Grenade Sacrifice

Grenade Sacrifice

"Pull the pin. Take them with you." Sometimes the raid is too big, the kill box has fallen, and Grandpa Joe with 190% pain and one lung has nothing left to lose. Now he can go out on his own terms. This mod adds a small Pull Pin action gizmo to any colonist holding a grenade. Click it, and the pin comes out. The grenade's own fuse starts hissing, sparks fly, a countdown ticks over the pawn's head... and then the grenade detonates centered on the pawn - wherever they managed to run to in the meantime.

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Features

• Pull Pin gizmo on any drafted colonist with an equipped grenade. Undrafted pawns keep their fingers away from the pin.
• Realistic fuse - the delay is that grenade's own fuse time, exactly as if it had been thrown. Grenades that normally burst on impact get the standard frag-grenade fuse.
• The pawn can still move while the fuse burns. Charge into the enemy line, hug a centipede, or just stand your ground.
• Authentic blast - the explosion uses that grenade's exact damage, radius, damage type and effects, as if it landed on the pawn's tile. One grenade is consumed.
• No takebacks. The pin cannot be put back in, and the grenade is locked in the pawn's grip - it cannot be dropped, stripped or swapped away while the fuse burns.
• Misclick protection - a confirmation dialog before the pin comes out. Feeling brave? Turn it off in the mod settings.
• Works with EMP, smoke, flash and other exotic grenades - anything that explodes at all.
• Molotov cocktails are excluded. There is no pin on a bottle.
• Pacifists refuse to do it.
• Hands and brains required. Only pawns that could plausibly pull a pin get the button: humans, sapient humanoid androids, and hand-equipped war machines. Animals, hauler bots and mindless drones can carry a grenade, but they will never get the gizmo.

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Mod Compatibility

Every mod below was checked def-by-def against this mod. Two questions matter: which grenades get a Pull Pin button, and which pawns are allowed to press it.

Grenade mods - what can be pin-pulled

• Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Grenades - a grenade equipped as a weapon gets the Pull Pin gizmo automatically. Grenade belts are apparel, not grenades, so they are correctly left alone - they keep their normal throw-from-belt function and never sprout a pin.
• Grenade Variety for Combat Extended - all eight grenades are explicitly supported: thermobaric, stinger, incendiary, pipe bomb, anti-tank, prometheum bomb, defensive and shaped charge. Works alongside Combat Extended itself.
• More Useful Grenade - these ride in the pawn's inventory rather than being equipped, so they are handled by name. Pin-pullable: frag, thermite and flashbang. Deliberately excluded: C4 (a timed charge, not a pin) and the gadgets - data knife, gravity trap, healing smoke and the "Nightfall" smoke grenade. You can't pull a pin on a gadget.

Most other grenade mods just work: any weapon in the Grenades category whose projectile actually explodes gets the gizmo, no patch required.

Pawn mods - who can pull a pin

Pulling a pin takes hands and enough of a mind to decide to. That single rule sorts every modded pawn:

• Android Tiers - T1 through T5 androids and the M7/M8 combat androids are sapient, so they get the gizmo. Android animals and micro-scythers are not sapient, so they don't.
• The Dead Man's Switch - the humanoid, weapon-wielding war machines qualify: automatroid soldiers (soldats, arquebusiers, ronins, battleframes) and synthroids like the Lady. The four-legged and heavy frames - robot hounds, birds and the giant quadruped/vehicle mechs - have no hands to pull a pin with, so they can't, even while hauling a grenade.
• Misc. Robots - hauler, cleaner and crafter bots are tool-users, not sapient. No gizmo.
• Project RimFactory - Drones - station-bound work drones. They aren't drafted and don't carry grenades as weapons, so the button never appears.
• Machines of War - combat mechanoids, not sapient handlers. No gizmo.

The upshot: animals, hauler bots and mindless drones can carry a grenade all day, but only a thinking pawn with working hands can pull the pin. For mod authors: opt your items in or out with a one-line patch adding GrenadeSacrifice.PullPinExtension (allowed true/false, plus an optional fuse-length override in ticks). Races can be opted in or out the same way with GrenadeSacrifice.PullPinRaceExtension.

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FAQ

Q: Will my pawn die? A: That depends entirely on the grenade, their armor, and their luck - the blast is the grenade's normal explosion. A frag grenade at your feet is usually a very bad day. A smoke grenade is just a dramatic exit from visibility. Q: Can enemies or raiders do this? A: No. Only your own drafted, player-controlled pawns get the gizmo. No surprise suicide raiders. Q: Can my attack squirrel / hauler drone go out in a blaze of glory? A: No. No hands, no pin. Grenades in their inventory are just cargo. Q: Does the explosion follow the pawn? A: Yes. The blast goes off wherever the pawn is when the fuse runs out - downed, dead, or still running. Q: What if the pawn drops the grenade mid-fuse, or gets stripped? A: They can't. Once the pin is out, the grenade is locked in their grip until it goes off. No cook-and-drop exploits, no live grenades in your stockpile. Q: What if the pawn leaves the map mid-fuse? A: The grenade safely fizzles instead of throwing errors. Q: RimWorld Multiplayer? A: Yes - the pin pull is registered with the Multiplayer API so it stays in sync. When Multiplayer is not installed, the compat code does nothing at all. Q: Save compatible? A: Safe to add to existing saves. Removing it mid-fuse is not recommended for obvious reasons. Q: Combat Extended? A: Yes, including Grenade Variety for CE. Q: What languages are supported? A: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Spanish. The game switches automatically based on your RimWorld language setting - no separate download needed.

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Requires Harmony. RimWorld 1.6.