[1.6] Cerulean Essentials

The most essential QoL, performance, and utility mods that meet Cerulean standards - lightweight mods with good performance and clean, responsible implementations that I'd recommend for pretty much any Rimworld playthrough ever.

- Truly QoL : There are almost no changes to actual game balance. Most mods are meant for improving UI/UX, giving you clearer information, more options, or better ability to manage your game

- Lightweight : Most of the mods change/add very little. Should be very little risk of compatibility issues and easily combined with all of your favorite content and gameplay mods.

- Performance : Includes some foundational performance mods that help gain TPS as well as a selection of mods that can help you keep things running smooth. Dub's Performance Analyzer, Better Stack Traces, HugsLog, etc. help so that if you have issues, you can more easily figure out what mods in your list are related to lag or errors.

* Color Coded Mood Bar and Colony Groups each come with some TPS cost but most people generally find them worth it. You don't necessarily need both though. These are safe to add/remove, so if you are performance hungry, try CCMB earlier in your colony and don't switch to Colony Groups until/unless you really have a lot of colonists

- Customizing : Mods closer to the top of the list tend to be the larger ones. To really get the most out of your game, you'll want to poke through settings and choose your options from some mods like Common Sense and the couple of main Tweaks/Performance mods.

Generally, I'd still always recommend that you browse and choose mods specific to what you want in your specific playthrough. That being said though, this is built as a list that I would personally use in any new game, and I tried to include only the most straightforward, performance-conscious, compatible, and generally useful mods.