Summary
- EdB Prepare Carefully is a mod that allows players to customize their colonists' skills and gear, saving time and adding RPG-like elements.
- Wall Light mod adds customizable lights to RimWorld, allowing players to set the mood and color-coordinate their base.
- Pick Up And Haul mod improves resource management by allowing colonists to use their inventory while hauling items, increasing carrying capacity and efficiency.
RimWorld has a lot of depth and is playable without mods for a player's first few saves. Adding mods to RimWorld opens up a can of worms by introducing further complex mechanics, and could lead to a clutter of mods. Knowing the most downloaded mods for RimWorld can help guide new players to know which mods work best for the game.
Many RimWorld mods are fantastic and feel like they belong in the base game due to their polish and handiness. However, this list will not feature mods that work on the back end of RimWorld to allow other mods to function.
7 EdB Prepare Carefully
Current Subscribers: 1,436,317
- Mod Author & Image Credit: edbmods
- Mod Link: EdB Prepare Carefully
Hitting the randomize button for a suitable pawn is a tedious step in any new save. Players can instead freely customize their colonists with EdB Prepare Carefully and save lots of time. The mod allows players to create their pawns similarly to an RPG by adding and removing points from skills and choosing a colonist's gear from the start.
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Prepare Carefully has the option to add point limits to leveling up pawn skills or disable the limit to create a super pawn. Players can save their previous presets and quickly load to an ideal start.
6 Wall Light
Current Subscribers: 1,175,809
- Mod Author & Image Credit: Murmur
- Mod Link: Wall Light
Lighting sets the mood for a base and can help players color-coordinate rooms. Wall Light adds lights that attach to the wall and operate similarly to vanilla lamps but allow for unique colors. Players can select colors using a color wheel to get their exact color preference.
Wall Lights can be deconstructed and toggled on and off. This mod also adds a few extra features, such as configurable material cost, how much light they produce, indicated lit zones, and optional wall sunlight, which can be turned off if desired.
5 Pick Up And Haul
Current Subscribers: 1,096,806
- Mod Author: Uuugggg & Mehni
- Mod Link: Pick Up And Haul
RimWorld is easily among the most complex resource management games, and moving those resources is a frequent need. Colonists are notoriously slow at hauling items, but with the help of Pick Up And Haul, they can be a little faster. Colonists will now use their inventory while hauling items to increase their total carrying capacity instead of only using their hands.
Transferring resources will flow smoother with this mod, and colonists will take fewer trips to finish moving items. Colonists with items in their inventory will unload at frequent intervals or when idle.
4 Replace Stuff
Current Subscribers: 1,087,509
- Mod Author: Uuugggg
- Mod Link: Replace Stuff
Upgrading a base should be something players look forward to and not dread. However, manually replacing walls and floors is a hassle without Replace Stuff, a mod that introduces a new command to replace walls, floors, upgrade beds, and workbenches.
Once the command is given out, a pawn will handle the entire process, and players can use their newfound free time to tackle vital tasks such as preserving valuable food. The mod adds over-wall coolers that build on top of a cooler, eliminating the need to destroy a wall and maintaining base esthetics.
3 Hospitality
Current Subscribers: 1,058,027
- Mod Author: Orion
- Mod Link: Hospitality
Interactions with other colonies are usually limited to trading and lack genuine relationships that go past resource exchange. Players can form personal bonds with their nearby colonies through Hospitality and unlock several new engagements.
Hospitality lets players show off their furniture by hosting guests and giving them guest rooms and fun activities, and they may even help out with tasks. Invites can be sent out via the comms console. Lastly, the mod allows players to recruit visitors to expand their colony.
2 Allow Tool
Current Subscribers: 1,003,511
- Mod Author: Symbolic
- Mod Link: Allow Tool
Better control over pawns leads to RimWorld becoming a more immersive simulation game, and Allow Tool does just that. This mod adds a slew of new commands, such as mining all ores, harvesting all ripe plants, hauling everything, rearming all traps, and hunting all animals.
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The mod adds the ability to forbid and unforbid groups of items, and order selected items to be urgently hauled. Pawns will focus on urgent haul orders and complete them before completing other work. Players no longer need to await the whims of pawns to obey hauling orders.
1 RimHUD
Current Subscribers: 976,103
RimWorld isn't exactly known for its stunning graphics, and the base game UI gets the job done but leaves a lot to be desired. RimHUD vastly overhauls the UI of RimWorld and improves the visual clarity of information while adding more data within many tabs.
RimHUD adds visual warnings if a pawn is near death to prevent players from suddenly realizing their favorite pawn has died while farming. It introduces a floating HUD option that reveals colonist interactions with one another in text bubbles.
RimWorld
- Released
- October 17, 2018
