Panic Zone Toggler

An emergency response utility that instantly forces all player-controlled pawns, mechanoids, and animals into a designated "Panic" allowed area. No more pausing the game to manually reassign dozens of individual restriction zones while a massive raid breaches your walls.

🚨 Key Features

Native Hotkey Support: Hit "P" by default, fully rebindable via RimWorld Options -> Controls, to instantly trigger or deactivate the alert.

The Panic Button: Adds an emergency toggle right next to the game speed controls. One click locks down your colony; clicking it again restores everyone to their exact previous allowed zones.

Hotkey-Only Friendly: If you dislike the Panic button, you can turn it off and just use the hotkey.

Granular Control Toggles: Choose exactly who responds to the panic alarm in the settings menu. Force any combination of humans, mechanoids, or animals into safety while leaving others to their normal routines.

Safe Fallback: Looks for an allowed area named "Panic" by default, which is customizable. If the designated area does not exist on a map, it automatically falls back to the Home Zone to keep your colonists safe.

🛠️ Technical Details

No Active Tick Loops: This mod does not run active tick-based polling while idle, making it safe for large mod lists.

Caravan Safe: Cleanly preserves and restores the restriction states of pawns even if they leave the map or form caravans while panic mode is active.

Open to feature recommendations :)

🌐 Open Source & Contributions

GitHub: https://github.com/JoyfulReaper/PanicZoneToggler
License: BSD 2-Clause License

Development Disclosure: Built by an experienced C# developer. AI tools were used for drafting, refactoring, and documentation assistance, but the design, code review, testing, debugging, release decisions, and maintenance are mine. Harmony patches and gameplay changes are reviewed against RimWorld/Verse behavior before release.