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Announcing RimWorld Friends, mod that puts your real life friends in game.

This is a simple mod and utility script that parses your exported Facebook friend list and uses your friend names for ingame pawns. There's a relatively small chance that an ingame pawn will take the name of someone from your list. Gender will also match if it's properly extracted (the API seems pretty reliable as long as the name is written in Latin or Cyrillic characters).

This won't be distributed by other means, mostly because getting and parsing the Facebook friend list requires the most amount of effort, and if it were easy, there would be potential privacy concerns.

I made this because I have a hard time caring for random pawns, and I'm too lazy to make fictional or real world characters manually. Anyway, don't be too brutal

Details here: https://github.com/gajop/rimworld_friends
License: MIT
Largely based on CSVNameBank.

I would like to be able to restrict my people's diet to specific meals.
This would be done in a similar way as the area, gear and drug restrictions are, and would apply to both humans and animals. I guess it can be done prisoner-specific too.
In particular in most of my games where I have food production I would prevent people from eating corpses (both humanoid and animal) and raw food, as that sometimes requires too much micro when there's a food shortage.
Situations where I have 0 food and everyone's hungry and starts munching on the first batch of rice that comes in are super annoying, as it requires me to micro each person's move. I would prevent them from eating anything but (simple) meals so they don't break the harvesting/cooking jobs to eat rice.

When min/maxing I may also want to give fine/lavish (or both) meals only to some of the people in need, but I cannot do that yet. I almost never make the lavish meal as it requires quite a bit micro so only those that require it get it (otherwise it feels wasteful).

I'd obviously also add restrictions on what my animals eat. While I might be able to get away with achieving something similar by restricting them to specific zones, with hauling animals like dogs I don't think this is the right approach.

PS: I'm sure this has been asked before, but I haven't seen it in the Frequent Suggestions or in a simple forum search.