mlie[XND] Vanilla-Friendly Animal Surgery Mod brings balanced, size-based prosthetics and organ surgery to animals without the “one size fits all” approach. It expands animal customization while staying closer to vanilla design philosophy.
– Replaced patches with assemblies; should now work on all animals similar to Animal Armor (Continued).
– Added the possibility to craft all animal body parts.
– Added ear implants.
[XND] Vanilla-Friendly Animal Surgery Features
This mod is designed for players who want animal surgery without oversized bionics fitting every creature equally.
Available Animal Parts
- Dentures.
- Peg legs.
- Hearts, kidneys, lungs, and livers.
- Simple prosthetic arms and legs.
- Bionic arms, legs, and eyes.
- Painstoppers.
- Ear implants.
Dentures and peg legs are installed the same way as in vanilla colonist surgery.
Size-Based System
Larger animals receive stronger prosthetics than smaller ones. For example, a small bionic leg may deal 8 damage when installed frontally, while a large one may deal 15.
Size categories:
- Tiny: Mature body size under 0.3 (e.g., chickens, squirrels).
- Small: 0.3 to 0.7 (e.g., monkeys, alphabeavers).
- Medium: 0.7 to 1.3 (e.g., boars, ostriches).
- Large: 1.3 to 2.4 (e.g., muffalo, bears).
- Huge: 2.4 or greater (e.g., rhinoceroses, thrumbos).
Balance and Acquisition
- Animal organs and prostheses are trade-only.
- You cannot harvest animals for organs.
- Animal parts use separate trade categories and do not affect human part availability.
- Surgery on animals grants only 5/16 of normal human surgery experience to prevent XP farming.
Compatibility notes
- Not recommended with A Dog Said due to overlapping parts and balance conflicts.
- Recommended with Animal Armor to maximize animal customization.
- No compatibility patches for animal mods have been provided.
- For modders: Plug your animals’ defNames into the appropriate XML patches. Vanilla references are available in Patches/Core.
Support and troubleshooting
- See if the error persists if you just have this mod and its requirements active.
- If not, try adding your other mods until it happens again.
- Always post your log using the Log Uploader.
- For best support, please use the Discord-channel for error-reporting.
- Do not report errors by making a discussion-thread, I get no notification of that.
- If you have the solution for a problem, please post it to the GitHub repository.
- Use RimSort to sort your mods.
Additional credits: Marnador, Shotgunfrenzy.
