Rimworld: Blood Feast - Build a Vampire Empire! (1.3 - Not Supported)

This is a 1.3 mod pack and is no longer supported. Load orders and save games have been removed to avoid confusion and complaints from people loading into the

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0: Contents

1. Introduction 2. Installation Guide 3. Essential Mod Settings 4. FAQ

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1: Introduction

Created for my Youtube series found here: https://youtu.be/r6MIJo-GmFY Rimworld: Blood Feast is a modpack designed to give you the ability to build your own Vampiric Empire in a fun, but balanced way, with all technology levels going! With Faster Aging, Children School and Learning, and many others, your task is to build a Vampire Megacity, capable of feeding human cattle, and highborn vampire alike, in the cold, dark wasteland of a planet. There is heavy focus on the Shattered Empire acting as an Inquisition type faction, with massive psypowers, armour, and technologies at their disposal - whatever it takes to destroy your vampire cities, and give them a fighting chance against the Rim of Madness: Vampires that you create. And it wouldn't be a true vampiric society without trickery, politics, and social manipulation, with vampires climbing over one another to become the prince of the city. Backstabbing, vengeance, and ideological differences are core to this modpack, making the challenge both internal, and external.

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2: Installation Guide

For any new complex mod pack you should FULLY reset Rimworld, and all related files, to ensure no old, outdated, or incompatible mods are left behind. Reinstalling Rimworld or unsubscribing from mods WILL NOT fully reset your reinstallation and old files can still persist! Please see "Section 2 - Preparation" in the guide I've written below for a full walkthrough on fully resetting Rimworld: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gsJ6r0CF_yHSOLjOZQgMKAjEvGr8dQVqqWMmzFDVYqg/edit?usp=sharing Imgur Picture guide for Steps 6 onward as this can be a bit more confusing for first-time users: https://imgur.com/gallery/0ktDs6N 1. Subscribe to the collection, and allow the download time to complete, might take a while to copy over! 2. Download the load order file from the above "Load Order" google drive link. 3. Open Rimworld and enable Harmony and Mod Manager ONLY, making sure harmony is at the top, while Mod Manager is at the bottom, like so: - Harmony - Core - Royalty DLC - Mod Manager 4. Restart Rimworld and go back into mods, if it looks different and has new options, mod manager is working correctly. 5. Close Rimworld 6. Type "%appdata%/../LocalLow" (without quotes) into Windows. 7. Open the "Ludeon Studios" folder. Then "Rimworld by Ludeon Studios" folder, then ModLists (this folder WILL NOT appear until you have enabled Mod Manager and Harmony in Rimworld, go back to step 3 and restart Rimworld.) 8. Paste the file from Google Drive into this folder (LocalLow/Ludeon Studios/Rimworld by Ludeon Studios/ModLists) 9. Restart Rimworld ONCE the file has been copied 10. Go back into "Mods" 11. Click on the button called "Create, apply and manage mod lists" on the further right of the other button in the BOTTOM CENTRE of the screen. 12. Click "Load mod list" 13. Click "Blood Feast" or the NAME of the downloaded file, if this does not appear then either restart Rimworld OR you haven't placed the file in the correct place. Redo steps 6 onward. 14. Restart Rimworld and you're done!

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3: Essential Mod Settings

Mod Configs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLv81W7mgoG2DiWW-dIS_Rfx2AueVEaj/view?usp=sharing (Identical for both load orders - unused mod configs in the lightweight load order simply won't do anything) (Open the zip and drag the contents of it to your AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Config) Above, I have provided a download to my config files. These are XML files that contain mod settings which are generated by the game, and contain no mod content by themselves. Putting these in your Rimworld config folder will set all of your mod settings to match my own, however I would highly recommend going through the mod setting yourself and seeing what would more suit your own playstyle! SETTINGS YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO CHANGE: With any Vampire character you MUST go into the characters Bio tab and click on the vampire symbol in the top right of the panel, next to the rename button - this will open the Vampire stats page. In the Vampire stats page, click on the symbol of the sun, immediately to the right of the word "Disciplines", and toggle this until you see "NO AI". This will disable the vampire's automatic sunlight avoidance pathfinding. If you do not do this every time the vampire begins a job it will check whether or not there is sunlight, which it will attempt to path around. Because vampires have a very high movement speed at higher levels, this check will fire extremely frequently and cause a large amount of TPS delay. Because the scenario defaults the sun's strength to only 20%, the vampire won't be harmed.

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4: FAQ

Q: Is this a virus? (I get this a lot) A: I 100% get the caution, but Youtube is my job, I have 130k+ subscribers, and if I tried to do anything even remotely malicious I would lose my ability to pay rent overnight. Obviously I wouldn't maliciously spread a virus amongst a Rimworld mod pack. You are more than welcome to ask amongst comment sections, my discord, or even here on steam if you're unsure. If you want to be extremely certain, I would highly recommend using the files with something such as https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload which will check the files amongst many masterlists provided by security companies. Q: Why didn't you include X mod? A: I only had a 48 hour window to create and test the modpack, and produce the accompanying video. But I'm always up for new suggestions. Q: Vampires turn into a headless, naked torso when they transform? A: Known issue, I couldn't track down the specific mod causing it.