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r/RimWorld•
macchic63

A Thank You to the modding community

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I have to say as a compulsive modder, Rimworld has one of the absolute best communities out there. There are huge selections of mods for nearly everything you could ever want. And when an update hits, the authors are super responsive. Personally there are under 10 of my 120 mod list yet to be updated for 1.1. In 10 days. That’s freaking nuts. And not only that but modders exiting the scene are incredibly graceful about releasing the source of content to the community for others to continue and it gets continued!

Now on those 10 waiting mods I have started to see a bit of commenting along the lines of “1.1 when?!?!?!”. But I also see other community members telling those people to stuff it and be patient.

So mostly thank you, all of you, creators old and new and returning and yet to be, and consumers and Tynan and co for making such an awesome game and forming such a special community around it.

You’re the greatest, and tbh I didn’t care what was in the dlc it’s been a few years since I’ve last thrown you all some cash (started in b15). (But the DLC is actually super fun well done you)

I’m going to stop before this gets further away from me and get back to making my human leather hats. Cheers!

Edited: Correcting autocorrect

Posted Mar 4, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

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macchic63OPThe Old Woman in the Mountain•

I realized after I was through with this that I was basically saying thanks for being the opposite of the Skyrim communities. RIP.

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Angelin01•

So... How is the Skyrim community really?

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macchic63OPThe Old Woman in the Mountain•

I don’t want to talk about it :(

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Ferkkinhell•

Bethesda game modding communities are super damn toxic, moving to rimworld was surprising for me

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macchic63OPThe Old Woman in the Mountain•

I got into rimworld modding before Skyrim... going the other way is surprising too.

Super damn toxic is a pretty good way to describe it. On both modders and users but I tend to think the former is a product of the latter. I get to peek on both sides of the curtain over there and it's just ugly all the way down.

I think it's also because Beth games just *suck* to mod. It's a really complicated process whereas you can install ~120 mods in Rimworld and be pretty darn good to go with minimal fiddling.

Edit: Formatting

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MGordit•

I always say that this game in vanilla is one of the best out there, which is really impressive. But with the mods it's even far better!

I'm not into the community or anything like that, I'm just a player for about 300 hours. And I value a lot the job of everybody involved on the development of such a masterpiece.

Thanks!!!

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Phrich•

What are your favorite mods? Just getting back into Rimworld since like 2017 and need some must have qol/content addons.

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macchic63OPThe Old Woman in the Mountain•

I mean, MOST of the oldies but goodies are still there...

  • EDB Prepare Carefully
  • Any of Fluffy's things
  • lots of KV's stuff...
  • Prepare Landing (this one isn't updated yet, but it's coming!)
  • Anything by Oskar Potocki - some stuff got integrated into 1.1 but most of them are pretty darn good additions!
  • Meat blend... gets rid of the 100x different meat types for just a bit of extra work
  • Animal Logic (makes animals less dumb)
  • Storage Solutions
  • Housekeeper Cats (armies of these things... yeah. it's awesome)
  • RedistHeat

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Plus if there's anything you don't like that's been patched in the base game (door noises, skill drain, traps requiring resources to re-arm) there are mods to deal with all of that type of stuff!

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Here's a really (b18) outdated collection of mods. Once I'm happy with my 1.1 load order I'll probably do a new one.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1305829422

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OneTrueSneaksCat Herder, Mod Finder, & Flair Queen•

I'm always delighted when people say they use my mods. To hear one of mine is someone's favorite is just amazing. Thank you. ♥

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macchic63OPThe Old Woman in the Mountain•

Well deserved, I can’t live without it!!

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BlossomSamurai•

OP got most of the essentials, but here are a few more:

  • Achtung!

  • pick up and haul

  • RimKEA

  • Psychology

  • Rumors and deception

  • all of the Rimsenal mods

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macchic63OPThe Old Woman in the Mountain•

tbh out of all of those the only one I use is pick up and haul... and egregious mistake on my part leaving it out.

Actually scratch that, I think I use the rimsenal hair :)

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BlossomSamurai•

I borderline can't play this game anymore without pick up and haul. It is an essential mod.

Also, I can't help but add like 50 guns. Rimsenal and the vanilla weapons Expanded mods are crucial. That way everyone has a unique loadout with its own strengths, which is fun.

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macchic63OPThe Old Woman in the Mountain•

Hm actually steam seems to have improved their collection editing capabilities:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1137536337

That's my current loadout, only maybe 5 or 6 of these haven't yet updated to 1.1 or been replaced by continuations.

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SerahWint•

The DLC is nice and all, but we all know who is the real MVP here beside Tynan, and that's all the modders out there who gives us hundreds of hours of gameplay for free.

What I'm trying to say is, consider donating if you have the coin to spare. For a modder, a kind word or a few bucks means a lot.

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Sebeck•

Agreed.

But why is it that the more horrible the things you can do in the game the nicer the players? (other examples are Kenshi and Crusader kings 2). Or what's the connection?

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Fellowship_9•

I think it's just complicated sandbox games in general. When there isn't a competitive element people are more willing to help other players, and they remembee how hard some of these games are to get into. Kerbal Space Program is similar

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your_mamma57•

I agree

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Aethrenten•

Rimworld of Magic is easily my favorite, many spells are amazingly OP.

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Ironic_TobleroneOrgan Farmer•

Archeotech expanded wants a word

All joking aside... with that mod And rimworld of magic i fully decked out a colonist, trained him as a master swordsman, put him on go juice, and turned him into a beast capable of moving at over 80c/s

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