B18 Update

Billy's Improved Caravan Formation Mod

This is a mod for Rimworld A18. It improves the behavior of colonists and animals during the caravan formation process, with the goal of avoiding situations where your colonists are stuck wandering around doing nothing. With this mod, even large and complex caravans should eventually form.

Note that this is both the first mod I've made and the first mod I've used. The intent of this mod is to change the base game as little as possible. I've tried to stick with what I percieve as the original intent of the Rimworld designers while fixing some fundamental flaws in the caravan formation process. Large caravans should still take some time and effort to form, but they should eventually form, and the colonists and animals will try to use their best abilities to form as quickly as possible without the need for frustrating manual tinkering.

Changes:

• Animals will now go to the caravan spot on their own, without a colonist needing to tag them.
• Colonists will not wait for the entire caravan to meet before gathering supplies.
• The caravan will not be held up indefinitely by hungry pawns that wander off for food during caravan formation.
• If a pawn is lost the caravan will continue without them (if it can) instead of being cancelled.
• Prisoners will no longer wander out of their cells before a colonist releases them.
• Colonists will sleep in their beds if they get tired while forming a caravan.

Issues that remain:

• A caravan may be significantly delayed by pauses due to mental states. Please try to keep your colonists sane when forming a caravan.
• Animals assigned to the caravan do not obey area restrictions. They may eat all your food.
• When selecting animals for a caravan, the caravan formation dialog is ... unhelpful. Improvements could be made.
• It would be nice if you could change the caravan meeting spot while the caravan is forming.
• It would be nice if you could manually remove an animal from the caravan while it is forming.
• The process of loading transport pods could use some work as well.

This mod includes a compiled version of the Harmony library made by Andreas Pardeike (MIT license).

A17

Billy's Improved Caravan Formation Mod

This is a mod for Rimworld A17. It improves the behavior of colonists and animals during the caravan formation process, with the goal of avoiding situations where your colonists are stuck wandering around doing nothing. With this mod, even large and complex caravans should eventually form.

Note that this is both the first mod I've made and the first mod I've used. The intent of this mod is to change the base game as little as possible. I've tried to stick with what I perceive as the original intent of the Rimworld designers while fixing some fundamental flaws in the caravan formation process. Large caravans should still take some time and effort to form, but they should eventually form, and the colonists and animals will try to use their best abilities to form as quickly as possible without the need for frustrating manual tinkering.

Changes:

• Animals will now go to the caravan spot on their own, without a colonist needing to tag them.
• Colonists will not wait for the entire caravan to meet before gathering supplies.
• The caravan will not be held up indefinitely by hungry pawns that wander off for food during caravan formation.
• If a pawn is lost the caravan will continue without them (if it can) instead of being cancelled.
• Prisoners will no longer wander out of their cells before a colonist releases them.

Issues that remain:

• Colonists sleep on the floor if they get tired while forming a caravan. I don't know if this is still necessary with the above changes.
• A caravan may be significantly delayed by pauses due to mental states. Please try to keep your colonists sane when forming a caravan.
• Animals assigned to the caravan do not obey area restrictions. They may eat all your food.
• When selecting animals for a caravan, the caravan formation dialog is ... unhelpful. Improvements could be made.
• It would be nice if you could change the caravan meeting spot while the caravan is forming.
• It would be nice if you could manually remove an animal from the caravan while it is forming.
• The process of loading transport pods could use some work as well.

This mod includes a compiled version of the Harmony library made by Andreas Pardeike (MIT license).

To Install:

Download the zip file and unzip it into your Rimworld Mod folder (..\Rimworld\Mods). Open Rimworld and enable the mod using the "Mods" button on the main menu.