[1.0] [PROJECT] Hardcore SK project v7: Sunrise

[kenanduper]

Hi, thanks for this great mod and much appreciate the effort you put into this. I've been playing it nonstop for like 3 months and still eager to start new colonies.
I'd like to ask and possibly if you'd let me, make a criticism about an ingame tech called geology which opens the way to building mines for extracting ores and other stuff. I've started like maybe 30 or more games and had great fun until the time that tech is finished. With that invention I quickly build tin ore mines and set them to mine for coal or iron. I turn them to components and later to mechanisms . And the great game I've had so fun playing, counting every bullet not to waste becomes boring soon. I keep them mining for coal and iron and quickly go to the other overpowered tech orbital networks. Then I make two subspace burst transponders and buy stein alloy, carrots, eggplants in huge numbers by selling the mechanisms. Meanwhile I keep making more mechanisms and sell them via the subspace transponders to let me fill the treasure of the colony. Probably you won't agree but the challange of the mod is gone then. There is no need for growing or searching for mineral veins in the mountains, because there is already the mines who can do the job for you. There is no need for research to agriculture techs or the enhanced scanner for spotting ores techs. For my games I usually play on temperate terrains, mountains and make a colony near deposits of minerals. That may be my problem only though I'd gladly enjoy the late game if I had to search for veins of ilmenite (and be happy if I ever find that vein) instead of building an advanced mine and let it mine a huge amount of ilmenite at the cost of power consumption. The other thing about the geology tech is that, it renders the renewable power tech tree obsolete. The reason is with coal you mine you can simply build coal power plants which can produce an extreme amount of power.
-Geology tech overpowered.
-Orbital networks overpowered.(just build 2 subspace and you won't ever need to grow any food, or try to produce stein alloy cause they sell like 500 stein alloys)
Those are my thoughts on the games I played. I'd like the idea of not having the means to have access to infinite materials but instead I'd take the challenge to even abandon the colony and settle to another or wait for caravans to trade or wait for raids to scavenge their items. Yet again this is possibly the greatest mod in Rimworld for me and really thanks for it.

[Canute]

I can't speak for the Devs, but i think the infinite resources are a wanted feature, since the dangers of these events are much higher.
The geology veins are mosttimes never there where you want them, so they are mosttimes a bit outside and unprotected.

When you got 3 times the year a razor rain you wished you would settle into a mountain and don't need to rebuild nearly anything which is very resource intensive.

[Shad]

Mines are essential to survive past the early game. As mentioned before, razor rain, or infestation repairs cost a lot of resources and you can get those really early.

Also, late-game things cost a lot of resources (the sheer amount of sand you need for a microprocessor chip). You literally would run out of rocks, even if you start on a mountain. In my recent non-mountain games, the resource shortage can bite quite early on. If you don't have mines, you are literally done for.

Speaking of mines: pit mines seem to produce "rubble" as a from failed mining attempts. But unlike the resource named "rubble", the pit mine produces just a form of "dirt" named "rubble" which just makes colonist unhappy, and feels like a lot of wasted workhours from the colonist. It would be nice if the mine produced the resource "rubble" from fails instead.

Regarding future development: have you looked at integrating the "Increased Forest Density" mod into the pack? It really does make forests feel like forests teeming with dangerous animals.

[delheit]

I cant figure out how to heat anything. Sometimes a Simple campfire or heating stove causes a room to easily reach above 80-100F but putting it in a nearby room with a vent never seems to give enough heat. I had better luck using radiates but the multi fuel stove had a bug I think where it made heat even with no fuel in them.

I dont know if Im doing something wrong but I also dont have any other mods affecting heat. Definitely a bigger problem with tiny jail cells. I never had this problem in vanilla.

P.S. Great mod/modpack I basically cant play rimworld without hardcore sk.

[Canute]

At early stage of my colony i used power generators with coal/peat to heat my big main room. Vents to get the heat to neightboors rooms and outside if needed.

Later electric heater and smart vents to control the temp. automatical.

After that i setup a power generator room, and transport the heat with ducts to the rooms.

But thats was on a very cold biome. On other biomes i just would use elect. heater because of the temp. control and let the power generators outside.

[Krajca]

Back there was an option to construct something with hi-skilled guy. Can someone tell me where or if that option still do exist?

EDIT and why don't D:

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Back there was an option to construct something with hi-skilled guy. Can someone tell me where or if that option still do exist?

EDIT and why don't D:

Sounds like you are looking for Quality Builder, I add that mod to this modpack with no problems.

[SmartererThanYou]

I seem to get this strange rubber banding effect with my colonists after an hour er so of play

[Sephyr]

was having the same issues in A16, seemed possibly something to do with their mood modifiers (that list would flicker between the full list and maybe 1-3 modifiers) whenever they got close to other colonists or something that affected mood.
Got to the point where every game i played ended when the game just wasnt able to load the save anymore and just crashed.
Hoping A17 takes some of those problems away as they did do some memory improvements, we'll see

[silverskin]

I don't envy the guys behind this mod project. With the massive list of mods, and these new base game versions, it seems like they're going to have to take the whole thing apart and rewrite it all, at some point. That's going to be a lot of work and messing about. This being modular is all well and good but it would probably work smoother if it were rewritten and packaged together.

They're doing a brilliant job so much that I can't even play Rimworld without Hardcore SK anymore. It's just too essential. Looking forward to the A17 update.

[Dama]

I'm not getting any visitors to my colony or any trade caravans and have had zero raids.  It's almost the beginning of winter and nobody has shown up.  I've had 2 events where a person wanted to join but other than that nothing.  I've had one manhunter attack, it was a single terramorph.  I didn't have any silver or steel to start and only have about 290 silver that one of the colonists donated so maybe that's part of it.  Any ideas on a fix?

[Canute]

It has nothing to do how many wealth your colony got. I allways remove any silver from my start to add some extra wood (when on ice) or some weapon with EdB PC.

It is just bad luck combined with too far away from nearby outposts maybe.

A fix, research the com. console, mine some silver then call Trade caravans (600 silver).

[Dama]

I got my first raid on the 6th of winter.  3 tribal raiders.  Seems things are working afterall and I just needed more wealth for the raids at least.  Still strange that I don't get any visitors or trade caravans.  I will have to try building a com relay for trade.

[MightyGooga]

Hey Guys hello.

Does anyone know if the steam generator no long accepts Peat as fuel? The strangest thing happened, I started a game a few days ago, and the generetor would accept peat. Now, it wont accept it. Is there a way to change this in config files? Thanks

I also would like to know how to disable the swarm event. Is it possible?

[skyarkhangel]

Hey Guys hello.

Does anyone know if the steam generator no long accepts Peat as fuel? The strangest thing happened, I started a game a few days ago, and the generetor would accept peat. Now, it wont accept it. Is there a way to change this in config files? Thanks

I also would like to know how to disable the swarm event. Is it possible?

Coal generator works on coal or peat.
Yes u can disable. Just find xml: Mods\Core_SK\Defs\IncidentDefs\Incidents_SK_Events.xml
and  find <defName>Swarm</defName>, then set <baseChance>0</baseChance>

I got my first raid on the 6th of winter.  3 tribal raiders.  Seems things are working afterall and I just needed more wealth for the raids at least.  Still strange that I don't get any visitors or trade caravans.  I will have to try building a com relay for trade.

We are already working on A17, Event generation, trader caravans and their chance reworked.