3/7 Update: 1.4, minor bug fixes, small patch for Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Memes and Structures. I looked into adding more functionality, see notes at bottom.
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About 'Insect Meat Enjoyer'
Adds a chance for pawns to have a trait called 'Insect Meat Enjoyer' where they enjoy slimy insect meat delicacies.
It gives a flat +6 to mood for eating raw insect meat and/or a meal containing insect meat. The trait has the same commonality as the nudist trait.
Note: If a pawn has an ideology that despises insect meat as a precept, this will completely offset that -6 thought for eating raw insect meat and the -3 for eating a meal containing insect meat. Also, this positive thought does not stack with the 'Tunnler' meme's positive mood thought for eating insect meat related.
This is also my first mod, a quick and easy one to add something I felt the game was missing.
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As noted, I looked into adding additional functionality and patches for things like insect jelly and modded food ingredients.
Unfortunately, the way the game handles specifying food items like insect meat and human meat is through actual class declarations in the games code, which lets those be referenced in the XML Defs by things like traits, ideology, and hediff givers. And since this is a trait, I can't make the trait give for instance a +6 mood modifier for eating specifically insect jelly, unless insect jelly gets reclassified as it's own food class in the game's assembly... I think.
To add these additions it would require some C# coding. I only have very minimal ability in C# and basic ability with XML. So unfortunately until I figure out a workaround or get any help, those functionalities won't be added. If you have any suggestions put them in the comments like usual. Unless I use mod dependencies like Vanilla Cooking Expanded's meal ingredient framework, which wasn't the goal with this mod, it might be possible through just XML alone. However, I wanted to keep this mod independent of other mods.
Thanks for reading.
