Sex Matters Redux

2025-08-17

• Gender-Specific Mental Breaks! Males more prone to violent breaks (berserk, rage), females to non-violent (sad wandering, binges)
• Fixed infinite pawn ticking issue with mothballing support (Thanks to llunak)
• Improved attraction system with varied male attraction bonuses (+5/+10/+20) based on age and chemistry (Thanks to llunak)
• Enhanced disease balance with adjusted immunity mechanics (Thanks to llunak)

2023-05-12

Female Pawns

• Body size: 90% (affects carry weight, hunger, dodge, meat)
• Hunger rate: 78% (offset by body size)
• Health: 90%, incoming damage: 100%
• Melee hit/dodge: 85% (from 50%)
• Suppressibility: 125%, certainty loss: 150%
• Stagger duration: 120% (Biotech)
• Hulk body type restricted (configurable)

Male Pawns

• Social learning: 87% (from 92%)

Sex Matters Redux fixes the original mod's broken functionality and compatibility issues while rebalancing sex differences for more realistic gameplay focused on physical rather than mental disparities.

Mission:
1. Enhanced Compatibility: Fixed broken features and ensured integration with popular mods like RimWar
2. Balanced Differences: Scaled back exaggerations for realistic physical-focused dimorphism
3. Ongoing Updates: Continuous improvements and new features

General Improvements

• Fixed raid sex-ratio with male-dominated combat forces and RimWar compatibility
• Visible hediffs showing stat differences during gameplay
• Dynamic probability-based raid distribution system

Key Stat Changes

Female Adjustments

• Normalized: Surgery, construction, mining, skill learning rates, aiming accuracy, mental breaks
• CE suppressability: 125% (from 200%)
• Male attraction system with age/chemistry bonuses
• Physical mass: 85%
• Melee crit/parry/dodge: 85%
• Violent mental breaks: -40% chance (berserk, murderous rage, tantrums)
• Non-violent mental breaks: +50% chance (sad wandering, food binges, hiding)

Male Adjustments

• Mental break threshold: +5% (more prone to breaks)
• Violent mental breaks: +40% chance (berserk, murderous rage, tantrums)
• Non-violent mental breaks: -30% chance (sad wandering, food binges)

Planned Features

1. 'Snap Out!' Integration: Female pawns help males during mental breaks (cooldown system)
2. Skill Passions: Gender-based passion probabilities
3. Social Fights: More frequent among males, less among females
4. 'Female Presence' Removal: For disinterested pawns

Recommended Mods

Beauty Matters

Enhances female beauty bonuses and social interactions.

Way Better Romance

Improved romantic behaviors and cultural relationship influences.

• Original mod: Sex Matters
• Related mod: Variety Matters Redux

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Mod: HTxL