[A16] Vacuum Cleaner/Hoover

[doop]

Hi everyone! This mod adds a vacuum cleaner that you can research and craft and give to your colonist and then your colonist will clean up, like, pretty fast. That's it, that's the whole deal. Here it is on dropbox.

The research is modelled after firefoam, so 800 research points and microelectronics required. Then it's 150 steel, 10 components, and quite a bit of work to make. The vacuum cleaner takes up the colonist's weapon slot and can be used as a melee weapon in a pinch, but it's slow to swing and doesn't do much damage. You might find an exotic goods trader with one for sale, if you're lucky. Market value 800.

I have a colony with a lot of animals and the muck piles up fast and I wanted something that would help without cheating or being unrealistic. So, the vacuum cleaner is pretty useful but it takes a while to research and build, and any colonist carrying one isn't going to be much good in a fight. It seemed like a fair trade to me but all feedback is welcome.

This is my first mod and also my first post (did I say hi yet? Hi!) so please let me know if I'm doing it wrong. It's not a super complex mod and you could just about say it's done already, except for one thing... I have no artwork for the vacuum cleaner. So far it looks like a charge rifle, for no particular reason. I like programming but I can't draw at all. Does anyone here know how to draw a vacuum cleaner? That would be amazing.

Other things I'd like to improve:

• It would be nice if the vacuum cleaner was visible while the colonist is cleaning. At the moment I didn't implement this because the vacuum cleaner still looks like a stupid charge rifle.
• It would be nice if the colonist automatically vacuumed up bits of dirt that they crossed on the way to their main target dirt while they cleaned, for a more realistic vacuum-cleaning experience.
• I guess unlimited ammo is the standard in RimWorld but it still feels a bit unrealistic that once you've built a vacuum cleaner, it's pretty much good to go until the heath death of the universe. Maybe it should need to be recharged, or plugged in, or emptied, or replaced, or something? Ideas?
• I'd love to build a Roomba too but that might be a bit more work...

Thanks for taking a look! I'm interested to see what others make of it 

doop

[minimurgle]

I won't offer to do art for the vacuum as I've got my hands full with anther project, I will give you some advice with the roomba.

I could be wrong but you should be able to mix the human like intelligence with an animal race to make the roomba. Keep in mind that my experience with the races is quite limited. If I had to hazard a guess you'll need a bit of c#.

[SpaceDorf]

The general Idea is great
I love it and will try it out immidiatly.

For Artwork look in the WIP Forums or on Discord, I bet you will find an Artist there willing to make a nice looking Vacuum Cleaner for you.

Bench the roomba, there is allready Robot++ and the Minion Mod taught animals to clean ..


=== EDIT ===

Just for the LULZ .. make a low tech version Mop and Bucket .

=== EDIT II ===

You modified the cleaning laber, didn't you ?
Somehow it has a conflict with the Minion Mod, which stops my Minions from moving.

So sorry, could not test your Vaccum Cleaner ..