Hello everyone!

It’s Tia – I’m 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. He’s 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. 💛

Today’s 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!

Hi everyone, it’s Tia. We’ve 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 you’re 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 doesn’t, restart Steam.

To share any feedback or bug reports from the beta, please join the Official RimWorld Development Discord.

– Tia

Steam Deck Changes

In a previous announcement, we said support for the Steam Deck would be delayed until after the console’s 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.

Ideology Improvements

– 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.

Controls

– 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.

Misc Improvements

– 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.

Fixes

– 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 don’t 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.

This update should be compatible with all saves and mods.

Thanks to everyone who helped test on the official dev Discord! And as always, please don’t hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page!

Cheers,
Ty

New feature

– 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.

UI improvements

– 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.

Tuning – General

– 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.

Tuning – Ideoligions

– 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.

Misc

– 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.

Fixes

– 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 missing this before.

With this update, breach raids are now present but uncommon, with normal raids forming the main threat. I also tweaked the numbers for human factions so the mix of raid strategies should be healthily varied through the whole game. The game will now also reduce the likelihood of getting two raids from the same faction in a row.

Related to that, players’ turrets have been buffed gently. Since we have raids that can handle turrets more intelligently now, we can make the turrets stronger against the attacks against which they are effective. All this is subject to ongoing adjustment, of course.

We also did a bunch of work to improve your ability to handle vegetarian, carnivore, and eat-anything colonists together. Previously, you didn’t have the management tools needed to identify and separate these peoples’ foods properly; now you do.

Biosculpters also have better feedback to help players anticipate the duration of the biosculpting cycles, since these durations change depending on who goes into the pod.

This update should be compatible with all saves and mods.

Many thanks to Nick Barrash for work on extremely fiddly meal-related AI and visualization, Matt Ritchie for helping investigate breacher issues, and Alex Mulford for helping balance player defense tools. Also thanks to TiaPixel for marketing help and to everyone who offered test feedback for the unstable build on the public RimWorld test Discord server.

As always, please don’t hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page!

Until next time,
Ty

Combat – Turrets

Hello everyone! I’m happy to announce a new update for RimWorld and all expansions.

The biosculpters got a focused redesign. Colonists can now automatically do their own age reversal, and initiating a biosculpting cycle takes 1 step instead of 3. There’s also less incentive to do weird things like deconstruct and reconstruct the biosculpter. Overall the micromanagement burden should be much lower, especially for large colonies.

We also reworked caravan formation to make it faster and more fluid. The archonexus restart sequence got some love so it’s clearer and better-tuned. Finally, there’s also a bunch of smaller improvements – see the change list below.

This update was tested as compatible with all savegames and mods.

Thanks to everyone who helped test on the Official dev Discord server, to Matt Ritchie for running the unstable build update cycle, Nick Barrash for the biosculpter rework, and all our other devs for their contributions, and everyone who gave such rich feedback on Discord and on the RimWorld subreddit.

As always, don’t hesitate to review Ideology on its Steam page!

Enjoy!
-Tynan

Biosculpter changes

– 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 they’re 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.

Caravan improvements

– 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.

Archonexus improvements

– 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.

Misc improvements

– 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.

Fixes

– 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!

Multi-ideo colony viability

– 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.

New stuff

– 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.

Improvements

– 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.

Technical

– 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.

Fixes

– 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.

New stuff

– 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.

Improvements

– 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.

Tuning

– 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.

Technical

– 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.

Fixes

– 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.

Free 1.3 update

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.

On mod updating

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

Links

• RimWorld – Ideology store page
• I’m on Twitter as @TiaPixel and you can follow Tynan at @TynanSylvester.
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