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Pretty self-explanatory, this mod adds a Designator(Zone tool, however you may call it) that creates a Growing zone on only the soil you selected.

License: MIT License

Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=784123492

Direct DL: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwk4-IZSd9QhQVVjRWVhREVlVTA

Source: https://github.com/PaulRitter/EasierGrowingzones

[Not doing this anymore since this is (kinda) being added to the game. The code was one hell of a mess anyway, since I started making this mod when I had 0 experience in C#]

Expeditions

Not doing this anymore since this is (kinda) being added to the game. The code was one hell of a mess anyway, since I started making this mod when I had 0 experience in C#/size]

Important:
This mod is far from finished or stable, the download is just an alpha so you can kinda play around with it.
DO NOT add this mod to your active games if you want to keep them

So yeah, as the title may suggest I was, like many other players, bored of just being able to interact with only one tile of this big map that gets generated (and I also wanted to get more into Modding for Rimworld). Since I pretty much started even reading about Rimworld Modding about 1 month ago, I didn't wanted to tackle the challenge of building outpost, so I came up with the idea of being able to start expeditions.



This is how it works:
- You can choose how long you want to explore one tile (default: one day) - the longer you stay, the more resources you'll get
- You can choose for what resources your pawn should look (one pawn can only carry 2000 items; nothing with weight so far, just units)
- The traveltime consists of two big factors: How long you want your Pawn to stay and explore AND how far the tile is away (your pawn will travel at 4tiles/day)
- After the expedition is done, the pawn will return with the items in his inventory, but will not drop it automatically(todo)
- The pawn will have a cooldown of 1 day until he can go on another expedition

You will be able to control your Expeditions over the "Expeditions"-tab found on the lower bar.



The Mechanics
What resources which come from mountains you will be able to gather depends on your colonists mining level[/size]

Mining Levels
Min lvl	0	1	4	5	7	9	12	13
Resource	Stoneblocks	Steel	Components	Gold	Silver	Jade	Uranium	Plasteel

Moving on to Berries and Wood, which doesn't depend on any skill levels, but still hast multipliers (Wood = 1, Berries = 5; Will explain now)

The amount of resources you get is calculated with this (short and) simple calculation:

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Math.Floor(((defaultAmount * percentage / 100) * days / 2) * pawn.health.capacities.GetEfficiency(PawnCapacityDefOf.Manipulation) * pawn.health.capacities.GetEfficiency(PawnCapacityDefOf.Moving))

• defaultAmount for Berries, Wood = 50
• defaultAmount for any other resource = 200
• percentage is the percentage you choose in the resourcedialog(will provide pic soon)
• days = days you choose to let your colonist stay at the coords (/2 because you should only get the total amount by selecting two days, so basically to balance things)

ToDo
Low Priority
High Priority
- Add function to add animals to expedition to expand the maximum amount a colonist can bring back
- Let the manipulation/movement efficency affect how much your pawn can carry/will even find
- Let the movement efficency affect the travelspeed
- Add Rescues -> Rescue captured Pawns
- Add Raids (will do when everything else is done)
- Add Meat as a resource to gather
- Balance the general times/item amounts
- Add Trade Caravans
- Make squares depletable
- (Randomly?) generate rare ore locations

As I said, if I get more into modding I might try adding outposts, but I'll finish this first.

0.1
0.2
(source will be available on github soon, I'm just too lazy to upload it)



Patchnotes

0.2

• adjusted Mininglevels
• adjusted Traveltime to 4 tiles/day
• added Movement and Manipulation to calculations of Resourceamounts and Expeditiontimes
• fixed saving problem - brought along new problem, cannot add new expeditions after save gets loaded

How to Install
1. Open .rar file
2. copy "Expeditions" folder in "yourpathtorimworld/Rimworld/Mods" (yourpathtorimworld is often C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods)

Let me know what you think and what I could improve, after all this I a WIP [/size]

[why am I posting this here?]

Hello players/modders of Rimworld,
the last few days, I had some freetime, so I started developing a webapp (no link no mo) to create Rimworld mods(of course mods who do not need .dll's to work, that would be a big leap).
Since I cannot create the perfect System myself, and am still in doubt if this is actually a good webapp(idea), I created a demo, so everyone can try it out by themselves. Unfortunatly, since I didn't manage to make the forms assemble themselves (yet), I created the demo presenting the scenario of making a Survival Meal.

Now to the part on why am I posting this here?
I am posting this in this forum, to get your (modders, as well as players) feedback on if this idea is any good, how you like the way I created it and what you would change. I appreciate any form of feedback, negative or positive, so don't be gentle If you don't understand something, ask me, I will be happy to reply.

Sincerely,
Paul

Edit:
So yeah, not doing this anymore. Wasn't really doing it tbh, after a bit of thinking it seemed pretty useless.