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Hello there, as I've played over 500 hours of rim world, one thing I've stopped enjoying is how the grenades function in the game.  I find it weird how there will be a raider pawn who apparently thinks gun fighting involves getting behind cover and chucking infinite numbers of grenades.

I would love a mod that makes grenades more powerful but single use items that would be attached to pawns as sidearms in their inventories.  When pawns are drafted you can then order them to "toss explosive," and they would quit shooting/melee and run close enough to where you clicked to toss the explosive.  After that the explosive is gone from the inventory.

Of course I would like raiders to have this ability also, so in the middle of a gunfight one raider starts charging in and the player has an "OH SHIT!" moment when he tosses some TNT to bust up your walls. 

My 2 cents thx!

As I was watching one of my chickens get murdered by a fox for the 1000x time before I got my secure barn up, I came up with an idea.  In my game, the "smart" animals, like bears and dogs and such usually just end up being haulers or bullet sponges for melee fighters.  However, I had the great idea for another training tab that could be completed by handlers.

When the training is done, you could assign your dog/bear/war or whatever to shepherd whatever other animals you have in your colony.  They would be programmed to stay decently close by (except to eat and maybe occasionally haul,) and protect the animals.  If a predator locks onto one of your animals to hunt it and it gets close your shepherd animal will rush over and attack it.

I think this would give dogs and such a whole new advantage and honestly, feels more immersive than the vanilla games design of allowing them to haul to your storage zones.

Hey there, I'm attempting to make a weapon/combat overhaul mod.

One big aspect is I want to create an incentive for the player to craft weapons themselves.  I don't know about y'all, but I rarely care about crafting guns and instead like keeping my components for more useful things.  I feel that I can usually pull together better guns from raiders and turrets usually keep me covered in the early game until then.

So, I thought that in the same way "dead man's clothing," was an attempt to balance getting clothes from raiders, I'd like something similar to guns.

Particularly, something to affect deterioration rate.

I want it to represent the fact that the guns are made from a different group of people using different tools so your colonists don't have the replacement parts on hand for the gun you picked up from the stranger.

Or, another way around it, would be to add the ability to repair guns that you've crafted yourself but be unable to repair guns you've picked up in the field. 

Anyways this is a bit more coding than I know how to do.  If anyone could put me in the right direction to get started I'd appreciate the help.

Hey, was thinking that different dog breeds should be able to mate, and the offspring could just be a general dog looking dog with a species name of "mutt" with some general stats. 

If I had female yorkshires and male huskys in my base........ i think i know what would probably happened if no one gets fixed.

Thought it would be a neat little mod, and also make the player need to be a bit careful when it comes to keeping and breeding dogs if they want the right breeds.

Hey, I'm trying to make a very vanilla oriented weapon overhaul mod (NOT ANOTHER ONE! i know...)

But I don't know how to make the models and probably wouldn't make very good ones even if I learned.

So far my current mod I've expanded the charge weaponry:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=812711700

I got my models from someone willing to give them away.

I want to expand the gunpowder weapons to go along with my changes to the research requirements.  If anyone would be willing to make the texture models for me or know where I could find some ones to use I'd appreciate it.

I'm looking for textures/models for

-A combat rifle (an AK-47 looking gun)
-A battle rifle (an FN FAL looking gun)
-A combat SMG (an MP5 or UMP 45 looking gun)
-A semi-auto rifle (an SKS looking gun)
-A semi-auto shotgun ( A saiga looking gun).
-A crude SMG (something like a grease gun, or an MP-18)
-An anti-material rifle. (a barrett 50. cal looking gun)
-A pipe bomb.

Thanks for your help!

I was thinking of some balances the other day.

I for one use the "everyone cleans and hauls" mod, as I found it annoying to have to handle the micromanagement of pawns who are incapable of cleaning and hauling.  I felt to make them worthwhile you had to have them 24 hour laboring on meals or sculptures or some such in order to at least make a silver profit out of it.

The worse "cannot do" I find is doctoring.  I've had a bad raid before with all my colonists down except for two.

One was my primary doctor who only had a 50% bleed rate from a gunshot wound.  The other was my pawn who cannot doctor.

Of course the pain my doctor had ended up making him go berserk, which caused a chain of events that ended my colony as he then wasn't able to save the rest of my wounded colonists

TLDR though I find these things annoying I also don't like the thought of just magically disabling them and taking away an aspect of the game that adds depth/difficulty.  I think a good compromise instead of having people completely incapable of doing things is to "force 0".  I.E., instead of being totally unable to doctor, their skill is 0 and they absolutely are unable to ever raise it.  Then, if they DO perform that skill, they get a small debuff (like "did a job I hate -4").

For something like hauling/cleaning which has no skill XP, it could be something like they do each task 50% slower and get the debuff when they do it.

I think this would be the best compromise between what I think vanilla Rimworld is trying to make player's do (strategically think for which colonists should do what work) and what I find to be annoyingly constraining in game (a colony of two, someone is extremely hurt but I can't doctor so oh well guess they will bleed to death).

My 2 cents.