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Better Loading for Rimworld

Better Loading is a mod that aims to fix the monotony and uncertainty of the vanilla game's loading screen. Currently, said loading screen displays only three stages for any major length of time: "...", "Loading Defs..." and "Initializing...". That's not useful, it doesn't give a sense of movement, and it's boring to watch.

This mod aims to solve these issues.
Firstly, it has clearly defined stages that hopefully give more info away than the three vanilla stages.
Secondly, it has progress bars that give a sense that something is actually happening, and that, to some degree, take away the monotony of that endlessly looping "...".

At the same time, it aims to do what it does without negatively affecting load times - which, in my tests, it succeeds at.

The mod also contains a custom loading screen for loading saves, as these, too, can take a while once they have a lot of playtime, if they have a high coverage %, or a high map size, or a lot of mods... you get the point.

Position in load order shouldn't matter, except that the higher the mod, the earlier it can take over from the vanilla loading screen, so for best results put this mod at the very top of the mod ordering (yes, even above core)

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GitHub Releases: https://github.com/SamboyCoding/RimworldBetterLoading/releases
Steam Workshop TBD.

License-wise, feel free to do with this as you wish, as long as you don't upload all or part of my code and call it your own. Thanks!

Hang on, only just came back to this. The mod download provided in the main post works fine for me, having just downloaded it about 5 seconds ago. There SHOULD be no case where it wouldn't. Could have been downtime at the time, but i don't think there was any. Didn't realise i'd messed the numbers up, but that can be fixed.

Alright, so tweaking the numbers, we'll say -9 for "Treated with Biomatter", maybe a -7 if they're prosthophobe and a -11 if prosthophile?

Just added a link to the workshop page for those of you that prefer getting mods from there. See OP.

It... probably should? Maybe only if they're treated with it? What do you think? Maybe a -11 for 5 days if treated with biomatter?

Yes, corpses are the only thing it allows. No, food, even human meat, will not work.

There was a mod, in alpha 6 I believe, that added the ability to repair old wounds using Biomatter, which could be obtained from corpses. I've taken this idea and reimplemented it in modern versions of the game.

Simply put,

• You get 10 biomatter from each corpse, using the Nanite Chamber, once it is researched.
• 20 biomatter can heal a single old injury, or, once further research is done, a single scar.
• The amount of biomatter got from each corpse can be upgraded to 15, and then 20, per corpse, with research.
• You can research how to make "Tissue Samples". Each tissue sample costs 30 biomatter (3 corpses, or 2 with further research)
• 3 of these tissue samples and 20 biomatter can be used to regrow missing fingers, toes, ears, or noses.

Please give plenty of feedback - I don't know if this is balanced, has any incompatibilities, is just generally a terrible mod, or if it has any bugs.

The mod (in zip form) can be obtained from my site, or it can be got from the steam workshop.

Enjoy!