Is it worth it to play without mods?

[Chesssx]

Recently, I have been playing a heavily modded game. Some of my favorite mods in it are Rimatomics and More Doors, but I have been wondering if it is worth it to play without mods. I have never really done a dedicated "no mods" run that has lasted more than 5 years. Is it more fun to play without them?

[Canute]

It is different.
After each Rimworld released i played at last one plain vanilla playthrough.
Mosttimes just to see how "new feature" are working.
General i say mod's are basicly little cheat's to made it easyer for me to play. Sure a few mod's enhance the difficult but these are only very few.
I suggest to everyone to play at last one or more playthroughs with plain vanilla, so you get the felling about the difference to play with mods.

[Demoulius]

Well ive never played with mods and I enjoy the game just fine 

To each their own though, depends on what youre looking for in the game

[Yoshida Keiji]

Plus one more guy who has played Vanilla exclusive since my very start in Alpha 16 and have more than 5.000hs on Steam count all without any mods.

I just started using 3 mods now from Tozenbo, Japanese who made things look... Japanese... And I would have never ever bother to check this out if it wasn't because I think version 1.0 is a very fucked up build. I am playing other games now and RimWorld was left to rot in my Steam Library but the Zipangu series I play only when I feel some nostalgia about this game. Oh, and I switched to A17 which I think is the last decent Alpha...long before even Advanced Components appeared. From A18 onwards I only launched the SpaceShip once per Alpha and then never again... in v1.0... I played two unstable games and could "not" even start the last third of the game.

Just like Canute says... (like)...to me, mods look like cheats.

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[5thHorseman]

There are a few UI/UX mods that I consider critical (Call it cheating if you want, I call it knowing at a glace that everybody has a weapon) but almost all of the almost 500 hours I've played the game, the "rules" of the game have been basically vanilla.

And I have had a pretty awesome time.

[Shurp]

I've been looking for a mod that expands gameplay but I never really found one that I liked... I generally just play vanilla with a few tweaks (eg: extending the range on charge rifles to 35 so they're not useless).  But if I could find a mod which offered a variety of late-game weapons or made armor useful I would probably go for that.

In the meanwhile, my 3 year old colony still only has 17 wolves from the two I captured in the first year 1... I have no idea if I'll ever have enough to butcher for food.  And I should have charge rifles researched in another year end so I can start going out and start knocking over outposts and such.