awesome-rimworld
An awesome list of RimWorld things (but mostly mods) :D
https://github.com/armstrongl/awesome-rimworld
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Related
- Awesome Game Development - Resources for game development in general.
- Awesome Unity - Resources for Unity development (RimWorld's engine).
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Contributing
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Framework Mods
- Harmony - The essential patching library that most RimWorld mods depend on.
- HugsLib - Shared library providing common functionality for many mods.
- Vanilla Expanded Framework - Required framework for all Vanilla Expanded mods with shared features like custom factions and building exports.
- XML Extensions - Extends XML modding with new patch operations, mod settings creation, and enhanced error reporting.
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Official Resources
- Ludeon Studios - The developer of RimWorld.
- RimWorld Wiki - Community-maintained wiki with comprehensive game documentation.
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Mod Managers
- RimPy Mod Manager Database - Community-maintained database of mod sorting rules used by both RimPy and RimSort.
- RimSort - Open-source mod manager with cross-platform support, actively maintained as the modern alternative to RimPy.
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Quality of Life
- Allow Tool - Adds mass allow/forbid tools, priority hauling, and batch commands for hunting, harvesting, and more.
- Animals Logic - Enhances animal management with production info displays, medical alerts, and features like nutrient paste dispensers for animals.
- Auto Ability - Automatically activates pawn abilities based on configurable conditions.
- Auto Conduits - Enables flood-fill placement of conduits by holding Shift and clicking on walls.
- Auto Links - Automatically adds hyperlinks in item descriptions connecting recipes, ingredients, and research.
- Auto-Cut Blight - Automatically designates blighted crops for cutting to prevent spread.
- AutoBlink - Enables automatic use of blink psycast abilities for combat and escape.
- Basic Double Doors - Introduces double-door variants of vanilla doors including autodoor options.
- Better Spike Traps - Reduces spike trap costs and removes placement distance limitations.
- Better Workbench Management - Enhances bill management with copying, linking, reordering, and additional counting options.
- Blueprints Forked - Save and load building blueprints for quick recreation of room layouts.
- Bunk Beds - Space-saving furniture that stores up to 3 pawns in the same 2 tiles.
- Camping Tent - Adds portable tent structures that function as beds with mood benefits.
- Cherry Picker - Selectively enable or disable specific content from mods without unsubscribing.
- CM Color Coded Mood Bar - Color-codes colonist mood bars from green (happy) to red (mental break imminent).
- Colony Manager Redux - Automates resource management by setting targets for meat, wood, steel, and animal populations.
- Common Sense - Makes colonists smarter with optional behaviors like cleaning before work.
- De-generalize Work - Restores individual work speed stats for tailoring, smithing, and sculpting.
- Deep Storage - Adds storage buildings like shelves and pallets to dramatically reduce storage room sizes.
- Draftable Animals - Releashed - Allows drafting and directly controlling animals in combat situations.
- Dubs Mint Menus - Overhauls architect and crafting menus with searching and filtering.
- EdB Prepare Carefully - Fine-tuned control over starting colonist creation with balanced and non-balanced options.
- Everybody Gets One - Continued - Distributes items evenly among colonists based on configurable rules.
- Giddy-Up 2 Forked - Allows pawns to ride animals around the map and use them as battle mounts.
- Grazing Lands - Prevents animals from destroying grass when eating with configurable options.
- Haul to Stack - Optimizes hauling by prioritizing adding items to existing stacks.
- Hunt for Me - Enables tamed predators to hunt solo or in packs with customizable behavior.
- Keyz' Allow Utilities - Adds additional allow/forbid utilities for streamlined item management.
- Level Up! - Sends notifications when colonists gain skill levels with configurable spam reduction.
- Not My Fault - Removes the faction reputation penalty when visitors die from events beyond your control.
- OgreStack - Customize stack sizes for items with an in-game menu for targeting specific items.
- Pick Up And Haul - Colonists fill their inventory when hauling instead of carrying one item at a time.
- Prisoner Utils - Enhances prisoner management with assigned beds, food controls, and clothing options.
- QualityBuilder Unofficial 1.6 - Assigns construction jobs to colonists with the skill level to achieve desired quality.
- RandomPlus - Set minimum specs for pawn generation with automatic rerolling until criteria are met.
- Replace Stuff - Continued - Place buildings over existing structures with automatic replacement while preserving settings.
- RimFridge - Adds refrigerated storage units that keep food and perishables cold with shelf support.
- RIMMSqol - Over 1,000 editable game properties, character editing, and UI customizations through an in-game interface.
- RimSaves - Enhances save menu with previews, folder organization, and quicksave functionality.
- Smart Farming Continued - Extra tools for grow zones including sowing predictions, prioritization, and harvest automation.
- Smart Medicine - Continued - Doctors access medicine from patient inventories, carry supplies, and use minimal medicine for minor injuries.
- Smart Speed - Unlocks ultra-fast game speeds and custom multipliers with separate event speed settings.
- Smarter Construction - Prevents pawns from building themselves into walls or blocking unfinished structures.
- Smarter Visitors - Visitors delay departure when dangers like raids or health issues are present.
- Social Experience from Trade - Colonists gain social skill experience when trading.
- Stack XXL - Configurable stack size multipliers to reduce storage space requirements.
- TradeHelper - Expands trading interface with wishlist feature and enhanced UI for trading dialogs.
- Trading Control - Designate trading areas, create marketplace stalls, and dismiss unwanted traders.
- Use This Instead - Configure item replacement preferences for crafting and construction.
- Wall Light - Wall-mounted lights that don't take up floor space.
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Performance
- Better GC: Mothballed and World Pawns - Improves performance through better pawn mothballing and reducing unnecessary world pawns via garbage collection.
- FPS Stabilizer - Increases frame rate stability by raising the minimum FPS threshold at the cost of simulation speed when CPU is constrained.
- Performance - Slower Pawn Tick Rate - Reduces pawn tick frequency to improve performance in large colonies.
- Performance Fish - Improves framerates and tick times by patching methods for efficiency, compatible with most mods including CE.
- Performance Optimizer - Various performance tweaks providing around 20-35% performance gain.
- RocketMan - Major performance improvements including cached def loading for faster startup with large mod lists.
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UI and Interface
- Better Architect Menu - Reorganizes and improves the architect menu for easier navigation.
- Camera+ - Extends camera zoom range significantly beyond vanilla limits for screenshots and streaming.
- Command Palette - Consolidates all building commands into one searchable interface accessible via right-click.
- Designator Shapes - Adds circle, oval, and other shapes to the building designator.
- Dubs Mint Minimap - Adds a customizable minimap with multiplayer-compatible ping tool.
- Electrical Grid Toggler - Adds a toggle to display the power grid with color-coded status indicators.
- Extra Alerts - Customizable notifications for enemies, downed allies, animal emergencies, and mood alerts.
- Float Sub-Menus - Framework enabling hierarchical menus with submenus, search fields, and dividers.
- Graphics Settings+ - Improves texture quality with DDS loading, VRAM tracking, and texture sharpening.
- Interaction Bubbles - Displays floating text bubbles showing pawn social interactions in real-time.
- InventoryTab - Searchable inventory interface displaying all items across stockpiles and colonists.
- Moody - Floating dashboard displaying colonist moods, thoughts, temperature, skills, and health.
- Neat Storage - Improves storage zone visuals with organized item displays.
- Nice Bill Tab - Redesigns workbench bill creation with improved filtering and material selection.
- Nice Inventory Tab - Redesigns pawn equipment tab with comprehensive stats, health breakdowns, and direct clothing swaps.
- Numbers - Adds spreadsheet-like colonist overview with sortable columns for stats.
- Prisoner Management Panel - Centralized panel for managing all prisoners with batch operations.
- Relevant Stats In Description - Shows building statistics in the architect menu description window.
- Research Tree (Continued) - Better research tree with automatic layout optimization and research queuing.
- RimHUD - Sleek UI overlay showing colonist stats, moods, needs, and injuries at a glance.
- Rimpedia - Encyclopedia system for collecting information about animals and plants with gameplay bonuses.
- Scenario Editor UI Overhaul - Improves the scenario editor interface for easier custom game setup.
- Show Mod Updates - Displays which mods have updated since your last save to identify potential issues.
- Toggleable Overlays Continued - Makes overlays display only on mouseover to reduce visual clutter and improve performance.
- Trait Rarity Colors - Color-codes trait rarities using a Borderlands-style tier system.
- Useful Marks - Mark pawns with customizable icons featuring automatic tagging based on conditions.
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Combat
- Avoid Friendly Fire - Colonists avoid shooting when allies are in the line of fire.
- Combat Extended - Comprehensive combat overhaul with ammunition, armor penetration, and realistic ballistics.
- RunAndGun - Allows pawns to fire ranged weapons while moving.
- Search and Destroy (Continued) - Toggle mode for drafted pawns to automatically hunt down enemies.
- Yayo's Combat - Lighter combat overhaul with new animations and optional ammo system.
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Vanilla Expanded
- Vanilla Expanded Collection - Official Steam collection of all Vanilla Expanded mods.
- Vanilla Expanded Wiki - Community wiki documenting all Vanilla Expanded content.
- Vanilla Factions Expanded - Adds new factions including Settlers, Medieval, Vikings, Insectoids, and more.
- Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Adds diverse furniture options for building varied colonies.
- Vanilla Psycasts Expanded - Massive expansion of the psycasts system with new paths and abilities. 🏛️
- Vanilla Races Expanded - Adds new xenohuman races with unique genes and mechanics. 🧬
- Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Adds new weapons including makeshift, laser, and persona weapon modules.
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Content Expansion
- Adaptive Ideology Storage - Reimplements Ideology storage objects with enhanced textures and rotation options. 📿
- Alpha Animals - Adds diverse alien animals with unique mechanics and behaviors.
- Alpha Biomes - Adds new biomes with unique challenges and resources.
- Animal Gear - Framework enabling animals to equip gear and clothing like colonists.
- Better Trees - Improves tree visuals with more detailed and varied appearances.
- Diagonal Walls 2 - Introduces diagonal wall, floor, and object tiles for angled construction.
- Dinosauria - Adds 32 dinosaur species that spawn naturally with egg-laying mechanics.
- Dubs Bad Hygiene - Adds water, sewage, hygiene systems, and central heating to colonies.
- Dubs Skylights - Craftable skylights that allow sunlight indoors for growing plants inside.
- Hospitality - Allows guests to visit and be recruited through good treatment.
- Mass Graves - Adds mass burial options for efficient corpse disposal.
- More Linkables - Adds linkable facilities that boost research, work, healing, and surgery.
- More Sculpture - Expands statue customization with 72 texture variations per sculpture piece.
- RimWorld of Magic - Adds 12 magic classes and 6 fighter classes with abilities and development trees.
- Save Our Ship 2 - Build spaceships, travel between planets, and engage in ship combat.
- Small Bedroom Furniture - Compact furniture options for space-efficient bedroom designs.
- Tiny Utilities - Collection of small utility items and quality-of-life additions.
- VV - New Harvest: Medicinal Plants - Adds new medicinal plants for expanded herbal medicine production.
- Way Better Romance - Romance system overhaul with sexuality traits, dates, and relationship features.
- Yayo's Animation (Continued) - Adds animations to pawns performing combat, work, and social interactions.
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Mod Collections
- Rimworld Enhanced (1.6, No Bloat) - QoL and content improvements without excessive load times.
- RimWorld Ultimate Collection - Extensively curated collection from a 3500+ hour player.
- Vanilla Friendly Combat Overhaul - Combat mods that work together without compatibility issues.
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Modding Resources
- RimWorld Modding Resources - Community-collated hub for modding tools, tutorials, and references.
- RimWorld Modding Tutorials - Official wiki tutorials for XML, C#, and mod creation basics.
- RimWorld XML Auto-Documentation - Reference for all vanilla Def types and their fields.
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Communities
- Ludeon Forums - Official forums for in-depth discussions and mod help.
- r/RimWorld - Active subreddit for gameplay discussion, stories, and memes.
- r/RimWorldMods - Subreddit focused on mod discussion and recommendations.
- RimWorld Discord - Official community Discord server with mod development channels.
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