DD Modlist June 2025
Just my current collection of mods used in a 33 year colony run.
Compiled by request after posting a colony gif on reddit.
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Adoptive Relationships
I absolutely love having random children join my colony, I love taking them in and roleplay that one or two pawns adopt the child as it moves into their home and lives with them and their family.
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Alpha Memes
Details - Adds 13 new structures: Alienism, Jewish origins, Kemetic origins, Steampunk revival, Jain origins, Sikh origins, Corsair, Neolithic, Scavenger and Atheism.
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Better Map Sizes
Enables custom map sizes through the Advanced menu on the world map during map generation.
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Better Traders
Better Traders A mod that improves how much stock and silver traders have without breaking balance or the vanilla game design decisions.
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AutoDye
Description This mod let pawns automatically dye their outfit to a configurable color.
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Better Workbench Management
NOTE: Most of what this mod did has now been integrated into vanilla.
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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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Campfires Can Cremate Corpses Re-Revived
ABOUT Allows you to cremate corpses at campfires, though it takes three times longer than using an electric crematorium.
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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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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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CM Color Coded Mood Bar [1.1+]
CM Color Coded Mood Bar Color code each pawn's mood bar within the colonist bar based on their current mood.
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Defensive Machine Gun Turret Pack
An updated version of the original mod by Coalcat (aka Blackie), the Defensive Machine Gun Turret Pack adds a variety of manned and automated sentry machine guns to protect your colony from pesky tribals, raiders and the occasional manhunting Thrumbo.
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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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Dryads & Gauranlen Trees Reworked
Instead of endless pruning the effectiveness of dryads and their trees depends on nature shrines and a respect for nature.
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Dub's Paint Shop
A painting tool to change the colour of most buildings, apparel, zones and constructed terrain.
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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 Mint Menus
Adds new list boxes for recipe bills, health bills, plant selection, architect menu, research menu, and a quick select menu for designators, making it easier to find things when lots of mods are running.
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Faction Customizer
-- IMPORTANT -- I had to create my own faction dialog to avoid some conflicts with other mods.
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Faction Control (1.4-1.6)
If you want to support me click here: "Faction Control" provides you with a number of configuration options that you can use to tailor which and how many faction groups and faction bases show up on your map.
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Fertile Planet
Increases map fertility (vegetation and trees) moderately, and increases vegetation graphical size.
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Go Explore!
Go Explore! - A new event mod This mod provides new events and exciting opportunities for exploration. Go explore ancient cities and try to capture a space ship. New Events Lost City An ancient city got somehow destroyed. You can travel there and loot resources and items but bewa
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From Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
From Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust We therefore commit this body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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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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Heat Map
Adds a toggle button to show a live temperature based colour gradient over indoor areas in your base.
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Ideology: More Precepts
This mod provides additional precepts, memes and rituals for ideoligions in the Ideology DLC.
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Infestations Spawn in Darkness
Infestations will no longer pop up on tiles that are considered Lit (30% light).
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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 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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LightsOut
LightsOut Have you ever been frustrated about the power draw of unused workbenches, or lights on in rooms with no pawns?
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Livestock Traders
Do you have a bunch of animal mods in your mod list but you rarely see most of them because your colony is in a biome that does not support every animal out there?
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LWM's Deep Storage
Important note Little White Mouse's little baby continues healthy and if you have the toddler mod is now running around causing major terror to the cats.
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Map Wide Orbital Trade Beacon
Map Wide Trade Beacon Created by request, this mod makes a small change to trade ships, so that you can trade without the need to have trade beacons covering your entire base (possibly considered a cheat).
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Medical Training
Updated for 1.6 Should also work for earlier versions. Adds a new workstation: Dissect human corpses (any state) to train medicine skill. Corpses will be destroyed in the process. The workbench is now movable/minifiable. Balancing Issue As much as I agree the balancing of this mo
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Metal Don't Burn (UNOFFICIAL 1.6 PATCH)
Metals don't burn. So, stop it! Bad Rimworld. Non-Steam Link: This is NOT the Original. It's only a small and easy fix for the mod to work in 1.5. All credits belong to NECEROS. Original: When you like his mods you can support him on Patreon: and on ko-fi:
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Misc. Robots
This mod adds some robots to buy from traders: - Haulingbot A small drone to help you hauling stuff around - Cleaningbot A small robot to help keeping your home clean The source code for all Miscellaneous mods can be found on my GitHub: Hint for the load order: 1st: Try the defin
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More Faction Interaction (Continued)
Update of Mehnis mod - Updated by Taranchuk - Commissioned by Spark7979 - Updated as is, have not been tested with other mods than those listed below.
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[SUPERCEDED] No Sympathy for Prisoners
THIS MOD HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED, AND IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED THIS MOD HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED, AND IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED THIS MOD HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED, AND IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED Instead of this mod, please use the new version of No Sympathy for Prisoners by @Sk.
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P-Music
Adds 56 fan made music tracks made for RimWorld by me(Peppsen), ZumZum and SpacekatTommy.
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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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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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Peer Pressure
With this mod, converting pawns to another ideology becomes more effective when they have a positive opinion of the proselytizer.
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Performance Optimizer
Performance Optimizer is a mod, which adds various performance tweaks to the game.
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Personal Work Categories
Description When setting up work priorities, each column, in fact, may include a whole group of different tasks.
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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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Positive Connections
Positive Connections Are you tired of overseeing colonies where intense animosity prevails among your colonists?
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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 Dont Have Keys
I found it odd that prisoners could open doors when escaping when fleeing raiders cannot.
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Prisoners Need Recruiting
"Hey Dave" "Yes Bob?" "How long are we going to keep poor Cindy? She's going crazy there all alone." "Who?" "Cindy, you know, that miner chick we captured 3 seasons ago?" Is this you? Do you wonder why you aren't getting new recruits only to suddenly remember that you do have a p
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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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Realistic Rooms Rewritten
For 1.6, 1.5, 1.4 and 1.3 Lower your room space requirements! Safe to add mid-save. What is this? This mod is a complete rewrite of the original Realistic Rooms mod by Dragon Fist Ent (here) and it's updated version by Scherub (here). The original mod uses outdated methods which
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Recruit Slaves
This mod lets you recruit slaves in a balanced way without having to imprison them first.
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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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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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ReGrowth: Expanded World Generation (Continued)
Update of Helixien, Taranchuks mod with permission - Added a "Hide preview" button.
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Relevant Stats In Description
Depending on the type of building, selected stats are shown in the description-window in the architect-menu.
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ResearchPal - Continued
Towards Even Better Research Management # Features - Dynamically generate research tree.
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Replace Stuff
Place buildings anywhere, on top of existing things, and the game will handle it.
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RimHUD
RimHUD is a UI mod that displays detailed information about a selected character or creature.
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RimQuest (Continued)
Update of Jecrells mod - Added support for the new QuestScriptDef-type as well as the old IncidentDef - Added support for guest-groups from Orions Hospitality mod - Added Russian translation and a way to translate Quest-type quests.
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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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Smart Medicine
Some smart choices and options when using medicine --- "Alright, that raider base was tough, but we killed them all and we can recover here for a day" "I'm going to rest until healed" "I will patch up that wound for you" "Good thing we brought medicine on the caravan, because thi
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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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Smokeleaf Industry Reborn [Adopted]
Version: This mod is compatible with RimWorld versions listed to the right of the title image Please note i am Not the original Author of this mod, the description below is a direct copy of the original mods by Bishop Description: Smokeleaf Industry Reborn is a mod that adds vari
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Smooth Walls First, then Smooth Floor
updated to 1.6 Inside the construction Worktab, when it comes down to the smoothing operations, the Pawns will smooth Walls First, then proceed to smooth floors. The other worktab priorities were not changed! This Mod was a request / Check out my other mods : "deconstruct first"
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Social Experience from Trade
Overview In RimWorld, every skill gains experience when it is practiced.
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Stonecutting Extended
Description This mod basically combines the mods Skilled Stonecutting and Bulk Stonecutting.
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Tilled Soil
About Since the beginning of civilisation the human race has been tilling soil to bring vital nutrients to the surface when planting crops.
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Thick Wall Insulates
Makes thick walls (3+ cells) actually insulate, instead of acting like 1-cell thin wall (almost) directly to the outside.
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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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Vanilla Apparel Expanded
1.2.1 (25/02/2020): Formal wear now counts as royal apparel. 1.2.0 (19/02/2020): This mod is now 1.1 compatible. After a hundred hours playing RimWorld you notice that every pawn wears somewhat the same things. The base game apparel is not really as interesting, unique and variou
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Vanilla Books Expanded
10/08/2020: Release Since Books are now a thing in the base game, it wasn't easy to decide what to do with this mod.
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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 Events Expanded
See changenotes. Vanilla Events Expanded is one of our oldest mods, and I’m honestly shocked it’s holding up so well - it’s pretty resistant to game updates and bugs because of its simplicity. Back when I first made it with Kikohi, we didn’t know much about modding. I just wanted
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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 Factions Expanded - Pirates
See change notes One faction that always felt a little bit 'un-expanded' in vanilla RimWorld is the pirate faction.
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Vanilla Factions Expanded - Settlers
1.2.0 (28/04/2021): Caravan raid size now capped at half wealth value of your colony. 1.1.8 (02/10/2020): - Chemlamp can now be properly placed on top of table, dresser... - Protection fee request now take into account colony wealth - Saloon doors now open quicker than normal doo
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Vanilla Factions Expanded - Tribals
See change notes. Venture into the heart of primitive survival with Vanilla Factions Expanded - Tribals. Starting as unsophisticated wild men with nothing but fire at your disposal, face the harsh reality of the wilderness as you strive to form a new tribe. Experience the crucial
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Vanilla Fishing Expanded
Vanilla Fishing Expanded is a first module in a brand new mod series “Vanilla Cuisine Expanded” from the Vanilla Expanded team.
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Vanilla Fix: Haul After Slaughter
Colonist will now haul the corpse after slaughtering an tamed animal.
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Vanilla Hair Expanded
1.2.0 (17/05/2020): Fixed label length issue. 1.1.1 (29/02/2020): Beards now work perfectly fine! Thanks for your patience. We have all been there, with a colony of a hundred pawns where everyone looks somewhat the same. Starting colonists with no character to their looks. This m
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Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Anima Theme
1.0 (28/11/2021): Release Vanilla Ideology Expanded is a mini-series of mods aimed at expanding the content in ideology - be it memes, relics and symbols or icons alike. A lot of players perhaps are not too keen on Gauranlen trees in Ideology DLC being yet another 'magical', unex
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Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Icons and Symbols
1.0 (20/07/2021): Release Vanilla Ideology Expanded is a mini-series of mods aimed at expanding the content in ideology - be it memes, relics and symbols or icons alike. Icons and Symbols module adds over 200 new icons for ideologies. Icons have been categorised based on their lo
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Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Relics and Artifacts
1.0 (03/08/2021): Release Vanilla Ideology Expanded is a mini-series of mods aimed at expanding the content in ideology - be it memes, relics and symbols or icons alike. Relics and Artifacts module introduces over 40 new inert relics to join the small selection of relics in vanil
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Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Memes and Structures
Vanilla Ideology Expanded is a mini-series of mods aimed at expanding the content in ideology - be it memes, relics and symbols or icons alike.
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Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Dryads
1.0 (15/01/2022): Release Vanilla Ideology Expanded is a mini-series of mods aimed at expanding the content in ideology - be it memes, relics and symbols or icons alike. Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Dryads is a mod expanding on the selection of gauranlen dryads in the Ideology DLC
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Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Sophian Style
Check Change notes. Vanilla Ideology Expanded is a mini-series of mods aimed at expanding the content in ideology - be it memes, relics and symbols or icons alike. This mod introduces a brand new style, inspired by that of the Empire from Royalty DLC. Featuring numerous new textu
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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 Textures Expanded
1.6.0 (16/07/2020): Updated to 1.3. Honestly, we added so many textures (including almost a full retexture of Royalty) I'm not going to bother. 1.5.0 (11/10/2020): Added faction icons in HQ. 1.4.0 (04/09/2020): Added various new textures: Snowmen, Flatscreen TV, Unfinished appare
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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 Outposts Expanded: Additional Outposts
If you ever felt that you need more outpost types, then this mod may be what you need.
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Vanilla Trading Expanded
Check Change notes. This time, I'd like to tell you a bit about our new mod. Vanilla Trading Expanded is our take on the trading system and RimWorld, meant to add some much needed randomization, planning and strategy to otherwise stale trading. Currently in RimWorld, all values a
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Visible Raid Points
Description Ever wondered just how many points the game used to generate a raid?
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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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WeaponStats
About this mod Adds a new "Weapons" tab, which lists all ranged, melee, explosive weapons and apparel on the current map.
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Wandering Caravans [Adopted]
Update of general223's Wandering Caravans mod, supported versions of rimworld are listed by the top right hand corner of the image above.
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Work Tab 1.5 and 1.6 Temp
A 1.5 (and 1.6 beta) version of Work Tab mod. My original intro to rimworld modding, and .NET coding in general, once again updated because I couldn't play without it. All code minus a couple simple tweaks done by Fluffy and all the other contributors credited on his page and git
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World Map Beautification Project (Continued)
Original mod by Odeum If the original author requests it, I will remove this update.
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World Map Beautification Project - for Realistic Planets
Realistic Planets Addon This is a DLC for the mod "World Map Beautification Project" by Odeum.
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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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[FSF] Encounter Map Resources
Description This mod changes the encounter map spawning settings to enable resources to spawn again.
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[ARY] Automatic Stump Chopping [1.5 - 1.6]
Arylice's Automatic Stump Chopping #arylice #aryasc Have you ever watched your lumberjacks chop down trees, only for them to leave those annoying stumps behind, and felt that urge to have everything perfectly tidy?
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[RH2] Rimdeed® - Pawn Recruitment
What is Rimdeed®? Rimdeed is an online comms console service that allows businesses to seek new recruits. Our online CVs offer just enough information about the jobseeker so our clients can hire a new beloved member of their team! In summary: A mod where you can hire pawns How do
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[SR]Factional War Continued [Abandoned]
This continued version is abandoned, please use the fork version.
![CM Color Coded Mood Bar [1.1+]](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1017192397705661657/E68F1B1DA6CFE96AFD862672A4B2C94B370DE61B/)
![Damage Indicators [1.6]](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1699530773659270491/C9859EB88F4C0392FC06AFC74D7DFB4215C424FA/)
![JecsTools [Deprecated]](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/941708627441551739/7869E0281E5AF57B25CC7EBFFF46D64739E8F89A/)
![[Abandoned] Keep Bed Ownership](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1173698927777013966/D79AE1C4286D08E43855DDF3EA5F06309A4621CE/)
![[SUPERCEDED] No Sympathy for Prisoners](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1465309846295423672/493AA64067446D0C25D9BFCE3C2B6F0A726E8ECE/)
![[discontinued] Rebalanced Ancient Junk](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2474254356513728422/4925DA48893588407726764B82C0A011C3F8C575/)
![[Legacy] Simply More Bridges (Continued)](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2446090286778355603/EF9E29968C2E7EA71E1B1328BA096354294F7798/)
![Smokeleaf Industry Reborn [Adopted]](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1625192833978639302/EF776760E2E57EF1C9CF207ECC3CA8C2FA705D4E/)
![Wandering Caravans [Adopted]](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1654472802146439524/108254B9765C240C513C555D595876E3DD0BFA37/)
![[FSF] Encounter Map Resources](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/9677217257860927/8334C3219CF7CF833D3F8BD1219D068F191DF620/)
![[ARY] Automatic Stump Chopping [1.5 - 1.6]](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2440481165942587192/B8104D12B1A7208675AAB78C9BBA4E7ACBC689D5/)
![[FSF] Better Ancient Complex Loot](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1702908918676523801/7072C2D3F269188121D708D11C3C44C604513008/)
![[OUTDATED] Vanilla Skills Expanded](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2494504700781261469/10C32FD529F8C35C7F6193BD6048F11964C96951/)
![[GMT] Trading Spot](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1876338725382265179/32AA88CA8B4716350AADA13051AD28EBE16CA011/)
![[RH2] Rimdeed® - Pawn Recruitment](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1916870904789026262/D59A62450605DCD7E5FCDD356C71A1075855A2E3/)
![[SR]Factional War Continued [Abandoned]](https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2476491741618188109/66A9151276F9928D1295888B93A654E670FF5C4C/)