Waymakers (Roads, Rails & Infrastructure Meme)

Waymakers

"No settlement should stand alone." ⚠️You need a road-building mod for the core features to work. This meme revolves around building roads and celebrating their completion. Install at least one of:

• Rails and Roads of the Rim (Continued)
• Vanilla Factions Expanded - Classical

Both mods are optional, but without at least one of them the road completion mood thoughts and infrastructure precept will have nothing to trigger on. Roads, railways, and commerce bind isolated peoples together. Waymakers is a new Ideology meme for builders, traders, and explorers: colonists who believe civilization advances only when people, goods, and ideas are free to move. Infrastructure Required. Your colony takes a mood hit if it goes 30 days without building a road or railway (new colonies get a grace period). Stay connected, or stay miserable. Road completion is a celebration. Finishing a road or railway grants a scaling mood buff (+2 to +30) based on quality tier and length. Better roads, longer roads, bigger payoff. Incompatible with Isolationist and Raider. This is a philosophy of connection, not walls or banditry. A new Ideology role for your master builders.

• +50% Construction speed, +20% Mining speed (passive)
• Coordinate Works ability. Buffs nearby colonists' construction speed by +75% in a huge radius for 24 hours.
• Cast before a caravan departs to double road building work speed on the world map.

Coordinate Works. Rallies the crew, boosting construction speed by +75% in a huge radius for 24 hours. Cast before a caravan departs to speed up road building on the job itself. Groundbreaking Buff. Granted by ritual. Temporarily boosts construction speed for all participants, scaling with ceremony quality. Groundbreaking Ceremony. Kick off a major project with the community behind you. Grants a temporary construction speed buff to all participants, scaling with ceremony quality: +25% / +35% / +50%. Opening of the Line. Celebrate a finished road or railway with full pomp and circumstance. On positive outcomes, draws visiting caravans to your colony. Both are led by the Surveyor, fully optional, and scale in quality with participant count and skill. Translations Currently available in English and Italian. More translations welcome, contribute via GitHub. ✅Safe to add mid-game. Support Found a bug or have a suggestion? Open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/mxswat/Waymakers/issues Credits Nekl: Icons and steam workshop preview Subscribe and start paving the way.