Speech Gizmo Guard

Speech Gizmo Guard

Fixes pawns suddenly losing their entire command bar—including the Draft button—because of one broken ritual ability.

What does this fix?

Sometimes a pawn's entire command bar can suddenly disappear. You select the pawn, but there is no Draft button and no other action buttons. This can happen when one broken ritual or speech ability throws an error while RimWorld is building the pawn's command bar. Because that one button fails, the game stops displaying all the other buttons too. This mod isolates and disables only the broken ability, so Draft and the rest of the pawn's commands remain available. It does not remove the ability, repair rituals or modify your save. It only prevents one invalid command from breaking the entire Gizmo bar.

The confirmed bug

A pawn's command row suddenly became empty and the pawn could no longer be drafted through the normal UI. Reloading the save did not help; only restarting RimWorld restored the Gizmos temporarily. The actual failure was a Command_AbilitySpeech linked to a ritual with no target filter. When RimWorld requested that command's tooltip, it threw an exception and interrupted construction of the entire Gizmo list.

What this mod does

• Detects a speech command whose ritual has a missing target filter.
• Disables only the malformed speech command.
• Provides a safe explanatory tooltip.
• Keeps Draft and every unrelated pawn Gizmo available.

Compatibility and safety

Requires: Harmony and the Ideology DLC. Safe to add or remove mid-save. The mod does not modify or serialize ritual data.

Credits

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