I have run into 2 planets thus far which feature "Apex" villages devoid of most furniture, and staffed by Novakids. They utter Apex lines, however. Is this a side effect of the Felins mod perhaps? I know where vanilla spawns an Avian village, I get a Felins village instead.
Nope. The first part is completely unrelated to my work. There's no reason for it to be. The second is an expected result of procedural generation -- by installing the felins mod, you changed the inputs. Thus, you get different outputs. Besides, Vanilla's results vary between updates too, since adding minibiomes like Heck also counts as changing the inputs.
OK, I was just curious. Changing an Avian town to a Felins one is expected. Part of the mod was defining the build of a Felins village, and it makes sense it might get placed instead of a vanilla race village.