Recreation Options

Your colony’s children are out on a little field trip at the edge of the map, while their parents are busy working back at base. Everything’s perfectly ordinary—until a wild Grizzly bear gets hungry.

This kind of thing happens every few days. Why can’t these pawns just stay put at home? Why do some folks insist on ignoring the fully‑stocked recreation room and go swimming in that muddy marsh on the far side of the map? To stop these shenanigans from ruining my mood, I made this mod.

With this mod, you can disable any recreation activity you don’t like right from the mod options menu. Your pawns will then never attempt to perform the banned activities.

Of course, the same functionality also applies to the child learning mechanics from the Biotech DLC. However, due to the unique nature of that system, disabling too many learning activities may cause your colony’s children to become disinterested in studying altogether.

This mod can be safely added or removed mid-save.

Compatibility / Performance Impact

This mod is theoretically compatible with most other mods that add recreation via the JoyGiver system. On game startup, it scans all JoyGiverDefs and presents them as toggleable options. When you load a save, your settings are applied, and the mod directly prevents pawns from even attempting the disabled activities at the source. As a result, you’ll only see a slight performance hit during game startup and save loading if you have a large number of recreation‑related mods installed. During actual gameplay, there is zero performance impact.

Mods I’ve tested

Do Something for Idle – already has its own built‑in toggle, so no extra handling needed. Dubs Bad Hygiene – successfully detected, and the toggle works perfectly.