Graying Hair

Graying hair or Greying hair to turn your pawn's hair gray or grey :)

Pawns' hair will start graying out with age. It starts when they are 40 years old and becomes fully white at 60 maximum.

It is super simple and lightweight (and I won't add anything that may change that). It only ticks once at their birthday so no performance drag due to it.

It also won't give away hidden pawns due to anomalies.

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Update: 15h08 29 July 2024 I finally played anomaly :) Because of that I decided to add Chronophagy ritual compatibility. Since I was already updating I also decided to add Vanilla Psycasts Expanded compatibility and Biosculpter Pod compatibility. Now the mod has both Graying Hair and Reverse Graying Hair. Reversing the graying only happens if you have biotech enabled, otherwise the game has no concept of original hair color.

It does not require Ideology/Biotech/Anomaly/VPE, but patches the stuff if you have it.

Update: 11:42 09 July 2025 Yay, 1.6 compatible. I updated it while it is still in the unstable branch, so if any bugs happen leave a comment. It probably will be automatically Odyssey compatible.

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Things people asked me:

Q: Compatible with Biotech? A: Yes! If pawn has the grayless hair gene it will not gray out. It doesn't matter if it is a xenogene or endogene.

Q: Does it affect immortal pawns? A: I removed compatibility with immortals and celestials [mods] because we now have base game immortality. It still works with those mods, but the ageless gene or immortality does not grant immunity to graying hair, only the grayless hair gene.

Q: How does it work with gradient hair? A: Didn't test because I don't use it. It probably changes the original hair color and leaves the secondary color gradient untouched.

Q: Can I change the age where hair starts graying? A: Yes! Now it has some settings.

Q: How are you doing? A: I got accepted at one university, hoping they will call me in the future :) Now I have to finish my PhD and keep applying to teach at my dream Uni.

Q: Can I add mid-save? A: Mid-save, pre-save, post-save. You can do anything you want with it and it works darling.

Q: Does it work in reverse with a biosculpter? A: Now it does :) It also works with vanilla psycasts expanded. Although it only reverses graying if you have biotech enabled.

Q: Does it work with insert alien race here? A: Yes! As long as they are humanoid. It is based on life expectancy, not an actual number like forty.

Q: If I dye their hair, will it stop graying? A: No. It will turn into the dyed color but continue to gray slowly until it needs to be dyed again.