Orbital Outfit: The Void-Scavengers
The stars are no longer silent, and they are definitely not empty. You are a lone Mechanitor, a master of the machine, living on the ragged edge of a galaxy being slowly consumed by the Void. Your home is a patched-together Gravship, your family is a crew of mismatched survivors, and your payroll is whatever you can scrape from the ruins of a dying world.
This collection is a precision-tuned RimWorld 1.6 experience designed for high-performance, mobile, and tactical gameplay. It strips away the heavy bloat of traditional "empire-building" in favor of a fast-paced, high-stakes nomadic loop: Scavenge, Build, and Survive the Void.
Core Gameplay Mechanics
The Mobile Fortress: Command and live entirely out of a customizable Gravship. Drop into "hot zones," secure the perimeter with your mechs, and blast off before the Shambler hordes overrun your position.
Asteroid Hideouts: When the planet gets too dangerous, retreat to your hidden Orbital Platforms. Hollow out asteroids to create secret workshops and high-tech safehouses safe from the chaos below.
The Scavenger Economy: You don't craft—you reclaim. Use Simple Warrants to track high-value targets, MendAndRecycle to patch up captured gear, and Smart Medicine to perform emergency field triage during high-speed extractions.
Mechanized Labor: Your mechs are your lifeline. Automate your gestation lines, let your worker droids repair each other, and use your combat units to hold back the terrors of the Anomaly.
Survival Aesthetics: Experience a visual overhaul with the Astronomy Style Pack and Vanilla Textures Expanded, giving your game a gritty, cohesive sci-fi look that runs flawlessly on handheld hardware.
Technical Optimization
This pack was built specifically for the Lenovo Legion Go (and other handhelds) with a focus on:
Unified Memory Protection: Uses lightweight texture overrides and 1.6-native code to prevent RAM-hogging.
TPS Efficiency: Features ScubaSteve’s Performance Mod and Slower Pawn Tick Rate to keep the simulation smooth during massive combat events.
Handheld UI: Fully integrated with Dubs Mint Menus, RimHUD, and the Odyssey Manifest to ensure every command is accessible via trackpad or thumbsticks.
"The ship is held together by duct tape and prayers, the food is nutrient paste, and the neighbors are eldritch horrors. It’s the best job in the sector."
A 1.6 RimWorld Mod Collection for the Nomadic Survivor.
Load order
43 mods- management
Vanilla Quests Expanded - Deadlife
Vanilla Quests Expanded is a brand new series of mods that aims to add some interesting quest chains to the game, encouraging world map travel and quest interactions in order to obtain powerful rewards.
- management
[sbz] Mini Band Node
Mini Band Node · Safe to add to a save game Miniaturize the Band Node Reduce the Band Node’s size to 1×1.
- combat
[sbz] Mini Mech Recharger
Mini Mech Recharger · Safe to add to a save game Miniaturize the Mech Rechargers Mech Recharger has been resized to 1x1 and Large Mech Recharger was resized to 1x2.
- management
RimHUD
RimHUD is a UI mod that displays detailed information about a selected character or creature.
- management
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.
- management
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
- medical
Bionic icons
ABOUT Changes the graphic for body part boxes and adds icons depending on what's inside.
- management
Clean Textures
The Clean Textures mod replaces standard surface textures as well as textures from several other mods.
- management
Perspective: Buildings (Continued)
Update of Owlchemists mod This mod adds a gizmo to most buildings which allows the player to adjust its position.
- furniture
Knick Knacks - Let your colonists decorate!
Knick Knacks adds various decorative items that your colonists can autonomously decorate their rooms with!
- management
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
- management
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
- management
Astronomy Style Pack
Mod adds a Style pack for the Ideology DLC - The Astronomy style pack adds themed weapons, armor, and buildings to help fit the Space-life experience.
- management
Pocket Sand
Pocket Sand! Surprise your enemies with that weapon in your pocket. Actual sand not included Adds a gizmo to equip/unequip weapons to and from pawn inventory, that's it. No tool auto-switching based on job/distance. No pawn remembering what gear it had equipped and getting stuck
- management
Vanilla Nutrient Paste Expanded: Reimagined Progression
If you've ever thought that Vanilla Nutrient Paste Expanded could use rebalancing, deeper integration with Vanilla game, variety of paste meals or new features, then this mod might be exactly what you need.
- management
Vanilla Expanded Framework
The Vanilla Expanded Framework (VEF) is a core modding library required by many of the Vanilla Expanded mods.
- management
Vanilla Nutrient Paste Expanded
Check Change notes. Vanilla Nutrient Paste Expanded is a small mod created to showcase what the new Pipe network code is capable of in Vanilla Expanded framework. It adds a rather simple chain, unlocked with Nutrient Paste research project, allowing the player to store nutrient p
- management
Land On Anything
Compatibility with Vanilla Gravship expanded To get rid of damage from obstruction when using VGE install No Landing Damage for Vanilla Gravship Expanded.
- management
Dlc collaboration - Void universe
Content Update #2025/1/4 We've expanded the rewards for assisting the Mechanoid Hive Mind!
- management
Anomaly for Gravship
Anomaly for Gravship This mod adds a small holding platform, improved inhibitor and new security door that allow to conveniently keep the entities on the gravship.
- management
Smart Medicine - Continued
Some smart choices and options when using medicine Sadly Uuugggg has passed away, I'm going to continue this mod (and some/all of his others) in order to preserve his legacy and impact on RimWorld.
- medical
EPOE-Forked: Expanded Prosthetics and Organ Engineering - Forked
Originally inspired by Ykara's EPOE, this mod sought to fix the reduntant, downright byzantine lines of code as well as bring the values of most prosthetics back in fold with the vanilla experience.
- management
MendAndRecycle
Unofficial 1.5 and 1.6 Update - MAY HAVE ERRORS. NOT COMPATIBLE WITH SIMPLE RECYCLING. I did my best to update and test it. I am not the original author. This mod will be removed at the request of the original author. Please go support the original author Charlotte/NotFood Repair
- management
GTG Trader Core
GTG Trader Core is a centralized dependency framework designed to provide shared code, performance optimization, and enhanced stability features for all my trader-related mods.
- management
[GTG]Odyssey Orbital Trader
This is a simple mod that adds a single type of orbital trader ship affiliated with the Traders Guild faction,you can buy almost every item from the Odyssey dlc in this trader.
- management
Call A Trader [<=v1.5]
Discontinue note This mod (apparently) only works reliably until Rimworld v1.
- management
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
- management
Simple Warrants
We have a dual responsibility to serve you as the player while enhancing your gameplay experience and help you exploit advantages provided and extend your colony development capabilities.
- management
Bigger Gravships (and other Odyssey spaceship related settings)
Configurable Gravship Size.
- storage
[sbz] Gravship Storage
Gravship Storage · Safe to add to a save game Add 8 types of furniture for Gravship I assumed Neat Storage was intended for stationary colonies, ideally placed facing forward.
- storage
Adaptive Storage Framework
Adaptive Storage Framework contains various features to allow modders to better shape the way they want to make and change their own storage mods.
- management
Performance - Slower Pawn Tick Rate
🕒 Pawn Tick Rate Adjustment Improve performance in colonies with many pawns RimWorld 1.
- management
Performance Optimizer
Performance Optimizer is a mod, which adds various performance tweaks to the game.
- management
ScubaSteve's Performance Mod [1.6]
ScubaSteve's Performance Mod Performance optimization tool for late-game saves No longer working on this mod Overview Struggling with late-game lag?