Emerald Isle

Description


Emerald Isle is a lore-friendly RimWorld expansion inspired by Irish history, archaeology, material culture, language, and mythology.

Version 0.5 - The Wolfhound

Version 0.5 adds the wolfhound, a fast domestic coursing and combat companion. It can be trained to guard and attack but cannot rescue, haul, carry caravan cargo, patrol, hunt, or protect livestock autonomously. It costs more to feed and adds more colony wealth than ordinary utility dogs. The mod remains vanilla-friendly, XML-only, and focused on practical choices rather than strict upgrades.

Current content

• Oats - A medium-cycle grain crop with a hand-quern processing chain for milled oats, oat porridge, and oat flatbread.
• Dry-stone wall - A material-efficient linked stone wall with original artwork.
• Flax and linen - Ground-grown flax is harvested as raw flax and processed into linen at vanilla work locations. Linen is a general Fabric with a warm-weather niche and lower durability than cloth.
• Linen tunic - A linen-only everyday garment with original ground and worn artwork.
• Brat cloak - A Fabric-stuffable shell-layer cloak with a wool-optimal cold-weather niche, low armor, and original art for all supported body types and directions.
• Central hearth - A stone-stuffable, continuously fueled household hearth providing heat, light, gathering-spot behavior, campfire-grade cooking, and Emerald Isle oat-food bills.
• Kerry cattle - Small, hardy dairy cattle with lower feed use and milk output per animal than vanilla cows.
• Farmhouse cheese - A 35-day milk preserve made at the central hearth or vanilla fueled/electric stoves.
• Wolfhound - A fast, rough-coated domestic fighter with Intermediate Guard and Attack training, limited utility, high food cost, and uncommon trader availability.

Compatibility

Requires RimWorld 1.6 Core. No DLC is required. Royalty, Ideology, Biotech, Anomaly, and Odyssey are supported. Odyssey adds Attack Target training to the wolfhound through the vanilla combat-canine pattern; it does not add Comfort.

Existing saves can add the Version 0.5 content without custom migration or serialized state. Back up important saves before changing any mod list.

Version 0.5.1 release notes