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I'm thinking of a mod that puts your caravan in a 100x100 map box and makes the ground scroll underneath your caravan as it travels. It would probably need a new map generation method, something that can procedurally generate a whole planet but just buffer the 300x300 around your pawns. Who knows what you could find?

It basically writes itself.

Cave Johnson : Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts.

From wikipedia:

War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare as military animals, mostly as a countermeasure against war elephants.

In the first century BC, Lucretius[1] noted that humans may have attempted to launch wild beasts, such as lions or "savage boars", against the enemy, but with catastrophic results. In 272 BC, it was recorded that the Romans used wild boars in their fight against the war elephants of the Tarantines.[2]

According to legend recounted in the "Alexander Romance" by Pseudo-Callisthenes,[3] Alexander the Great learned about this "secret weapon" against war elephants from Porus in India.[4]

Pliny the Elder reported that "elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of the hog".[5] Aelian[6] confirmed that elephants were frightened by squealing pigs (and rams with horns), and reported that the Romans exploited squealing pigs (and rams) to repel the war elephants of Pyrrhus in 275 BC. Procopius, in History of the Wars,[7] records that the defenders of Edessa suspended a squealing pig from the walls to frighten away Khosrau's single siege elephant in the sixth century AD.[8]

Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the military writer Polyaenus[9] and by Aelian.[10] Both writers reported that Antigonus II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when the Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy's massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of their own soldiers by trampling them to death.[11][12] According to an account, Gonatas later made his mahouts keep a swine among elephants to accustom the animals to pigs and this practice was immortalized by a Roman bronze coin dating back to his time, which showed an elephant on one side and a pig on the other.[13]

What option or variable do i need to set or thing to do to get the build copy (of the active item)? Thanks.

For impaling raiders. Debuff if seen, big debuff if the impaled raider is still alive.

ABOUT: So I had the idea for this mod years ago. I wanted a game that was like Civilization on the world scale, but like sims on the small scale, with a rome total war style combat. Well, rimworld is about as close as you can get. I tried building a world mod from scratch, it was getting promising (think a Hardcore SK lite worldbuilder, no combat mod shredding the load time. msg me if you want a copy of it.), but then I found this hardcore SK mod for ver 1.0 on github that already had all the content I had pretty much planned on making (and dispossessed me of lot of the bugs my mod inherited from using 0.18 content on 1.0), it just needed a civ style tech tree, which survived my first mod. Replacing the main tech tree was probably the hardest thing about this mod. It's too big a job to do in one pass so all sorts of bastard hacks were needed during the change over to keep the whole thing from blowing up. Had to make a few compromises on the tech tree to make it work with the research ui mod.

Waiting on permissions to post, so here's a taste to whet your whistles.

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Can this be done?

Built a caveman to cosmos type tech tree. Am integrating it with Hardcore SK for v 1.0.2059. Is going well. But will need new content till fill it out.

So far in testing, the game really forces you to be nomadic until you develop agriculture. This first big change you'll notice is to research. The first research building is a bonfire instead of a desk. Which puts colonies in warm environments at an early research disadvatage, and it disables research during heatwaves. Depending on your start,  you may not even be able to build shelter or hunt. You may infact be at the complete mercy of your environment.

New scenarios!

        Justice's world
   
   A lone man in black arrived just as the sky beam stopped. In the ruins he found the corpses of over a dozen, and several melted cryopods. Nearby was the corpses of five people  surrounded by tents and supplies and weapons. What happened here?
(cannibal start, but they sky beamed themselves in the ruins, leaving thier stuff and some nicely refined gold)
   
   
   Hammond's Nation
   
   Naked and alone, you find yourself in the middle of the desert, and it's hot. You managed to find some ruins with some pods in them. Opening the first one you find a frail old man wearing heavy body armor. the other pod opened and a large man fell out, vomiting all over the floor, dropping his machine gun. You killed them both, took thier body armor and their .50 LMG and set out into the desert.
(naked and alone start in a brutal desert, strapped with armor and a .50 light machine gun.)

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A mod where instead of a tribe you start out as an animal, eat, explore, mate, do animal things, build up a pack, lead them, eventually find a monolith that turns your pack into a tribe... or let yourself become domesticated and live fat and happy in ignorance (maybe make domestication a force acting against your evolution)

30-40 hours in so far. Enjoy.

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