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Is the most up to date database the one from October the 19th?

If not how do I upgrade the database? It's not recognising some mods and keeps resetting them to the bottom of the load order (E.g. Psychic Awakening).

Screenshots?

If you're willing, I need help creating art assets for an overhaul I'm working on. I'm often on the Discord.

When you want all of the reward with none of the risk you end up negating any reward at all.

I am requesting a mod to be made that removes all passions and has all pawns learn at 100%.

I would like to add this to the Just Better Pawn Generation mod compilation.

I will credit the author of the mod.

There was an issue with the all in one package and the STEAM package. Should be fixed now though.

Is it possible to halve the chance that a pawn will generate with an illness? What stat would I need to change?

This is interesing, but i have to start a new colony?

In theory it won't effect existing pawns but should effect newly generated ones.

It hasn't been tested with existing saves so I would only use on a new colony for now yes.

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[What does this mod compilation do?:]

Download link for modular version (The mod compilation is broken into components that can be switched on or off): http://www.mediafire.com/file/v3k2sl88j552fy4/Just_Better_Pawn_Generation.rar

Download link for the all in one package (all mods reduced to a single file):: http://www.mediafire.com/file/wy54owusnb23lhj/Just_Better_Pawn_Generation%282%29.rar

Download link for the STEAM version (For our STEAM users): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1330474055

What does this mod compilation do?: Completely overhauls the way all pawns are generated to get rid of certain mechanics that many players find frustrating or even downright unfair. The mod compilation greatly reduces the amount of useless pawns that are generated by the game and also greatly reduces the amount of god-like pawns created by the game so that all pawns are more useful and balanced. Over 40+ hours and many spreadsheets and flowcharts went into ensuring that the new pawn generation system is as balanced as possible while still retaining a lot of the fun variety that Rimworld can offer.

Why does this mod compilation do this?: Because some players do not enjoy how the system of pawn generation can unfairly gimp many pawns to the point where they are useless or extremely undesirable as colonists while buffing other pawns to the point where they are god-like.


I present to you, a vanilla pawn. He survived the apocalypse only to doom your colony.


Proof that Darwinism doesn't apply to vanilla Rimworld.

Is this a cheat mod?: No. This mod does not make pawns more powerful overall. It simply reduces the amount of useless and god-like pawns and balances generation around a middle point so that pawns aren't necessarily a lot better or worse than other pawns, just different.

But there's nothing wrong with the way the Vanilla game generates pawns!: If that's how you feel then this is not the mod compilation for you. But I would say that a system that generates pawns that are by a significant degree better than or worse than other pawns encourages many players to min-max and I think it detracts away from the experience of the game.

I don't like x feature!: The reason that I've made this a mod compilation and not just a single mod was to bring some modularity to it. Different parts of the mod can be turned on and off. With this said the mod compilation is balanced towards being used all together.

Specifically this mod compilation makes the following changes:

Minimum Age mod (created by myself):

•   Pawns can no longer ever spawn without an adult back-story (achieved through the raising of the minimum age of generated pawns raised to 20).

No More Random Skills (Assembly editing courtesy of Spdskatr):

•   Removes all random skills (both random and age related skill bumps). All skill points will be derived from backstories. This is an essential part of the balance.

Editable Backstories with custom backstories (framework courtesy of dburgdorf):

•   6 child backstories and 78 adult backstories that are completely balanced. Each pawn will be assigned no less or no more than 50 points. Each skill (e.g. Melee, Cooking, etc) has an equal share of the total possible points that can be assigned so no skill is unfairly biased. The combination of child and adult backstories still lead to a widely varied possibility of different skills.
•   Pawns will never be incapable of any work. They will sometimes be very bad at a type of work if their points have been assigned elsewhere but they will never be fully incapable of a job (with the one exception of pyromaniacs being incapable of fire-fighting).

Overhauled Traits (created by myself):

•   Many traits that are either entirely negative or unbalanced (too positive) have been removed, including:

Abrasive, Annoying Voice, Beautiful, Chemical Fascination, Chemical Interest, Creepy Breathing, Depressive, Greedy, Industrious, Iron-willed, Jealous, Jogger, Lazy, Misandrist, Misogynist, Nervous, Neurotic, Pessimist, Prosthophobe, Psychically dull, Psychically hypersensitive, Psychically sensitive, Sanguine, Slothful, Slowpoke, Staggeringly ugly, Teetotaler, Too Smart, Ugly, Very neurotic, Volatile, Wimp.

•   Some traits have been altered such as:

Brawler: No longer gives skill buffs and debuffs. No longer gives negative thoughts for holding ranged weapons.

Green Thumb: No longer gives skill buffs. +25% plant working speed, +25% growing yield.

Kind: +25% social chat impact.

Fast Learner: Buff to global learning reduced to 50%.

Pyromaniac: No longer causes pawns to randomly have mental breaks. Mental breaks will only occur when a pawn is past their mental break threshold. Fire starting sprees are the only mental breaks a pyromaniac can have meaning they'll never snap and butcher another pawn.

•   Some traits have been added such as:

Academic, Animal Whisperer, Butcher, High Pain Tolerance, Precise Miner, Radiation Resistant, Sculptor, Silver-tongued

A Just Better Pawn Generation pawn ready to colonize some inhospitable Rimworlds.

Install instructions:

Simply take the zip file and unzip all of the contents into your Rimworld mods folder. In game open the mods tab and turn on (tick) all of the different elements:

RF - Editable Backstories
Overhauled Traits
No More Random Skills
Minimum Age

Try to ensure these appear low in the mod list. The order of each file in the compilation does not matter.

Compatibility and known issues:

Where possible I have done everything I can to ensure compatibility with other mods (many of which I use myself). All additions are made through patches which should not conflict with most mods. There are some extensive modifications of the vanilla trait files through patches so any mod touching the vanilla trait files may cause this mod compilation to not work or vice versa depending on load order.

The mod compilation will throw around about 10 yellow errors in the log relating to commonality of traits being 0. These are safe to ignore and are not known to cause any issues with the game. Unfortunately this was the best way to edit out some of the vanilla traits without causing more severe issues.

The future?: I'm looking at releasing patches to fully integrate this mod compilation into different modpacks. The first mod pack I'm looking at is the Hardcore Skyangel Modpack (HCSK).

Words of thanks and credit:

This mod compilation wouldn't have been possible without the support of the following amazing people:

Spdskatr: for generously creating the code to kill the random vanilla skill points, which was well beyond what my humble skills could achieve and allowing me to include it in this compilation. He is to be fully credited with the creation of No More Random Skills which is bundled with this mod.

Mehni and Sam Kester: for their constant patience, support and help with editing the XML files (I apologise for all the hair you guys undoubtedly pulled out due to frustration). I doubt I could have achieved a finished product without these guys.

dburgdorf: for creating the editable backstories framework, without which this mod compilation would not have been possible. He is to be fully credited with the creation of Editable Backstories which is bundled with this mod.

pardeike: for the creation of Harmony, a DLL editing framework that Spdskatr used to create the No More Random Skills mod. This guy is doing incredible things for our community!

Dianna, Shotty and Alias: for supporting me in the Discord chat. Thanks guys!

Tynan: for making a great game.

Redistribution rights:

This mod compilation is free to bundle with mod packs. I only ask that you credit myself and the other creators; dburgdorf, Spdskatr and pardeike when you include it in a pack.

If you would like to change the modpack and wish to rerelease a modified version I ask that you please message me for permission first.

What you can do to say thanks (if you want to):

This mod compilation took a lot of blood, sweat, tears and cursing to assemble. If it gave even 1 person some enjoyment then I think it was all worth it:

•   I would love to hear your feedback or experience with it in this thread, or on the Discord where I go by my other alias (Stallion).
•   If you have any modding skills I ask that you share them with others as people so generously shared their skills with me. This is how we build a better modding community.
•   If you want to somehow make a financial contribution, thank you for your generosity. I ask that you donate it to a charity of your choice, not to me, there are people who need it more.

it's too - HCSK-Feeling, like it should be in there, but really somehow it got out.

So it escaped from an excellent modpack that greatly enhances the game?

You really sold me on not trying your mod.

How are you planning to bundle the Collection?
Are you using a single .zip file containing each mod and the load order?
Or are you going to try and merge them into a single mod?

I dont mind it being included as long as it is credited as you already said that you would so that should be fine.
I am just wondering about the implementation and how that will work.

One zip file to download but separate individual mod folders so that you can easily turn on/off components such as the passion one.

If possible having just the passion feature as a separate thing to include that would be the most preferred option. But it's up to you of course

I could have a look at adding the ability to configure it into my Enhanced Options mod if you like.

Sure, thanks mate.

Would you be OK with me adding this to the compliation?

Can someone make a quick mod where no passion pawns learn at x0.5 instead of x0.35?

I'd like to include it in a compilation of mods that effect pawn generation. I will credit you in the compilation.

How fast does the population explode and how much FPS death is involved?