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Rock Bottom: Wretched Kin Genotype

"Become a foul, desperate wretch, once a scion of the arcologies, cast out by thine kin for beginning to show signs of mutation. They kicked you out with nothing except a dirty toga, and a gentling mask forced onto your face as some kind of cruel joke. Better find some water soon."

I set out to create a mutant / true kin hybrid genotype with the goal to provide a suitably challenging start to players who are intimately familiar with Caves of Qud cheese strats, as having access to both mutations and cybernetics has the potential to scale to an insane degree in the endgame. Loosely based on the Kenshi "Rock Bottom" and "Rockiest Bottom" game modes. Along the way I found out I needed actual C# script to put what's in my brain into the video game, but I don't know how to write code, so this mod wouldn't have been possible without help from the glorious Princess of Evil from the Caves of Qud discord. In addition, character sprites were largely based on the Apotropaist from Mephril's CYF Expansion - Genecrossed mod, with their permission.

New in 1.1: additonal challenge mode subtypes! Try the Maimed start to get the real Kenshi Rock Bottom experience, or for those who live, eat, drink, and breathe pure nightmare, attempt CRUMPED MODE if you dare. Plus new and improved CYF support - install Choose Your Fighter to change your character tile to accurately represent the limbs you gain or lose using either the chooseyourfighter:change wish, or I think there's also an add-on mod called Magic Mirror which adds an in-game item to open the CYF menu but I have not personally tested that.

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3032410975

Also if for some reason you're like "I like this mod but it's too difficult", or maybe "not difficult enough", you can navigate to the mod folder, go into the ObjectBlueprints folder, open up Genotypes.xml with notepad++ or another editor, and freely tinker with things like starting stat points / skill points / attributes and gains per level. It's all in plain text and very easy to edit. For more information check https://wiki.cavesofqud.com/wiki/Modding:Genotypes_and_Subtypes

TW: Some slightly depressing text belittling the character in the character creator to reflect their low attributes and backstory, for example the description for the "strength" attribute is replaced with "You never were very good at sports". I intend it to inspire challenge but of course don't want to actually upset anyone who might have a bad response to reading that kind of thing.