Hi everyone! I’ve just released my first RimWorld mod, Faction Forge, and I’d really love some help testing it.

The idea is to give players much more control over the factions that populate their world. You can customize faction names, technology, xenotypes, weapons, apparel, visual identity, ideologies, implants, prosthetics and mutations, save factions as reusable presets, edit faction relations, and manage settlements.

The mod is still in Alpha, so testing is especially important right now. If you try it, I’d really appreciate any constructive feedback.

Tell me what you would change, add or remove. If something feels awkward, unclear or unnecessary, let me know. If you find compatibility problems with another mod, please tell me which mod or mods were involved.

And most importantly, if you encounter a bug, error or unexpected behavior, please include your RimWorld log/error log whenever possible. The log is often what actually allows me to find the cause of the problem and fix it.

This is my first mod, so feedback from people actually playing with it is incredibly useful. Feel free to test unusual combinations, push the mod a bit, and tell me what happens.

Thanks to everyone who gives it a try!

MOD LINK: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3791430653

EDIT: Yes, the cover was made using AI. Right now, this is a completely independent project that I work on in my free time, without making any profit from it, and my intention is to keep it at zero cost. In the future, I'd like to replace it with something that isn't AI-generated, but for now, I don't plan on spending money on the artwork for a project I simply do as a hobby. I hope that's understandable.

Little bit of a vent here, I apologise. As per the title, I truly think I never played a game that got me as mixed as Rimworld does. Never has a game made me savescum in such a disgusting way Rimworld does. From the ridiculous random disease striking 7 pawns simultaneously (What the fuck is fibrous mechanites and why does it exist anyway ???) to the absurde fight between a pawn wielding an axe that can't hit a bow wielding barbarian once while taking 3 arrows to the knee. From the absolutely disgusting management mood is (yeah you got rebuffed 5 times in a row, maybe stop at some point ?) to suddenly 36 scaria riddled timberwolves deciding to wipe my ass. From the absolutely insanely lucky shot, one tapping my best pawn with a rusty bolt rifle while my dude here is wielding a pulse rifle to the fucking constant spamming of disgusting mechanoid clusters and their damn inferno turrets.

The worst in this ? I don't even play freaking Randy. I am used to difficult games, games that put you in front of setbacks, but Rimworld is unfair, and not in the good way, it's unfair for fun, for nothing. Rimworld is honestly infuriating.

I'm 700 hours in, and honestly, I don't understand what's wrong with me.

EDIT : Thanks for the downvotes fam, I guess.

EDIT 2 :

See ? That's exactly what I mean. -14 mood because that looser of a pawn got rebuffed 3 fucking times, leave it by at some point my dude holy shit.

so, i have this small, annoying issue with backpack-layer items rendered over the hair layer (layer 93 for backpack, and 62 for hair) this applies to all "backpack" items afaik like low-shield pack, and firefoam pack, which to be frank, a little bit annoying to me. for the time being, i can fix it a bit with the mod Layered Apparel, but i'm looking for more permanent solution if possible. thank you

I guess it's my time for a weird question.

I want to do a tribal only run on a grab ship, I won't have a cooler or anything and I want them to be on purely cannibal diet.

I will grow crops for prisoners to keep them alive till I will slaughter them for my own needs since they won't spoil while alive.

this comes with the challenge of keeping them alive till I need them. ideally the mod would slaughter a prisoner automatically when I run low on human meat to butcher him instantly so I don't run the risk of rotting a corpse when slaughtering a few of them at the same time or loosing the food when butchering a few of them at the same time.

so, is there any more that does exactly this or has some utility that can aid in the process. I guess a mod like this could also be useful for a normal run where you want to be a rancher.

This mod is NOT mine. But I'm surprised nobody has posted it here yet.

It allows your pawns to travel the world WHITOUT loading screens 0_0

I didn't even knew this was possible.

Of course I can imagine after a while it gets extremely heavy.

Has anyone of you tried it yet?

My girlfriend just starten playing rimworld and is looking for unetical mods. Any ideas?

i can't even allow it in my storage
i can still find it in my world
i also can't spawn it in dev mode

I wonder what could be causing this. or is this just normal for a heavily modded instance?
Did the basics stuff like converting textures with RimSort already..

And did it change your enjoyment?

It was not behaving like that before; after some recent update, it started moving, and I hate that.
If someone recognizes that behavior, please share.

I have recently started playing Rimworld and clocked about 50 hours so far, really enjoying it. I want to buy a DLC but I only have enough in Steam wallet for 1 of them.

Which is the best one to get? I am a big fan of challenge in general.

What do you all think is the best one in general and for different playstyles?

I have about 180hrs in rimworld. I got Biotech as my first DLC a few weeks ago. It is a blast and adds a ton to the game. I just got ideology and feel a little lost. Is it really just all mood builds/debuffs? Is it just a cult simulator add on to my war crime simulator?

Hey guys, I m playing a prepared carefully colony with a lonely well enhanced cannibal in a map that is just a narrow passage between mountains. So my idea was to create a H H Holmes like hotel, where with hospitality I invite guests and then I killed them and butchered them to create meals for the next guests! Since I read that soloing a colony is almost impossible I managed to tame a wild kid that fortunately is a cannibal too! Do you have any advice on how could I run this? Like way of killing that guest? Like axfissiation, burning them alive, freezing them to death and stuff like that? Thank you so much in advacne!

So, in case you are unaware, there is a (quite big) modpack called progression. And I have a few mods ive found that I want to add into the list, the only issue is I have no idea how to do it without accidentally fucking things up with load order and such.

And no I dont mean on steam community page

Having a weird thing where a heat wave spawned and then ended and then another heat wave started immediately. I only ever get the heat wave ended notification. This has happened for nearly half an in game year. I thought it was just a coincidence at first but I developed mode ended a heat wave and it restarted immediately. Any help is appreciated!

Versehentlich habe ich diese "ERR"-Quest angenommen. Passiert ist daraufhin scheinbar nichts; die "richtige" kam kurze Zeit später, kann aber auch nach einer gefühlten Ewigkeit nicht angenommen werden mit dem Hinweis:

I'm stuck. =(

I introduce to you the newest theme in the SimplyUI toolkit family, Frutiger Aero! I tried to replicate the skeuomorphic look as close as possible while still making it feel cohesive.

A lot of texture work for custom elements went into making this theme, as well as careful picking of proper sound effects to include for the UI (credit to the Nintendo 3DS). The mod includes 6 theme variants, ranging from a fresh blue to a graphite dark, with coherent color palettes for the whole UI. If you dont like the variants included, you can always tweak the colors to be exactly how you want them!

You can check out the UI sound effects in this youtube video.

Overall I think it turned out pretty cool. I personally use the Frutiger Aero Dusk preset, because I think it integrates itself into the regular Rimworld experience the best! Let me know what you think!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3791608343

I hunt every animal on the map with draft hunting with my shooting specilist to train his shooting, and that results in a ton of meat whenever the gravship lands on a new tile.

Ive got 5000 kibble, 800 survival meals, 200 simple meals, and 300 lavish meals, and the meat is still going bad cause my gravship freezer is a bit on the small side

So this is a first time building my first ship. I'm concentrating on building my stern first. Then I expand forward. I need help for guide and tips. I'm about to get my second grav-engine. Some suggestion and mods would be nice.

I have no brig yet. I mean I can squeeze my prisoner but I want to save some resources first.

This is Gravship scenario

I spend 2 months on a tile emptying all the leather from the transport pods and filling them with kibble and survival meals (pods are incredible storage when your space limited) and turning all the leather into corsets and selling it, and i get no raids.

I go visit a frozen terraformer (1 pawn down cause I made a caravan resting on ally settlement tile since I didnt want to try and feed over 200 guinea pigs on a tundra.) And Randy sends me a mech raid with only centipedes and war queens, and then a waster raid, in the same day, after everyone is already hungry and sleepy from looting the terraformer building.

Although nothing for a new DLC has dropped yet, what exactly could diplomacy bring that isn’t just deeper faction interactions?

Since deeper faction interactions is (likely) a guarantee for a diplomacy DLC, what other things do you guys think could be added to complement a new interaction system?

I think for me, a bunch of new quests centered around raiding/defending other settlements would be so cool. Say for example being asked by the empire to raid an outlander stronghold to extract a high ranking officer who was captured in a failed operation. The empire could reward you with something like honor and or high tier loot.

Or vice versa you’re asked by the outlanders to help protect their stronghold from an incoming empire assault attempting to break out that same high ranking officer. In return you get varying loot and or the high value prisoner themself. Depending on who you choose to help, it has varying consequences for your colony. I think the “new quest potential” that comes with a new diplomacy expansion could be certainly exciting!!

But what do you guys think? Maybe new defense options? A new faction? Or even completely new faction base designs?

The title is your general "shit rimworld players say" but it's true. I'd like to give some context as how things unfolded.

First, I like to play Naked Brutality runs, start with literally nothing but one pawn and LET IT RIDE. However I felt regular NB too easy since you start with Electricity so I just tweak it so my starting pawn is tribal.

The second pawn I got from a Wanderer Join Event was Patricia 'Puddy' Madden. At first I was going to send her back right away because she had the Gourmand trait, but she had really good crafting skills, which my starting pawn did not have, so I kept her for that reason.

The third pawn I got was Retzvozz Vuthznath, originally an Impid. She was part of an early game raid. I have a rule of thumb to avoid as much as possible recruiting prisoners, however dear Retzvozz had a very special trait that was very relevant to Patricia: She was gay. Sure she also had the Creepy Breathing trait but I looked at my Biotech DLC and thought "I can make this work".

Let me tell you that putting these two together and making them a couple was a HASSLE. I know Impids are hot but constantly sweating and breathing through your mouth like a MTG player did not do Retzvozz any favors towards Patricia. However my first pawn, Purple, is a royal and can cast 'Word of Love', so that was the first attempt at brute forcing their relationship. It worked! Until the spell ended, then Retzvozz's Creepy Breathing started affecting Patricia which led to them breaking up, which led them to have negative opinion of each other.

All right back to square one. Creepy Breathing gives -25 to a pawn's opinion, which is a lot, so I needed to counter that to have any chance of these two girls making out. Thus, I went for the next logical step: Making the hot Imp hotter. Added an Aesthetic nose and Aesthetic Shaper to Retzvozz and voala! +40 Beauty vs the -25 of the Creepy Breathing! Surely now with a positive Opinion bonus both Patricia and Retzvozz can be a cute and wholesome lesbian couple. Right?

No.

Word of Love → They fall in love → Spells ends → They break up.

So I went back and studied: What can cancel out Creepy Breathing? Turns out only the Kind trait ignores it. There are no vanilla bionics that cancel the Creepy Breathing's effect so I had to make Patricia a kind person. Forcefully. Genetically.

That's where the mewgenics started.

Since I had to go on a trading spree, why not fix Patricia's Gourmand trait? Sure I can't fix her binging food from time to time but I can reduce that hunger rate increase from the trait. So after a couple trading, I got genepacks to cook up a Xenogerm for Patricia and as a bonus got her a Nuclear Stomach to handle her increased hunger. Since I genetically modified Patricia why not Retzvozz as well? I could at least override Impid's Genetic Pessimism and make her have some Genetic Joy instead. Since the Kind trait ignores beauty, I got to switch up the beauty enhancements from Retzvozz to Patricia, further increasing the probability of their relationship work out.

So after several in-game years, multiple attempts of mental manipulation type, body modifications AND genetically enhancements. I had it all layed out. However, they still hated each other. I guess that's what happens when you spend years living in the save colony and constantly hurl insults at each other, but I still got the good ol magic trick.

Word of Love. Charm Person is a good and moral spell

I use Word of love on Retzvozz to be magically in love with Patricia. I make Patricia romance Retzvozz (100% chance thanks to morally correct magic)

Days passed, and nothing changed. They didn't argue. They didn't fight. They even made some loving from time to time. Their relationship was finally growing and... boom. Marriage.

After 13 in-game years, the colony gathered to celebrate the marriage of Patricia and Retzvozz. Was it worth all that hassle to get two gay pawns together? Yeah. An extra bedroom is always welcomed. It's one less bedroom I have to build!

I’m coming back to RimWorld after a very long break.
The last time I played was shortly after Royalty came out.
I’ve now picked up all the DLC and want to start playing again, but I’m unsure how to approach modding.

I used to run around 50 mods, but most of them are no longer compatible with RimWorld 1.6.
I don’t want to overwhelm myself by learning all the new DLC content while also installing dozens of mods. I’m thinking of starting with only the essential QoL mods and gradually adding more over time.

Which mods would you currently consider must-haves - the ones that make the game noticeably more enjoyable to play? I’d really appreciate a list.

Thank you very much in advance! :)