Rimworld: Murder Inc. or Why organ harvesting is a viable business model

[Culsu]

I know I'm reeeeally late to the, well, game, but I've only just recently come across this all-time consuming jewel of a survival, murder, colony-building, and genocide simulation. I'm currently on my first longer playthrough of the Vanilla 1.0 version with Cassandra as the AI story teller, and it's really frightening what you can do in this game and what this game does to you.

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a quick review/recap of the game.


For those of you more experienced in the game, what mods would you recommend to me for my next playthroughs?

 

[Deleted member 1]

Clearly you need to consult with the Chinese government to improve your technique at this critical industrial endeavour.

 

[Culsu]

Indeed, currently productivity is lacking. More beatings most certainly will increase morale!

Now, on a more serious note, it's actually crucial that you keep your colonists happy. Having them do organ transplants on prisoners is kinda the polar opposite of that.

 

[commanderkai]

This is my current and ongoing base. Modded game, including a few nerfing infestations and negating sappers, because fuck those guys.

Edit: Soon after this post,I had sappers attack. It's been a long while

 

[Culsu]

I've continued playing a bit and finally decided to start a modded playthrough. What bothered me with my first playthrough is that at some time I reached a point where I just could not get my people to be happy/keep them from breaking anymore, no matter the luxuries I provided, and that I kept running out of components. *sigh*

 

[Marduk]

What mods are you running? Could be one breaking something with happiness.
Are you running component production or trading?
Some mods can have lots of component intensive stuff, so may be straining on that, but it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Culsu]

What mods are you running? Could be one breaking something with happiness.
Are you running component production or trading?
Some mods can have lots of component intensive stuff, so may be straining on that, but it shouldn't be a problem.

No, the happiness problem was with the vanilla game.

 

[Marduk]

No, the happiness problem was with the vanilla game.

Huh? Never had that issue. Some chars may have traits that make them happiness problems, psychic events are also a pain (perhaps by chance you have one of those mechanoid psychic thingies spawned on map and didn't notice?), but if everything is normal, should not be an issue.
Have you looked at the colonist's happiness factors and didn't notice a cause?

 

[Greengrass]

I've continued playing a bit and finally decided to start a modded playthrough. What bothered me with my first playthrough is that at some time I reached a point where I just could not get my people to be happy/keep them from breaking anymore, no matter the luxuries I provided, and that I kept running out of components. *sigh*

Could you post a screenshot of the mood panel for one of your colonists? We can help give suggestions as to what might be going wrong.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I want Factorio's industry in Rimworld.

 

[DarthOne]

Some shots from my own moded Rimworld game. Going for a Imperial Germany/ Lovecraft thing.

 

[commanderkai]

Some shots from my own moded Rimworld game. Going for a Imperial Germany/ Lovecraft thing.

Wood bridge? Hoping to set it on fire if raiders come crossing?

 

[DarthOne]

Wood bridge? Hoping to set it on fire if raiders come crossing?

Yep. Or plant various mines from the poison gas shell mod I've got.