Power armor travels quite poorly

[Scottnov]

With the addition of the mass system in A16, power armor (the suit itself) has a worn mass of 60 kg, which would normally not allow a human wearing power armor to form a caravan. However, it actually has an offset which increases carry capacity by 80 kg, giving the carrier 20 kg more carrying capacity than before they equipped it. Despite this, for some reason or another, caravan forming does not account for that effect; the carry weight of an individual pawn wearing power armor is static at 35 kg whilst forming a caravan.

Perhaps it isn't especially important to anyone else, but it is giving me some trouble as I had planned to use power armor and caravans to create a "lone-wanderer-in-search-of-a-home" sort of scenario. I believe there is a workaround in taming an animal and using it to carry my character's equipment, but I would greatly prefer a less clunky, awkward option if at all possible.

While I don't feel that I'll have much luck with almost no experience in modding Rimworld, I'm planning on taking a look at the game's code to see if I can make a simple change to rectify the problem. I don't have a great idea of where to start, though, so if someone could point me in the right direction, it would also be greatly appreciated. With that said, however, this should definitely be changed in the base game unless I'm miscalculating or just being stupid somehow.

I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place to make this topic, but I didn't feel it should've been in suggestions or modding. Do let me know if there's some fix already available or a pre-existing discussion about this topic, as well; I could've missed something while I was looking around for a quicker answer here.

[sadpickle]

This sounds like a bug, as the Caravan system is still new and had only days of testing time here before release.

[Zhentar]

Sounds like either a mod issue or a misunderstanding to me, because Core power armor only weighs 15kg and isn't supposed to affect carry capacity.

[Scottnov]

This sounds like a bug, as the Caravan system is still new and had only days of testing time here before release.

Could be, I'm not entirely sure now, but it could very well be.

Sounds like either a mod issue or a misunderstanding to me, because Core power armor only weighs 15kg and isn't supposed to affect carry capacity.

That could also be the case. I do have many mods installed at the moment, but the only one I feel would affect this is perhaps combat realism, but I am unsure of even that much.

Here's what my power armor information screen looks like, if it helps.