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GrimWorks: Work Manager

Name: GrimWorks: Work Manager
Author: Grim

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GrimWorks: Work Manager arranges work types into color-coded categories for better pawn management, so your haulers can focus on Logistics and your builders on Construction.

GrimWorks: Work Manager arranges work types into color-coded categories for better pawn management, so your haulers can focus on Logistics and your builders on Construction.
An expanded priority range helps control which jobs are handled before others.

The mod builds on and expands ideas and features found in some of the great RimWorld work mods, including:

Compact Work Tab originally by CaptainArbitrary
Many Jobs originally by CaptainArbitrary
Work Tab originally by Fluffy
Some More Jobs by Yoann
Complex Jobs by FrozenSnowFox

If this mod is not to your liking, I can recommend any of the above (and their continuations).

Major work mods often overlap heavily, so I strongly recommend using only one at a time. They may technically work together, but can result in an excessive number of work types or unexpected interactions.

I am not a coder and I have relied heavily on ChatGPT when making this mod.

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Added controls:

Mouse wheel over a priority cell to adjust that pawn’s priority.
Shift + click a pawn name to adjust all of that pawn’s active priorities at once.
Shift + click a work type header to adjust that work type for all visible pawns.
Shift + mouse wheel over a work type header to adjust that work type for all visible pawns.
Ctrl + click a work type header to open its individual workgiver priorities.
Right-click a work type header to reassign it to another category.
Click and hold a work type header to drag it to a new position.

Specific for workgivers:

Click a workgiver priority to adjust it individually.
Ctrl + mouse wheel over a priority to adjust it without scrolling the window.
Shift + mouse wheel over a workgiver to adjust it for all listed pawns.
Shift + click a pawn name to adjust all workgivers for that pawn.

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Expanded priorities and new work types

The Work Manager expands RimWorld’s manual priority range from 1–4 to 1–9, giving you more room to separate critical work from routine jobs without everything fighting over the same few numbers.

Several vanilla work types are also split into more focused roles. Instead of treating every job under a work type as one big pile, jobs such as nursing, butchering, brewing, repairing and many more have their own work types.
The Mining and Basic work types have also been moved in the default Work tab order.
Custom work type order is remembered and carried over when starting new colonies.

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Added work types:

Rescue, Surgery, Nurse
Teach, Recruit
Rope, Tame
Butcher, Brew
Repair, Deconstruct
Harvest
Mechanitor, Machine, Fabricate, Drugs, Smelt, Refine, Stone cut
Refill, Deliver, Cargo, Mortuary
Scan

Vanilla mechs are patched to support relevant new work types.

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Added categories:

Healthcare
Emergency and medical.

• Social

Childcare and wardening.

• Husbandry

Taming, training and tending to animals.

• Provisioning

Cooking, butchering and hunting.

• Construction

Repairing, building and tearing down.

• Cultivation

Planting, harvesting and chopping trees.

• Industry

Crafting and fabricating.

• Logistics

Hauling, cleaning and basic tasks.

• Science / Anomalies

Research and discovery, anomalies and other "weird" work types.

Unrecognized work types are placed in a neutral category.
Work types can be assigned to another category by right-clicking their header, or moved by clicking, holding and dragging.
Categories themselves can be reordered in the mod settings.

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Workgivers

Vanilla work types often contain several different workgivers. The mod lets you assign priorities to them individually for each pawn, with mixed priorities indicated directly in the main Work tab. Some workgivers have also been moved to more appropriate work types as part of the new work-type structure. Hover over a work type header to see which workgivers it contains. Open the workgiver window with Ctrl + click on a work type header.

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Default work setup and profiles

Save your colony’s current work priorities as a default setup and restore them later. This can be useful when priorities are temporarily changed for caravans, medical emergencies, pregnancy, childbirth, or other situations where the normal work setup gets turned upside down.

Named work profiles can be created from a pawn’s current priorities and loaded onto other pawns in the current colony or future colonies. Saved profiles can be managed in the mod settings.

When loading a profile, work types that are no longer available are skipped. New work types that were not present when the profile was created are left disabled so they are easier to notice and assign manually.

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Color schemes

Priority numbers and work type headers have separate color schemes, each of which can be changed or disabled independently.

Work type header colors follow their assigned categories, making large Work tabs easier to read at a glance. Several built-in schemes are included, ranging from subdued to high-contrast.

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Mod compatibility

Work types added by supported mods are automatically placed in appropriate categories. Their initial position still comes from the mod that adds them, but they can be dragged anywhere in the Work tab or reassigned to another category.

Supported work type integrations include: