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.
  

[h2]The RimWorld - Anomaly expansion is out now! [/h2]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380740/RimWorld__Anomaly/

We're celebrating Anomaly's release with a sale on all previous RimWorld releases: Get 20% off RimWorld and 10% off the Biotech, Ideology, and Royalty expansions!

[previewyoutube=59ooT57Lo3g;full][/previewyoutube] [h3]UPDATE 1.5[/h3]
RimWorlds free update 1.5 is out now! This update adds a ton of content, improvements, and fixes. Read about it here or check out the full changelog here.

[h3]ANOMALY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK[/h3]
We've also released the RimWorld - Anomaly Soundtrack which contains 11 tracks of awesome ghoulish tunes by RimWorld composer Alistair Lindsay.

[h3]COMPATIBILITY FAQ[/h3]

• 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 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.

[h3] SPOILER WARNING: Read at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion. [/h3]

You can also check out our previous preview blogs:

• 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

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.

[h3] SPOILER WARNING: Read at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion. [/h3]

Todays preview blog talks about the less-obvious and more-insidious threats youll face in Anomaly. Terror comes in all shapes and sizes.

Also, check out our previous blog posts below:

• 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

[h3] SPOILER WARNING: Read at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion. [/h3]

Were releasing RimWorld - Anomaly on April 11, 2024! (Thats 1 week away!) You can read the announcement here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380740/RimWorld__Anomaly/

Check out our previous blog posts below:

• 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!

[h3] SPOILER WARNING: Read ahead at your own risk! These preview blogs WILL SPOIL some of the surprises in the expansion. [/h3]

Hello, its Tia and Im back with our next preview blog of RimWorld - Anomaly!

Also, mark your calendars: Anomaly releases on April 11, 2024. Wishlist now to be notified when its out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380740/RimWorld__Anomaly/

Check out our previous blog posts below:

• 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!

• 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.

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/

[h3]REMINDER: Spoilers ahead! Reading these blogs will reveal some of the surprises in the expansion. [/h3]

In the narrative framework of Anomaly, there are many threats. Some are mysterious and attractive, like the delightful golden cube. Others are insidious and progressive, like the metalhorror infestations. Finally, some threats are direct and aggressive. Todays feature blog covers the latter - a family of new fleshy threats in the expansion: the squealing flesh beasts, their disgusting momma, and the all-consuming fleshmass heart.

[h2]THE FLESH BEASTS[/h2]
You intercept a distress signal from a nearby camp. The frantic voice begs you to save them from something horrible and offers everything at their camp in return, including shards of dark archotechnology.

As the voice tries to explain whats happening, the signal goes dead.

If you choose to help this poor soul, assemble your caravan and come well-armed.


You arrive - and its a massacre. Bodies everywhere, fleshy creatures roam freely, and throbbing tissues cake the walls of the encampment. Giant burrows dot the grounds surface, connecting to tunnels deep in the earth.

These cancerous enemies are an amalgamation of many tissues and parts. When you destroy a bigger one, it explodes into several smaller creatures. This means one flesh creature can become many and easily overwhelm your soldiers and defenses.

Embedded in the organic mass are fleshbulbs, organs that store and refine nutrients. This chemical process generates a soft bioluminescent glow, allowing you to see the full extent of the horror, day or night.

If youre fortunate when investigating an area blighted by the fleshmass, you might stumble across a swollen lump with something inside. These are fleshsacks - stationary fleshbeasts that act as digestive organs, supplying the surrounding fleshmass with nutrients. Note that fleshsacks are unable to break down non-organic matter, meaning that valuable items can occasionally be found within - if you want to go rummaging in there!

There are many approaches to clearing out a flesh infestation: you can focus on systematically slaughtering the remaining flesh beasts with guns, or bring out the incinerator to properly cleanse the area (with the risk of destroying flammable loot), or work on filling in their burrows first to prevent further reinforcements.

[h2]THE FLESHMASS HEART[/h2]
If youre unfortunate enough to encounter the fleshmass heart, it starts with a small circle of terrain that shifts and cracks apart, pulsating rhythmically as something digs upwards. Eventually, the fleshmass heart will emerge. It is a cancer-like creature that grows flesh across (and under) the surface.

From the heart, grows the fleshmass. This is an enormous assimilating creature that spreads across the landscape, consuming and covering the whole map with a quivering mass of meat. It defends itself with beasts and acid. You must fight it to acquire samples of its nervous system, then study them until you can venture to its heart and kill it for good.


The resulting fleshmass is a solid wall of twisted flesh, which throbs and shivers with horrible life. As it grows from the heart, it puts arterial roots into the ground in its quest for nutrients.

For any nearby colonists, the choices are simple - flee the colony or discover how to destroy the fleshmass. Whilst the heart itself is invulnerable due to rapid regeneration, the mass is susceptible to attacks. However, that doesnt mean that its without weapons...


Embedded in the mass are spitters, defensive organs that filter toxins from the surrounding biomass, concentrate them into potent acid, and then spit it long distances. You dont want your colonists to get hit by those.

The second line of defense is fleshbeasts, which normally emerge from temporary pit burrows that connect to a cave network deep below. These can be roughly categorized, depending on their mass. Toughspikes are man-sized lumps of roiling flesh with 2 spiked limbs and a keratin-armored carapace. Trispikes are smaller three-pronged entities, which break down into the singular fingerspikes when killed. All of the spike entities also throw hardened keratin or bone spikes.


Once your colonists have defeated the fleshbeasts and killed enough fleshmass nerve bundles, they will have gathered several neural lumps. Research these and youll discover the secret to defeating the heart, allowing you to capture and study it





oh, what? You thought that was the end? Thats just one way it could go.

[h2]THE PIT GATE [/h2]
Another time, the ground might shake with a different result. Now a larger piece of terrain has begun sinking into the depths, forming a deepening hole, much wider than before. Inhuman shrieks rise from the depths. It'd be wise to move your colonists, buildings and items away from the emergence point.


Within a day, the pits floor will vanish from sight, falling into the depths where the fleshmass heart came from. A pit gate has formed and will remain open until you collapse it, occasionally releasing foes. To celebrate, a horde of fleshbeasts emerges, along with a noxious stench of rot

To close the gate, the colonists must descend into it. Under the ground all is flesh, having infested a massive cave system. The tunnels are so crammed with biomass that its supporting the ceiling and walls, making it thoroughly unstable. Defeat the motive force of the fleshmass and the tunnels should collapse.


That motive force is housed in a dreadmeld - a mammoth leader creature made up of dozens of smaller fleshbeasts and buried inside the stinking fleshmass.

Its psychic connection to the fleshmass filling the cavern is strong. So strong that killing the dreadmeld will destabilize the whole organism! If you manage to take down the flesh momma, grab what you can (particularly the strange archotech shards it drops) and flee before it collapses and buries you all!

[h2]MORE TO COME![/h2]
So thats the fleshmass, an amorphous, expanding cancerous blob from the dark-beyond. Whether it arrives as a distress call, bursts from the ground as a fleshmass heart, or lurks beneath in the twisted form of a dreadmeld, it just wishes to be loved - or rather, consume all life and turn it into more of itself. Who cant empathize with that?

We hope you enjoyed our darling flesh-things. Please wishlist Anomaly on Steam and join the Reddit discussion for todays preview blog!

Gaze into this twisted, dark space for more information (not too closely, lest it gaze back into you.)

• [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.

[h2]ABOUT ANOMALY[/h2]


The expansion begins when your colonists accidentally provoke a mad superintelligence. From then on, madness manifests: Monstrous creatures, mind-bending mysteries, infiltrating parasites, and sanity-shredding phenomena that twist the whole world around you.

Inspired by classics like Cabin in the Woods, The Thing, The Cthulhu mythos, Hellraiser, and many more, Anomaly goes beyond fighting monsters. This expansion presents ominous, puzzling, mind-controlling, and earth-shaking threats to build your personal horror story.


Some of the twisted scenarios you'll encounter:

• 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!

• Join the discussion on Reddit
  
• Share your thoughts on X (formerly Twitter)

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

[h2]Tis the season to be merry![/h2]
We had a great 2023 together with you guys! Thank you for sharing your love for what we've all created. We see your mods, art, writing, videos, screenshots, Reddit posts, lore analyses, bug reports, comments, suggestions, Steam reviews, memes... all of it!

In 2023, we released our first ever official plushie (the Thrumbo), the Ideology expansion came out on consoles, and our team grew again. Also, RimWorld turned ten years old in November - that even surprised us. How can time go by so quickly?!

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. Please don't hesitate to leave RimWorld or its expansions a Steam review if you enjoy them!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!
Ludeon Studios

[h2]Steam Winter Sale[/h2]
Steam's running their annual Winter sale and RimWorld, Ideology, and Royalty are all on sale. Grab them as a holiday treat, or share the spirit of RimWorld this season with your friends.

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

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
- Clarify that pawns with no xenogenes cannot implant their xenogerm into another person. Show correct warning message on attempt.
- Updated psychic bonding hediff tooltip to factor in pawns contained in buildings.
- Updated player name-in-game content.
[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Load stack count is incorrect for caravan itab when there is only one thing in the transferable and the player isn't taking the whole stack.
- Fixed some typos.
- Fix: Magenta square fetus graphics when reloading.
- Fix: Pawns leaving map have their assignments reset.
- Fix: Error on corpse destruction when completedObligations is null.
- Fix: Gibbet cage description mentions they are made of "steel" but can actually be made of any metal.

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

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
- The bestowing ceremony lord will now be removed once the last pawn has left the map.
- Removed 2 second damage stagger from tunneler mechs. Staggering is based on weapon stopping power as with all other pawns.
- Update previous passion values if a child growth moment picks a skill with passion dropped by gene.
- Pawns that generate with passion-dropping genes will no longer generate with passion for those skills.
- Updated player name-in-game content.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Incapable of violence pawns can activate rocketswarm launchers.
- Fix: Error when shield belt on ground is hit by EMP explosion.
- Fix: Captured prisoners escaping from reformed caravans.
- Fix: Slaves freed on exiting map.
- Fix: Ranged weapons that don't do bullet damage don't display "Headshot" text on head hit.
- Fix: Dead calm pawns go berserk when arresting fails.
- Fix: Embryo skin color not preserved in growth vat between save/load.
- Fix: Pawns incapable of manipulation are able to strip targets via float menu option.
- Fix: Caravans holding relics cause "relic lost" thought on map exit.
- Fix: Rare exception occurring when attempting to start a queued job with a null def.
- Fix: Rare error when attempting to dye buildings.
- Fix: Items in fogged areas counting as complete for bills.
- Fix: Invalid destination for shuttle causes errors.
- Fix: Pollution overlay grid not updating after cell-filling buildings are destroyed.
- Fix: Pawn sibling relationships disappearing when parents are removed.
- Fix: Long range mineral scanner tune command has no description.
- Fix: Hard-coded English string "No description." for commands without a description.
- Potential fix for TKey system suggesting long-form translation aliases.
- Fix: Missing period in legionary description.
- Fix typo: "Do really want to hack..."
- Fix: Awkward wording in dirtmole description.

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

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
- Betrayal quests now fail once all the surviving refugees have joined your faction instead of just any.
- Don't display owner types for cribs since cribs don't have their owner types changed as the room changes.
- Updated name-in-game content.
- Colonists can now put unadopted babies born to prisoners in cribs.
- Moved speech letter translation keys to Core from Royalty.
- Allow rescuing babies, even if they are from a hostile faction, without having to adopt them first.
- Ageless gene stops aging progress at 18.5 instead of 18.
- Unassign beds from pawns that have grown too large to fit in them.
- Added an alert for babies from other factions which have no local caregivers and can be adopted.
- Moved some speech-related translation keys from Royalty to Core.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]
- Fix: Recommended screen resolution incorrect when using DSR.
- Fix: UI scale resetting to higher numbers for monitors with height below expected values. (eg 1280x720)
- Fix: If a child goes through a growth moment expecting passion increase choices, but there are no available passions, the UI will lock.
- Fix: Errors when trying to bring a baby to a mom inside a container to breastfeed.
- Fix: Colonist in labor letter doesn't have look target set.
- Fix: Error on releasing space refugee prisoners.
- Fix: Pawns considered free when using shuttle/pods, causing "Relic lost" thought if equipped.
- Fix: Generated immediate family relationships unable to generate.
- Fix: Fabricors not making medicine.
- Fix: Paramedics not fighting fires automatically.
- Fix: Apparel that can be made of any non-smeltable stuff does not show up on the smelting bill UI. (Eg plate armor)
- Fix: Permits not reset when royal pawn dies, has title inherited, then is resurrected.
- Fix: Psychic suppression targeted by healer mech serum.
- Fix: Mech global work speed is affected by darkness. Inconsistent with move speed.
- Fix: Error when non-human pawn reaches growth moment age.
- Fix: Exception when trying to get mech with no energy need for tooltip in niche circumstances.
- Fix: Inactive sterile gene affects fertility.
- Fix: Gauranlen and polux seeds can be planted on hydroponics basins and plant pots.
- Fix: Beard and genes offset incorrectly based on rotation in some situations.
- Fix: Growth stat appearing on humans.
- Fix: Lancer shoulder parts labels inconsistent.
- Fix typo "crytosleep".
- Fix: Typo in config error when pawn kind appears in more than one BossDef.
- Fix typo: "means that so"
- Fix typo "forth body ring".

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

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
- Improved performance of apocriton's resurrection ability on maps with many mech corpses.
- Shuttles trying to land on a map that was despawned will fallback to using one of the player's home colonies instead.
- Xenotype name is locked when loading custom xenotypes from gene assembler.
- Updated name-in-game content.
- Moved "Person" translation key to Core.
- Removed duplicate stat entry RestFallRateFactor.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Styling station can instantly change hair and tattoo styles by pressing Escape or Enter while the dialog is open.
- Fix: Power consumption on inspect string incorrect when using a consumer with idle power consumption.
- Fix: Fence-blocked animals attempting to reach food that is diagonally accessible but cannot path to become stuck.
- Fix: Child prisoners attempt to wear adult clothing, causing it to disappear.
- Fix: Odd ordering of animals on animals main tab in certain circumstances.
- Fix: The "No trait" option on growth letters does not save and load correctly.
- Fix: Releasing pawns from prison sometimes automatically recruits them.
- Fix: Pawn auto-uses age reversal after changing from Transhumanist to Non-Transhumanist ideoligion.
- Fix: AI trying to use tox gas on immune targets.
- Fix: Baby to child dialog becoming locked.
- Fix: Newly purchased and downloaded game sometimes has extremely high UI scale, making the game unplayable.
- Fix: Randomize symbols doesn't update member noun in ideology's description.
- Fix: Some recipes missing ingredients in tooltip.
- Fix: Reimplant ability not working with custom xenotypes.
- Fix: BackstoryTitle translation key not used in Dialog_NamePawn.
- Fix: {PAWN_gender ? ...} is not processed/ignored in precept tooltips.
- Fix: Thought LabelCap loses lapel capitalization in PostProcessLabel.
- Fix: Issues recruiting pawns in quests.
- Fix: Colonists with pending bestowing ceremony quest in caravans don't have hediffs ticked.
- Fix: Idle and active power draw displayint incorrectly in inspect string.
- Fix: Babies and children added onto total population for shuttle mission quests. Ensure that at least one adult pawn can be left behind before generating quest.
- Fix: Xenogerms with different genes and name stack in trade screen.
- Fix: Pawn lend quests only take into consideration children and babies when determining colonist count when generating.
- Fixed issues dealing with betrayal and refugee quests around recruiting of refugees: Refugees are properly removed from extra faction lists when they are recruited. Recruiting a refugee will immediately fail the betrayal quest.
- Fix typo "targetter".
- Fix typo "capactities".

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

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
- Bestowers will leave if they are exposed to dense tox gas or rot stink.
- Display genes regrowing duration on gene extractor float menu options if available.
- Check if region has deadly danger before giving nature running learning.
- Reduced explosive radius of tox shells when detonated by damage.
- Added null check for Trait.ToString() per modder request.
- Added a utility method and flag for determining what buildings are hoppers per modder request. (thing.IsHopper())
- Added new translation key for backstory title per translator request.
- Fixed some issues related to the FloatRange widget.
- Updated player name-in-game content.
- Reduced performance impact of idle mechs.
- Update game UI to display that bionic stomachs prevent gut worms.
- Show rejected float menu option for slaves attempting to use non-slave medical beds.

[h3]Fixes [/h3]
- Fix: Horizontal sliders not working correctly on Linux. Created custom horizontal sliders to bypass Unity's GUI.HorizontalSlider().
- Fix: Archonexus quest generates "Caravan lost" letters for any pawns left behind.
- Fix: Consume drug commands not appearing.
- Fix: Furskin_Average3 head uses the wrong graphic.
- Fix: Cannot absorb xenogenes from target if target has custom xenotype and selected pawn is baseliner.
- Fix: Tattoos render below heavy brow.
- Fix: New sliders affecting other sliders in the same window.
- Fix: Traits selected during growth moments don't modify skills.
- Fix: Being carried by a pawn removes any tox gas buildup on a pawn.
- Fix: Unresolvable symbol in Tales_DoublePawn.xml: [executioner] should be [EXECUTIONER_nameDef].
- Fix: (*DateTime)...(/DateTime) not working in some translation keys.
- Fix: Faulty report string "Extracting limestone reliquary to inventory."
- Fix: Child not allowed to enter shuttle called via permit.
- Fix: Second sentence of the biosculpter age reversal complete message begins in lower case.
- Fix: Typo "worshiped".
- Fix: Solar Pinhole cannot be created over non-edifice buildings.
- Fix: Fabricor food poisoning chance is 10x too large.
- Fix: Fabricor description mentions it has slug gun, which is no longer true.
- Fix: Children cause the "anima linking ready" alert to be active when no adults can link.
- Fix: Sliders active after mouse up outside of window.
- Fix: Hemogen packs give "ate vegetarian" mood.
- Fix: Errors trying to get hemogen from packs in niche circumstances.
- Fix: Embryo and growth vat embryo insertion command tooltips display incorrect gestation duration.
- Fix: Furskin gene hair/fur color not staying when implanted with a skin color xenogene.
- Fix: Inconsistencies with psychic bond distance between a pawn in a suspended container and a spawned pawn.
- Fix: Incorrect dialog when completing research other than active project in some modded cases.
- Fix: Potential exception throwing another error when trying to get lord.LordJob.ToString() with null job.
- Fix: LetterCrafted(Legendary|Masterwork)Message(Art): Crafted item gender determination issue.
- Fix: Some non-sensical zone overlapping buildings.
- Fix: FloatRange widget doesn't have its current dragged handle reset on mouse up outside window.
- Fix: Deathless pawns who have the deathless gene removed don't have their health updated.
- Fix: Searching for gene in create xenogerm dialog doesn't highlight selected genes.
- Fix: Bandwith loss warning shown when pawn drops non-worn mechanitor equipment.
- Fix: Shared ritual gizmos flickering.
- Fix: Inspect pane displaying incorect power consumption with research.
- Fix: Some buildings able to overlap zones where nonsensical.
- Fix: Typo in chunk skip description.
- Fix: Typo in colonist ripscanned thought description.
- Fix: Duels continue indefinitely if the duelists don't have beds.
- Fix: Exception trying to visit sick pawn with neversleep gene.
- Fix: Babies being assigned child body type on load.
- Fix: Radiotalking doesn't adhere to child's allowed area.
- Fix: Wrong description and tooltip shown for custom xenotype pawns
- Fix: Ambrosia ingestion float menu option displays untranslated key "ConsumeThing".
- Fix: Ambrosia ingestion command displays untranslated key "ConsumeThing".
- Fix: BulletShieldGenerator sounds in incorrect folder.
- Fix: Selecting autobong blueprint causes NullReferenceException.
- Fix: Biostats calculate incorrectly for xenogerms created with 3 of the same gene.
- Fix: Create xenogerm dialog skips when scrolling.

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

[h2]1.4.3562, released Nov 29, 2022[/h2]
- Reduce the frequency at which gunlinks and eltex shirts appear in quest rewards, as they're overrepresented at low colony wealth values.
- Update rewards for OpportunitySite_AncientComplex. Higher value rewards can now occasionally appear, along with genepacks, archite capsules, and deathrest capacity serums.
- Hospitality refugee uses the same system to determine refugee count as for beggars.
- Children now recalculate their life stage immediately when they become an adult instead of waiting for their next growth tick.
- Updated player creative content.
- Moved some SpecialThingFilterDefs to categories other than Root.
- Minor performance improvements for xenotype editor.
- Removed XenotypeSet config error warning if total weight exceeds 100% without "warnIfTotalAbove1" flag turned off.
- Round growth points down on UI for clarity.
- Fix: Infinite loop of hauling mech to charger outside the mech's allowed area.
- Fix: No TKey for "Patrolling.".
- Fix: Inconsistent psychic bond torn when one partner is in a suspendable building.
- Fix: Lover relationships can generate for pawns who have spent their entire life in the colony.
- Fix: Pawns with "dead calm" gene can get into fights over botched conversion attempts.
- Fix: Genes that remove all passions don't save previous values, causing passions to reset on removal.
- Fix: Tox packs activate on stripping or butchering corpses wearing them.
- Fix: Pawns being carried by other pawns strains psychic bond.
- Fix: Hemogen wasted when refueling deathrest buildings.
- Fix: Gene processor has no path cost.
- Fix: Animals specialist role mentions boosting animal-related abilities of nearby allies, which is false.
- Fix: Children generated at tribal game start don't have natural meditation focus.
- Fix: Food restrictions now respect eg "Allow vegetarian food" for instances of food and not just based on def.
- Fix: ThinkNodeConditional_UnderCombatPressure not returning correctly for minCloseTargets > 1.
- Fix: "Tend to self" emergency work giver appears below non-emergency work giver on UI.
- Fix: Text cut off in mod mismatch window.
- Fix: Sanguophages can take too many hemogen packs for maintaining hemogen levels in some circumstances.
- Fix: "Slept in cold" and "Slept in heat" memories don't take into account gene-related comfortable temperature offsets.
- Fix: Drug synthesis speed stat drawer is now consistent with whether a pawn is actually going to be able to craft drugs or not.

[h2]1.4.3558, released Nov 23, 2022[/h2]
- Tribal babies becoming children get natural meditation focus.
- Reworked how many beggars and refugees show up depending on colony population.
- Added a new "core" reward tag for common vanilla quest rewards to avoid having them diluted by future additions.
- Updated the reward frequency for various items. Add flatscreen TV, telescope, gladius, and recurve bow as quest rewards. Remove revolver, double bed, and slab bed.
- Increased the weights for for high and mid frequency quest rewards. Reduce the weighting for empire-specific category rewards.
- Fix: Planting JobDef located in Ideology instead of Core.
- Fix: Mechlink item not saved properly. Causes errors.

[h2]1.4.3557, released Nov 23, 2022[/h2]
- Assign a fallback ideo to non-baby colonists during load that don't have an ideo set.
- Colonists born in the colony no longer stay stuck in labor forever if the Ideology expansion was not active when they became a child.
- Dependency genes override other drug-related genes.
- Slow study gene applies a 50% factor to global learning instead of a -50% offset.
- Added missing Biotech check to seed planting work giver. This could cause issues if players didn't own Ideology.
- Fix: Children get mood debuff for not having gauranlen connection, but cannot connect to tree.
- Fix typo: "yielding" -> "wielding".
- Fix: "Child not in growth vat" thought appears for dead children.
- Fix: Countdown not correctly displaying time.
- Fix: Disabled "extract ovum for IVF" surgery option displays in some erroneous situations.
- Fix: Inactive genes affecting needs.
- Fix: 100% chance for tattoos if pawn has no ideoligion.
- Fix: Wastepack dump quests descriptions unresolved.
- Fix: Banishing colonists doesn't recalculate faction ideoligions.
- Fix: SitePartWorker_MechCluster missing check to see if mechanoid faction exists.
- Fix: Skin or hair color xenogenes are able to be passed onto children in niche circumstances.
- Fix: Exception when attempting to feed arrested patient via right click menu when only food source is nutrient paste dispenser.

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

[h2]Cross-expansion integration[/h2]
Weve been following feedback across the community (Reddit, Steam comments, Twitch, YouTube, and our insightful testers on Discord) to try to make sure all the details are covered. Its a very complex game at this point, so there are quite a few details - having feedback from tens of thousands of people is frankly invaluable from a design perspective.

One theme thats come up is the desire for integration between expansion packs. Originally, I was a bit hesitant to put this in because I worried it would feel like locking one expansions content behind another expansion. However feedback seems to indicate that people want it, and narrative-wise, it would make a ton of sense if the ideoligions from the Ideology expansion had beliefs about xenohumans, sanguophages, children, and so on. So I decided to work on this.

Ive found over the years that the wrong way to design Ideology precepts is to just think of something that seems fictionally reasonable and implement it blindly. You end up with mechanics that make sense but arent actually storyful or fun. Instead, we decided to take a goal experience approach to the design: We wrote down a list of the specific play paths and role-play stories that players might want to explore, and which would also be fun. Then we created precepts that specifically open up those play paths:

Belief issue - Bloodfeeders: The vampire lord with human worshipers is a classic idea. So are the vampire hunters. This precept changes peoples attitudes towards people with the bloodfeeder gene (which in Biotech means only sanguophages, though you can of course create your own bloodfeeder xenotypes).

Those who revere bloodfeeders will want them around, love them, and be fine with being fed upon. Those who revile bloodfeeders will hate having them around, despise them, love killing them, refuse to become them, and hate themselves if they are one. Bring on Draculas thralls.

Belief issue - Child labor: We always had the idea of players being able to choose to invest more or less in children - to decide between using them as workers or fighters, or trying to strengthen their development with a rich and free childhood. Now ideoligions can have opinions on how this ought to be done.

Those who encourage child labor will have children who work faster and not like assigning children to recreation. Those who disapprove of child labor will have children who learn faster, but adults wont be happy if children are assigned to work.

Belief issue - Mechanoid labor: Machine worshippers need to be able to live off the labor of their electrically-powered buddies. When an ideoligion has mechanoid labor enhanced, mechanoids controlled by its mechanitors will work faster, but colonists will work slower (because why should a human have to do a machines job?)

Belief issue - Growth vats: Ideology has technology worshippers and technology haters, and they need to be able to interact with growth vats as well as biosculpter pods.

Those who see growth vats as essential will grow quicker in the vats, but be unhappy with (yuck) natural reproduction. Luddites who see growth vats as prohibited refuse to build them and will be unhappy having them around, and especially having kids inside.

Belief issue - Preferred xenotypes: Whether its a baseliner purity cult or a fur-only yttakin tribe, some beliefs may place a certain xenotypes over others. An ideoligion can have up to three preferred xenotypes. If there are no preferred xenotypes, there is no effect, just like in older versions. However, if any xenotypes are preferred, believers will be happier with a colony of their preferred xenotypes and have a higher opinion of them, but a lower opinion of others. Theyll also try to refuse becoming a non-preferred xenotype and be quite bothered if they end up as one.

More generally, we linked xenogene implantation to the existing body-modding precepts, so those who love or hate body mods will appropriately love or hate having xenogenes as well (note this doesnt affect germline genes, so you can still have e.g. a body purist impid ideology).

Those with beliefs about autonomous weapons will extend those beliefs to the use of mechanoids as well.

[h2]Other notable features[/h2]
Xenotypes breed true: Previously, there were sometimes broken-looking cases where parents with germline genes would have a child that lacked many of them. We removed some metabolism limits for baby gene generation and made the algorithm that generates baby genes from parent genes more flexible. This means that your gene-modded humans will pass down their genes completely and reliably.

Loosening the economy around gene-modding: Previously, making custom xenotypes during game setup worked well, but it was quite hard to actually do genetic modification during the game. Getting your hands on the genes and building all the infrastructure was quite costly and sometimes hard to justify from a game advantage perspective.

Weve tuned some systems to make gene-modding more viable. Now, quest rewards come with a lot more genepack options and theyre available earlier in the game. Weve reduced the xenogerm shock from extracting genepacks which will speed up your extraction efforts. Weve also changed how certain genes apply traits so that you can stack effects together and create more diverse xenotypes. This is an ongoing tuning effort and well be watching and dialing in the numbers to try to make gene-modding useful, moderately costly, and narratively-interesting.

Polux tree seeds: These new special seeds can be acquired in a few special ways. Theyre rare to find, but with them you can plant a polux tree at a place of your choosing. Collecting polux trees is a new alternative way to suppress and remove pollution (besides the atomizer) in the late game (after it builds up in the early/midgame).

Pollution dumping diplomatic responses: There are a variety of ways to deal with pollution - freeze it, erase it in the atomizer, let polux trees neutralize it, just make less of it - or export it. Weve added more depth and sensibility to diplomatic responses from other factions when you dump pollution off-map. Whether youre dropping pods of pollution straight onto their homes, or dumping them off of a caravan, or launching toxic packs into the ocean, other factions will notice and respond more consistently and interestingly. At the most basic level, this means goodwill impacts. However, there is also a small chance of new faction retaliation in response to you dumping pollution in the world - they might send punitive attacks, or even drop some pollution back onto you. Together with the polux tree seeds, we hope that this will balance the choice between different pollution management methods and make that decision more interesting, while also de-emphasizing micromanagement-heavy strategies. It also adds a bit of narrative flair to have other factions respond directly to your actions.

Player-made xenotypes spawn in the world: Player-made xenotypes will now spawn in the world! Your customized pig/cat/dog hybrid no longer needs to be alone. Basically, in various random spawn situations like crash pod survivors or refugees, there is now a chance that the arriving person will spawn as any xenotype in the world. That includes modded xenotypes, as well as xenotypes created by the player. (Note: Not every player-created xenotype file is considered - only those if the xenotype is referred to in an ideoligion or the player used it for a starting colonist).

And the changelog below lists a pile of other smaller changes and fixes - go read it!

Thanks all,
Ty

[h2]Changelog[/h2]

[h3]Changes since unstable[/h3]

• 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.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
- Xenotype editor is available on the ideoligion creation page.
- Growth vat: Essential precept lists growth vat speed increase in tooltip.
- Clarify some Biotech ideo-related strings.
- Remove null genes from custom xenotypes on load.
- Added build commands for shelves on small shelves and vice versa.
- Legionaries spawn with needle launchers, a compact version of the needle gun.
- Tesseron beam grasers have 50% armor penetration.
- Tweaked mechs' combatPower.
- Scale threat points generated by colony mechs by their combat power and a curve based on colony wealth.
- Children have a natural slave suppression offset. 50% at age 3 down to 0 at age 16.
- Ensure mechs on caravans are unaffected by plague dev gizmo.
- Fix: Bloodfeeders reviled precept "bloodfeeder among us" thought is always active.
- Fix: Foam turrets are considered threats.
- Fix: Rename "terrible / great memory" genes to "slow / quick study" to avoid sharing a name with the great memory trait.
- Fix: Tesseron weapon doesn't assign pawn as instigator of damage.
- Fix: Pawns in gene extractors are suspended.
- Fix: Psychic bonds will strain when a pawn is doing a jump ability.
- Fix: Germline genes report "overridden by xenogene:" when no xenogenes are present.
- Fix: Constructoid description mentions removed weapon.
- Fix: Kid tribalwear requires complex clothing research.
- Fix: Newly gestated cleansweeper mechs using incorrect texture.
- Fix: Preferred xenotypes for ideoligions not working correctly in some circumstances.
- Fix: "Skill level" in the psychic power ability tooltip.
- Fix: Skill name in lesson giving/taking report string not translatable.
- Fix: Carrying thing offset for children.
- Fix: Manually added "s"-suffix to [soldiers0_kind] strings.
- Fix: Polux trees cannot be planted without Ideology installed.
- Fix: Body part group tags debug output not working.
- Fix: Duplicate genes displaying in extraction message.
- Fix: When shuffling parents genes into child, list is not cleared, making it always fail after the first attempt.

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.

[h2]Cross-expansion integration[/h2]
Weve been following feedback across the community (Reddit, Steam comments, Twitch, YouTube, and our insightful testers on Discord) to try to make sure all the details are covered. Its a very complex game at this point, so there are quite a few details - having feedback from tens of thousands of people is frankly invaluable from a design perspective.

One theme thats come up is the desire for integration between expansion packs. Originally, I was a bit hesitant to put this in because I worried it would feel like locking one expansions content behind another expansion. However feedback seems to indicate that people want it, and narrative-wise, it would make a ton of sense if the ideoligions from the Ideology expansion had beliefs about xenohumans, sanguophages, children, and so on. So I decided to work on this.

Ive found over the years that the wrong way to design Ideology precepts is to just think of something that seems fictionally reasonable and implement it blindly. You end up with mechanics that make sense but arent actually storyful or fun. Instead, we decided to take a goal experience approach to the design: We wrote down a list of the specific play paths and role-play stories that players might want to explore, and which would also be fun. Then we created precepts that specifically open up those play paths:

Belief issue - Bloodfeeders: The vampire lord with human worshipers is a classic idea. So are the vampire hunters. This precept changes peoples attitudes towards people with the bloodfeeder gene (which in Biotech means only sanguophages, though you can of course create your own bloodfeeder xenotypes).

Those who revere bloodfeeders will want them around, love them, and be fine with being fed upon. Those who revile bloodfeeders will hate having them around, despise them, love killing them, refuse to become them, and hate themselves if they are one. Bring on Draculas thralls.

Belief issue - Child labor: We always had the idea of players being able to choose to invest more or less in children - to decide between using them as workers or fighters, or trying to strengthen their development with a rich and free childhood. Now ideoligions can have opinions on how this ought to be done.

Those who encourage child labor will have children who work faster and not like assigning children to recreation. Those who disapprove of child labor will have children who learn faster, but adults wont be happy if children are assigned to work.

Belief issue - Mechanoid labor: Machine worshippers need to be able to live off the labor of their electrically-powered buddies. When an ideoligion has mechanoid labor enhanced, mechanoids controlled by its mechanitors will work faster, but colonists will work slower (because why should a human have to do a machines job?)

Belief issue - Growth vats: Ideology has technology worshippers and technology haters, and they need to be able to interact with growth vats as well as biosculpter pods.

Those who see growth vats as essential will grow quicker in the vats, but be unhappy with (yuck) natural reproduction. Luddites who see growth vats as prohibited refuse to build them and will be unhappy having them around, and especially having kids inside.

Belief issue - Preferred xenotypes: Whether its a baseliner purity cult or a fur-only yttakin tribe, some beliefs may place a certain xenotypes over others. An ideoligion can have up to three preferred xenotypes. If there are no preferred xenotypes, there is no effect, just like in older versions. However, if any xenotypes are preferred, believers will be happier with a colony of their preferred xenotypes and have a higher opinion of them, but a lower opinion of others. Theyll also try to refuse becoming a non-preferred xenotype and be quite bothered if they end up as one.

More generally, we linked xenogene implantation to the existing body-modding precepts, so those who love or hate body mods will appropriately love or hate having xenogenes as well (note this doesnt affect germline genes, so you can still have e.g. a body purist impid ideology).

Those with beliefs about autonomous weapons will extend those beliefs to the use of mechanoids as well.

[h2]Other notable features[/h2]
Xenotypes breed true: Previously, there were sometimes broken-looking cases where parents with germline genes would have a child that lacked many of them. We removed some metabolism limits for baby gene generation and made the algorithm that generates baby genes from parent genes more flexible. This means that your gene-modded humans will pass down their genes completely and reliably.

Loosening the economy around gene-modding: Previously, making custom xenotypes during game setup worked well, but it was quite hard to actually do genetic modification during the game. Getting your hands on the genes and building all the infrastructure was quite costly and sometimes hard to justify from a game advantage perspective.

Weve tuned some systems to make gene-modding more viable. Now, quest rewards come with a lot more genepack options and theyre available earlier in the game. Weve removed the xenogerm shock from extracting genepacks which will speed up your extraction efforts. Weve also changed how certain genes apply traits so that you can stack effects together and create more diverse xenotypes. This is an ongoing tuning effort and well be watching and dialing in the numbers to try to make gene-modding useful, moderately costly, and narratively-interesting.

Polux tree seeds: These new special seeds can be acquired in a few special ways. Theyre rare to find, but with them you can plant a polux tree at a place of your choosing. Collecting polux trees is a new alternative way to suppress and remove pollution (besides the atomizer) in the late game (after it builds up in the early/midgame).

Pollution dumping diplomatic responses: There are a variety of ways to deal with pollution - freeze it, erase it in the atomizer, let polux trees neutralize it, just make less of it - or export it. Weve added more depth and sensibility to diplomatic responses from other factions when you dump pollution off-map. Whether youre dropping pods of pollution straight onto their homes, or dumping them off of a caravan, or launching toxic packs into the ocean, other factions will notice and respond more consistently and interestingly. At the most basic level, this means goodwill impacts. However, there is also a small chance of new faction retaliation in response to you dumping pollution in the world - they might send punitive attacks, or even drop some pollution back onto you. Together with the polux tree seeds, we hope that this will balance the choice between different pollution management methods and make that decision more interesting, while also de-emphasizing micromanagement-heavy strategies. It also adds a bit of narrative flair to have other factions respond directly to your actions.

Player-made xenotypes spawn in the world: Player-made xenotypes will now spawn in the world! Your customized pig/cat/dog hybrid no longer needs to be alone. Basically, in various random spawn situations like crash pod survivors or refugees, there is now a chance that the arriving person will spawn as any xenotype in the world. That includes modded xenotypes, as well as xenotypes created by the player. (Note: Not every player-created xenotype file is considered - only those if the xenotype is referred to in an ideoligion or the player used it for a starting colonist).

And the changelog below lists a pile of other smaller changes and fixes - go read it!

Heres hoping that the unstable branch isnt too unstable and we can release it to everyone pretty soon. Well be testing for mod compatibility and watching for gameplay feedback. Everyones invited to test and Im very thankful for all feedback we can get. If youre like to help out, please join the RimWorld official development discord.

Please join the discussion on Reddit as well.

The creative story continues - Weve learned a ton from feedback so far and I hope we can learn more going forward. And don't hesitate to leave a review on Biotech!

Thanks all,

Ty

[h2]Unstable build changelog[/h2]
Note: Some items may not be fully functioning in the unstable test, but below is the target changelog for the full release.

[h3]Big new stuff[/h3]
Added precepts related to bloodfeeders:

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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
  

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

[h2]1.4.3527, released Oct 24, 2022[/h2]
- Updated tutorial end message to point players to the correct place for changing storyteller settings.
- Flamebow now triggers "pyromaniac has incendiary weapon" thought.
- Growth moment flavor text no longer appears when a baby becomes a child.
- Ensure severityPerDay doesn't become 0 between save/load cycles.
- Tox gas research requires machining instead of electricity.
- Reduced mechanitor ship combat points by half.
- Remove the option to close the birth letter if the player has not yet named the baby and it's the last tick available to do so.
- Babies born outside the player faction are given a real name instead of just "Baby". Players may still change the name if they adopt the NPC baby within a day of their birth.
- Add a new icon texture for the circle which shows the current color on the copy/paste/change color widget icons.
- Fix: Using reimplant ability doesn't give the recipient the correct xenotype icon for custom xenotypes.
- Fix: Embryo implant float menu options missing pawn icon.
- Fix: AbilityOnCooldown key missing Resolve() call.
- Fix: If a downed enemy is teleported using farskip they will be drafted upon entering the destination map despite being downed.
- Fix: Never sleep xenohumans still rest when caravanning alone.
- Fix: Scenario text cut off if tiny text is disabled.
- Fix: Genetic metabolism doesn't actually affect hunger rate.
- Fix: Double slab bed is not next to single slab bed in the architect menu.
- Fix: Abandoning colony pawns text doesn't mention mechs.
- Fix: Control Sublink (high) can take up the lower 3 sublink levels preventing use of the normal sublinks.
- Fix: Can train shooting and melee on colony mechanoids.
- Fix: Abandoning a colony with mechs in it and making new a base will cause a mech control group error and show mechs are still active.
- Fix: Non-grouped control groups have their label pluralized.
- Fix: Hostile pawns try to path to destroyed structures.

[h2]1.4.3528, released Oct 25, 2022[/h2]
- "My child is happy" and related thoughts can now trigger if a pawn is being carried.
- Fix: Charity-believing pawns will get negative thought from "rejecting" refugees when the quest hasn't even been accepted yet.
- Fix: Letting a pawn die on the world map with wastepacks will not pollute terrain.
- Fix: Eye cut out graphics are misaligned.
- Fix: Ancient exostrider remains are failing to generate in swamp maps.
- Fix: Diabolus has two 'first' body rings.
- Fix: Mechs not entering transport pods.
- Fix: Lifters can try to haul themselves to a transport pod.
- Fix: Bossgroup drop pods don't use mechanoid drop pods.
- Fix: Mech gestator draw size.
- Fix: Mech charger exceeding 100% full of waste if partially emptied.
- Fix: Do a better job of displaying hulk body types in the pawn portrait in the rename UI.
- Fix: Psychic drone now properly triggers for colonists being carried.
- Fix: Held babies/children will now have thoughts about how their parents are happy.
- Fix: NRE when right clicking on prisoner being carried.
- Fix: Mod requirements wrapping instead of truncating
- Fix: Save modlist saving the filtered mod list.

[h2]1.4.3529, released Oct 26, 2022[/h2]
- Added missing fill percent for gene and mech buildings.
- Update go to bed float menu option if pawn is waiting for surgery and no doctors can do it.
- Fix: Comms console float menu options error.
- Fix exploit: Unwaveringly loyal can be bypassed by enslaving prisoners.
- Fix exploit: Capture>Enslave>Imprison>Release recruits pawns immediately.
- Fix: Some Biotech buildings can have unreachable fires in the center cell.
- Fix: Clicking drums without Royalty installed produces a missing Royalty message.
- Fix: Some mechs cannot load into a shuttle.
- Fix: Highmates can create bonds with quest visitors and vice versa.
- Fix: Error if clicking a mech booster blueprint.
- Fix: Hemogen extraction can get "stuck" on.
- Fix: Babies can carry items in caravans.
- Fix: Deathrest buildings use hemogen when not in use.
- Fix: Some randomly chosen genes not overridden properly.
- Fix: Growth tier gizmo displays incorrect percent value on bar.
- Fix: Giving a pawn xeno and germline hemogenic genes results in two hemogen gizmos.

[h2]1.4.3530, released Oct 27, 2022[/h2]
- "Genes regrowing" hediff from gene extraction lasts 12-20 days. (Down from 25)
- Gene extractor takes 12 hours to extract genes. (Down from 24)
- Remove addictions when adding chemical dependency genes.
- Added a toggle to the hemogen gizmo which allows configuration of whether or not a pawn can ingest hemogen packs to satisfy the desired hemogen level.
- Reduce growth points of generated children by ~25%.
- Fertility stat is no longer capped at 100%.
- Deathrest buildings only drain hemogen while in use. A fully loaded deathrest building supplies 10 days of deathrest.
- Don't display pick up options for drugs that the pawn will drop immediately anyways.
- Re-cache CachedTextures on ResetStaticData() calls.
- Minor adjustments to pigskin and impid pawn kinds. Force them to use faction xenotype set.
- Babies that have fallen asleep in someone's arms no longer immediately wake up.
- Fix: With toxic fallout active, inspecting items from trade ships causes errors.
- Fix: Children gain growth points in cryptosleep.
- Fix: Errors if bossgroups are called with the mechanoid faction disabled.
- Fix: Comms console diabolus threat cannot be called by mechanitors if mech faction is disabled.
- Fix: Paramedic not counted as doctor in solo mechanitor run.
- Fix: Archonexus quest allows taking mechanoid weapons with you to a new colony.
- Fix: Psychically bonded pawns in the same caravan still get "psychic bond distance" mood malus in some circumstances.
- Fix: Removing passion-adding genes doesn't revert the effect.
- Fix: Update steel tile description to match them having 0 beauty.

[h2]1.4.3531, released Oct 28, 2022[/h2]
- Increase the tunneler's armor stats.
- Allow children to wear shield belts.
- Increase the radius of the pollution pump by 1 so it can reach the edge of the map.
- Increase the effect of the temperature genes.
- Clarify that the implanted genes ability overwrites the target's xenogenes in the tooltip.
- Update the comms console spawned message to give more info on mech bosses.
- Slightly reduce damage and increase ranged cooldown for militor's mini-shotgun.
- Signal chips reduced to 0 flammability given how much fire the diabolus makes.
- Increased EMP resistance for mech bosses.
- Children can now do basic work at age 3.
- Added alert for incoming bossgroup.
- Adjust prevalence of nicknames among pigskins.
- Add null check to StyleForThingDef.
- Updated player name-in-game content.
- Fix: Some hemogenic abilities can be queued without enough hemogen.
- Fix: AI sanguophages can use longjump without any remaining hemogen.
- Fix: Atomizer is backwards by default.
- Fix: War urchins are not newborn when created by a war queen.
- Fix: Pawns won't haul wastepacks to an atomizer unless there's 10 wastepacks on the map.
- Fix: Bossgroup mechs do not attack if mechanoid faction is disabled.

[h2]1.4.3534, released Oct 31, 2022[/h2]
- Mechlord armor satisfies royal title requirements.
- Added more allowed work types to lifter and fabricor mechs.
- Cleansweepers are now 'basic' mechs.
- Reduced volume and frequency of yttakin sounds.
- Added more feedback to subcore scanners.
- Added 'humans only' option for bills.
- Ensure GeneDefs don't have null icons on incorrect iconPath.
- Fix: Working combat mechs will attack berserk colonists.
- Fix: Forced lowercase in prisoner tab.
- Fix: Abandoning home doesn't unlink deathrest buildings.
- Fix: Deathrest buildings not unlinked on starting new colony for archonexus quest.
- Fix: Melanin genes can be extracted by gene extractor.
- Fix: Cannot build some things without ideoligions active (with Ideology installed)
- Fix: Diabolus' fire burst shoots fuel through the walls.
- Fix: Deathrest bonuses are not removed if deathrest gene is removed.
- Fix: Mechanitor buildings are considered "natural" by natural meditation sources.
- Fix: Error on drafting pawn with hemogenic ability gene with no hemogen gene.
- Fix: Pawns will continue to create a xenogerm until they pass out.
- Fix: Yttakin settlements can have mortars manned by animals.
- Fix: Thrall reinforcements can be passive in certain circumstances.
- Fix: Same pawn listed twice as owner of bedroom if they have a deathrest casket and bed in the same room.
- Fix: Genes can be given to children who do not have prerequisite gene.
- Fix: Unwaveringly loyal sanguophages will offer to join your colony after the quest.
- Fix: Ranged enemies come into melee range consistently when shooting positions are available.
- Fix: Spacedrone hack quest can spawn a spacedrone with an interaction spot in an inaccessible spot.

[h2]1.4.3535, released Nov 1, 2022[/h2]
- Adjusted gene set generation. The first gene added to a set is not restricted by metabolism limits.
- Potential fix for mod-created meat defs with no source causing errors on hemogenic pawns consuming it.
- Fix: Food poisoning chance is 100% for fabricors.
- Fix: Pawn capacities are still affected by overridden genes.
- Fix: Pawns get thoughts from overridden genes.
- Fix: Exception viewing info card of things in orbital trader inventory with noxious haze active.
- Fix: Lactation hediff explanation displays after gene factors on stats page.
- Fix: 'Any mech' bill config not copied when copying and pasting bills.
- Fix: Mechs sometimes not getting into transporters.
- Fix: Rain rate displays as deterioration reason even with a roof above.

[h2]1.4.3536, released Nov 2, 2022[/h2]
- Potential fix: Modded terrain randomly has far more value than it should.
- Fix: Players can bypass metabolism limit of implanting xenogerms by implanting via surgery bill menu.
- Fix: Firefoam poppers can trigger wastepack dissolutions even though no damage is done to them.
- Fix: Fully formed combat mechs in a gestator have 10% energy fall per day.
- Fix: Mechs with human makeable weapons spawn with varying quality.
- Fix: Gestating mechs can be drafted from the mech table.

[h2]1.4.3537, released Nov 3, 2022[/h2]
- Remove "Flesh purity" meme from waster pirate ideo choices.
- Send a message to the player if a pawn is taking a baby to a safe place.
- Mechs can be multi-selected from the mechanitor's control group gizmo by shift-clicking.
- Added some missing [MustTranslate] and [NoTranslate] attributes to FactionDef.
- Send a message notifying when a subscore softscan has completed.
- Display "deathrest connection limit" and "deathrest effectiveness" stats for non-built deathrest buildings.
- "Fertilize" float menu option displays whose ovum it is.
- Reduced "got some lovin'" thought stacked effect multiplier from 0.75 -> 0.6.
- Updated player name-in-game content.
- Fix: Typo in "kind instict" gene description.
- Fix: Wind turbine auto-cut toggle not working.
- Fix: Multiple deathrest gizmos from having both inactive germline and active xenogene deathrest genes.
- Fix: Genes losing pawn references after death->save->load->resurrect.
- Fix: Players can create xenogerms missing prerequisite genes.
- Fix: Drafted colony mechs remain drafted after their mechanitor develops a mental state.

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

[h3]1.4.3524, released Oct 21, 2022[/h3]
- Fix: Mods list not dirtied before sorting on reset.
- Fix: Breach raids not spawning.
- Fix: Children getting adult body types from genes.
- Fix: Kid Romper has no alpha channel. This can cause it to render as a pink square.

[h3]1.4.3525, released Oct 22, 2022[/h3]
- Potential fix for black screen when loading a game with multiple mods.
- Disable growth moment letter for quest lodgers.
- Fix: Temporary work restrictions affect growth moment passion choices.
- Fix: Errors preventing mechs from acting in very niche circumstances.
- Fix: Gene assembler artwork has incorrect import settings.
- Added some mech gestation null checks for safety.
- Fix: Clicking on the "carry pawn" checkbox in caravan screen opens health card.
- Fix: Bandolier and sash have incorrect unfinished thing.
- Fix: Shelves cause non-haulable things in the same cell to not affect beauty.
- Fix: Attempting to absorb a xenogerm of your own colonist displays a warning message saying you'll anger your faction.
- Ignore package id suffix when checking for mod requirements

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:

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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
  

• 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.

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
  

• 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.

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.

[h2]Mechanoid commanders[/h2]

Biotech introduces three new commander mechanoids to fight. Defeat these super-deadly enemies and harvest special mechanoid chips from their smoking husks to advance your mechanoid technology. You can provoke super-mechs into attacking your colony by using signaller devices - but be prepared!

Each mechanoid commander drops a different mechanoid chip. The first time you acquire each type of chip, youll unlock a new tier of mechanoid research. Mechanoid chips are also used as resources to produce top-tier mechanoids and mechanitor upgrades. With enough chips, you can power up your humble mechanitor into an unstoppable mechlord.



We created the super-mechanoid enemies to add meaningful milestones to mechanoid progression. While research is fine for most advancements, we wanted mechanitors to feel different. Progression is actively earned by overcoming tougher and tougher challenges, instead of research alone. We added tons of new controllable mechanoids, brain implants, buildings, and gear to each tier of mechanoid tech to make progression extra rewarding.

You'll be able to fight mechanoid commanders at your own speed. Unlike other challenges in RimWorld that scale as your colony grows wealthier, super-mechanoid enemies scale with the number of times you call them. This allows you to tackle them early on to beef up your tech, or wait and carefully prepare your colony for the big fight.

Super-mechanoids come with escort mechs of all other types to add combat power. Commanders bring a new escort every time they are called, and require a different tactical approach for each engagement. We designed them to be as distinct from each other as possible, so each group is a new challenge. From swarming, to sniping, to scorching, super-mechs have a huge range of combat styles.

Let's look at the super-mechanoid types:



Diabolus: An ultra-heavy mechanoid with a high-energy hellsphere cannon. Made for siege-breaking, its hellsphere cannon takes time to charge up a shot, but can melt concrete and vaporize bone. The diabolus dissipates its waste power through a heat column mounted on its back, allowing it to produce massive fiery explosions as a defensive measure if surrounded at close range. While extremely powerful, the diabolus lacks maneuverability - meaning youll need to be fast and agile to defeat it! Keep your colonists moving to outpace its hellsphere cannon, or distract it with cannon fodder.



War queen: A terrifying mechanoid with a built-in mech gestator. The war queen can gestate small war urchin combat mechs inside its massive carapace and deploy them into combat. Given time to build up numbers, a war queen can overwhelm any opponent with dozens of war urchins. The war queen demands respect - failing to destroy it quickly could have devastating consequences as it grows its swarm and overruns your colony.



Apocriton: The mysterious apocriton is an intelligent commander mechanoid and psychic warrior that harbors endless hatred for humanity. Not much is known about it, except that its psychic powers poison the human mind with rage. Its weapon is hatred.

[h2]Combat mechanoids[/h2]

Crush enemies and raiders with your own mechanoid army. Biotech lets you control hordes of killer mechs, all connected to your mechanitor overseer. Even death wont stop them - you can resurrect your destroyed mechanoids in gestator tanks.

However, protecting your very mortal mechanitor is crucial. Drafted combat mechanoids need to stay within range of their overseer to receive commands. While mechanoids can work autonomously at any distance, they can only be ordered to move or attack targets that are within their mechanitors range. Mechanoids that become severed from their overseer risk defecting to hostile mech hives.

The new combat mechanoids in Biotech include:



Militor: The cannon-fodder of any sizable mechanoid army. These small combat mechanoids are armed with a low-power mini-shotgun. Roughly four feet tall, militors lack the power, range, and toughness of more senior combat mechs. However, they are cheap to gestate and maintain, making them the perfect swarmer.

Scorcher: A close-approach war mechanoid that specializes in incendiary attacks. Its flame burst attack has little reach, but once it closes on defenders, it can ignite and disrupt them with blasts of searing flame. Scorchers quickly turn firefights into fire fights. These mechanoids start wildfires with ease and are especially effective against large groups of attackers or those taking shelter in flammable defenses.

Legionary: A combat support mechanoid with a wide-range bullet shield and long-range needle gun. Legionaries are excellent for defending long-range allies. Its shield absorbs incoming projectiles, while allowing colonists and mechanoids to shoot out freely. However, legionaries are weak to melee attackers, and their shield can be quickly broken with an EMP.



Tesseron: A medium-range combat mechanoid with a powerful, sweeping beam graser attack. Their gamma ray laser is powerful enough to ignite its targets and can even pass through shields. This lets tesserons strike multiple foes from a safe distance, and breach shielded enemies. However, tesserons are unable to focus their laser at close range, making them susceptible to fast-moving melee opponents.

Centurion: A nearly unstoppable ultra-heavy mech with a built-in shield bubble generator and point-defense bulb turret capable of firing even while the mechanoid is moving. The centurion acts as a mobile defense platform. Its massive shield is one of the strongest among mechanoids, providing large numbers of allies with strong defense while allowing them to shoot outwards.

In addition to the new mechanoids, youll be able to control the classic mechanoid types - pikemen, scythers, centipedes, and lancers. With the right technology, you can even create your own super-mechanoids like the diabolus and war queen!

We had two main goals with combat mechanoids. First, we wanted to create more diversity in combat. Colonists are only human, which puts limitations on how diverse they can be in battle, whereas mechanoids can have very exotic movement types, abilities, weapons, and tools. From swarms of cheap, disposable gunners to slow-moving, tanky tunnelers and shield-projecting defenders, mechanoids bring a ton of variety to the battlefield and allow for many creative tactics.

Second, we didnt want to entirely remove the human element from combat. Some of the most interesting RimWorld stories come from defending your colony - or attacking another! By requiring mechanitors to fight alongside their mechanoids, we preserve the human element - and the tension - of facing down hostile mechs, pirates raids, and manhunter packs.

[h2]Mechanoid colors and names[/h2]

Style your mechanoids with dozens of different colors to give them a personalized look, and distinguish them from enemy units. And yes - you can rename your mechanoids.




[h2]Mechanitor upgrades[/h2]

By unlocking more powerful mechanoid technology, youll gain access to a wide variety of mechanitor upgrades, from neural implants to special mechanitor armor.

Heres an overview of the mechanitor implants youll have access to in Biotech:

• 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.
  

• 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.

• 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.

[h2]The mechanitor[/h2]

A mechlink is a new implant that allows a person to form a direct mental link to mechanoids and control them via electromagnetic signals and psychic influence. Someone who has a mechlink is called a mechanitor.



Mechanoids arent controlled independently, but through a human - this design intentionally keeps the mechanoid systems focused on a human being, which is critical to building an emotional story.

Mechanoids can perform in both work and combat. Some mechanoids are workers that will politely harvest crops or haul items as long as their little power cells are charged. Some can work or fight, crushing rock and bone with equal ease. Finally, there are a wide array of pure combat mechanoids with very diverse abilities. Incendiary beam weapons, movable projectile shields, long-range charge lances, blade-covered scythers, flame-spitters and more can be deployed in many combinations to defeat any threat via interlocking tactics.

There are a few ways to become a mechanitor, and all involve looting technology from an ancient dead mechanitor. If you can dig a datacore out of an ancient ruined super-mechanoid, you can use it to call an ancient mechanitors ship to land at your colony and harvest the mechlink from his body. Alternatively, you might be able to learn about an ancient mechanitors command complex, go there, penetrate inside through the security systems and grab the mechlink from him. You can also start the game with the new mechanitor scenario, where you begin the game as a solitary mechanitor with a mechanoid buddy.

Its possible to do a single-person mechanitor run, where one mad scientist type lives alone in a grand base surrounded by walking, semi-thinking machines. Making this possible was a design goal from day one, because exotic play paths are so fun to explore. However, we expect mechanitors to most often live more normally among other colonists, commanding mechanoids to work and fight alongside human allies. If you really want to scale up, it is possible to collect multiple mechlinks and turn several colonists into mechanitors, though this takes a long time.

All our game mechanics interact freely. Its possible for your mechanitor to also be a high noble with the Royalty expansion, a religious prophet with the Ideology expansion, and a deathless blood-drinker with this Biotech expansion, because why not?

Mechanitors start out with the ability to command just a few small mechs. Over time, they can grow a grand swarm. They do this by gaining more bandwidth and control groups:

• 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.
  

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

• 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

• 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

[h2]Steam Deck Improvements[/h2]
- Fixed multiple cases where on Steam Deck some keyboard shortcuts were mentioned
- Commands now show "button A" glyph instead of "A" label on Steam Deck.
- When architect search bar is focused on a Steam Deck and the on-screen keyboard is visible, move gizmos up so that they're still visible.
- Added "Keyboard mode" option on Steam Deck in case someone connects a keyboard to the SteamDeck.

[h2]Ideology Improvements[/h2]
- Drum and dance parties can be held in the "Ideology system inactive" mode. Party hard!
- Relics system now works in "Ideology system inactive" mode. You can do the relic chase, quests, build the reliquaries, and so on.
- Colonists no longer get upset for delaying a ritual.
- Colorized some ideoligion-related text in ritual trigger letter.
- Negative thoughts related to not having enough scarification scars do not apply at very low expectations or lower.
- "No slaves in colony" thought does not apply at "Very low" expectations or below.
- Ritual opportunity letters are skipped for most rituals for the first 10 days of play.
- Adjusted reliquary description.
- Adjusted inspect pane and stat readout for relics in classic mode.

[h2]Misc[/h2]
- Updated player creative content.
- Changed the nutrients needed for lavish vegetarian and lavish carnivore meals to 1.25 (previously 2.5).

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Dismissing on-screen keyboard on SteamDeck doesn't unfocus the text field.
- Fix: Not all precepts are added to memes during fluid ideoligion development.
- Fix: Malformed letters are sent to the player regarding ritual obligations that should not send letters.
- Fix: Multiple funerals generating for ideoligions.
- Fix: Word of serenity does not work on catatonic breakdown.
- Some minor fixes to how ideoligions are generated.

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

[h2]Ideology Improvements[/h2]
- Fix: Reforming a fluid ideo lists some precepts as "incompatible" when they actually arent.
- Fix: Ability gizmos are still available for roles that have been removed via reformation.
- Display incompatible issue and precept names instead of just precept names in reformation confirmation dialog.
UI Improvements
- Show accept key command hotkey on SteamDeck.
- Set new, better SteamDeck menu icons.
- Larger float menu options on SteamDeck.
- Main buttons position change (change height instead of y).
- Keyboard on a SteamDeck now shows automatically when a new text field is focused.
- Show a special window at the top of the screen which shows the typed in text, since SteamDeck keyboard can sometimes block the text field view.
- Increase text input font size.
- Don't show tooltips when the SteamDeck keyboard is open.
- Change quests SteamDeck icon.

[h2]Controls[/h2]
- Touch screen scrolling improvements on SteamDeck.
- It's now possible to scroll through lists by dragging your finger on SteamDeck.
- Make zooming faster on SteamDeck.
- Holding a special "middle mouse button" button on SteamDeck, now translates left clicks into right clicks. This makes it possible to give goto orders to drafted pawns by using the touch screen.
- Don't pan the camera if the middle mouse button is held and a colonist is selected on SteamDeck.
- Allow more zoom on SteamDeck for better touch screen support and easier navigation.
- Better time controls on SteamDeck, it's now possible to increase/decrease time speed with back buttons.
- Accept key on a SteamDeck now activates the first command.

[h2]Misc Improvements[/h2]
- Tutorial now mentions the correct button names on SteamDeck.
- Added triggered modal ConceptDefs which explain SteamDeck controls.
- Added controller configuration button to options on SteamDeck.
- Added an option to disable tiny fonts in options.

[h2]Technical[/h2]
- Added SteamDeck configuration file.
- Added SteamInput.
- Make ScrollWheelZoomRate a static property.
- Suppress SteamDeck ConceptDef warnings.
- Added UnityGUIBugsFixer calls to LearningReadout since it uses GUI.BeginScrollView directly.
- Ensure FixSteamDeckMousePositionNeverUpdating() works even for non-1 scales.
- Updated steam dlls in root directory.
- Updated Steamworks so that it's possible to show the correct on-screen keyboard on SteamDeck.
- Added "Simulate using Steam Deck" debug setting.
- AllTypes now tries to use all types it could load instead of failing entirely.
- LearningReadout now uses Widgets.BeginScrollView instead of GUI.BeginScrollView to support SteamDeck fixes
- Added support for build numbers in LoadFolders.xml

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Mouse position never updates on Linux builds.
- Fix: Missing EventUp event in MultiPawnGotoController on SteamDeck
- Fix camera movement on SteamDeck. "Middle mouse button" camera movement on SteamDeck now works as well. This also allows using touch screen to move the camera.
- Fix Unity bug with GetMouseButton() returning false.
- Fix: Changing GUI.matrix also breaks mousePosition, added 1 more UnityGUIBugsFixer callback to fix this
- Fix: Main buttons have a 1px gap at the bottom and they can't be clicked there
- Fix: Keyboard instantly hides after appearing
- Fix: Mouse position never updates on a SteamDeck
- Fix: Error after pressing quit to OS button
- Fix: The "absorb clicks area" around gizmos is too large and it makes the left part of every gizmo unusable, even though the gizmo is highlighted.
- Fix: Q and E hotkeys shown on a SteamDeck.
- Fix: Null ref error in SelectApproximateBestTravelSupplies when sending caravan
- Fix: Only a small part of ideo appearances precept box is clickable because an incorrect rect is used

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

[h2]Steam Deck Changes[/h2]
In a previous announcement, we said support for the Steam Deck would be delayed until after the consoles release. Since then, our tech lead Piotr Walczak has been working hard to put together this integration update.

The update focuses on Steam Deck changes and improvements. The UI changes make it easier to read on-screen text and type with the Steam Deck keyboard, and menus look a lot better. The controls make more sense now with improved scrolling, zooming, time control, and touch screen navigation. Overall, playing RimWorld on Steam Deck should be a lot smoother with more intuitive controls. There may be more changes on the way to get RimWorld a Verified status for Steam Deck.

We also fixed some sources of annoyance in the ideoligion configuration screen.

The full changelog is below.

[h2]Ideology Improvements[/h2]
- Fix: Reforming a fluid ideo lists some precepts as "incompatible" when they actually are.
- Fix: Ability gizmos are still available for roles that have been removed via reformation.
- Display incompatible issue and precept names instead of just precept names in reformation confirmation dialog.
UI Improvements
- Show accept key command hotkey on SteamDeck.
- Set new, better SteamDeck menu icons.
- Larger float menu options on SteamDeck.
- Main buttons position change (change height instead of y).
- Keyboard on a SteamDeck now shows automatically when a new text field is focused.
- Show a special window at the top of the screen which shows the typed in text, since SteamDeck keyboard can sometimes block the text field view.
- Increase text input font size.
- Don't show tooltips when the SteamDeck keyboard is open.
- Change quests SteamDeck icon.

[h2]Controls[/h2]
- Touch screen scrolling improvements on SteamDeck.
- It's now possible to scroll through lists by dragging your finger on SteamDeck.
- Make zooming faster on SteamDeck.
- Holding a special "middle mouse button" button on SteamDeck, now translates left clicks into right clicks. This makes it possible to give goto orders to drafted pawns by using the touch screen.
- Don't pan the camera if the middle mouse button is held and a colonist is selected on SteamDeck.
- Allow more zoom on SteamDeck for better touch screen support and easier navigation.
- Better time controls on SteamDeck, it's now possible to increase/decrease time speed with back buttons.
- Accept key on a SteamDeck now activates the first command.

[h2]Misc Improvements[/h2]
- Tutorial now mentions the correct button names on SteamDeck.
- Added triggered modal ConceptDefs which explain SteamDeck controls.
- Added controller configuration button to options on SteamDeck.
Technical
- Added SteamDeck configuration file.
- Added SteamInput.
- Make ScrollWheelZoomRate a static property.
- Suppress SteamDeck ConceptDef warnings.
- Added UnityGUIBugsFixer calls to LearningReadout since it uses GUI.BeginScrollView directly.
- Ensure FixSteamDeckMousePositionNeverUpdating() works even for non-1 scales.
- Updated steam dlls in root directory.
- Updated Steamworks so that it's possible to show the correct on-screen keyboard on SteamDeck.
- Added "Simulate using Steam Deck" debug setting.
- AllTypes now tries to use all types it could load instead of failing entirely.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Missing EventUp event in MultiPawnGotoController on SteamDeck
- Fix camera movement on SteamDeck. "Middle mouse button" camera movement on SteamDeck now works as well. This also allows using touch screen to move the camera.
- Fix Unity bug with GetMouseButton() returning false.
- Fix: Changing GUI.matrix also breaks mousePosition, added 1 more UnityGUIBugsFixer callback to fix this
- Fix: Main buttons have a 1px gap at the bottom and they can't be clicked there
- Fix: Keyboard instantly hides after appearing
- Fix: Mouse position never updates on a SteamDeck
- Fix: Error after pressing quit to OS button
- Fix: The "absorb clicks area" around gizmos is too large and it makes the left part of every gizmo unusable, even though the gizmo is highlighted.

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

[h2]New feature[/h2]
- Added a new play option that allows playing with Ideology content active, but without the ideoligions system active. This is appropriate for someone on their first game, or who isn't trying to do something specific with ideoligions. Ideology content includes things like: Ancient complex quests, biosculpter technology, Gauranlen trees, ancient debris, etc.

[h2]UI improvements[/h2]
- Reworked ideoligion setup UI. Classic, custom and load buttons are now selectable elements that take effect when the player hits "next".
- The old "classic" mode is now called "classic-like" and is one of the "mild" presets.
- Meme tooltips now list all prevented precepts instead of just saying how many there are.
- Randomizing precepts no longer brings up a confirmation dialog if the user has not edited precepts.
- We now draw a thin faint box around ideoligion preset selectables, precept and meme boxes. Looks better.
- Ideoligion building missing alerts now specify what building it is a variant of. It also displays where you can find it in the architect menu or which buildings produce it.
- A "Show all" checkbox on ideo dialog shows all hidden precepts.
- Updated meat eating precept and thought labels and descriptions to better match gameplay.

[h2]Tuning - General[/h2]
- Added a 0.75x factor to pawn points for colony slaves when calculating threat point (wealth points was already adjusted for slaves). This means having slaves won't attract larger threats as much as colonists.
- Reduced mechanoid CenterDrop raid arrival mode weight at 1000+ points 3.5 -> 1.3. Mechanoids are now more likely to arrive by walking in to the map edge.
- Reduced mechanoid RandomDrop raid arrival mode weight at 1000+ points 1.9 -> 1.3. Mechanoids are now more likely to arrive by walking in to the map edge.

[h2]Tuning - Ideoligions[/h2]
- Meme FleshPurity no longer forces the anti-biosculpting precept. This should allow players to use biosculpting to recover limbs for their purists so they don't end up being all amputees after a while.
- Bigotry precepts don't have associated memes any more, so won't appear unless specifically configured by the player. This reduces annoyances around dealing with bigoted guests and recruits.
- Remove the carnivore precept requirements from the Rancher meme. Reduce Rancher meme's plant work speed factor from 0.9 to 0.70. Reduce Rancher meme's impact from 3 to 2. This reduces annoyances and fiddliness with carnivore food restrictions, and balances the meme more simply, with an upside to animal raising matched by a downside to crop raising.
- Remove the 'no recent animal slaughter' negative thought from the rancher meme, along with all associated code and content. This particular thought was too limiting for players and not worth having.
- Remove most meme associations from vegetarian and carnivore precepts. These shouldn't appear unless player specifically configures them. This should reduce annoyances around food requirements of specific guests or recruits.

[h2]Misc[/h2]
- Added a debug tool for spawning meals with specific ingredients.
- Reworked eclipse precept artwork.
- Updated "name in game" player names.
- The system now ensures all mods adhere to their forceLoadBefore and forceLoadAfter lists.
- Only log warning message if quest script is unaffected by points and population. The user is warned with "[not now]" if affected by points or population.
- Added fail message for generating single quest.
- Improve some charity quest-related message texts.
- In classic mode, ensure factions generated after initital world gen use the same classic ideoligion.
- Raid sample debug outputs now correctly uses lastRaidFaction and resets it afterwards.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Rendering bug (all rectangles are white) on intel graphics.
- Fix: Error generating sampled raid info under faction's min points to generate combat encounter.
- Fix: NullReferenceException when attempting to trade from shuttle.
- Fix: "Assign owner" tooltip for animal beds mentions humanlike owners.
- Fix: Getting raid sample info for non-hostile factions re-selects a hostile faction, giving inaccurate results.
- Fix: Torture crown is automatically equipped by colonists.
- Fix: Classic mode ideoligions don't start with some classic precepts.
- Fix: Blindness from resurrector mech serum is not cured by biosculpter regen cycle.
- Fix: Resurrector mech serum plays resurrection sound on item pickup, not on application.
- Fix: Error when generating pawn from factions that do not have allowed cultures, or their allowed cultures do not have styleItemTags.
- Fix: Faction ideoligions are not reset on going back from colonist selection screen if the player first chooses classic, then another option.
- Fix: Mods without forceLoadBefore/forceLoadAfter cannot be enabled.
- Fix: Mods with forceLoadBefore/forceLoadAfter cannot be disabled.
- Fix exploit: Player is able to claim ruined furniture on non-home maps and draw out an enemy attack on the claimed furniture. Now ruins are only claimable if there is no non-downed hostile pawn on the map.
- Fix: RitualObligationTrigger_EveryMember doesn't recache active obligations on ideoligion reform.
- Fix: Non-site psychic emanation and suppression ship parts don't have their gender randomized.
- Fix: Bugs related to copying an ideology for reform process.
- Fix: Shelves, chairs and stools don't have style dominance.
- Fix: Ideoligion info available on ritual begin dialog in classic mode.
- Fix: Loading classic mode game gives the player non-classic rituals.
- Fix: Execution requires altar or ideogram in classic mode.
- Fix: Inverted check when checking if a player can claim factionless buildings.
- Fix: Jumping resets "Fire at will" toggle.
- Fix: Exception using some mods. Added LastAnimalSlaughterTick property as obsolete.
- Fix: NullReferenceException slaughtering animals without Ideology installed.
- Fix: Research warning doesn't check for minor ideoligions.
- Fix: Fluid ideoligion with proselytizer gains development points for all conversions, including conversions to other ideoligions.

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

[h2]Combat - Turrets[/h2]

- Mini-turret damage increased from 11 to 12.
- Mini-turret accuracy increased: touch 0.7 -> 0.77, short 0.64 -> 0.7, medium 0.41 -> 0.45, long 0.22 -> 0.24.
- Autocannon damage increased from 25 to 27.
- Autocannon accuracy increased: touch 0.25 -> 0.28, short 0.65 -> 0.72, medium 0.6 -> 0.66, long 0.45 -> 0.5.
- Uranium slug turret damage increased from 50 to 55.
- Uranium slug turret accuracy increased: touch 0.2 -> 0.22, short 0.3 -> 0.33, medium 0.4 -> 0.44.
- Mortar miss radius reduced from 10 to 9 (when playing without classic mortars active).
- The accuracy of mortars is now related to a pawn's shooting skill. Skill level 8 makes it the same as before. Higher skill will make the mortar more accurate, while lower skill will make it less accurate.
- Turret ammo cost is no longer factored by difficulty.
- Reduced uranium slug turret cost per shot from 3 uranium to 2.666.

[h2]Combat - Enemies[/h2]

- Reduced termite mech's thump cannon range from 25.9 to 24.9.
- Added a way to make special per-faction raid strategy probabilities.
- Adjusted mechanoid raid strategy probabilities so that late game they use breachers about 33% of the time instead of 90% of the time.
- Breachers no longer want to attack passable player buildings. They only target impassable buildings like walls.
- Changed termite thump cannon's damage multiplier versus walls from 4x to 2x (so their damage versus walls dropped from 540 to 270). It now requires 2 shots from a termite to destroy a 300hp steel wall.
- Changed breaching axe's damage multiplier versus walls from 1 to 0.75 (so their damage versus walls drops from 75 to ~56).
- Selection weight of the most recent raid faction is reduced by 60% when choosing a faction for the next raid.
- Adjusted human factions' raid strategy selection weights for slightly more variation.

[h2]Food handling[/h2]

- We now vary meal textures depending on ingredients.
- Food restrictions are automatically applied to pawns from ideoligions that require a specific food type.
- Meals now look differently depending on whether they were made from vegetarian, carnivore, or mixed ingredients. This will help you manage stockpiles of food for pawns with different dietary demands.
- Meal inspect strings now display information regarding their ingredients and who would accept eating them.
- With Ideology active, colonists will not automatically merge meals with different food kinds (i.e. meat only or veg only).
- Meal-related thoughts now display which meal caused the thought.
- Added food restrictions for meat or veg only meals.
- Added special thing filters for meat and veg ingredient-filled meals.
- Add insect meat food restriction and special things filter.
- Add cannibal food restriction and special thing filter.
- Don't apply ate meat thought if vegetarian eats human meat, allow strong cannibal precepts with meat eating negative precepts.

[h2]Misc improvements[/h2]

- Reworked how tree-lovers respond to the destruction of trees to be smoother and more consistent. Tree Density ideo precept now has a mood penalty directly proportional to the number of destroyed trees, with no effect from biome.
- Biosculpter inspect string now says which pawn and cycle will be run while pawn has job to enter in progress.
- Add LookTarget to the cure message shown when using healer mech serum.
- Restored the healing message displayed after using a healer mech serum.
- Pawns can now install pre-built furniture even if it is incompatible with their ideo.
- When you r-click on a biosculpter with a pawn selected, we now show biosculpter cycles' durations in the context menu.
- Biosculpter's inspect pane readout now notes if biosculpting cycle is accelerated by precept (i.e. if the pawn is a transhumanist).
- Show biosculpter cycle duration for both normal and transhumanist pawns in cycle button's tooltip.
- Some research now requires high tech bench: brain wiring, compact weaponry, neural supercharge, biosculpting, specialized limbs, poison synthesis.
- Buildings in non-player non-hostile maps can no longer be claimed while there are members of the owner faction active.
- Slaves are now worth 75% of colonists in terms of map wealth and population.
- Terminals in worshipful villages now take 3 seconds to hack.
- Changed slag steel chunk mass from 5 to 8 so it doesn't weight less than the steel you get by smelting it.
- Added a loading tip describing fixed wealth mode.
- Total tend quality info is now only displayed if the hediff disappears after a certain level of tend quality (since it's fairly useless otherwise).

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

- Fix: Hood and torture crown have no armor ratings.
- Fix: Transport pods built before last patch have 0 capacity.
- Fix: Uninstalling and reinstalling a mortar resets its cooldown.
- Fix: Caravan fails to leave map if roping pawn removed or mental break while animal still in pen.
- Fix: Newborn animals from other factions don't leave with faction.
- Fix: High life precept description doesn't properly display mood range.
- Fix: Less-restrictive nudism precepts are inconsistent with allowed gear.
- Fix: Autobong doesn't satisfy smokeleaf dependence.
- Fix: Special characters on named precepts can break UI.
- Fix: Starting packaged survival meals can be made of ingredients not allowed by ingredient filters.
- Fix: Tattoo artwork integration bugs.
- Fix: Error message with def for smeltProducts.
- Fix: Long range mineral scanner took 10x less work to build than similar structures.
- Fix: Work speed penalty reasons formatting issues.
- Fix: Remove gestation period stat for megaspiders and spelopedes, since they do not breed.
- Fix: Slab bed doesn't burn.
- Fix: Potential nullref in CompAbilityEffect_StartRitual.
- Fix: Drum party-related error when ticking AI lord.
- Fix: Blood from scarification is from cutter, not cuttee.
- Fix: Psyfocus ritual reward does not recharge psyfocus to max.
- Fix: Trade price tooltip for selling bonus when player's negotiator has ideo leader role.
- Fix: Mortar draws interaction spot when selected.
- Fix: If a hosted guest is imprisoned and enslaved, the gear he is wearing remains locked.
- Fix: Paralytic Abasia pawn enslaved throws 10 jobs in one tick when emancipated.
- Fix: Meals with no ingredients cause "ate non-meat" thought.
- Fix: Player-provided saved game had a settlement with a non-functional trade button. It no longer refuses to trade.
- Fix: Pawns grow at incorrect rate and do not reach adulthood at the age specified in relevant race defs.
- Fix: Saving and loading repeatedly while doors are waiting to close can cause them to become stuck open.
- Fix: Darkness pawns have a 'outdoors lit' accuracy debuff when targeting something in a cave.
- Fix: Hauling items into stockpiles occasionally fails with a NullReferenceException. This affected emptying egg box job and possibly others.
- Fix: Bestowing ceremony target is undraftable even after ceremony ended.
- Fix: Hackables can be instantly hacked.
- Fix: Autobong reduces consciousness of mechs.
- Fix: Raiders attacking non-aggressive roamers.
- Fix: Vegetarian pawns get mad eating vegetarian-made pemmican.

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

[h2]Biosculpter changes[/h2]

- Transhumanism believers will now automatically take their yearly age reversal cycle if the new Auto age reverse toggle on biotuned biosculpter pods is enabled
- All cycles now take 5 nutrition, and nutrition must be loaded before a cycle is selected instead of after. Extra cycle ingredients (like glitterworld medicine) are collected and carried to the biosculpter by the pawn initiating the cycle.
- It now only requires a single player action to start a pawn on a biosculpter cycle (previously it took two separate actions and waiting for pawns to fill nutrition).
- Biosculpter pods glow green when nutrition is loaded and theyre ready for cycle selection.
- Biotuned biosculpter pods now run cycles 25% faster.
- Biotuning now happens after a cycle is completed instead of when a pawn enters the pod.
- Biosculpters consume 50W of power if no cycle is running, and 200W if a cycle is running, instead of consuming full power all the time.
- Biosculpters now take longer to minify.
- Age reversal demanded alert will fire 1 day after age reversal deadline (instead of 5 days before) if a pawn has a pod with Auto age reverse enabled. This reduces spam.
- Nutrition is liquified when added to a pod and is no longer ejected if a cycle is cancelled.
- If biosculpter loses power while occupied, we don't animate and we now show how long until eject in inspect string.
- Change pleasure cycle mood bonus from +10 to +15.
- Biotuning duration has been increased to 80 days from 60 days.
- Biosculpter deconstruct yield is down to 25% from 50%.
- Biosculpter construct cost increased from 3 to 4 components.
- Biosculpters don't heal missing eyes if the pawn's ideoligion approves of blindness.

[h2]Caravan improvements[/h2]

- Change caravan packing spot to caravan hitching spot. It's still free, but it does more.
- Caravan hitching post now can be used to keep animals in place on temporary maps.
- Caravan pawns gathering items now haul items in their inventory to pack animals. This drastically speeds up caravan formation.
- Animals will eat and sleep within their rope area if they're roped to a spot.
- Added an alert that shows when hungry animals are tied to hitching posts.
- Allow caravan pawns to sleep in bed while packing, less dire hunger threshold before eat, and allow pawn to regain excited travel thought after draft.
- Change caravan hauling behavior to cancel enroute instead of waiting for arrival if ticks after first item pickup timeout exceeded.
- Added a positive thought when pawns have been preparing a caravan for a long time, to reduce pawns going insane from caravan prep.
- Joy decreases more slowly when a pawn is preparing a caravan.
- Colonists will now look for food in pack animal inventory if no better food sources available.
- Colonists will grab food from pack animal to feed patients if no other food available.
- Colonists can grab medicine from pack animals.
- Colonists will take drugs (if assigned or need) from pack animal inventory if no other sources are available.
- Update pen needed alert to take into account hitching post and handling skill for roping removal.
- Remove animal handling skill requirements for roping to pen.
- Save prepare caravan gather items toil tree to disk.

[h2]Archonexus improvements[/h2]

- Add animal pregnancy, gender, and bonded information to archonexus settlement dialog.
- Sort items players take to new archonexus settlement more in line with usefulness.
- Update new archonexus settlement confirm dialog always show and warn if all items or relics not selected.
- Tweak count of items players can bring to new archonexus settlement.
- Change archonexus item selection such that weapons and utility belts are unequipped and must be explicitly chosen.
- Remove pawn hediffs like hypothermia and malnutrition upon new archonexus settlement.
- Swap thing icon and info icon in archonexus dialog.
- Reset pawn food and rest levels when starting new archonexus colony.
- Add animation after selecting new archonexus settlement to make moment feel more significant.

[h2]Misc improvements[/h2]

- Ideoligious buildings are no longer expected to be placed in non-home maps.
- Display current and required total tend qualities in the tooltip for hediffs with HediffComp_TendDuration comp. (Muscle parasites, athsma, gut worms, etc...)
- Separated "Weapon" stat category into "Weapon (melee)" and "Weapon (ranged)".
- Pawn beauty stat is now visible even when the value is zero.
- Precept name length is now limited.
- Minor fixes to new colony optimism thought appliance when abandoning settlements or creating new ones.
- New colony optimism thought is now given to all colonists after the player settles a tile and he had no home map elsewhere and when player abandons his last home map. This makes relocating much more feasible, especially in emergencies.
- Reduced the amount of ancient junk that spawns on newly-generated maps.
- Blind pawns who venerate trees can now sense nearby trees and enjoy their presence even without sight.
- Reduce prevalence of breach raids at high points levels.
- Update predators hunting across fences tooltip to match current functionality.
- Ensure the trigger conditions for scarification/blinding are clear to the player.
- Right clicking on ancient junk with drafted pawn shows option to attack.
- Unforbid items in pawn inventory if taken by caravan from temporary map.
- Animals with paralytic abasia can be tamed or hunted without penalty after a animal hospitatlity quest ends. Hospitality joiners and prisoners can now arrived paralyzed as well.
- Added range values to darkness combat stats.
- Added charity events for not helping pilgrims.
- Added hacking progress stat to hackable things.
- Resurrected pawns with titles that were inherited lose all permits associated with the lost titles.
- Provide a config error if def label contains '[', ']', '{', or '}' characters. Added a flag to hide this error.
- Clarify age reversal precept.
- Updated player-created names.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

- Fix: New colony optimism thoughts are not applied correctly.
- Fix: Gastro-analyzer can be removed by biosculpter.
- Fix: Caravan stuck indefinitely if animal in pen added while caravan pawns moving to exit map
- Fix: Clicking ideo icon on some dialogs uslessly opens copy of same dialog.
- Fix: Royal ascent shuttle can only take 1000kg of colonists.
- Fix: Skip psycast can cause duplication bugs.
- Fix: "Melee warmup time" is actually ranged warmup time. Melee weapons use only cooldown.
- Fix: PainIsVirtue meme doesn't guarantee the presence of scarification precept.
- Fix: Error on reloading a save with bombardment/salvo spawned on the same tick as save.
- Fix: Multiple instances of minified item dont show correctly in to load part of caravan tab.
- Fix: Exception when pawn dies of malnutrition.
- Fix: Burned tree description states it doesn't drop wood when it does.
- Fix: Exception drawing pawn inspect pane/bio tab/other UI with null extra mini faction.
- Fix: Some ability translation keys are in Royalty but used elsewhere.
- Fix: Plants previously designated to be grown on buildings aren't cleared when a new plant is selected.
- Fix: Biosculpter nutrition not incremented if same food def added to pod before and after biosculpter update.
- Fix: numCase subsymbol doesn't work if source number is float.
- Fix: Typos.

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!

[h2]Multi-ideo colony viability[/h2]

- Pawns of any ideo can now spectate any ritual, even if it's not of their own ideo.
- Rebalanced social ideo thought opinion offsets to make multi-ideo colonies much more viable.
- Allow celebrating rituals for an ideo even if there's not enough members to create an obligation.
- Members of ideoligions that dislike diversity get a negative thought from participating in rituals from other ideoligions.
- Ritual setup dialog now says what ideoligion the ritual comes from.

[h2]New stuff[/h2]

- Gaining, changing, or removing a role now requires a simple ritual.
- Some things, like rock chunks, are now considered beautiful when outdoors but ugly when indoors. This solves a problem where a person standing in a nice forest will think their surroundings are ugly.
- While starting a game with fluid ideoligions, you can now customize and load NPC faction ideoligions.
- Skullspikes now display whose skull is contained inside on their inspect pane.
- Added a precept related to Darkness meme that gives believers a positive thought during an eclipse.
- You can now randomize fluid ideos before applying changes.
- You can now randomize normal memes during fluid ideo reforming.
- Added a "build door" gizmo that displays when a wall or wall blueprint is selected.

[h2]Improvements[/h2]

- Blind pawns' stats are now unaffected by light and darkness.
- Biosculpter bioregeneration cycle now requires 2 glitterworld medicine.
- Adjust the role tooltip area on the pawn's social tab.
- Integrated artwork for bioregeneration cycle gizmo.
- Empire will now properly respond to player giving the bestower serious heatstroke or hypothermia or allowing it to happen.
- Some situational ideo thoughts now apply to quest lodgers. Previously, they were totally disabled.
- Mutilation ritual expectation alert now only shows the pawns who actually want to be scarified or blinded.
- Increased chance for ancient security crates to spawn in ancient complexes.
- Removed min points limit on security crate spawning in ancient complexes.
- Psytrainer description now shows the description of associated psycasts.
- We now warn player if important plants like anima trees are marked for cutting or in grow zone.
- Improved UI feedback in trade window when pawn refuses to sell another pawn into slavery due to the ideo.
- Having a missing tongue now gives a negative mood thought because it's frustrating when you can't speak because your tongue was cut out.
- We now warn the player if they are trying to put a pawn in a regeneration or medic cycle that would not heal any conditions.
- Conditions that will be or can be healed by a biosculpter cycle are listed in a confirmation dialog on ordering a pawn to enter or load another into the biosculpter.
- Extreme blood loss reduces consciousness by 40% and sets the capacity's max to 10%.
- Improve feedback when we cannot assign a pawn to ritual role by clicking their portrait in the ritual setup dialog.
- Change to randomized memes for fluid ideo based on feedback.
- Korean language worker updates.

[h2]Technical[/h2]

- Updated to Unity 2019.4.30f1. This should prevent a rare issue where the game would freeze during startup.
- Graphic_RandomRotated now supports random inner graphic correctly.
- Add a temporary workaround for stuck old bestowing ceremony lord. Apply workaround for stuck old bestowing ceremony lord to AnyLordJobPreventsNewRituals too.
- Improve ideo null checks for role change buttons.
- We now cache def short hashes in database. This solves potential performance issue with deep drills.
- Small improvements to SetIdeoRole debug tool.
- Improved pawn portrait error reporting code.
- Changes to fluid ideo meme randomization.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

- Fix: Cancelling a caravan, then selling those animals, causes them to stay roped to the caravan gathering spot until they sleep.
- Fix: Gauranlen tree miscalculates dryad count on creating seed pod.
- Fix: Text of funeral ritual states bonus awards are available after randomizing name.
- Fix: Totemic sculpture is pixelated.
- Fix: Selling prisoners doesn't trigger negative thoughts on selling to slavers.
- Fix: Research command ability icon is pixelated on non-uniform ui scales.
- Fix: When caravan entering the map and already roped animals are force roped by another pawn, the first pawn potentially gets stuck waiting indefinitely.
- Fix: Sunlamp does not trigger blinding light for Darkness pawns.
- Fix: Wild people can be enslaved while arrested.
- Fix: Several issues with ancient junk.
- Fix: Wrong capitalization.
- Fix: Typo soldiarity -> solidarity
- Fix: Missing word in backstory.
- Fix: Wind turbine, neural supercharger and skullspike have no path costs.
- Fix: Extra memes from mods can be hidden in 'choose meme' UI.
- Fix: Leader speech generates "could not reserve" errors.
- Fix: New draft carry system leads to pawns being accidentally 'kidnapped' by guests when they leave.
- Fix: Starting a role change from social tab causes an NRE in JobGiver_AcceptRole.
- Fix: Exception in pawn portrait rendering.
- Fix: Started 10 jobs in 10 ticks when slaves try to visit sick pawn. Slaves can no longer visit sick pawns.
- Fix: Archonexus quest line cannot be continued if map part holder faction defeated.
- Fix: Typo "Bslinded someone".
- Fix: Removed hard-coded points value being passed into complex debug tool.
- Fix: Mechanoids can spawn in Ancient Ruins when they are disabled in map generation, and behave oddly.
- Fix: Can save/load ideo when you shouldn't be able to.
- Fix: Regression - Colonists no longer automatically take yayo and a few other drugs.
- Fix: Typo in TKey LetterCashing -> LetterChasing.
- Fix: Some ThreatReward_Raid_Joiner texts remain untranslated when using Core only.
- Fix: When a faction is defeated the faction goodwill number and relation label overlap.
- Fix: Pawns ignore food restrictions and bring nutrient paste to prisoner.
- Fix: Exceptions ticking pawns due to null room requirements.
- Fix: You can assign a role changer of non-player ideo on the ritual config screen.
- Fix: Potential nullref related to role change ritual interface.
- Fix: Bestower sometimes arrives malnourished.
- Fix: Gaumaker pods can destroy the tree they are spawned from.
- Fix: Ideology message key displaying without the expansion.
- Fix: Ritual timings are 1 day off.
- Fix: Trader caravans have their animals leave the map on arrival when attempting to path through doors.
- Fix: Missing possessive symbols in text.
- Fix: ShouldConisderNode -> ShouldConsiderNode
- Fix: Gaumaker pods can destroy the tree they are spawned from.
- Fix: Ideology message key displaying without the expansion.
- Fix: In ideo display and edit UIs, elements overlap sometimes if dev edit mode is on.
- Fix: Initial starting ideo incorrectly shows if player selects ideo and clicks back in game start flow.
- Fix: Possible to load a fluid ideo with more memes than is allowed.
- Fix: Disease incident can target colonists in biosculpter.
- Fix: Cannot plant flowers/bonsai trees in plant pots when there is a floor covering beneath the pot.
- Fix: 'No recent raid' thoughts for raiding precepts can occur immediately after reform or archonexus restart.
- Fix: Hediffs can be listed more than once as capacity impactors on the health tab.
- Fix: Body part capacity impactors can be listed more than once.
- Fix: Multiple issues with role assign dialog.
- Fix: Generating a mission based quest with debug and not setting the population slate value will generate a quest with 50 population.
- Fix: Wardens stop suppressing slaves if suppression > 50%.
- Fix: Beggar quest can grant fail and complete bonus simultaneously if the original timer expires after beggars have been given items.
- Fix: Beggar quest causes exceptions with Royalty not installed.
- Fix: "ResolveCaseInsensitiveFilePath: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path"
- Fix: Skip abilities don't update cover grid.

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.

[h2]New stuff[/h2]

- Add new fluid ideo system. This allows you to start the game with a "fluid" ideoligion that has only one meme. Over time, you gain development points on that ideoligion by completing rituals and other ideoligion-related actions. With enough development points, you can reform the ideoligion to alter memes or precepts, change styles, change structure, and more.
- Add darklight braziers.
- Predators no longer hunt animals on the other side of fences. Predators can still randomly wander into animal pens.
- Add an alert to thell the player when a predator has wandered into a pen in use.
- The game now shows the source of each piece of content on its stats card, so you know which expansion/mod something came from. It also shows which expansion/mod each research project came from.
- Players can now choose a few items to bring to new archonexus settlement. This is especially helpful for things you really need like luciferium.
- Add grace period where expectation levels are not increased for pawns with certain ideology roles after starting new archonexus settlement.
- Add tongue body part. Tongue is removable via surgery, if you'd prefer someone not speak. The tongue won't be damaged in combat.
- Add bionic tongue that replaces tongue.
- Add allow slave corpse toggle to various storage areas and buildings so you can separate slave corpses from colonist corpses.
- Added new ancient junk - additional mech parts for more visual variation, more ancient cars, wheels, etc.
- Added copy/paste gizmos for biosculpter nutrition settings.
- Added toggleable texture compression and atlas texture compression in the options menu.

[h2]Improvements[/h2]

- Update royal title room requirement grace period to include the first 10 days after a new archonexus settlement.
- Draw lines when placing blueprints displaying what would affect Gauranlen trees' connection strength. Display the artificial buildings connection strength loss radius when the tree is selected.
- We now remove ship to stars tile from map after new archonexus settlement, confirm the player is okay with this.
- On ritual config window, draw a highlight over pawns that can be assigned to a role you're currently hovering over.
- Extractable trees are no longer auto-minifiable in caravan forming dialog.
- We now hide quests that are ended by starting a new archonexus settlement
- Re-enabled random social interactions for bestowing ceremony and fixed it breaking down when pawns start social fighting.
- Starting with an ideoligion that dislikes animal bonding now causes all starting animals to be unbonded.
- Tweaked the archonexus "choose items to take to new colony" dialog formatting.
- The mood bonus for relics in the same room as ritual can be now increased by installing up to 3 relics. Adjusted mood impacts.
- Ideoligion buildings are now only demanded for the player's faction ideoligion and secondary ideoligions that have 3 colonist members or more.
- Destroying rocks with weapons now triggers a bad thought for ideoligions where mining is disapproved.
- Change ritual quality check graphics to look less like togglable ones for better UI clarity.
- Don't show anima linking command on every nature focus capable pawn anymore, to reduce UI spam. You can still start it via float command or from anima tree directly.
- Pawns now recover from berserk trance on being downed.
- Dryad healing pods now heal all negative hediffs including missing body parts. When return to healing pod is toggled on, dryads will return to healing pods if they have any missing parts.
- Skulls now keep track of the name of the pawn they originated from.
- Update descriptions of individualist and collectivist memes.
- Wind turbine, skullspike and neural supercharger can now be walked through like most other buildings.
- Biosculpters now list what will be cured and what can possibly be cured in the tooltip for the healing cycle if the biosculpter is tuned to a pawn.
- We now avoid using sun blocker as a threat if any colonist or prisoner has an ideo with darkness/tunneler, since it's kind of meaningless to them.
- Add note about work to deconstruct to 'work to build' stat description.
- Adjust some thought descriptions so that they still make sense for blind people.
- Timbershrooms can now grow wild in caves.
- Minified things now inherit their inner thing's flammability.
- Removed culture restrictions when choosing ideoligion
- More informative float menu options for not being able to enter a biosculpter.
- Split biosculpter healing cycle into two distinct cycles: Medic and bioregeneration. Added a new research project requiring multianalyzer and biosculpting that enables bioregeneration cycle. Medic cycle treats short-term wounds, while bioregeneration can heal permanent scars, age-related conditions, and some smaller missing limbs.
- Changed extract tree hotkey to be the same as uninstalling.
- Smoothed out tree cutting anger thought from the tree connection meme by adding more steps in between the stages.

[h2]Tuning[/h2]

- Dryad spawn days reduced from 8 to 6.
- Increase impact of 'lost role' thought from -5 to -15.
- Reduce production specialist crafting speed buff from +70% to +50%.
- Reduce intensity of 'ate meat' opinion maluses for vegetarians.
- Reduce biosculpter age reversal cycle duration from 10 to 8 days.
- Reduce nutrition requirements of healing and age reversal biosculpter cycles from 10 to 5.
- Woodmaker dryad output every 2 days increased from 25 wood to 32 wood.
- Reduced dryad transform delay from 6 days to 5 days.
- Adjust mood impact of relic-in-ritual-room thought.
- Barkskin dryad blunt armor increased from 30% to 40%, sharp armor increased from 60% to 70%.
- Gauranlen seeds now have a market value of $70 instead of $0.

[h2]Technical[/h2]

- Change IsPsychicallySensitive from >= to >.
- Turn psychic sensitivity checks into a property.
- Merged two translation keys regarding building precept alerts into one.
- Reworked chemical satisfaction in CompGiveHediffSeverity to be based on satisfaction per second.
- Add unused legacy AllThingsGlowing room requirement back in for back compat
- Refactor: Separate method for loading multiple comma separated MayRequire mods
- Use IsFormingCaravan extension method instead of explicitly looking at pawn's lord job.
- Performance improvements to animal slaughter dialog, debug tables and debug option screens.
- Removed unnecessary MayRequire attributes.
- Add missing gender constants for deity, foeLeader and founder.
- Ideo.Notity_GuestStatusChanged -> Notify_MemberGuestStatusChanged
- Implemented ideo thoughts debug output.
- Moved ThingWithSources to a comp.
- Change to ritual obligation trigger CopyTo based on feedback.
- Ensure CompHasSources does not start with a null list.
- Remove unused translation keys.
- Improved some translation keys.
- Added some new player-created names. Adjusted one name per request.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

- Fix: Doctors tending to patients in bed use the medicine in their inventory even if it is worse than available medicine.
- Fix: If multiple types of medicine are in a doctor's inventory, they will select the medicine with the lowest medical potency.
- Fix: Skull extraction blood is labeled as being from the extractor.
- Fix: Skull extraction drops blood when corpse is already a skeleton
- Fix: Colonists receive the 'colonist lost' thought when a slave is kidnapped.
- Fix: Tree lovers don't care about harvesting / chopping down cocoa trees.
- Fix: If a slave rebels while carrying a person, they can kidnap the carried pawn with no feedback to player.
- Fix: Destroying Gauranlen tree while dryads are in healing pod or cocoon causes errors and keeps dryads inside.
- Fix: Psychically deaf pawns get anima linking alert and can start the ceremony.
- Fix: Worshipped terminal quest is failed if you deconstruct the terminal after hacking it.
- Fix: Opened ideology dialog is not interactable when opened in caravan forming screen via pawn's bio.
- Fix: Bionic / archotech eye is visible under the burka.
- Fix: Opening weapons with Graphic_Random have their icon cycled every frame on the info card.
- Fix: Colonists try to rope to pen an animal in a mental state, resulting in getting stuck.
- Fix: Ancient beds not showing sleeping pawn body.
- Fix: Wild person can be used in gladiator duels, causes manhunter revenge. Wild man prisoners are no longer allowed to be used as duelists.
- Fix regression: PawnRenderer.RenderCache renders pawns always with clothes enabled.
- Fix: PawnRenderer renders naked pawns by default.
- Fix: There are some duplicate ideoligion icons.
- Fix: Pawns can get stuck picking up and dropping medicine after returning on a caravan.
- Fix: Animal pen marker animal consumption assumes animals are always hungry, halving reported consumption.
- Fix regression: Bestower doesn't care about roof collapsing on top of him.
- Fix: Duelists can pick up weapons during the duel even if they have no manipulation capacity.
- Fix: Skeletons don't draw apparel.
- Fix: Bionic parts are drawn as wounds.
- Fix: If bestower enters a social fight the bestowing ceremony does not recover gracefully. Several other fixes to bestowing ceremony.
- Fix: It is possible to sell animals while forming a caravan.
- Fix: Players can bring more than 1 relic to new archonexus settlement if its an equipped weapon
- Fix: Mech breach raids can completely break down sometimes and just stop doing anything.
- Fix: Designator_Dropdown doesn't properly update to icon from wrapped Designator_Install.
- Fix: Missing translate() call on cancel button text for archonexus dialog.
- Fix/adjustments to reform ideo dialog.
- Fix: NRE when starting bestowing ceremony.
- Fix: Players can take items from passing trade ship inventory to next archonexus settlement
- Fix: Dryads with replaced parts don't have the "missing" part added back.
- Fix: Totemic boards and ideoligion rugs are not flammable.
- Fix: WorkGiver_Tend JobOnThing doesn't match fail conditions of JobDriver_TendPatient
- Fix: Incorrect 'wanderer joined' text when wanderer helped.
- Fix: Beggars quest sending 'charity fulfilled' history event even when quest failed.
- Fix: Scarification ritual now accepts prisoner targets again and doesn't break when target is a prisoner.
- Fix: Ideo reform dialog does not support more than 5 memes horizontally.
- Fix: Two-column credit entries have overlapping rows if left entry is taller than the right one.
- Fix: MinifiedTree error on debug MakeColony tool.
- Fix: SitePartWorker_SleepingMechanoids checks for wrong faction type in IsAvailable.
- Fix: You can start conversion ritual with a moral guide that can't speak.
- Fix: Human pawns in mental states sometimes bring up a disabled float menu option for roping.
- Fix: Cannibal ideo pawns do not prefer human leather apparel.
- Fix: Non-colonist can be chosen as scarification target.
- Fix: Wild dryads can wander in, only to leave right away.
- Fix: Error on beggars quest without fluid ideo.
- Fix: Errors on starting incidents with no colonists.
- Fix: Naked translation key.
- Fix: Typos.

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.

[h2]Change list[/h2]

[h3]New stuff[/h3]

- Added 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 use 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.
- Added a command for dryads that tells them to return to a healing pod. They will stay inside for three days, and emerge with their wounds healed.
- Player can now do drafted tending (with and without medicine) on downed hostile or neutral pawns.
- There is now a warning while setting up a caravan if most of your food does not suit one of your caravaneers diet.

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

- Classic ideo preset can now generate relics.
- Quest lodgers and pawns of non-player ideos are no longer upset if their ideo building is not present.
- Persona weapons are no longer included in "allow biocoded" thing filters.
- Upon new archonexus settlement, player now retains research up to classic start.
- We now reset incident grace periods when starting a new archonexus settlement to make for a smoother start.
- Colonists now get initial optimism thought after resettling in archonexus quest line
- Ensure clicking on social tab ideoligion opens ideoligion tab to correct ideoligion
- We no longer randomize classic ideo styles. Just use whatever is in the culture.
- Dryads now rest near their connected tree, not in beds or sleeping spots.
- Clicking on ideoligion certainty in social card now opens ideoligion tab
- Vegetarian meals now allow animal products as ingredients.
- Renounce title confirmation dialog explains that the pawn will lose all faction permits and permit points. Mention that psylinks and psycasts will stay with the pawn.
- Give starting survival meals some veggie ingredients for non-carnivore colonies instead of having no ingredients at all.
- Removed allowed area assignment UI for dryads since they ignore it anyway.
- Reword ideo preset categories' descriptions.
- Lower slave social fight chance by 50%.
- We now reset biosculpter timers after archonexus resettlement.
- We now reset prevent various events from happening too early after new archonexus settlement.
- Ancient tank trap and ancient macro-engine block are now non-deconstructible to match similar ancient junk.
- Pawns no longer smelt relics, to avoid accidental mishaps.
- Removed redundant message regarding manhunter chance on tame for insects. Warn player than insects will be hostile during taming attempts.
- Improvements to unsuitable caravan food warning based on feedback.
- Add a "drag to reorder" label on colonist creation screen for clarity.
- Remove second tick noise when reordering pawns on colonist creation screen.
- Updated player-created names.
- Colorize the Tree Connection ritual icon to match the Gauranlen color.

[h3]Technical[/h3]

- PawnRenderer weapon drawing now supports Graphic_Random.
- Removed redundant RulePackDef for tree connection ritual.
- Choosing ideo preset no longer continously calls SortStyleCategories but only once outside the loop.
- We now filter out null AutoSlaughterConfigs after loading a game.
- Fixes to GenerateGoodIngredients.
- Moved IsRelic() check to extension method in ReliquaryUtility.
- Limit awaking on clamor to ancient complex insects and mechs.
- Reset additional storyteller parameters after new archonexus settlement.
- Adjust the optimality score modifier from food that gives negative thoughs.
- Add a null check to prevent old bestowing ceremony quests that existed pre-fix from causing issues.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

- Fix: Classic ideo preset can have tattoos for tribal player.
- Fix: Ideology loads before royalty when resetting mods config.
- Fix: Ideology about.xml file is missing to be loaded after core mod.
- Fix: MinifiedThing looks for atlas textures in wrong atlas group.
- Fix: Minified trees left behind on caravans do not count as died.
- Fix: Bills wont load if ideo apparel is from unloaded mod
- Fix: Error when forming caravan with a minified tree in inventory (Unknown TransferAsOne pair)
- Fix: Music doesnt play for about 2 minutes after loading a game
- Fix: Caravan auto-supply ignores negative thoughts from food when calculating the score.
- Fix: Dryads listed on bed assign dialog.
- Fix: Enabling disabled core mod after enabling a dlc orders the core mod to be loaded before the DLC.
- Fix: When enabling mods, they are just added to the list, not taking forceLoadXXX into account
- Fix: Cannot build floor coverings before having save/loaded at least once.
- Fix: Stacks of Gauranlen seeds can only designate a single planting cell.
- Fix: Killing a slave in a slave rebellion causes 'Witnessed ally's death' thought
- Fix: Potential mod breaking issue in Graphic (GetCopy method arguments).
- Fix: NullReferenceException when hovering over pawn with no ideoligion with conversion ability.
- Fix: Techprints retained on archonexus resettlement.
- Fix: Bloody dominators description typo
- Fix: Pruning hours per day readout doesn't take into account nearby player buildings.
- Fix: Outdated anima tree description.
- Fix: Ancient complex insects that heard a clamor are not fully awoken.
- Fix: IncidentWorker_RaidEnemy can potentially use a friendly faction if it was generated when they were still enemies.
- Fix: Hunters finishing off their prey counts as slaughtering an animal.
- Fix: Raids assaulting a thing (like a spacedrone) are broken without Royalty.
- Fix: You can bypass ability cooldown by using queue cast after casting it the first time.
- Fix: Scenarios from Steam workshop break scenario ui when run in non-Steam mode.
- Fix: Colonist bar group calculations can cause errors in rare circumstances.
- Fix: Gauranlen spawn cycle not correct after new archonexus settlement
- Fix: Imprisoning and releasing slave immediately can cause some slaves to immediately join the player faction.
- Fix: Savage Tribe shows what it will buy.
- Fix: Item style overrides information is not shown on ideo preset screen.
- Fix: Slaves opportunistically haul during rebellion while grouping up.
- Fix: Nutrient paste does not produce ate meat or ate non meat thoughts.
- Fix: Pawn ritual arrival tag is not set if they started on the exact position they needed to be.
- Fix: Animal products are considered when generating ate meat or ate non-meat history events and thoughts.
- Fix: Blood from animal sacrifice automatically cleans itself before ritual even completes.
- Fix: Players can load a caravan and bring disallowed items to new archonexus settlement.
- Fix: Relic destroyed notification sent when player starts new archonexus settlement if they can't bring it.
- Fix: Positive goodwill reward given when labourers miss shuttle and fixed scribe error trying to deep save a def.
- Fix: Mentally broken pawn appears as participant for anima linking ritual.
- Fix: Tribal members do not become hostile when arrested in terminal hack quest.
- Fix: Insect jelly is treated as a drug, causing exception to be thrown.
- Fix: Passive cave insects block bestowing ceremony.
- Fix: Using numCase causes errors in date colorization. Also, add support for colorizing all cases of numCase dates.
- Fix: Possible map junk wiping archonexus structure.
- Fix: Badly formatted relic name in relic hunt quest description.
- Fix: Some ancient junk is spawning overlapping chunks.

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.

[h2]Change list[/h2]

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

- Add a new ideoligion setup interface which allows playing like classic RimWorld, using presets, or fully customizing.
- Improvements to texture atlas video memory usage.
- Change harmful aging thought minimum age from 20 to 25
- Added temperature precept icon.
- Rebelling slaves now drop shield belt if they have a ranged weapon
- Increase fade on oil smear art.
- Add more constraints to Empire faction ideo generation. They are no longer proselytizers. This makes it less annoying to host them. (This will only apply to new games.)
- Increased plant harvest yield stats' max values.
- Don't list "Cannot remove: Required" float menu option for precepts that have a default. All available options are already listed.
- Ideoligion text color now have a min brightness, for better visibility.

[h3]Technical[/h3]

- Simplify the CompareTooltipsByPriority call.
- Optimize shield belt apparel code in pickup opportunistic weapon
- Ensure consistent order for ideo preset tooltips. Use StableSort for tooltips in general.
- Make quest dialog close actions serializable.
- Adjust slave rebellion likely alert copy to make things a bit more friendly to translators.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

- Fix: Pawns without eyes cannot wear blindfolds
- Fix: Immunity Drive doesn't work.
- Fix: NullReferenceException for wearing color thought if apparel does not have colorable (like apparel from mods)
- Fix: Pawns who prefer indoors do outdoor joy activities
- Fix: Very high video memory usage on startup with heavily modded games.
- Fix: Dryads can bond with pawns other than the connected one.
- Fix: Dye doesn't deteriorate.
- Fix: Reverse tooltip order after a recent commit.
- Fix: Deserter quest doesn't count as raiding.
- Fix: Biosculpters fail to eject their contents when uninstalled.
- Fix: Rusted car only appears in north orientation.
- Fix: Bestowing ceremony lands in shuttle without the bestower exiting, making all the escort pawns just leave the map.
- Fix: Generated ideo building def gets overriden to a random one during initialization.
- Fix: Exception when all slaves die while rebellion likely alert active (not hard crash).
- Fix: Slave count rebellion factor shown incorrectly to users in tooltips.
- Fix: Trying to convert humanlike pawn with no ideo (generated with PawnGenerationRequest(forceNoIdeo: true)) causes errors.
- Fix: Dryad and Gaumaker pods can spawn over graves.
- Fix: Drafted slaves which rebel dont opportunistically pick up weapons.
- Fix: Archonexus guitar sound clips play before you close the new archonexus colony start dialog, instead of after like the game start dialog.
- Fix: Trailing newline, null on abandon with no active maps for slave rebellion likely alert.
- Fix: Using obsolete methods.
- Fix: Typo in shooting specialist role description

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.

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

- Added temperature tough issue and precept. This makes some believers mind extreme temperatures less.
- Added Alert for likely slave rebellion.
- Mining yield now caps at 125%.
- Clarified in description that the medical specialist won't do violence.
- Clarified spacedrone self-destruct delay info in quest description.
- Gauranlen tree pruning is dictated by a new stat, affected slightly by plants skill. Tree connection pawns have a 25% boost to pruning speed.
- Increase berrymaker dryad production from 32 to 40 berries per batch. Increase medicinemaker dryad production from 3 to 4 herbal meds per batch.
- Archonexus quest now warns players beforehand that research will reset
- Tuned down apostate memory thoughts and adjusted labels.
- Rebalance tree connector thoughts.

[h3]Technical[/h3]

- Inspect pane now automatically resizes when tabs are added or removed.
- Changed JobGiver_DeliverPawnToBed to check for reservation before issuing job.
- Changed GenColor.InstinguishableFrom difference threshold to 0.005 and removed optional parameter.Removed the custom value from call sites.
- Error mitigation for districts not having their map index decremented correctly until problem is found.
- Added difference threshold parameter to method signator on GenColor.IndistinguishableFrom and replaced uses of GenColor.ApproximatelyEqual with calls to IndistinguishableFrom with custom threshold.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

- Fix: Dryads are affected by disease incidents.
- Fix: Gauranlen pod seed yield is affected by difficulty.
- Fix: ArgumentOutOfRange exception on Precept_Role.
- Fix: Ancient junk remains can wipe important quest structures.
- Fix: Apostasy from any ideo triggers knowsmemorythoughts in ideos with apostasy.
- Fix: A case where bad mods can easily make a savefile unloadable (Building_TurretGun).
- Fix: Check order in ThoughtWorker_Precept_TreeDensity.
- Fix: In desert areas, Gaumaker dryads never form a gaumaker pod.
- Fix: Gauranlen seeds can be assigned to plant under a roof.
- Fix: Fungus darktorch description says it is refueled with wood. It is actually refueled with raw fungus.
- Fix: TreeDensityReduced thought stages are incorrectly calculated.
- Fix: IdeoRelic issue no longer has an iconPath assigned in XML.
- Fix: Prisoners lost during farskip.
- Fix: Ideoligion UI overlap.
- Fix: Drum circle is ignored by pawns if only Ideology is installed.
- Fix: Doctors administring drugs to a pawn that has just died of an OD throws exception.
- Fix: 'Scarification' is not translated.
- Fix: Weird ancient barrel shadow.
- Fix: Some ancient junk is rotatable but should not be.
- Fix: Portrait cache not dirtied on changing style item in styling station dialog.
- Fix: Default parameter added to GenColor.IndistinguishableFrom() instead of overload, causing mod errors.
- Fix: Tree connection meme doesn't require Gauranlen connection: Strong.
- Fix: Animals being lead by ropes can be stopped to have their wool/chemfuel/milk gathered.
- Fix: Gauranlen moss can spawn over anima grass and Gauranlen pods.
- Fix: High life meme ideos generate with a warning about conflicting apparel.
- Fix: Cancelling a biosculpter cycle before a pawn has started it will still consume nutrition.
- Fix: Ideo is left in broken state if player escapes without having selected any memes.

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.
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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.

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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

[h2]Full change list[/h2]

Improvements

- Blind people no longet get the darkness mood debuff.
- Reduced min colony wealth to 150k for firing archonexus endgame quest.
- Adding new desired apparel no longer regenerates role apparel.
- Ancient non-deconstructible stuff has disable deconstruct command tooltip and inpect pane information on how to remove it.
- Avoid repeating normal memes when generating non-player factions.
- Make arrested pawn a prisoner as soon as we start carrying them to bed instead of waiting to arrive.
- Allow starting the bestowing ceremony via right click.
- Added anima grass growth rate from meditiation penlaty to anima tree based on proximity to artificial buildings.
- Pregnant animals are slaughtered after other animals in order from most recent to least recent pregnancy.
- Building damage factors are drawn for projectile weapons in their info card.
- Optimize ritual obligation alert to not generate unused text anymore, significantly reducing performance spikes for larger pawn counts.
- Dying hair requires dye
- Metallic fence and walls now use stuff-specific ui and blueprint graphics.
- Mechanoid breach raids spawn with one breacher.
- Improvements to the junk spawning scatterers.
- Breach raids never have 'drop-in' arrival mode.
- Prisoners now produce a mood malus if they escape.
- Shuttle and spacedrone can now overlap zones and adjusted other impassable buildings so they cannot overlap zones.
- Mortars don't drop their barrels if under 50% fuel.
- Gray out pawns that can't take any role in ritual.
- Biosculpter pod plays a sound when nutrition is added.

Fixes

- Fix: Typo 'skill' instead of 'skull'.
- Fix: After a gladiator duel, the downed prisoner will be carried back to their bed but they won't actually be put in the bed, they will remain downed on top of the bed instead
- Fix: LordJob_LoadAndEnterTransporters blocking rituals.
- Fix: "Parsed 34.9 as int" warning on startup.
- Fix: Pawns can end up with overlapping apparel requirements.
- Fix: Desired apparel was generated as apparel requirement but not available when manually selecting it.
- Fix: Bestowing quest can get bugged if accepting it on a different map from one it was generated on.
- Fix: If you design an ideoligion which has two words in its pawn "noun" you will not be able to bring people to trial.
- Fix: Inverted anyMemeRequired condition in PreceptApparelRequirement.
- Fix: Dromedary description mentions it is not rideable, but it is.
- Fix: Portrait did not update after look change.
- Fix: Ideology background doesn't display after installing Ideology.
- Fix: Pawns walking over structures causes construction to halt.
- Fix: Trees adjacent to no-cut growing zones are cut down.
- Fix: Players can edit deities outside normal+dev ideo configurations.
- Fix: Error spam when trying to add some ideo buildings.
- Fix: Essential roles can be removed.
- Fix: Rituals with no spectators can show weird numbers in the quality factors preview. Disabled ritual seat outcome effect for rituals without spectators.
- Fix: Stacking building damage factors don't display if they have the same value.
- Fix: PreceptComp descriptions can be uncapitalized.
- Fix: Modded factions cause ideo errors.
- Fix: Gender supremacy memes have opposite agreeing traits.
- Fix: Typo on anima tree linking ritual.
- Fix: NullReferenceException on unequipped low-shield pack.
- Fix: Ability.Activate only starts cooldown if there are any ability components.
- Fix: Ritual ambience sound preview kept playing the old one after changing style categories that affected it.
- Fix: Deep drills produce chunks over themselves and their interaction cells.
- Fix: Authors label is not truncated with '...' on mod ui.
- Fix: Animal sacrifice ritual cancelled just before it ends.
- Fix: Enter closes form caravan UI.
- Fix: Inspect pane overlap when canceling, or removing a pawn from, a caravan.
- Fix: Musical instruments don't give recreation.
- Fix: Plant cutting toggle on growing zones causes plants to never be harvested.
- Fix: 'Copy CSV' button is broken on some debug tables.
- Fix: Biosculpter pod only shows pawn label for an occupant not who it is biotuned to.
- Fixes to anima tree linking feedback for spectator role.

Technical

- Added explicit look mode parameter to CompSpawnImmortalSubplantsAround
- Sanitize the mod load folder slashes.
- Fix: Uncapitalized letter after colon.
- Faction -> HomeFaction in JobDriver_TakeToBed.
- Graphic_Appearance now checks things for IConstructible to determine stuff rather than the IConstructible implementations.
- Added missing TKey's on tips.
- Move ShowingGizmosForRitualsTmp field.
- GetHairMats -> CalculateHairMats
- Removed debug code in GenStep_ScatterGroup.
- Fix: Back-compatibility not preserving prisoner status.
- Fix: Null reference exception in Need_Indoors for pawns with null ideo.
- Fix: No-expansion ideos are shared between factions.
- Fix: Uncapitalized property.
- Fix: A divide by zero in PawnWeaponGenerator.
- Small fix to Command_BestowerCeremony feedback code.

[h2]Ideology expansion[/h2]
What do you believe? RimWorld - Ideology is now available. Check out the Ideology Steam store page for the full description and details.

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[h2]Free 1.3 update[/h2]
Players can now update to RimWorld version 1.3 for free. This version was previously tested in a beta branch for 2 weeks. Find the full change log here.

On savegame compatibility:

• 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.
  

• 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

Every now and then, a unique Gauranlen pod may sprout near your colony. From this pod you can harvest a Gauranlen seed, and in turn plant a Gauranlen tree wherever you like.

Gauranlen trees are unique because they produce creatures called dryads. The tree nourishes the dryads and, in turn, the dryads protect the tree from predators and fire. These dryads are born from a dryad queen who lives inside the tree (and isnt seen in gameplay). Each dryad says attached to its mother tree for life.

The first dryads your colonists ever see will be immature dryads. While adorable, these arent very useful. They become much more useful after they transform into their various specialized castes.

For this to happen, though, a human must influence the tree. This means carrying out a special ceremony to connect with the Gauranlen tree. While others look on, the connector will approach the tree, touch it, speak to it, and generate a subtle psychic link. This psychic link allows the connector to control which caste the dryads will grow into.

Choose your caste according to your needs. Some castes focus on combat:

• 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

Weve all had that one favourite colonist. The soldier who made it through hell and back, the medic capable of defying death, the one guy who refuses to do anything useful and spends most of the day binging on insect meat due to lack of tables

Now you can make use of your colonists special strengths by assigning them formal social roles. Each belief system in Ideology defines a roles that believers can take on.

There are three categories of roles:

The leader role can only be assigned to one colonist. Leaders give inspirational speeches, buff combat allies around them, encourage harder work, and play a special role in some rituals. They can even accuse prisoners or colonists of crimes. If they successfully prosecute the defendant in a trial you can punish the accused without social consequence. (Whether the accusations are true or false is up to you.)



The moral guide role can be assigned once for each belief system which is represented by at least three colonists. Moral guides support the mental well-being and spiritual strength of your people, and lead many rituals including funerals, sacrifices, and more. They can preach health to the sick to speed up healing, provide counsel to sad colonists to lift their moods, reassure believers that they are correct, and convert non-believers to their own belief system.

Finally, the specialist roles can be assigned to any number of believers. There are a variety of specialist role types - one for each skill. Specialists are better at their primary skill, and also gain a unique ability related to that skill. As a tradeoff, specialists become more focused on their specific skill and wont do some other work. Different belief systems each have a specialist type related to their core beliefs. For example, a colony of darkness-worshipping tunnelers will probably have a specialist role focused on mining.

Colonists with social roles will want a change of appearance to suit their position. They may ask for elegant capes, creepy visage masks, solemn hoods, painful torture crowns, or anything else to set themselves apart according to their traditions.

Rituals

Celebrate your colonys unique belief system by holding rituals. These player-controlled events are special gatherings that have a variety of impacts depending on how they are carried out, and really contribute to the story of your colony.

You can hold somber funerals for fallen soldiers, quell rebellious behaviour with public executions, pit slaves and prisoners against one another in vicious gladiator duels, host parties in dance halls or drum circles or around Christmas trees, set hated effigies on fire to watch them burn, or breathe in smokeleaf fumes from a giant bong. There are also scrumptious feasts of human meat, ceremonial blindings and scarifications, skylantern festivals on moonlit nights, and majestic trees with creatures inside of them.



How a ritual plays out depends on the circumstances - who is there (and what roles they hold), the quality of the room it takes place in, the equipment and buildings available, and so on. For example, colonists can have fun at a dance party with just a few people outdoors by clapping and stamping feet. But if you build them a giant nightclub with speakers, a lightball and a richly-decorated room theyll have more fun and get better outcomes. Early-game rituals are less demanding than those in the late game, so youll get benefits at every stage.

Participants that have a good time will leave with mood boosts, and if the ritual was truly spectacular, there may be additional bonuses. Were talking unlocked psychic powers, new recruits, improved goodwill with your neighbours, and locations of treasure-filled ancient complexes. At the same time, certain rituals may upset spectators and cause a mood deficit - it depends on their personal beliefs.

More on the way



Thats it for now! I hope youve enjoyed this post and have gotten a chance to try the 1.3 beta. Remember to wish list Ideology on the Steam store page. You can also read the original 1.3 update and Ideology announcement here.

And we'd love if you joined the discussion on Reddit!

Bye bye!

Tia

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

There are 15 months of improvements in 1.3, so its a pretty big one.

There is a new pens-and-fences system for animals. Now animals are more productive, with more focused roles, but some of them need to be kept in fenced pens and led around by your trusty farmers. It gives the colony a more ranchy look and feel, as opposed to just having random cows always wandering through bedrooms or staying in pens via mind control. Youve also got egg boxes and a new straw matting terrain type to build true-looking farms that actually work.

There are search bars all over the interface now, so you can type in text on the architect menu, stats dialog, research menu, stockpile filter, and elsewhere to jump directly to exactly what you want. No more hunting through lists - even with lots of modded items!

The faction goodwill system has been reworked so neighbors keep a record of what youve done and why they feel the way they do about you. Youll have a better idea of why exactly they want to destroy or reward you.



Enemies will now use a new style of breach raid to get through your defenses. Theyll bring special wall-breaking tools and tunnel into the side of your base instead of using the main entrance. Tribals do this with a new breach-axe, while pirates use grenades, and mechanoids use a new mechanoid type called the termite. This new strategy option for the AI adds more variation and dynamism to the defensive combats - fighting through bedrooms is very exciting! Making the AI analyze bases, find good breach paths, and follow them effectively was an interesting and novel problem. Of course, all the old raid strategies still exists and the breach raids only show up from time to time to add variation.

Drag-move formations allow you to order your fighters to arrange themselves in a line using a single mouse command.

You can order a fighter to pick up a downed person, then carry them wherever you wish using the normal movement controls. No more harrowing and unnecessary rescues directly to bed!

Your colonists can now carry medicine in their inventory and use it directly on the battlefield.



Beards! Beards. What more do I need to say? People have beards, and they look beardy and awesome.

Characters now render more efficiently (the game prints them onto a texture and render that in one pass, instead of rendering each body layer separately on every frame). We punched up their look with visible wounds, bandages, and body modifications, so you can really see when someone (or your pet guinea pig) has taken some hits.

We also consulted with modders, collected their requests and made a bunch of technical changes to make modding easier.

There's tons more than this. For those interested, here is the full 1.3 change log.

Next, Tynan would like to talk about the Ideology expansion and why he decided to make it.

Why Ideology?

Hey all - Ty here.

RimWorld has always been about role-playing. For many years Ive seen players create colonies with their own special themes - minimalist nomads, raiding pirates, mad cannibals, drug-worshippers. People want to have a sense of authorship over their stories.



I thought: What if we made the system that let players explicitly express all those different ways of life?
Thats what weve spent the last 15 months working on with Ideology. This expansion lets you create a new belief system and act it out in your colony. You can play as tree-worshipping cannibals who carve skulls into every piece of furniture, or blind tunnelers who shun the light, or transhumanists obsessed with perfecting the human form using exotic technology. Or be nudists, or drug-stupor mystics, or piratical raiders, or charity-focused givers, or pain-loving animal sacrificers, or dance-party techno ravers, or rustic ranching cowboys, or many many more.



You can mix and match different core elements of your belief system, and also customize every individual precept, ritual, special social role, venerated animal and weapon, culture and style, unique building, tattoo, clothing, background narrative, god, and beard preference.



Ideology makes your story into your story more than ever before.



This comes with a bunch of extra content. There is a whole new quest category that presents a sort of Indiana Jones roguelike-type challenge of breaking into ancient structures and facing unknown dangers inside to get ancient treasure.



There are new dryad creatures who have symbiotic relationships with special trees, and who can be controlled and grown in different castes to do different things. There is spacedrone hacking and terminal-worshipping tribal villages and the new archonexus ending.



The whole thing is super moddable too. Modders tested Ideology and said it is quite easy to update in general. The expansion adds a lot of new stuff, but doesn't affect much of the old stuff. Of course, it depends on what your mod is.



Im really excited to put Ideology in front of you.

More info coming soon

Tia here again!

I am so ready for the fantastic stories that you guys will be making with 1.3 and Ideology. There is so much for both new and old players to discover. Feel free to join the discussion on Reddit.

And to think we didnt even get to all of the content in this announcement!

So in the future, I'll be posting teasers of the upcoming stuff in Ideology. Be sure to check back here for your sneak peek.

See you soon,

Tia

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


[h2]New features[/h2]
- New apparel - Beret: Worn by various lower-ranking Imperial nobles.
- New apparel - Cape: This stylish cape functions similarly to a duster. Worn by various middle-ranking Imperial nobles.
- New apparel - Gunlink: This tactical headgear offers no protection, but increases shooting accuracy. It is used by Imperial troops.
- New apparel - Eltex skullcap: This offers little protection, but improves psycasting. Worn by some middle-ranking Imperial nobles.
- New apparel - Stellic crown: A unique, gigantic crown worn by the high stellarch.
- New permit - Steel drop: Call down some steel resources.
- New permit - Glitterworld medicine drop: Call down some glitterworld medicine.
- New permit - Silver drop: Call down some silver.
- New permit - Food drop: Call down some food.
- When forming a caravan, animals now instantly go to the caravan packing spot instead of waiting for a colonist to take them. This speeds up the caravan formation process significantly.
- You can now place blueprints separately for different types of buildings in a monument, so you can make them of different materials.
- We now display a text mote when a player pawn gains a new level in a skill.
- If you have a menu with a very large number of commands, as in a powerful psycaster, some of them will be displayed smaller.
- Use drug commands are now condensed onto a single command if a pawn carries more than one drug type.
- Allow projectiles to be rendered with a visual arc and ground shadow. Activated this behavior for: Phoenix and Grenadier armor, frag grenades, molotovs, emp/smoke/incendiary launchers.
- Allow right clicking on the shuttle with multiple pawns selected to load all allowed ones.
- Mods can now be tagged as translations in the workshop.
- We now automatically add appropriate bedrolls to caravan.
- Pawns will now not lose their skill levels until they fall 1000 XP under zero. This stops pawns from quickly leveling up and down around a threshold.
- Added a warning confirmation for calling for resources that would cause the caravan to be immobile.
- Add some text content to refugee hospitality quest.
- Recipes for crafted things now show work to make in their info card.
- New artwork for orbital targeters.
- Allow quick loading via permit shuttle from non-home maps with no hostiles.
- Upon death, all titles will not be instantly transferred to their heirs. Instead, we give favor up to the inherited title and generate a bestowing quest for the heir.

[h2]Adjustments[/h2]
- Adjust text and icon for the 'Take drug' command.
- In custom difficulty settings, rename "fixed wealth" mode to "wealth-independent" mode, and give the player a slider to control how many years until this mode delivers its maximum threat level.
- Move 'take to inventory' column over just to the right of the drug name.
- Dirt now washes away in rain.
- Changed precious lump hostile threats description to something more concise.
- Psycasts are now sorted on the interface by category and then level.
- Changed psychic droner to start off with medium bad strength as baseline and when spawned on sites its determined by points now, same as the 'raw' gamecondition.
- Ensure all the mech cluster buildings wake up once it was attacked.
- Adjustments to Precious Lump quest text and world object info.
- Make pawns count as guilty while in aggro mental state.
- Disable corpse obsession break for prisoners, as it's very unlikely to happen and is not implemented around this possibility.
- Reorganized permit UI. Exchanged horizontal scrollbar for vertical.
- Give the broadshield pack a smaller drawsize, so that its icon/map-icon is more congruent with its appearance on a pawn.
- Added faction icon to main work tab with click through to faction and scroll to faction.
- Added max lodger count to hospitality refugee quest.
- AI will now only deploy an NPC's Smokepop or Broadshield pack if the offending attacker is hostile. This prevents friendly-fire from activating an NPC's Smokepop/Broadshield.
- Rewrite noble requests for help in the pawn lending quest.
- Increase frequency of bandit camp mission and shuttle crash quests.
- Food and medicine renamed to travel supplies.
- Add hediff links to recipes for implants and parts.
- Apparel with utility now has a score offset to make AI more likely to automatically wear it.
- Made nature shrines minifiable and reinstallable.
- Made shrines improve anima tree meditation.
- Farskip now affects colony animals if not on the home map.
- Colonists and pack animals unload inventory automatically once farskipped to a player home map.
- Climate adjuster no longer will choose negative temperature offset for deserts nor positive offset for ice sheets (it will avoid being not dangerous).
- NPC pawns with titles now purchase random permits on generation.
- We now show the player a feedback message when calling resources to a caravan.
- Trade requests will no longer request patchleather.
- Added quest look target when bestowing ceremony cannot be accepted due to threat.
- Bestowing ceremony text now says that player is expected to keep bestower safe.
- Jump packs and locust armor now require enough chemfuel to provide their initial fuel, and one more component.
- Ensure auto-selected travel supplies doesn't exceed caravan mass capacity.
- Use phrase "Force equip" instead of "Force wear" when referring to utility-slot apparel items.
- Change the "Tornado generator" targeter to a utility-slot apparel item.
- Change the "Orbital mech cluster targeter" to a utility-slot apparel item.
- Increased warmup time for aerodrone permits by 1 second.
- Removed full-map light up effect of all strikes except orbital beam.
- Icons of spacer armor now display as off-white instead of dark gray.
- Adjust eltex gear colors to be darker.
- Shield renaming for clarity and consistency. "Mortar shield" is now "mech high-shield". "Bullet shield" is now "mech low-shield". "Broadshield pack" is now "low-shield pack". "Broadshield projector" is now "burnout low-shield". "bullet shield" psycast is now "skipshield". No code or defNames were changed.
- Rename orbital strike permits to aerodrone strike (for fiction coherence reasons).
- Don't autoselect beer, ambrosia, flowers or insect jelly in the form caravan dialog.
- Bestower is no longer required to have archotech eyes.
- Neural heat overload can no longer cause psylink degradation or any other permanent damage.
- Member stripped goodwill penalty increased from 10 to 40.
- Royal apparel production costs rebalanced.
- Prevent farskip when caravan is overweight.
- Improve meditation and medical rest priorities to allow meditation for pawns with healing injuries if they're on meditation schedule.
- Optimize monument marker drawing.

[h2]Technical[/h2]
- Use the old root keys in PawnLend script to avoid breaking translations.
- Reset pawns enemyTarget after recovering from aggro mental state.
- Selectively finalize equipped stat offsets
- Use ThingDefCountClass to list dropped resources in permits. Added missing honor values. Zero honor cost produces a config error.
- Spread out re-validating FloatMenuOption across multiple frames.
- Improve FloatMenuMap caching and AddUndraftedOrders check order for better performance.
- Make the 'try add to inventory' debug option.
- Tweak the drawSize of various headgear to ensure their on-map size is congruent with their on-pawn size.
- Royal title requirement thought workers now pass RoyalTitle object into Formatted and GrammarResolverSimple provides all required symbols.
- Added some missing apparel score offsets for utility armor.
- GenStep_ConditionCauser now checks for existing buildings at scatter spot.
- Medieval surgeries now have links to the proper hediffs.
- Fixed an issue where if the "Insect spawning rate" custom difficulty setting was set to zero, it caused unnecessary every-tick re-checking of whether a hive should spawn more pawns.
- Remove remaining mentions of "default" load folder from ModUpdating.txt.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Colonist with a sick thought won't meditate at all.
- Fix: Pawn lend initial description and final letter mismatch.
- Fix: Ability duration on the tooltip is shown in hours even for low values.
- Fix: Gunlink displays shooting accuracy stat offset as %.
- Fix: Becoming neutral/allied with imperials after taking the deserter quest then entering their site allows you to take the neuroformers without a fight.
- Fix: Auto-rebuild doesn't work on bridges.
- Fix: Quest prisoners can spawn on door tiles and walk away.
- Fix: Overlapping keybinds for assigning pawn and toggle prisoner-owned for beds.
- Fix: Psycast disabled status is not being updated in shrunk mode.
- Fix: Auto mortars are always active.
- Fix: Compressed commands are drawn from top to bottom.
- Fix: Quest reward pawn died before quest was accepted.
- Fix: Not all curve marks being drawn on graphs.
- Fix: Errors on generating long range mineral scanner quest via debug tools.
- Fix: Psyfocus target value on the gizmo tooltip is not updated until you finished adjusting it.
- Fix: Colonist pods returning from a 'pawn lend' quest can roof punch.
- Fix: No mech cluster building is multi-selectable
- Fix: Keyed translations from a mod can't replace existing values with the same key and log an error instead.
- Fix: XML Attribute IsNull only works on simple fields.
- Fix: Psylink neuroformers that are in a storage area do not appear on a resource readout.
- Fix: Ensure Graphic_RandomRotated preserves the of wrapped graphics.
- Fix: Projectiles were invisible for the first few cells of flight, due to them inheriting and interpolating their launcher's y layer, and being clipped/obscured out of the camera
- Fix: Auto Charge Turret fires when stunned
- Fix: Can't prioritize chatting with a prisoner if some other warden is already doing it.
- Fix: Unfogging adjacent cells of buildings which are more than 1x1 of size doesn't work properly.
- Fix: Grammar errors in a few 'title requirements not met' thought descriptions.
- Fix: Apparel scoring algorithm ignores heat armor.
- Fix: Rescuing downed noble ends shuttle rescue quest.
- Fix: Bandit camp returnees don't unload.
- Fix: Its possible to arrest non-violent/downed pawns and not have their faction notified of member captured.
- Fix: Some wrong import settings on a few UI icon graphics.
- Fix: "Unchangeable" text from visually overlaps with "Clear forced" button in assign-outfits panel.
- Fix: Incorrect memory thought when refugee arrested or violated and incorrect letter text when violated in refugee hospitality quest.
- Fix: Join letter in hospitality refugee quest remains (with disabled accept) if pawn leaves map before quest has ended.
- Fix: Rare exception when changing the "Allowed area" restriction of a colonist in the Schedule tab, while the colonist is performing certain multi-step actions (such as being in the middle of reloading a mortar).
- Fix: Gloomlight would prevent a Sun lamp from producing "brightly lit" cells within the radius of the Gloomlight. Due to: the glowColor of the Gloomlight not having an explicit alpha of zero. We now correctly ignore the alpha from the xml.
- Fix: Bestower quest has a rootSelectionWeight of 1.
- Fix: Quest helper went wild man, now wandering around on map, can't arrest or empire becomes hostile.
- Fix: Drug scheduling for inventory does not function when set to 1.
- Fix: Stellarch and other non-rewardable title holding pawns don't get any permits.
- Fix: Logging null leader error for factions which don't need a leader.
- Fix: Meditation preventing pawn from attending a gathering or giving speech.
- Fix: Using explanation text meant for anima tree (after letting letting it being enhanced with shrines) on other focus objects.
- Fix: Condition causer can be spawned ontop of power conduits (wiping them).
- Fix: lastPsylinkAvailable is reset whenever a game is loaded, causing fewer neuroformer quest rewards.
- Fix: Finding throne room spot for bestowing ceremony does not work if throne is blocked in front and back.
- Fix: In custom-difficulty settings, the minimum value of "Turret rearm cost" was set to 1%.
- Fix: Bestowing ceremony doesn't update permit points.
- Fix: Extra newlines in quest descriptions.
- Fix: If the "Insect spawning rate" custom difficulty setting was set to zero, it caused insect/mech hives to spawn every tick once they reached their next spawn time.
- Fix: Calling a shuttle to a caravan always costs favor instead of initiating cooldown.
- Fix: Resources with null stuffProps can be accepted as "Stony" resources in monuments.
- Fix: NRE when trying to get all pawns with specific mental state in quest part.
- Fix: Shuttle auto-load does not properly work on shuttle assault quest return.
- Fix: Bestowing ceremony escorte can be used as a fighting force. There will now be negative effects if they are killed.
- Fix: Bestower goes to wrong room for ceremony (added fallbacks when no spot in thronerome can be found).
- Fix: Animals refusing to eat reachable food when restricted to an area.
- Fix: Exception during reward-giving Quests when custom-difficulty setting "Quest Rewards" is set to 0%.
- Fix: Pawns don't face table when eating.
- Fix: Healer mech serum heals love
- Fix: Player blueprints prevent mech clusters from dropping.
- Fix: Attacking a settlement with a shuttle causes the map to be smaller compared to caravans and transport pods.
- Fix: Some single-use utility items could be used multiple times via shift-clicking.
- Fix: GenStep_MechCluster spawns mech that are awake, but marked as dormant.
- Fix: Pawn keeps meditating with a focus object that has 0 focus offset.
- Fix: "Clear prioritised work" command can interrupt neuroquake cast.
- Fix: Can't rescue invisible colonists.
- Fix: Lack of back-compatibility for mods that use old style of defining offsets in FocusStrengthOffset_BuildingDefs.
- Fix: Caravan food auto selection gives rotting food higher weight.
- Fix: Sick pawns falling out of bed because of trying to do meditation for joy.
- Fix: Errors on viewing bestowing quest while target pawn is not spawned.
- Fix: Uncapitalized first letters in some paragraphs.
- Fix: Arrested Refugee Leader can not be sold, leaves to unusual behavior.
- Fix: The mouse-attachment that indicates what resource is contained in areas found by ground-penetrating radars should show even when the area is fogged (such as under a mountain).
- Fix: Setting the butchering or mining yield to a high value in the custom difficulty settings may not result in actual increased yields.
- Fix: Mission shuttles cannot auto loot.
- Fix: Taking wake-up to inventory same wording as taking wake-up.
- Fix: Non-heat psycasts can be spammed when it shouldn't be possible.
- Fix: GetBuildingDefsForCluster_NewTemp() creates an infinite loop.
- Fix: Teetotalers can use drugs normally by using the new gizmos.
- Fix: JobGiver_OptimizeApparel.ApparelScoreRaw() reads an uninitialized variable which can lead to some weird behavior especially if there are modded races.
- Fix: You can use farskip on the caravan you're in.
- Fix: Received spelt recieved in mood and notification letter for titles.
- Fix: SoundDefOf.MeditationGainPsyfocus plays on loop after done meditating.
- Fix: Prisoner refugee leaves when refugee quest ends normally.
- Fix: Arrested refugees will join the player colony if arrest job is interupted before placing refugee in cell.
- Fix: Permit prerequisites are removed even when you don't have the permit.
- Fix: Can banish quest lodgers through character card UI.
- Fix: Game breaks if quest lodgers have RunWild mental break.
- Fix: Various typos.

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.

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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


[h2]New stuff: Base game[/h2]

- Custom playstyle system: You can now select a new custom playstyle setting. This opens up a new menu that allows you to customize a large number of different settings exactly as you prefer. For example, you can make a game with lots of enemies, but high yields from crops and mining. The settings are:
--- Storyteller ignore wealth, and instead replace it with a factor from time alone. This can make the game fall off the rails easily, but is appropriate for someone who wants a pure challenge.
--- Player friendly fire chances.
--- Colonist instakill chance. This setting allows you to apply a damage filter that prevents colonists being killed by a single shot, because that can feel arbitrary. Colonists can still be downed by one shot and bleed out soon after, or take permanent injuries in one shot.
--- Overall threat scale
--- Major threats toggle
--- Quests threats toggle
--- Intro threats toggle
--- Predators hunt humans toggle
--- Extreme weather toggle
--- Harvest, mining, and butchering yield
--- Quest rewards
--- Raid loot
--- Trade prices
--- Turret rearm cost
--- Scaria rot chance
--- Enemy death on downed chance
--- Colonist mood
--- Food poison chance
--- Animal revenge chance
--- Infection chance
--- Disease frequency
--- Hive insect spawn rate
--- Deep drill infestation chance
--- Ancient structure threats toggle
--- Passive hives at map generation toggle
--- Toggles to allow/disallow player building traps, turrets, and mortars
--- Damage adaptation growth rate: Adaptation means the storyteller makes the game more challenging over time as long as you are not taking losses. This is separate from the story effects of wealth and population. This adjusts the rate of that challenge growth.
--- Damage adaptation effect: Adaptation means the storyteller makes the game more challenging over time as long as you are not taking losses. This is separate from the story effects of wealth and population. This adjusts the effect of that adaptation value on actual threats.

- Raid loot generation: Previously raids would just drop whatever rewards were associated with the characters in that raid. Now, each raid generates a single core reward like a stack of drugs, medicine, jade, or plasteel. The reward is chosen semi-randomly according to the raider faction, and placed in the inventory of a few of the raiders. This allows us and users to accurately tune raid rewards, and solves issues where higher difficulties got bigger rewards.

- Utility gear system: Wearable belts have been expanded into a system of wearable utility items. One person can wear one utility item. Utility items can be passive like a shield belt, but most give an ability the player can trigger. Most have a certain number of charges before they run out. Some can be reloaded, while others are consumed by use.
--- Utility item: Smokepop belt. Previously, this was triggered automatically by the wearer taking damage, and disappeared on use. Now it can be triggered at any time, and it can be used several times, and can be reloaded with chemfuel. The AI knows how to use this to obscure turret shots.
--- Utility item: Shield belt. Same as before.
--- Utility item: Psychic insanity lance. Previously, this could only be used directly, and once. Now it's a utility item that can be carried and used twice before exhaustion.
--- Utility item: Psychic shock lance. Same as the psychic insanity lance, this was changed from a one-use item to a two-use utility item.

- Automatic caravan setup: The caravan setup screen now automatically loads enough food and medicine for the journey. This can be overridden if desired. This interface was also restructured to ask for the route first, and to clean up placement of some UI elements. Overall, caravan forming takes less effort and fewer clicks.

- 'Smash mechanoid' bill: This allows tribals to break down mechanoid corpses without a machining table, albeit at a slower rate.

- New system for handling time limits on caravan encounter maps. Previously on encounter maps, the player caravan was just automatically reformed after a certain amount of time. Now, the colonists will be detected by enemies after some time. Later, enemy reinforcements will begin arriving to attack. The player can choose when to leave, and this scenario can play out even on maps where other enemies remain (e.g. If player is executing a siege).

- Direct button to use drugs from inventory: This makes combat drugs more usable.

- New visual effects:
--- Building destruction. Screen shake, dust, and so on.
--- Improvements to orbital bombardments. You can see and hear incoming projectiles and other details are improved.
--- EMP state on mechs or turrets, with electrical arcs and sparks.

- New sound effects:
--- Many types of building destructions of various sizes and materials
--- EMP blast and EMP state
--- Windmill, watermill, wood generator, chemfuel generator ambience
--- Quest accepted, succeeded, concluded, failed
--- Mech serum used
--- Toxic buildup gained
--- Melee dodge
--- Power claw hit/miss
--- Human bite hit/miss

[h2]New stuff: Royalty expansion[/h2]

- Major quest - Shuttle defense: An Imperial shuttle has been damaged and needs a place to land. They're being hunted by raiders! If you accept the quest, the shuttle crash-lands on your colony map. Some civilians, plus a some Imperial soldiers, will get out and defend themselves at the shuttle as a raid comes after them. You have to help defend them until a rescue shuttle arrives to pick them up. Get to tha shuttle! Go!

- Major quest - Bandit camp mission: The quest giver wants troops to help assault a bandit camp. He will provide a shuttle to bring you to and from the camp. A specific number of people must be provided. This creates a self-contained combat challenge without the fiddliness and time commitment of full travel.

- Major quest - Refugee hospitality: A ragged group of travelers arrives. They ask to stay at your colony for a while. They have no rewards to offer, but there are other reasons to take them in. They will work for you during their time at the colony. If you keep their mood high, some of them may offer to join you permanently. After they leave, there is a chance they will pay you back later. One new aspect of this quest is that the travelers aren't part of any major faction, which means you can choose to capture them, harvest them, or sell them - though they may rebel or flee if you try. There is also chance they will betray and attack you, and a chance that some other party will contact you and offer a reward to betray and kill the travelers. Overall, this quest is designed to break out of the predictable challenge/reward structure of traditional quests and create more of a fluid, unpredictable situation with many options and outcomes.

- Bestower: Titles are no longer given instantly when enough honor has been acquired, and psylink neuroformers are no longer sent to you by drop pods. Instead, a colonist with enough honor for a new title can invoke the bestower, a ceremonial priest-like figure who arrives by shuttle with a retinue of guards. He goes to the colonist's throne room, confirming that it satisfies the title requirements, and does the bestowing ceremony there. The ceremony itself gives the psylink upgrade and title. You can also betray the bestower to steal psylink neuroformers if you wish.

- Hood apparel: A simple hood used by the bestower.

- Permit selection system: When a colonist gains a royal title, you can now choose which royal permits you want to come with that title. There are more permits to choose from than before. Some permits require minimum titles before they can be chosen. This lets you customize your nobles somewhat.
--- New permit: Transport shuttle. This permit calls a transport shuttle. You can load whatever you like in it and send it on a one-way trip across the world map. This can be used for attacking sites, extracting fighters from combat, simple travel, sending gifts, and so on.
--- New permits: Call laborer team and call laborer gang. These permits call a group of laborers to work for you. They are the civilian equivalent of calling military aid.
--- New permits: Call orbital strike and call orbital salvo. The Empire will use their ships to bombard targets that you designate.

- Psycasts can now have psyfocus costs: This lets us create psycasts that are useful over the long term instead of just in combat. The player can use them any time, but must restore psyfocus somehow.

- Psycast - Solar Pinhole: Generate a microscopic skipgate linked to the core of a nearby star. Solar material leaks through the pinprick in spacetime, illuminating and warming the surrounding area until it closes.

- Psycast - Word of Trust: Speak to the prisoner while using psychic suggestion to reduce his resistance to recruitment. This psycast can only reduce a prisoners resistance, but cannot recruit him.

- Psycast - Word of Joy: Speak happy, calming words to someone while using psychic suggestion to implant a joyfuzz loop in his mind. The joyfuzz will suppress uncomfortable thoughts and sensations in the target to improve mood. This has the side-effect of dulling sensation and decision-making, which reduces consciousness.

- Psycast - Word of Love: Speak about someone's romantic virtues while using psychic suggestion to implant romantic desire in the listener. For days afterward, the listener will feel psychically-induced romantic attraction towards the other person. This greatly increases opinion and makes them much more likely to attempt romantic advances and marriage proposals if they get the chance. This psycast can be used to connect two other peopl, induce love for the caster, or force oneself to love another.

- Psycast - Word of Serenity: Use calming words and psychic suggestion to end a mental break on a person or animal. The target will fall into a short psychic sleep. The psyfocus cost depends on the intensity of the target's mental break.

- Psycast - Word of Inspiration: Speak words encouraging creativity while psychically hypercharging the target's mind with new ideas. The target will experience a random inspiration appropriate to them.

- Psycast - Chunk skip: Skip the 5 chunks of rock or slag to scatter them near the target point. This is useful for producing cover during offensive operations.

- Psycast - Farskip: Skip the caster, along with anyone standing near him, to an ally at a distant location. This can send people far across the planet, but only works if there is a willing ally on the other side to use as a navigation beacon. The skipped people will always appear near a random ally on the target map.

- Psycast - Neuroquake: Find a discontinuity in the psychic field and unfold it, releasing a massive amount of psychic energy. Every creature on the map outside of a safe circle near the caster will be driven violently insane. Casting this takes three hours of meditation, and afterwards, the caster will go into a three-day psychic coma. The disturbing neuroquake echoes will inflict pain on everyone for many kilometers around, causing diplomatic consequences with all factions.

- Gear:
--- Broadshield pack: A single-use man-portable bullet shield projector. Deployed on the ground, it generates a circular shield that allows bullets out but not in. The unit is designed to last only a short time before burning out. These can be crafted, but doing so requires a special broadshield unit that can be harvested from mechanoid shields.
--- Jump pack: A single-person burst rocket for short-ranged flight. The jump pack allows anyone to leap long distances at high speed, even over obstacles. It must be recharged after several uses.
--- Locust armor: Recon armor with a built-in jump pack.
--- Grenadier armor: Marine armor with a built-in grenade launcher.
--- Phoenix armor: Cataphract armor with a built-in flame launcher and extreme heat resistance.

- Persona weapon traits: Now persona weapons have individual traits to reflect their individual personalities. Each weapon will have one or two traits. Some traits are good, some are bad, some are just different. Traits affect the weapon's market value, so a weapon with a negative trait will be cheaper. The traits are:
--- Psychic hypersensitizer: Psychic sensitivity +40% when wielded.
--- Psychic sensitizer: Psychic sensitivity +20% when wielded.
--- Psychic quiet: Psychic sensitivity -15% when wielded.
--- Psychic fog: Psychic sensitivity -30% when wielded.
--- Kind thoughts: Thought while bonded [weaponName]s kind thoughts +6
--- Calm thoughts: Thought while bonded [weaponName]s calm thoughts +3
--- Mad muttering: Thought while bonded [weaponName]s muttering -3.
--- Mad wailing: Thought while bonded [weaponName]s wailing -6.
--- Kill-focused: A pawn who kills someone with the weapon gains 20% psyfocus instantly.
--- Kill-happy: A pawn who kills someone with the weapon gains a weaponnames kill happiness +6 thought for 3 days. It stacks but the effect falls off fast.
--- Kill-sorrow: A pawn who kills someone with the weapon gains a weaponnames kill sorrow -3 thought lasting 3 days. It stacks but the effect falls off fast.
--- Painless: Pain locked to zero while wielded due to a psychic brain hediff.
--- Fast mover: Move faster while equipped due to a psychic brain hediff.
--- Hunger pangs: Hunger +50% while bonded due to a psychic brain hediff.
--- Neural cooling: Neural heat fall rate improved by 0.15 per second.
--- Psy-meditative: Wielder psyfocus gains from meditation increased by 10% (like increasing focus effectiveness by 10%).
--- Freewielder: The weapon does not bond. Anyone can grab it and use it.
--- Jealous: If you use another weapon while bonded, get a memory thought weaponnames jealous rage -15 for 1 day.
--- Kill thirst: If weapon has not killed anyone in 20 days, bonded pawn has a [weaponName]s kill thirst -4 thought.

- Meditation enhancers: Meditation focus objects can now be enhanced by other objects placed nearby. This gives a reason to construct more integrated and expansive meditation temples instead of just a single object.
--- Anima tree and animus stone are enhanced by nearby animus stones.
--- Sculptures are enhanced by nearby sculptures.
--- Grave is enhanced by nearby graves.

- Flame meditation focus: This is usable by pyromaniacs. They can focus on torches, campfires, or braziers. These are enhanced by nearby torches, campfires, or braziers.

- Gloomlight mechanoid building: This building has two purposes. First, it emits a sickly light, so adds some visual interest to mech clusters, especially at night. Second, it can be reinstalled as a light or deconstructed for valuable resources. However, it is quite fragile so probably won't survive indiscriminate bombardment of a mech cluster. Similar to the unstable power cell, it's a reward which can be claimed only if the cluster is approached a certain way.

- Bandits set up problem causer incident: This is a new way hostiles can threaten you besides raiding you. Now, sometimes they will set up a camp near your colony from which they will harass you using some kind of problem causer device, like a weather controller or smoke spewer. You have to attack the camp and eliminate it.

- Shuttle pad for Empire bases: When you attack an Empire base it will have a shuttle pad, often with a shuttle on the pad about to take off. This just distinguishes these bases from other factions better.
- Throne rooms in Empire bases:

- Speech inspirations: When your noble gives an inspiring speech, each listener has a 5% chance of getting an inspiration in addition to the mood bonus.

- Abasia disease incident: This random incident makes someone in the colony get paralytic abasia, which paralyzes them for a while.

- Blood rot disease incident: This random incident makes someone in the colony get blood rot, which requires regular medical treatment for a while.

- Abasia joiner incident: In this random incident, someone joins you, but they have paralytic abasia, so they must recover from that before they can work. It's your choice whether you want to heal them and let them join, or handle them another way.

- Visual effects redone for all skip psycasts. It now has a resemblance to a charged black hole or a spherical cut in spacetime. The new effect is more science-themed and avoids magic-like elements to focus on the hard sci-fi RimWorld feel.

- Visual effect redone for invisibility psycast. It now looks like light distortion, instead of a transparent glowing person. The new effect is more science-themed and avoids magic-like elements to focus on the hard sci-fi RimWorld feel.

- Added visual effect for wallraise rocks expiring.

- New sound effects:
--- Skip psycasts
--- Mech cluster defeated
--- Shuttle entry, exit, and ambience
--- Mechanoid assembled
--- Techprint applied
--- Meditation gain psyfocus
--- Mech building ambience: Sun blocker, smoke spewer, weather affecter, psychic harmer, EMI dynamo
--- Bionic slash hit/miss
--- Drill arm hit/miss
--- Field hand hit/miss
--- Mech turret small and large ambient calls
--- Bullet shield and mortar shield ambience
--- Proximity activator and countdown activator ambience

[h2]Improvements and adjustments[/h2]

- Renamed royal favor to honor.
- Underground resources readout now shows what resource is in each underground cell and how many there are.
- Desired psyfocus UI controls are more robust.
- Refined room stats readout.
- Storyteller now ignores HP for purposes of wealth calculation.
- Monument placing feedback is improved. When you try to place a monument, now the specific reason it can't be placed is highlighted on the map and noted in a message.
- Map generator doesn't generate little inaccessible islands any more (since they break various aspects of gameplay).
- Anima tree will no longer be destroyed by meteors, crashed ship parts, or shuttles.
- Empire soldiers now have more distinctive haircuts.
- Pawns can now only bond one persona weapon at a time (otherwise trait effects can stack in broken ways).
- Anima trees now reduce their anima grass progress rate after they're heavily used within a single day. This still permits power-leveling the anima grass with many meditators, but at reduced effectiveness.
- Empire is no longer enemy with civil NPC factions. We added a warning to inform players if they call Empire military aid when there are enemies on the map that the aid won't fight (this is a rare scenario).
- Display meat icon in butchery recipe float menu option.
- Removed naming animals through nuzzling. Animals only get names by bonding, or if given names by the player (so you can implicitly tell which animals are bonded by seeing which have names).
- Speech duration reduced from 5 hours to 4 hours.
- Plasmasword damage increased from 19 to 20. Extra flame damage chance increased from 30% to 50%. Flame damage amount increased from 8 to 10. Persona plasmasword damage increased from 20 to 22. Persona plasmasword extra flame damage chance increased from 50% to 70%. Monosword damage reduced from 27 to 25. Persona monosword damage reduced from 29 to 27.
- Stele and nature shrine now have terrain affordances appropriate for their sizes.
- Certain sounds now change speed if game speed changes, so they stay in sync with on-screen motion.
- Eltex gear's psychic sensitivity effect now scales with quality. Added feedback for this.
- All anima tree psylink levels now take 20 anima grass (instead of 18 or 22).
- On the research tab, we now draw icons for techprint faction and research bench requirements (the latter as hyperlinks).
- Quest helpers no longer spawn with the greedy trait.
- Relabel skill neurotrainers to "skilltrainer" and give them their own category similar to psytrainers.
- Removed special letter icon for choice letters.
- Sort transporter contents list so humans are unloaded first, followed by animals, then by items.
- Optimized UI gizmo drawing by skipping the layout phase.
- Pawns of the same home faction (i.e. quest lodgers) will no longer arrest each other.
- Soften anima tree glow. Remove anima grass glow.
- Orbital mech cluster targeter will no longer spawn a cluster with condition causer.
- Re-label ruffle shirt to formal shirt, royal vest to formal vest, royal robe to prestige robe (since these apparel may have other uses beside royalty).
- Change threat text color to a lighter red for better readability. Applied it to more text where it makes sense.
- Gear tab now expands if it needs space and there is space, before using scroll bar.
- Added labelMale and labelFemale to traits.
- Updated Korean language worker.
- You can now navigate debug menus with keyboard alone.
- All textures now use trilinear filtering instead of bilinear filtering for better sharpness at some zoom levels.
- All textures now use kaiser filtered mipmaps instead of box filtered for better sharpness at some zoom levels.
- Many, many other smaller improvements.

[h2]Technical[/h2]

- Added temporary factions system. These are used in the refugee quest, but can be used in other places as well.
- Refactored quest generation to run the generation script in C# instead of in XML data. This was done for all the new quests and will make quest coding easier in future.
- PatchOperationInsert: Only apply node normalization for text nodes, just in case.

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

- Fix: Log files can get extremely big. We now handle direct log messages as well (e.g. internal Unity messages or mods using Debug.Log directly) when handling max message count.
- Fix: Anima tree doesn't heal properly.
- Fix: Joy meditation can cause pawns to fall out of bed.
- Fix: Condition causer destroyed message sent whenever it was despawned instead of just when it was actually destroyed.
- Fix: Text rounding issue with re-enter cooldown text.
- Fix: Pawn bio tab -> double empty lines in tooltips just before the line that says when a backstory unlocks a psyfocus type.
- Fix: Haircuts don't display their partly-transparent sections. This mostly made the shaved haircut invisible.
- Fix: Many neural heat gizmos shown if many psycasters are selected.
- Fix: Situational thoughts with reason don't give access to PAWN symbol.
- Fix: Pawns interrupting their throne meditation for other jobs.
- Fix: Curing scaria doesn't remove manhunting.
- Fix: Not saving drawAimPie field in Stance_Warmup.
- Fix: Insect glowpods affect anima meditation.
- Fix: Uncapitalized tagged content in some circumstances.
- Fix: Uncolored names in some letters. Added a color tag for quest threats.
- Fix: LOS calcs for purpose of royal aid don't match LOS for guns.
- Fix: Humans with 0% hearing get thoughts from listening to instruments.
- Fix: Sounds with tempoAffectedByGameSpeed stop playing forever when the game is paused.
- Fix: Pawn can get random inspiration while not capable of being conscious.
- Fix: Bug where items from would never be returned from deconstructing a building if the stackCount of that item was exactly 1.
- Fix: Peace talks can generate for factions with goodwill rewards disabled.
- Fix: Inconsistent stat report for stuff, not reporting all stat factors/offsets if you open it via hyperlink.
- Fix: Thoughts about not being master of a bonded animal appear even if pawn is too low-skilled to be master of their bonded animal.
- Fix: Banishing quest lodgers causes "banished" thoughts.
- Fix: Downed refugee icon on the quest info has permanent red tint from DamageFlasher.
- Fix: The call to InnerThing.GetStatValue ignores the null check.
- Fix: Siege buildings retain their faction after siege ended.
- Fix: Manhunter animal quest and incedent don't cap out at 100 animals.
- Fix: "Considered: Fine" stat appears on floors with royalty not active.
- Fix: Psylink counts as an artificial part for a transhumanist.
- Fix: Pawns not gaining comfort from throne while meditating.
- Fix: Royalty-only stats appear in scenario editor with Royalty.
- Fix: Colonists can lose their psylink entirely when being resurrected.
- Fix: Pawns can spawn with missing heads.
- Fix: References to Braziers in core.
- Fix: While paused, musical instruments constantly loop, this also occurs while in the trade menu.
- Fix: Pawn in cryptosleep requires bedroom.
- Fix: Some raid pawn kind defs allow Brawler trait while having ranged weapons.
- Fix: It's possible to use doors as electricity-less coolers.
- Fix: Exception when selecting brazier construction ghost.
- Fix: Undignified throne room alert causes FPS drop for a throne that is outdoors.
- Fix: Just claimed artificial structures don't affect nature focus objects.
- Fix: Throwing grenades only 1 cell away makes the graphic distorted
- Fix: Pawns meditate in bed without being sick. They should go for a better meditation spot.
- Fix: Mechanoids not waking up if you skip them.
- Fix: Mechanoid capacity tooltip displays hidden capacity impactors.
- Fix: "Created at" stat has duplicates for things with bulk and normal recipes.
- Fix: Non-royal colonists will not wear royal apparel even if outfit requires it.
- Fix: Empire is hostile to neutral ancients by default.
- Fix: Several world feature names not being used.
- Fix: Can't right click directly on pawn to prioritize hunting.
- Fix: Psychic drone level increased letter doesn't mention affected gender.
- Fix: RadialDistinctThingsAround doesn't work correctly for 1:X size things.
- Fix: Text that says research speed will be multiplied by eg. 200% because of tech level is incorrect.
- Fix: "s" on the end of "colonists" isn't colored in quest text.
- Fix: Quest lodgers show up on history graph.
- Fix: Incorrect calculation for packaged survival meal bulk recipe.
- Fix: Wild men who are incapable of violence can hunt animals for food.
- Fix: Shuttles sometimes land on natural roofs.
- Fix: Some enemies spawn with smoke launchers who shouldn't.
- Many more small fixes.

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!

[h2]Improvements[/h2]
- You can now configure a desired psyfocus level on your psycasters and they will meditate enough to maintain it, without needing to use the schedule.
- Reworked how destroyed buildings generate slag so small buildings don't generate giant slag blooms; they'll leave steel behind instead.
- Implemented toggle for anima trees that toggles whether building ghosts are showing connections to meditation foci or not.
- All Empire pawns have at least the title of Freeholder.
- Player-created names update.

[h2]Training and feedback[/h2]
- Implemented warning message for pawns with psychically dull or deaf traits when becoming a royal or trying to gain a psylink by anima tree.
- Rename difficulty: "The price of survival is blood" to "Blood and dust".
- Rename esquire to acolyte. Adjust some title descriptions.
- Added warning message when designating an anima tree for cutting.
- Clarify undignified thronerooms reason text.
- Anima tree now sends a letter when enough anima grass is available for linking.
- We now prompt the user to confirm using a psytrainer if the pawn's psylink level is too low to use the psycast.
- Add "Meditation desired psyfocus" learning helper lesson.
- Add "Meditation schedule" learning helper lesson.
- Show base and max value for MeditationFocusStrength stats with offsets.
- Improved organization of drug stats listing.
- Various text adjustments.

[h2]Tuning[/h2]
- Increase rewards per points for quests game-wide.
- Reduce the threat points for fights generated off the home map, and increase bandit camp quest rewards.
- Double the rate of nuzzling by animals to buff mood-oriented pets.
- Extend the thought for when you buried someone in a sarcophagus.
- Reduce monument sizes about 15%.
- Reduce psyfocus decay rates 0.5% at each level.
- Increase psyfocus gain of wall from 11 to 22.
- Increase psyfocus gain range of grave from 4~20 to 6~26.
- Increase psyfocus gain range of sarcophagus from 8~24 to 10~30.
- Increase psyfocus gain of animus stone from 25 to 34.
- Increase psyfocus gain of sculptures by 2, up to a max of 28 at legendary quality.
- Increase psyfocus gain of small nature shrine from 15 to 22.
- Increase psyfocus gain of large nature shrine from 22 to 30.
- Remove psylink neuroformer from traders (but most still buy it).
- Reduce nature shrine build times by 40%.
- Reduced yayo new addiction chance from 10% to 1%, and removed the min tolerance to addict.
- Reduce flake new addition chance from 20% to 5%. Reduce flake tolerance gain from 4.5% to 4% (matches yayo).
- Increase toxic fallout earliestDay from 20 to 60. Reduce base chance from 0.14 to 0.12. Increase volcanic winter earliest day from 30 to 60.
- Reduce anima tree regrowth check cycle from 40 days to 30 days.
- Ship chunks now leave a component if killed, even if not deconstructed.
- Reduce blood rot severity per day gain from 60% to 40%.
- Reduce chance for diseases in caravans by 4x.
- Min market value for neuroformer quest rewards reduced from 720 to 600. Neuroformer market value increased from 1200 to 2600.
- Reduced the selection weight of hostile factions as quest askers to 15%.
- Disabled paralysis in hospitality quests.
- Anima grass glows less brightly.
- Various internal tunings in quests.

[h2]Technical[/h2]
- Moved Abasia and BloodRot to Royalty XML files.
- Rename CompWarnInBuildingRadius -> ToggleDrawAffectedMeditationFoci.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Psyfocus meditation effect shown for psychically deaf pawns.
- Fix: Wake-up meditation focus gain is overtuned, should be 20% not 40%. Also it needs to be expressed in the right format of % per day.
- Fix: Lodgers with blood rot and abasia spawn with equipment that immediately gets dropped.
- Fix: Tree sowing research project lists anima tree as hyperlink.
- Fix: Incorrect pluralisation in goodwill letter text and removed reference to asker in success/failure letter to match quest text.
- Fix: Item stash quest uses asker's short name instead of full name.
- Fix: Typo in deserter quest description.
- Fix: Unstable power cell can be rotated.
- Fix: Accidentally referencing MeditationFocusStrength directly in StatWorker_PossibleCompOffsets.

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.

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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

[h2]Psyfocus and meditation[/h2]
Psyfocus is a new long-term resource on psycasters. Fictionally, it's a sort of mental structuring that a psycaster can build up. Each psycast consumes a bit of it. It also very slowly ticks down over time. Higher levels of psyfocus allow you to use higher level psycasts, but the psyfocus also ticks down a bit faster at higher levels. This means that you can easily maintain your lower-level psycasters at low levels, but high-level psycasts will need a bit more investment to maintain their power.

There's no downside to letting psyfocus exhaust, aside from losing the ability to use psycasts. So if you have a psycaster whose powers you don't want to invest in any more, you can just stop any time and reactivate them later.

Psyfocus is primarily built up by meditation. You can place meditation spots on the ground and assign them to colonists, though if you don't they'll try to find an optimal spot themselves anyway. There's a new entry in the scheduling tab which allows assigning them to meditation time.

The most basic kind of meditation is simply to meditate without any kind of aid at all. Pawns will do this in caravans, in prison, or in hospital, but in normal situations they'll meditate using meditation focus objects to gain psyfocus faster. With a focus object, the psycaster meditates near the object and focuses on it to gain extra psyfocus during meditation.

Where it gets interesting is that not anyone can use any focus object. They can only use an object if it matches one of their focus types. A person's focus types are specific to them, based on their childhood backstory, traits, and titles. Psychic meditation is a personal/cultural activity which is done differently in different traditions, and people do it according to their own tradition and preferences. It means that different people will act differently, which centers their characterization - it's always a goal with RimWorld's design to make characterization matter.

There are currently five focus types:

Dignified: This can be used by psycasters with Empire royal titles. They meditate on meditation thrones, and gain more focus for more grand and dignified thronerooms. This is part of a shift in emphasis for the Empire, somewhat away from the pampered noble image, and more towards the quasi-religious psychic order aspect that they've always had. You'll note that this kind of meditation is a direct replacement for the old 'authority' need that your titled pawns would have. Now, instead of sitting on the throne to boost their own ego, they do it to meditate and regain psyfocus. The throneroom is a social gathering place, but it is also a meditation temple expressing deep traditions of an honor-bound culture.

Natural: This focus type is used by those with tribal childhood backstories - whether you started as a tribal faction, or simply recruited someone with a tribal backstory. Natural meditation foci all need to be in nature - they lose their power if there are artifical structures too close by. The concept here is that they want to go away from people and do a psychic practice by communing with the stillness and eternity of the natural world.

The most important meditation focus for the natural focus is the anima tree. One of these unique trees spawns on every map with a biome where it's at all feasible. The tree glows with bioluminescent micro-organisms and has a connection with the surrounding psychic field. Anima trees are powerful foci for building up psyfocus, but also serve another purpose - they can actually upgrade your psycasters. When meditated to, the anima tree slowly develops anima grass around its base. Once enough is grown, you can send someone to link with the tree through a tribal ritual and gain a new level of psylink. This gives a reason to have lots of people meditate to the tree sometimes - possibly even the whole tribe - to grow the grass faster. Anima trees are not vulnerable to toxic fallout and animal will respect them and not eat them (except the jerk alphabeavers). If it's destroyed, a new one will spawn some time later.

Besides anima trees, you can also build nature shrines or acquire ancient animus stones and place them in nature to meditate to them. These won't give new psylink levels like the tree, but it can be useful if you're on an ice sheet and there is no tree, or you feel you want a meditation focus in a specific spot (though they still lose power if too close to artificial buildings). Raiders won't see or attack the hidden nature shrines and animus stone.

Morbid: This focus type is used by those with certain traits like psychopath, cannibal, or blood lust. They draw psyfocus by meditating on death. To that end, graves and sarcophagi are a meditation focus for them. This kind of meditation is more powerful with a corpse inside the grave, and even more powerful if the corpse is related to the meditator.

Minimal: This focus type is used by ascetics. They want the absolute minimum, so they meditate to blank walls. It's a powerful type of meditation, but only ascetics can use it, and they can't use some other types.

Artistic: This type of meditation is usable by most people. The psycaster will meditate to art. Higher-quality art builds psyfocus faster. This kind of focus object is very accessible, but not quite as powerful as other methods.

The above all means that the Empire no longer needs to have laws against psychic powers - so they don't. If you want to be tribal psychics drawing power from the anima tree, while being friendly with the Empire, you can. The Empire also no longer tries to prevent anyone from using bladelink weapons (renamed to persona weapons), again, simply because it wasn't worth restricting players this way. Such weapons are still very hard to get, so if you get one, use it.

[h2]Gaining psylink[/h2]
The way psycasts become usable has changed slightly. Previously it was from the psychic amplifier. You would collect these little items and stick them on your head. Having more of them unlocked higher levels of psycasts. This was somewhat limiting since it locked the progression of psychic powers to this one specific object.

Now the psychic amplifier is changed to an object called a psylink neuroformer. It upgrades a property on the brain called psylink. Psylink is an organic property of the brain which can be built in other ways too, like the anima tree linking described above.

Psylink neuroformers are still given for new royal titles, but we also did some work tightening how often they'll be seen as quest rewards to ensure that it's possible to develop psycasters consistently even if you're not doing royal title progression. This is connected to the new reward choices (described below).

With different meditation types and different ways of gaining psylink, the overall goal is that players should have distinct but co-equal pathways to develop psycasters depending on which play path they want to go down - whether they want to climb the royal title progression, play as neutral tribals, or fight as outlanders against the empire.

[h2]Other changes[/h2]
The rest of the changes can be expressed more concisely in the below change log.

[h3]Quests[/h3]
- Quests now offer three reward options for the player to choose between. These three reward options are always distinct from each other. They are displayed in a condensed pictorial layout instead of text, making for easy reading and selection. Player can still set reward preferences to prevent rewards like goodwill or royal favor from being offered, if desired.
- We condensed and focused a ton of quest texts for better readability.
- Texts for Empire quests have been adjusted to de-emphasize the pampered aspect somewhat. The nobles should be a lot more straightforward to match the new dignified meditation. They're more honor-bound than pampered.
- All quests have been deeply reviewed and tuned to give good reward and challenge balances at all stages of the game in all situations.

[h3]Psychic mechanics[/h3]
- Psychic entropy was renamed to neural heat. This distinguishes it from psyfocus better, and expresses the context of a short-term measure that quickly dissipates, but can 'burn' you if pushed too high. It doesn't represent physical heat of the brain; it's an expression reflecting the same psychic phenomenon as before.
- Psychic hangover removed. Since we now have psyfocus as a long-term cost for psycasts, there's no need for psychic hangover. (Its original purpose was to remove from the player the micromanagement burden of casting psycasts like Focus over and over on workers, which would have been a good strategy without it).
- Neural heat overload is no longer dangerous and can often be a good strategy. It won't burn anyone's brain, though it may still knock your psycaster into a coma for a few days and in some cases can burn out a psylink level. It's a good strategy in difficult situations. I'd like to see more players pushing the boundaries of neural heat limits. Overall this powers up psycasters by making it much more viable to push out a lot of psycasts at once.

[h3]New psycasts[/h3]
- New psycast - Neural heat dump: Reduces caster neural heat to zero instantly, but puts the allied target into a psychic shock coma for a day. This replaces entropy link.
- New psycast - Waterskip: Drops some water at the target point, extinguishing nearby fires.
- New psycast - Flashstorm: Generates a small flashstorm at the target point, which will drop lighting bolts from time to time.
- New psycast - Bullet shield: Creates a circular skipgate field which will absorb shots in or out around a targeted point, for a short time. Great for retreats or advances.

[h3]Hosting quest improvements[/h3]
- You can now sometimes gain goodwill sometimes by keeping the guests' mood extra high.
- Threats configuration totally redesigned. There are new fewer individual threats, with more variation in their pacing and scale. For example, rather than four normal mech clusters in a row, which gets monotonous, you might get two double cluster or one triple-size cluster, providing challenges outside what normal play offers.
- Lodgers now generally have lodger conditions like being unwilling to work, or requiring mood to be kept up, or a disease. This reduces the cases where the lodger is rewarding you for the chance to work for you. More difficult conditions offer bigger rewards.
- Helpers brought to fight for you now start with an 'on duty' mood bonus thought.
- Added blood rot disease to support hosting quests.
- Added paralytic abasia disease to support hosting quests.

[h3]Drugs[/h3]
- Drugs output a lot more stats on their info card, including high gain per dose, high fall per day, high duration per dose, psyfocus gain per dose, tolerance gain per dose, tolerance fall per day, random overdose chance, minimum tolerance for addiction, addiction chance per dose, addiction recovery time, addict need fill per dose, addict need fall rate, addict need cost per day, addict need dose interval, safe dose interval. This should help make drugs my viable by giving players information to reason about costs and benefits.
- You can now make pawns keep drugs in inventory even if they're not scheduled to take it. Good for combat drugs.
- Drug taking is faster and the pawn won't move when they do it. Good for combat drugs.
- Wake-up and go-juice rebalanced. Now instead of being safe for some interval but then absolutely suicidal to take, the risk and consequences of addiction are lower but the safe dose interval is removed.
- Go-juice instantly gives psyfocus when taken by psycasters.
- Wake-up speeds psyfocus gain from meditation when taken by psycasters.
- Addiction is now rolled before tolerance build-up, making more drugs like yayo more viable and making the drug stats output easier to understand.
- Addicts now take their drug automatically at 10% need instead of 30% (which is too early and wasteful). Chemicals restore 90% to their need instead of 100% for more consistent math.
- Drug tolerances are visible at all severity levels instead of being hidden at low tolerance.

[h3]Miscellaneous content[/h3]
- Added new sound effects for: Mech serums, neurotrainers, psytrainers, condition causers, quest accepted, succeded, failed, concluded, techprint applied, shuttle idle, shuttle board and disembark.
- Added prestige recon armor, prestige marine armor, and prestige cataphract armor. These gold-enhanced power armors enhance psychic abilities and are needed to satisfy noble apparel requirements.
- Psyfocus gear renamed to eltex.
- Cleanly slaughtering your tame animals now gives 50% bonus meat. This powers up the previously-underused ranching.
- When manhunters attack the colony en masse, they now come with the rabies-like scaria disease. Fictionally, this gives a reason why manhunters are attacking, but its design purpose is to flatten out the reward level for manhunter attacks between different difficulty levels. At each difficulty level, a percentage of animals killed with scaria will become unbutcherable on death; this percentage is tuned inversely from the animal count at each difficulty such that higher difficulties now get the same resource reward as lower difficulties. Scaria can also be cured quite easily if you down an animal with it, which makes it possible to make them into pets or meat for slaughter if you are ready to trade medicine for food.
- Smelting slag is much faster to reduce clutter.
- Random decrees for nobles are removed.
- Mech clusters drop less slag and more steel to compensate.
- Mech cluster central problem causer buildings drop some special reward resources when destroyed.
- Filth like blood, dirt, rubble, etc now expires after a long time. This should reduce clutter buildup in long games.
- Added new smoke shells and smoke IED.
- Royal aid can now be targeted on a position instead of just dropping on the caller. So you can tell them to drop on top of a mech cluster, into enemies, etc - anywhere in line of sight of the caller, within a certain radius.
- Monuments can now be rotated while placing.
- Monument generation was reworked to prevent monuments from having big empty spaces inside and increase the value density. This should make monuments more compact and easier to place.
- UI: Follow the master while drafted/hunting now appears on the animal's training tab as well as the main animals tab.
- Renamed bladelink to persona weapons.
- Added colorblind-friendly point labels for history charts, visible on mouseover.
- Difficulty settings were renamed with more flavor and to better indicate what they really mean. Descriptions were condensed and clarified, and coded to appear instantly on mouseover so they can't be missed.
- Updated player-created names.

[h3]Small miscellaneous[/h3]
- Increased eltex staff market value from 1000 to 2000.
- Quest rewards now give more goodwill if the faction is hostile.
- Tuned various trees' harvest work and yield towards a standard of about 30 harvest work per yield.
- Renamed and rewrote difficulty settings (tuning was not changed).
- Mortars now have a visible progress bar while cooling down.
- Removed psychic silencer implant since it no longer has any purpose. The deserter quest now gives an additional psylink neuroformer.
- Cleaned up how pawn hunger rate is fed back through stats. Gourmand trait now directly affects hunger rate. Hunger rate multiplier stat is not used anywhere anymore (but was not removed for compatibility).
- Increase range of manhunter pulse psycast by 10.
- Stripping neutral or allied pawns now causes goodwill loss.
- Now only quest asker lodger can issue decrees.
- Improved melee DPS and armor penetration stat texts.
- Shuttles now avoid landing near mechanoid cluster proximity activators.
- Added various loading tips.
- Reduce call cataphracts royal favor cost if used before cooldown from 12 to 8 favor.
- Psycasts tuning: Painblock entropy cost reduced from 10 to 8. Stun range increased from 20 to 25. Blinding pulse range increased from 20 to 25. Entropy dump range increased from 15 to 25. Vertigo pulse range increased from 20 to 25. Skip range and radius increased from 25 to 28. Wallraise range increased from 20 to 25. Smokepop range increased from 20 to 25. Focus range increased from 25 to 28. Berserk range increased from 15 to 20. Invisibility range increased from 15 to 20. Waterskip range increased from 20 to 25. Bullet shield range increased from 20 to 25.
- Reduce work for cremating a corpse from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
- Relabel the 'restrict' main tab to 'schedule' since that's its main function.
- Only allow stone floor (tiles and flagstone) in monuments.
- Made sure empire never gives royal favor reward if hostile.
- Change psychic entropy fall rate to be measured per second instead of per 30 seconds.
- Rebalance bandit camp quest to have better rewards and less challenge, and add more name content to it.
- Removed the self-destruct outcome from the journey ship endgame. Quest now only ends if reactor is destroyed or tile is deliberately abandoned.
- High tooltip displays severity percentage in tooltip.
- High label displays hours remaining. Addiction label displays severity percent. Addiction tooltip displays the need it creates.

[h3]Technical[/h3]
- Implemented quest rewards debug output table which helps analyze maximum, minimum, and average quest rewards for quests at different points levels.
- Implemented TKey system. This is a system which will allow us to tag XML text with TKeys, which translators can then use to address the text. This saves translators from having to work with long, overly-complex paths to modify text, and allows us to restructure our XML without breaking translations. We have added TKeys to QuestScriptDefs and TipSetDefs so far.
- Create full debug output for tuning drugs.
- Swapped XML-like format for colored text tags to use different symbols.
- Hospitality quests now fail if asker faction becomes hostile.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]
- Fix: Manhunter animals don't leave properly after 1-2 days.
- Fix: Can't use gender symbols in "FinalStraw" translation.
- Fix: Persona core request text incorrect grammar.
- Fix: Pawn lend quest always uses plural form of 'have', regardless of pawn count.
- Fix: Reduce resistance job report string shows 'attempting to recruit xy' instead of reducing resistance.
- Fix: Ingredient radius slider handle becoming invisible at unlimited radius.
- Fix: Penoxycyline blocks diseases longer than it should.
- Fix: DeepDrill optimization breaks map seeds (regression).
- Fix: When deep resources are exhausted, the message notifying the player states incorrect next base resource.
- Fix: Sometimes when deep resource is exhausted the drill is not properly forbidden.
- Fix: Colonist who is away on a quest formed bond with animal.
- Fix: Mechanoids assembled by a mech assembler have high ages. Pawns created by Spawners now have their age set to minimum age for last life stage, so it works correctly for insects as well.
- Fix: You can teleport pawns onto unwalkable terrain.
- Fix: Wedding guests sometimes don't stay for ceremony after party and don't get "Attended wedding" bonus.
- Fix: Able to remove implants on pawns without repercussions.
- Fix: Monument construction quests from permanent enemies sometimes talk about goodwill change on destruction, even though goodwill can't change.
- Fix: Potential null ref for pawns with no Rest need.
- Fix: Bad grammar on hospitality letter with single lodger.
- Fix: Gray UI color from 'none' label when there are no traits affects first skill items in CharacterCard.
- Fix: Improperly colored time strings in some cases.
- Fix: Translation key CannotGiveToPackAnimal missing 'cannot'.
- Fix: Can build stone doors on bridges.
- Fix: CataphractArmor research project in the base game; should be in Royalty.
- Fix: GetStatValue overload causing patching issues in some mods.
- Fix: Lag when sapping raiders are being hit by bullets.
- Fix: Hosted quest prisoners can be placed in cryptosleep caskets.
- Fix: Error if PatchOperationConditional didn't match and doesn't have nomatch path.
- Fix: Translation files cleaner stripped away (*Name)(/Name) tags on keyed translations.
- Fix: Dormant mech assemblers not reporting next mech they're gonna assemble.
- Fix: PsychicHarmonizer description typo.
- Fix: If the pawn goes from safe to brain roasting entropy in 1 psycast, I think he will skip over the overloaded Message.
- Fix: Wallraise can be cast to invalid positions by queuing cast commands.
- Fix: berserk/berserk pulse abilities can be cast on pawn in mental state to interrupt it.
- Fix: Quests that end before they are accepted because of faction hostility display "This quest was completed"
- Fix: Spelling error in psychic insanity lance sound folder name.
- Fix: Psychic effects on dead bodies don't disappear.
- Fix: Pawns with chemical interest/fascination adhere to drug policy allowForJoy when they should not.
- Fix: Shooting skill disabled by hunting work type.
- Fix: Incapable of violent shows shooting skill.
- Many other smaller fixes and typo fixes.

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.

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- 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

[h2]Improvements[/h2]
- Multiple thrones can now share one throneroom.
- Allow non-noble pawns to play music. High culture recreation type is re-labeled to music recreation. Allow non-conceited nobles use dexterity play.
- Make speech from the throne an ability player can control. High-level royals gain the ability to do a speech from the throne. It has a cooldown (so the speaker can think of ideas for the next speech). The feedback for throne speeches now tells the player the chances of different outcomes, along with the relevant social stat.
- Removed minimum expectations for non-conceited titles (that is, titles of pawns who were not born royalty and are not greedy or jealous).
- Implemented category-based melee verb selection. Previously, pawns would select which melee verb to use simply by a weighted random selection according to the power of their different verbs. However, this created an incoherency where adding, for example, a knee spike to a pawn with a longsword would actually make him worse, since the knee spike is less powerful than the longsword but now he is more likely to choose a verb besides the longsword. The new verb category system places each verb in one of three categories - best, mid, and worst. It then chooses randomly between best (75% of the time) and mid (25% of the time). So adding a knee spike to a longsword wielder will not make him use the longsword less often; rather it will replace his fists as the mid-tier verb and improve his damage per second.
- Colonists can now be set as master to any animal they are bonded with regardless of skill. This prevents situations where starting animals begin bonded to colonists who cannot become their master, leading to a permanent negative thought for the colonist not being master of the bonded animal.
- "New quest" letters now link directly to the relevant quest instead of requiring an extra click.
- Shuttles that don't land on landing pads will now avoid crushing buildings, items, and trees.

[h2]Tuning[/h2]
- Redesigned how hosting quests generate threats. Instead of always generating points-based threats on a 24-hour cycle with the same timing in all cases, the system now chooses from a designed menu of different duration ranges, threat counts, and threat intensities. Each challenge rating (star level) has a different menu of threats. These are all modified by the possibility of adding helpers, different guests with different conditions, and so on.
- Quests' reward value is now always at least 250 silver, no matter how small the quest.
- Quest guests can now only be downed or sick if quest points are over 300.
- Non-royal guests can now have mood threshold set only if quest points are over 400.
- Helpers can no longer generate for 1-star hospitality quests (since these quests have no violent threats).
- Reworked how the guest count for quests is generated, taking points into account better, and adjusted the rate to have fewer guests at really low points levels.
- Hosting quests can only use 2 or 3 challenge stars above specific points thresholds.
- Random quests no longer generate at all under 100 points, and lerp to generating as normal at 200 points.
- Tune random quest selection weights for more variation.
- You can no longer get quests about fighting mech clusters at unreasonably low points levels.
- You can no longer get infestation quests at unreasonably low points levels. Change the code that determines the hive count to round normally without randomness, for greater accuracy.
- Increase monument protection times from 10~30 days to 20~50 days, and increased reward factor to match.
- We no longer generate as many cheap items at high reward values, in order to focus on a few big juicy rewards.
- Adjusted the rewards for various game conditions in condition-for-pay quests (this means quests where e.g. you get a toxic fallout but also get a reward). Also linked specific conditions to specific star ratings.
- Balance down the reward you get just for keeping a hospitality guest without threats (since often this can even be advantageous).
- Deny choosing Empire as asker for a hospitality joiners quest if points are under 240, to avoid sending nobles when a colony can't realistically support them and they wouldn't want to visit.
- Adjust how hospitality quests determine the royal title of royal guests so early-mid-game guests don't have unsupportably high titles.
- Tune the default relationship between quest points and reward value to make it scale better lower and higher points levels.
- Slightly increase chance of population-gaining quests.
- Quest threat sites will no longer generate with 'possibly unknown threats' all the time, and especially not at lower challenge levels.
- Quest threat sites will now limit the number of threats at the site according to the quest points.
- Extended hive spawning delay the 14 seconds to 28 seconds.
- Reduced luciferium market value from 120 to 70.
- Increased joywire consciousness impact from 20% to 30%.
- Increased spike trap build cost from 35 to 45.
- Reduced wood sharp damage multiplier from 0.45 to 0.40.
- Colored lights research project no longer requires high tech research bench.
- Difficulty settings now modify butcher yield similarly to crop yield.
- Moisture pumps now leave resources behind when destroyed.
- Fine floors now give 75% of resources back upon deconstruction, similar to other floors.
- Changed research prerequisite for ship landing beacon from microelectronics to electricity.
- Greatbow can now be made at crafting spot.
- Health conditions can now have negative pawn price offsets. Mindscrew now has a negative price offset.

[h2]Technical[/h2]
- Improve grammar resolution trace format by putting the trace first, then variables, then custom rules.
- Make mech capsules avoid placing multiple mechs on the same cell.
- Suppress "dependency needs to have downloadUrl" warning for dependencies on official content.
- Moved 'Copy debug to clipboard' button to above debug text. Made the signal text box button narrower and changed the '...' button label to 'Send defined signal'.
- Shuttles can now take off when under roofs to prevent breaking quests if it moves under a thick roof after landing.
- Added a new quest node for creating multiple incident quest parts periodically or randomly.
- Moved quest part debug window contents to a virtual method. Added a debug button to complete Pawn Lend return shuttle delay.
- Improve 'write storyteller' debug output.
- Special thing filters are now always shown based on the root category of the filter listing.
- ThingFilter now resolves the display root category lazily.

[h2]Text[/h2]
- Adjust description of ArrestSuccessChance stat.
- Replace obsolete loading tip about noble foods.
- Removed some nouns that don't pluralize well by adding "s" to the end.
- Name generator now always uses GenText.CapitalizeAsTitle.
- Bladelink weapons now report the minimum title required to legally use them in their info card.
- Re-arranged some parts of "title gained" letter to put important stuff near the top.
- Adjust feedback for when protected monument is destroyed.
- Adjust some repetitive text in game condition quest descriptions.
- Refine description text for the infestation/joiner quest generation script.
- "Caused by title" trait tooltip text is now white to match other "caused by" text.
- Display quest info on monument marker inspect pane. Don't show "Complete"
- Add tooltip about allies sending random traders and military aid.
- Recreation type stat report now describes what it is and lists all recreation types.
- Removed some redundant text from animal hospitality quests.
- Display quest info on monument marker inspect pane. Don't show "Complete"
- Recreation type stat report now describes what it is and lists all recreation types.
- Changed the "royal incapable of social" warning dialog to prompt the user to confirm before accepting the quest, instead of simply closing and requring the user to accept the quest again.
- Updated player-created backstories and names.
- Fix: Typo in duck description.
- Fix: Trap hit letter label for friendly pawns not capitalized.
- Fix: Incorrect tooltip about surgically upgrading psychic amplifier (it doesn't actually require surgery).
- Fix: Quest guests not being unhealthy even though quest description says they are.
- Fix: Pawn lend quest specifies how colonists will be returned, when it could be either shuttle or drop pods depending on asking faction.
- Fix: World inspect pane showing always the label of the first selected object instead of '(various)'.
- Fix: Incorrect capitalization in plant attributes.
- Fix: Site threat quests sometimes mention a faction which is not even used for the site threats.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Error spam if a herd of boomalopes explodes.
- Fix: If a shuttle drops off downed pawns, they're dropped on top of each other.
- fix: On dismissing a quest, a seemingly-random one is selected.
- Fix: Can get pyromaniac trait for medical assistant backstory where it doesn't make any sense.
- Fix: Pawns being carried don't show up on the social tab.
- Fix: Debug text overlapping with hyperlinks.
- Fix: Old methods not calling _NewTemp versions.
- Fix: Recreating cantTakeReasons List recreated every time in Selector. Resurrection utility now checks for artificial body parts using hediffSet.PartOrAnyAncestorHasDirectlyAddedParts.
- Fix: Exception in pawn creation panel.
- Fix: Resurrection blindness affecting unnatural body parts.
- Fix: Ordering more than 1 drafted pawn to move somewhere they cannot go does not show a 'no path' hint.
- Fix: Listing_TreeThingFilter.Visible having new parameter but no _NewTemp appended. Old method with same signature now always returns true and is not called anywhere.
- Fix: Armor prevents damage from surgery failures.
- Fix: Mech cluster lord not receiving wake up signal if there are no spawned mechs initially.
- Fix: Threat response icon color doesn't match icons beside it.
- Fix: Wild decree mental break can happen to prisoners.
- Fix: Modded factions that have no color set for their icon break the 'choose rewards' window.
- Fix: Wick not being rendered on defoliator when it's about to explode.
- Fix: Attacking infestation hives causes nearby ancient danger hives to aggro.
- Fix: Replacement body parts not affecting pawn price. HediffDef priceImpact now defaults to false, and we explicitly state which hediffs have price impact.
- Fix: Architect tab looks darker than other tabs in bright snow.
- Fix: Some shelves have 'Allow fresh' whereas others do not. Display root category in ThingFilter is now updated properly.
- Fix: ListsEqualIgnoreOrder is incorrect.
- Fix: Asymmetric faction relations caused by permanentEnemyToEveryoneExceptPlayer FactionDef flag.
- Fix: Piano uses stuffed unfinished thing.
- Fix: Wild men/women suffer from naked moodlet.
- Fix: Affordance grid doesn't update when edifices are built or removed.
- Fix: 'Choose rewards' button is cut off at the bottom.
- Fix: Loading an old scenario file can break the UI if it references a stuff that isn't in the game any more.
- Fix: Hediff combatLogEntry is referenced but not deep-saved.
- Fix: Selecting a minified ship landing beacon causes errors.
- Fix: QuestNode_GetRandomPawnKindForFaction sometimes makes the quest description unresolvable (fallback is a string).
- Fix: Outlander combat suppliers don't buy drugs.
- Fix: Errors with melee verbs when drafting pawns carrying ranged weapons.
- Fix: Ship landing area alert text displays improper dimensions.
- Fix: 'Prisoner released' thoughts remain after recapturing the pawn.
- Fix: Psychopath has a negative social opinion after another colonist sells slaves.
- Fix: Language worker not capitalizing words in quotes properly.
- Fix: Name generator capitalizing letters after apostrophes.
- Fix: White fringes on harpsichord art. Note that harpsichord also needs HQ tex compression because of the dark low-contrast gradients.
- Fix: Text uncapitalized after colon.
- Fix: Error on using quest script defs debug table.
- Fix: Capacities aren't updated when equipping gear that affects stats.
- Fix: Stats show all gear if any one piece affects it.
- Fix: Red interface button has no right border.
- Fix: Noble given a speech walks to a throne really slowly.
- Fix: TranslateWithBackup didn't work.
- Fix: Missing 'shuttle arrived' signal that disables hospitality threats after shuttle delay.
- Fix: Thought reporting incorrect start / finish expiration date.
- Fix: GetPawn not filtering by excluded factions on existing pawns.
- Fix: Stone blocks (and other recipe products without hitpoints) not counted properly by recipe.
- Fix: Tribute collector arriving when there's another caravan hostile to empire on the map.
- Fix: Dismiss quest icon is asymmetrical.
- Fix: Incorrectly rotated monument marker thing not detected properly as part of monument.
- Fix: "Sequence contains no matching element" in BuildDifferenceExplanationText for some mods.
- Fix: Secondary guests don't use faction name rulepacks.
- Fix: SketchThing detecting incorrect things as part of the monument.

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'.

[h2]Improvements[/h2]
- Expand reward selection config to include options for opting out of goodwill rewards.
- Shuttles now try to find a landing spot near the colony no shuttle landing areas are free, instead of landing in random places.
- Colonists lent to the empire now return in a drop-off shuttle.
- Crashed ship parts now only disallow punching through natural roofs.
- Skip intro wimp quest if the player has a Yeoman or above.
- Royalty intro quests won't trigger on extreme biomes because it made no sense.
- Standardize red text to a more readable color.
- Reduce the chance of selecting decrees that have recently happened.
- Hosting quests now pick lodgers Pawnkinds relevant to their original faction, so royals' court allies will make more sense.
- Rewrite chemical interest thoughs to not mismatch situations where drugs were consumed, but in insufficient quantities.
- Make speech attendees prioritize position in front of the throne, if available.
- Sleeping prisoners show "Not while asleep" for their prison break interval, if asleep.
- Empire is permanent enemy to every faction except player, to solve issues where your royal aid doesn't fight your enemies.

[h2]Tuning[/h2]
- Buff toughskin gland, armorskin gland, and stoneskin gland.
- Rebalance knee spike, hand talon, elbow blade, venom fangs, and venom talon power and price (mostly increased). Increased the toxicity gain per venom attack (also applies to cobra bite).
- Power claw does more damage, but slows down the user like a field hand/drill arm.
- Endgame quest raids (royal ascent and escape ship) raids now also always have at least 500 threat points so they can't be trivialized.
- Reduce flesh pawn flammability 100% -> 75%. This makes them extinguish easier, fire grows slower, and rain puts them out now.
- Destroying the arrival shuttle now gives a -50 relations penalty.
- Royalty intro quest now starts on day 8 instead of day 3.
- Intro quest timer now does not start until the player has at least 3 colonists.
- Manhunter pack now always consists of at least 2 animals.
- Manhunters will now leave after 1-2 days like the letter says.

[h2]Technical[/h2]
- Added def info to biocoded string so translators can use the weapon's gender.
- Merged StorytellerComp_IntroRoyaltyQuest into StorytellerComp_SingleOnceFixed. Changed allowRoyaltyIntroQuests to isExtremeBiome.
- Added a fallback for QuestNode_GetRandomPawnKindForFaction
- Add default values with GetStatValueAbstract when requesting MeleeAverageDPS with ThingDef and stuff.
- Implemented missing Scribe call on ThreatsGeneratorParams for minThreatPoints.
- Implemented attach fire debug tool.
- Made CompDeepDrill.WorkPerPortionCurrentDifficulty obsolete and replaced usages. Moved hardcoded mining yield factor from StatWorker to StatPart_Difficulty_MiningYield.
- ThreatReward_MechPods_MiscReward: If helpers are generated, the quest ends a day after all mech buildings are destroyed.
- Cleaned up hospitality quests pawns lists.
- Improve duplicate quest name warning message, added more naming content to ThreatReward_Raid_MiscReward.
- Quest names now use GenText.CapitalizeAsTitle instead of ToTitleCaseSmart. This makes customizing capitalization behaviour easier to modify for individual languages.


[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fix: Some implants don't add to pawn market value.
- Fix: Hyperlink for "Human" displays on OpportunitySite_PrisonerWillingToJoin quest.
- Fix: 15 day wait period for monument decrees starts before monument has been completed.
- Fix: Empire pawns generate with implants and the body purist trait together.
- Fix: Helpers leaving letter arrived even if there were no alive helpers left.
- Fix: Quest lodgers arriving with carcinoma. This made it pretty darn hard to keep them alive sometimes.
- Fix: Product hyperlinks from recipe info cards omit several stats if product is stuffed.
- Fix: GetWidthCached calls TryGetValue for string before stripping tags, as a result caching doesn't work for tagged strings.
- Fix: Bill config UI shows ingredient filter for recipes with all fixed ingredients; it was pointless.
- Fix: Nullref exception when trying to abandon colony with bonded animals left in it.
- Fix: Trade inspiration removed after accepting on trade window, even if nothing was traded.
- Fix: Psychic harmonizer thought not removed until out of range after having a harmonizer installed.
- Fix: Occasional duplicate items in quest rewards.
- Fix: Some possible cases where the starting items spawned in fogged areas.
- Fix: Crashed ship parts spawning partially inside of mountains, causing the roof to collapse and destroying them right after spawning.
- Fix: Friendly raids go starving even if they got food.
- Fix: "Expert fighter" pawns generating incapable of violence.
- Fix: Destroying the arriving shuttle displays incorrect Stellarch name.
- Fix: Shuttles can land through roofs if there is a pad.
- Fix: Skills bars visuals scaled incorrectly (maxed at level 19).
- Fix: Can't return to main research tab if modded research tabs are added.
- Fix: Unconscious pawns force-dropping their guns after loading savegame.
- Fix: Hyperlinked info card melee DPS and melee AP readouts don't seem to change if you select different materials.
- Fix: Quests incorrectly capitalize words inside curly brackets.
- Fix: Huge FPS drop when multiple explosions overlap.
- Fix: "Art Student" backstory typos.
- Fix: Some cases where the starting items may spawn in fogged areas.
- Fix: No faction name color on corpse inspect strings.
- Fix: Food poisoning resetting to initial when poisoned again.
- Fix: Using skip, some areas are painted as if you can teleport there, but there are walls.
- Fix: Can't use skip psycast on top of power conduits.
- Fix: Cannibals don't automatically choose to wear human leather apparel.
- Fix: Roof grid sometimes overlapping fertility grid.
- Fix: Flickering on overlapping CellBoolDrawers.
- Fix: World map doesn't show names composed from non-Latin symbols.
- Fix: Unresolvable shuttle destruction letter with imperial helpers but no lodgers.
- Fix: Only return hyperlink if defsToExcludeFromHyperlinks is not empty.