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I completely forgot that in vanilla the only lighting option is a lamp that sits on the floor. Wall or ceiling lamps are what I want. Also I'm playing through with the Pirates expanded mod and realized 2 things: 1 is that is not really.. pirate-y, is it? Its big mechanics is hiring mercenaries and war caskets. It does add sea shanties and a cannon, but thats it. Second, turning on both the weapon cool down skull and melee cooldown skull leads to silly things like this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6IrQvNWfY
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FrancisFukyomama posted:A mod to add poo, it’s like I’m playing space station 13 unironically the best and most polished mod that adds mechanics and complexity, by a mile Leal posted:I completely forgot that in vanilla the only lighting option is a lamp that sits on the floor. Wall or ceiling lamps are what I want. Dub's Hygiene has ceiling fans that are also lights (and can be toggled to darklights) Wall Light (I've used this for a long time) also includes a wall sun lamp Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Dub's Bad Hygiene really should be rolled into the base game. That and Rimatomics.
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King Doom posted:Dub's Bad Hygiene really should be rolled into the base game. That and Rimatomics. 100% bad hygiene should, especially the temperature regulating objects. Also being able to water crops seems important in this game where you grow crops.
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Wall lamps are absolutely essential and it's 100% for aesthetic reasons Also another voice for "Dubs bad hygiene should be in the base game"
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FrancisFukyomama posted:Checking out this game coming from df and is there a goon recommended mod collection? I’d like something that adds cool mechanics instead of just a billion redundant items. Also kind of automation machines so I can do some factorial shenanigans. I remember masterwork in df used to have those and they fit the genre pretty well when they worked Rimatomics: Adds a lot of mid-game and end-game projects revolving around nuclear energy with its own tech tree. You can go in shallow (just build a basic reactor to give yourself a ton of power budget) or deep (build your whole base out of depleted uranium, erect obelisks of nod everywhere, launch ICBMs at your enemies) Dub's Bad Hygiene: Adds plumbing and things like toilets, pools, showers, etc. I've never tried it but a lot of people swear that it's great Alpha Animals: Adds a shitload of cool alien animals. There is a little bit of redundancy here but it's mostly cool poo poo. The real reason to get though is for the next mod: Alpha Biomes: Adds special new biomes that also have a handful of their own alien animals. These are all really cool. Some of the new biomes are just cool and interesting, others offer a challenging experience, all are unique and introduce new mechanics
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Feb 14, 2024 03:02
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Vanilla Factions Expanded: Mechanoids has all of the factory automation stuff you could ever want, but you'll probably want to disable its total war mechanic. IMO just leaning hard into the mechanitor mechanics with the Biotech DLC is more fun
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Alpha Biomes is great because it gives you an easymode biome that I adore because it has giant cowbees.
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QuarkJets posted:Rimatomics: Adds a lot of mid-game and end-game projects revolving around nuclear energy with its own tech tree. You can go in shallow (just build a basic reactor to give yourself a ton of power budget) or deep (build your whole base out of depleted uranium, erect obelisks of nod everywhere, launch ICBMs at your enemies) I have never played long enough to get to the deeper parts of Rimatomics, the depleted uranium stuff requires years to get anything
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Yeah I ended up calling the trader to buy plutonium and eventually just buying warheads because while they're 15k a pop, I can earn that much in the time it takes to produce enough at base to make my own warhead.
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QuarkJets posted:Rimatomics: Adds a lot of mid-game and end-game projects revolving around nuclear energy with its own tech tree. You can go in shallow (just build a basic reactor to give yourself a ton of power budget) or deep (build your whole base out of depleted uranium, erect obelisks of nod everywhere, launch ICBMs at your enemies) DBH adds another two needs that must be met for colonist happiness, but adds a ton of different things to handle those needs and happiness.
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it also adds central heating and cooling so you don't have to deal with putting ACs in all your walls
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Alpha Animals has Fungal Husks which are just colony enders with how much damage they do and the rot they inflict. They're not even the most wtf things introduced with that mod compared to Arcturan Sky Eels. Doesn't matter how much armor your colonists have if they're all having heart attacks.
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VideoWitch posted:it also adds central heating and cooling so you don't have to deal with putting ACs in all your walls there's also a standalone version just called dub's central heating for those who just want the new temperature control but doesn't want to deal with the poop
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It's a lot more than that though, it's also drinking water and washing and a whole bunch of creature comfort furniture (bathtubs, sinks, water fountains, swimming pools, hot tubs, saunas) plus the whole HVAC system of air and water piping
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but there is poop
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Sounds like a crappy mod
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Your Computer posted:but there is poop I think there's a no poop option. Once you research septic tanks (or have a river nearby) and water treatment, dealing with the poop becomes a non-issue.
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Doltos posted:Alpha Animals has Fungal Husks which are just colony enders with how much damage they do and the rot they inflict. They're not even the most wtf things introduced with that mod compared to Arcturan Sky Eels. Doesn't matter how much armor your colonists have if they're all having heart attacks. I never had an issue with Husks personally but you can disable any of the animals individually in the settings. One of the better parts of the Vanilla Expanded series is that they're pretty good about letting you curate with in-game options to disable pretty much any individual thing you dislike.
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Zore posted:I never had an issue with Husks personally but you can disable any of the animals individually in the settings. Too bad your load times are still going to suffer because the game has to load the assets even if you aren't going to see them. 
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Dehumanize yourself and face to 15 minute modded loadtimes.
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didnt rimworld used to have grass on nearly every square but the game tracking growth of every square of grass every tick cumulatively generated a huge amount of extra cpu work
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Asimo posted:Dehumanize yourself and face to 15 minute modded loadtimes. Dehumanize yourself and face the poo times.
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Doltos posted:Alpha Animals has Fungal Husks which are just colony enders with how much damage they do and the rot they inflict. They're not even the most wtf things introduced with that mod compared to Arcturan Sky Eels. Doesn't matter how much armor your colonists have if they're all having heart attacks. Pretty sure the solution to fungal husks is fire. Now a gallatross is something you do not mess around with.
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Doltos posted:Alpha Animals has Fungal Husks which are just colony enders with how much damage they do and the rot they inflict. They're not even the most wtf things introduced with that mod compared to Arcturan Sky Eels. Doesn't matter how much armor your colonists have if they're all having heart attacks. they have like 80hp per limb and i don't think they feel pain lol Dunno-Lars posted:Pretty sure the solution to fungal husks is fire. actually, that's a point. is there a way to generate flames if you don't have chemfuel?
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I can't remember which mod it was but the one that added the ancient cave spiders can gently caress right off. It basically just added raid bosses as roaming animals, the spider in particular was just overwhelming powerful to my modest colony, even its weakness (fire) just suspended its otherwise overwhelming regeneration
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:they have like 80hp per limb and i don't think they feel pain lol Flamebow from raiders or traders. Impids? I think that's it. Molotovs are not that uncommon from raids either.
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Maybe you can start a fire by casting waterskip on a battery?  It's generally very easy to loot or purchase a flame weapon though, and boomalopes are easy to tame as well.
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Burn boxes are one of the most powerful and easy to set up vanilla defense measures against anything but mechanoids.
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Flamebows are really good at making combatants leave cover in the middle of a fight, one of my doctors got hosed up but good just last night by this very thing.
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Yeah a flamebow is a pro early game purchase if you're doing a tribal start, they're pretty common to see in trade
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So, I've got something silly like a few thousand hours in this, like most people here I imagine..I've not played much since ideology came out, I messed a bit with the new one, can't remember what it's called and enjoyed it, but didn't get too hooked too this time last year. I did finish my first ever game though and did the archonexus ending. However, I decided to support Tynan, like a fool, and got this on my Xbox too with Royalty and Ideology without playing it, but we had no internet the other day so I decided to boot it up. 30 hours later and my colony just collapsed (mainly I stopped caring because the Xbox was struggling with 20+ pawns and 600k wealth) and well, here I am.. hooked again and coming back to steam. I certainly played the game a lot more during the Alpha build days, but holy poo poo is there a lot of new mods in the last year or so. That's insane. Anyone got any really good suggestions for just "cool" mods. I've got the usual, like Rimfella, Rimatronics...the one with the build able planes and shuttle things, STS or something. (it's been awhile). But yeah, what can I add to my game now, because.. Rimworld.
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add dinosaurs, be caveman t-rex skull is an op helmet
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:So, I've got something silly like a few thousand hours in this, like most people here I imagine..I've not played much since ideology came out, I messed a bit with the new one, can't remember what it's called and enjoyed it, but didn't get too hooked too this time last year. I did finish my first ever game though and did the archonexus ending. Alpha Animals and Alpha Biomes are excellent content mods, I always run with those. Alpha Biomes especially comes with a lot of interesting variety Vanilla Factions Expanded has some good content but imo just use 1 at a time, that alone can be the whole focus of your colony. VFE Ancients adds a neat x-men-superpowers system based around finding ancient vaults and bringing their cool genetic engineering poo poo home with you, Empire adds a lot of events and actions based around getting in with the empire faction, and Deserters is the opposite of that - there's a ton of content embedded in those. Vanilla Psycasts Expanded is a massive expansion on the psionics system, its balance is obscene but it's a lot of fun. Vanilla Vehicles Expanded is like SRTS but for ground vehicles. I haven't tried it but a lot of people seem to like it. It has some basic flying stuff in it too
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It's weird because I run Vanilla Psycasts Expanded but honestly rarely get that much mileage out of the offensive stuff. The utility stuff is bonkers overpowered but kind of boring and the classics like berserk pulse still do work, but whenever I try to make combat wizards that shoot lightning and stuff I always get frustrated by their terrible range or choked by heat limitations compared to just using old fashioned kite-and-shoot tactics.
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Kanos posted:It's weird because I run Vanilla Psycasts Expanded but honestly rarely get that much mileage out of the offensive stuff. The utility stuff is bonkers overpowered but kind of boring and the classics like berserk pulse still do work, but whenever I try to make combat wizards that shoot lightning and stuff I always get frustrated by their terrible range or choked by heat limitations compared to just using old fashioned kite-and-shoot tactics. You gotta get to the higher level psycasts for the offensive stuff to really shine. eg one of the top Fire spells is basically a gigantic fuckoff orbital laser that will put the caster in a coma for several hours, but it will delete raids if you can drop it on them when they're bunched up. It heats things up so high that rocks will explode from it while outdoors, to give you an idea of how utterly hosed anything it hits is, it's hilariously overpowered.
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I've used that stuff and I generally just find it really impractical. Any situation where the enemies are bunched that much means they could have been blown up by normal rear end mortars or tricked into killing each other via berserk pulse without putting a high level psycaster in a coma for days. The only two offensive spells I ever get any real mileage out of are chain bolt and frost ray, and frost ray functionally requires a killbox designed to use it to actually achieve efficiency.
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Back when I was running a psycaster monastery with VPE I mostly used utility and control spells rather than direct attacks as well. Of course, I was also funneling all the anima grass into a single god pawn that put every point into focus cost reduction to eventually cast for free and relied on neurotrainers and psyrings for learning spells, so most of the fighting (and labor) was handled by thralls.
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Frost Ray pierces enemies, so any group of melee attackers (bugs, tribals, manhunters) can just get annihilated by 1 caster standing at the end of a hallway. It's bonkers Fire Beam is also pretty hilarious The Warlord tree is full of insanely good casts, 1 pawn with the Warlord psycasts and a bunch of levels enhancing their psychic sensitivity and focus cost can solo entire groups of enemies. Cast Firing Focus and Guided Shot with a Minigun and see which one melts first, 20 centipedes or your CPU
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Warlord falls into the overpowered utility stuff I mentioned. It's also not particularly interesting to use - of course pressing a couple of buttons and making a dude run at cheetah speed and attack twice as fast for twice as much damage is extremely strong.
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