Work Tools for Pawns
v1.1 for Alpha 17
This mod adds 41 weapon-slot hand tools aimed at non-combat usage for pawns to equip.
Goals:
✔ Offer meaningful choices to the equipment system by giving pawns desirable non-combat options that compete for space and resources with combat options
✔ Provide more meaning to certain pre-existing mechanics, such as equipment racks, smithing, crafting spots and component tables.
✔ Allow for deeper end games with fewer pawns by increasing the ability of specialists pawns with sufficient resources as support.
✔ Makes establishing multiple colonies easier and more viable.
Implementation:
• New weapons category, "Tools", that are equippable by pawns.
• 41 new tools, each of which provides benefits to a specific type of role within the colony, such as tailoring or plant cutting.
• Tools are balanced as melee weapons.
• Tools are tiered by technologies, and available to craft from smithing, tailoring, crafting spots, component benches, or machining tables.
• Raiders will occasionally spawn with tools, especially in low value raids or disorganized raiding parties. The majority of raiders will keep proper weapons.
• Tools are largely makeable from any available stuff, as opposed to specific recipes.
Download Links:
Direct Download
Steam Workshop
Full List of Tools:
Closing Remarks:
This is my first Rimworld mod, and thus the is some general lack of experience. Feel free to comment below with your thoughts, compliments, criticisms, and critiques.
I'll also mention that this mod was inspired by the melee weapons available in RT's Weapon Pack, which I valued not for their ability as weapons but as an interesting aspect brought to the game. As per licensing, all my assets were created from scratch, and I've included PSDs in the direct download zip file should anyone wish to use them for their own purposes.
v1.1 for Alpha 17
This mod adds 41 weapon-slot hand tools aimed at non-combat usage for pawns to equip.
Goals:
✔ Offer meaningful choices to the equipment system by giving pawns desirable non-combat options that compete for space and resources with combat options
✔ Provide more meaning to certain pre-existing mechanics, such as equipment racks, smithing, crafting spots and component tables.
✔ Allow for deeper end games with fewer pawns by increasing the ability of specialists pawns with sufficient resources as support.
✔ Makes establishing multiple colonies easier and more viable.
Implementation:
• New weapons category, "Tools", that are equippable by pawns.
• 41 new tools, each of which provides benefits to a specific type of role within the colony, such as tailoring or plant cutting.
• Tools are balanced as melee weapons.
• Tools are tiered by technologies, and available to craft from smithing, tailoring, crafting spots, component benches, or machining tables.
• Raiders will occasionally spawn with tools, especially in low value raids or disorganized raiding parties. The majority of raiders will keep proper weapons.
• Tools are largely makeable from any available stuff, as opposed to specific recipes.
Download Links:
Direct Download
Steam Workshop
Full List of Tools:
Axe
Backpack
Bandage
Blanket
Brick Saw
Chef's Knife
Chisel
Cleaver
Coupon Book
Crowbar
Duffel Bag
Encyclopedia
Fan
First Aid Kit
Flowers
Forge Hammer
Fork
Hammer
How To
Jackhammer
Laptop
Leash
Pickaxe
Pillow
Power Drill
Saw
Scapel
Screwdriver
Scythe
Shovel
Sickle
Skill Saw
Skinning Knife
Smartphone
Spoon
Thimble
Toolkit
Trowel
Walking Cane
Whip
Whistle
Closing Remarks:
This is my first Rimworld mod, and thus the is some general lack of experience. Feel free to comment below with your thoughts, compliments, criticisms, and critiques.
I'll also mention that this mod was inspired by the melee weapons available in RT's Weapon Pack, which I valued not for their ability as weapons but as an interesting aspect brought to the game. As per licensing, all my assets were created from scratch, and I've included PSDs in the direct download zip file should anyone wish to use them for their own purposes.