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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.