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We're planning to address this.

It's like those M:TG cards that just kill your own creatures or damage yourself or whatever, but you can use them in weird combos to trigger useful effects. Always loved that concept.

There's an issue where furskin-specific beards can be manually assigned to non-furskin (i.e. non-yttakin). This may be that. It's getting fixed.

Thank you for playing and participating in the community - much appreciated!

I'm not sure there's much in the game that contradicts what you're saying.

RimWorld neanderthals can hunt, craft, use fire, and have complex spoken interactions. They can carry out rituals, bury the dead, hold and spread complex beliefs. They can form complex relationships with each other and with humans, who they can also interbreed with.

You talk about real neanderthals sewing, burying the dead ritualistically, doing art. RimWorld neanderthals do all this (in addition to building geothermal generators and interstellar spacecraft, FWIW).

None of this contradicts them being less intelligent than baseliners. There is a very broad spectrum of intelligence between a modern human and the cartoon notion of a proto-human who can only grunt (barely verbal) and swing a club.

If you IQ tested a population of neanderthals where would they score on average? Nobody really knows of course, but I don't think it would be 50, nor would it be 100. It'd be somewhere b...

All right all right, it's a bug, we'll fix. Thanks for the info!

Yeah, we released a hotfix for this issue a few hours after Biotech dropped, so either something was missed or OP has the old version.

I've asked the coders to check this.

We'll look at this and push a hotfix soon. Sorry about that.

They would I think, can't hurt to try.

There's some more info and the resolution reported in this comment.