RimWorld News

This update includes various new features, adjustments and bug fixes.

EDIT: It's been released to everyone!

Thanks to everyone who has been contributing unstable build feedback in official unstable build testing Discord server

Change list:

- Implemented renounce title button on pawn bio tab. You can now have your royal colonists renounce their title if you wish.
- Implement mech shield generator charge cycle. Shields now go down for a random day every 10 days, if you're willing to wait.
- Mech cluster condition causers and mortars now sometimes take several days to initiate threatening the colony. This gives more time to prepare and attack the cluster.
- We now generate random rewards only up to 5500$, the rest will go into market value fillers like gold, plasteel, and uranium. This avoids absurd rewards with large numbers of unique quest items in modded or ultra late-game scenarios.
- Added bulk recipes for pemmican and drugs.
- Restricted hunting decrees from targeting colony animals.
- Make mortar/bullet shields shut down when the cluster is defeated.
- Added new visual effects that play when something is disabled by EMP (makes it clearer when mechs and their builds are EMP-affected).
- Monument blueprints are now automatically placed when a monument marker is placed. They're also automatically removed when the player cancels the monument.

- Reduce hospitality threat frequency from 18h to 24h and adjusted rewards to match.
- Reduce love enhancer impact 50%.
- Give more time for harvest decrees, especially with fast-growing plants.

- Fix: Trade request quest can request and give the same ThingDef
- Fix: Trade request quest generation fails in rare cases
- Fix: Harvest decrees can ask for cave plants.
- Fix: Missing CanPawnAcceptQuest check in QuestsTab.
- Fix: Tribal faction namer uses undefined key.
- Fix: Traveling colonists not being able to accept quests and refactor MainTabWindow_Quests.
- Fix: When the Steam version fails to initialize the Steam API, clicking on a mod requirement throws an exception.
- Fix: Pawns losing ownership of their bed/throne if sent in transport pods.
- Fix: Random error from NaturalRandomQuestChooser; total weight is zero
- Fix: NamesFromRulepack debug output causes errors when root keyword isn't r_name.
- Misc minor typo fixes.

Balance updates and bugfixes today!

If you're willing to help test the unstable build in future, please join us here: https://discord.gg/EV2PNt7

Feedback is welcome all around. The most direct place to offer it is the Discord channel above, but I'm watching forums, Reddit, and everywhere else I can collect feedback. Thanks in advance to those who contribute thoughts, and to all those who have offered feedback so far.

Changes:

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

This is a continuation of yesterday's unstable testing with some updates.

If you're willing to help test the unstable build for compatibility in future, please join us here: https://discord.gg/4YMfu6

Changelog:

- Player-created content update.
- Fix: Nuclear Stomach not having zero food poisoning chance
- Fix: Escaping prisoners being able to equip bladelinked/biocoded weapons.
- Refactored mech cluster position finder to be more robust and flexible.
- Fix: Room requirements debuff for royals in caravan. Only apply debuffs on player home maps.
- Fix: Some mechanoids showing up as "dormant" after awakening.
- Fix: No mech wake-up sound on LordJob_SleepThenAssaultColony.
- Fix: Link plasmasword and zeushammer having no detection chance.
- HaulAIUtility now checks whether the worktable is spawned when deciding if hauling unfinished thing is allowed.

This update is available on Steam's unstable branch fo testing.

We're testing to ensure full save and mod compatibility. If you're willing to help test the unstable build for compatibility, please join us here: https://discord.gg/FYBsdNX

Change list:

- Increased mini-turret range 25->29.
- We no longer generate big mech clusters if there's no space for them to spawn anyway (we keep the points, they're just more compact).
- We no longer generate quests to build monuments bigger than possible (e.g. due to bad terrain).
- Quests are now consistently sorted by date in the quests tab.
- Low-tech weapons are no longer biocodable.
- Psychic animal pulser no longer affects player faction animals.
- Adjust tuning of chemical desire traits.
- Add tip about changing storyteller and difficulty through the options menu.
- Columns and urns are now marked as inert for AI purposes.
- Pawns can no longer haul away unfinished things that have a bound bill, are located on the worktable or touch the worktable.
- Expand title rewards letter to include the delivery information (to colony/directly to inventory).
- Fix: Apparel wearout damage applies to world pawns, so they eventually become naked.
- Fix: Ground-penetrating scanner text flickering.
- Fix: Turrets in smoke can target enemies adjacent to them.
- Fix: Mods cannot override patches (reported by NotFood).
- Fix: LordToil_HuntEnemies looking for random spot outside colony ownedpawns are not spawned.
- Fix: Mechanoid ship part disappeared with error message.
- Fix: Incorrect tip.
- Fix: Modded floors with 0 market value break monument generation
- Fix: Aesthetic nose lacking addedPartProps
- Fix: Bad grammar in title rewards letter.

EDIT: Updated.

- Fix: Pawns will move primary equipment to inventory if pawn becomes incapable of manipulation.
- Remove spurious error "Added def X without an associated modContentPack". Patched defs don't need to have modContentPack.
- Fixed sorting of quest tabs.
- Reworked FindDropPodLocation validator in IncidentWorker_CrashedShipPart.
- Fix: Mech cluster quests fail to mention some condition causers in their threat list.

Just a small balancing update this weekend.

Balancing will continue as we collect more feedback from across the Internet.

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