[A17] RimRoads - Build Roads on the World Map

[jecrell]

V1.17.0.2
    Adds the ability to build roads on the world map.

Watch the mod in action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obsmx-m0-wI
      


:::WARNING:: MOD REQUIRES JECSTOOLS TO RUN::::

Info

How to Build Roads

• Research the appropriate technology in the research menu.
  
• Send a caravan to the world map.
  
• Select the caravan.
  
• Click the build roads button.
  
• Select the path of your road's blueprints.
  (Note: Dirt roads require no resources to construct, however, other roads require resources for the blueprints. Check the resources required by clicking on them.)
  (Tip: The more people in the caravan, the faster the road's construction)
  

Available Road Recipes

• Dirt - Fastest construction time. No resources required.
  
• Stone - Decent construction time. 150 stony materials required.
  
• Asphalt - Slow construction time. 250 stony materials and 30 chemfuel required.
  
• Asphalt Highway - Slowest construction time. 450 materials and 60 chemfuel required.
  

Special thanks to all those that support me on Patreon:
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ShotgunFace, Paul Veloz, Yewty Oxman, TheDayDude, Ruhurin Meras, Kevin Reagan
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Notes
Mod commissioned for Anonymous.

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[sirgzu]

Nice do better roads actually provide more speed bonus?

[SpaceDorf]

[ZE]

cool, now i want to build walls on the map too lol.  great walls that block the flow of traffic, so i can funnel them into my checkpoints which would increase the commonality of events like traders and travelers

wouldn't that be somethin? travelroutes and checkpoints ftw

[DoctorMG]

One little question
Is this save game friendly or it requires new game to function properly?

[DiamondBorne]

Today we build a road, tomorrow we will build Rome.

Maybe we could build mines, factory, trading post or even village to generate resource for our main colony. Of course it will be treat as another base of our faction and can be raid by badguys. Might works as part of a grand quest for an overly ambitious pioneer who wish to tame Rimworld.

[megrim]

so cool... seems the sky is the limit to modding rimworld.

[SpaceDorf]

so cool... seems Not Even the sky is the limit to modding rimworld.

Fixed,
Considering Dropships, Exporting Features and Spaceships than restart Games.

[Kori]

What a wonderful idea! This should be vanilla one day!

[Iwillbenicetou]

Can you tell us ranges for the construction so we know how much food to stock?

[Vlad0mi3r]

Looks very cool but will mean another two mods for me. I don't want to end up like SpaceDorf with a serious mod addiction but this one has me twitching to get at it.

Couple of questions though before I hit that upload button. I see the clip but how many Game hours are we talking to build a road? I am guessing the clip is at 3x speed. Do the number of Pawns in the caravan adjust the speed of the build and do skills matter?

Can you just build the Highway straight of the bat or do you need to upgrade each level so dirt road first then stone etc? If not why not as this is how roads generally come about.

[jecrell]

Can you tell us ranges for the construction so we know how much food to stock?

Road construction time varies depending on how many people you have in your caravan and their construction skills.

Looks very cool but will mean another two mods for me. I don't want to end up like SpaceDorf with a serious mod addiction but this one has me twitching to get at it.

Couple of questions though before I hit that upload button. I see the clip but how many Game hours are we talking to build a road? I am guessing the clip is at 3x speed. Do the number of Pawns in the caravan adjust the speed of the build and do skills matter?

Can you just build the Highway straight of the bat or do you need to upgrade each level so dirt road first then stone etc? If not why not as this is how roads generally come about.

Skills matter (yet I don't calculate those incapable of construction -- forgot to do it).
Number of pawns matter.
There is no upgrade button, but if you try to construct better roads, then the better roads will replace the original roads.

[Vlad0mi3r]

Skills matter (yet I don't calculate those incapable of construction -- forgot to do it).
Number of pawns matter.
There is no upgrade button, but if you try to construct better roads, then the better roads will replace the original roads.

Last question (not a promise there are likely to be more)
Is it quicker to upgrade/replace a road if there is already some sort of road there? Just thinking about the roads already on the map.

[SpaceDorf]

I don't want to end up like SpaceDorf with a serious mod addiction but this one has me twitching to get at it.

Thank you very much. :-D
My name is SpaceDorf and I am addicted to mods.
I allready used two days to create a new modlist for my next game .. luckily I could reduce the number of mods I want to use below 300 and have nearly sorted the QoL part of the list.
Content is next.

Is it quicker to upgrade/replace a road if there is already some sort of road there? Just thinking about the roads already on the map.

There is no upgrade button, but if you try to construct better roads, then the better roads will replace the original roads.

Aswers itself if read in reverse.
Replace means no other check is made.

Logically it should be that it is faster to build any road if a dirt road exists.

Building a Asphalt roads replacing stone roads should take longer, because the stone road gets deconstructed first.
Upgrading a Asphalt Road to a Highway should take less time and ressources, because you just add lanes ..

But instead of nitpicking I am really happy that the concept exists and works.

Can you tell us ranges for the construction so we know how much food to stock?

A base construction Time for the Roads would still be useful to know for a rough calculation
Like one pawn needs 10h to build a stone road on flat land.

or this or is it displayed in the travel time ?

[jecrell]

Can you tell us ranges for the construction so we know how much food to stock?

The base construction calculation isn't currently displayed.
Each pawn that joins with the construction reduces its construction time.

For instance, if you have a dirt road, it will take a single pawn with average construction skill about 14 hours to make a single segment.
However, if you have three pawns join with the work, it will only take 7 hours per segment.

Also~~~

v1.17.0.2
10/4/17
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Roads now have different movement speed bonuses.

Bonus | Road Def
-----------------------
+30% Dirt Path
+40% Dirt Road
+55% Stone Road
+60% Asphalt Road
+65% Asphalt Highway

Example:
Single pawn caravan in boreal forest, springtime, using different roads.

Speed | Road Def
-----------------------
1.30 hrs/tile Dirt road
0.96 hrs/tile Stone road
0.86 hrs/tile Asphalt
0.75 hrs/tile Asphalt Highway