RimWorld turns 11 years old on November 4th! To celebrate, were holding a birthday community event to showcase all things RimWorld. Everyone that participates (and follows the rules below) will be entered in a random giveaway for one of three sets of YouToozs War Queen figure and RimWorld pin sets! We've also got a small update for RimWorld in version 1.5.4241, and the changelog is below. Thank you so much for continuing to support and show your love for our game over the last decade. Happy birthday RimWorld! - Ludeon Studios

RimWorld Birthday Community Event

Event rules

• 1 entry per person.
• To participate, share your RimWorld creations with us! It can be RimWorld fanart, in-game screenshots or gameplay videos (vanilla/non-modded content only), writing, and other creative media. Share it with us by replying to the X @LudeonStudios birthday post or share a link on the official RimWorld birthday Reddit thread. All submissions must be human-made works, no AI-generated content permitted.
• Participation closes on Oct 25, 11:59PM Pacific. Giveaway recipients will be announced on Oct 28 on Twitter/Reddit by TiaPixel.
• Those selected for the giveaway will be contacted on Twitter/Reddit by TiaPixel (and no one else, be careful if someone other than TiaPixel reaches out).
• You must respond before Oct 31 or someone else will receive the giveaway.

• Birthday themes: Birthday cakes, party decorations, presents, and joyful celebrations!
• Screenshots: Colonies/bases, individual rooms (throne rooms, ritual chambers, war-torn battlegrounds), and interesting events (weddings, rituals, intense battles, hilarious moments).
• Artwork: Illustrations of your colonists, pets, mechanoids, xenotypes, ideoligions, etc. Comics depicting funny in-game moments or stories of your colonists. Speedpaintings of your artwork.

Giveaway details

• 1 set of the YouTooz War Queen figure and YouTooz RimWorld enamel pins will be randomly given to 3 different participants.
• Note: YouTooz is unable to ship their merchandise to certain countries, please check yours before participating: https://youtooz.com/pages/shipping-policy

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Changelog

• Improve performance of "need warm clothes" alert with large numbers of clothes in stockpile.
• Moved "CausedBy" translation key to core.
• Insect jelly will now be deprioritized when selecting caravan food.
• Disable room space need thoughts when asleep.
• Smoke launchers, incinerators, and gunlinks no longer have qualities.
• Re-flavor royal titles.
• Allow timbershrooms to grow on polluted ground.
• Allow prisoners to be downed for prisoner sacrifice and execution rituals.
• Updated creative rewards content.
• Updated translations.

Fixes

• Fix: Dev palette cached incidents being skipped if target is the wrong type.
• Fix: Hard-coded formatting on injury label in brackets for body part sources.
• Fix: Copying colonist ScenParts with configurable lists edits in-place instead of copying data over.
• Fix: Wall torch has inconsistent max fuel compared to other similar buildings.
• Fix: Brain isn't properly destroyed by execution cutting on deathless pawns.
• Fix: Electroharvester has flipped graphics.
• Fix: Pawns without reading policies producing error when prisoners have joy need via mods.
• Fix: Randomly scattered things don't retain quality from scenario config.
• Fix: Shamblers not able to walk through open doors in some circumstances.
• Fix: Coagulate can be used on pawn with no tendable hediffs.
• Fix: Hunting work site generation can cause errors with modded games if leatherDef is null.
• Fix: Global learning speed factors do not appear on skill tooltip.
• Fix: Missing eyepatch drawn over blindfolds.
• Fix: Some anomaly debug actions visible without anomaly active.
• Fix: Breastfeeding moms dropping babies if no bed.
• Fix: Healer Mech Serum prioritizes sterilized over mental ailments.
• Fix: Having bloodfeeding and cannibalism memes sometimes generates an ideoligion with no positive cannibalism precept.
• Fix: Misconfigured distRange on SubcoreEncoder_Working sound.
• Fix: Exception ticking mothballed world pawn.
• Fix: Room size space calculations can add cells from outdoor locations.
• Fix: Error if simulate killing unspawned pawn with a shield.
• Fix: Deconstructing firefoam popper with auto rebuild on places a blueprint on deconstruct.
• Fix: Ascetic pawns judge others for their appearance, contrary to trait description.
• Fix: Deadlife shamblers appearing on schedule.
• Fix: Ideology buildings not respecting interaction spot overlap.
• Fix: Anima Tree artificial structure radius inconsistencies.
• Fix: Incorrect wealth calculation on buildings with def-defined base market value
• Fix: Sanguaphage meeting quest not completing if join offer is postponed.
• Fix: Error in inspect string when saving game directly after a pawn has used a verb.

Hey there, we're excited to share that our majestic vinyl War Queen figure and RimWorld enamel pin set are now available on YouTooz for the next 4 weeks! War Queen vinyl figure: We sent out a signal pulse... and a War Queen responded! She'll make a great addition to your colony at home. RimWorld enamel pin set: Features 5 RimWorld-themed designs including: - RimWorld logo - "Ate without table -3" thought - Crashlanded colonist - Scyther - Thrumbo
We're also running a birthday month sale for RimWorld and its expansions until Oct 18. https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/

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Hi everyone! Our new Steam bundle lets you experience the best of city-building and colony-building with Foundation and RimWorld! Relax in Foundation as you create sprawling medieval cities with free-form tools and watch as your villages live organically in their world. Dig into RimWorld for an immersive story experience as you grow your colony and survive! Get 20% off with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/43256/RimWorld_x_Foundation/ Foundation: Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management. RimWorld: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Hello! We're launching a bundle that combines two classic colony-building simulators: RimWorld x Necesse! Develop your settlements and explore procedurally generated worlds. Go from fighting raiders and sentient robotic beasts to conquering magical dungeons for treasure with your friends. Get 20% off with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other!
About RimWorld: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more. About Necesse: Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more! - Ludeon Studios

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Also, the Steam Summer Sale just started and you can grab discounts on RimWorld and three of its expansions! https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/ - RimWorld - Biotech - Ideology - Royalty Please don't set anything on fire, Ludeon Studios

Hello! We're launching a very special colony simulator bundle today: RimFort x DwarfWorld! Get 10% off the game you don't own to complete the set! The bundle runs until June 26, 2024, and it's one of the best ways to spend 1000 hours in game. Explore massive, generated worlds with your colonists and your dwarves. Go from fighting raiders and sentient robotic beasts across the planet to vampiric infestations and necromancers deep in your mines!
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Hey everyone! We're back with a small update containing some changes, improvements and fixes for RimWorld and its expansions. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. We do these updates with the help of players from the RimWorld community! If you're interested in helping us test, or you have a bug to report, please join us on the official RimWorld development Discord. Bye for now! - Tia

Changelog

• Adjusted render node worker to support multiple graphics per node without dirtying/reaching the render tree.
• Thoughts for each genetic chemical dependency are tracked independently instead of lumped together into a single confusing thought.
• Remove deathless regeneration coma on resurrection.
• Tweak some Anomaly incident occurrence rates so that they're less prevalent in ambient mode.
• Clarify the label for "anomaly disabled" mode.
• Added labelNoParenthesis rule symbol to pawns and things.
• Updated Spanish LanguageWorker.
• Ghouls can now be ordered to rest in medical beds.
• Pawns will now satisfy genetic chemical dependencies when in caravans if their drug policy allows it.
• Harbinger trees now consume corpses part by part even if they have no nutrition.
• Adjusted distance ranges on some sounds.
• Replaced gender-specific words with symbols in schematic texts.
• Don't store virtual relationship records which can never imply another relationship.
• Changed fade shadows to not multiply together.
• Remove healer mech serums from animal operation options.

Fixes

• Fix: Minor grammar irregularity with addiction counsel.
• Fix: MechbandDish description typo.
• Fix: StaggerDurationFactor stat does not work without Biotech.
• Fix: Arresting beggars auto-fails.
• Fix: Genetic chemical dependency thought not properly nullified by mind numb serum.
• Fix: Remote repairer hediff can be duplicated.
• Fix: Autobongs making non-organic entities high.
• Fix: Creepjoiners have entity faction when enslaved
• Fix: Increased carried thing layer to resolve some apparel issues.
• Fix: Beam verbs and incinerator hitting cells without line of sight.
• Fix: Headgear not always rendering correctly when crawling.
• Fix: Preferred xenotypes not working correctly between prisoners and slaves.
• Fix: Incorrect label argument used in activity suppression tooltip.
• Fix: Various specific save/load errors with awoken corpses and hypnotized pawns.
• Fix: No missing bed feedback for take to bed warden order.
• Fix: Mech booster is rotatable.
• Fix: Apparel without CompColorable causes errors in styling station.
• Fix: High Mechtech can be selected in research without building a multi-analyzer.
• Fix: Message spam when capturing an enemy during a psychic ritual siege.
• Fix: Left behind pawns dying counts towards "colonists killed" stat if they die.
• Fix: Becoming a shambler incorrectly taints utility items.
• Fix: Feedback for sky-lantern participants who can't reach any wood, added better ritual feedback functions.
• Fix: Unnecessary loading warning appearing for transport pods without colonists.
• Fix: Creepjoiner letters not using gendered kind labels.
• Fix: Suspending lovin' causing errors.
• Fix: Ritual dialog tooltip slightly cutoff.
• Fix: Refugees can send leaving messages multiple times.
• Fix: Misleading extra warnings if complexes were previously activated before entering
• Fix: Some circumstances where temp factions wouldn't be properly hostile to anomaly entities or insects.
• Fix: Unable to place non downed pawns in a cryptosleep pod.
• Fix: Error when entity dies during bioferrite extraction.
• Fix: Error on inspect pane for ghouls without hunger needs.
• Fix: Herd animals trained to attack won't target shamblers.
• Fix: Psychic ritual failing when invoker gets psychic shock.
• Fix: Farskip not working on colony ghouls.
• Fix: Several scenarios where collapsed roofs can destroy pit gates.
• Fix: Hediff and mutant abilities not saving cooldown.
• Fix: Fleshmass stomach not preventing gut worms letter.
• Fix: Colony mechs and ghouls can't be selected in split caravan dialog.
• Fix: Modded violent work types disabling ghoul melee skill.
• Fix: HediffDef aptitudes displaying as active without Anomaly installed.
• Fix: Recluse thoughts not nullified properly by mind numb serum.
• Fix: Inhumanized not nullifying childbirth related memories.
• Fix: Biofuel refinery accepts dye as organic matter, but it doesn't have any nutritional value.
• Fix: Sunlamp light radius inaccurate.
• Fix: Error using "Damage until down" method on pawn with shield belt.
• Fix: More consistent handling of ActivitySuppressionToggleTooltipDesc and ActivitySuppressionTooltipDisabled translation keys.
• Fix: High activity alerts display HP percent.
• Fix: Activation inspect pane string has hardcoded "s".
• Fix: Inconsistent text 'Start' vs 'Begin' bestowing ceremony.
• Fix: Newborn babies can generate with parents' PawnKindDefs startingHediffs.
• Fixed some scenarios where skyfallers would drop through mountain roofs.
• Fixed some situational issues with creepjoiners leaving after being ghoulified.
• Fix: Genes and traits that increase skills on growth moment stack.
• Fix: Schematic generation error if only remaining projects are excluded.
• Fix: Activity suppression and studying not respecting allowed areas when selecting an interaction cell.
• Fix: Some undesired behavior with creepjoiner letters.
• Fix: Include common book symbols in book doer rule pack grammar requests.
• Fix: Relaxing socially not respecting standard seat reservations.
• Fix: Lay down driver sometimes causing errors on load.
• Fix: Having "give psylink" debug action on debug palette without royalty active causes errors.
• Fix: Deadlife shamblers opening doors.
• Fix: Unable to place non downed pawns in a cryptosleep pod.
• Fix: Error when entity dies during bioferrite extraction.
• Fix: Errors for ghouls without hunger needs.
• Fix: Sun/Edge shadows not always drawing if off-screen to the right.
• Fix: Tending pawns get medicine after using initial stack even if they have more.
• Fix: Security doors count as 2 doors for prisoners, reducing their prison break mtb by 50%. Added informative text explaining that having only security doors in a prison multiplies escape mtb by 110%.
• Fix: Error when turning pawn with ideoligion role into a ghoul.
• Fix: Harbinger tree provocation not working on ambient horror mode.
• Fix: Pawns leaving allowed area to rope animals.
• Fix: Luciferium addiction doesn't cause a medical emergency alert when a pawn is deathless.
• Fix: "BlockedByRoof" translation key in Royalty instead of Core.
• Fix: Scaria isn't removed on shambler resurrection.
• Fix: Colony mutants in buildings don't show on the colonist bar.
• Fix: Auto activate monolith scenario part doesn't have edit interface.
• Fix: Some music sequences ending harshly instead of fading out.
• Fix: Luciferium addiction remains on turned mutants.
• Fix: Turret packs can replace other turrets when throw misses.

Hi everyone! We're here today with a new feature update to Anomaly. Today's update adds a new way to play with all Anomaly content threaded into the entire game, instead of being linked strictly to the monolith quest. This resembles more how other expansions all interact together continuously over the course of a long game. No need for Anomaly to take over an entire playthrough! Weve also added some new economic pathways to make it more feasible to progress through Anomaly content as a low-tech tribal colony. Take a look:

Ambient horror mode

• Standard with monolith: The original Anomaly experience. Anomaly threats are linked directly to the monolith.
• Ambient horror: In this new mode, the monolith does not appear. Instead, Anomaly threats are threaded into the rest of the game. All Anomaly threats can occur, even the most dangerous ones. Anomaly threats are relatively uncommon compared to normal raids by default, but this can be adjusted before and during the game. This is a good mode if you want to enrich your story without Anomaly becoming the focus. (Note that since there is no monolith in this mode, the monolith endgame wont occur.)
• Disabled: Anomaly threats do not occur, and theres no monolith. Anomaly tools like security doors, incinerators, hellcat rifles, turret packs, and serums are still in the game.

Better support for tribal playthroughs

• Bioferrite extraction research project. We've added a new research project that allows doctors to extract bioferrite directly from captured entities without a 'bioferrite harvester'. This is less efficient, but doesn't require electricity.
• Bioferrite can be obtained from harbinger trees. Chopping down harbinger trees will give twisted flesh and bioferrite, adding a new way to obtain bioferrite without capturing entities.
• Updated research tree to not require electricity. We've rearranged parts of the Anomaly research tree to allow researching more projects without electricity.
• Some Anomaly items can be made at crafting spots. The following items can now be made at a crafting spot, as well as the bioferrite shaper: Ceremonial hood, nerve spiker, ritual mask, ghoul plating, ghoul barbs.

Thanks to all

Changelog

• Added new Anomaly settings dialog to the storyteller selection page.
• Added a new "Ambient horror" Anomaly playstyle mode.
• Added a new "Disabled" Anomaly playstyle mode.
• Added a tribal method for bioferrite extraction.
• Harbinger trees now give bioferrite instead of wood when harvested.
• Draw "Ineffective" label over psychically deaf targets when targeting with disruptor flares.
• Blood rage at 100% now forces animals to be awake.
• Removed entity conditions for horror tension music.
• Added field in race props to generate unnatural corpse defs.
• Pit gates, pit burrows, and fleshmass hearts will now destroy and refund adjacent buildings on emergence.
• Reduced the max targetable body size for devourer's leap to prevent them from eating things like centipedes.
• Clarify text in regards to the revenant.
• Revenant balancing: slightly reduce health, and increase min population requirement, as well as min refire days.
• Skipping revenant target away will now interrupt the hypnosis.
• Show the game conditions for death pall, gray pall, and blood rain.
• Allow death pall and gray pall to overlap with blood rain.
• Ancient beds are no longer colored to suit their role.
• Pyromaniacs now consider hellcats to be incendiary.
• Fix: Some names were missing.
• Fix: Babies spawning with ghoul haircuts.
• Fix: Incorrect dates on ideoligion rituals.
• Fix: Ghoul hediffs being removed on resurrection in some cases.
• Fix: Grouped behavior of atmospheric heater gizmo not working correctly.
• Fix: Mutant status not being cleared when rising shambler killed.
• Fix: Gorehulk and devourer lack manipulation-affecting limbs, making them weaker than intended in melee.
• Fix: Nociosphere not returning to sent from location.
• Fix: Ritual spectate side not respected.
• Fix: MessageRevenantHeard translation key is forced lowercase.
• Fix: Sanguophage reimplant reward not working in some circumstances.
• Fix: Cultist abduction ritual continues despite missing caster in some circumstances.
• Fix: Ghoul in caravan causes errors on the assign drug policy UI.
• Fix: Psychic bond between two pawns who have psychic bonding gene don't create bond on romance success.
• Fix: Ghouls getting drug dependency hediffs from implanted xenogerms.
• Fix: Labyrinth exit not always accessible.
• Fix: Corpses being debug spawnable.
• Fix: Revenant hypnosis copying to duplicates.
• Fix: Pawns try to exit pocket maps via the sides.
• Fix: Clarify language around "Entity will escape soon" warning.
• Fix: Nociosphere doesn't adapt to EMP stuns.
• Fix: Creepjoiner babies are set to the wrong PawnKindDef.
• Fix: Downed mechs were not carried out of pit gates when using exit dialog.
• Fix: Metalhorror defenders spawning on unwalkable cells.
• Fix: Chaos skip able to send pawns into fogged areas.
• Fix: Inaccurate goodwill costs on comms console dialog.
• Fix: Mechlink is kept on corpse raised.
• Fix: Several mech implants are duplicatable.
• Fix: Combat music playing when no colonists are present in the undercave.
• Fix: Dryads getting blood rage from blood rain.
• Fix: Fleshsacks act like embrasures.
• Fix: Ghouls count toward ideoligion diversity thoughts.
• Fix: Unintended prearrival infection pathways.
• Fix: Monoliths spawned via dev tools not linking to quest.
• Fix: Raid source sites getting removed upon leaving map without clearing enemies.
• Fix: Draw fleshbeasts not working in caves.
• Fix: Ghouls getting heart attacks.
• Fix: Metalhorror inspection returning an empty letter if already discovered.
• Fix: Harbinger trees not correctly consuming corpses with no nutrition left.
• Fix: Harbinger trees able to consume things on shelves.
• Fix: Turret packs could be thrown onto trees.
• Fix: Pawns tending others not being interrupted if the target leaves.
• Fix: Performance issue when selecting lots of animal beds.
• Fix: Meditation offset lines are drawn between the building and itself when being reinstalled.
• Fix: Starvation alert not updating for pawns in caravans.
• Fix: Manhunter_Bloodrain message repeating too frequently and unable to be translated correctly.
• Fix: Void structures spawning in front of monolith.
• Fix: Ghouls aren't tendable.
• Fix: Mutant skill disabling causing issues with various mods.
• Fix: If no colonists are spawned on the map, venerated message shows when designating animals to hunt.
• Fix: Revenant trance wasn't cleared if revenant was killed after attacking while stunned.
• Fix: Error when hypnotized pawn is despawned.
• Fix: Typo in ritual thought.
• Fix: Sculpture graphic index not maintained if style was manually set in bill.
• Fix: Error on growth moment dialog.
• Fix: Backstory has incorrect work disables.
• Fix: World pawns with duplicate sickness not dying.
• Fix: Revenant progressedLetters fail to mention firefoam.
• Fix: Right side of dev bar blocking colonist bar clicks.
• Fix: Struck ore message look target lost after save load.
• Fix: Mote attempted to spawn on null map with psychic ritual.
• Fix: Attack jobs getting cancelled against faction animals.
• Fix: Psychic ritual invokers being killed not canceling cultist psychic rituals.
• Fix: "Form Caravan" gizmo missing on certain maps after being settled.
• Fix: Constructed TargetInfo with null map.
• Fix: Pack animal graphics not always being invalidated.
• Fix: Typo in golden cube description.
• Fix: Pawns popping out of beds if force tended.
• Fix: Duplicator obelisk activation giving hostiles duplication sickness.
• Fix: Needs not being updated after resurrection.
• Fix: Situational music not always respecting volume settings.
• Fix: Some creepjoiner downsides occurring when enslaved.
• Fix: Farm animals attacking pawns without lords.
• Fix: Berserk pulse working on mech bosses.
• Fix: Lifters not able to empty bioferrite harvesters.

Hi everyone - Ty here. Were loving your Anomaly stories! Please keep it up with the duplicated babies, shambler babies, and gray labyrinth baby drama. This expansion explores new ground creatively for RimWorld and its been incredibly gratifying to see people having new kinds of stories in the game. Releases like this bring massive amounts of feedback, which is always incredibly valuable for us to understand how the game is playing and what people want. This time around, many players have said theyd like to be able to mix Anomaly content more into the rest of the game so it feels like less of a self-contained experience, and more like something that integrates into a normal playthrough. Originally, we had Anomaly throw a ton of content at you guys because we wanted to be sure people would experience all the new stuff and see how much was really there. We may have pushed a bit too far there - Anomaly has tons of content and exposing it all too fast was saturating the experience. This is great for a certain type of intense, focused playthrough, but the game should also support other playstyles.
Todays update addresses that with some key changes and new features:

• Anomaly content is less dominant by default while the monolith is active. Youll see more incidents from the base game and other expansions now.
• You can customize how Anomaly-focused you want your playthrough to be. We added sliders to the game settings that let you choose how much you want Anomaly horror events to dominate the game. If you want it to be pure horror when the monolith is active, you can. If you want the horror to be a light sprinkle on top of the rest of your RimWorld, you can do that. You can alter these settings any time in the options menu by opening the storyteller settings (and this is possible on games started in previous versions).
• You dont need to see every entity on every playthrough. We reduced the number of entities you must interact with before advancing the monolith. You still can wait to see every entity, but its your choice now. This spreads the experience further over more playthroughs, if you choose.
• We've updated the Anomaly scenario to start with three researchers and a ghoul (up from two). This gets you into the meat of the game quicker when using this scenario.

Changelog

Fixes

The RimWorld - Anomaly expansion is out now!

UPDATE 1.5

ANOMALY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

COMPATIBILITY FAQ

• Unmodded savegames from 1.4 will load in 1.5.
• If you want to keep playing on version 1.4, use Steam beta branch "version-1.4.3901". To do this, right-click RimWorld in the Steam library, go to properties, open the betas tab, and select the version from the dropdown.
• A large number of mods have already been updated to version 1.5 by our amazing modders. However, some mods are not yet updated and won't work on 1.5.

ANOMALY

• Anomaly expansion and update 1.5 announced!
• Anomaly preview #1: Fleshbeasts, fleshmass heart, pit gate and dreadmeld
• Anomaly preview #2: Containment facilities, creatures, and release date
• Anomaly preview #3: Cultists, hate chanters and rituals
• Anomaly preview #4: Cubes, spheres, obelisks, soundtrack and languages
• Anomaly bonus preview: Ghouls, ghouls, ghouls

Hi folks! Only ONE MORE DAY until RimWorld - Anomaly, free content update 1.5, and the Anomaly OST are out! They all release tomorrow Thursday, April 11 at 10 AM Pacific time. This is super-bonus content just for you on Steam. (The cube didnt say we couldnt, which is as good as permission, right?) Today were talking about ghouls.

SPOILER WARNING: Read at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion.

• Anomaly expansion and update 1.5 announced!
• Anomaly preview #1: Fleshbeasts, fleshmass heart, pit gate and dreadmeld
• Anomaly preview #2: Containment facilities, creatures, and release date
• Anomaly preview #3: Cultists, hate chanters and rituals
• Anomaly preview #4: Cubes, spheres, obelisks, soundtrack and languages
• [HERE] Anomaly bonus preview: Ghouls, ghouls, ghouls

GHOULS

THE GHOUL IN YOUR CROWN

ANOMALYS RELEASE DAY

Hi folks! Only 2 more days until RimWorld - Anomaly and free content update 1.5 are out! They both release on Thursday, April 11 at 10 AM Pacific time. (Theres also a timer counting down on the store page!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380740/RimWorld__Anomaly The RimWorld - Anomaly original soundtrack will be available on April 11th as well! This OST comes with 11 tracks and nearly an hour of awesome tunes made by RimWorld composer Alistair Lindsay. Also, Anomaly is launching with full support for 10 languages! On release day, you can play Anomaly in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Latin Spanish, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese. (Huge thank you to our community translators for helping us out with these!) All of these translations will be editable via the translation GitHub pages to allow for changes and improvements.

SPOILER WARNING: Read at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion.

• Anomaly expansion and update 1.5 announced!
• Anomaly preview #1: Fleshbeasts, fleshmass heart, pit gate and dreadmeld
• Anomaly preview #2: Containment facilities, creatures, and release date
• Anomaly preview #3: Cultists, hate chanters and rituals
• [HERE] Anomaly preview #4: Cubes, spheres, obelisks, soundtrack & languages
• Anomaly bonus preview: Ghouls, ghouls, ghouls

THE CUBE

THE NOCIOSPHERE

THE OBELISKS

THE ENDGAME

ANOMALYS RELEASE DAY

SPOILER WARNING: Read at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion.

• Anomaly expansion and update 1.5 announced!
• Anomaly preview #1: Fleshbeasts, fleshmass heart, pit gate and dreadmeld
• Anomaly preview #2: Containment facilities, creatures, and release date
• [HERE] Anomaly preview #3: Cultists, hate chanters and rituals
• Anomaly preview #4: Coming soon!

CULT RITUALS

BASIC RITUALS

REGIONAL RITUALS

INDIVIDUAL RITUALS

TO COME

SPOILER WARNING: Read ahead at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion.

• Anomaly expansion and update 1.5 announced!
• Anomaly preview #1: Fleshbeasts, fleshmass heart, pit gate and dreadmeld
• [HERE] Anomaly preview #2: Containment facilities, creatures, and release date
• Anomaly preview #3: Coming soon!
• Anomaly preview #4: Coming soon!

CAPTURE: SHAMBLERS

CAPTURE: REVENANTS

CAPTURE: METALHORROR INFESTATIONS

CONTAINMENT PROTOCOLS

RESEARCH & HARVEST

DARK ARTS AND CRAFTS

• Nerve spiker: A crossbow loaded with toxic spikes that stun organic creatures.
• Incinerator: A terrifying flamethrower with an alternate-fire mode that produces a giant gout of flame (shared by the Hellcat assault rifle).
• Deadlife IEDs, mortars and packs: Distribution packs that allow you to raise shamblers from nearby corpses.
• Disruptor flares: Short-lived bioferrite beacons which stun psychic creatures and reveal invisible ones - useful for sightstealers and revenants.

• Voidsight serum: Increases dark research speed at the cost of sanity.
• Juggernaut serum: Increases strength, speed, and recovery time.
• Metalblood serum: Makes a person resilient to damage, but vulnerable to fire.
• Mind-numb serum: Deadens emotions, preventing mental breaks at the cost of stopping inspirations too.

TO COME

Hi everyone! Tia here with the first of our Anomaly feature blogs where we go over the expansions content in detail. Well be posting these blogs leading up to release - which is in 3 weeks! If you missed RimWorld - Anomalys announcement, read it here! And please wishlist Anomaly! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380740/RimWorld__Anomaly/

REMINDER: Spoilers ahead! Reading these blogs will reveal some of the surprises in the expansion.

THE FLESH BEASTS

THE FLESHMASS HEART

THE PIT GATE

MORE TO COME!

• [HERE] Anomaly preview #1: The flesh beasts, pit gate, dreadmeld, and fleshmass heart
• Future blogs will be added to this list.

Were super excited to announce our new horror-themed expansion, RimWorld - Anomaly! This expansion adds all manner of monstrous, mysterious, and maddening threats, containment facilities to capture and study dark entities, and a new reality-twisting endgame. Anomaly releases in one month!
Were also announcing the upcoming update 1.5 to the base game (which will be released at the same time as Anomaly). You can currently test this update on the unstable Steam branch - see the bottom of this announcement for details. (Note that this is only base game content - Anomaly is not yet available.) Well be releasing more info about Anomaly in a series of blog posts over the next few weeks. Spoiler warning: Below is a high-level description of the expansion content. There are some spoilers here.

ABOUT ANOMALY

• At night, hear the screeching of a psychically-invisible hunter that feeds on human souls. Build proximity alarms to detect when its near, but you can only fight it when it chooses to reveal itself. Chip away at its health every time it returns, and collect and study chunks of its flesh. Turn the tables, become the hunter and kill it where it lives.
• A massive flesh creature is growing across the landscape, consuming and covering the whole map with a quivering mass of meat. It defends itself with beasts and acid. Fight it to get samples of its nervous system, then study them until you can venture to its heart and kill it for good.
• A parasite has mind-controlled some of your colonists - but who? They pretend to be human as they work to infest others. Track evidence, imprison, interrogate, and medically test people to find out who is infested before its too late.
• A pulsating obelisk crash-lands near your base. You can try to suppress its filthy energy, but the obelisk may lash out and violently mutate your people, copy them endlessly, or abduct them to an endless gray maze.
• Your colonists become obsessed with a beautiful golden cube, one by one. They build statues of the cube. They worship the cube. They love the cube.
• A corpse arrives that looks exactly like one of your colonists - and seems to follow them. No matter what you do, the corpse returns
• And many more weird and horrifying events!

Horror combat

Capture and study entities in your facility

Fight the cultists who serve the machine-mind

Choose your fate in a new endgame

WHY DID WE MAKE ANOMALY?

UPDATE 1.5

WHATS NEXT?

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Hey everyone! We're excited to announce a limited edition game bundle between RimWorld and Medieval Dynasty running from Feb 15-Feb 22. Get 20% off when you buy the game bundle, or 20% off the game you don't own to complete the set! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38635/RimWorld__Medieval_Dynasty/ Survive through time! Begin in the Middle Ages and endure hard yet wonderful times, then continue your adventure on a sci-fi Western-themed world in the far future! Medieval Dynasty meets RimWorld - a unique opportunity to experience both of these top indie hits. About Medieval Dynasty: Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience. About RimWorld: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Good luck on your medieval and sci-fi adventures! - Ludeon Studios

Tis the season to be merry!

Steam Winter Sale

Hey everyone. RimWorld turned ten years old on November 4, 2023, and it's just in time for the 2023 Steam Awards. You can nominate RimWorld under the "Labor of Love" category! It's been ten years of content from the Kickstarter, alpha, beta, and Steam greenlight days, plus game updates, lore, fanart, videos, streams, memes, Royalty, Ideology, Biotech, Steam Deck, console release, and much more I didn't cover. We're really proud of RimWorld and our community. Here's to more RimWorld! The Steam Autumn Sale just started as well, and we're running discounts on RimWorld, Royalty, and Ideology until Nov 28. Happy ten years! - Ty & the Ludeon team

Hello! We just launched these adorable plush thrumbos on Makeship! They're delightfully fluffy and only available for a limited time - the campaign ends May 17. (They're also our very first official RimWorld merch.) Get your own thrumbo before they move on: https://www.makeship.com/products/thrumbo-plush

Hello hello! There's a little update today that fixes a bug where colonist assignments were removed when you entered a caravan, plus some other useful changes. :) Changelog is below! And if you encounter a bug, please share it over on our Official RimWorld Development Discord. Cheers! - Tia

Changelog

Fixes

Spring is here, so were springing into action with a (small) update of fixes for RimWorld and its expansions. The changelog is below, but here are the highlights! We fixed an issue where captured prisoners were escaping from your caravans and another issue where siblings became unrelated to each other if their parents were removed from the game. If you like following these updates, youre welcome to join us and even test new builds over at the Official RimWorld Development Discord! Enjoy! - Tia

Changelog

Fixes

Hello everyone, Tynan here. Good news today: We're reducing prices for RimWorld and its expansions in multiple non-USD currencies. The prices were already below Valve's recommended prices in most cases (you can see the discounts here). This price reduction will increase the discount even further. The price reductions range from 3% to 15% and affect 7 different currencies. For example, in Canadian dollars, RimWorld will be reduced from $42.99 CAD to $39.99 CAD. See the full list below. RimWorld Base Game: [table] [tr] [th]Currency[/th] [th]Original Price[/th] [th]New Price[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Euro[/td] [td]32.99[/td] [td]31.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Great British Pounds[/td] [td]29.49[/td] [td]28.49[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Canadian Dollar[/td] [td]42.99[/td] [td]39.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Australian Dollar[/td] [td]49.95[/td] [td]44.95[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Swiss Francs[/td] [td]37.99[/td] [td]33.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Israeli New Shekel[/td] [td]131.95[/td] [td]129.95[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Polish Zloty[/td] [td]144.99[/td] [td]139.99[/td] [/tr] [/table] Biotech Expansion Pricing: [table] [tr] [th]Currency[/th] [th]Original Price[/th] [th]New Price[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Euro[/td] [td]24.49[/td] [td]23.49[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Great British Pounds[/td] [td]20.99[/td] [td]19.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Canadian Dollar[/td] [td]32.49[/td] [td]29.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Australian Dollar[/td] [td]36.50[/td] [td]34.95[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Swiss Francs[/td] [td]27.99[/td] [td]23.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Polish Zloty[/td] [td]114.99[/td] [td]104.99[/td] [/tr] [/table] Ideology & Royalty Individual Expansion Pricing: [table] [tr] [th]Currency[/th] [th]Original Price[/th] [th]New Price[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Euro[/td] [td]18.99[/td] [td]17.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Great British Pounds[/td] [td]16.75[/td] [td]15.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Australian Dollar[/td] [td]29.50[/td] [td]27.95[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Swiss Francs[/td] [td]21.99[/td] [td]19.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Polish Zloty[/td] [td]91.99[/td] [td]84.99[/td] [/tr] [/table] Thanks for playing and to everyone who keeps contributing to our awesome community. The subreddit is always creative, the Discord is always friendly, our forums and the workshop are always full of great mods and it's all wonderful to see. Cheers. - Ty

Hi again, just dropping by with another small update. We addressed some issues with Biotech and fixed a UI scaling issue that occurred when players had DSR enabled. (UI was way too big!). The changelog is below for you to read. The update is small and should be compatible with all RimWorld savegames and mods. Just a reminder that you can share any bugs you find and even help us test builds on our official RimWorld Development Discord! Our community helps us a ton with getting these updates and fixes out quickly. :D Until next time! - Tia

Changelog

Fixes

Hi folks! We have a pretty small update with just a few changes and fixes to get 2023 started. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. Big thanks to our community for submitting bugs and testing our updates over at the official RimWorld development Discord. If you encounter any issues while playing, please share them with us on the Discord. Hope you're having fun out there! - Tia

Changelog

Fixes

Ho ho ho! The Steam Winter Sale is here! We have a bunch of sales until Jan 5, 2023 to celebrate.

• 20% off RimWorld
• 10% off Ideology
• 10% off Royalty

Hello, its Tia! Im here to share a small update just before the holidays. Todays update comes with a looong list of fixes. Loads of these were made with the help of our testers - a big ol hug and huge thank you for helping us squash those bugs! Now children are less likely to run headfirst into danger and bestowers will get the heck outta there if theyre breathing in poisonous gas. We also added a few tools to help out our modders and community translators do their thing. The changelog is below to read over. If you want to keep playing on the previous version of 1.4, you can use the Steam beta branch "version-1.4.3563". To do this, r-click RimWorld in the Steam library, go to properties, open the betas tab, and select the version from the dropdown. 2022 was a wild and fantastic year for us at Ludeon Studios. We released RimWorlds third expansion, Biotech, which brought babies and children, new mechanoids, the mechanitor, gene modding, and xenotypes to the game. We ran several Steam Deck betas and became verified - now people can play RimWorld anywhere, anytime! Our team grew in size with several incredibly talented individuals at the helm. Who knows what we'll get up to in 2023. The RimWorld community has been with us at every step, and your voices make a difference and actually shape the game. So keep talking to us in the Discord! Please continue to share your feedback and fanart and memes and screenshots and videos and mods and edits with us. We love your creativity and Im regularly blown away by what people make and do in RimWorld. You can find us at the official RimWorld development Discord where we test and submit bugs, on the RimWorld subreddit, or at the Ludeon Studios twitter.
Mushy gushy feelings aside I wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and an excellent start to your 2023! See you guys next year, haahaaah Sincerely, Tia

Changelog

Fixes

Hi! Fresh patch notes here. Today, weve got rebalanced quest rewards and some changes for genes and children, plus various bug fixes. The changelog is available below. With the wide variety of items added over the past few expansions, it was time to revisit quest rewards. Our community's feedback and discussions on Reddit were especially useful! We wanted to make sure that quest rewards were varied and rewarding throughout all stages of the game. This update reduces the frequency of some rewards and removes others, like double beds and slab beds. Youll now see a greater variety of cool and valuable quest rewards including infinite chemreactors, techprof subpersona cores, vanometric power cells, psychic emanators, and more! We also adjusted ancient complexes to occasionally contain high-value loot. Ancient complexes should feel exciting and rewarding when you finally reach the treasure and make a daring escape, so it made sense to add a wider range of interesting items. You can also find Biotech-specific rewards like genepacks, archite capsules, or deathrest capacity serums scattered throughout a complex. Big thank you to our testers and dedicated community for helping us with these updates and giving us feedback! Join us on the official RimWorld development discord if you'd like to help test in the future. :) Please don't hesitate to leave Biotech a review on Steam. (Expansions tend to not get many reviews!) - Tia

1.4.3562, released Nov 29, 2022

1.4.3558, released Nov 23, 2022

1.4.3557, released Nov 23, 2022

Hi there! RimWorld's 1.4 content update is now available! It adds cross-expansion integration with new Ideology precepts that link to Biotech, gene-modding and inheritance improvements, diplomatic reactions to pollution dumping, polux tree seeds, tribalwear for kids, and many other miscellaneous changes. In a previous announcement, Ty covered the juicy details of this update. That same announcement has been shared below, as well as the changelog with our latest rounds of testing. Thanks to everyone who helped us test this update. The community goes above and beyond with feedback and reports, and it genuinely helps us get these updates out so quickly. We've also tested the update for savegame and mod compatibility. If youd like to help test our updates in the future, please join the official RimWorld Development Discord. If you want to keep playing on the previous version of 1.4, you can use the Steam beta branch "version-1.4.3542". To do this, r-click RimWorld in the Steam library, go to properties, open the betas tab, and select the version from the dropdown. Join us on Reddit to discuss the update here. Also, please don't hesitate to review Biotech on Steam! Enjoy. :) - Tia

Cross-expansion integration

Other notable features

Changelog

Changes since unstable

• Players can sell genepacks currently inside gene banks. The bank must be within the beacon's radius for trading with ships.
• Identical genepacks can stack in the trade dialog.
• Removed xenotype sets from existing MemeDefs.
• Added a stat entry for humanlikes which displays their current age rate multiplier.
• Reduced the frequency of sanguophage-related quests.
• Chemically-dependent xenotypes can take their desired drug by right-clicking it, even if their ideoligion forbids it.
• Addiction-resistant genes for psychite, wake-up and go juice have a 50% multiplier on overdose chance.
• Addiction-resistant genes for alcohol, smokeleaf and psychite provide a 50% reduction in tolerance buildup.
• Addiction-immune genes for psychite, wake-up and go juice grants immunity to overdoses from the drug.
• Addiction-immune genes for alcohol, smokeleaf and psychite provides a 100% reduction in tolerance buildup.
• Softened metabolism costs for smokeleaf and alcohol genes.
• Added a positive "child not in growth vat" thought to "Growth Vats: Prohibited" precept.
• Update the description for "child not in growth vat" to make it clearer that it relates to the colonist's child, not just any child.
• Slightly reduce the impact that player mechanoids have on raid points.
• Furskin and beardless genes are mutually exclusive.
• Slightly reduce work needed for terminate pregnancy operation and increase medicine needed to 2.
• Update non-combatant debug view to not draw timer on pawns which are permanently combatants.
• Fix: Missing translation keys.
• Fix: Remove reference to damage over time in acid spray description.
• Fix: TakeDrug gizmo doesn't use ingestCommandString for translation if available.
• Fix: Misc conflicting translation keys (AddPrecept, Value, Title).
• Fix: Pawns gain certainty during deathrest.
• Fix: Teenagers getting random backstories on save/load.
• Fix: Right clicking injured pawns can cause usage of un-researched bioregeneration cycle.
• Fix: Growth points are gained during deathrest when learning need is frozen.
• Fix: Bloodfeeders sometimes do not ingest all taken hemogen packs, depending on food need level.
• Fix: Mechlinks give the starting mechs more than once.
• Fix: Children attempting to draw on the floor of areas with dangerous temperatures.
• Fix: Ideoligion flooring missing cleaning time factor stat.
• Fix: Checkbox cutoff on wind turbine's auto-cut settings tab.
• Fix: Missing capitalization for xenotype name: in the editor.
• Fix: Administer drug doesn't display that teetotalers will be unhappy if there is a chemical dependency gene present.
• Fix: If a pawn is designated to enter a gene extractor but dies before they get there, the order is not canceled.
• Fix typo: "colony is feels".
• Fix: Pollution goodwill loss during Archonexus questline.
• Fix: Ultraheavy boss mechs are never targetable by lances.
• Fix: Enslaving a pawn removes unwaveringly loyal.
• Fix: 'Missing ideo building' debuff after reforming an ideo, even if the building is present.
• Fix: Points not being set for pollution events.
• Fix: New joiners can spawn as the children of colonists who grew up in the colony.
• Fix: Prisoners can refuse to attend their own execution due to temperature in the ritual area.
• Fix: Pigskin factions can have quest helper snipers show up without weapons.
• Fix: Capitalization for psychic shock immune.
• Fix: Impossible relationships appearing with custom xenotypes.
• Fix: Pigskin factions can have quest helper snipers show up without weapons.
• Fix: Animals use human child and adult age rate multipliers.
• Fix: Right clicking injured pawns can cause usage of un-researched bioregeneration cycle.
• Fix: Growth points are gained during deathrest when learning need is frozen.

Big new stuff

• Revered: Bloodfeeders should be worshipped. Positive mood effects for having bloodfeeders in the colony. Negative thoughts from bloodfeeder deaths. Positive opinion towards bloodfeeders. Not bothered by being fed on.
• Reviled: Anyone who drinks blood to survive is a monster. Negative mood effects for having bloodfeeders in the colony. Positive thoughts from bloodfeeder deaths. Negative opinion towards bloodfeeders. Will not absorb or implant bloodfeeder genes from xenogerms.

• Encouraged: Children build character through work. Its important for everyone to contribute. +20% child global work speed. Negative mood offset for adults while a child has recreation assigned.
• Disapproved: Childhood is sacred. We should let kids play like kids. +20% child learn rate factor. Negative mood offset for adults while a child has work assigned.

• Enhanced: Why should we work when we have machines? +20% mechanoid work speed. -8% colonist work speed.

• Essential: We have the technology for safer childbirth and faster childhoods. 30% quicker growth speed in growth vats. Negative mood when naturally pregnant or with a child outside of a growth vat.
• Prohibited: Growth vats rob children of their childhood. Unable to build growth vats. Negative mood when growth vats are in the colony or children are in growth vats.

• Up to 3 can be chosen at any time. This includes player-created xenotypes. When chosen, believers will be happy to be and be around preferred xenotypes. Believers will be unhappy when they or others are of other xenotypes. Believers will not accept becoming a non-preferred xenotype via reimplant ability or xenogerms. Single-xenotype NPC factions have a chance to generate with this belief about themselves.

• Xenogenes count as artificial enhancements for body modders/prosthophobes.
• Autonomous weapons include colony-controlled mechanoids for precepts.

Smaller new stuff

• Added child tribalwear.
• Added an auto load toggle for genepacks. When off, the genepack will not be taken to a gene bank.
• Added an option for selecting no trait on growth letters some of the time if there are more than two trait choices.
• Added a UI button for absorbing xenogerms of appropriate targets, to help players understand that this option exists.
• Added social thoughts for giving a lesson to a child and the child receiving a lesson.
• If a child is unarmed and hasnt participated in combat at all, raiders will treat them similarly to harmless livestock. This means the raiders will deprioritize them as targets and not hunt them down. It makes unexpected combat more survivable for kids, opens up those porkchop hiding in the shed stories and might create some rimworldy strategies.
• Melee raiders now ignore non-combatants that aren't in LOS when choosing new targets (previously only ranged-attack raiders did).
• Factionless pawns can spawn with any defined xenotype including those from mods and those which are player-created. Player-created xenotypes must be referred to in an ideoligion, or used as a player starting colonist, to spawn.
• Added more varieties of yttakin pawn kinds. This means more variety of yttakin raiders and traders.
• Display recipe ingredient counts on recipe float menu option tooltip.
• Gases can travel through vents.

Miscellaneous

• Reduced the power needed for the wastepack atomizer to 400 W.
• Reduced the work needed for the extract hemogen operation to 500 (from 1500).
• Adjusted bandwidth costs for scorcher to 1 and lancer to 3.
• Increased the health of the mechanitor's remote shielder ability to 75/150/225.
• For the purposes of precepts, autonomous weapons include colony-controlled mechanoids.
• Increased the availability of gene packs from various traders.
• Increased frequency of genepacks in quest rewards.
• Xenogenes count as artificial enhancements for body modders/prosthophobes.
• Increase the apocriton's health, armor, and damage
• Apocriton can now cast resurrect without line of sight. This should make him less cheesable in narrow hallway contexts and a bit more scary overall.
• Yttakin factions no longer get desired apparel precepts, because theyre uncomfortable in all clothes.
• Buffed furry tail minimum comfy temperature offset to -10 (from -5).
• We now allow the kind trait to apply in addition to other violence-related genes.
• Cribs no longer require any research, so tribal colonies can use them in the early game.
• We now display market value on colony mechs inspect pane.
• Pawn apparel generation takes into account min and max temperature stats per individual pawn rather than per xenotype. This means that yttakin will be less likely to spawn with parkas (they generally dont need them) and so will look cooler.
• When a bloodfeeder feeds on a person, the hemogen they gain is now related to how much blood was left in the target. This solves some logical incoherencies, and an exploit that involved keeping a deathless blood-farm and bloodfeeding on them over and over.
• Reduced the impact and duration of gene loss shock from the gene extractor.
• As people grow up, their aging rate now smooth scales from child age rate to adult age rate over several years. This prevents the problem of having a lot of 13-year-olds in the colony after raising children.
• Renamed "child raiders" storyteller setting to "child enemies" to be more accurate.
• If child enemies are disabled in the storyteller settings, refugees with children will not betray and attack (because that makes children your enemy). We reduced the chance of children spawning in refugee hospitality quests to mitigate balance impact of this.
• Allow modifying the child aging rate and babies are healthy storyteller settings even if children are disabled, in case there are already children in the game.
• Display recipe ingredient counts on recipe float menu option tooltip.
• Added a "(disliked food)" parenthetical warning on the right-click menu when telling colonists to feed themselves or a patient a food that the eater would dislike. This helps players predict what will happen.
• A caregiver feeding a patient will now feed them ideologically-venerated food sources if there are no non-venerated food sources.
• Improved formatting of the research project content source line in the research UI.
• When a deathless pawn takes damage that would have been lethal and falls into a deathrest coma instead, as an additional consequence they lose 3-6% of XP in a random skill. This should make non-death less trivial for these characters and preserve the sense of risk and danger. Well tuned this ongoing as needed.
• Super-mechanoids cannot be called when there is already another super-mechanoid on the way.
• Player is given the choice to set mechs to escort when a mechanitor leaves a map.
• Hemogen UI gizmo no longer displays when multi-selecting pawns, to reduce clutter.
• Ability UI buttons can now shrink like psycasts if there are too many, to avoid covering the screen.
• Update the wording of the stillbirth letter to be a bit clearer about the choice of naming the baby, and allow the player to decide not to name the baby.
• Fathers now get a negative thought if their child is stillborn.
• If a baby is stillborn from a surrogate mother, the gene-mother gets a negative thought.
• Updated the apocriton's description to note that it has a jump launcher.
• If player sends a pregnant colonist on a pawn lending quest in a shuttle, and she gives birth during the quest, the baby will be returned with her instead of being kept by the questgiver.
• Psychic bond now gives a small amount of psychic sensitivity so that it makes more sense, and as an interesting extra bonus.
• Psychic bonds can now be created during lovin' instead of just on romance attempts. This means that two people who were in a relationship when the gene was implanted can now form a psychic bond after one gets the psychic bonding gene.
• Psychic lances can't be used on mech bosses (because they trivialize the fight).
• Added a thing category for mechanitor body parts (used on stockpile config etc.)
• Updated textures for all super-mechanoid chips to look more appropriately ultratech than archotech.
• Added a toggle for the glower color picker to disable the darklight-related UI elements for modders that want to re-use the dialog for other things.
• Pawns away on a PawnLend quest won't have their lactating condition expire if there are any babies with them that can feed.
• Show birth letter for babies born from lent colonists in a PawnLend quest.
• Babies born during a pawn lend quest: If a baby is stillborn they are sent to the colony immediately for burial.
• Display conditional stat affecters from ideoligions in stats page.
• Optimization: Improved performance of AnyMechsInPlayerFaction and CompOverseerSubject.
• Add dev tool to add ideology development points.
• In the 'Completed scan' message sent when subcore scan is cancelled, changed 'cancel load' to 'cancel scan'.
• Subcore scanners: Added confirmation dialog when cancelling a scan that can kill the occupant.
• Added description to "force xenogerm implantation" command.
• Shuffle inherited genes before adding them. Added a debug tool to spawn a baby given two parents.
• Bringing babies to a safe temperature jobs can now be interrupted.
• Kid tribalwear no longer lists skin layer twice.
• Added an alert which displays deathresting pawns who can be safely woken.
• Gene extractors will cancel extraction and eject the victim if they are without power for a cumulative 24 hours.
• Update the lactating hediff's description to mention that it reduces fertility.
• Lactating no longer prevents pregnancy but just applies a 5% fertility factor to the pawn.
• Update the fertility stat to read back any hediffs that are modifying fertility.
• Mood related genes no longer force traits. They apply a separate mood offset.
• Learning genes offset global learning factor of a pawn instead of forcing traits.
• Beauty-related genes offset pawn beauty directly instead of forcing traits.
• Speed-related genes offset pawn speed directly instead of forcing speed traits.
• Added a toggle to the hemogen gizmo which allows configuration of whether or not a pawn can ingest hemogen packs to desired hemogen level.

Fixes

• Fix: Tribal children who grow up in a colony don't get the 'natural' meditation focus type.
• Fix: Lamps unconnected to a power grid do not properly have reduced power consumption once advanced lights is researched until you reload.
• Fix: Ripscanning doesn't kill pawns if colonist instant death in difficulty settings is 0%.
• Fix: Pilgrims coming to venerate a relic cause charity believers to get unhappy regardless of outcome.
• Fix: Unwaveringly loyal inspect pane text not appearing for slaves.
• Fix: Kills with body part weapons like knee spike and power claw don't satisfy kill satiety.
• Fix: Custom xenotypes show up with relationships that make no genetic sense.
• Fix: Hair color genes have a chance to not be passed on.
• Fix: NullReferenceException when beginning role change in extreme temperatures.
• Fix: Xenotype icon selection scrollview not working correctly.
• Fix: Some broken word replacement in the grammar code run on labelNounPretty.
• Fix: Gaining growth points with letter pending.
• Fix: Grand altar draws rotated.
• Fix: Bloodfeed can be used on pawns in mental states.
• Fix: Wastepack cocoon infestation storyteller setting appearing in the wrong spot.
• Fix: Apocriton appears in mech clusters.
• Fix: Destroyed pawns can cause issues with deathrest building inspect strings.
• Fix: Genes requiring other genes can be skipped for child genes generation.
• Fix: Atomizer looks like it's rotated wrong by default.
• Fix: Pawns ignore allow zones when hauling to transport pods.
• Fix: HypothermiaRevealed tale displays death by cold even if the subject did not die from hypothermia.
• Fix: 'No colonists can do this surgery' message appears even when there is a colony paramedic mech.
• Fix: Farskipping a pawn into a range of an expired proximity sensor will trigger it again.
• Fix: You can start as a psychically deaf mechanitor.
• Fix: Second funeral is offered if corpse is destroyed after burial.
• Don't maintain labor progress bar effecters if the pawn is not on the map anymore.
• Don't maintain effecters for non-suspended world pawns.

Hi everyone, the unstable branch has just received a new patch. We've gotten some great feedback from the community on our 1.4 content update. Latest changelog below. The 1.4 content update has cross-expansion integration, gene-modding changes, player-made xenotypes in the world, and lots of other improvements. Read about it here! Are you interested in helping us test the 1.4 content update? We'd love it if you could share any bugs or issues you find in the official RimWorld Development Discord. To get access to the unstable branch, go to your Steam library, right-click RimWorld and select "Properties", then select the BETAS tab and choose branch unstable. Restart Steam if your game does not automatically update. We're trying to keep savegames compatible with mods, but it is the unstable branch so there may be things that break. Thanks everyone! - Tia

Changelog

Hi everyone - Ty here. So behind the daily bug fixes, weve been working on a 1.4 content update with more substantial improvements and more stuff to play with. This content update comes with cross-expansion integration between Biotech and Ideology, improvements to gene modding and gene inheritance, changes to pollution management strategies, and extra polish for various gameplay elements and UI. Its nearly done and is now up for testing on Steams unstable beta branch. Everyones invited to test it, and wed love it if you could share any bugs or issues you find on the official RimWorld Development Discord! To get access to the unstable branch, go to your Steam library, right-click RimWorld and select "Properties", then select the BETAS tab and choose branch unstable. Restart Steam if your game does not automatically update. It should be compatible with all savegames and (generally) with mods. But being the unstable branch, there will still be bugs and missing pieces (which is of course why were testing it). Everything in the update is listed in the changelog at the bottom of this post, but lets take a look at some key elements.

Cross-expansion integration

Other notable features

Unstable build changelog

Big new stuff

• Revered: Bloodfeeders should be worshipped. Positive mood effects for having bloodfeeders in the colony. Negative thoughts from bloodfeeder deaths. Positive opinion towards bloodfeeders. Not bothered by being fed on.
• Reviled: Anyone who drinks blood to survive is a monster. Negative mood effects for having bloodfeeders in the colony. Positive thoughts from bloodfeeder deaths. Negative opinion towards bloodfeeders. Will not absorb or implant bloodfeeder genes from xenogerms.

• Encouraged: Children build character through work. Its important for everyone to contribute. +20% child global work speed. Negative mood offset for adults while a child has recreation assigned.
• Disapproved: Childhood is sacred. We should let kids play like kids. +20% child learn rate factor. Negative mood offset for adults while a child has work assigned.

• Enhanced: Why should we work when we have machines? +20% mechanoid work speed. -8% colonist work speed.

• Essential: We have the technology for safer childbirth and faster childhoods. 30% quicker growth speed in growth vats. Negative mood when naturally pregnant or with a child outside of a growth vat.
• Prohibited: Growth vats rob children of their childhood. Unable to build growth vats. Negative mood when growth vats are in the colony or children are in growth vats.

• Up to 3 can be chosen at any time. This includes player-created xenotypes. When chosen, believers will be happy to be and be around preferred xenotypes. Believers will be unhappy when they or others are of other xenotypes. Believers will not accept becoming a non-preferred xenotype via reimplant ability or xenogerms. Single-xenotype NPC factions have a chance to generate with this belief about themselves.

• Xenogenes count as artificial enhancements for body modders/prosthophobes.
• Autonomous weapons include colony-controlled mechanoids for precepts.

Smaller new stuff

• Added child tribalwear.
• Added an auto load toggle for genepacks. When off, the genepack will not be taken to a gene bank.
• Added an option for selecting no trait on growth letters some of the time if there are more than two trait choices.
• Added a UI button for absorbing xenogerms of appropriate targets, to help players understand that this option exists.
• Added social thoughts for giving a lesson to a child and the child receiving a lesson.
• If a child is unarmed and hasnt participated in combat at all, raiders will treat them similarly to harmless livestock. This means the raiders will deprioritize them as targets and not hunt them down. It makes unexpected combat more survivable for kids, opens up those porkchop hiding in the shed stories and might create some rimworldy strategies.
• Melee raiders now ignore non-combatants that aren't in LOS when choosing new targets (previously only ranged-attack raiders did).
• Factionless pawns can spawn with any defined xenotype including those from mods and those which are player-created. Player-created xenotypes must be referred to in an ideoligion, or used as a player starting colonist, to spawn.
• Added more varieties of yttakin pawn kinds. This means more variety of yttakin raiders and traders.
• Display recipe ingredient counts on recipe float menu option tooltip.
• Gases can travel through vents.

Miscellaneous

• Reduced the power needed for the wastepack atomizer to 400 W.
• Reduced the work needed for the extract hemogen operation to 500 (from 1500).
• Adjusted bandwidth costs for scorcher to 1 and lancer to 3.
• Increased the health of the mechanitor's remote shielder ability to 75/150/225.
• For the purposes of precepts, autonomous weapons include colony-controlled mechanoids.
• Increased the availability of gene packs from various traders.
• Increased frequency of genepacks in quest rewards.
• Xenogenes count as artificial enhancements for body modders/prosthophobes.
• Increase the apocriton's health, armor, and damage
• Apocriton can now cast resurrect without line of sight. This should make him less cheesable in narrow hallway contexts and a bit more scary overall.
• Yttakin factions no longer get desired apparel precepts, because theyre uncomfortable in all clothes.
• Buffed furry tail minimum comfy temperature offset to -10 (from -5).
• We now allow the kind trait to apply in addition to other violence-related genes.
• Cribs no longer require any research, so tribal colonies can use them in the early game.
• We now display market value on colony mechs inspect pane.
• Pawn apparel generation takes into account min and max temperature stats per individual pawn rather than per xenotype. This means that yttakin will be less likely to spawn with parkas (they generally dont need them) and so will look cooler.
• When a bloodfeeder feeds on a person, the hemogen they gain is now related to how much blood was left in the target. This solves some logical incoherencies, and an exploit that involved keeping a deathless blood-farm and bloodfeeding on them over and over.
• Reduced the impact and duration of gene loss shock from the gene extractor.
• As people grow up, their aging rate now smooth scales from child age rate to adult age rate over several years. This prevents the problem of having a lot of 13-year-olds in the colony after raising children.
• Renamed "child raiders" storyteller setting to "child enemies" to be more accurate.
• If child enemies are disabled in the storyteller settings, refugees with children will not betray and attack (because that makes children your enemy). We reduced the chance of children spawning in refugee hospitality quests to mitigate balance impact of this.
• Allow modifying the child aging rate and babies are healthy storyteller settings even if children are disabled, in case there are already children in the game.
• Display recipe ingredient counts on recipe float menu option tooltip.
• Added a "(disliked food)" parenthetical warning on the right-click menu when telling colonists to feed themselves or a patient a food that the eater would dislike. This helps players predict what will happen.
• A caregiver feeding a patient will now feed them ideologically-venerated food sources if there are no non-venerated food sources.
• Improved formatting of the research project content source line in the research UI.
• When a deathless pawn takes damage that would have been lethal and falls into a deathrest coma instead, as an additional consequence they lose 3-6% of XP in a random skill. This should make non-death less trivial for these characters and preserve the sense of risk and danger. Well tuned this ongoing as needed.
• Super-mechanoids cannot be called when there is already another super-mechanoid on the way.
• Player is given the choice to set mechs to escort when a mechanitor leaves a map.
• Hemogen UI gizmo no longer displays when multi-selecting pawns, to reduce clutter.
• Ability UI buttons can now shrink like psycasts if there are too many, to avoid covering the screen.
• Update the wording of the stillbirth letter to be a bit clearer about the choice of naming the baby, and allow the player to decide not to name the baby.
• Fathers now get a negative thought if their child is stillborn.
• If a baby is stillborn from a surrogate mother, the gene-mother gets a negative thought.
• Updated the apocriton's description to note that it has a jump launcher.
• If player sends a pregnant colonist on a pawn lending quest in a shuttle, and she gives birth during the quest, the baby will be returned with her instead of being kept by the questgiver.
• Psychic bond now gives a small amount of psychic sensitivity so that it makes more sense, and as an interesting extra bonus.
• Psychic bonds can now be created during lovin' instead of just on romance attempts. This means that two people who were in a relationship when the gene was implanted can now form a psychic bond after one gets the psychic bonding gene.
• Psychic lances can't be used on mech bosses (because they trivialize the fight).
• Added a thing category for mechanitor body parts (used on stockpile config etc.)
• Updated textures for all super-mechanoid chips to look more appropriately ultratech than archotech.
• Added a toggle for the glower color picker to disable the darklight-related UI elements for modders that want to re-use the dialog for other things.
• Pawns away on a PawnLend quest won't have their lactating condition expire if there are any babies with them that can feed.
• Show birth letter for babies born from lent colonists in a PawnLend quest.
• Babies born during a pawn lend quest: If a baby is stillborn they are sent to the colony immediately for burial.
• Display conditional stat affecters from ideoligions in stats page.
• Optimization: Improved performance of AnyMechsInPlayerFaction and CompOverseerSubject.
• Add dev tool to add ideology development points.
• In the 'Completed scan' message sent when subcore scan is cancelled, changed 'cancel load' to 'cancel scan'.
• Subcore scanners: Added confirmation dialog when cancelling a scan that can kill the occupant.
• Added description to "force xenogerm implantation" command.
• Shuffle inherited genes before adding them. Added a debug tool to spawn a baby given two parents.
• Bringing babies to a safe temperature jobs can now be interrupted.
• Kid tribalwear no longer lists skin layer twice.
• Added an alert which displays deathresting pawns who can be safely woken.
• Gene extractors will cancel extraction and eject the victim if they are without power for a cumulative 24 hours.
• Update the lactating hediff's description to mention that it reduces fertility.
• Lactating no longer prevents pregnancy but just applies a 5% fertility factor to the pawn.
• Update the fertility stat to read back any hediffs that are modifying fertility.
• Mood related genes no longer force traits. They apply a separate mood offset.
• Learning genes offset global learning factor of a pawn instead of forcing traits.
• Beauty-related genes offset pawn beauty directly instead of forcing traits.
• Speed-related genes offset pawn speed directly instead of forcing speed traits.
• Added a toggle to the hemogen gizmo which allows configuration of whether or not a pawn can ingest hemogen packs to desired hemogen level.

Fixes

• Fix: Tribal children who grow up in a colony don't get the 'natural' meditation focus type.
• Fix: Lamps unconnected to a power grid do not properly have reduced power consumption once advanced lights is researched until you reload.
• Fix: Ripscanning doesn't kill pawns if colonist instant death in difficulty settings is 0%.
• Fix: Pilgrims coming to venerate a relic cause charity believers to get unhappy regardless of outcome.
• Fix: Unwaveringly loyal inspect pane text not appearing for slaves.
• Fix: Kills with body part weapons like knee spike and power claw don't satisfy kill satiety.
• Fix: Custom xenotypes show up with relationships that make no genetic sense.
• Fix: Hair color genes have a chance to not be passed on.
• Fix: NullReferenceException when beginning role change in extreme temperatures.
• Fix: Xenotype icon selection scrollview not working correctly.
• Fix: Some broken word replacement in the grammar code run on labelNounPretty.
• Fix: Gaining growth points with letter pending.
• Fix: Grand altar draws rotated.
• Fix: Bloodfeed can be used on pawns in mental states.
• Fix: Wastepack cocoon infestation storyteller setting appearing in the wrong spot.
• Fix: Apocriton appears in mech clusters.
• Fix: Destroyed pawns can cause issues with deathrest building inspect strings.
• Fix: Genes requiring other genes can be skipped for child genes generation.
• Fix: Atomizer looks like it's rotated wrong by default.
• Fix: Pawns ignore allow zones when hauling to transport pods.
• Fix: HypothermiaRevealed tale displays death by cold even if the subject did not die from hypothermia.
• Fix: 'No colonists can do this surgery' message appears even when there is a colony paramedic mech.
• Fix: Farskipping a pawn into a range of an expired proximity sensor will trigger it again.
• Fix: You can start as a psychically deaf mechanitor.
• Fix: Second funeral is offered if corpse is destroyed after burial.
• Don't maintain labor progress bar effecters if the pawn is not on the map anymore.
• Don't maintain effecters for non-suspended world pawns.

Hello, Im back with the details of our last couple of patches for 1.4 and Biotech. Also, our 1.4 midterm patch is just around the corner! You can view our previous patch note updates here:

• Update 1.4.3525 hotfixes some issues
• Multiple updates for 1.4 and Biotech

1.4.3541, released Nov 7, 2022

1.4.3542, released Nov 8, 2022

Hi everyone. Valve has recently released their new recommended currency conversions for Steam games and many game studios are beginning to implement these. We are planning to follow Valves recommendations and update some of our non-USD price conversions. (Note that none of our base USD prices will change - this is only about updating currency conversion rates.) In most cases our prices will remain lower than what Valve recommends. The major currencies will generally see increases of 2-10% - this includes Euros, Chinese yuan, British pounds, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, Japanese yen, and Korean won. Biotech will change less than other products, since its prices are already more up-to-date. Some currencies stand out since Valve is recommending larger changes. In Brazilian reals, Steam recommends 101.99 BRL for RimWorld; we are planning 79.99 BRL. In Polish zloty, Steam recommends 161.99 PLN; we are planning 149.99 PLN. In Russian rubles, Valve now recommends 1200 RUB; were planning on a price under 800 RUB. In Chinese yuan, Valve recommends 128 RMB; we are planning for 114 RMB. The biggest changes will be in currencies which are currently selling at 90% off compared to the direct exchange rate. Unfortunately these huge price deltas have led to a large amount of cross-region arbitrage fraud. It is so extreme that the overwhelming majority of purchases in these regions are fraudulent. From our metrics it seems clear that we lose far more to fraud in these currencies than we gain in legitimate sales. This has been an issue across the industry which is why many games have already adjusted prices in these currencies, including Valve games, Dead Cells, Deep Rock Galactic, Factorio, Rust, Grounded, DayZ, Mount & Blade II, Euro Truck Simulator, etc. Price updates will occur on November 17. You can of course buy RimWorld and its expansions at their current prices until then. The world has changed a lot since we last set our prices back in 2018. While were not going as far as Valve and others already have, we do need our prices to make sense for the world as it is today. I appreciate your understanding and will be listening carefully to the conversation on this. In other news, on top of the ongoing 1.4 refinement updates, we've got a chunky mid-term 1.4 update on the way with a variety of new cross-expansion integration content. We've been absorbing feedback voraciously and knocking down issues and concerns one by one. I'm looking forward to telling you more about that - hopefully next week. -Ty

Hi everyone! Weve been pushing updates with hotfixes and improvements for 1.4 and Biotech over the last week. We tweaked fixes to make them more mod-friendly and have been collaborating with modders to make updates more seamless for everyone. Ive added a cumulative changelog below for your enjoyment that covers aaaall of those updates. Here are some highlights: - Mechanoids: Labor mechanoids have more work types, are more accessible, and tunnelers have more armor. Fabricors now know how to butcher and cook, and theyll be serving up hot meals for your colonists in no time. You can also leave body disposal to your lifters who can work the crematorium themselves. Cleansweeper mechanoids are available through basic mechtech research instead of standard mechtech, and tunneler mechanoids are beefier to help with melee combat. - Genes: The time required to extract genes and regrow genes was reduced - your mad scientist efforts should be a lot faster. Temperature genes were also adjusted to be more impactful, for example, heat tolerance was increased, but so was heat weakness. - Royalty: Wearing mechlord armor from Biotech satisfies the Royalty royal title requirement. (King of fashion and robots.) - Miscellaneous: We added more clarification and feedback to certain menus and alerts for things like xenogerms, buildings that summon mechanoid bosses, and subcore scanners. Lots of various fixes as well. Have you found a bug or issue? Please report it on the RimWorld Official Development Discord. We really appreciate all the reports and were constantly checking our forums, Discord, and Reddit for issues that pop up. Thanks to everyone who has helped us squash those bugs! Want your colony featured on the Ludeon Studios Twitter? Tweet us a screenshot @ludeonstudios! - Tia

1.4.3527, released Oct 24, 2022

1.4.3528, released Oct 25, 2022

1.4.3529, released Oct 26, 2022

1.4.3530, released Oct 27, 2022

1.4.3531, released Oct 28, 2022

1.4.3534, released Oct 31, 2022

1.4.3535, released Nov 1, 2022

1.4.3536, released Nov 2, 2022

1.4.3537, released Nov 3, 2022

Hey all, Response to the Biotech release has been amazing! Just here to let you know that we've put out two hotfix updates so far. Change logs are below. We're watching and gathering issue reports across forums, Discord, and reddit and will continue to fix critical issues as they're discovered. Less-critical things will be left for slower updates later - it's important to stick to essentials for hotfixes, because it's easy to break one thing while fixing another and maintaining stability is our top priority now. If you're willing to help report or investigate issues, please join the RimWorld Official Development Discord server. Thanks to all those who took the time to report issues. Cheers, -Ty

1.4.3524, released Oct 21, 2022

1.4.3525, released Oct 22, 2022

The RimWorld - Biotech expansion is out! This large-size expansion revolves around babies and child-raising, genetic modification, and the ability to control mechanoids. Get it now on the Biotech Steam page! To celebrate the release, RimWorld and the Royalty expansion are 10% off. Here's the trailer: [previewyoutube=lhSLxvHsYmk;full][/previewyoutube] RimWorld update 1.4 is also released! We described the 1.4 changes in detail in this announcement. Or you can read the changelog here. Compatibility:

• Unmodded savegames from 1.3 will load in 1.4.
• Many mods have already been updated by wonderful modders during the 1.4 preview over the last few weeks. However, some are not yet updated and won't work on 1.4.
• If you want to keep playing version 1.3, please use Steam beta branch "version-1.3-latest". To do this, r-click RimWorld in the Steam library, go to properties, open the betas tab, and select the version from the dropdown.

• Biotech expansion announced: Why we made it
• Biotech preview #1: Mechanitor infrastructure and labor mechs
• Biotech preview #2: Combat mechanoids, pollution, and super-mechanoid bosses
• Biotech preview #3: Reproduction, children, genetic modification
• Biotech preview #4: Xenotypes, world factions, and the dark blood-drinkers

Its Tynan here, bringing you our final Biotech preview covering the xenohumans who inhabit the world, their factions, and the mysterious blood-drinking sanguophages, and Biotechs price and release day. Just a reminder that Biotech releases this week on Friday, October 21, 2022! Wishlist it now to get a reminder when its out! Read the previous previews posts for Biotech:

• Biotech expansion announced: Why we made it
• Biotech preview #1: Mechanitor infrastructure and labor mechs
• Biotech preview #2: Combat mechanoids, pollution, and super-mechanoid bosses
• Biotech preview #3: Reproduction, children, genetic modification
• [Here] Biotech preview #4: Xenotypes, world factions, and the dark blood-drinkers

Xenohumans in the world

Pigskins

Impids

Yttakin

Neanderthals

Dirtmoles

Genies

Hussars

Highmates

Wasters

Sanguophages

• Hemopump: This blood-refining pump increases the amount of hemogen a deathresting person can store in their body.
• Hemogen amplifier: This device leaves a deathrester in a hemogen-amplified state so they gain more hemogen from any hemogen source. Using a gland probe and blood analyzer, it links with a deathresting person, stimulating hemogen glands into a more active state.
• Glucosoid pump: This device allows a deathrester to move faster after deathrest is complete. It pumps the body with extra muscle-signaling factors while cleaning waste products from muscle tissue.
• Psychofluoid pump: This device enhances the psychic sensitivity of a deathresting person by rhythmically stimulating neural tissues.
• Deathrest accelerator: This device connects with a deathresting person and makes deathrest complete quicker. It enhances the effect of the deathrest casket using finer blood analysis and more powerful chemicals.

Biotechs price

Biotechs release day!

Hi everyone, Jay and Matt here - were developers at Ludeon. We've got a release date for you: RimWorld - Biotech is coming out on October 21, 2022. Mark your calendars and wishlist Biotech now! Todays preview covers reproduction, children, vatgrowing, and genetic engineering. You can also check out our previous blog posts below:

• Biotech expansion announced! Update 1.4 on unstable branch
• Biotech preview #1: Mechanitor infrastructure and labor mechs
• Biotech preview #2: Combat mechanoids, pollution, and super-mechanoid bosses

Natural and artificial reproduction

Taking care of babies

Raising children

Vatgrowing

Genetic modifications

Genes

• Fire spew: The carrier of this gene gains the ability to spew flammable bile. The bile sticks to anything in a small area and can ignite people, objects, and the ground. (Just make sure to have a firefoam pop pack handy.)
• Longjump legs: This gene gives the ability to jump long distances, letting melee attackers quickly close distance between them and their foe.
• Furskin: The body of a carrier is covered in thick fur, providing some insulation and changing the person's appearance. Furskin is perfect for cold climates.
• Smooth tail: Carriers of this gene grow a slender tail that can act as a dexterous fifth limb, increasing their manipulation.
• Strong stomach: Carriers have an extra toxin-filtering organ in their stomach and will never suffer from food poisoning even after eating rotten food.
• Psychic bonding: People with this gene bond with a single person for life, sharing a psychic bond with them. As long as they remain close to their mate, they will be happy - but if their partner dies, it can be catastrophic to their mental health.
• Robust: Carriers take less injuries than others from the same damage. This can stack with the 'tough' trait to create incredible powerhouses.
• Never sleep: This gene completely prevents the need for sleep.
• Ageless: Carriers of this gene do not age biologically. Stay young forever!
• Great shooting: Greatly increases a persons aptitude for shooting, effectively increasing their shooting skill by +8.
• Psychite addict-immune: Carriers are immune to addictions caused by consuming psychite.
• Deathrest: Carriers of this gene must periodically regenerate themselves in a special coma called deathrest. Deathrest takes days, but can confer substantial bonuses with the right infrastructure. Deathrest can be accelerated and its effects enhanced by the use of a variety of special buildings and technologies.

Next time

Hey everybody! I'm Will, a designer working on RimWorld - Biotech. In our last blog post, we covered how Biotech lets you build mechanoid colonies run by high-tech mechanitor overseers. You can also read the original 1.4 update and Biotech announcement here. Today, well look at combat mechanoids, commander mechanoids, and pollution! New combat mechanoids open up many avenues for offensive and defensive tactics, and special super-dangerous mechs hold the key to greater power for your mechanitor. Mechanoid production also generates pollution which has its own unique challenges and uses. Later this week well take a look at reproduction, children, vatgrowing, and genetic modifications.

Mechanoid commanders

Combat mechanoids

Mechanoid colors and names

Mechanitor upgrades

• Control sublink: These neural implants expand a mechanitors processing power, giving them additional control groups and increasing the work speed of labor mechs.
• Remote repairer: A mechlink upgrade that allows a mechanitor to repair mechanoids at a distance. The user links with the mechanoid and psychically guides the self-repair mechanites. Its great for long-distance mid-combat repairs.
• Remote shielder: An implant that allows a mechanitor to project a shield onto a friendly mechanoid. Use this during critical moments to save your mechanoid!
• Mech gestation processor: This implant connects the mechanitor directly to their gestator tanks and increases the speed of mechanoid production or resurrection.
• Repair probe: The more mechanoids, the more repairs! Repair probe implants substantially increase the repair speed of a mechanitor.

• Mechanitor headsets: These head-mounted comms computers increase the number of mechanoids that your mechanitor can control.
• Mechanitor packs: Control packs and bandwidth packs allow mechanitors additional flexibility, granting more control groups, or more bandwidth.
• Mechcommander and mechlord armor: The ultimate in mechanitor gear! This power-assisted armor dramatically amplifies a mechanitors bandwidth.

The basics of pollution

Managing pollution

• Freeze them. Frozen wastepacks wont dissolve, but they take up a lot of space.
• Export them. Use caravans or transport pods to dump your wastepacks on the world map. For extra fun, you can even leave them as a gift in your enemies bases. People may not love you doing this.
• Polux them. Heavily polluted maps will eventually sprout special polux trees. These trees slowly purify polluted terrain around them. Their delicate root network prevents them from being replanted.
• Atomize them. High-tech wastepack atomizers let you completely neutralize the threat of toxic wastepacks. The process is somewhat slow - and quite expensive.
• or ignore them! Polluting the land does have some benefits. Polluted terrain can grow new crops, like the fast-growing toxipotato. (Just dont eat it raw.) Pollution can also attract new animal variants, like toxalopes and waste rats.

Pollution and insects

Tox gas

More on the way

• Biotech preview #1: Mechanitor infrastructure and labor mechs
• Biotech preview #2: Combat mechanoids, pollution, and super-mechanoid bosses

Hey all - Tynan here. This is the first of our Biotech preview blog posts, where we lay out the features of the Biotech expansion, and the thought behind them, in more detail. You can look forward to more posts on the way. (If you missed the Biotech announcement, you probably want to start there. You can wishlist RimWorld - Biotech here.) Todays preview post covers mechanitor core concepts, mechanoid infrastructure, and labor mechanoids. The next post is in a few days, and will cover combat mechanoids, enemy super-mechanoids, and other mechanitor-related features, and there will be many more after that.

The mechanitor

• Bandwidth determines how many mechs a mechanitor can gestate and control at once. A mechanitor who loses bandwidth will temporarily disconnect from some of their mechanoids. If a mech is left disconnected for too long, it may reconnect with the wild mech hive and leave - or attack.
• Control groups are groups of mechs who can be controlled as a unit. A mechanitor with more control groups can send mechanoids to do more separate tasks at the same time. A more advanced mechanitor can have combat mechs patrolling a colony, labor mechs toiling in the field, and bodyguard mechs escorting them around, all at the same time.

Mechanoid challenges

Mechanoid infrastructure

Labor mechs

RimWorlds third expansion, RimWorld - Biotech is coming out in a few weeks! Were also making the free vanilla 1.4 update available now for play on the unstable Steam branch. More details about that near the bottom of this post. This post will:

• Describe Biotech's features
• Present Tynans thoughts on why he decided to make Biotech as it is
• Go over new features in the free 1.4 update

About Biotech

• Control mechanoids, including many new mechanoid types, by making your colonist into a mechanitor
• Raise babies and children. Reproduce and create families - by both natural and artificial means
• Genetically-modify children and adults, and interact with new gene-modded factions

Children and reproduction

The mechanitor

Gene modding

Why Biotech?

Why mechanitors?

Why reproduction and children?

Why gene modding?

Update 1.4

Whats next?

• Want to talk about Biotech and 1.4? Join the discussion on Reddit!
• If youd like to help test the 1.4 unstable build and report bugs, please join the official RimWorld Development Discord.

Hi there, we've got another update for you today! This update cleans up some rough edges in Steam Deck, and expands the number of game modes that can use Ideology functionality. The update should be compatible with all saves and mods. If the update cause problems and you have a bug to report, or you want to help us test, please join the Official RimWorld Development Discord! Thank you to all of our testers for your feedback. Have a great week! - Tia

Steam Deck Improvements

Ideology Improvements

Misc

Fixes

Hello everyone! We have great news for our Australian players - RimWorld is once again available for purchase on Steam in Australia. This means Australians have access to the RimWorld Steam store page and can gift and receive Steam keys for the game. (It also means you can read this news update. ) Everything should be back to normal! For context: Back in February, the Australian Classification Board classified RimWorld as Refused Classification (RC) which banned the game from sale in Australia. This news was sudden and a surprise to everyone. We appealed to the Classification Review Board and they agreed to review the games rating on April 20. We assembled a lot of useful evidence and had a great legal team to help us. Our community was also amazing and helped us by providing examples of games on Steam that had similar cases to us, like Disco Elysium and Fallout. The review concluded with a happy ending - RimWorlds classification changed from Refused Classification (RC) to R 18+ (Restricted), and now we're back on Steam! So a big thanks to everyone for your support, that was a wild couple of months! - Tia

Hello everyone! Its Tia - Im back with update 1.3.3326 which brings full support for RimWorld on Steam Deck! Before I get into the update, I wanted to share that our developer who was living in Ukraine is now safe in Germany. Hes staying with one of our former team members and we're doing what we can to help him get set up there. Thank you for all the kind comments and for thinking of our team. Todays update makes the Deck controls more intuitive, refines the touchscreen interface, improves the UI and keyboard, and adds an easy way to access the Deck's controller config options. The Steam Deck requires that we use a new version of the Steamworks API which breaks compatibility with a few mods. To prevent breakages, three weeks ago, we released a public beta to give modders time to update, and we personally reached out to dozens of modders to help prevent mods from breaking. The known incompatibilities should be solved now - thanks to all modders who responded! If you dont want this update for any reason: right-click RimWorld in your Steam library list, click Properties, then select the betas tab. Select version-1.3.3287 - Previous 1.3 version from the drop-down list. This will keep you on the previous version. Your game should auto-update - if it doesnt, restart Steam. Modders: Your mod can now be marked as compatible with major and minor versions. For example, you can mark a mod as compatible with 1.3.3287, but not 1.3.3326. More info in the #mod-updates channel. The full changelog is below for you to peruse! Thanks to everyone who helped us test the beta. If you experience any bugs with update 1.3.3326, or want to help us test in the future, please join the Official RimWorld Development Discord. Im excited to hear how players are enjoying RimWorld on Steam Deck. Maybe Ill spot someone playing it on the train! - Tia

Ideology Improvements

Controls

Misc Improvements

Technical

Fixes

Hi everyone, its Tia. Weve released our Steam Deck update 1.3.3300 as a beta branch on Steam. This update has full support for Steam Deck! However, for that to work it has to use a new version of the Steamworks API, which will break mods that access Steamworks. If youre working on a mod that accesses Steamworks, please prepare to update to its new version to prevent breaking the game. We are planning to release this version to everyone on Wednesday April 6 at around 5pm EST. Players who want to use Steam Deck should also use this branch for now. Everything except a few mods should work. To play this beta on Deck or PC: right-click RimWorld in your Steam library list, click Properties, then select the betas tab. Select steam_deck - Steam Deck update from the drop-down list. Your game should auto-update - if it doesnt, restart Steam. To share any feedback or bug reports from the beta, please join the Official RimWorld Development Discord. - Tia

Steam Deck Changes

Ideology Improvements

Controls

Misc Improvements

Fixes

Hello everyone, Unfortunately, we've just been informed that RimWorld has just been made unavailable for new purchases by Australian customers on Steam. This does not seem to affect existing owners - it only prevents new purchases. Anyone who already owns the game is still be able to play, receive updates and access community features like the forums and workshop. The Ideology and Royalty expansions are also not affected. We don't have a ton of information about this since it just happened within the last few hours, it's Friday evening, and most people we could ask are not at work. From the info we have, this happened because a few days ago, the Australian Classification Board classified a potential console version of RimWorld as Refused Classification (RC), meaning it can't be sold in Australia. We did not expect this to affect the Steam version because in previous similar cases, as with Disco Elysium for example, an RC rating on a console version did not affect the availability of the PC version on Steam. We're not sure why this decision was made in RimWorld's case. I'm sorry this news was so sudden and for anyone who is frustrated by this. We are working to resolve this situation and make RimWorld available to everyone again as soon as possible, but we dont yet know what that might require or how long it may take. Thanks for your understanding everyone. - Ty

Hey everyone, it's time for another update! This update fixes a variety of bugs and includes a number of changes that should make the ideoligions system less restrictive and more flexible. Key among those is a new way to play with Ideology content active, but without actually running the ideology system. The ideology system is great for players who want to do something different, but it could be overwhelming for someone on their first game or who just wants to relax. This new option allows running the game without the complexity of the ideologion system, but with almost all the Ideology content active, including the biosculpters, ancient complex quests, Gauranlen trees, public executions, and more. (Some buildings like skullspikes and loudspeakers are still buildable despite not doing much without ideoligions active - they make nice visual flair if you want them.) We've also reworked how a few pieces of Ideology work to make common ideoligions reduce micromanagement and annoying situations, especially when you're hosting guests from NPC-generated ideoligions. There are also a variety of bug fixes and other improvements - see the changelog below. [EDIT] We've hotfixed an issue with the tutorial. This update should be compatible with all saves and mods. Thanks to everyone who helped test on the official dev Discord! And as always, please don't hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page! Cheers, Ty

New feature

UI improvements

Tuning - General

Tuning - Ideoligions

Misc

Fixes

Hey everyone, just a quick note about the Steam Deck release and RimWorld. RimWorld works on Steam Deck as it is now, but there are a number of UI issues and some general jankiness we intend to solve with an update. Our developer who was working on this lives in Ukraine. After delays getting the Deck to him, the current situation there means he won't be making progress any time soon. Our tech lead Piotr Walczak is taking over Steam Deck integration efforts. However, we probably won't have an integration patch out until after the Deck is released. To those of you excited to play RW on the Deck - We are excited too! Please look forward to updates that should solve issues you might find. If you can, consider waiting for the update before you dive in. We want the experience to be as great as possible and we're working to make that happen. We also welcome reports of any issues on the official dev Discord here. Knowing the problems helps us solve them! Thanks to everyone for your understanding. - Ty

Hey everyone - here's a new update for RimWorld for all of you! This wide-ranging update makes a variety of improvements - see the full changelog below. One critical adjustment is in the proportion of different raid strategies. Previously, mechanoids were using breach raids far too often. I've been seeing feedback about this for a while, so in previous updates we did make some analysis tools and I tried to adjust things to solve it. Unfortunately, I missed the true issue and the problem persisted. After some recent feedback from Reddit, we made some more analysis tools to figure out what's going on, I was shocked to discover how out of whack the numbers were. I'm not sure how I missed this before, but the game wasn't acting anything like I intended. Please accept my apology for not fixing this earlier. With this update, breach raids are now present but uncommon, with normal raids forming the main threat. I also tweaked the numbers for human factions so the mix of raid strategies should be healthily varied through the whole game. The game will now also reduce the likelihood of getting two raids from the same faction in a row. Related to that, players' turrets have been buffed gently. Since we have raids that can handle turrets more intelligently now, we can make the turrets stronger against the attacks against which they are effective. All this is subject to ongoing adjustment, of course. We also did a bunch of work to improve your ability to handle vegetarian, carnivore, and eat-anything colonists together. Previously, you didn't have the management tools needed to identify and separate these peoples' foods properly; now you do. Biosculpters also have better feedback to help players anticipate the duration of the biosculpting cycles, since these durations change depending on who goes into the pod. This update should be compatible with all saves and mods. Many thanks to Nick Barrash for work on extremely fiddly meal-related AI and visualization, Matt Ritchie for helping investigate breacher issues, and Alex Mulford for helping balance player defense tools. Also thanks to TiaPixel for marketing help and to everyone who offered test feedback for the unstable build on the public RimWorld test Discord server. As always, please don't hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page! Until next time, Ty

Combat - Turrets

Combat - Enemies

Food handling

Misc improvements

Fixes

Hello everyone! I'm happy to announce a new update for RimWorld and all expansions. The biosculpters got a focused redesign. Colonists can now automatically do their own age reversal, and initiating a biosculpting cycle takes 1 step instead of 3. There's also less incentive to do weird things like deconstruct and reconstruct the biosculpter. Overall the micromanagement burden should be much lower, especially for large colonies. We also reworked caravan formation to make it faster and more fluid. The archonexus restart sequence got some love so it's clearer and better-tuned. Finally, there's also a bunch of smaller improvements - see the change list below. This update was tested as compatible with all savegames and mods. Thanks to everyone who helped test on the Official dev Discord server, to Matt Ritchie for running the unstable build update cycle, Nick Barrash for the biosculpter rework, and all our other devs for their contributions, and everyone who gave such rich feedback on Discord and on the RimWorld subreddit. As always, don't hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page! Enjoy! -Tynan

Biosculpter changes

Caravan improvements

Archonexus improvements

Misc improvements

Fixes

EDIT 3: The build is now live for everyone. Thanks to the mod authors of Doors Expanded for updating quickly! Hey everyone! RimWorld update 1.3.3117 is now out. This one comes with a long list of new stuff and improvements. Full changelist is below. Multi-ideo viability: One key thing I wanted to do with this update was make it more rewarding to have a colony with diverse beliefs. While it should certainly be possible to run your colony as an ideological monoculture, I always wanted it to be possible to claim the benefits of multiple belief systems at the cost of needing to take a wider diversity of needs into account. This would also make recruiting easier, since it wouldn't be necessary to convert everyone during the recruiting process. We made several changes to achieve this goal. Now, colonists can participate in rituals of other ideoligions, strengthen those rituals by their presence, and gain mood and other benefits from them. Bigoted colonists will get a negative thought from participating in other beliefs, but the benefit from the ritual can outweigh their inner conflict. Since rituals can have quite specific effects, it can be very useful to have a wide toolbox of rituals available. Previously, colonists would be very unhappy if their beliefs were violated by others, and would hate everyone who acted against their beliefs. Now they don't mind as much if something they disagree with is happening elsewhere in the colony, and don't so intensely hate anyone who does something they wouldn't. They will still care as before about their own actions. Previously, in order to celebrate a ritual, it needed to be obligated by having three believers in the colony. This is no longer the case - just one believer is now enough to initiate a ritual, while obligations to do the ritual still start at three believers. I'll continue to monitor how this plays out and make adjustments as needed to maximize the number of viable play paths you can choose from. Compatibility: This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. As always, don't hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page!

Multi-ideo colony viability

New stuff

Improvements

Technical

Fixes

Hello RimWorld players! I've just released RimWorld version 1.3.3101. This one comes with a long list of new stuff and improvements for the base game and both expansions. Full changelog is below. Fluid ideoligions: The big feature in this update is fluid ideoligions. You can start the game in a new mode where you define a simple, minimal ideoligion to begin with. Then, during play, you'll earn development points by completing rituals and taking actions that satisfy your beliefs. With enough development points, you can reform your ideoligion to alter memes, styles, precepts, and everything else. You'll be able to build up the complexity and intensity of your belief system as the game progresses. The original system with stable ideoligions also remains available, if you want to play a specific belief system from the start. Compatibility: This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. Thanks: Thanks to everyone who helped us test this update on the official development Discord server, and to modders (Oskar and pals) who updated their mods to keep compatibility! Don't hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page! EDIT: Build quickly updated to 1.3.3102 to fix an issue with the biosculpter pods not working right. Changelog below.

New stuff

Improvements

Tuning

Technical

Fixes

Hey everyone! I've just released version 1.3.3087 of RimWorld with a variety of improvements for the base game and both expansions. Full changelog is below. The main visible feature in this update is tree replanting. You can extract a tree and move it around as an item. You can then replant it where you like. It'll die after 7 days if not replanted. Anyone can do this, but it should be especially useful for colonies who believe it's immoral to kill trees since now they can move trees out of the way of building sites. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. Thanks to everyone who helped us test it on the official development Discord server, and to everyone who has submitted bugs and constructive feedback. We're happy to have all this great information to use while improving the game.

Change list

New stuff

Improvements

Technical

Fixes

Hey everyone! Today's update adds a new ideoligion setup screen with a variety of preset patterns for ideoligion generation. The idea is to avoid overwhelming the player with details if they just want to play. We also added the ability to play the game with an ideology matching classic RimWorld. This is a good idea for the player's first few games as they get used to the game systems.
This update also significantly improves video memory usage, especially in heavily-modded games. It is compatible with all saves and mods. Thanks to everyone on the official dev Discord who helped us test this update! Anyone else who wants to help test is very welcome to come join.

Change list

Improvements

Technical

Fixes

Hey everyone, here's the next RimWorld update for the weekend! Thanks for the ongoing feedback. It should be compatible with all saves and mods.

Improvements

Technical

Fixes

Hey everyone, we're here with another update. Tons of great feedback has been coming in and we're working to translate that into high-value improvements as fast as possible. It should be compatible with everything. Thanks to those who helped test it on the Official Dev Discord. Come join us! Improvements: - Desired apparel now uses the same faction restrictions as role apparel does. Tribal-Only: War mask, Tribal Headdress. Non-tribal only: Slicecap, Beret. Removed visage mask restriction to non-tribal only. - Slaves no longer slight or insult non-slaves - Slaves never start social fights with non-slaves if insulted. - Allowed saving all ideos and allowed saving ideos in-game. - Allow non-ideo members to participate in leader speech. - Melee-ing a slave now increases suppression. - Rebellion chance per slave now relates inversely to the number of slaves on the map, so overall rebellion chance shouldn't climb so aggressively with higher slave counts. - Adjust slave rebellion base MTB 50 days back to 45 days. - Change animal products and processed food to not generate negative thoughts related to meat-eating precepts. Vegetarians and carnivores alike can now eat these without being bothered. - Beggars can now be given items when they are traveling to their wait destination. - Prevent thrumbos from eating Gauranlen trees in addition to anima trees. - Ideo UI Role apparel requirements float menu now lists the incompatibility reason. - Added confirmation dialogs in ideo config UI when precepts will change. - Dryads of not the correct caste will return to the tree first when connection strength drops enough to be unable to support the current number of dryads. - Integrate art for rough living issue and set it to medium importance. - Gauranlen pod sprouts now happen much earlier for tree connector ideoligions. - We are now more selective about which weapons increase rebellion chance (exclude wood, emp, smoke...) - Allow black color to be selected for apparel coloring. - Integrated new mod source and warning graphics for the mod menu. - Integrated new meal graphics. - Improvements to ideoligion save/load UI. - Ensure Tunneler meme always has the MiningYield_High precept. Technical: - Optimized QuestNode_Root_WorkSite. - Removed _NewTemp suffix from PreceptWorker methods and made optional parameter non-optional. - Renamed def Nutrifungus to Plant_Nutrifungus per standard. - Changed ThoughtWorker_Precept_IdeoDiversity to not iterate over spawned pawns list twice. - Removed unused 'Notify_MemberSpawned' methods. - hairColor -> hairOnly. - Mark PlaceBlueprintForBuild as [Obsolete]. - Improvements to pawn blindness checks. Fixes: - Fix: ProblemCauser quest can fire with mech cluster even if mechanoids disabled. - Fix: Incorrect requireOne usage for PainIsVirtue. - Fix: Some bad requireOne usages. - Fix: Diversity of thought calculates the percentage of pawns with another ideo by dividing against all spawned pawns of the faction including animals, slaves and prisoners. - Fix 5218: Some ancient doodads are rotated when they shouldn't be. - Fix: Lovers/Spouses sharing a bed in barracks get "sleeping alone" thought. - Fix: Initial player ideo can be set multiple times on different ideos if the user revisits the configure ideo page before starting a game. - Fix: Pawns under 18 can use age reversal. - Fix: Starting leader speech from a ritual focus bypasses some checks, like being able to speak. - Fix: Funerals are expected to be held for slaves if they have same ideo as colonists. - Fix: Farskip with Relic gives debuff from losing the relic. - Fix: Hermetic crate missing opening completed sound. Applied the same sound as security crate. - Fix: Slaves and prisoners will not be carried to slave medical beds after a duel ended in which they got wounded. - Fix: Ancient complex world objects remain on world map after archonexus cycles making it potentially hard to generate a new site as a ritual reward. - Fix 5232: Wimpy Noble quest generated with generic tags rather than text. - Fix: Apparel color buff is gone after save / load. - Fix: NullRefException when abandoning royal title. - Fix 5234: Pawns can build turrets when prohibited by precepts. - Fix 5225: Undefined 'spritElement' text element. - Fix: Ideo creation warning about incompatibility between apparel requirement and desired apparel even if both apparel are the same. - Fix: Collapsed rocks have 'attack to destroy' inspect pane and disabled deconstruct message. - Fix 5216: Minor text overlap issue in ideo config UI. - Fix: Bestower pawns can engage in social fighting, breaking the ceremony. - Fix: Misc small copy errors.

Hey all, another update! This one hits a lot of various points game-wide. See change list below. It should be compatible with everything. Please let us know on the official dev Discord if you have a problem and we'll get right on it! We're continuing to collect feedback and improve everything we can. I much appreciate everyone who has helped out! Change list: - Having 1 or 2 colonists of a player's original ideoligion boosts conversion chance for that ideoligion and reduces it for conversions against that ideoligion. This is configurable in difficulty settings. This makes it easier to expand an ideoligion starting from just one person. - When a pawn is connected to multiple gauranlen trees, they prioritize pruning the tree with the biggest difference between desired connection strength and current. - Tune slave rebellion chances a bit lower, and reduce the effects of some factors. Slave weapon noticing distance reduced from 10 to 6.9. - Burka now covers neck and shoulders. - Gauranlen pod sprouts can happen even when no tree connector pawns are present. They will occur roughly every 60 days. Roughly every 30 days for tree connectors. Gauranlen pod sprouts can occur on desert or extreme desert biomes, but not ice sheet or sea ice. - Auto-slaughter config allows you to control bonded animal slaughter specifically. - Gauranlen trees heal slowly over time. - Suspend dryads currently in cocoons. - You can no longer change the color of lodgers' apparel if they refuse to change their apparel at all. - Improvements to styling station dialog based on feedback. - Added darker black hair color option. Moved hard-coded hair colors to ColorDefs. - Use faster HasHead property instead of GetNotMissingParts().Any(x =>...) - Fix: Women constantly using the styling station to get a beard that they are not allowed to have. - Fix: Animals portraits blank on ritual setup dialog. - Fix: Dryads prioritize rest over drafted follow. - Fix: Potential NRE when ritual participants target a bed. - Fix: Pawns can extract skulls from corpses that have lost their head since designation. - Fix: Royal titles wanting personal bedrooms don't like love clusters. Bed room owners are now calculated by love cluster rather than pawn relationship pair. - Fix: Missing reservation check. - Fix: Potential error when ritual participants target a bed. - Fix: Checking all beds instead of just humanlike ones for room owner. - Fix: Checking reachability in ClosestThing_Global_Reachable. - Fix: Members of a love cluster that have a single bed get "slept alone" thoughts. - Fix: Couples made of a slave/colonist pair want to sleep together, despite not being able to share a bed. - Fix: Missing translation key. - Fix: Animals portraits blank on ritual setup dialog. - Fix: Checking reachability in ClosestThing_Global_Reachable. - Fix: Tattoos add transparency to pawn skin background. - Fix: Iterating forwards through knownExpansions instead of backwards. - Fix: Not using local map variable in Alert_IdeoBuildingDisrespected. - Precept.PlayerWarning -> GetPlayerWarning. - MayRequire="Ideology" -> MayRequire="Ludeon.RimWorld.Ideology" in a few places.

EDIT: Saturday night/Sunday morning, I pushed a quick update to 1.3.3071. This fixes a single bug where pawns would get stuck at the styling station. -------------------------- Hey all, another quick update before the weekend. I've just released version 1.3.3069b to everyone. This is the same as 1.3.3069 from earlier today, with the addition of a feature that lets you save and load ideoligions within the ideoligion customization screen. If you have a complicated ideoligion you want to use from now on, you can save it during creation and load it in future games. You should be able to get the update by restarting Steam. It'll be compatible with everything. Look forward to more updates soon! -Ty Twitter: @TynanSylvester

Hey all, just a quick update. This is yesterday's unstable test build with some fixes and stabiliztion. Everything should be compatible. Another bit of new - we have completed our first pass of the ideoligion save and load feature. That will be up on the unstable branch for testing very soon and hopefully released to everyone soon after. Thanks for the feedback everyone, and to our very diligent devs! You can come help us test the unstable version or report any bugs you found on the official development Discord. Changelog since last main version: - Reduce nutrition required for biosculpting from 20 to 10 for healing and age reversal cycles. - Adjust trees-related thoughts. Negatives for killing trees are reduced. Positives for seeing trees are amplified. - Bug mitigation for null map in QuestPart_SubquestGenerator_RelicHunt. - Fix: Pawns will attempt to harvest trees in growing zomes marked as no cutting. - Imported new player creative content. - Reversed meme order in UI. Low impact at top, high at bottom. - Assign mapPawns.FreeColonistsAndPrisonersSpawned to a local variable in Alert_RitualObligation to avoid repeated expensive calls. - Add caching to pen-related calcualtions related to WorkGiver_TakeToPen to address large performance spikes when having many animals in a pen. - Chance of resentment on failed conversion attempt reduced from 36% to 20%. Chance of fight reduced from 4% to 2%. - If a pawn has sight under 50%, he should gain a psychic sensitivity bonus of up to 50%. - Assign mapPawns.FreeColonistsAndPrisonersSpawned to a local variable in Alert_RitualObligation to avoid repeated expensive calls. - Add caching to pen-related calcualtions related to WorkGiver_TakeToPen to address large performance spikes when having many animals in a pen. - Change back HomeFaction to Faction in JobDriver_TakeToBed, improve related comment. - Changed all culture icon colors to full white. - Changed implementation of delivering pawns to their bed after gladiator duel. - Small optimization: Check a flag before calling a complex function when checking for repeating memes during ideo generation. - Add short comments for couple recent fixes. - Skulls are stackable. - Clarified 'right-click' info in beggars quest. - Removed duplicate blind check in ThoughtWorker_Dark. - Connecting to a Gauranlen tree gives 25`45% connection strength to the connector depending on ritual quality. - Psychically deaf pawns cannot connect with Gauranlen trees. - Bonsai trees no longer are auto-harvested on reaching max growth - Added debug tool to stop timed raids once started. - Text fixes for certainty tooltip. - Fix: Missing eye wound graphic and tattoos visible on beheaded pawn. - Fix: 'The maximum number of (role) is xx' flickering on edit ritual dialog - Fix: Dueling slaves without beds assigned results in errors - Fix: Possible string concatenation issue. - Fix: Failing to generate a new unique name for a precept can leave it with a null name. - Fix: When a styled standing lamp is failed to build, a non-styled blueprint replaces it. - Fix: Inverted desired connection strength check in alert. - Fix: Slave ideo buildings lacking causes empty alert. - Fix: Another quest node relating to animals could possibly use dryads. - Fix: Dryads can show up as animals for hospitality quests. - Fix: Cannibal tribes can sometimes generate without cannibal precept. - Fix: Sterilized roosters can still fertilize eggs. - Fix: Female pawns can infrequently gain beards on style change. - Fix: Exception when selecting leader with building precept that has no requirements. - Fix: Wrong zone checked for auto cut - Fix: Duplicate building precepts from multiple ideos only shows first building in architect menu. - Fix: Missing body parts constantly draw bandages on pawns. Now they go away once it has been tended to. - Fix: Typos.

The release of Ideology and 1.3 have brought a massive surge of new players and new energy in the RimWorld community. It's awesome and slightly overwhelming. We've been hard at work translating feedback into fixes and improvements to try to make the best play experience possible, both in the short and long term. To that end, there's currently a testing branch of the next update up on Steam's unstable beta branch. (Changelist below.) We test these builds and take feedback directly on the official development Discord server. Anyone who is willing to help out should please join us there, try out the build and tell us what you find! Many thanks to all who have participated and all who join. Thanks -Ty Change log since the last main version: Current unstable build: 1.3.3068 - Chance of resentment on failed conversion attempt reduced from 36% to 20%. Chance of fight reduced from 4% to 2%. - If a pawn has sight under 50%, he should gain a psychic sensitivity bonus of up to 50%. - Assign mapPawns.FreeColonistsAndPrisonersSpawned to a local variable in Alert_RitualObligation to avoid repeated expensive calls. - Add caching to pen-related calcualtions related to WorkGiver_TakeToPen to address large performance spikes when having many animals in a pen. - Change back HomeFaction to Faction in JobDriver_TakeToBed, improve related comment. - Changed all culture icon colors to full white. - Changed implementation of delivering pawns to their bed after gladiator duel. - Small optimization: Check a flag before calling a complex function when checking for repeating memes during ideo generation. - Add short comments for couple recent fixes. - Skulls are stackable. - Clarified 'right-click' info in beggars quest. - Removed duplicate blind check in ThoughtWorker_Dark. - Connecting to a Gauranlen tree gives 25`45% connection strength to the connector depending on ritual quality. - Psychically deaf pawns cannot connect with Gauranlen trees. - Bonsai trees no longer are auto-harvested on reaching max growth - Added debug tool to stop timed raids once started. - Text fixes for certainty tooltip. - Fix: Missing eye wound graphic and tattoos visible on beheaded pawn. - Fix: 'The maximum number of (role) is xx' flickering on edit ritual dialog - Fix: Dueling slaves without beds assigned results in errors - Fix: Possible string concatenation issue. - Fix: Failing to generate a new unique name for a precept can leave it with a null name. - Fix: When a styled standing lamp is failed to build, a non-styled blueprint replaces it. - Fix: Inverted desired connection strength check in alert. - Fix: Slave ideo buildings lacking causes empty alert. - Fix: Another quest node relating to animals could possibly use dryads. - Fix: Dryads can show up as animals for hospitality quests. - Fix: Cannibal tribes can sometimes generate without cannibal precept. - Fix: Sterilized roosters can still fertilize eggs. - Fix: Female pawns can infrequently gain beards on style change. - Fix: Exception when selecting leader with building precept that has no requirements. - Fix: Wrong zone checked for auto cut - Fix: Duplicate building precepts from multiple ideos only shows first building in architect menu. - Fix: Missing body parts constantly draw bandages on pawns. Now they go away once it has been tended to. - Fix: Typos.

UPDATE: An issue with this hotfix where health conditions would appear on the wrong body part has been fixed. It may appear one more time if you saved today but not thereafter. Older saves will not have the issue. I'm sorry that bug occurred. --- Hi all, The Ideology release has been great - thanks for all your feedback! We've been working hard to translate this torrent of feedback into a set of improvements for you as fast as possible. Today we've got an update with miscellaneous improvements and fixes. This patch improves the base game, Ideology, and Royalty. EDIT: It should be compatible with all saves and mods. (A few mods were incompatible but have been updated - thanks to the authors CrashM, Void, and avil!) Non-English languages have also been updated with the latest translations from the gracious volunteer translators (you can join them here). Big thanks to everyone who helped test the unstable build on the official testing Discord. Love to have more people come help, so if you're willing please.. join us. The improvement process is ongoing. -Ty @TynanSylvester

Full change list

Ideology expansion

Free 1.3 update

• 1.3 will load 1.2 saves no problem.
• You can load a non-Ideology game with Ideology loaded.
• You can run either expansion, neither, or both - all configurations will work.

Links

• RimWorld - Ideology store page
• Im on Twitter as @TiaPixel and you can follow Tynan at @TynanSylvester.
• Discuss this post on Reddit here!

Hi again! Tia here, your resident bug whisperer and announcement bringer. First, the big announcement. Well be releasing RimWorld - Ideology on Tuesday, July 20! At the same time, the free 1.3 update (which is currently in public beta) will become the default version. You can wishlist Ideology now on its Steam page here! And also look at the original Ideology/1.3 announcement and the social roles update. If you want to continue on 1.2, you can do that using the Steam betas feature. To do it: Right click RimWorld in the Steam library, click Properties, then on the Betas tab select the branch called version-1.2. This will stay on version 1.2 forever. For modders: No need to break 1.2 support while adding support for 1.3! Keeping 1.2 support is as easy as leaving the old files in a folder. This document explains how to do it. As for savegames, saves from 1.2 (and before) will load on 1.3 (assuming no mods break anything). In addition, non-Ideology savegames will load with Ideology. (However, if you do this you wont be able to customize or randomize your belief system on startup, since the game is already started.) Let's talk about another feature of Ideology!

Gauranlen trees

• Clawer dryads are extremely vicious, with high damage output from their long claws. However, they are also quite fragile.
• Barkskin dryads a chunky and well-armored to soak up incoming damage for your soldiers.

• Carrier dryads are big and gentle, and good at tidying up by hauling items for you.
• Woodmakers produce wood for you over time. This is important if you worship trees and hate to chop them down!
• Medicinemaker dryads have large bulbs on their backs that sprout herbal medicine.
• Berrymaker dryads gradually shed piles of ripe berries.

• Wishlist Ideology on its Steam page here!
• For more info on the expansion and 1.3 update, read the announcement of Ideology/1.3 and the preview of social roles
• Im on Twitter as @TiaPixel and you can follow Tynan at @TynanSylvester.
• Discuss this post on Reddit here!

Just a quick PSA for all the modders out there valiantly updating their mods to 1.3. There's no need to break compatibility with 1.2 while adding support for 1.3! It's quite easy to make a mod support multiple versions of the game, just by putting the old version's files in one folder and the new version's files in another. If you want to be more efficient and share identical files between versions, you can do that too. You can even define your own custom folder structure for full control. This document explains the details on how to do it: Multi-version mods in RimWorld Thanks all, Ty

Welcome back! Im Tia, and Im here to bring you more Ideology preview info while we wait for the big release day. Today, Im talking about Ideologys new social roles and rituals. Im also including another UI shot since everyone loved Spacer Manporkism so much in the reveal announcement. You can wish list Ideology on its store page here!

Social roles

Rituals

More on the way

Hello everyone! Im Tia, an insect lover and spelopede sympathizer at Ludeon. Today, I get to share some big news! Soon, we'll be releasing RimWorld update 1.3 with new free content and a variety of improvements including animal fences, breach raids, beards, and many quality-of-life improvements. You can play 1.3 now on the Steam branch 1.3-preview. (To access it, go to your Steam library, right-click RimWorld and select "Properties", then select the BETAS tab and choose branch 1.3-preview. Restart Steam if needed.) The beta is to give modders ample time to update, as well as help us fix those final bugs. As a reminder, RimWorld supports multi-version mods, so anyone should be able to continue playing 1.2 as long as they like and change over when desired, as long as modders don't remove 1.2 support. Modders can even add 1.3 support without breaking 1.2, before 1.3 is fully released. We worked to ensure mod updating would be as easy as possible. Modders who tested the update process said it was quite easy, some reporting zero changes required, others 5 minutes, an hour, a few hours. Of course it'll depend exactly what a mod touches. We're looking at releasing 1.3 in about 2 weeks, though this could change. With the 1.3 release, well also be releasing a new expansion called RimWorld - Ideology. This expansion focuses on belief systems, social roles, rituals, hunts for ancient relics and cross-cultural interaction. See below for more info and screenshots!

About 1.3

Why Ideology?

More info coming soon

Hey everyone - Just another languages and names update here. This version updates community-created language data and adds the latest batch of names from users who bought the Name in Game version of RimWorld. There have been no functionality changes. All savegames and mods should be compatible. EDIT: In addition, the version 1.1 beta branches have been combined into one, called version-1.1. If you're playing with content or mods from 1.1, this is the branch you should switch to. Sorry if this interrupted your play!

This version updates community-created language data and adds the latest batch of names from users who bought the Name in Game version of RimWorld. There have been no functionality changes. All savegames and mods should be compatible.

I'm happy to bring you another RimWorld update! This is a refinement update for 1.2 which also includes some new apparel and permits. Below is the full list of changes. Compatibility: Hundreds of testers have been trying this build for weeks, so it doesn't have major known mod incompatibilities. Of course, with thousands of mods out there I expect a few hiccups but in general it should be compatible. Non-modded savegames will of course be totally compatible. If for any reason you want to continue with an old version, please use the Steam betas feature to go back to the version you want. Thanks to all the testers, translators, and our amazing developers! -Ty

New features

Adjustments

Technical

Fixes

The 1.2 release of RimWorld adds a variety of new content and a few new systems. COMPATIBILITY: You can set your Steam beta branch to 'version-1.1.2654' to keep playing on the previous version. It should be mostly unnecessary though, since this update should be compatible with savegames and most mods. Many mods have already updated to 1.2 using the multi-version mod system outlined in the ModUpdating.txt file that comes with the game. [previewyoutube=fNvMWicpizU;full][/previewyoutube] There are a few major parts to this update. For many years, some specific balance changes have been requested repeatedly by dedicated players, but I didn't implement them because I thought they would harm the game for more casual players. Now, we added a custom plasystyle system. You can adjust a couple dozen different settings like threat scaling, colonist instakill chances, and crop yield. This means advanced players can set up the game exactly as they prefer. All the old playstyle settings are still available; I expect custom difficulties to be a feature mainly for experienced power gamers looking for something just for them. The larger part of this update is in all the new content. There are several entirely new patterns for quest generation that see you interacting with poor refugees, acting as airborne shock troops for Imperial nobles, or defending crashed shuttles. We built a system that lets your colonists carry utility items or special armor with consumable abilities like grenades, shields, or jump packs. We added a whole new class of psycasts designed for non-combat economic or social purposes. Imperial titles can now give several new kinds of permits including the right to use a shuttle, and there is a new system for choosing between them, so you can customize your noble into different types. Persona weapons now actually have personality with randomized traits. And there are many other additions described in the full list below.




We really hope you like it. Thank you so much to everyone who gave test feedback and helped translate! - Tynan

New stuff: Base game

New stuff: Royalty expansion

Improvements and adjustments

Technical

Bugfixes

This is a follow-on update to last week's major content additions with some refinements and fixes. This update should be fully compatible with all savegames and mods. If you want to continue on an old version for any reason, they're available using Steam's betas feature. Since Royalty content is less mature (3 months vs 6 years), most of these refinements are focused on it, but there are things for the base game as well. Thanks to everyone who helped test!

Improvements

Training and feedback

Tuning

Technical

Fixes

We've released the May 2020 update for RimWorld! This update is still on version 1.1, because it should be compatible with savegames and mods. If for any reason you have trouble, you can set your Steam beta branch to 'version-1.1.2624' to keep playing on the previous version. [previewyoutube=POK0YU47pPc;full][/previewyoutube] This update has improvements affecting the base game and the Royalty expansion, though since Royalty is much less mature (3 months vs 6 years), it's what got major focus on the content side. This update is the add-on we promised back on March 2. The big theme of this update was opening up new play paths so you can take on the game's world in whatever way you like, and the game will respond in a way that's sensible. This means you can be tribal, outlander, pro-Empire, anti-Empire, neutral Empire, use psycasters or not, use drugs or not, use ranching or not, and so on. See below for the writeup on major changes, and the change log. Beyond this, there's more stuff in progress, and I'm looking forward to letting you all know about it when the time is right. Thanks to everyone that helped test and give feedback! Please keep it coming. -Ty

Psyfocus and meditation

Gaining psylink

Other changes

Quests

Psychic mechanics

New psycasts

Hosting quest improvements

Drugs

Miscellaneous content

Small miscellaneous

Technical

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This is a refinements and fixes update with improvements for the base game and Royalty expansion. It should be compatible with all savegames and mods. This biggest changes will be tunings designed to move deep drilling from the lategame towards the midgame and make them more viable for marginal drilling projects. As always, everything is on the table for further adjustment as we go forward. If you have a mod compatibility problem, you can use the Steam beta branch called 'previous' to go back to the previous build until issues get worked out. It would be great if you could tell us or the mod developer about the issue as well! We're also working on some deeper gameplay improvements and content additions - look forward to those! However, for stability reasons those are being held back for now. Thanks to all those who helped test on the official testing Discord server. Come join to test future releases! Tuning - Defeating a mech cluster now gives a mood boost to all player pawns on the same map. - Reduce work cost of smelting metal from slag from 1600 to 800 (to help reduce clutter). - Reduce uranium slug turret cost per shot from 4 to 3 and increase its damage from 45 to 50. - Butchered cenitpedes now yield 10 plasteel when shredded, modified by difficulty and pawn skill. - Crashed ship parts now drop an advanced component. - Plasteel no longer burns. - Reduced commonality of mechanoid raids at high points levels. - Reduced deep drilling research cost from 4000 to 1000 and moved from multi-analyzer tier to microelectronics tier. - Reduced cost of deep drill from 200 steel and 4 components to 100 steel and 2 components. - Reduced cost of ground-penetrating scanner from 2 advanced components, 6 components, and 200 steel to 1 advanced component, 4 components, and 150 steel. - Increased deep drill yield for steel, plasteel, uranium, silver, and jade. Reduced yield for gold. - Reduced max deep lump size for gold, and jade, and steel. - Reduced deep drill power consumption from 300W to 200W. - Deep drill can now extract from the 21 closest cells instead of only the 9 closest. - Imperial settlements offer more psytrainers. - Mechs created by the mech assembler mechs now defend the cluster instead of attacking. - Mech assembler now shuts down after spawning 4 mechs. - Double the effect of pain focus. - Seperated deep drilling speed from mining speed. Drill arm now affects deep drilling speed less than normal mining speed. - Tune monument size and construction time. - Monument damage consequence size is no longer affected by challenge rating. - Removed extra selection weight for mech cluster as monument damage consequence. - Adjusted monument protection duration based on challenge rating. - Colonists with bloodlust no longer suffer a mood debuff when harvesting organs. - Adjust Alzheimer's to nullify fewer conditional thoughts, otherwise it can be impossible to keep guests happy with Alzheimer's and it's a bit weird that their mood ends up locked at default. Misc - Reworked how monuments are generated to produce more compact structures without weird large gaps. - Optimized deep drilling for modded games with more rock types. - Explicitly mark some more things as part of Royalty in code for clarity: Shuttle, bladelink weapons, muscial instruments, thrones, projectile interceptors (shields). - Refactor royal title warning texts in order to do the formatting programatically. - Removed unnecessary 'You must keep [guestName] at colony' from hospitality quests as lodgers should not be able to be transferred. - Removed 'showCreatedAt' on recipe def and used existing IsSurgery property instead. - Removed unnecessary check on text height for architect category tab. - Changed psychic amplifier graphic to match archotech artstyle, since it's an archotech item. - Moved IncomingDamageFactor damage mitigation to ApplyDamageToPart. - Optimization: Make GridsUtility.GetDoor use GetEdifice instead of checking every thing in the cell. - Adjusted apparel debug outputs. Text - Monument quest descriptions now better handle multiple allowed floor types. - Added more quest name content for PawnLend quests. - Adjusted monument resource readout to include all possible floor type required resources. - Added a warning popup about conceited colonists when a royal favor quest is about to be accepted (similar to anti-social colonists). - Combine warnings when attempting to accept a royal favor quest for someone who is both conceited and anti-social. - Made it clearer why a Praetor cannot call an orbital imperial trader. - Reduced the tooltip delay on storyteller difficulty selections to zero - Rewrote natural goodwill rise/fall tooltip to display yearly change. Removed redundant text. - Pain focus readout now rounds to the nearest whole number. - Adjust text and fully define mining stat order. - Added an explanation to the psycast 'Target' stat entry. Fixes - Fix: You cannot shoot over unstable power cells. - Fix: Sometimes the wrong people can be ordered to enter shuttles. - Fix: Quests sometimes generate manhunting packs with > 100 animals. - Fix: Spawning sketch that wipes doors with no adjacent regions causes an error. - Fix: The translation files cleaner tool uses LF in the end of the first line (xml root). - Fix: Cocoa trees are marked as unlocked for both 'Tree sowing' and 'Cocoa' research projects. - Fix: Quest lodgers being attacked by colonists (temporary or permanent) during murderous rage and other aggro mental states cause relations loss. - Fix: Typo in peaceful difficulty description. - Fix: Some custom backstories with gender set to "either" have a default gendered body type. - Fix: Manhunter incident can fail for very high points. - Fix: Padding for mod requirement box is uneven. - Fix: QuestPart_RequirementsToAcceptBedroom causes errors for pawns with royal titles which don't have bedroom requirements. - Fix: Tough trait incoming damage multiplier doesn't work properly. - Fix: Item hitpoint slider precision - unequal values shown as same. - Fix: NPCs incabable of doctoring can self tend. - Fix: In the info card for a psycast, all entries in the lists of Target are capitalized. - Fix: Formatter tool adds and deletes same values because cyclic reference prevention would skip value types falsely. - Fix: Luciferium not healing chronic conditions but the message says it did. - Fix: Ship parts sometimes land on walls and skip upon spawning inner thing. - Fix: TryFindSafeLandingSpotCloseToColony only checks single cell instead of occupied rect for blocking things. - Fix: Accepting two shuttle-based quests one after another causes one to land on top of the other. - Fix: Siegers receive extra supplies they don't need. - Fix: Various StockGenerator_Tag missing countRanges which made some settlements not carry items they should have.

This is a relatively minor update focused on fixes and balance. The major content we're working on is still being held back for release as the content add-on later. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. If for any reason you want to play the previous version, please use the Steam beta branch called 'previous'. Thanks to everyone who has given feedback at the unstable testing Discord server. Come join to test future releases! Improvements - Monuments can now be sastisfied with any floor type instead of requiring specific floor types. - Monument generation has been adjusted to make monuments more dense and consistent. - Reworked how quests decide whether to appear based on player progress to solve an issue that would cause quests not to appear for a long time at lower populations on certain difficulty settings. - "Choose rewards" window renamed to "Reward preferences". Added explanation at the top of the window. Increased height of reward prefs window. - Man in black is now always capable of violent and caring work. - Quests will no longer offer rewards with unreasonably small numbers of items (e.g. 5x hyperweave). - Improved clarity of monument marker placement feedback. Added messages for incompatible terrain or blocking buildings. - Prices now only display decimals when under $10. - Now, only esquire and higher titles will be inherited. - Hospitality threats with mech clusters now display more accurate sizing in generated text. Tuning - Praetors can now give speeches. - Lodger minimum mood now only applies to the asker, not any others who accompany him. - Mech clusters now have more chance of using walls at low points levels, but less chance at high points levels. - Mech clusters are more likely to have mechanoid guards instead of just turrets. - Mech clusters at low points are more likely to have unstable power cells. - Reduce duration of berserk pulse from 15 seconds to 11 seconds. - Increase cost of mortars. - Siegers now recieve 6 replenish shells at a time instead of 10. - Decrease joywire brain efficiency impact from 30% to 20% (reverts previous change). - Increased human turrets damage and fuel consumption. - Increased uranium slug turret range. - Reduce steel from smelting steel chunks from 20 to 15. Reduce resource yield from destroying/disassembing mechs and their buildings. This should reduce late-game clutter, reduce weird economic imbalances between difficulty levels, make it more relevant to actually have an economy besides killing things, and improve challenge spread between difficulties. - Quest ThreatReward_Manhunters_Joiner: Manhunter arrival is much sooner, and comes not too long after the joiner arrives. Technical - Removed null asker possibility from hospitality quests. - Added try/catch to StaticConstructorOnStartupUtility.CallAll() so 1 broken mod doesn't break all other mods. - DesignatorFor -> FindAllowedDesignatorRoot - Monument placement now checks overlap before adjacency. - Minimum mech cluster points can be set for mech cluster buildings. - Rename "ludeon" constant in ModContentPack to LudeonPackageIdAuthor Fix typos in a related check. - Reward from lodgersMoodThreshold in hospitality quests is now factored based on lodgersMoodThreshold value. - QuestNode_IsInList now uses previously unused function. - Removed redundant checks from IsSpawningBlocked. IsSpawningBlockedPermanently checks proper location. - Moved TerrainDef.genericLabel to DesignatorDropdownGroupDef label. - Move the delegate inside ModContentPack.ReloadContent into a class function to prevent future issues with mods. - Added null check for QuestGenUtility method IsInList. - lodgersMoodThreshold is now selected from 4 discrete random values. - Renamed allowedThreats to threatType in hospitality quests; a back-compatibility rule for the old name remains. Fixes - Fix: Can't target caster or pawns of the same faction with psycasts if they're invisible. - Fix: Text overlap for some items on architect tab description. - Fix: Kind label is not gender-aware in RulesForPawn - Fix: Pawns can stand on drapes are standable. - Fix: Some hospitality quest fields report missing translations even though they shouldn't - Fix: Alerts throwing errors after choosing "Load mod list from save" while in-game. - Fix: Smoke spewer does nothing. - Fix: Psycasts don't check cooldown in CanCast method. - Fix: Tribute collector doesn't arrive unless you have a knight. - Fix: Black screen on startup if a workshop mod folder was deleted without unsubbing from the mod. - Fix: Force loading animals into a shuttle while forming a caravan and then sending the shuttle causes errors. - Fix: Asker potentially not being set when setting lodgersHaveMoodThreshold. - Fix: Monuments can be placed over non-edifice buildings without warning. - Fix: Languages listed as seperate even if they share the same legacy folder name. - Fix: Manhunter pack quests and incidents fail to generate for higher points.

In addition to a ton of general improvements for the base game and Royalty, this update focuses on tightening quest generation and making nobles more flexible. Full change log is below. If for any reason you want to play the previous version, please use the Steam beta branch called 'previous'. RimWorld is a very flexible game with many different game states, and our quest generation system uses some pretty complex scripting to generate quests appropriate at different difficulties, diplomatic configurations, and colony sizes. Since releasing 1.1, we've been seeing some cases where quests would generate that weren't rewarded appropriately or had the wrong difficulty and complexity level for the stage of the game they were appearing in. All this should be a lot tighter in this build, and there are further plans for refining and enriching quest content in the future. All the feedback we've gotten about this has been invaluable - thank you! This update also works on making nobles more flexible. Players have indicated that they want to use royal colonists in more different ways, and it's always been a goal with RimWorld to support players choosing their own path as much as possible, exploring different strategies and role-playing different stories. The original nobility design focused on advancing a single character up the noble ranks, but if players want to have 6 knights and they're willing to do the quests to earn that royal favor, the game should reward that gracefully. Shared throne rooms and controllable speeches are a step in that direction. As always, we'll be watching how this plays and seeking more ways to enable players' goals. This update should be compatible with all vanilla savegames. We also tested with a wide variety of mods and found it compatible (though it's hard to guarantee this since mods can change any time and do anything). We'll be watching carefully and working to fix anything that comes up. Whether you're a modder or a player who has discovered a problem, please don't hesitate to come chat with us about technical issues on the public testing Discord server! The content add-on discussed some weeks ago is still coming. These updates represent the more urgent and straightforward improvements I want to get out quickly, while we work on the deeper changes separately. I'm excited to show you what's coming but, as always, it's better to keep it under wraps because the design is still changing as we iterate on it. Thanks again to everyone who is playing and offering feedback. -Ty

Improvements

Tuning

Technical

Text

Fixes

This update covers a lot of different ground including a large number of refinements and smaller fixes. It improves both the base game and Royalty expansion content. The most obvious feature is that you can now choose whether you want to recieve faction goodwill rewards from each faction, the same way you can choose to accept or reject royal favor. I'd like to reach a nice balance between creating varying experiences through randomized quest rewards, while also avoiding offering players rewards they're not interested in at all. So I'll be watching to see how this works and considering how to improve reward generation even more. This update should be compatible with savegames and mods. If any further issues come up please let us know on the unstable testing Discord channel. Big thanks to everyone who helped test this update! Changelist below. If for any reason you want to continue on the previous version 1.1.2589, you can access it using the Steam beta branch called 'previous'.

Improvements

Tuning

Technical

Fixes

The main feature of this update is the ship landing beacon. Placing four of these on the corners of an open rectangle forms a shuttle landing pad. When shuttles land at the colony, they will land here if they can. In addition, Imperial guests (including the High Stellarch) now land using the shuttle. This update should be compatible with savegames and mods (except ModSwitch). We did extensive testing for mod compatibility, but if any further issues come up please let us know on the unstable testing Discord channel here. Big thanks to everyone who helped test this update! Changelist below. Note: The shuttle will only be used for newly-generated quests, so if you have a royal endgame quest on your savegame already, expect the stellarch to arrive in a drop pod as in the previous version. EDIT 1: Users with the mod ModSwitch are reporting that they can't open their mod menu. To reset mods outside the game on Windows, delete this file: C:/Users/your-username-here/AppData/LocalLow/Ludeon Studios/RimWorld by Ludeon Studios/Config/ModsConfig.xml It'll be broken until the mod author updates the mod. EDIT 2: Just pushed a quick update to fix an issue where drop pods wouldn't arrive on specific types of hosting quests, version changed to 2589. ---------

Improvements

Text

Tuning

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Here's another polishing update for RimWorld! The most notable change is in how titles interact with work types. Now, only certain characters will actually not do worktypes disallowed by their titles. Royals from the Empire, as well as colonists with the greedy or jealous traits will refuse to do any formally-prohibited work type, while others will take the titles less seriously and continue to work as normal, ignore formal restrictions on food, and not issue decrees. We're still looking at different ways of adjusting the royal system to allow for nobles to be powerful without destroying challenges or constraining storytelling. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the unstable version in the unstable test Discord server

Improvements

Bugfixes

This update includes various new features, adjustments and bug fixes. It's on the unstable branch for testing now. Apparently there are some mod incompatibilities we need to work out. Thanks to everyone who has been contributing unstable build feedback in official unstable build testing Discord server Change list: - Implemented renounce title button on pawn bio tab. You can now have your royal colonists renounce their title if you wish. - Implement mech shield generator charge cycle. Shields now go down for a random day every 10 days, if you're willing to wait. - Mech cluster condition causers and mortars now sometimes take several days to initiate threatening the colony. This gives more time to prepare and attack the cluster. - We now generate random rewards only up to 5500$, the rest will go into market value fillers like gold, plasteel, and uranium. This avoids absurd rewards with large numbers of unique quest items in modded or ultra late-game scenarios. - Added bulk recipes for pemmican and drugs. - Restricted hunting decrees from targeting colony animals. - Make mortar/bullet shields shut down when the cluster is defeated. - Added new visual effects that play when something is disabled by EMP (makes it clearer when mechs and their builds are EMP-affected). - Monument blueprints are now automatically placed when a monument marker is placed. They're also automatically removed when the player cancels the monument. - Reduce hospitality threat frequency from 18h to 24h and adjusted rewards to match. - Reduce love enhancer impact 50%. - Give more time for harvest decrees, especially with fast-growing plants. - Fix: Trade request quest can request and give the same ThingDef - Fix: Trade request quest generation fails in rare cases - Fix: Harvest decrees can ask for cave plants. - Fix: Missing CanPawnAcceptQuest check in QuestsTab. - Fix: Tribal faction namer uses undefined key. - Fix: Traveling colonists not being able to accept quests and refactor MainTabWindow_Quests. - Fix: When the Steam version fails to initialize the Steam API, clicking on a mod requirement throws an exception. - Fix: Pawns losing ownership of their bed/throne if sent in transport pods. - Fix: Random error from NaturalRandomQuestChooser; total weight is zero - Fix: NamesFromRulepack debug output causes errors when root keyword isn't r_name. - Misc minor typo fixes.

Balance updates and bugfixes today! If you're willing to help test the unstable build in future, please join us here: https://discord.gg/EV2PNt7 Feedback is welcome all around. The most direct place to offer it is the Discord channel above, but I'm watching forums, Reddit, and everywhere else I can collect feedback. Thanks in advance to those who contribute thoughts, and to all those who have offered feedback so far. Changes: - Baron can now do Animals work. - Count can now do commoner work. Count is now only unable to do same as Baron, plus Animals. - Balanced down ultratech and bladelink melee weapons a bit. Reduced illegal bladelink usage detection chance 5% to 3%. - Psychic entropy base recovery rate reduced from 5 to 4. - Improve psychic entropy recovery rate on pawns without psychic amplifiers from 4 to 8. - Psycasts rebalance: ---- Painblock duration 30 to 120. ---- Burden duration 30 to 20. ---- Blinding pulse radius 5 to 4, range 25 to 20. ---- Entropy link duration 60 to 120. ---- Beckon range 25 to 20, duration 10 to 8. ---- Vertigo pulse range 25 to 20, cost 25 to 30. ---- Wallraise range 25 to 20, cost 25 to 35. ---- Smokepop range 25 to 20, cost 35 to 30. ---- Berserk cost 35 to 40, range 25 to 15, duration 30 to 15. ---- Berserk pulse cost 60 to 65, range 25 to 15, duration 60 to 15. ---- Invisibility cost 30 to 45, range 10 to 15. ---- Manhunter pulse radius 30 to 28, cost 40 to 50. - Psychic harmonizer impact reduced 20%. - Psychic hangover now affects manipulation and its mood impact is increased from 8 to 12. - Psychic melee weapons are now biocodable. - Unstable power cell, mortar, and bullet shields now have market value since they can be claimed and used by the player. - Mech cluster spawning now handles collisions better (and doesn't wipe other buildings if it doesn't have to). - Condition causers terrain affordance needed: Light -> Heavy - Play sounds when psychic entropy limiter is toggled on or off. - Fix: Steam builds sometimes have no steam_appid.txt because STEAM is not defined in BuildMaker - Fix: Food batch boundary issue when interacting with animal using food that might have already been reserved. Also fixed uneeded default value for QuestNode_Letter. - Fix: Error producing cast in QuestPart_letter. - Fix: Potential attempt at destroying equipment when no equipment is held. - Fix: Helpers leave after fixed 10 days during raid quests even if there are multiple raids. - Fix: Circadian half-cycler breaks parties. - Fix: Temporary faction members who are downed, put in bed, then quest is complete aren't tendable. - Added dead pawn filter for look targets to letter quest node to fix spurious message.

This is a continuation of yesterday's unstable testing with some updates. If you're willing to help test the unstable build for compatibility in future, please join us here: https://discord.gg/4YMfu6 Changelog: - Player-created content update. - Fix: Nuclear Stomach not having zero food poisoning chance - Fix: Escaping prisoners being able to equip bladelinked/biocoded weapons. - Refactored mech cluster position finder to be more robust and flexible. - Fix: Room requirements debuff for royals in caravan. Only apply debuffs on player home maps. - Fix: Some mechanoids showing up as "dormant" after awakening. - Fix: No mech wake-up sound on LordJob_SleepThenAssaultColony. - Fix: Link plasmasword and zeushammer having no detection chance. - HaulAIUtility now checks whether the worktable is spawned when deciding if hauling unfinished thing is allowed.

This update is available on Steam's unstable branch fo testing. We're testing to ensure full save and mod compatibility. If you're willing to help test the unstable build for compatibility, please join us here: https://discord.gg/FYBsdNX Change list: - Increased mini-turret range 25->29. - We no longer generate big mech clusters if there's no space for them to spawn anyway (we keep the points, they're just more compact). - We no longer generate quests to build monuments bigger than possible (e.g. due to bad terrain). - Quests are now consistently sorted by date in the quests tab. - Low-tech weapons are no longer biocodable. - Psychic animal pulser no longer affects player faction animals. - Adjust tuning of chemical desire traits. - Add tip about changing storyteller and difficulty through the options menu. - Columns and urns are now marked as inert for AI purposes. - Pawns can no longer haul away unfinished things that have a bound bill, are located on the worktable or touch the worktable. - Expand title rewards letter to include the delivery information (to colony/directly to inventory). - Fix: Apparel wearout damage applies to world pawns, so they eventually become naked. - Fix: Ground-penetrating scanner text flickering. - Fix: Turrets in smoke can target enemies adjacent to them. - Fix: Mods cannot override patches (reported by NotFood). - Fix: LordToil_HuntEnemies looking for random spot outside colony ownedpawns are not spawned. - Fix: Mechanoid ship part disappeared with error message. - Fix: Incorrect tip. - Fix: Modded floors with 0 market value break monument generation - Fix: Aesthetic nose lacking addedPartProps - Fix: Bad grammar in title rewards letter. EDIT: Updated. - Fix: Pawns will move primary equipment to inventory if pawn becomes incapable of manipulation. - Remove spurious error "Added def X without an associated modContentPack". Patched defs don't need to have modContentPack. - Fixed sorting of quest tabs. - Reworked FindDropPodLocation validator in IncidentWorker_CrashedShipPart. - Fix: Mech cluster quests fail to mention some condition causers in their threat list.

Just a small balancing update this weekend. Balancing will continue as we collect more feedback from across the Internet. - Increase tribute collector rewards to 4 favor per prisoner and 1 favor per 50 gold. - Inferno turret now has longer cooldown and lower accuracy. - Charge blaster turret now has lower rate of fire, smaller burst size, and worse long-range accuracy. Renamed to charge turret. - Mech turrets health changed from 280 to 250. - Random mech clusters no longer come as as raid strategy but as their own incident. - Increase faction relations rewards for quests. - Fix incorrect black line on the Royalty main menu background. - Adjusted donkey and caribou body size (donkey is no longer bigger than a yak). - Added some loading tips.

This update brings bugfixes and other adjustments. If you're willing to help test the unstable branch, please join this Discord server: https://discord.gg/FYBsdNX Change log: - Shorten the royal endgame quest defense duration 15 days->12 days. This does not affect quests that were already generated. - Significantly reduced the frequency of random mech clusters (unconnected to quests). - Mech large turrets now have minimum ranges. Mech mortars initial warmup increased 60->120 seconds. Mech mortars cooldown increased 44->80 seconds. - Reclassified mech mortar as problem causer instead of combat threat, so clusters will now only spawn one of these. Charge blaster turret burst shots reduced 24->16. Mech heavy turrets health 380->280. - Hosting quest worst case raids timing is no longer as severe. - Giving a speech from the throne now trains social skill. - Fix: Banished pawns still send letters about forgetting decrees. - Fix: Bad image for info card on some walls. - Fixed Scenario editor breaking when ThingCount scenPart is null due to def not present - Janissaries, Troopers and Cataphracts no longer can come with the "Brawler" trait. - Fix: It's possible to defeat condition causers simply by entering the map and leaving. We no longer remove the WorldObject if there's any not destroyed condition causer. - It's now possible to move the camera with a float menu open. - Fix: Middle-mouse camera dragging stops if the mouse goes over a UI menu while dragging - Fix: Royal guests arrive with tattered clothes - Fix: Pawns are deep-saved twice if the player saves the game while drop pods with quest pawns are mid air. - Fix: Wrong title being reported in violation letter for illegal psycasts. - Fixes to implants base defs

This update brings bugfixes and other adjustments. If you're willing to help test the unstable branch in future, please join this Discord server: https://discord.gg/FYBsdNX Change log: - Fix: Endless cycle of the prisoner getting out of bed, and the doctor putting the prisoner in the bed - Fix: Tortured artist gets inspiration after being hit by berserk psycast. - Most traders now buy musical instruments. - A mitigation for: Pawn allocated several times to Bed or Throne. Until the root cause is known. - Fix: Cloth sandbags not displaying as 1.0 color. - Fix: A count was used as a caravan guard for the empire - Show detection chance for illegal psycasts attached to the mouse. - All weapons are now biocodable. All lodgers now arrive with their weapons biocoded. Lodgers can now drop non biocoded weapons via UI (e.g. if the player made him equip it). - Fix: some mech cluster building can be deconstructed but won't drop anything. Fix mech capsule not being deconstructible. - Use SketchThing.OccupiedRect in AnyThingOutOfBounds function. - Fixed: IEDs spawn shells when destroyed. - Traders can no longer sell slaves with royal titles. - PawnGenerationRequest properties are now public. - Change CellHasCrops check to early out if no plants found. - Add an out of bounds check to CanSpawnClusterAt. - Pawn lend quest no longer sends shuttles onto maps that don't have enough pawns available. - Removed pawn beauty stat min/max clamping. - Changes to shuttle landing spot finder based on feedback. - Reworked field hand and drill arm so their stats don't fight each other. Instead of reducing manipulation, they now affect movement speed. - Waterproof conduit cost reduced 40 steel -> 10 steel.

This update contains balance changes and bugfixes. It's currently on the unstable branch and will be moved to the default branch after testing. - Mech turret balance: Charge blaster turret cooldown 3.5->4.5 seconds. Inferno cannon turret cooldown 8.5->11.5 seconds Inferno cannon miss radius 3.5->3.9. - Update player-created content: 172 names added. - Languages updated. - Ground-penetrating scanner rebalance. Random find time 4 work days->3 work days. Guaranteed find time 8 work days -> 6 work days. - Ground-penetrating scanner now displays feedback about the current user's scanning speed, the random scan interval for this user, and the progress to a guaranteed find. - Fixed a bug that could cause deep ores to generate outside the buildable area. - Hunting decrees are now cancelled if there are not enough animals of the asked type left on the map. - Monument markers, when canceled, can now be reinstalled again instead of disappearing. - Mech clusters are now a lot less likely to fail finding position on difficult maps. - Only inherited titles are now being removed from pawns after resurrection. So a resurrected pawn will keep his title if it wasn't inherited by someone else upon his death. - Pawns with psychic harmonizers are now unaffected by others' harmonizers, to prevent runaway feedback loops. - Shuttles will no longer land in unreachable locations. - Production decrees now only use more common stuff like wood, steel, and cloth, to reduce cases of near-impossible decrees. - Add related quest gizmo to quest hives. - Add "select hives" button to infestation kill quest so you can see which hives you need to kill. - Fixed a bug that would cause insect kill quests to end only on killing every hive on the map (instead of every quest-spawned hive). - Fixed a bug that would cause downed quest guards to never leave if they were injured during the quest and later healed. - Fixed a bug that caused toxic spewers to affect caravans no matter where they are. - Fixed a bug that made throne comfort not apply while reigning. - Fixed a bug that could cause banished pawns to get stuck if they're on their way to a bed. - Fixed pawn lend quest returning pawns to a random colony map instead of the map they were picked up from. - If a nickname is empty in the character creation screen, the pawn's first name is used in the tooltips instead of an empty string. - Fixed a bug that cause debug log spam after adding entropy link via dev tools and opening health tab. - Optimized monument marker ticking to prevent performance loss with large monuments (checking for completion).

Just a quick update with some miscellaneous fixes. RimWorld is now at 1.1.2563. This update is on the unstable branch. EDIT: Released to main branch now. - Shuttles now avoid landing on crops. - Using a resurrection serum now removes royal titles, to prevent duplicating them. - For modders, fixed and issue where BaseGen and SketchGen SetCustom and GetCustom methods don't work - Fixed a bug that allowed stacking toughskin, armorskin, and stoneskin implants. - Fixed a bug that would cause the royal ascent quest to fail if the high stellarch died of old age. - Fixed a bug that caused traders to restock every day. - Fixed a bug where nobles would get stuck if the throne room became unreachable after they decide to go reign. - Fixed a bug that caused bladelink weapons lose reference to bonded pawn after the pawn died or leaves the map when saving the game. - Long mod names will no longer clip out of the box on the loading screen. - Fixed a bug that interfered with title inheritance if a pawn died in a caravan. - Hunting decrees no longer ask you to kill quest-related animals. - Fixed a bug that caused quest helpers to leave early during long hosting quests. - If a lent colonist dies, the player is now notified, and the colonist's corpse is dropped via drop pod. - Fixed a bug that caused colonist lending quests to remain incomplete if one of the pawns is null (possibly by dying and save/load). - Some small text adjustments.

EDIT: This has been released to the default Steam branch. Today's updated build is up for testing on the unstable branch. The build is 1.1.2562. We'll set it live soon after we confirm it doesn't break anything. It should be save and mod compatible. Anyone who is willing - please try the unstable branch with as many mods and as crazy a savegame as possible! I'd love to hear if anything breaks, or if it doesn't. Thanks in advance. Changes: - Silver and gold tile are now considered fine floor. Fine floor have an info card entry stating that they are fine. - Fixed a bug that caused backstory translation data to be ignored if the translation was compressed. - Fixed a bug that caused the camera to jump occasionally. - Fixed a bug that made it impossible to form a caravan if two map sides were blocked. - Adjusted mech cluster drop rules to avoid dropping too close to colony or colonists. - Changed psychic animal pulser to only affect non-player animals. - Fixed a bug that caused manhunting animals to attack sleeping mechs. - Ensured that an animal bed would not interfere with royal title requirements in a bedroom (we think this could only happen with mods). - We no longer assign heirs to Empire pawns to prevent colonists from inheriting their titles. - Added a bit more information about the heir's faction to the royal title tooltip on the Bio tab. - People with no psychic amplifier now have 30 psychic entropy capacity instead of 100. - Fixed a bug that caused vertical overlap bug between messages and letters in French language. Messages now use dynamic height based on text size rather than constant height and fixed spacing between letters and messages. - Fix a bug that caused a missing period at the end of 'used ability' combat log messages. - Text adjustments and typo fixes.

The release of RimWorld - Royalty has been a great success! Thanks to everyone who's bought it so far, the testers and translators, modders, streamers and video makers. I thought it would be a good idea to write a bit about what to expect next. In the past I've rarely written about the future because release dates and game designs often change unexpectedly during development. I can't tell you how many times in the past I had a firm expectation of some development outcome that was totally wrong in the end. Not talking about the future avoided the risk that something would change and people would get angry because they perceive some promise to have been broken. Talking less also allowed me to focus on making the game great instead of spending time managing public expectations. Now, though, I think it's time to give a bit more info of what to expect to to help people in the community make their own decisions and to help modders be ready for what's coming next.

Hotfixes

Royalty content add-on

• A way to renounce or otherwise get rid of a royal title you don't want.
• More bulk production recipes similar to cooking, for things like drugs.
• Additional combat psycasts: I've got designs written for a few psycasts that seem like they could add a lot of interest. Testing will reveal how beneficial these actually are.
• A new element or two for mech clusters. Specifically, I'm looking at ways to to make it sometimes optimal for players to *not* fight a mech cluster for a long period of time, and instead leave it sleeping. The dramatic tension of having a mech cluster present on the map, but not yet fighting it, seems valuable. So, if we can find more ways to have players intentionally keep clusters around it could add a lot of interest to play stories. This needs gameplay testing, of course.
• Additional quest content: This one is definitely in the 'maybe' category, but quests are very expandable and it would be nice to have a few more variations.

Later updates

Another day, another hotfix! This is build 1.1.2560. Side note: There were some recent major changes in a few key mods, so there are still some mods with compatibility problems with each other. More info on this in the last hotfix update and a writeup from the author of the Harmony mod. Let's give them a few days to get things settled! This hotfix is small. Its primary purpose is to fix a bug that would cause mechanoid clusters to never be defeated if you saved and reloaded the game after the associated quest arrived but before accepting it. I just wanted to get this out quickly since while this bug is rare, it is quite annoying when it occurs. If this bug affected your savegame, you can defeat any existing broken mech clusters like so: [olist]

EDIT 2: It appears there's a lot of incompatibility between mods at the moment. Mainly this derives from a recent change in how the Harmony mod worked, which was itself compelled by a change in Unity/.NET. This broke compatibility with many other mods. Here is a full article about Harmony from its author explaining what happened. The recommended fix for now is: [olist]

We've just released another hotfix of version 1.1. It should be compatible with all mods and saves. Change list: - Updated translations - Add feedback on trying to deconstruct walls of a mech cluster before defeating it. - Give 1 psychic amplifier as inheritance reward. Make title rewards a separate message that can handle more than 1 item. - Cancelling monument markers for quests sends a copy via drop pod. - Adjust smelt apparel description. - Fix: Mod descriptions are cut off if they use tags. - Fix: Royal ascent quest doesn't end properly when the stellarch dies before arriving - Fix: Unfeasible farming decrees during winter. - Fix: Royal prisoners try to swap pants continuously. - Fix: Explosion in null map error in SmokepopBelt for unspawned pawns - Fix: Designators not appearing with old custom scenarios where rules is null. - Fix: Fertility grid doesn't update when edifices are removed. - Fix: Can trade with outpost without required title. - Fix: Transhumanists aren't satisfied with certain implants. - Fix: Missing translation key. - Fix: Various typos.

We've been hard at work on a hotfix for some important bugs discovered in 1.1. The hotfix build is now released. The build number is 1.1.2257. Saves and mods should be 100% compatible. Please let us know if you have any trouble with it! We're still working and there will be more hotfix builds with language updates and more fixes. Fixes: - Fixed not being able to uninstall/reinstall unstable power cells after defeating mech cluster. - Made smoothed stone count as floor for royal room requirements. - Fixed a bug where the mechanoid cluster quest never completes. - Mech clusters can no longer drop indoors. - Fixed a bug where injured pawns would never do recreation. - Added info on new features to ModUpdating. - Fixed a bug where turrets have a red cross overlay after loading a 1.0 savegame. - Fixed a bug where a "colonist died" thought would appear when a quest helper died. - Mood caused mental breaks are now disabled for the wimp from the noble wimp quest. - Change string.Replace to Substring for finding relative file path in LanguageData. - Fixed a bug where the "Carry to shuttle" command drops the target on the floor if the shuttle is outside the allowed area. - The Empire intro quest is now skipped if the player has opted out of royal favor rewards from the Empire. - Fixed a bug where arrest success chance can exceed 100%. - Fixed a bug where royal apparel generated on non-royal characters to satisfy warmth requirements. - Fixed a bug where a different trader would arrive than the one requested. - Added monument size limit for quests. - Fixed a bug where the noble wimp doesn't leave the colony after the quest ends - Fixed a bug where the "Open linked quest" command appears even if the quest is expired/completed/dismissed. - Fixed a bug where unnecessary blueprints are removed in DoTerrainChangedEffects - Fixed a bug that would cause a black screen if a mod was missing packageID in dependencies. - Fixed a few typos. Modding features: - Added IgnoreIfNoMatchingField attribute to allow having custom data in About.xml. - Added the ability to set description and dependency relations on a game version-specific basis for About.xml. - Added support for negative conditional load folders support. Rename attributes to IfModActive/IfModNotActive. Allow comma-separated packageId lists as values. - Added Language folder support to LoadFolder system. - Added MayRequire attrib functionality to individual load folders, to allow using them conditionally.

Two big pieces of news today!

Free update to version 1.1

RimWorld - Royalty released

Technical details

Thanks

Another update with some fixes! - Fix: Material memory leak in DrawFieldEdges and possibly other places - Updated translations and player created names.

Another small update with some fixes today. - Fix RebuildModList being called prmaturely during initialization. - Fix nested RebuildModList calls messing up active mod list in some cases. - Convert all tabs to spaces in ModUpdating.xml - When a kidnapped pawn dies, we now remove the "lost" thoughts because we add "died" thoughts anyway. - Workaround for text overflowing a single character with UI scaling. Also, reset label width cache when changing scaling. - Drafted colonists again automatically shoot fleeing enemies. Raiders and drafted colonists again automatically shoot all insects. - Replace string.GetHashCode with GenText.StableStringHash for mod packageId.

Another minor update to 1.1 unstable. There are a few more final fixes to do. Thanks to everyone who reported a bug on the bugs forum! - Fix: Selecting different kinds of zones displays first selected label in inspect pane. - Fix: Minor graphical issue with IED antigrain warhead trap transparency - Fix: inspect pane displays name of first selected pawn if several are selected. - Fix: Multi-selecting minified things selects all minified things in view. - Fix: Barricades are never flammable, even if made of wood. - Fix: Mouse scrolling is inverted on Linux This is version 1.1.2550.

I've just pushed version 1.0.2549. This is an update to version 1.0. The only change is that the game will no longer log errors when processing mod metadata (About.xml) from a multi-version mod that supports 1.0 and 1.1. It's purely a small compatibility fix.

A new version of 1.1 unstable has just been posted. - Improved the code that auto-generates packageIds for old mods. It should generate somewhat meaningful packageIds where possible, and use some hashed data to avoid collisions. - Medieval weapons can no longer be biocoded since it made no sense. - Fixed an issue that caused spurious error happens if a mod defines no defs, but still has patches. - Fixed mod sorting tool using packageId with postfix. - Removed warnings on duplicate mods present but only one of them active - Fixed typos and outdated references in ModUpdating.xml. - Re-labeled some animal trainables to better match what they actually mean. "Obedience" is now called "Guard", and "Release" is now called "Attack". - Removed some guard and attack trainability from a few animals where it didn't make sense and broke gameplay roles. Regarding the last entry above, the goal is to move towards a situation where animals have identifiable purposes distinct from each other. There should be some distinction between combat animals, utility animals, economic animals, and multi-role animals, as opposed to every random chinchilla, cow, rabbit, and wolf in the colony following colonists into combat in an incoherent gaggle. This is a small step in that direction. As always, I'm very thankful for all ongoing feedback. It's exciting to finally be in contact with the wider player base after having been working in private for so long.

A new build of 1.1 unstable is up! Just some minor fixes. The changes are: - Fixed a bug that caused mods to not load if they added defs using patches (which is useful if you want to add a def based on some condition). - In About.xml, we changed back to for consistency. Modders can remove now. - We rewrote part of ModUpdating to reflect the fact that 1.0 can load some content from a folder named "1.0", and removed corresponding warnings from code. See ModUpdating.txt for full details. Thanks for the ongoing feedback everyone! And to our excellent volunteer testers and modders for giving such useful feedback. It's really down to them that this release has gone smoothly.

RimWorld version 1.1, a major update from version 1.0, is now available for public testing and modding on Steams unstable beta branch. Thats right everyone RimWorld is done, but that doesnt mean were done with it! You can find a full change log for this update at the bottom of this post. This update will be released to the default branch soon; weve placed it on the unstable branch now to get in some final testing and to smooth out the transition for mods. If you want to help test, right-click RimWorld in your Steam library list, click Properties, then select the betas tab. Select unstable from the drop-down list. Note that this version is unstable and might break. We will be carefully watching for critical bugs and fixing them! If you find anything, please post about it on the Ludeon bugs forum. About compatibility:

• If youre playing without mods: Youll be able to update and continue playing on the new version without interruption.
• If youre playing with mods: Simple data-only mods, like new hairstyles, will probably work on the new version without changes. Complex mods will break. If youre using complex mods, I recommend that you set your Steam branch to version-1.0. Then, set it back to default after your mods have been updated in a few weeks. Anyone can keep playing on version 1.0 as long as they wish, using the version-1.0 branch.

New features

• UI now looks sharp at UI scales over 1.0. Great for 4K monitors.
• New Quests tab provides information about available, active, and historical quests.
• Added a new data-driven quests generation and management system. This should make it straightforward for modders and us to add or change quests without programming.
• UI now uses colored text to highlight important words like character names, places, and rewards.
• Improved the mod management interface and code.
• Mods now have a global package ID which lets them refer to each other.
• Mods can now define other mods they must be loaded after or before. Added a tool to automatically sort the mod list.
• Mods can now define other mods that they depend on. Shortcuts allow the player to easily download required mods.
• Mods can now define other mods that they are incompatible with. The interface will warn players about incompatibilities.
• Added loading screen tips. These are short bits of text helping the player understand an obscure aspect of the game. Theyre displayed during loading.
• Loading screen now displays present and active expansions and mods.
• Added room stats gizmo, which displays the stats of the room containing a selected building, at a glance.
• Added recon armor, a lighter variant of marine armor.
• Added EMP launcher weapon. It fires EMP grenades a long distance.
• Added smoke launcher weapon. It fires smoke grenades a long distance.
• Added smoke grenadier enemy.
• Added a planet population slider to the planet generation parameters.
• Added animals: Bison, donkey, duck, goat, goose, guinea pig, horse, sheep, yak.
• Added tortured artist trait. The character has a permanent mood debuff, but gets art inspirations from low mood.
• Added a bunch of new backstories across multiple categories.
• Added heatstroke alert for colonists and tame animals.
• Added taming inspiration, which makes the next tame attempt very likely to succeed.
• Added fertility overlay, which shows terrain fertility in an easy-to-see way.
• Added terrain affordance overlay, which shows where you can build what in an easy-to-see way.
• Added barricades, which are like sandbags, but can be constructed of metal, wood, or stone. Changed sandbags to be constructed of textile stuff instead of steel.
• Added an option to choose which kinds of letters pause the game.
• Added recipes to burn entire stacks of drugs at once.
• Added wooden hand and wooden foot.
• Added a variety of new tribal backstories.
• Added a letter to the player when a colonist is kidnapped, noting that there will be chances to get them back.
• Added asexual trait.
• Bisexual trait is no longer hidden.
• Context menu now shows icons next to each option depending on whats being chosen. E.g. When choosing a building material, see icons for the material. When choosing a drug to administer, see icons for the drugs. And so on.
• Info cards can now include hyperlinks to other info cards. This is used in various places. For example, the info card for animals (and people) links to the type of meat and leather you can get from them. Info card for plants links to what you harvest from them. Info card for surgeries links to each ingredient. Info card for buildings links to the building materials. And so on.
• Info card now visually displays the object being inspected.
• Added weapon biocoding, which makes a weapon only usable by one individual.
• For modders, added ModUpdating.txt, a file included with each version from now on with notes on what they might need to update to keep their mod working.
• Added Greek language localzation created by some wonderful volunteers.

Adjustments

• The game now uses an incremental garbage collector, which should remove the periodic frame hitches that would appear when a lot of memory was allocated and released. However, note that there is still a cost to memory allocations, so modders should still try to reduce allocation wherever possible.
• Optimizations to many systems. Performance should be significantly better, especially in complex game situations with many pawns.
• Faction icons are now differentiated by shape as well as color, to help out colorblind players.
• Redesigned how the underground mineral scanner works. Instead of showing all minerals on the map instantly, it can be worked at by a pawn, who will periodically find new mineral patches. This can go on forever, so minerals are never exhausted.
• Split tribe into two factions, the gentle tribe (naturally neutral) and fierce tribe (naturally hostile).
• Redesigned the system for generating ruined buildings on map start to make much more varied and interesting ruins.
• Prisoner tab now shows slave price, recruitment chance, potential faction relation gain upon release, and information about the last recruiter and their impacting.
• Added new body impact visual effects for when a creature gets hit by a projectile.
• Added pawn lost thought that happens when a pawn is kidnapped or abandoned by their caravan.
• Downed pawns can now be loaded into transport pods like prisoners.
• Added confirmation dialog before attacking friendly factions.
• Added allow refueling toggle to torch, campfire and passive cooler.
• Pawns now really like the pawn who rescued them.
• Added toggle refuel allow command to pod launcher, wood generator, chemfuel generator, fueled smithy and fueled stove.
• Added an explanatory letter telling players how to get advanced components for the fabrication bench.
• Added skill descriptions to combat log text.
• Added an arrow that points at the UI during the tutorial.
• Added scar pain feedback and reworked how scar pain works. Scars are now assigned an easy-to-understand pain category instead of an obscure number.
• Added freed from slavery mood-boosting thought for pawns bought from a trader.
• Trade interface now shows the next restock time for settlements.
• Added mood boost when prisoner released.
• Open caskets now look different from closed ones.
• Brawler trait disallows shooting passion.
• Colonists attending a party gain recreation value.
• Player can now inspect the contents of cryptosleep caskets on a new tab.
• Stomach is no longer a vital organ.
• Changed animal rescue radius from 30 to 75.
• Info card for surgeries now shows the chance of death upon failure.
• Info card shows max hit points factor for materials.
• Interface now reports the chance of a successful arrest before you try to make it.
• Insect hives slowly heal over the course of days.
• Reworked how traits and work disables are laid out in the Bio tab for greater space efficiency.
• Changed caravan reform to be allowed with sleeping hostiles on site.
• Changed sites to stop and reset forced exit timer when enemies start a battle (for awakening mechanoids and hidden ambushes).
• Reworked the world site system to allow easier combination of different site parts, and to feed things back to the player more flexibly.
• Added the ability for world sites to have unknown parts.
• Rebalanced sleeping sickness.
• Rebalanced mechanoid bodypart coverages
• Changed rare thrumbo incident to send from 2 to 6 thrumbos.
• Adjusted a lot of text to use a colon instead of brackets, and to consistent use a capital after colon.
• Ashes from burned plants and buildings now survive rain and disappear after 10-15 days. Theyre also visually larger.
• Trade price improvement from negotiator is now reported on the trade screen.
• Tattered apparel and unhappy nudity alerts now shows how many are affected.
• Changed and fixed some hotkeys.
• Smelting, burning and destruction review. Plate armor is now smeltable, except for wooden plate armor which is burnable. Wooden club also is burnable now and the metallic variants are smeltable. Apparels from hyperweave or devilstrand can no longer be burnt, can destroy apparels now same as with weapons. Neolithic ranged weapons can now be burnt.
• Placing turrets now shows min and max range, not just max range.
• IEDs now explode when bullets hit them.
• Pawns no longer engage in recreational acitivites when injured, unless the activity can be done in bed.
• Bridges now only support light buildings.
• The terrain requirements for building walls now depends on what theyre built from. This means stone walls cant be built on bridges any more.
• Pawns now sometimes take the family name of their partner upon marriage.
• Dementia now causes slow skill losses.
• Rework stock generation for all trader and settlement types.
• Factions tab display changed for clarity; enemy relations are shown with icons.
• Bio tab now displays faction icons.
• History messages tab layout reworked tooltip replaced with a pane on the right side that displays the letter.
• Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
• Anasthetic now wears off slowly instead of all at once. The person will be drowsy for some time.
• Nimble pawns are now better at avoiding traps.
• Increased the selection limit up to 200.
• Combined the stats ArtSpeed, TailoringSpeed and SmeltingSpeed into UnskilledLaborSpeed and renamed UnskilledLaborSpeed to GeneralLaborSpeed.
• Renamed sculptors table to art bench since its not just for sculptures any more.
• Localization data is now packed into a single file per language, which massively reduces the number of files in an install of the game and speeds up various file operations.
• Many other balance changes, code improvements, optimizations, and adjustments.

Fixes

• Fix: Explosions from missed projectiles landing in wall cells could hit things on the other side of the wall.
• Fix: Enemy settlements could generate with floors on water.
• Fix: Nutrition eaten per day readout when forming a caravan would be affected by the current hunger level.
• Fix: Manhunting animals could attack doors without seeing anyone going through them.
• Fix: Corpses wouldnt create corpse bile.
• Fix: Colonists could play horseshoes from a different room.
• Fix: Prisoners food restrictions were ignored when the food came from the wardens inventory.
• Fix: Duplicate context menu options on campfire when producing psychite tea.
• Fix: Cant give a rescued addict their drug without angering their faction.
• Fix: Goodwill change during siege does not end attack.
• Fix: Blind guy wont use recreation.
• Fix: Jawless animals can still haul.
• Fix: Prisoner gets mood debuff when colonist euthanized.
• Fix: Wind turbines register no wind during windy storm.
• Fix: Shelves have no path cost and description doesnt state they hide beauty of things inside of them.
• Fix: No mood penalty for giving bonded animal as a gift if sent by transport pod.
• Fix: Pawns with one-arm and alcohol withdrawal are unable to manipulate anything at all.
• Fix: Pawn with alcohol-induced brain damage are doomed to die.
• Fix: Uninstalling a trap does not properly roll the chance to trigger the trap.
• Fix: Wild animals spawn in sealed underground spaces.
• Fix: Pregnant animal is also viewed as sick one (since pregnancy affects its capacities), so it sells for less than one with no health conditions.
• Fix: No forced departure countdown for caravan if there are sleeping mechanoids.
• Fix: Luciferium wont remove Frail. Now, lucifierum can remove all chronic health conditions.
• Fix: Even if campfire runs out of fuel during cooking, cooking continues.
• Fix: Raiders keep attacking walls forever after their group flees.
• Fix: Crashed ship parts that land on bridges are instantly destroyed.
• Fix: Duplicate context menu options when opening cryptosleep casket.
• Fix: Butchering rotted animal yields fresh meat even if it rots during the job.
• Fix: Lag spikes on animal birth in endgame.
• Fix: Storyteller choice resets when you reopen the storyteller config page.
• Fix: When placing a cooler, the system ignores blueprints and building frames.
• Fix: The restore default settings tool exits game without saving.
• Fix: If your only colony is on an island, the endgame quest to journey to the ship never occurs.
• Fix: Rain and Snow weather overlay textures replaced with blank rectangles in old colonies due to loss of floating-point precision.
• Fix: Age displayed differently in trade screen and on colonist.
• Fix: Animals that are wandering wont follow area restrictions.
• Fix: Hopper and vitals monitor rotate in the opposite direction from other buildings.
• Fix: Cant restrict ambrosia in food restrictions.
• Fix: Administered beer does not provide nutrition.
• Fix: Steadfast and iron-willed traits effects are clamped to a small effect.
• Fix: When a colonist dies while being rescued, others get no negative thoughts.
• Fix: For the drag a character from left behind to selected tutorial instruction, it allows you to drag a character anywhere at all, even just within left behind. It should only accept dragging from left behind to selected.
• Fix: Its possible to land in any biome in the tutorial by selecting a landing site, going to the character creation screen, then going back to select a different landing site.
• Fix: Insects can be tamed and hunted after their hives are destroyed.
• Fix: Preferred character list not working correctly.
• Fix: Power conduit graphic does not display properly on top of grave.
• Fix: Change colonist schedule to sleep instantly ends the food binge mental state.
• Fix: Selecting several beds causes a major performance drop.
• Fix: Manhunter pack incident not working on high wealth or difficulty.
• Fix: Can see things in undiscovered cells if they peek around the edge of the fog.
• Fix: Arrested wild man dont use nutrient despenser and cant receive food.
• Fix: Military commissar backstory missing Social bonus.
• Fix: Allies can sometimes push player pawns out of cover during combat.
• Fix: Run in background being disabled can make the game stop loading when in the background.
• Fix: Player can start with pets his pawns cant keep tame.
• Fix: Escape ship letter mentions raiders even in peaceful difficulty, where they are not present.
• Many other fixes.

I've just pushed a regular player content and localizations update, to version 1.0.2408. This update doesn't change any code or core content in the game, it only updates player-created names and characters, and translations data. All save games and mods should be compatible.

I've just pushed an update to build 1.0.2282. Changes:

• Game loading has been optimized, especially with mods. You should see significantly faster loading.
• Player-created content updated.
• Localizations updated.

On the unstable beta branch, you'll find version 1.0.2271. This version is almost the same as the previous version, with the following changes:

• A potential fix for a bug that can cause very slow loading of mods in some cases.
• Updated language data to latest version.
• Updated player-created names with all approved content.

The RimWorld soundtrack is up for sale on Steam! 31 tracks of space western tunes from Alistair Lindsay (Twitter). Here's the Steam page. If you like Al's music you can get more from him at his Bandcamp page.

Ive just released a technical update to version 1.0 of RimWorld. It should be 100% compatible with all existing savegames and mods. The new version is 1.0.2150. Steam will auto-update. If youre playing the DRM-free version of the game you can go download it now from your permanent personal download link which was emailed to you. Aside from updating translations and player content, and fixing a handful critical bugs, the new versions main purpose is to add support for multi-version mods. Previously one entry in Steam workshop could only work with one version of RimWorld. This causes problems when we release a new version: Players cant continue on the old version since some mods are updated, but cant continue on the new version since not all mods are updated. Now, mods will be able to support multiple versions simply by putting version-specific files in directories named for the target game version. Other files from the mods base directory are used in all versions, as before. For modders, here is how to set your mod up for multi-version support: In the mods About.xml file, dont use any more. Instead, write a list of supported versions like this:

It's finally here! I just hit the button to release RimWorld 1.0. Thank you to everyone! I have many people to be grateful to (many of whom I mentioned in the last update). There's a juicy new trailer you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDrxOASUog Some logistical details (I also mentioned last time): If you're playing an unmodded game, just keep playing. Version 1.0 will be compatible with un-modded savegames from Beta 19 and Beta 18. If you're playing a modded game, you should follow these two steps now: 1. In Steam Library, right-click on RimWorld, select Properties, go to the Betas tab and select the "beta19" beta. 2. Back up your mod files. ----2a. Copy all the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100 ----2b. Paste them all in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods I'm recommending modders don't update in-place to prevent the above problem, but can't guarantee everyone will get the message. 1.0 is mostly the same as Beta 19, with a lot of bugfixes. The only significant new feature is a new food restriction system that allows you to determine what your colonists and prisoners are allowed to eat. Time to celebrate over here! Thanks again everyone.

RimWorld is Now Available on Steam!

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Firefly. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

RimWorld 1.0 will be released on Wednesday, October 17! After five and a half years of development we're coming to the close of this chapter of RimWorld. Thanks to everyone who got involved on the forums, posting bugs, chatted on Reddit, offered mods on Workshop and the forums, to those who are doing translations, to everyone who contributed to the RimWorld Wiki, and to Piotr Walczak, Ben Rog-Wilhelm, Alistair Lindsay, Rhopunzel, and others who collaborated with me on making the game. Thank you everyone. If you're playing an unmodded game, just keep playing. Version 1.0 will be compatible with un-modded savegames from Beta 19 and Beta 18. If you're playing a modded game, you should follow these two steps now:

• In Steam Library, right-click on RimWorld, select Properties, go to the Betas tab and select the "beta19" beta.
• Back up your mod files.
  • Copy all the files in C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamappsworkshopcontent294100
  • Paste them all in C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonRimWorldMods

A new build is up on the unstable branch. If you are playing with mods but were on the unstable branch from an earlier testing phase, change back to default branch now. The code for this update should be 99% mod-compatible, but the mods won't work until they're recompiled because the binary API for the translation system changed. The game content is exactly the same as Beta 19. There are some bugfixes, but the most important thing is the new localization system. It'll help translators more accurately translate the game into non-English languages, with issues like grammatical gender (e.g. le/la in French) respected and better automatic handling of grammar for a variety of languages. Below is a forum post from Piotr Walczak, who implemented the latest improvements, explaining what translators can do to take advantage of the new functionality. Forum post: New keyed translations format For anyone interested in helping translate, now would be a great time! The game content is stable, the grammar code is in, and we're on the final push to get things set for the 1.0 release. Potential translators should please take a look the forum post below to learn how to contribute. Thanks in advance. Forum post: How to contribute to translations Forum post: Help check the language workers

So, RimWorld's early access price has been $30 USD since we first started selling the game in 2013. Buying an early access game is risky compared to buying a finished game. Also, RimWorld's value in content (and the time players tend to play it) have gone up a lot since those early days. There's also the matter of simple financial inflation. Because of these factors, the final price will be higher than the early access price. The early access price will remain the same for the rest of the early access period - this change will only occur when 1.0 is released. And of course, anyone who bought during Early Access will get the final version for no additional cost. I wanted to let everyone know about this ahead of time so people have time to make an informed purchasing decision without surprises. As of now there's no announced release date for 1.0 yet - still working on filling in all those final details! Discussion on the Ludeon forums.

RimWorld Beta 19 - Polish the Cannons is released! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH5tLLJXbg8 If you want to keep playing Beta 18 on Steam: Right click RimWorld in the Library list -> Properties -> Betas -> Choose beta18 from the drop-down menu. You can play savegames from Beta 18 (and probably before), though some details will change upon loading. I did want this build to be 1.0 for a while, but it became apparent the game would benefit from one more refinement round, so we're doing Beta 19 first. I very much want the 1.0 version to be worthy of its version number, which means not rushing it. You can discuss this post in this forum thread on the Ludeon forums or in comments below. Below is a list of notable changes. If anything below seems to change game balance, you can bet that related variables were adjusted to maintain roughly the same challenge as before - I just don't write down every single change because otherwise this list would be way too long. This list also does not including a ton of more behind-the-scenes optimization, refactoring, fixing, and adjustments we did.

• Added bridges. You can build bridges over rivers and non-deep lake/ocean water. Bridges support all but the heaviest structures, can burn, and collapse under damage.
• Added new "Messages" section of the History tab. This section shows the last 200 messages and letters you've received.
• Added low-tech plate armor.
• New scenario: Naked Brutality - Start naked with no items.
• New main tab: Wildlife. Allows easy counting, finding, and designating of wild animals.
• Ship end sequence: Starting up the ship reactor now takes 15 days, during which you will be attacked constantly by desperadoes and mechanoids.
• New raid arrival mode: Multiple groups.
• New raid arrival mode: Enemy pods scattered all over the map.
• Split mechanoid scyther into scyther (close combat specialist) and lancer (fast sniper)
• Split tribal warrior into warrior (mid-range melee) and penitent (poverty melee, similar to drifter)
• Faction relations are now categorized as hostile/neutral/ally instead of just hostile/neutral. Allies will randomly send military aid and will respond to certain special requests.
• You can now offer gifts to improve faction relations by using transport pods, sending caravans, or giving gifts to their traders. Gifts can be silver, items, or slaves. No more magical teleporting silver gifts.
• Visitors of allied factions will now occasionally leave gifts before leaving.
• New buildings:
  • Watermill generator: Generate power from moving water.
  • Autocannon turret: Heavy medium-range turret.
  • Uranium slug turret: Armor-penetrating long-range turret.
  • Fabrication bench: Craft advanced components and some advanced tech items.
  • Waterproof conduit: Transmit power under water for bases on both sides of a river.
  • Butcher spot: Butcher without building a bench, at an efficiency penalty.
  • Double sleeping spot: Sleep with your partner, even in crushing poverty.
• New traits:
  • Undergrounder: Don't mind never seeing the sky, don't mind being in darkness.
  • Great memory: Slower skill decay.
  • Tough: Take less damage.
  • Gourmand: Eat a lot, random eating binges, cooking skill bonus.
  • Sickly: Get sick often.
  • Quick sleeper: Take less time to sleep.
• New items:
  • Flak pants
  • Prosthetic heart
  • Bionic spine/heart/stomach
  • Archotech eye/arm/leg
  • Tornado generator
  • Patchleather: Poor-quality leather made from any combination of other leather
• New incident: "Wild man wanders in”.
• New terrain: Soft sand - doesn't allow building medium or heavy structures.
• New designators: Mass-forbid and unforbid.
• Infestations now begin with the insects tunneling towards the colony, which gives the player time to respond.
• You can now write job titles for your colonists.
• New type of attack: Kick sand/water in eyes.
• Condensed leathers together into fewer types. Instead of a separate type for each animal, there are categories.
• You can now smooth natural rough rock walls into high-quality walls.
• Trained animal skills and tameness now decay over time. Animals can revert to the wild, depending on their natural wildness.
• Deep drill use will now sometimes cause insect attacks (by tunneling through the ground near the drill, with a warning).
• New edge shader for blueprints looks much nicer and more visible than before.
• Workbench bills can now be assigned to specific colonists.
• Added "Show what will buy" window which shows all items a trader will buy.
• Trees’ color now depends on the current season.
• Added tainted-apparel thing filter.
• Increased prisoner recruitment chance and added a resistance which must be reduced to zero before recruitment can begin.
• Animals can now be renamed.
• Animals can now get diseases.
• Added an automatic destroyed building replacement toggle. When active, a destroyed building will leave behind a blueprint and be automatically rebuilt.
• Added translation report tool: Generates a report about the currently-loaded language data stating which translations are missing, which are unnecessary, and lots of other useful information.
• Added translation cleaner tool: Corrects many common problems in translation files and adds/updates English language reference for every string in the game.
• You can mass-toggle various checkboxes and drop-down selections by clicking and dragging the mouse over them.
• Workbench bills can now be copied and pasted.
• Colonists now opportunistically haul items while working if their current target is roughly in the same direction.
• The player can now request AI-core quests from allies.
• It's now possible to craft prosthetic and bionic body parts, grenades, and molotovs.
• It's now possible to mass-cancel all designations with a designator's right-click menu.
• It's now possible to forbid/unforbid all items and rearm all traps with a designator's right-click menu.
• You can now drag and reorder colonists in the colonist bar.
• Social interaction log now has flavorful randomized text instead of the same repeated interaction text every time.
• Mods page now has a search bar so you can easily find one mod in your list of hundreds.
• In some very bad situations, a mysterious Man in Black may arrive. Can he set things right in these parts?
• Armor system reworked into a 3-outcome system with armor penetration. The armor penetration of the weapon is subtracted from the armor value of the armor. This gives an effective armor rating, measured as a percent. We roll a RNG out of 100%. If the result is under half the effective AR, the hit is totally deflected. If the result is over half the effective AR, but under the effective AR, the hit is mitigated - damage is reduced by half and sharp hits are converted to bruise. If the result is over the effective AR, the hit passes the armor and applies normally. As before, armor is applied in sequence from the outside in. AR maxes out at 200%. Default armor penetration is 1.5% per point of damage, but some weapons vary from this.
• Totally reworked how plants grow; they now grow everywhere at once instead of reproducing plant-by-plant. Wild plants after several in-game years should now look more or less as good as at the beginning.
• Long-range mineral scanner can now be tuned to seek specific minerals, and must be worked by a researcher.
• Battles in the Combat tab are now named.
• Items of the same type in the Items tab are now grouped together.
• Items in the Items tab can now be sorted by mass, market value, etc.
• Instead of shooting them, hunters now execute downed creatures with a neck cut (except explosive creatures).
• When placing or selecting work stations where pawns can sit while working, the spot where the pawn goes is indicated by a chair outline so the player realizes that a chair can be built there.
• Removed tornado incident.
• Improved caravaning:
  • Redesigned how world movement speed is fed back per-world tile.
  • Pack animals now follow colonists to speed up the packing process.
  • Added Caravan tab with caravan loading progress.
  • Redesigned "Form caravan" window: stats like carried mass, caravan speed, days worth of food, and visibility are now explained better.
  • Caravans now automatically forage for food while traveling.
  • Added "Remove from caravan" command: remove people or animals from the caravan even if it hasn't left the map yet.
  • Added "Load into caravan" right-click option: designate extra items to be picked up by the caravan before leaving.
  • Caravan speed now depends on the carried weight.
  • Caravan members now slowly gain social recreation when the caravan is not moving.
  • Caravan visibility is now explicitly expressed and better explained than the old caravan stealth. This makes small caravans more relevant.
  • Quest prompts now give much more information about what kinds of challenges to expect.
  • When reforming a caravan, we now list colonists' inventory separately so the player can choose what to take and what to leave.
  • Caravans who are not moving now have a lower chance of being attacked.
• Transport pods now have a contents list which allows removing things from the pod.
• Blunt weapons now have a chance to stun the target.
• Joy is renamed to 'recreation'.
• Using deep drills can cause insect attacks.
• Changed deep moving water to chest-deep moving water: walkable but slower than shallow water.
• Turrets are cheaper and more powerful, but now consume steel/uranium for maintenance after firing a lot.
• Character log now integrates log messages from combat and social interactions.
• Deadfall trap redesigned to Spike trap: Much more powerful with a 100% chance to spring on targets, and has armor penetration (depending on what it's made of) but requires resources to replace.
• Insects will now go into an insect-specific "hypothermic slowdown" instead of getting hypothermia and dying on the first winter.
• Alphabeavers incident now only occurs in biomes with sparse plants so they're not meaningless.
• The refugee from the "downed refugee" world quest can be instantly recruited by offering help.
• Removed scyther blade.
• Mechanoids now always die on downed.
• Doing passionate work now affects mood instead of recreation.
• Deep drills now yield stone chunks if no resource is below.
• Firefoam poppers will now pop whenever there's a fire in a 3-cell radius, instead of only when the fire touches them.
• Food poisoning now has three stages it moves through over the course of a day.
• Pawns hit by ranged attacks now stagger the same way as pawns hit by melee attacks. This effect only happens if the weapon's stopping power stat is equal or greater than the target's body size.
• Most crafting benches are now uninstallable and reinstallable.
• Removed shiv since it's basically a low-quality knife.
• It's now possible to craft knives at crafting spots.
• "autostart.rws" is now automatically loaded on start in dev mode, for faster testing.
• Techprof subpersona core now completes current research instead of random research.
• Combined rib body parts into rib cage.
• Reworked the "advanced map options" dialog layout, extreme game-breaking map sizes are now disabled by default and must be enabled in the options.
• Tribal factions can now do sapper raids.
• Added medical care column to the Assign tab.
• Removed shoddy and superior item qualities.
• Rebalanced and refactored quality generation. Masterwork/legendary level items never generate on enemies, traders, bases. Masterwork items are extra hard to craft, and legendary requires an inspiration.
• Removed the distinction between allowed areas and animal areas.
• Wearing new apparel now takes time. Colonists now take off the colliding apparel first (which takes time) before wearing the new one.
• Added minimum crafting skill to various weapon and apparel crafting recipes.
• Removed the requirement to pay fee to initiate the item stash quest.
• Various floors now require research.
• Settling very near another faction base will now cause faction relations loss every quadrum because of anger due to territorial encroachment.
• Fulfilling trade requests now gives goodwill.
• Destroying a faction base of a mutual enemy now gives goodwill.
• All traders are now unwilling to buy tainted apparel and short-life meals.
• Improved animal fleeing behavior
• No human enemies spawn with weapons above industrial tech.
• Charge lance is now craftable and usable by humans.
• Explosive weapons now explode when set on fire.
• Wood-powered fires and coolers no longer vanish when fuel is exhausted; they wait to be refueled.
• Tons of art has been redone and adjusted.
• Many, many other bugfixes, interface and balance adjustments

RimWorld Beta 18 - A World of Story is released! Here's the video (where I accidentally call it Alpha 18 - old habits die hard). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPI2vUqdZFY To get the update: If you're on Steam, the game will update automatically. If you're DRM-free, you can re-download from the same link you got the game from originally. It always has the latest version. It's finally in Beta! This is build 0.18.1722 of RimWorld. That last number is the number of days since I first started working on RimWorld in February 2012. 1722 days - almost five years. It's come a very long way since the first public look in September 2013. It's time to start bringing it to a close, which is why version 0.18 is Beta 18 instead of Alpha 18. The "Beta" designation means that we're on the final stretch before the 1.0 release, and that there won't be major content additions like whole new game systems. Of course we will almost certainly add more content, before the 1.0 release or after. We will also continue seeking feedback so we can fix those little bugs and design problems that only become apparent after tens or hundreds of hours of play. RimWorld has become an exceptionally complex game, and it takes a long time and a huge amount of play to understand how to improve it. So it'll keep evolving for a while. In any case, enjoy Beta 18. There is a lot of new stuff. See the features list below for details, and watch the video. Compatibility: Saved games from non-modded Alpha 17 should still be loadable, though some things may change upon loading (e.g. characters may forget their orders; buildings that have changed size might be instantly deconstructed if there's nowhere to fit them, and so on). Complex mods made for A17 won't be usable and will need to be updated. Very simple mods may still load. Rough features list:

• New swamp biomes: Swamp biomes are hard to move through due to choking vegetation, and hard to build in due to swampy terrain. Many new plants were added to fill out these and other biomes.
  • Tropical swamp
  • Temperate swamp
  • Cold bog
• New incidents:
  • Meteorite impact. A meteorite impacts, leaving a lump of mineable ore.
  • Aurora. A beautiful aurora lights up the night sky, improving mood.
  • Tornado
  • Peace talks quest
  • World refugee quest
  • Prisoner rescue quest
• Storyful combat: A major rework of melee combat, and a new way to report all combat interactions. Storyful combat generates a combat log that reports each blow, miss, swipe, block and fall in the combat. During or after a fight, you can review the combat log to see what happened, to generate a richer story.
• Various research has been split up
  • Gun research is now broken into several stages, so making advanced guns like assault rifles takes more research than making simple revolvers
  • Melee weapon research is now broken into several stages
• New furniture
  • Bedroll: Portable bed
  • Dresser: Passively improves room
  • Endtable: Passive improves room
  • Various new table sizes
• New quest reward special items:
  • Psychic emanator
  • Vanometric power cell
  • Infinite chemreactor
  • Techprof subpersona core
  • Healer mechanite superdose
  • Resurrector mechanite superdose
  • Orbital bombardment targeter
  • Orbital power beam targeter
• Tribal content upgrade:
  • Ikwa melee weapon
  • War mask
  • Tribal headdress
  • Recurve bow
  • Tribal hunter
  • Tribal heavy archer
  • Tribal berserker
• New world site components (used in various situations):
  • Sleeping mechanoids
  • Animal ambush
  • Enemy ambush
• New mental breaks:
  • Insulting spree. Randomly go around and insult people.
  • Targeted insulting spree. Follow around a specific other colonist, insulting them repeatedly.
  • Tantrum. Go around randomly smashing furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
  • Bedroom tantrum. Go to your own room and randomly smash furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
  • Targeted tantrum. Go to destroy a single, specific, randomly-chosen, valuable item or building.
  • Sadistic rage. Melee attack prisoners for a while. Fists only. Only occurs when there are prisoners to attack. Does not attack downed prisoners.
  • Corpse obsession. Dig up a corpse and drop it on a meeting spot table or in a random high-traffic area. The mental break then ends.
  • Catatonic. Collapse on the spot into a downed state with a psychological breakdown. Recover some days later. This can be implemented by a “catatonic breakdown” hediff.
  • Jailbreaker. Colonist goes to a random prisoner (who is capable of prison breaking), and upon doing a special “spark jailbreak” action with them, induces an immediate prison break in that prisoner.
  • Slaughterer. Slaughter random colony animal(s) periodically.
  • Murderous rage. Hunt down a specific colonist or prisoner (randomly chosen) and attempt to kill them by melee attack. Uses melee weapon or fists, as equipped. Keep attacking until the target is dead.
  • Run wild. The pawn basically starts acting like an animal. You can tame him to try to get him to rejoin.
• New mental inspirations. Basically reverse mental breaks - these give temporary bonuses to colonists in high moods.
  • Work frenzy (1 day): Global work speed 2.5x
  • Go frenzy (1 day): Walk speed 1.5x
  • Shoot frenzy (3 days): Shooting hit chance improved as though the pawn is 10 skill levels higher.
  • Inspired trade
  • Inspired recruitment
  • Inspired surgery
  • Inspired art
• World features like lakes, mountain ranges, and bays are now detected and named. Names are displayed in the world view.
• Caves now form sometimes in mountainous maps. Inside there are special cave plants. There can also be dormant insect hives.
• Many new tale types were added. So, the game will record many new types of events, and colonists can make art about them. Art descriptions should be much more diverse.
• Crop blights now appear and spread over time instead of instantly destroying crops
• Spaceship is now bigger and has one more component, the sensor cluster
• Spaceship quest ending phase: When going to the hidden space ship to finish the game, the game does not end instantly on arrival. The map generates with the ship intact. To take off, first you must power up the ship, which takes some days, during which you must survive raids.
• Space ship construction now requires advanced components, which have their own tech tree and production method
• Split pistol into revolver and autopistol
• Boomalopes can be milked for chemfuel
• Added chemfuel generator, which generates electricity from chemfuel
• Artillery works differently now. There is one type of mortar, which can fire any type of shell, with each shell creating a different effect. The shells are explosive, incendiary, firefoam, and antigrain (a special high-tech warhead).
• Seasonal latitudes: Seasons now more reasonably adjust depending on latitude. Instead of flipping at the equator, there is a seasonless crossover zone.
• Redesigned alert letter types and sounds to be more specific.
• Pawns can now be banished. This is analogous to abandoning pawns in caravans.
• Technical: The save file now contains the actual contents of the planet map, instead of just the seed to generate it. This speed up loading, makes forward compatibility possible, and makes it technically possible to modify the world map during play.
• Many many tunings, bugfixes, and redesigns.

We'll be closing sales for to the Backstory-in-Game package and Pirate King packages on November 7, 2017. The Name-in-game package will remain on sale. Anyone who already purchased any of these packages won't be affected, only new sales will be closed. I'm closing these sales because the game is maturing and it's coming to the right time to make the content final. In addition, closing these will free up more time for us to work on the game itself. Thanks everyone for all the great content submitted over the last few years! As any player can tell you, it's really enriched the game.

I’ve just released Alpha17b, a performance hotfix for Alpha17. Steam users will get it automatically. This is build 0.17.1557. When we made the targeting AI smarter in Alpha 17, we also made it harder on the CPU. Players in late game were seeing drastically reduced performance. Alpha17b optimizes this and several other things. There are no changes to gameplay - just optimization of what's there already. This update will work with your existing saved games, XML-only mods and (hopefully) most or all code mods. If for any reason you want to continue on the older version, you can set your Steam beta branch to 'alpha17a'. Sorry for any disruption! We’re also hard at work on Alpha 18.

Alpha 17 - On the Road has been released! This version brings roads and rivers to the world, new world quests, new tools for modders, new combat tools, smarter AI, and rebalancings and adjustments across the whole design. I'm afraid that this build is not compatible with saved games from previous versions, or mods from previous versions. However, you can continue to use the old version until you're ready to update. If you're on Steam, to continue using the old version, go to your Steam Library, right-click on RimWorld, click Properties. Open the Betas tab and use the drop-down menu to select the alpha16 version. Restart Steam to force an update. If you downloaded the game DRM-free, you can update whenever you like by re-downloading from your existing download link. Your link is always the same and always gives the latest version. In the old builds, balance problems meant that some exploit-y strategies did work and obviated some of the challenges in the game. Since those problems are now fixed, you may find the game a little bit more difficult. It wouldn't hurt to play at one notch lower difficulty to start with in Alpha 17. You can always increase the difficulty later, even during the game, through the options menu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8eyPE2yuoE A summary of the changes in this alpha follows: Roads and rivers

• World now generates with roads and rivers
• There are five road types: path, dirt road, stone road, ancient asphalt road, ancient asphalt highway
• Some roads generate with things alongside, like concrete barriers or ancient lampposts
• There are four sizes of river: huge river, large river, river, and creek
• Rivers generate more in rainy areas, move towards the sea (ignoring tiny lakes) and merge as appropriate
• Rivers and roads generate on local maps as expected.
• Stone roads generate using local stone and a new flagstone terrain type.
• Visitors, caravans, traders, and raiders tend to arrive and leave on the roads.
• World generation is more chronological now. First continents form, then rivers, then an ancient society is shallowly simulated to generate ancient roads, then modern settlements and roads are generated (alongside ancient roads, often).

• New "site parts" world site generation system. It allows assembling together a world destination from several 'parts'. Mixing and matching will allow us to create a huge number of combinations.
• New world quest incident: Item stash. An allied faction tells you about a stash of randomly-generated reward items, guarded by a random threat. You can send a caravan to defeat the threat and collect the reward.
• New world quest incident: Bandit camp. An allied faction asks you to defeat a bandit camp, and offers you a reward if you do so.
• New world quest incident: Caravan request. An allied faction asks you to deliver a particular resource to a particular base in a particular time frame, for a special reward.
• New 'long-range mineral scanner' building slowly scans for precious resource lumps nearby in the world. You need to send a caravan to collect them. Lumps may be defended.
• New caravan incident: Payment demand. Raiders demand items or slaves from your caravan; if you refuse, they attack.

• Added smokepop belt. Emits a cloud of accuracy-reducing smoke when the wearer is shot. Smoke also prevents turret targeting.
• Characters can now tend their own wounds (with a penalty to effectiveness).
• Added bowler hat.
• Corpses now leak black corpse bile while rotting.
• Vents can be opened and closed with a flick action.
• Add option to render hats only on the main game map (but not on the portraits in the pawn bar).
• Bills can now be temporarily paused when satisfied, until automatically reactivated at a lower level. This reduces the need for pawns to repeatedly return to the work bench each time the count falls just one below the target count.
• You can now create your own packaged survival meals (with appropriate research and ingredients).
• All pawns now have "head butt" attacks they can use if they're missing all other attacking body parts.
• Added a "caravan packing spot" so you can tell your caravans where to assemble.
• When trees burn, the leave behind burned tree stumps.
• When structures and plants burn, they leave behind ash.
• Carpets and wooden floors can now burn.
• New training lessons for explaining shield belts, and how door opening speed is affected by material type.
• Added ambrosia sprout incident. This sprouts a grove of the pleasurable, nutrition, and addictive ambrosia fruit trees nearby.
• New 'wimp' trait makes pawn incapacitated from even a relatively small amount of pain.
• New chain shotgun weapon

• Modders can now add "def modifiers" which, instead of replacing a whole def, change specific fields of that def. This allows multiple mods to change the same def without wiping each others' changes (unless they change the same field, of course).
• Information on how to use def modifiers is in this forum thread: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=32735.0
• Various enums are now defs so modders can add new ones (TrainableIntelligence , DamageArmorCategory, ImpactSoundType, ReservationLayer, BillRepeatMode, PrisonerInteractionMode, FleshType).
• GUI tables (like most of the main tabs along the bottom of the screen) are now defined by data, making it easier to add, rearrange, sort, and change columns on the UI.

• Mining skill reworked: Steeper speed penalty for low skill. Mining yield is now slightly dependent on mining skill.
• Trade price spread made much wider, but social skill also has a much greater effect on it.
• Added “animal gather speed” stat which makes some pawns faster at gathering wool or milk.
• Added “animal product yield” stat which makes some pawns more/less likely to waste the product when gathering wool or milk.
• Removed post-process curve from melee hit chance so it uses the simple level-by-level tuning. It’ll be much harder to hit things now at low melee skills. Note: Default hit chance is 0.6 for pawns without skills. This equals the chance of a pawn with melee skill 6.
• Added a melee dodge stat, so better melee-skilled pawns will have more advantage. Pawns don't melee dodge while aiming or firing ranged weapons.
• Work tab boxes are easier to identify skill level for visually.
• Added small crunching sound that plays when you assign a pawn to a skill they're terrible at.

• AI has more intelligent ranged shot target selection with random elements. Harder to exploit, and looks less dumb, doesn't shoot at chickens as much.
• Raider with mega-weapons will now avoid friendly fire
• Sapper groups will now choose another sapper if the first one is killed, making them much more persistent.
• Sapper groups will now continue digging even while defending from attack.
• Animals flee when harmed.
• Added a new state to caravan lord job, “bloody exit”, which makes the exit individually, as aggressively as possible. This makes it a bit hard to rob caravans.
• Raiders will no longer compulsively attack doors.
• Base defense AI is touchier; stealth raids will be much much more difficult (and probably infeasible most of the time).
• Doctors now tend heavy bleeding injuries and diseases near lethal severity first.

• Plants now have different graphics when they are harvestable - you can see the berries/cotton/corn on the plant ready to be taken.
• Buy/sell price spread for trading is much wider (150%/50%).
• Drugs are now slower to produce, slower to grow, and heavier.
• Cannibalism is harder on mood.
• Integrated incidents (ambush, manhunters, etc) better with caravans and temporary maps. Incidents can now target both of these, and the story state (incident cooldowns, etc) is passed back and forth between a caravan and its map to maintain continuity.
• Plant generation algorithm for map start reworked to generate plants in more interesting patterns, with denser areas and more clear areas interspersed, and groves of trees in sparse biomes.
• New graphics for some floor types and things (stone floors, stone chunks, etc).
• Made crop growing cycles significantly longer, especially for long-cycle plants like corn.
• Shifted all medical potencies so that normal medicine has potency of 1.0. (This increases surgery success chances).
• Added global sell price factor for apparel (70%).
• Because it was way OP, chemfuel can no longer be made from haygrass.
• Reworked surgery success chances. We now feedback room surgery success chance on medical bed. Rebalanced room surgery success chance calculations and fixed a bug where it was 100% when outdoors. Removed surgery success chance exponents.
• Colonists wearing human leather clothes now get a negative thought (unless they have a bloodlust or cannibal trait, in which case they get a mood bonus).
• Balanced blood loss recovery time to be much slower (50 real seconds -> 4 game days)
• Buffed mortars so players use them: Cheaper/faster to build, faster shooting, greater accuracy, cheaper shells
• Armor now takes a constant fraction of incoming damage instead of absorbing all prevented damage. This solves an issue where good quality armor would be destroyed sooner.
• Sun lamps now turn themselves off when plants are resting
• Equipment rack is now a general shelf which can hold pretty much anything.
• Small items like gold and silver are now 10x smaller, not 20x, so it's more feasible to build things from them.
• Jade is not small any more.
• Other bases regenerate their trade stock less often.
• Changed flammability for fur and leather to 100%, and for meat to 50%.
• Manhunter pack incident can now use any kind of animal.
• Rebalanced all trader stock generation.
• Traders will generate with fewer extreme quality items.
• Pawns missing heads will have visually missing heads.
• It's no longer possible to create a settlement directly adjacent to an existing settlement.
• Caravans now enter/leave tiles when touching the tile boundary, instead of when in the center of the adjacent tile.
• Redesigned how capacities are calculated from body part efficiencies with an entirely new collection of algorithms, to stop various nonsensical cases and simplify how health conditions can affect the body.
• Gear tab now displays item stack masses.
• Caravans now generate a lot tougher.
• All caravans now buy art. Art is lighter (e.g. easier to sell) and has a sell price bonus so it's now a better trade good.
• Catharsis thought is more powerful but shorter in duration.
• Redesigned stats so that in almost all cases, high numbers are better.
• Rebalanced the beauty system to be much more dependent on art; random furniture has less or no beauty effect.
• Ship part crash incident now scatters rubble and chunks around the crash site.
• Healroot grows wild now, in some biomes
• Added caravan route planner. It allows placing several waypoints, and measures the time to travel the route along them.
• There is now a progress dialog while the planet mesh is generating (so people don't think the game crashed).
• Date system reworked. Seasons are now arbitrary "quadrums" which cover 1/4 of the year and are the same on the whole planet.
• Fixed various memory leaks.
• Many exploits mitigated or prevented by various design tweaks.
• Many, many, many other bugfixes, tunings, and redesigns.

Some official words from Tynan posted here: "We recently asked whether players would rather have the bugfix-only update released, or if they’d prefer we just kept working and waited until we had new content to release. The results aligned with my personal thinking, which is that the disruptive effect of a release (breaking various compatibilities) isn’t worth it for a bugfix-only release. So, we’ve been adding new content! Alpha 17 will basically be two updates combined, where one of them was a refinement-and-fix overhaul. I’m not going to go into detail on exactly what’s coming (that’s what the update videos are for!) But here are some basic notes on things in progress. The update will focus on enriching the content in the world, and create more reasons to use the planet-travel caravan system:

Howdy everyone, my name is Ramsis and I'll be rooting around this fine Steam HUB as the admin/community management guy... thing.. Muffalo.. I've been doing a lot of work in stealth lately, trying to keep things clean, running through posts fixing issues or banning those dastardly Tribals out to steal our delicious Yorkshire meat. I probably won't be posting too often as that's mostly up to Tynan but I would like folks to know that there is someone here doing work nine times out of ten and that we do get your complaints. A bit about me: I'm a bit of a nerd, love playing RimWorld when I'm not swamped in other games. Favorite feature in RimWorld has to be the intricate medical system. Biggest regret is not being able to install tank treads to my Husky army. I'm big on community and love to help others if possible, I'm sure some of you have seen me on the Ludeon Forums bouncing around and pushing people to behave. https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php (how do you not have an account?) Games I'm stuck in/chasing at the moment: RimWorld A17! Wooo gotta sell the product! Starcraft 2. I'm a casual, I admit it. I'm arcading all day or CO-OP'ing! XCOM 2, because Long War 2 came out and I hate myself. Got Wild8, that's a crazy game and feels like Winter RimWorld 24/7 Really excited for two games coming out soon: Mass Effect Andromeda, because I'm a sucker for stories SimAirport mostly because I love a good Greenlight and I can get stuck in tycoon games for yeeeeeeears on end. Theme Hospital baby, started it all! Any who enough of ranting on my end. If anyone needs anything don't hesitate to report problems or PM me on the forums. I'm that Ramsis guy with the red name. Be sure to have fun and enjoy the game everyone, Tynan is one heck of a guy! Edit: Oh dear lord the friend invites are pouring in! I regret everything! http://i.imgur.com/wlaPSeO.png At the request of a few I have made my comments section public on my Steam profile... please be gentle! ːawooː

This is just a quick update on what we're working on now, since it's been some time since Alpha 16 came out and I don't want anyone thinking I died or became a Venezuelan monk or something. Alpha 17 is in progress. This update is going to be a refinement build. That means we're focusing entirely on fixing things that are wrong with the game, and are not adding wholly new features. So far we've fixed hundreds of bugs. I've made a collection of new balance analysis tools and using those, along with community feedback and videos, have rebalanced several gameplay systems. We're also doing a review of how memory is handled, to reduce memory waste that leads to sub-optimal performance or out-of-memory crashes. I've compiled a list of exploit strategies that players use to gain advantage by exploiting tricky gaps in game logic, or bugs, and worked out solutions to most of them. Some exploit fixes are mechanics changes, some are balance changes, and quite a few involve reworking the AI. We've also been adding bits of feedback or micro-features here and there where needed; one example would be the new "mass" column in each character's "gear" tab, so you can tell how heavy each stack is. It turns out that in a game this complex, there are quite a few places for subtle problems to hide! In fact I'm continually amazed at how many problems can be layered into a game that still manages to entertain so many people. The current plan is to finish refinements and then release that as Alpha 17. But - there is the possibility we'll not release a "refinements-only" update and just wait until we've finished the refinements, and then some additional features beyond, to push a public release. This is because each release does create some chaos in the community, since it inevitably breaks mod compatibility (though maybe not vanilla save game compatibility, since the mechanics aren't being redesigned drastically). The question of whether we'll release Alpha 17 as a refinements-only build, or wait to add on significant new content remains open. I invite your thoughts on this in this forum poll and thread.

RimWorld Alpha 16 - Wanderlust is released! This update adds a spherical world and the ability to travel across it with multiple caravans, having simultaneous encounters on the way and settling new colonies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hYecyqAE90 Your game will update automatically. Because of huge structural changes to the game, this update will break save games. If you want to continue an old save just change to the "alpha15" beta branch on Steam. To do so, go to Steam library, right-click RimWorld, click Properties, click the Betas tab, and use the drop-down to select the branch you want. You can, of course, switch back to the "default" branch whenever you want. Partial change list: Spherical planet

• World map is now modeled as a sphere covered with hexagons (and a few pentagons).
• New map generation to make nicer mountain ranges, hill clusters, and continents.
• Nice backdrop with stars and sun.
• Time of day is modeled on the planet view; local time of day corresponds to how the sunlight hits the planet.
• Time zones are now modeled, out of necessity.
• New planet generation parameter: temperature. You can make worlds that are overall hotter or overall colder.
• New planet generation parameter: rainfall. You can make worlds where there is overall more or less precipitation.
• New biome: sea ice.
• Factions can now have many bases; non-player factions generate with lots of bases.

• There can now be multiple local maps active at once. For example, you can have your colony running as well, as a group of soldiers attacking an enemy base, at the same time.
• The character bar at the top of the screen shows all of your colonists and allows you to change which map you're looking at. It groups characters togehter by the map they're on.
• You can settle multiple colonies at once. However, for balance and performance reasons, the default limit is one colony at a time. This can be increased in the options menu if you want to experiment, but we don't recommend it.

• Player can now gather up groups of colonists, prisoners, and animals, and form caravans to travel across the world surface.
• Caravans are formed using a special "create caravan" dialog, which allows you to easily decide what people, animals, and items should be included in the caravan up to its carry weight limit. The colonists do the busywork.
• Caravans appear as units in the world map, where they can be ordered around similarly to drafted soldiers in the local map.
• Caravans can be ambushed by enemy factions or manhunting animals. This produces a temporary local map.
• Caravans can incidentally meet friendly traders and trade.
• Caravans can visit other faction bases and trade with them. Faction bases have more stock and better prices than traders who come and visit your colony.
• Caravans can attack faction bases. The game generates a simple faction base map with defenders and loot, and you raid it. If you defeat the defenders, you can move in and take over the base (for now, generated bases are quite simple.)
• Caravans can settle and form new colonies.
• You can abandon your bases to shift to new ones.
• Caravans move at different speeds depending on the biome, the time of year (cold biomes close off with the winter snows), local hilliness, the movement speeds of people in the caravan, and whether there are wounded to carry.
• It is possible to abandon people and items from caravans. Abandoning people will, depending on the context, produce sad thoughts from their friends and relatives, especially if you abandon them in circumstances that seem impossible to survive.

• New game ending: A friendly person offers a ship, but it is distant, across the world map. If you travel there, you can escape the planet and complete the game. But, traveling there will take a long time and you'll need to stop at various points to build up supplies or solve problems.

• You can build transport pod launchers and transport pods. These let you launch their contents long distances across the world map, over oceans or mountains.
• Pods can be targeted on empty world tiles, to send a caravan of people and gear there.
• Pods can be targeted on enemy bases, where you can perform "drop-in" raids and drop right on top of the base, or drop outside it - just like raiders do to you!
• Pods can be targeted on existing combat maps or other bases you control. This allows you to do things like resupply an ongoing siege with artillery shells (just like raiders do when besieging you), reinforce a weak caravan that just got ambushed, or send supplies and people between two bases you control.
• Pods are loaded by selecting several and creating a "launch group". An interface like that for creating caravans appears, allowing you to define what and who should be included. The colonists do the detail work.
• Transport pods require chemfuel, which can be bought, founded, drilled from the ground, or refined from wood or food using the new refinery building.

• New research screen! Research projects are laid out visually according to their dependencies in a left-to-right arrangement similar to the Civilization games. Modders need to manually place their projects, but if two overlap the game will automatically move them apart.
• Redesigned how medical system generates text feedback. Tooltips now contain much more information with less ambiguity. Wound tendings are now of any percentage quality (not just good/poor).
• Game now warns you when you order slaughter of a bonded animal (because of the mood impact).
• Added visual feedback thought bubbles for when pawns gain certain good and bad thoughts, so it's easier to see when something just bothered or pleased them.
• Rich soil is darker in color and so easier to see.
• Added a “hold fire” toggle on drafted pawns that makes them not automatically shoot at enemies.
• In order to avoid annoying players by having animals always follow their masters, even into combat, players can configure when animals will follow their masters. There are two toggles: Follow while drafted, follow while hunting/taming

• Drug rebalance. Increase drug addictiveness in general. Drugs can now damage the body in various ways: Alcohol can cause brain damage or liver cirrhosis or liver cancer, smokeleaf can cause asthma or lung cancer, psychite can damage kidneys, wake-up and go-juice can damage the brain, and generalized overdoses can cause brain damage.
• Drugs are more lucrative on the market.
• Added a third toggle in drug policy saying whether you can use the drug to feed an addiction, separately from joy usage.
• There is now a random chance of a overdose when taking drugs, even if just taking one dose.
• Added a way to administer specific drugs to people, including prisoners, animals, and downed people. So you can give Luciferium to someone who needs it.
• Malari-block reworked into Penoxycyline, which prevents a wide variety of infections (not just malaria).
• Drug chemical effects are modulated by body size. So elephants need a lot of beer to get hammered; squirrels not so much.
• Luciferium occasionally heals old wounds/scars. Luciferium is harder to get (less of it in old shrines, higher prices).
• Stats now stack differently (more additive, less multiplying) to reduce some exploits.

• Reworked surgery failure into three modes - minor, catastrophic, and ridiculous. Ridiculous hits all body parts, minor and catastrophic hit parts near the surgery site.
• Reworked trade prices across the board. Simplified trade price calculations and added rich tooltips to feed them back.
• The mood effects from room impressiveness have been redesigned and rebalanced. Characters now have consistently reasonable thoughts about the quality of their personal room, so there is a reason to make better rooms (though high-quality rooms aren't absolutely necessary). Mood effects from eating in or convalescing in nice/poor rooms are also more reasonable and better-fed back.
• Rebalanced plant growth timings.
• UI can now be scaled to arbitrary scaling factors, for players who play in really high resolution.
• Rescued people (especially space refugees etc) should sometimes join the colony. If the environment isn’t survivable (e.g. bad temperature, toxic fallout) they should always join the colony.
• Animals carrying inventory now have visible packs on.
• Added new separate bills to stonecut each type of stone.
• Prisoners are now temporarily marked "guilty" when they do certain actions, like killing a colonist or attempting escape. Guilty prisoners can be executed without mood penalties.
• Faction names are now much more interesting and varied, and are separate from specific community names.
• New Peaceful difficulty mode, for players who just want to build stuff. Disables major involuntary threats like raids.
• Rename Megatherium -> Megasloth
• New alert: Unhappy nudity
• Backstories can be translated now
• New translation tool gives a readout of exactly what translation data remains to be written and what data is unused.
• Added proper chick peeping sounds.
• You can now only request one trader per 4 days from a faction.
• Colonists now get mood boosts for defeating big enemies or enemy faction leaders.
• Cleaning and harvesting jobs are now given in batches (more efficient and sensible AI).
• Default medical care for non-colonists is now herbal meds. Switches to best meds on recruit.
• Rebalanced most range weapons so more time is in cooldown and less is in aiming - especially for light weapons.
• Pawns generated below age 20 now have no adulthood backstory.
• Hundreds of other balance improvements, exploit solutions, AI improvements, and bugfixes.

Just a quick PSA: Alpha 16 release is upcoming (though no date is announced and we don't know when it'll be final). If you are in the middle of a game, please use the Steam betas feature to set your game to the “alpha15” branch. This will prevent it from automatically-updating to A16 upon release and breaking your save games. You will be able to, of course, set your branch back to 'default' whenever you wish. (To change your beta branch, right-click RimWorld in the Steam library, open Properties, go to the Betas tab, select the branch you want.)

Currently bugfixing and tuning Alpha 16. Here's a new teaser!

It's cold down there.

Another quick teaser for you all!

Hey all, just a quick teaser update for you. Behold, the planet!
I'll be releasing more information about this soon-ish. I just wanted to give you all an image so you know we are still working at full steam, on many different features. A16 will probably be the biggest update ever in terms of the amount of work we've done adding and refining things, so it's taking a while.

You can now buy the creative content rewards separately from the base game! This has been requested a few times, and now it's possible. Creative content rewards are things like Name in Game or Pirate King that allow you to put your own character content into the game through our automated Creative Rewards System. Previously these could only be purchased in packs with the main game. Now, you can purchase them separately, on Steam. They are: Name in Game Access Backstory in Game Access Pirate King Access Hope you like them!

After a week of testing and prep time, Alpha 15c is live! The details for this update can be found on the unstable testing announcement post. Many thanks to all the testers who made this possible!

Alpha15c is currently on Steam's 'unstable' branch for public testing. This update fixes some important bugs and yield significant CPU usage optimizations. It also adjusts a few balance points for a better experience. I invite everyone willing to choose the unstable branch and test it out! I invite feedback in this forum thread and in the comments here. Save compatibility: Savegames from the unmodded game will be compatible from earlier Alpha 15 versions. Mods compatibility: Data and XML mods will be 100% compatible from earlier Alpha 15 version. The API for code mods is also unchanged, and so should remain compatible. However, since the core game has been recompiled, some mods may need to be recompiled as well before they work again. Mod authors may want to look at Alpha15c to check and prepare compatibility. (This shouldn't require any actual code or data changes, but may require recompiling your code). Once Alpha15c is confirmed stable, I will release it to all users. Hopefully within a day or two. Detailed change list:

• Fix: Luciferium is not addictive; it gives the positive effect forever with no downside.
• Fix: Malari-block high never goes away.
• Optimized a bunch of pawn ticking code to be much, much faster.
• Rebalanced drugs to be a bit more profitable and a bit more more dangerous.
• Food selection algorithm prefers meals by 16 cells instead of 7.
• Fix: Game doesn't assign short hashes if you subclass any Def class. This makes many mods impossible.
• Fix: Standing lamps and sun lamps are available without research.
• Fix 2618: On Linux, system language can break the game.
• Fix: Raiders can steal during tutorial.
• Fix 2620: Learning Helper: Items remain after save-scum.
• Fix 2611: Scenario 'Can't Hunt' etc doesn't work.
• Translations update.
• Some other misc minor fixes, rebalancings and text changes.

A tiny update to Alpha15b has been released that fixes a small bug with Cassandra Classic and Phoebe Chillax. These storytellers were miscounting the days since game start, and so were sometimes incorrectly sending a several raids in the 5-10 day range, making this crucial part of the early game far too hard. This update is tiny (two lines of code) so it shouldn't affect compatibility with saves or mods. However, because it will shift the storyteller's timer, it may cause some players to get a string of raids in a row, or a long peaceful period. This will only happen once. EDIT: It does seem it may be possible for this to break mod compatibility, maybe. It's possible that even the tiniest change to code can cause the binary APIs to fail to link up. I'm very sorry if you're affected by this and am hoping to avoid breaking releases for a while while we work on a large Alpha 16 update. This is a somewhat-unavoidable challenge that comes with opening the entire codebase to modders (instead of keeping their code in a walled kiddy garden).

I'm happy to announce that we've just released RimWorld Alpha 15! This version adds a rich tutorial, an intelligent learning helper to help you pick up the game, a new drug system, deep drilling to provide resources in the end game, and a giant pile of other smaller improvements and fixes. A full change log and detailed info is below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3Mh3a7Ifk For Steam players, if you want to continue with Alpha 14 for any reason, you can get on the 'alpha14' beta branch in Steam. In the Steam Library, right click RimWorld, click Properties, go to the Betas tab, select 'alpha14' in the drop-down list, and restart Steam. Non-Steam players who wish to update can simply download from the same download link as before; it has been updated to the new version. They should install the new version in a clean empty folder. Save compatibility: As usual, Alpha 15 will not load Alpha 14 save games by default. However, a user did put together a guide that allows you to manually update save files with some text editing. Check it out here if you really want to try to continue that Alpha 14 colony. Mod compatibility: Some purely XML mods will be compatible between versions. However, most significant mods will need to be adjusted and recompiled. Beware: If a mod author updates their existing mod to the new version, it'll stop updating on the old version. You may wish to turn off Steam auto-updates if you really want to avoid this. Change list: Tutorial

• Added new rich tutorial with step-by-step instructions.
• Tutorial teaches the basics of setting up a game, building a small self-sustaining colony, and defeating the first raider.
• Tutorial locks out irrelevant controls and highlights relevant controls.
• At the end of the tutorial, the player can continue the game with a normal storyteller.

• Added new learning helper system to replace yellow pop-up messages and yellow learning alerts.
• Learning helper sits in the top right of the screen. If something happens relating to a concept the player hasn't learned, that lesson will be activated and shown on the learning helper. It can then be opened and read. Lessons are automatically marked as learned when the player does the necessary interaction, and can be marked as learned manually. Lessons are shown as needed by circumstance, or on a slow timer. The overall idea is that you'll never be shown a lesson you already know, but always be shown the lessons you need to know now.
• Learning helper can be expanded and searched for any lesson, so you can look up how to do a specific thing at any time.

• Added new drugs system. It's not just beer any more!
• Drugs typically create up to four effects. Not all drugs have all effects.
  • Primary - The valuable short-term effect, whether it improves mood or work focus or combat effectiveness or makes one immune to a disease.
  • Overdose - Excessive drug usage in a short time can build up blood toxicity, leading to unconsciousness and possible death.
  • Tolerance - Long-term usage of a drug can build up a tolerance which makes subsequent usage less and less effective in producing the high.
  • Addiction - Drug use can form an addiction. This generates a new need for the drug which the pawn will try to feed regularly. If the need isn't fed, the pawn will develop withdrawal symptoms (low mood, reduced consciousness). Eventually withdrawal will pass and the addiction will go away.
• Drugs can be assigned for regular taking through the drug policy system. Similar to Outfits, drug policies are an assigned schedule for taking drugs. You can set any number of drugs, each with a frequency. For example, you can assign a colonist to drink 2 beers every day, and take one Malari-Block every 5 days.
• The drugs are:
  • Beer - Improved mood but worsened capacities. Addictive.
  • Malari-block - Prevents malaria infection for 5 days.
  • Yayo - Stimulant pleasure drug, addictive.
  • Flake - Cheap, short high, very addictive.
  • Wake-up - Improves work performance, addictive.
  • Smokeleaf - Improved mood but worsened capacities. More hunger, slower movement. Can form dependence.
  • Go-Juice - Synthetic futuristic combat drug. Boost speed and fighting capacity tremendously. Addictive.
  • Luciferium - Glitterworld mechanites that give huge bonuses to most capacities. However, without repeated doses the user goes insane and dies. It is impossible to clear the addiction, and the drug is 100% addictive on one dose.
• Drugs are produced in various ways, typically at the new Drug Lab building, from various precursor chemicals and growable crops. They require research to create.

• The map now spawns with clusters of underground resources. These can be accessed by building a deep scanner to find them, and then building deep drills on top of them, and then working the drills. This slowly produces the resource.
• Deep drilling tech is at the end of the tech tree. This should mitigate late-game resource exhaustion problems.

• Mood is now drawn subtly behind the pawn on the colonist readout at the top of the screen.
• You can now produce medicine from herbal medicine, neutroamine (a precursor chemical you buy), and cloth. Requires research.
• Added passive cooler building. Made of wood and low tech, it cools a room for a short time. Good for passing heat waves as a tribe.
• Added a 'copy building' tool which lets you quickly select the designator for a building through an existing copy of that building.
• Beer production now takes several stages: Colonists make wort (unfermented beer) at the brewer table, then leave it in fermenting barrels for a while, after which they can harvest it as beer. Infestation can now only spawn under a thick roof.
• Gear tab now shows aggregate stats about armor and comfy temperatures.
• Raider steal a bit more often now.
• Factored MapGeneratorDef apart into separate GenStepDefs which can be modded or inserted individually. This will allow modders to change the MapGenerator without blowing away each others' changes.
• Added alert: Need warm clothes.
• Mods can now be dragged to reorder them in the mods page.
• Re-tuned food finding algorithm.
• Hunters will no longer hunt without a ranged weapon.
• Debuffed corn a bit.
• Reworked trade interface to clearly state what kind of trader they are, and to list items they're not willing to trade.
• Reworked trader stock generators so traders carry and accept more sensible items for their type.
• You can now request traders by calling allied factions. It costs silver.
• Chance to spring known traps is reduced from 2.5% to 0.4%.
• Friendly fire chances reduced by 60% for fly-by shots (shots that miss and land in the cell with a pawn have the same chance to hit as before).
• Added a message when food spoils in storage.
• Fixed a bug that caused pawns to not get 'catharsis' mood gainer thought after a mental break.
• Rename PDW to Machine pistol.
• Torches and campfires are no longer destroyed near-instantly by rain/snow. They instead consume fuel faster.
• Torches consume fuel a bit faster overall.
• Fueled generator consumes fuel faster and holds less fuel.
• Plant sow and harvest are now slower.
• Debuffed fists.
• Reduced volume of idle animal calls at high time speeds.
• Smithing is now a prerequisite for Machining research.
• Added a toggleable view that shows roofs in glowing green.
• Hundreds of other balance changes, text fixes, redesigns, and bug fixes.

Some rare, game-breaking bugs were reported. Some are crashes; others critically break AI behavior. So I fixed them. Savegames should continue to work from before. Some savegames that were broken before will now load. Mods should also mostly be compatible, but there may be issues in some cases given the complexities of how the code links up. The build number is now 1249. Change list:

• Fix: Hard crash when bed-sharing pawns have zero chance to do lovin', passing a PositiveInfinity mean-time-between to the random event checker, causing it to enter an infinite loop.
• Fix: AI stuck when warden chooses to feed a prisoner by taking food from an empty food dispenser.
• Fix: AI stuck and performance chugging from colony animals starving while being restricted to not touching walls, and locked inside.
• Mitigate: Sometimes, NPCs in parties, marriages all freeze and just stand there.
• Mitigate: Game can save a corpse with null innerPawn, which makes the save unloadable.

The unstable branch now has a fix to a bug that caused save games to be broken/unplayable upon loading. Previously-broken saves affected by this specific bug will now work upon loading. Please let me know if the unstable branch works, and/or if it fixes a broken save issue you had. I'm looking for feedback here! Just comment on this post. Thanks. Behind that, work on A15 continues... (but that's not the topic of this post).

Alpha14d (build 1241) is a quick-fix build that makes a few small but important changes. Save games from Alpha 14 should still work. Changes:

• Reduced event density on Randy Random from 1.5x that of Cassandra to about the same as Cassandra. The combination and distribution of events is still very different from Cassandra.
• Fixed a crash that occurs when the player has no allies.
• The "cannot connect to Steam API" error message is now more informative and suggests rebooting.
• Toxic fallout, flashstorm and volcanic winter are now disabled in Free Play difficulty.
• Toxic fallout and volcanic winter are now rarer.

It looks like the fixes in Alpha14b were effective. I’m now releasing Alpha14c on Steam and DRM-free channels. This one is just a tiny change from 14b: Phoebe’s random incident density is reduced somewhat (it was the same as Cassandra’s before, which doesn’t make sense since Phoebe is supposed to give more breathing space between events.) I’ll still be watching for balance and content problems, but it seems likely the next patch won't be until the actual next alpha. On a side note, some people have asked whether any more features will be added. The answer is a definite yes. We are currently working on several major new features with the potential to transform gameplay yet again. I can’t wait to show them to you! But, they have to be ready first. I’m also working on a ton of polish tasks.

With the flurry of support and fraud combat tasks abating, I took a little while to watch Zeebos’ stream. A discussion was had and it quickly became apparent that a lot of the events in the game weren’t really firing – ever. No heat waves, no crazy animals, no crashed ship parts. Doing some local testing, I realized how bad it was. Most of the events in the game would never fire. Holy crap! I’ve fixed the issue and uploaded a patch. Your save games will be compatible. This will change balance somewhat - I'll be watching to see if it needs adjusting. Look at it this way – it’s like releasing a juicy content patch three days after release! Patch notes:

Fix: Events never fire (except in some exceptional circumstances):
• Infestation
• Manhunter pack
• Psychic ship part crash
• Poison ship part crash
• Animal insanity (single)
• Eclipse
• Solar flare
• Psychic drone
• Toxic fallout
• Volcanic winter
• Heatwave
• Cold snap
• Flashstorm
• Short circuit
• Crop blight
• Alphabeavers
• Psychic soothe
• Refugee chased
• Thrumbo passes
• Fix: Storyteller incorrectly adjusts trader frequency in relation to ally count.
• Fix: Threat cycle event maker sometimes queues events without enough points to actually fire them.

The day is finally here. RimWorld is now available on Steam! You can buy it at the RimWorld Steam Store page. It’s got full support for Steam Workshop and Cloud saves. Also, Alpha 14 – Scenario System is out! For full information Alpha 14, including the change list, look at the Alpha 14 preview thread. More good news – everyone who owns the game can move it to Steam. Hooray! You get a Steam key! And you get a Steam key! To get your Steam key, go to the automated link and key sender. A business note – If you want, buying it from our site is better for us. This way, we get significantly more of the money, since Steam isn’t taking their cut. You can still immediately grab your Steam key and put the game on your Steam account. Obviously we’ll still be very happy if you buy it either way! Here’s the Alpha 14 features rundown video! It explains the scenario system and other new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFRqCvG6Q4

RimWorld is Now Available on Steam Early Access!

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Firefly. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Alpha 14 will be released with the Steam release, on July 15, at 1pm EST. For now, though here’s a preview! Below the video, you can find a summary of all the changes we’ve made for Alpha 14. Steam up the hype train! Here's a video preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFRqCvG6Q4 Change summary:

Scenario system

• New scenario system allows you to choose, randomize, and customize special situations to play in. Determine starting situation, your type of community (tribe, colony), permanent map conditions, starting items, animals, health conditions, and traits, and change special rules.
• Several built-in scenarios, including one matching the classic RimWorld experience, are included.
• You can randomize new scenarios.
• You can customize scenarios with a special interface that allows creation of any scenario you like.
• Scenarios can be uploaded to or grabbed from Steam Workshop with a single click.
• ScenPart: Permanent version of all map conditions (eclipse, solar flare, etc).
• ScenPart: Planetkiller scenario part: World is destroyed on X date.
• ScenPart: Climate cycle which makes the world get warmer and cooler over a period of years. Winter is coming.
• ScenPart: Disable building a given type of building.
• ScenPart: Pawns start with health condition.
• ScenPart: Start with items.
• ScenPart: Map is scattered with items.
• ScenPart: Configure arrival method (pods or standing)
• ScenPart: Starting pawns are all between ages X and Y
• ScenPart: Pawns explode on death (configurable type and radius)
• ScenPart: All pawns from source (game start/all) have trait X
• ScenPart: Starting animal(s)
• ScenPart: Disallow mining
• ScenPart: Disallow hunting
• ScenPart: Disallow taming
• ScenPart: Disallow growing
• ScenPart: Disable incident
• ScenPart: Multiplier for any stat on the game (move speed, mining speed, etc)
• ScenPart: Disallow building

Pawn overlapping

• Pawns can no longer overlap during melee combat (unless they're really small). No more animal deathstacks! This also creates new tactics around blocking, surrounding, or back-line shooters. We had to write a bunch of AI and blocking code to make this function.

AI

• Raiders can now enter "steal" mode if they see enough value. They'll grab your stuff and carry it off.
• Kidnapping raiders now work together much better to kidnap. Instead of everyone fleeing at once, some will kidnap while others cover them.
• AI dressing algorithm is now better at making outfits to withstand cold temperatures. If there is no way to make a survivable outfit, pawns won't arrive at all. No more raids arriving and keeling over in -60C weather.
• Predators no longer hunt boomrats and boomalopes.
• Pawns will be smarter about avoiding traps in various situations.

New stuff

• Full Steam Workshop support for mods.
• You can now play as a tribe in some scenarios.
• Added torch lamp
• Added pemmican for low-tech food preservation.
• Research difficulty is now related to your faction's tech level. Researching techs above your level is harder. So if you're a tribe, researching spaceflight will be difficult.
• Added research (needed for tribes only): complex clothing, electricity
• Added research (needed for non-tribes only): pemmican
• Added research: air conditioning, autodoors, gun turrets
• Added 'ransom demand' incident. Can fire after one of your people is kidnapped.
• Added "killed my X" social thoughts so people dislike their loved ones' killers
• Added new class of "minor" mental breaks, which can happen at mood under 40%.
• Added minor mental break: food binge.
• Ground fertility is now reported on mouseover.
• Added moisture pump, which slowly converts wet terrain to dry terrain. Requires power.
• Hives now pop out glow pods - bug light sources that glow for 20 days (as long as they’re installed) and can be reinstalled or sold.
• Added traits: creepy breathing, annoying voice. These are socially repellent.
• Added trait: pyromaniac. Will go on firestarting sprees when stressed, and never puts out fire.
• Added panther for jungle biome. Because I discovered panthers aren't real and I need to cope with this somehow.
• There is now an orange glow to help you identify very hot areas.
• Added/replaced animals created by the excellent Kay Fedewa:
  • Caribou
  • Cassowary
  • Deer
  • Emu
  • Arctic fox
  • Fennec fox
  • Red fox
  • Gazelle
  • Husky
  • Ibex
  • Lynx
  • Megatherium (prehistoric giant ground sloth)
  • Ostrich
  • Raccoon
  • Rat
  • Turkey
  • Arctic wolf
  • Timber wolf

Interface

• Added a row of colonist icons along the top of the screen, with various status info. They can be clicked to select, double-clicked to jump to, or box-selected to multi-select. These icons can be turned off.
• Trading interface now lets you type in the number you want to trade instead of dragging to the number.
• Animals tab now has gender and life stage informational columns
• Animals tab now has a "slaughter" checkbox column to allow easy slaughtering of many animals
• Animals tab now has checkbox columns for each trainable, to allow easy training of many animals
• Reworked the right-click menu to be prettier, more readable, more solid, and better handle large lists of options.

Exploit solutions

• Traders, visitors, raiders, kidnappers, animals, etc will now escape if surrounded by walls with no way out.
• Manhunters and insects will attack doors if colonists try to hop in and out of them while getting shots off.
• Hives must now be tended by insects, so if insects are all instantly killed by a turret wall, the hives will die out.
• You can no longer avoid the 'executed prisoner' mood impact by just shooting or starving the prisoner; pawns will get a "prisoner died innocent" thought. A similar solution applies to the deaths of colonists.
• Solved various powerleveling exploits. Once colonists have learned a certain (high) amount in a day, they'll learn at a much-reduced rate until the next day.
• Flowers are no longer good animal feed (reduced nutrition).
• Fixed exploit where players would give prisoner to raiders for kidnapping, to make raiders go away without a fight. Solution: Raiders only kidnap colonists.

Other

• Updated to Unity 5.
• World generation is now part of the new game process, instead of being separate.
• Roofs must now be manually built and torn down by colonists; they do not appear and disappear instantly any more.
• Reworked AI food selection algorithm to take into account personal mood impacts, rottenness, and other new factors. e.g. Now cannibals will actually seek out cannibal food because they get a mood bonus, while non-cannibals will avoid it.
• Flow for opening worlds and savegames from old version is now improved; the "warning, old version" dialog comes before you open them instead of after.
• Deworked mods config menu to have a much nicer selection and ordering interface.
• Humans can now eat unbutchered corpses (though they really don't like it).
• Infestations are easier and grow less exponentially.
• Infestations only appear deeper underground now.
• AI now runs away from grenades thrown by their own faction.
• Tortoises aren't so deadly any more.
• Animals no longer do incest.
• Humans now do incest.
• Seeds for world gen are now generated from actual words instead of random letter strings.
• You can now set both minimum and maximum skill on a bill.
• Beauty trait now has four stages: Staggeringly ugly, ugly, pretty, beautiful.
• Some backstories now force pawns to have a given trait (e.g. Model->Beautiful)
• Trade caravans can bring pack dromedaries.
• Projectiles fired by hunting colonists no longer intercept random targets.
• Some traders buy and sell furniture now.
• Gut worms and muscle parasites vanish sooner.
• Reworked ancient tomb loot generation. Plasteel is sometimes found on pod people. So are components.
• Nuzzling is now a visualized, recorded social interaction.
• Various refactorings to make modding easier and code easier to maintain and more flexible. Much more functionality is now implemented as composable ThingComps.
• Many, many, many other balance changes, gameplay and interface refinements, and bugfixes.

I'm stoked to announce that the next version of RimWorld, Alpha 14, will be released on Steam Early Access on July 15, 2016. You can add it to your Steam wish list on the RimWorld Steam page. On Steam, the game will have full Workshop support, for sharing mods and scenarios. It will also support Steam Cloud. Non-Steam users will, of course, still be able to access your DRM-free downloads as you always have. They'll update just as before. Alpha 14 is a large update, since it's been several months since Alpha 13 and we've had 2-3 developers working continuously. So, it's got about 5-6 developer-months of effort in it (the original pre-Alpha for the 2013 Kickstarter had about nine developer-months). However, it is also a refinement-oriented update. I could've packed more mega-features in addition to the scenario system, but instead chose to focus on fixing a lot of old issues. Veteran players will notice a huge number of subtle improvements at every level, which newcomers should have an even more polished experience. I've also been reworking the code to try to support modding better. Making it easier to mod the game makes it more fun to mod, which modders like, so they make more and better mods, which players like. I think it's a powerful and often under-emphasized way of turbocharging a game community. I'm still soliciting requests in this thread: What would make the game easier to mod? Being Early Access, we'll continue to release new alpha versions of RimWorld with new features into the foreseeable future. We've already started some new mega-additions for Alpha 15. We can't squeeze them into Alpha 14 because it's too late and they'd introduce bugs. But momentum is good and we're poised to leap forward in the months ahead. I'm also going to be doing something unusual, which is trying to actively market the game. I much prefer game development work to marketing work, and so have usually followed the Field of Dreams marketing strategy ("If you build it, they will come.") But, for something as important as the Steam release, I think it's worth making some effort to get the word out. Wish me luck! And, if anyone has any ideas for ways to spread the word, I'd be happy to hear them in the comments here, or on the forums.