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1.0 IS NOW LIVE

From Tynan:

It's finally here! I just hit the button to release RimWorld 1.0. Thank you to everyone! I have many people to be grateful to (many of whom I mentioned in the last update).

There's a juicy new trailer you can watch here:



Some logistical details (I also mentioned last time):

If you're playing an unmodded game, just keep playing. Version 1.0 will be compatible with un-modded savegames from Beta 19 and Beta 18.

If you're playing a modded game, you should follow these two steps now:

In Steam Library, right-click on RimWorld, select Properties, go to the Betas tab and select the "beta19" beta.
Back up your mod files.
Copy all the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100
Paste them all in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods
I'm recommending modders don't update in-place to prevent the above problem, but can't guarantee everyone will get the message.

1.0 is mostly the same as Beta 19, with a lot of bugfixes. The only significant new feature is a new food restriction system that allows you to determine what your colonists and prisoners are allowed to eat.

Time to celebrate over here! Thanks again everyone.

Steam link
Ludeon Studios link
r/rimworld

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BETA 19 VIDEO PREVIEW



Steam link
Ludeon Studios link
r/rimworld

B19 blog post here.

Main B19 thread here.

To get the update: If you're on Steam, the game will update automatically. If you're DRM-free, you can re-download from the same link you got the game from originally. It always has the latest version.

If you want to keep playing Beta 18 on Steam: Right click RimWorld in the Library list -> Properties -> Betas -> Choose beta18 from the drop-down menu.

You can play savegames from Beta 18 (and probably before), though some details will change upon loading.

From the blogpost:

I did want this build to be 1.0 for a while, but it became apparent the game would benefit from one more refinement round, so we're doing Beta 19 first. I very much want the 1.0 version to be worthy of its version number, which means not rushing it.

EDIT: This build did include 64-bit support. It works fine in the DRM-free build, but caused old builds to become unplayable when added to Steam, because of complications in Steam's system for deciding which version to serve to which player. It seems Steam doesn't easily support an old beta branch being 32-bit only with a new one being 32/64 – in this case it starts serving 64-bit content into the old branch, making it unusable since the files are mixed between versions. Since the 32-bit version works fine for almost every use case (aside from very rare and extreme massively-modded situations), I'm removing 64-bit until I can get in touch with Valve and figure out how to get it working smoothly.

Patch notes:

Below is a list of notable changes. If anything below seems to change game balance, you can bet that related variables were adjusted to maintain roughly the same challenge as before – I just don't write down every single change because otherwise this list would be way too long. This list also does not including a ton of more behind-the-scenes optimization, refactoring, fixing, and adjustments we did.

  • Added bridges. You can build bridges over rivers and non-deep lake/ocean water. Bridges support all but the heaviest structures, can burn, and collapse under damage.
  • Added new "Messages" section of the History tab. This section shows the last 200 messages and letters you've received.
  • Added low-tech plate armor.
  • New scenario: Naked Brutality – Start naked with no items.
  • New main tab: Wildlife. Allows easy counting, finding, and designating of wild animals.
  • Ship end sequence: Starting up the ship reactor now takes 15 days, during which you will be attacked constantly by desperadoes and mechanoids.
  • New raid arrival mode: Multiple groups.
  • New raid arrival mode: Enemy pods scattered all over the map.
  • Split mechanoid scyther into scyther (close combat specialist) and lancer (fast sniper)
  • Split tribal warrior into warrior (mid-range melee) and penitent (poverty melee, similar to drifter)
  • Faction relations are now categorized as hostile/neutral/ally instead of just hostile/neutral. Allies will randomly send military aid and will respond to certain special requests.
  • You can now offer gifts to improve faction relations by using transport pods, sending caravans, or giving gifts to their traders. Gifts can be silver, items, or slaves. No more magical teleporting silver gifts.
  • Visitors of allied factions will now occasionally leave gifts before leaving.
  • New buildings:
    • Watermill generator: Generate power from moving water.
    • Autocannon turret: Heavy medium-range turret.
    • Uranium slug turret: Armor-penetrating long-range turret.
    • Fabrication bench: Craft advanced components and some advanced tech items.
    • Waterproof conduit: Transmit power under water for bases on both sides of a river.
    • Butcher spot: Butcher without building a bench, at an efficiency penalty.
    • Double sleeping spot: Sleep with your partner, even in crushing poverty.
  • New traits:
    • Undergrounder: Don't mind never seeing the sky, don't mind being in darkness.
    • Great memory: Slower skill decay.
    • Tough: Take less damage.
    • Gourmand: Eat a lot, random eating binges, cooking skill bonus.
    • Sickly: Get sick often.
    • Quick sleeper: Take less time to sleep.
  • New items:
    • Flak pants
    • Prosthetic heart
    • Bionic spine/heart/stomach
    • Archotech eye/arm/leg
    • Tornado generator
    • Patchleather: Poor-quality leather made from any combination of other leather
  • New incident: "Wild man wanders in".
  • New terrain: Soft sand – doesn't allow building medium or heavy structures.
  • New designators: Mass-forbid and unforbid.
  • Infestations now begin with the insects tunneling towards the colony, which gives the player time to respond.
  • You can now write job titles for your colonists.
  • New type of attack: Kick sand/water in eyes.
  • Condensed leathers together into fewer types. Instead of a separate type for each animal, there are categories.
  • You can now smooth natural rough rock walls into high-quality walls.
  • Trained animal skills and tameness now decay over time. Animals can revert to the wild, depending on their natural wildness.
  • Deep drill use will now sometimes cause insect attacks (by tunneling through the ground near the drill, with a warning).
  • New edge shader for blueprints looks much nicer and more visible than before.
  • Workbench bills can now be assigned to specific colonists.
  • Added "Show what will buy" window which shows all items a trader will buy.
  • Trees' color now depends on the current season.
  • Added tainted-apparel thing filter.
  • Increased prisoner recruitment chance and added a resistance which must be reduced to zero before recruitment can begin.
  • Animals can now be renamed.
  • Animals can now get diseases.
  • Added an automatic destroyed building replacement toggle. When active, a destroyed building will leave behind a blueprint and be automatically rebuilt.
  • Added translation report tool: Generates a report about the currently-loaded language data stating which translations are missing, which are unnecessary, and lots of other useful information.
  • Added translation cleaner tool: Corrects many common problems in translation files and adds/updates English language reference for every string in the game.
  • You can mass-toggle various checkboxes and drop-down selections by clicking and dragging the mouse over them.
  • Workbench bills can now be copied and pasted.
  • Colonists now opportunistically haul items while working if their current target is roughly in the same direction.
  • The player can now request AI-core quests from allies.
  • It's now possible to craft prosthetic and bionic body parts, grenades, and molotovs.
  • It's now possible to mass-cancel all designations with a designator's right-click menu.
  • It's now possible to forbid/unforbid all items and rearm all traps with a designator's right-click menu.
  • You can now drag and reorder colonists in the colonist bar.
  • Social interaction log now has flavorful randomized text instead of the same repeated interaction text every time.
  • Mods page now has a search bar so you can easily find one mod in your list of hundreds.
  • In some very bad situations, a mysterious Man in Black may arrive. Can he set things right in these parts?
  • Armor system reworked into a 3-outcome system with armor penetration. The armor penetration of the weapon is subtracted from the armor value of the armor. This gives an effective armor rating, measured as a percent. We roll a RNG out of 100%. If the result is under half the effective AR, the hit is totally deflected. If the result is over half the effective AR, but under the effective AR, the hit is mitigated – damage is reduced by half and sharp hits are converted to bruise. If the result is over the effective AR, the hit passes the armor and applies normally. As before, armor is applied in sequence from the outside in. AR maxes out at 200%. Default armor penetration is 1.5% per point of damage, but some weapons vary from this.
  • Totally reworked how plants grow; they now grow everywhere at once instead of reproducing plant-by-plant. Wild plants after several in-game years should now look more or less as good as at the beginning.
  • Long-range mineral scanner can now be tuned to seek specific minerals, and must be worked by a researcher.
  • Battles in the Combat tab are now named.
  • Items of the same type in the Items tab are now grouped together.
  • Items in the Items tab can now be sorted by mass, market value, etc.
  • Instead of shooting them, hunters now execute downed creatures with a neck cut (except explosive creatures).
  • When placing or selecting work stations where pawns can sit while working, the spot where the pawn goes is indicated by a chair outline so the player realizes that a chair can be built there.
  • Removed tornado incident.
  • Improved caravaning:
    • Redesigned how world movement speed is fed back per-world tile.
    • Pack animals now follow colonists to speed up the packing process.
    • Added Caravan tab with caravan loading progress.
    • Redesigned "Form caravan" window: stats like carried mass, caravan speed, days worth of food, and visibility are now explained better.
    • Caravans now automatically forage for food while traveling.
    • Added "Remove from caravan" command: remove people or animals from the caravan even if it hasn't left the map yet.
    • Added "Load into caravan" right-click option: designate extra items to be picked up by the caravan before leaving.
    • Caravan speed now depends on the carried weight.
    • Caravan members now slowly gain social recreation when the caravan is not moving.
    • Caravan visibility is now explicitly expressed and better explained than the old caravan stealth. This makes small caravans more relevant.
    • Quest prompts now give much more information about what kinds of challenges to expect.
    • When reforming a caravan, we now list colonists' inventory separately so the player can choose what to take and what to leave.
    • Caravans who are not moving now have a lower chance of being attacked.
  • Transport pods now have a contents list which allows removing things from the pod.
  • Blunt weapons now have a chance to stun the target.
  • Joy is renamed to 'recreation'.
  • Using deep drills can cause insect attacks.
  • Changed deep moving water to chest-deep moving water: walkable but slower than shallow water.
  • Turrets are cheaper and more powerful, but now consume steel/uranium for maintenance after firing a lot.
  • Character log now integrates log messages from combat and social interactions.
  • Deadfall trap redesigned to Spike trap: Much more powerful with a 100% chance to spring on targets, and has armor penetration (depending on what it's made of) but requires resources to replace.
  • Insects will now go into an insect-specific "hypothermic slowdown" instead of getting hypothermia and dying on the first winter.
  • Alphabeavers incident now only occurs in biomes with sparse plants so they're not meaningless.
  • The refugee from the "downed refugee" world quest can be instantly recruited by offering help.
  • Removed scyther blade.
  • Mechanoids now always die on downed.
  • Doing passionate work now affects mood instead of recreation.
  • Deep drills now yield stone chunks if no resource is below.
  • Firefoam poppers will now pop whenever there's a fire in a 3-cell radius, instead of only when the fire touches them.
  • Food poisoning now has three stages it moves through over the course of a day.
  • Pawns hit by ranged attacks now stagger the same way as pawns hit by melee attacks. This effect only happens if the weapon's stopping power stat is equal or greater than the target's body size.
  • Most crafting benches are now uninstallable and reinstallable.
  • Removed shiv since it's basically a low-quality knife.
  • It's now possible to craft knives at crafting spots.
  • "autostart.rws" is now automatically loaded on start in dev mode, for faster testing.
  • Techprof subpersona core now completes current research instead of random research.
  • Combined rib body parts into rib cage.
  • Reworked the "advanced map options" dialog layout, extreme game-breaking map sizes are now disabled by default and must be enabled in the options.
  • Tribal factions can now do sapper raids.
  • Added medical care column to the Assign tab.
  • Removed shoddy and superior item qualities.
  • Rebalanced and refactored quality generation. Masterwork/legendary level items never generate on enemies, traders, bases. Masterwork items are extra hard to craft, and legendary requires an inspiration.
  • Removed the distinction between allowed areas and animal areas.
  • Wearing new apparel now takes time. Colonists now take off the colliding apparel first (which takes time) before wearing the new one.
  • Added minimum crafting skill to various weapon and apparel crafting recipes.
  • Removed the requirement to pay fee to initiate the item stash quest.
  • Various floors now require research.
  • Settling very near another faction base will now cause faction relations loss every quadrum because of anger due to territorial encroachment.
  • Fulfilling trade requests now gives goodwill.
  • Destroying a faction base of a mutual enemy now gives goodwill.
  • All traders are now unwilling to buy tainted apparel and short-life meals.
  • Improved animal fleeing behavior
  • No human enemies spawn with weapons above industrial tech.
  • Charge lance is now craftable and usable by humans.
  • Explosive weapons now explode when set on fire.
  • Wood-powered fires and coolers no longer vanish when fuel is exhausted; they wait to be refueled.
  • Tons of art has been redone and adjusted.
  • Many, many other bugfixes, interface and balance adjustments

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Patch notes here!

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Firefly. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Steam link
Ludeon Studios link
r/rimworld

Patch Notes:

RimWorld Alpha 18 unstable version is now available on the 'unstable' branch in Steam. Current build is 0.18.1700.

This version is unstable. There will be bugs, imbalances, and other annoyances. It won't be as good as the final build. Your game may get ruined by something really dumb. The game will update with no warning and anything can break or change. Please only test if you're willing to put up with that!

To use the build: In Steam, click RimWorld -> Properties - > Betas tab -> select 'unstable' branch. Restart Steam if necessary.

To get the update: If you're on Steam, the game will update automatically. If you're DRM-free, you can re-download from the same link you got the game from originally. It always has the latest version.

If you want to keep playing Alpha 17 on Steam: Right click RimWorld in the Library list -> Properties -> Betas -> Choose alpha17b from the drop-down menu.

It's finally in Beta! This is build 0.18.1722 of RimWorld. That last number is the number of days since I first started working on RimWorld in February 2012. 1722 days – almost five years. It's come a very long way since the first public look in September 2013. It's time to start bringing it to a close, which is why version 0.18 is Beta 18 instead of Alpha 18.

The "Beta" designation means that we're on the final stretch before the 1.0 release, and that there won't be major content additions like whole new game systems. Of course we will almost certainly add more content, before the 1.0 release or after. We will also continue seeking feedback so we can fix those little bugs and design problems that only become apparent after tens or hundreds of hours of play. RimWorld has become an exceptionally complex game, and it takes a long time and a huge amount of play to understand how to improve it. So it'll keep evolving for a while.

In any case, enjoy Beta 18. There is a lot of new stuff. See the features list below for details, and watch the video.

Compatibility: Saved games from non-modded Alpha 17 should still be loadable, though some things may change upon loading (e.g. characters may forget what they are doing; buildings may insta-deconstruct if they changed size and no longer fit, etc). Complex mods made for A17 won't be usable and will need to be updated. Very simple mods may still load.

Rough features list:
New swamp biomes: Swamp biomes are hard to move through due to choking vegetation, and hard to build in due to swampy terrain. Many new plants were added to fill out these and other biomes.
Tropical swamp
Temperate swamp
Cold bog
New incidents:
Meteorite impact. A meteorite impacts, leaving a lump of mineable ore.
Aurora. A beautiful aurora lights up the night sky, improving mood.
Tornado
Peace talks quest
World refugee quest
Prisoner rescue quest
Storyful combat: A major rework of melee combat, and a new way to report all combat interactions. Storyful combat generates a combat log that reports each blow, miss, swipe, block and fall in the combat. During or after a fight, you can review the combat log to see what happened, to generate a richer story.
Various research has been split up
Gun research is now broken into several stages, so making advanced guns like assault rifles takes more research than making simple revolvers
Melee weapon research is now broken into several stages
New furniture
Bedroll: Portable bed
Dresser: Passively improves room
Endtable: Passive improves room
Various new table sizes
New quest reward special items:
Psychic emanator
Vanometric power cell
Infinite chemreactor
Techprof subpersona core
Healer mechanite superdose
Resurrector mechanite superdose
Orbital bombardment targeter
Orbital power beam targeter
Tribal content upgrade:
Ikwa melee weapon
War mask
Tribal headdress
Recurve bow
Tribal hunter
Tribal heavy archer
Tribal berserker
New world site components (used in various situations):
Sleeping mechanoids
Animal ambush
Enemy ambush
New mental breaks:
Insulting spree. Randomly go around and insult people.
Targeted insulting spree. Follow around a specific other colonist, insulting them repeatedly.
Tantrum. Go around randomly smashing furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
Bedroom tantrum. Go to your own room and randomly smash furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
Targeted tantrum. Go to destroy a single, specific, randomly-chosen, valuable item or building.
Sadistic rage. Melee attack prisoners for a while. Fists only. Only occurs when there are prisoners to attack. Does not attack downed prisoners.
Corpse obsession. Dig up a corpse and drop it on a meeting spot table or in a random high-traffic area. The mental break then ends.
Catatonic. Collapse on the spot into a downed state with a psychological breakdown. Recover some days later. This can be implemented by a "catatonic breakdown" hediff.
Jailbreaker. Colonist goes to a random prisoner (who is capable of prison breaking), and upon doing a special "spark jailbreak" action with them, induces an immediate prison break in that prisoner.
Slaughterer. Slaughter random colony animal(s) periodically.
Murderous rage. Hunt down a specific colonist or prisoner (randomly chosen) and attempt to kill them by melee attack. Uses melee weapon or fists, as equipped. Keep attacking until the target is dead.
Run wild. The pawn basically starts acting like an animal. You can tame him to try to get him to rejoin.
New mental inspirations. Basically reverse mental breaks – these give temporary bonuses to colonists in high moods.
Work frenzy (1 day): Global work speed 2.5x
Go frenzy (1 day): Walk speed 1.5x
Shoot frenzy (3 days): Shooting hit chance improved as though the pawn is 10 skill levels higher.
Inspired trade
Inspired recruitment
Inspired surgery
Inspired art
World features like lakes, mountain ranges, and bays are now detected and named. Names are displayed in the world view.
Caves now form sometimes in mountainous maps. Inside there are special cave plants. There can also be dormant insect hives.
Many new tale types were added. So, the game will record many new types of events, and colonists can make art about them. Art descriptions should be much more diverse.
Crop blights now appear and spread over time instead of instantly destroying crops
Spaceship is now bigger and has one more component, the sensor cluster
Spaceship quest ending phase: When going to the hidden space ship to finish the game, the game does not end instantly on arrival. The map generates with the ship intact. To take off, first you must power up the ship, which takes some days, during which you must survive raids.
Space ship construction now requires advanced components, which have their own tech tree and production method
Split pistol into revolver and autopistol
Boomalopes can be milked for chemfuel
Added chemfuel generator, which generates electricity from chemfuel
Artillery works differently now. There is one type of mortar, which can fire any type of shell, with each shell creating a different effect. The shells are explosive, incendiary, firefoam, and antigrain (a special high-tech warhead).
Seasonal latitudes: Seasons now more reasonably adjust depending on latitude. Instead of flipping at the equator, there is a seasonless crossover zone.
Redesigned alert letter types and sounds to be more specific.
Pawns can now be banished. This is analogous to abandoning pawns in caravans.
Technical: The save file now contains the actual contents of the planet map, instead of just the seed to generate it. This speed up loading, makes forward compatibility possible, and makes it technically possible to modify the world map during play.
Many many tunings, bugfixes, and redesigns.
 
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Holy crap new ending!



Wow. I look forward to see actual speedruns of this game!
 
A16 IS LIVE
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    LUDEON BLOG POST LINK

    Change list:

    Spherical planet

    • World map is now modeled as a sphere covered with hexagons (and a few pentagons).
    • New map generation to make nicer mountain ranges, hill clusters, and continents.
    • Nice backdrop with stars and sun.
    • Time of day is modeled on the planet view; local time of day corresponds to how the sunlight hits the planet.
    • Time zones are now modeled, out of necessity.
    • New planet generation parameter: temperature. You can make worlds that are overall hotter or overall colder.
    • New planet generation parameter: rainfall. You can make worlds where there is overall more or less precipitation.
    • New biome: sea ice.
    • Factions can now have many bases; non-player factions generate with lots of bases.
    Multiple simultaneous maps

    • There can now be multiple local maps active at once. For example, you can have your colony running as well, as a group of soldiers attacking an enemy base, at the same time.
    • The character bar at the top of the screen shows all of your colonists and allows you to change which map you're looking at. It groups characters togehter by the map they're on.
    • You can settle multiple colonies at once. However, for balance and performance reasons, the default limit is one colony at a time. This can be increased in the options menu if you want to experiment, but we don't recommend it.
    Caravans

    • Player can now gather up groups of colonists, prisoners, and animals, and form caravans to travel across the world surface.
    • Caravans are formed using a special "create caravan" dialog, which allows you to easily decide what people, animals, and items should be included in the caravan up to its carry weight limit. The colonists do the busywork.
    • Caravans appear as units in the world map, where they can be ordered around similarly to drafted soldiers in the local map.
    • Caravans can be ambushed by enemy factions or manhunting animals. This produces a temporary local map.
    • Caravans can incidentally meet friendly traders and trade.
    • Caravans can visit other faction bases and trade with them. Faction bases have more stock and better prices than traders who come and visit your colony.
    • Caravans can attack faction bases. The game generates a simple faction base map with defenders and loot, and you raid it. If you defeat the defenders, you can move in and take over the base (for now, generated bases are quite simple.)
    • Caravans can settle and form new colonies.
    • You can abandon your bases to shift to new ones.
    • Caravans move at different speeds depending on the biome, the time of year (cold biomes close off with the winter snows), local hilliness, the movement speeds of people in the caravan, and whether there are wounded to carry.
    • It is possible to abandon people and items from caravans. Abandoning people will, depending on the context, produce sad thoughts from their friends and relatives, especially if you abandon them in circumstances that seem impossible to survive.
    Travel victory

    • New game ending: A friendly person offers a ship, but it is distant, across the world map. If you travel there, you can escape the planet and complete the game. But, traveling there will take a long time and you'll need to stop at various points to build up supplies or solve problems.
    Transport pods

    • You can build transport pod launchers and transport pods. These let you launch their contents long distances across the world map, over oceans or mountains.
    • Pods can be targeted on empty world tiles, to send a caravan of people and gear there.
    • Pods can be targeted on enemy bases, where you can perform "drop-in" raids and drop right on top of the base, or drop outside it – just like raiders do to you!
    • Pods can be targeted on existing combat maps or other bases you control. This allows you to do things like resupply an ongoing siege with artillery shells (just like raiders do when besieging you), reinforce a weak caravan that just got ambushed, or send supplies and people between two bases you control.
    • Pods are loaded by selecting several and creating a "launch group". An interface like that for creating caravans appears, allowing you to define what and who should be included. The colonists do the detail work.
    • Transport pods require chemfuel, which can be bought, founded, drilled from the ground, or refined from wood or food using the new refinery building.
    Usability improvements

    • New research screen! Research projects are laid out visually according to their dependencies in a left-to-right arrangement similar to the Civilization games. Modders need to manually place their projects, but if two overlap the game will automatically move them apart.
    • Redesigned how medical system generates text feedback. Tooltips now contain much more information with less ambiguity. Wound tendings are now of any percentage quality (not just good/poor).
    • Game now warns you when you order slaughter of a bonded animal (because of the mood impact).
    • Added visual feedback thought bubbles for when pawns gain certain good and bad thoughts, so it's easier to see when something just bothered or pleased them.
    • Rich soil is darker in color and so easier to see.
    • Added a "hold fire" toggle on drafted pawns that makes them not automatically shoot at enemies.
    • In order to avoid annoying players by having animals always follow their masters, even into combat, players can configure when animals will follow their masters. There are two toggles: Follow while drafted, follow while hunting/taming
    Drugs and health

    • Drug rebalance. Increase drug addictiveness in general. Drugs can now damage the body in various ways: Alcohol can cause brain damage or liver cirrhosis or liver cancer, smokeleaf can cause asthma or lung cancer, psychite can damage kidneys, wake-up and go-juice can damage the brain, and generalized overdoses can cause brain damage.
    • Drugs are more lucrative on the market.
    • Added a third toggle in drug policy saying whether you can use the drug to feed an addiction, separately from joy usage.
    • There is now a random chance of a overdose when taking drugs, even if just taking one dose.
    • Added a way to administer specific drugs to people, including prisoners, animals, and downed people. So you can give Luciferium to someone who needs it.
    • Malari-block reworked into Penoxycyline, which prevents a wide variety of infections (not just malaria).
    • Drug chemical effects are modulated by body size. So elephants need a lot of beer to get hammered; squirrels not so much.
    • Luciferium occasionally heals old wounds/scars. Luciferium is harder to get (less of it in old shrines, higher prices).
    • Stats now stack differently (more additive, less multiplying) to reduce some exploits.
    Misc

    • Reworked surgery failure into three modes – minor, catastrophic, and ridiculous. Ridiculous hits all body parts, minor and catastrophic hit parts near the surgery site.
    • Reworked trade prices across the board. Simplified trade price calculations and added rich tooltips to feed them back.
    • The mood effects from room impressiveness have been redesigned and rebalanced. Characters now have consistently reasonable thoughts about the quality of their personal room, so there is a reason to make better rooms (though high-quality rooms aren't absolutely necessary). Mood effects from eating in or convalescing in nice/poor rooms are also more reasonable and better-fed back.
    • Rebalanced plant growth timings.
    • UI can now be scaled to arbitrary scaling factors, for players who play in really high resolution.
    • Rescued people (especially space refugees etc) should sometimes join the colony. If the environment isn't survivable (e.g. bad temperature, toxic fallout) they should always join the colony.
    • Animals carrying inventory now have visible packs on.
    • Added new separate bills to stonecut each type of stone.
    • Prisoners are now temporarily marked "guilty" when they do certain actions, like killing a colonist or attempting escape. Guilty prisoners can be executed without mood penalties.
    • Faction names are now much more interesting and varied, and are separate from specific community names.
    • New Peaceful difficulty mode, for players who just want to build stuff. Disables major involuntary threats like raids.
    • Rename Megatherium -> Megasloth
    • New alert: Unhappy nudity
    • Backstories can be translated now
    • New translation tool gives a readout of exactly what translation data remains to be written and what data is unused.
    • Added proper chick peeping sounds.
    • You can now only request one trader per 4 days from a faction.
    • Colonists now get mood boosts for defeating big enemies or enemy faction leaders.
    • Cleaning and harvesting jobs are now given in batches (more efficient and sensible AI).
    • Default medical care for non-colonists is now herbal meds. Switches to best meds on recruit.
    • Rebalanced most range weapons so more time is in cooldown and less is in aiming – especially for light weapons.
    • Pawns generated below age 20 now have no adulthood backstory.
    • Hundreds of other balance improvements, exploit solutions, AI improvements, and bugfixes.

    So hop on the nearest space ship, crash on a godforsaken planet and get your organs harvested today!

    Me right now:

     
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    • The UI is infinitely better then Dwarf Fortress. As it like has one and understands what a mouse is.

    You lose the z-layer though and a lot of the tricker/dicker FUN.
     
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    So ends my first game with my colonists slaughtered by super spiders. Well the game did warn me that opening that vault right next to my base was a bad idea.
     
    The lack of booze and z-layers threw me off my game. Almost didn't plant crops in time. Anyone know how to make your colonists chop down trees faster? I already know about the time speeds.
     
    anotherlurker said:
    The lack of booze and z-layers threw me off my game. Almost didn't plant crops in time. Anyone know how to make your colonists chop down trees faster? I already know about the time speeds.
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    There is booze in the form of beer. Beer and smokeleaf are really the only acceptable drugs that most players will ever use.

    As for trees, no there's no way. I don't think Growing has anything to do with it. Plant Cutting isn't actually a skill on its own.
     
    Thanks, anyway. I'll just have to get more colonists to cut more trees.
    Dwarf Fortress dwarves drink various forms of booze like we'd drink water, and receive growing debuffs without it. Rimworld colonists not requiring drinks means one less industry to worry about, until I get around to producing things for trading.
     
    anotherlurker said:
    Dwarf Fortress dwarves drink various forms of booze like we'd drink water, and receive growing debuffs without it. Rimworld colonists not requiring drinks means one less industry to worry about, until I get around to producing things for trading.
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    Drugs. Lots and lots of drugs. (Or wood sculptures if you're boring)

    And before you start you drug empire, know that camels cannot carry things. Yes, it's a bug that Tynan knows about.

    In totally unrelated things, check out this art!

     
    To rule everything? You can interact with old settlements.

    If you're trying to get to the friendly AI maybe.
     
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