I've been trying to play with Progression Modpack in September, couldn't even load it on my outdated PC. Now on unstable version it is working fine and loading time is just under 12 minutes. I am so happy right now. Thank you to everyone who worked on this update

Heat vent landmark from Odyssey. I've sealed it in stone so it's not doing much right now. I smell great potential.

Go all in on chemical warfare, with the all-new impressively-unethical feat of engineering, the Toxin Warcasket.

Flood a position with gas, storm it unharmed, then reclaim a portion of the gas after. Can also clear smoke, rotstink and deadlife dust.

Steam workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3821100591

Special thanks to IcingWithCheese for their amazing art, and the Vanilla Expanded team for everything this builds off!

Requires both Biotech and Vanilla Factions Expanded - Pirates.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to showcase a new mod manager that I've been working on called RimStack.

Why RimStack when we already have RimPy/RimSort and all?

As an enthusiast of very big mod list, I was a bit frustrated with the way current mod managers are behaving. Not throwing any shade at anyone as I've used it for years but for instance, loading a big mod list would be slow, buggy with some of the popup panels at launch. I recently converted some friends to RimWorld with the new update and some were also frustrated with the interface of some.

So I built a new one as a fun project using Rust and Qt, as a pure native app. This is NOT a vibecoded project, I'm an actual professional software engineer and I've used AI as I would have at work, as an assistant not as a guide. Source code is available too so feel free to poke around

What's different?

Quite a lot actually! Here's a short list of new features compared to RimSort:

• It's extremely fast, on my install (1,853 mods) the mod list is on screen in about 0.2 s. RimSort 1.15.0 took about 7 s on the same machine, averaged over three runs.
• Live with no need of a refresh button nor refreshing the whole UI after any action.
• Sorts by what is inside the mods. Most managers only follow the load order rules mod authors wrote down, and plenty of mods never wrote any. RimStack reads the actual patched methods with Harmony without running them in case of malicious intent, along with XML patches and sort with that in mind (configurable)
• History of every action made during a specific run
• Auto categorizing: Loaders / Games and DLC / Libraries / Content / Patches / Textures / Interface / Performance & Tweaks / Loads last - with the ability to do sub categories directly
• Search bar with different tags! Coming back from a long session where you did not play the game but subscribed to many mods? Find all of them easily with is:new
• Texture conflicts and texture comparison. Want to see which would be the "winner" akin to Mod Organizer? Now you can and keep the one you actually want
• Check directly the change notes from your active (or all) your mods in one tab
• Integrated with Loading Progress, RimSaves, Save File Compression
• Log panel explains which mod actually error out
• Ability to easily have different lists when playing the game
• View all your Save Games along with your stats (Seed, scenario ... ) and mods used
• Can convert to DDS too, even though 1.7 has something in the line already
• Tested with RimWorld 1.6 and 1.7 with some basic translation for Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Polski and Português.
• Compatible with Windows/Linux/macOS

Download: https://github.com/TheForgotten69/RimStack/releases/tag/v1.0.1

Guide, with pictures of every panel and more details: https://theforgotten69.github.io/RimStack

Source and issues: https://github.com/TheForgotten69/RimStack

Note

I have tested it mostly on my and some friends setup but I'm sure it will have shortcomings and bugs. Feel free to report them either on GitHub, here or in my discord (https://discord.gg/3c8C2CNVvV) where I post about other mods and work I do.

Thanks!

Now, don't get me wrong, the new 1.7 Waylith engine is CRAZY fast. But, who doesn't want more performance? Performance, performance, PERFORMANCE

This humble little mod adds a few improvements to both performance and memory usage in RimWorld 1.7.

I'd made most of these for 1.6, but 1.7 released as I was finishing (HOLY CRAP btw it's amazing) so I've decided to focus on 1.7 instead.

Take note that 1.7 is constantly being updated by the goated devs, so any one of these optimizations could become obsolete at any point.

I'll continue to improve this mod as more 1.7 updates are released.

P.S. I'm close to finishing my execution mod I posted about a few months ago so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Edit: Okay, let's clear a few things up.

This mod was NOT created by AI and downvoting me or giving bad mod ratings just because you think it's AI is unnecessary.

There's 6 (sort of 7 but the pawn tick delay is hard to figure out correctly so don't use it atm) techniques I developed to improve performance so here's them in detail for those who care:

- The game reserves large buffers upfront for path results upfront so I modified it to start the buffers much smaller and grow when needed. This isn't an improvement for TPS but rather memory, in testing it reduced the memory usage of some path buffers by 99.8%. (this is likely the first optimization to be done by the game devs if that ever happens)

- When there's just a few cells containing gas on the map RimWorld will run expensive gas calculations for empty cells so the mod basically just keeps track of which cells have gas and which don't and only runs calculations on ones containing gas.

- I also did something similar to the world map tick slowdown from the mod "Slower Pawn Tick Rate" while still preserving the original vanilla settlement schedule so that settlements who still need updates every tick will receive those updates. (this method technically conflicts with that mod so which one takes hold depends on your load order)

- As the name implies, reservation indexing speeds up reservation checks by first checking reservations relevant to the target rather than searching through EVERY reservation on the ma

- Normally when the game refreshes a pawn's melee attack choice it has to recalculate the exact same attack weights so I made it simply reuse the previous weights to avoid more calculations

- This one's Royalty-specific, but neural heat would repeat multiple of the same calculations for just one evaluation so I had it only happen once.

Half the new post here are vibecoded mods. I won't install a mod on my PC if the dev doesn't even know how it functions, but asking if a mod is AI gets you heavily downvoted and attacked by mods. Is there an alternative, or can somebody create one?

I want to finaly get my colony some charge riffles, but i dont have advanced components to waste on non excellent gear.

A random kid wondered into my colony and asked to join. Even joined my religion.

He must have grew some muscles because I had him hauling rocks all week from my mine to my workshop.

When my hunter killed an elephant, this little powerlifter picked up an elephant and carried it to my freezer.

On his way to the freezer he passed by a lady (who has refused to join my religion for months.) She was so inspired by this kid she joined!

(While the kid was walking to the freezer he talked to the lady and convinced her to join)

10/10 best pawn.

While hunting for gold, I've found certain body. That either means we are being lied about new engine and game or Tynan had transcended mortal plane and became archotech and is updating game from the future.

I love ferny's Progression mods. Every item lands in its proper tech era, and the attention to detail is incredible. I wanted to play with that progression but with fewer research projects to work through, so I made a set of forks.

ProgressionLESS keeps ferny's progression and streamlines the research. Everything still unlocks in the same era and at the same stage within that era. Related unlocks are grouped into themed projects such as Swords, Revolvers, Beds, Skill chips or Front-line mechs. Across all 13 forks, that's up to 1,392 research projects down to at most 338.

• Covers Arsenal, Attire, Bionics, Drugs, Education, Factories, Furniture, Gravship, Hives, Kitchen, Production, Robotics and Storage.
• Supports both 1.6 and 1.7.
• Keeps all of the originals' mod support.
• Works alongside ferny's other Progression mods, and the research is laid out with no overlapping cards.
• Each fork replaces its original, so don't run both.

Collection: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3809921502

I'd really like to hear what you think. Do the groupings make sense? Is anything in the wrong place? Are there other Progression mods you'd like to see get the same treatment? I'm open to suggestions, and bug reports are welcome here or on the Workshop pages.

Huge thanks to ferny for the original mods. None of this would exist without their work.

I usually never check artwork's detail but, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS TITLE??

DAMIAN'S A GUY!!! {he literally doesn't have a vagina, he has a pp (I play with rjw)}

For a long time I've wanted a way to let my pawns use VWE Coilguns for base defense without letting them carry them all the time. If you've ever had them shoot at something inside your base, you know why. I used to just keep them in racks near the defenses, but I've been learning about Rimworld modding lately and decided to give it a go.

This mod adds constructable weapon mounts, either manned or automated, where you can mount existing weapons you have. It's great for destructive weapons like coilguns or grenade launchers, or heavy weapons that you don't want taking up pawn weight allowances, but you can put anything you want on it, including warcasket and mech weaponry too heavy for your pawns to carry. Mounts give minor bonuses to aiming time, accuracy, and range, with those bonuses increasing with better mounts.

This is my first mod, so if I've missed something, please let me know. Give it a try and see what you think!

Mod link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3821152493

After a year away, Workshop Walker is back: a better way to find RimWorld mods

Heya folks! If you haven't seen it before, Workshop Walker is an alternative front end for the Steam Workshop. I got sick of trying to work out which mods depended on what, so I threw a prototype together in a week. Now you can see that Vehicle Framework has 360 mods that depend on it.

It's been over a year since my last update (and since I had real time to work on it), so there's a fair bit to show.

New UI

The whole site has been redesigned. It now mostly looks like someone with design skills made it. It's easier on the eyes, more accessible, and puts the useful stuff up front.

Better Search

I've done a lot here, but to just cover off the highlights:

• Title search is now full text, so you don't need an exact match any more. Typing "dead man" finds The Dead Man's Switch.
• Date ranges & Time Periods for Last Updated.
• Created time filtering, including the same date ranges and time periods.
• Ordering options:
  • Popularity (weighing age vs subscriptions)
  • Trending over the Week (through to year)
  • Last Updated
  • Ratings
  • Dependents
  • Subscriptions
• Search presets:
  • Most Popular
  • Most Subscribed
  • Trending
  • Last Updated
  • New
  • Best This Week
  • Most Depended On This Year
• Properties (kind like steam tags)

Properties

Properties are like Steam tags, except you can submit them. They come in four groups:

• Type: overhaul, bugfix, patch, optimization, AI generated, and more
• Feature: things like "new scenario" or "new clothes"
• Theme: mecha, medieval, and so on
• Genre: cyberpunk, fantasy, and so on

You can filter on all of them. Want every optimization mod? Pick "Type: Optimization" and Bob's your uncle. Sick of medieval mods? Click the theme to exclude it and they won't show up.

If something's missing, you can suggest a property from a mod's card or from its page.

Properties are subjective, so I don't moderate them for "correctness". Submissions get approved to stop abuse, and after that it's up to you. You can vote on every property, and if its score drops too low it stops counting in searches.

Automatic properties

Properties (technically) aren't new, but hardly anyone used them. So I've put a stochastic parrot (an LLM) to work filling them in.

The catch is scale. There are hundreds of thousands of items, and running the model over all of them on CPU would tie up the server for about six months. So it only runs when there's user activity on an item, or when an item's description changes.

More languages

German, French, Portuguese and Spanish are now supported.

Keen to check it out? Head to https://workshop-walker.disconsented.com/ and let me know what you think.

Did anyone think I'd draw anything else for this prompt? Hah

A friend of mine made some art from the Multiplayer game we have

Credits : u/tommythedwarfz