A curated list of awesome RimWorld mods, tools, and resources.
RimWorld is a sci-fi colony survival simulator by Ludeon Studios. This list focuses on resources for players seeking to enhance their gameplay through mods, tools, and community resources.
DLC Labels: Items marked with 🏛️ require Royalty, 📿 require Ideology, 🧬 require Biotech, or 👁️ require Anomaly.
- Official Resources
- Mod Managers
- Framework Mods
- Quality of Life
- Performance
- UI and Interface
- Combat
- Vanilla Expanded
- Content Expansion
- Mod Collections
- Modding Resources
- Communities
- Related
Official RimWorld resources from Ludeon Studios.
- Ludeon Studios - The developer of RimWorld.
- RimWorld Steam Store - Official Steam page for purchasing RimWorld.
- RimWorld Wiki - Community-maintained wiki with comprehensive game documentation.
Tools for managing, sorting, and organizing your mod lists.
- RimPy Mod Manager Database - Community-maintained database of mod sorting rules used by both RimPy and RimSort.
- RimSort - Open-source mod manager with cross-platform support, actively maintained as the modern alternative to RimPy.
Core libraries and frameworks required by many mods.
- Harmony - The essential patching library that most RimWorld mods depend on.
- HugsLib - Shared library providing common functionality for many mods.
- Vanilla Expanded Framework - Required framework for all Vanilla Expanded mods with shared features like custom factions and building exports.
- XML Extensions - Extends XML modding with new patch operations, mod settings creation, and enhanced error reporting.
Mods that improve the day-to-day experience of playing RimWorld.
- ⭐ Allow Tool - Adds mass allow/forbid tools, priority hauling, and batch commands for hunting, harvesting, and more.
- ⭐ Animals Logic - Enhances animal management with production info displays, medical alerts, and features like nutrient paste dispensers for animals.
- Auto Ability - Automatically activates pawn abilities based on configurable conditions.
- Auto Conduits - Enables flood-fill placement of conduits by holding Shift and clicking on walls.
- Auto Links - Automatically adds hyperlinks in item descriptions connecting recipes, ingredients, and research.
- ⭐ Auto-Cut Blight - Automatically designates blighted crops for cutting to prevent spread.
- AutoBlink - Enables automatic use of blink psycast abilities for combat and escape.
- Basic Double Doors - Introduces double-door variants of vanilla doors including autodoor options.
- Better Spike Traps - Reduces spike trap costs and removes placement distance limitations.
- Better Workbench Management - Enhances bill management with copying, linking, reordering, and additional counting options.
- Blueprints Forked - Save and load building blueprints for quick recreation of room layouts.
- Bunk Beds - Space-saving furniture that stores up to 3 pawns in the same 2 tiles.
- Camping Tent - Adds portable tent structures that function as beds with mood benefits.
- Cherry Picker - Selectively enable or disable specific content from mods without unsubscribing.
- CM Color Coded Mood Bar - Color-codes colonist mood bars from green (happy) to red (mental break imminent).
- Colony Manager Redux - Automates resource management by setting targets for meat, wood, steel, and animal populations.
- ⭐ Common Sense - Makes colonists smarter with optional behaviors like cleaning before work.
- De-generalize Work - Restores individual work speed stats for tailoring, smithing, and sculpting.
- Deep Storage - Adds storage buildings like shelves and pallets to dramatically reduce storage room sizes.
- Draftable Animals - Releashed - Allows drafting and directly controlling animals in combat situations.
- Dubs Mint Menus - Overhauls architect and crafting menus with searching and filtering.
- EdB Prepare Carefully - Fine-tuned control over starting colonist creation with balanced and non-balanced options.
- Everybody Gets One - Continued - Distributes items evenly among colonists based on configurable rules.
- Giddy-Up 2 Forked - Allows pawns to ride animals around the map and use them as battle mounts.
- Grazing Lands - Prevents animals from destroying grass when eating with configurable options.
- ⭐ Haul to Stack - Optimizes hauling by prioritizing adding items to existing stacks.
- ⭐ Hunt for Me - Enables tamed predators to hunt solo or in packs with customizable behavior.
- Keyz' Allow Utilities - Adds additional allow/forbid utilities for streamlined item management.
- Level Up! - Sends notifications when colonists gain skill levels with configurable spam reduction.
- Not My Fault - Removes the faction reputation penalty when visitors die from events beyond your control.
- ⭐ OgreStack - Customize stack sizes for items with an in-game menu for targeting specific items.
- Pick Up And Haul - Colonists fill their inventory when hauling instead of carrying one item at a time.
- Prisoner Utils - Enhances prisoner management with assigned beds, food controls, and clothing options.
- QualityBuilder Unofficial 1.6 - Assigns construction jobs to colonists with the skill level to achieve desired quality.
- RandomPlus - Set minimum specs for pawn generation with automatic rerolling until criteria are met.
- Replace Stuff - Continued - Place buildings over existing structures with automatic replacement while preserving settings.
- RimFridge - Adds refrigerated storage units that keep food and perishables cold with shelf support.
- RIMMSqol - Over 1,000 editable game properties, character editing, and UI customizations through an in-game interface.
- RimSaves - Enhances save menu with previews, folder organization, and quicksave functionality.
- Smart Farming Continued - Extra tools for grow zones including sowing predictions, prioritization, and harvest automation.
- Smart Medicine - Continued - Doctors access medicine from patient inventories, carry supplies, and use minimal medicine for minor injuries.
- ⭐ Smart Speed - Unlocks ultra-fast game speeds and custom multipliers with separate event speed settings.
- Smarter Construction - Prevents pawns from building themselves into walls or blocking unfinished structures.
- Smarter Visitors - Visitors delay departure when dangers like raids or health issues are present.
- Social Experience from Trade - Colonists gain social skill experience when trading.
- Stack XXL - Configurable stack size multipliers to reduce storage space requirements.
- TradeHelper - Expands trading interface with wishlist feature and enhanced UI for trading dialogs.
- Trading Control - Designate trading areas, create marketplace stalls, and dismiss unwanted traders.
- Use This Instead - Configure item replacement preferences for crafting and construction.
- Wall Light - Wall-mounted lights that don't take up floor space.
Mods that improve game performance, especially for large colonies and mod lists.
- Better GC: Mothballed and World Pawns - Improves performance through better pawn mothballing and reducing unnecessary world pawns via garbage collection.
- FPS Stabilizer - Increases frame rate stability by raising the minimum FPS threshold at the cost of simulation speed when CPU is constrained.
- Performance - Slower Pawn Tick Rate - Reduces pawn tick frequency to improve performance in large colonies.
- Performance Fish - Improves framerates and tick times by patching methods for efficiency, compatible with most mods including CE.
- Performance Optimizer - Various performance tweaks providing around 20-35% performance gain.
- RocketMan - Major performance improvements including cached def loading for faster startup with large mod lists.
Mods that enhance the user interface and information display.
- Better Architect Menu - Reorganizes and improves the architect menu for easier navigation.
- ⭐ Camera+ - Extends camera zoom range significantly beyond vanilla limits for screenshots and streaming.
- Command Palette - Consolidates all building commands into one searchable interface accessible via right-click.
- Designator Shapes - Adds circle, oval, and other shapes to the building designator.
- Dubs Mint Minimap - Adds a customizable minimap with multiplayer-compatible ping tool.
- Electrical Grid Toggler - Adds a toggle to display the power grid with color-coded status indicators.
- Extra Alerts - Customizable notifications for enemies, downed allies, animal emergencies, and mood alerts.
- Float Sub-Menus - Framework enabling hierarchical menus with submenus, search fields, and dividers.
- Graphics Settings+ - Improves texture quality with DDS loading, VRAM tracking, and texture sharpening.
- Interaction Bubbles - Displays floating text bubbles showing pawn social interactions in real-time.
- InventoryTab - Searchable inventory interface displaying all items across stockpiles and colonists.
- ⭐ Moody - Floating dashboard displaying colonist moods, thoughts, temperature, skills, and health.
- Neat Storage - Improves storage zone visuals with organized item displays.
- Nice Bill Tab - Redesigns workbench bill creation with improved filtering and material selection.
- Nice Inventory Tab - Redesigns pawn equipment tab with comprehensive stats, health breakdowns, and direct clothing swaps.
- Numbers - Adds spreadsheet-like colonist overview with sortable columns for stats.
- ⭐ Prisoner Management Panel - Centralized panel for managing all prisoners with batch operations.
- Relevant Stats In Description - Shows building statistics in the architect menu description window.
- Research Tree (Continued) - Better research tree with automatic layout optimization and research queuing.
- RimHUD - Sleek UI overlay showing colonist stats, moods, needs, and injuries at a glance.
- ⭐ Rimpedia - Encyclopedia system for collecting information about animals and plants with gameplay bonuses.
- Scenario Editor UI Overhaul - Improves the scenario editor interface for easier custom game setup.
- Show Mod Updates - Displays which mods have updated since your last save to identify potential issues.
- Toggleable Overlays Continued - Makes overlays display only on mouseover to reduce visual clutter and improve performance.
- Trait Rarity Colors - Color-codes trait rarities using a Borderlands-style tier system.
- Useful Marks - Mark pawns with customizable icons featuring automatic tagging based on conditions.
Mods that overhaul or enhance RimWorld's combat system.
- ⭐ Avoid Friendly Fire - Colonists avoid shooting when allies are in the line of fire.
- Combat Extended - Comprehensive combat overhaul with ammunition, armor penetration, and realistic ballistics.
- ⭐ RunAndGun - Allows pawns to fire ranged weapons while moving.
- ⭐ Search and Destroy (Continued) - Toggle mode for drafted pawns to automatically hunt down enemies.
- Yayo's Combat - Lighter combat overhaul with new animations and optional ammo system.
The Vanilla Expanded series expands RimWorld while maintaining vanilla art style and balance. All require the Vanilla Expanded Framework (see Framework Mods section above).
- Vanilla Expanded Collection - Official Steam collection of all Vanilla Expanded mods.
- Vanilla Expanded Wiki - Community wiki documenting all Vanilla Expanded content.
- Vanilla Factions Expanded - Adds new factions including Settlers, Medieval, Vikings, Insectoids, and more.
- Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Adds diverse furniture options for building varied colonies.
- Vanilla Psycasts Expanded - Massive expansion of the psycasts system with new paths and abilities. 🏛️
- Vanilla Races Expanded - Adds new xenohuman races with unique genes and mechanics. 🧬
- Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Adds new weapons including makeshift, laser, and persona weapon modules.
Major mods that add significant new content or mechanics.
- Adaptive Ideology Storage - Reimplements Ideology storage objects with enhanced textures and rotation options. 📿
- Alpha Animals - Adds diverse alien animals with unique mechanics and behaviors.
- Alpha Biomes - Adds new biomes with unique challenges and resources.
- Animal Gear - Framework enabling animals to equip gear and clothing like colonists.
- Better Trees - Improves tree visuals with more detailed and varied appearances.
- Diagonal Walls 2 - Introduces diagonal wall, floor, and object tiles for angled construction.
- Dinosauria - Adds 32 dinosaur species that spawn naturally with egg-laying mechanics.
- Dubs Bad Hygiene - Adds water, sewage, hygiene systems, and central heating to colonies.
- Dubs Skylights - Craftable skylights that allow sunlight indoors for growing plants inside.
- Hospitality - Allows guests to visit and be recruited through good treatment.
- ⭐ Mass Graves - Adds mass burial options for efficient corpse disposal.
- More Linkables - Adds linkable facilities that boost research, work, healing, and surgery.
- More Sculpture - Expands statue customization with 72 texture variations per sculpture piece.
- RimWorld of Magic - Adds 12 magic classes and 6 fighter classes with abilities and development trees.
- Save Our Ship 2 - Build spaceships, travel between planets, and engage in ship combat.
- Small Bedroom Furniture - Compact furniture options for space-efficient bedroom designs.
- Tiny Utilities - Collection of small utility items and quality-of-life additions.
- VV - New Harvest: Medicinal Plants - Adds new medicinal plants for expanded herbal medicine production.
- ⭐ Way Better Romance - Romance system overhaul with sexuality traits, dates, and relationship features.
- ⭐ Yayo's Animation (Continued) - Adds animations to pawns performing combat, work, and social interactions.
Curated collections for players who want a pre-built mod experience.
- Rimworld Enhanced (1.6, No Bloat) - QoL and content improvements without excessive load times.
- RimWorld Ultimate Collection - Extensively curated collection from a 3500+ hour player.
- Vanilla Friendly Combat Overhaul - Combat mods that work together without compatibility issues.
Resources for creating RimWorld mods.
- RimWorld Modding Resources - Community-collated hub for modding tools, tutorials, and references.
- RimWorld Modding Tutorials - Official wiki tutorials for XML, C#, and mod creation basics.
- RimWorld XML Auto-Documentation - Reference for all vanilla Def types and their fields.
Places to discuss RimWorld and connect with other players.
- Ludeon Forums - Official forums for in-depth discussions and mod help.
- r/RimWorld - Active subreddit for gameplay discussion, stories, and memes.
- r/RimWorldMods - Subreddit focused on mod discussion and recommendations.
- RimWorld Discord - Official community Discord server with mod development channels.
Other awesome lists and resources that complement this one.
- Awesome Game Development - Resources for game development in general.
- Awesome Unity - Resources for Unity development (RimWorld's engine).
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.
