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Have you ever tried to steal stuff from friendly visitors of your colony? Maybe a combat supplier that bring too many monoswords? A bestowing party full of recon armor and weapons? Unfortunately, most of the attempts to steal will result in damaged relation with that faction. Stripping the guards, attacking the muffalo, and arresting the bestower all come with a severe goodwill reduction.

Recently, I found ways to steal stuff from the trader caravan and stripping equipments from the bestower's party and I'm gonna share it with you guys.
Steal from the caravan: https://youtu.be/24nT1pZBN2A
Capture the bestower's party: https://youtu.be/R488FlkZle8

This allow players to fire mortars without any cooldown at all.

When a mortar is fired, players have to wait a cooldown of 30 seconds. But if a colonist reinstall the mortar nearby, the cooldown is reset and the mortar can be fired immediately.

This trick works for mini-turrets too, allow them to fire faster than their intended rate. Autocannons and Uranium slug turrets aren't affected as they can't be uninstalled, but for mods that allow reinstalling large turrets, this can be a big problem

This loophole allow players to steal all the goods from any caravan while gaining ~80 goodwill with the faction. I uploaded a video of the exploit here: https://youtu.be/24nT1pZBN2A

• Players can trap the caravan members in a room with heaters by having a dining room near the caravan's gathering. When the members realize they are trapped, they will try to dig out of the room
• The members won't dig at places that are being or queued to be repaired by a colonist. If a colonist is queued to repair most of the walls of the room, the members will not dig at all. This allow players to cause heatstroke to the caravan members and animals. Players can then steal the caravan goods and rescue caravan members to get goodwill
• Caravan members should ignore what colonists do and keep digging in that situation.
• To reproduce this:
  
  
  
  • Wait or use dev mode to call a caravan
  • Have a dining room near the caravan gathering and block the doors when caravan members go to eat, or build walls enclosing the caravan
  • When the caravan try to dig out, prioritize a colonist to repair the walls (preferably someone bad at construction). Queue all the damaged parts of the walls for repair.
  • Caravan members will have no place to dig and just wanders around.
• The original save game file have been lost, but I think the problem is easily reproducible. Tell me if I'm wrong, I will reproduce the save game file.