed to a Plague Festival pattern.

What this mod does

• Checks the player faction's primary and minor ideologies after loading a game.
• Checks the edited ideology again after a fluid ideology reform.
• Repairs only ritual patterns that are impossible for their precept definition.
• Preserves legitimate festival variants from the same pattern group.
• Preserves ritual replacements explicitly provided by ideology memes.
• Clears obligations belonging to the invalid pattern before rebuilding the correct one.
• Preserves ritual completion and ability cooldown timestamps.

Compatibility

Requires: Harmony and the Ideology DLC. VFE Tribals is not a hard dependency. Tribal Gathering exposed the bug, but the validator works generically with vanilla and modded ritual precepts. Only the player's ideologies are touched. World factions are left unchanged.

Safe to add mid-save?

Yes. The repair runs when the save finishes loading. Keep a normal backup before changing any mod list.

Credits

Created by YVY + ChatGPT through gameplay QA, save analysis and controlled regression testing.