Quality of Life Essentials / Vanilla +
A collection of essential QOL mods for rim world 1.5. Makes no significant changes to vanilla game play, mostly changes pawn control, performance, UI, and sorting.
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2530641998
Download the following and add to the local mod file.
https://github.com/bbradson/Fishery
https://github.com/bbradson/Performance-Fish
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[FSF] Better Spike Traps
Description Spike traps have become less viable due to their high resource cost and their inability to be placed near each other.
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[FSF] Encounter Map Resources
Description This mod changes the encounter map spawning settings to enable resources to spawn again.
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[FSF] Filth Vanishes With Rain And Time
Description This mod patches all filth defs so they wash away with rain/snow.
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[FSF] Growable Ambrosia
Description This is a simple mod that allows you to plant ambrosia in soil or hydroponics.
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[FSF] No Default Shelf Storage
Description By default the settings on the storage shelf is set to priority Important and to accept weapons.
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[sbz] QualityBuilder retexture
QualityBuilder retexture · This mod only changes textures · Safe to add or remove from a save game Retextures Icons When using Camera+, low-resolution images feel like sand in your shoes.
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[Deprecated][LTS]Systems
My 1.6 mods does not need this mod anymore. It's deprecated. Systems is a framework that contains code that are used by many of my mods, other modders can also utilize this framework if they wish. Feel free to contact me directly or join my discord if you have any questions or ne
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[WD] Fast Moisture Pumps
Description: A small patch that makes Moisture Pumps faster for 4 times.
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Realistic Darkness (Light)
Description: This is a lighter version of Realistic Darkness mod.
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Soil Contrast
Description: Yep! Another mod which makes stony and rich soil more visible. Features: - Makes stony soil brighter and more yellow. - Makes rich soil darker and more brown. - Patch. Doesn't override any Vanilla defs. Known Issues: None. Saved games compatibility: Installation: no
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[XND] Visible Pants
A mod that allows you to see everybody's trousers, for that complete feel!
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Achtung!
Achtung! gives you tighter control over colonists when a normal right-click order is not enough. It is made for the busy moments: raids, fires, wounded pawns, half-built defenses, and work that must happen now instead of after a snack break. What it adds: - force work so pawns st
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Area Unlocker
Removes the (arbitrary) limit to the number of areas you can create, change area colours.
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Ask Before Enter
Sometimes that trader caravan enters just at the wrong time, triggering the dormant mech cluster leading to the premature destruction of your base.
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Auto links
Automatically adds hyperlinks to descriptions: Recipe ⟷ Result Recipe ⟷ Ingredient (excluding optional ingredients) Recipe ⟷ Research Recipe ⟷ Workbench Recipe ⟷ Body part / Body part group Buildable ⟷ Research Buildable ⟷ Ingredient (excluding optional ingredients) Fertilized eg
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Automatic Night Owl
Automatically assigns the sleep schedule for starting, newly recruited, and PrepareCarefully pawns with the night owl trait.
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Bad Leather Category
Puts all leather that is defined as coming from a Humanlike race and would cause bad thoughts from wearing in its own category Russian translation by Tkhakiro Idea by: ldvhl Since modding is just a hobby for me I expect no donations to keep modding.
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Bad Meat Category
Puts all meat that is defined as coming from a Humanlike race and would cause bad thoughts from eating in its own category Also Meat from Insectoids Rotten meat from Rotten Meat Chaomeat from Pawnmorpher Rotten Meat from Biotech xenotype expanded - Rotfish Synthmeat from Replimat
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Bed Rest For Food Poisoning
If you're constantly vomitting and can barely move, would you go hunting?
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Better ground-penetrating scanner
This mod allows to tune the ground-penetrating scanner to scan for a specific resource.
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Better ModMismatch Window
this mod will fix vanila's uncomfortable Mod Mismatch Window to github style.
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Better Pawn Control
A RimWorld mod that allows to set colonists and animals to outfits, areas, drugs, food in one single action.
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BetterSliders
Hi everyone, I’m taking a break from active development and community moderation for the project.
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Big Little Mod Patch
This patch applies multiple patches to allow furniture and workbenches from other mods to link with each other.
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Biome Transitions
Compatibility with the Odyssey DLC If you have this mod active in addition to the Odyssey DLC, then the "Mixed Biome" feature from the DLC is disabled, and transitions from this mod will appear instead.
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Circuit Breaker
📦 Overview 🕹️ Circuit breakers automatically switch off and stop power surges (⌁Zzzt⌁) from reaching batteries.
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Build From Inventory
Construction will use things in your colonist or pack animal's inventory.
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Camping Tent
For some reason, everyone in rimworld just doesn't make a tent to live in, and now it's time to have a change.
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Caravan Adventures
Caravan Adventures aims to transform traveling around the world into a real adventure by providing new features to replace the annoying micromanagement, make traveling more fun and give you a sense of purpose doing so.
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Caravan Item Selection Enhanced
Description: Personally I think one of the most user-unfriendly parts of the game is managing caravans.
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Caravan Lag Eliminator
Hello There! This mod will help you with caravan lags :) There is a problem with foraging bonus calculation with high Plant skill and custom races that don't need much food. RimWorld tries to calculate new remaining caravan food every time you add or remove an item from caravan,
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Character Editor
last update: v1.6.3 build on 2025-07-21 for RimWorld v1.6.4523 Editor for humanlike pawns on map and for crashlanding (colonists, enemies, dead pawns) MOD FEATURES • editor for pawns on map and for crashlanding • editable: body, head, hair, skin color, apparel color, gender, name
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Character Editor Retextured
Just a simple retexture of the textures for Character Editor, more in a style I prefer or in many cases just changing it for the sake of something fresh feeling.
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Clean Textures
The Clean Textures mod replaces standard surface textures as well as textures from several other mods.
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Clothing Sorter
A mod that sorts apparel based on various properties Option to sort by layer Option to sort by tech-level Option to sort by mod-name Option to sort by apparel tag Option to combine layer-categories with the same name Option to generate layer-categories for apparel that only occup
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Colored deep resources
No more hovering above every deep drill resource to find the right one!
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Compact Hediffs
Alters the health tab hediff listing to be slightly less ugly and slightly more customisable.
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Conduit Deconstruct
THE FUCTION OF THIS MOD IS NOW INCLUDED IN THE BASE GAME AS OF UPDATE 1.
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De-generalize Work
Because tailoring and smithing are totally different skills Description: 1.
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Disable Automatically Select Travel Supplies
Makes "Automatically Select Travel Supplies" option off by default.
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Discontinued - Do Your F****** Research
1.6 Version Link: Thanks to Maxhd4321! Description Allows the player to prioritize researching. IMPORTANT: It's an updated version of an existing mod, i claim no ownership of the mod. Will take it down if requested by the original author. Original mod (1.3 and earlier): Steam Wor
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Dormant Auto-mortars
Have you ever spent hours on a colony just to have it destroyed by one auto-mortar guarded by a whole legion of sleeping centipedes?
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DragSelect
This simple mod allows you to drag and select multiple items in trade, caravan, and transporter loading windows.
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Discontinued - Drop All Inventory
1.6 Version Link: Thanks to GanjaMan! Description Adds a button to selected pawns that causes them to drop all carried, non-equipped items. IMPORTANT: It's an updated version of an existing mod, i claim no ownership of the mod. This version may be taken down by request from the o
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Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap, with some options, doesn't hurt fps, ping tool for multiplayer.
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
This is a dry boring technical tool to analyze the cpu usage of specific parts of the game to help players and modders figure out performance issues.
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Everybody Gets One
Set a bill to craft things until there's one for each member of the colony.
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Faction Raid Cooldown
When a pawn from an enemy faction dies it adds to a cooldown timer for the faction to be able to raid again.
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Filter Manager
Manage your filters anywhere Got a list of things you want for your freezer?
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Food Alert (Continued)
Update of Mehnis mod Added a setting for selecting the lowest preferability of food to be counted DesperateOnly,RawBad,RawTasty,MealAwful,MealSimple,MealFine,MealLavish Examples for each category shows in the config-dialog Changed the calculations for food, instead using the exac
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Gain Skill Passions
Colonists have chance (configurable in settings) to gain/lose skill passion upon level up/down.
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Geneva Checklist
Ever wanted a full, detailed tally of every war crime you've commited throughout your playthrough?
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Geological Landforms
Compatibility with the Odyssey DLC Content that overlaps with the Odyssey DLC is automatically disabled when the DLC is active.
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Ground Targeter
Description: For all weapons, items, or abilities that can target the ground, this mod allows you to preferentially target the ground over other targets by holding down Left Shift.
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GroundClear
Have you ever had your colonists dig a nice path through the snow, only to leave a giant tree in the middle?
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Harvest Organs Post Mortem Continued
Harvest Organs Post Mortem (HOPM) is now available in 1.
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Heat Map (Continued)
INFO: Due to how Steam's workshop functions I cannot update the original mod without being the original author, so I decided to revive my Continued version for pushing updates.
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I Clearly Have Enough! (Continued)
Update of ChippedChaps mod - Added japanese translation, thanks Ɖjur!
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I will be back
——————Description—————— “I will be back” is a small mod to enrich the kidnapped system in Rimworld.
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In-wall coolers and vents
Do you hate when raiders easily break into your rooms via coolers?
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Injured Carry
Injured Carry - Rescue pawns who are not downed This mod allows you to control your pawn to rescue any injured pawns, even ones who are not downed.
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Just Ignore Me Passing
Just Ignore Me Passing fixes one small but annoying RimWorld behavior.
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Just Put It Over There
When making a trade-deal with a caravan, they will now try to place your bought items in storages instead of just dropping it on the ground.
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Level Up!
Get notified when colonists level up Usage You will automatically get notified whenever a colonist levels up.
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Live With The Pain
Injuries that gets permanent and causes permanent pain will now get less painful over time.
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Long Distance
This mod allows colonists that have relationships (both romantic and famillial) with pawns from other factions to invite them to join the colony.
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Luci heals more!
Mod version v 2.1.8 This mod changes how healing of the permanent wounds by luciferium and by scarless gene works. In vanilla it takes 1 to 2 seasons to heal a permanent injury, whether it is a 1/10 permanent brain injury or 29/30 permanent leg gunshot injury. This mod makes the
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Material Filter
New and improved version here: Thanks to CheaterEater^^ Allows to filter everything in a stockpile/shelf/outfit by the material it is made of.
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Meals On Wheels
Colonists grab meals from animals, or each other, if needed - if there is nothing else available.
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Micro Designations
You can designate some actions that usually possible only through bills and recipes.
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Mining Priority
Prioritizes mining to the rarest metal first; unskilled miners only work rocks.
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Mod Error Checker
The mod will check other mods for various errors and show them on startup with mod names.
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More Drug Stats
About So, you've started a new game with your 250+ mods and you're stuck on the Drug Policy screen again.
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More filters for animals' pen
Previous mod name: Animals' age filter You can decide which animal goes to a pen based not only on gender (male/female) but also on: animals' age (baby/juvenile/adult); pregnancy/fertilization status; sterilization status; age greater than life expectancy of animals' race; if a p
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More Harvest Designators!
Adds 3 new designators regarding plant-management: Chop mature trees only.
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More Planning [1.5]
For 1.3 ~ 1.5 1.1 / 1.2 Version: WILL NOT WORK ON 1.1/1.2 UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THE 1.1/1.2 VERSION IF RUNNING ON 1.3+ --- This mod creates a new option in the "Architect" menu, called "Planning", with more options for planning. Features: - 10 customizable planning designations; - Sho
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More Vanilla Biomes
More Vanilla Biomes adds more variety to your environment without overhauling the game.
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More Vanilla Textures
More Vanilla Textures renovates certain vanilla graphics and adds new varieties to some others, all at 2x vanilla resolution.
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New Game Plus
Description This mod is meant to cut off some of the setup for every new colony you start.
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No Hemogen Farm Medical Alert
Patches the "Medical Emergency" alert to ignore extreme blood loss on prisoners that are set to the "Hemogen Farm" or "Bloodfeed" interaction modes.
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NoCaravanAbandon
Mod disables map (caravan, ambush, etc) abandoning when all colonists are down.
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Numbers
Adds a customizable general overview tab, allowing you to see any stats on all your colonists or prisoners in a single window.
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Nurse Job
Description Creates a nursing job to handle doctor duties non-dependent on the medicine skill.
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Packs Are Not Belts
Moves the jump pack, low-shield, and some modded packs to the torso slot so they can be worn with belts.
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Pawn Name Variety
Did you know that a large portion of the pawns in your game have predefined names and backstories?
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Pawn Target Fix
Proximity vs. Accuracy Targeting Left: Proximity-first (vanilla style) — pawns shoot the nearest enemy, even if they’re in heavy cover. Right: Accuracy-first (new option) — pawns prefer enemies they’re more likely to hit, even if they’re further away. Switch instantly in Mod Sett
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Performance Optimizer
Performance Optimizer is a mod, which adds various performance tweaks to the game.
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Pick Up And Haul
"Greatest hauling mod ever" - Chicken Plucker Colonists will gather stuff in their inventory, then haul it all to a stockpile.
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PrisonerRansom
This mod allows you to demand ransom for imprisoned pawns for silver at the comms console.
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Prisoners Are Not Swines
You probably noticed that your prisoners live in filth and hate their life.
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Prisoners Dont Have Keys
I found it odd that prisoners could open doors when escaping when fleeing raiders cannot.
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Psychic Harmonizer Lag Fix
Fixes the reason why psychic harmonizer slows down the game when looking at a mood tab.
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QualityBuilder
With QualityBuilder all buildings that have quality (beds, tables etc) will only be build by the best builder to ensure the best outgoing quality.
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Quick Stockpile Creation
Quality of Life mod that allows you to quickly create a stockpile directly from an item, for just that item type, with a few other features.
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Raiders Never Die (Continued)
Update of schplorgs, sems mod For those that have trouble with the wording of the description, ”death chance” and ”death risk” mean the same thing in this mod.
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Repair in the Zone
Makes pawns not stand outside their allowed area to interact with something that is within it.
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Replace Stuff
Place buildings anywhere, on top of existing things, and the game will handle it.
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Replace Stuff Mod Compatibility
A patch for Replace Stuff to introduce compatibility for various mods.
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ResearchPal - Continued
Towards Even Better Research Management # Features - Dynamically generate research tree.
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Resource Dictionary
Have you suffered any of the following problems while playing a modded Rimworld game?
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RimHUD
RimHUD is a UI mod that displays detailed information about a selected character or creature.
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Rimpedia
Note : Since we have not played with Rimworld for a while, it is very likely that we will not be able to respond to any anomalies.
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RocketMan - Performance Mod
Error reporting to almost any mod requires alog these days Use to get said log Our lord and savior Zetrith has blessed us with the Prepatcher!
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Romance On The Rim
Romance On The Rim I think romance relationship in vanilla is pretty barren, nothing more than lovin', marriage, or breakup.
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Safe Drug Policy Generator
This mod automatically generates a drug policy that safe from addiction.
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Scattered Flames Continued
Original Mod: Note: You must unsubscribe from the original mod, I use the same packageId to keep compatibility going!
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Show Mod Updates
This mod adds info about what mods have updated since you last saved your game.
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Simple Sidearms - Switch Weapon
Description: Expands Simple Sidearms to allow easy switching of drafted colonists's weapons.
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SimpleCameraSetting
There are many good features in the camera+, but there are performance issues, so I made this mod.
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Single Plant Texture Patch (Continued)
Update of Lanilors mod based on the update by okradonkeys A small patch that changes the textures of rice and haygrass to single plants.
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Smarter Construction
Stop your pawns from constantly building themselves into a wall or blocking something that hasn't been built yet.
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Snow Covers All
After hours of snowfall your pawn can somehow still see the revolver and five silver dropped by the raider the night before?
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SpeakUp
SpeakUp is a Social Interaction Framework (SIF) capable of giving voice to your pawns.
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Stonecutting Extended
Description This mod basically combines the mods Skilled Stonecutting and Bulk Stonecutting.
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This Is Mine (Continued)
Update of El Luchadors mod - Furniture that gets moved or just minified will now reset their ownership - Changed one of the hotkeys as it was requested in the comments - Updated icons by Soul If the icons look distorted, try to uncheck texture compression in the game settings.
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Toggleable Overlays Continued
Original Mod: Note: You must unsubscribe from the original mod, I use the same packageId to keep compatibility going!
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Toggleable Readouts Continued
Original Mod: Note: You must unsubscribe from the original mod, I use the same packageId to keep compatibility going!
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Toggleable Shields Continued
Original Mod: Note: You must unsubscribe from the original mod, I use the same packageId to keep compatibility going!
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TradeHelper
Trade Helper is a small tool which expands the Trading Dialog and helps you trade in RimWorld.
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Trap Disable
入植者とペット、トレーダー、囚人に対して罠が作動しなくなります。 The trap will not work for your colonist and pets and trader and prisoner.
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UI Not Included: Customizable UI Overhaul
Interface Overhaul slightly inspired by Oxygen Not Included UI on the begining, but ended up more focuses on the tabs bar, and its customization.
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Undraft After Tucking
Undraft After Tucking Undraft pawns after tucking to bed, allowing for medical care and other stuff if needed.
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Use Bedrolls
Bedrolls are used from the inventory (ie when on a caravan) When a pawn needs to rest but can't find a bed, he'll place a bedroll from his inventory (he can find an uninstalled bed on the ground, or in some other inventory) Bedrolls are picked back up after sleeping.
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Use This Instead
TLDR: This mod scans your installed mods and suggest working/more updated replacements for those mods Continuations of mods has many names and has become an large part of the RimWorld modding community.
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Vanilla Achievements Expanded
Vanilla Achievements Expanded is a unique, never before seen in RimWorld modding achievement mod, part of the Vanilla Expanded mod series and a framework for other modders.
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Vanilla Base Generation Expanded
See change notes This is a reuploaded Vanilla Base Generation Expanded that will work on versions 1.
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Vanilla Expanded Framework
The Vanilla Expanded Framework (VEF) is a core modding library required by many of the Vanilla Expanded mods.
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Vanilla Outposts Expanded
See change notes Vanilla Outposts Expanded can be described as an incredibly Lite version of mods like Saakra’s Empire.
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Vanilla Pawns Retextured
This mod retextures human pawns to be a crisp 512x512, if you have one of the mods enabling graphics settings to disable the compression anyway.
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Vanilla Recycling Expanded
Check Change notes, or if there is nothing there, check our Vanilla Expanded Github.
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Vanilla Temperature Expanded
Check Change notes. Introducing "Vanilla Temperature Expanded," a mod that adds a detailed and controllable central heating system to your game. This mod brings in a new feature called Efficiency, which affects how well your heating system runs. It's all about giving you more con
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Vanilla Traits Expanded
1.7 (06/08/2021): - Production specialist with the perfection trait can produce legendary items - Prude pawns now won't engage in loving if they have no spouses - Mad surgeon now has Doctor work type requirement 1.6 (07/02/2021): Mad surgeons now correctly suffers no debuffs from
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VFME - Caravan Packs!
Caravan Packs! is your simple solution to expanding your choice on what animals can be used in caravans! We added packs to every animal that made sense to us, from Core to over a dozen mods. Enjoy pack support for 23 animals* from the base game and 50+ more** from the mods below!
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We Had a Trader? (Continued)
Update of Electric_Knards mod - Added time left on orbital traders - Added support for Trader ships-mod - Added option to ignore visitors, this also includes guests from the Hospitality-mod - Chinese language by: ℕ𝖎𝙰𝖓𝕪🅸 Όſ⅁ - Spanish language by: Ferchu Creates an alert when
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Weapons Sorter
A mod that sorts weapons based on various properties Option to sort by tech-level Option to sort by mod-name Option to sort by weapon-tag Option to sort by CE ammo-set Option for grenades subcategory Option for ranged subcategory Option for melee subcategory Works with all weapon
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What's for sale?
I restarted actually playing the game, and noticed world trading was hard to achieve.
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Yayo's Caravan (Continued)
Update of YAYOs mod * Change the visual of the caravan on the world map * Option Settings You can adjust the value to use the desired setting.
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Zoological Orbital Traders
This mod adds a new orbital trader to the game, who will buy your animals, no matter how unusual they are.
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Red's Performance Fixes (aka. Comp EggLayer Fix)
TL;DR: Less Laagggg. Game Run Better. Computer suffering less; Yay! As of writing this just swaps out ONE very expensive Ludeon method. The... dreaded Egg laying! It really doesn't have to tick and look-up food needs every.single.tick! Gah! I bet you're seeing the title image and
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Mid-Save-Saver Continued
Original Mod: Note: You must unsubscribe from the original mod, I use the same packageId to keep compatibility going!
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Custom Prisoner Interactions
Adds various extra options to the prisoner Interactions for Converting and Releasing prisoners.
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Pharmacist - 1.5 Unofficial (+ Blood Rot & Lung Rot fix)
About Unofficial 1.5 update for Pharmacist, + Retrofix for 1.4 I wanted to use Pharmacist within my collection whilst we wait for the author, so I updated myself and thought to share. Includes Blood Rot & Lung Rot fix: Colonists now categorise the threat of Blood/Lung Rot correct
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Life Support Continued [1.1+]
Life Support Life Support is a mod that adds the Life Support System building.
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TDS Bug Fixes
These are bugfixes, incomplete features or overlooked edge cases I found I needed for my mods.
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Kidnapped Pawns Die Less
Info Ever wonder why you almost never see your kidnapped colonists ever again?