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"Can someone recommend me a [insert category here] mod?"

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===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
(Obsolete in Rimworld 1.3+) Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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* Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* HD Pawn Rendering
Reverts the 1.3 changes which greatly downgraded pawn graphical quality, allowing high resolution pawn textures once again.
* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld, with every type of content you care to name. Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* YokaiMura
This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* AOC
Demonic species with an OCD compulsion for cleaning. The janitors of the universe.
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Luno
Living dolls made from the dead
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moosesians
Very large moose people who are consequently much more durable than normal pawns. Napoleonic-era technology.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Paniel the Automata
Dog-girl automatons that are powered by brains extracted from pawns and prisoners. They have an interesting mechanic where a constructed Paniel's base stats are dependent on the ability of its crafter (similar to equipment or furniture).
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

===''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor===
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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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"Can someone recommend me a [insert category here] mod?"

If you, too, are tired of answering this question, just send them to this pastebin.

===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
(Obsolete in Rimworld 1.3+) Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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* Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld, with every type of content you care to name. Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* YokaiMura
This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* AOC
Demonic species with an OCD compulsion for cleaning. The janitors of the universe.
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Luno
Living dolls made from the dead
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moosesians
Very large moose people who are consequently much more durable than normal pawns. Napoleonic-era technology.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Paniel the Automata
Dog-girl automatons that are powered by brains extracted from pawns and prisoners. They have an interesting mechanic where a constructed Paniel's base stats are dependent on the ability of its crafter (similar to equipment or furniture).
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

===''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor===
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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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"Can someone recommend me a [insert category here] mod?"

If you, too, are tired of answering this question, just send them to this pastebin.

===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
(Obsolete in Rimworld 1.3+) Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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* Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* YokaiMura
This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* AOC
Demonic species with an OCD compulsion for cleaning. The janitors of the universe.
* Moos
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Luno
Living dolls made from the dead
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moosesians
Very large moose people who are consequently much more durable than normal pawns. Napoleonic-era technology.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Paniel the Automata
Dog-girl automatons that are powered by brains extracted from pawns and prisoners. They have an interesting mechanic where a constructed Paniel's base stats are dependent on the ability of its crafter (similar to equipment or furniture).
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

===''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor===
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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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Regularity: /* 1007A Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major */

"Can someone recommend me a [insert category here] mod?"

If you, too, are tired of answering this question, just send them to this pastebin.

===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
(Obsolete in Rimworld 1.3+) Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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* Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* YokaiMura
This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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Regularity: /* 1001 Colony Utility */

"Can someone recommend me a [insert category here] mod?"

If you, too, are tired of answering this question, just send them to this pastebin.

===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
(Obsolete in Rimworld 1.3+) Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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* Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

===''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor===
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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

User:Regularity

2021-07-06T05:56:15Z

Regularity: /* 1001 Colony Utility */

"Can someone recommend me a [insert category here] mod?"

If you, too, are tired of answering this question, just send them to this pastebin.

===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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* Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

===''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor===
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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

User:Regularity

2021-07-04T19:04:21Z

Regularity: /* 1003 Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements */

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===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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* Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

===''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor===
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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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2021-06-30T16:04:49Z

Regularity: /* 1007A Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major */

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===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* Call of Cthulhu
Adds a cult mechanic, ritualistic spellcasting, and lovecraftian creatures
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* Power Logic
A powerful tool for automation. Allows the construction of condition sensors, signal broadcasters, and methods to make them interact with anything powered.
* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents and explanation of each category''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* UN-Colony
A large mod that contains an assortment of refineries, power plants, and functional furniture
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod may cause issues with traders no longer having inventories.)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile. Pairs very well with the above map reroll mod, allowing you to regenerate the same map multiple times.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

===''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies===
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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is
* Nanohive Regenerator
A structure that autonomously repairs not only nearby buildings and walls, but even pawns' equipment, and can extinguish fires. Useful for reducing the level of micromanagement needed to maintain base defenses.

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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystalloids
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general. Note that while not updated to 1.2, the 1.1 version seems to work without any bugs whatsoever, so should be safe to use.
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races
Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory
Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids or caravans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
* Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit
Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities
Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
* RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

===''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor===
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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

===''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major===
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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, some parts do not.

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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair: Higher resolution, detailed hair that looks very nice, but may clash with the vanilla Rimworld art style
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair: Hair with relatively low gradients and shading, more closely matching the vanilla Rimworld art style

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

===''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor===
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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major===
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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, though some parts do not.

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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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===''Table of Contents''===
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* ''1001'' Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

* ''1002'' Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

* ''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

* ''1004'' Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

* ''1005'' Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
* ''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General
* ''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair
* ''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair

* ''1006'' Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major
* ''1006B'' Content Expansion, Minor
* ''1006C'' Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

* ''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
* ''1007A'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
* ''1007B'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

* ''1008'' New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
* ''1008A'' New Alien Races Content, Major
* ''1008B'' New Alien Races Content, Minor

==''1001'' Colony Utility==
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* [SYR] Doormats
Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
* Programmable Vents
Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
* Meat Blend
Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
* Veggie Mix
The above, but for plants
* DontBlockDoor
Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
* Trading Spot
Choose where trader caravans loiter
* [SYR] Set Up Camp
Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
* Roads of the Rim
Build roads on the world map
* Locks2
Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
* RT Solar Flare Shield
Build a shield to protect against solar flares
* RT Fuses
Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
* Share the Load
Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
* Replace Stuff
Don't like how vents create a massive weak spot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
* Power++
Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
* No Random Relations
Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
* Royalty Tweaks
Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
* Smart Medicine
Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* No Burn Metal
Removes flammability from steel and other metal
* Faction Blender
Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
* Realistic Rooms
Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
* Expanded Roofing
Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
* Imprisonment on the Go
Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
* Simple Slavery
Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
* Prison Labor
A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
* Power Logic
Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
* My Little Planet
Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

==''1002'' Player Utility==
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* TD Enhancement Pack
Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
* Colony Groups
A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
* Interaction Bubbles
Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
* Damage Indicators
Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
* Better Pawn Control
Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
* Pawn Rules
Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
* Camera+
Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
* RimHUD
Makes the bottom-left info window completely customizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
* World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
* Character Editor
Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
* Map Reroll
Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
* Map Designer
Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
* Whats that mod
Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit
Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
* Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger
More detailed control for these tabs
* Relations Tab
See relations between all factions at a glance
* Allow Tool
Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
* Toggle Harvest
Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
* Dub Mint Menus
Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
* Directly Abandon Settlement
Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
* WikiRim
Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
* Heat Map
Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
* Appearance Clothing + HAR addon
Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
* Better Roads
Makes roads easier to see on the world map
* Dubs Mint Minimap
Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
* Recipe Icons
Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
* Filth Vanishes with Rain
What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
* Better Time Format
Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
* Armored Floors
For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
* RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
* Better Message Placement
Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
* Drop All Inventory
Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
* Defensive Positions
Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
* Keep Bed Ownership
Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
* Research Pal Forked
Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
* Bionic Icons
Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
* Allow Tools
Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
* More Harvest Designators
Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
* Vein Miner OR Mine it all
Similar to above, but for mining
* Rangefinder
Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
* Loading in Progress
Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.
* Cut plants before building
Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them

==''1003'' Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements==
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Dubs Performance Analyzer
Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
* Rocketman
Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
* PawnTargetFix
Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
* Perfect Pathfinding
Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
* Path Avoid
A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
* Word of Freelove
Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
* Kijin
This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
* More Trait Slots
With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
* Animal Logic
Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
* Smarter Construction
Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
* Smarter Deconstruction and Mining
Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
* Mining Priority
Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
* Pickup and Haul
Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
* Haul to Stack
Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
* Rimthreaded
Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

==''1004'' Storage==
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* Deep Storage
Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
* Netrve's DeepStorage UI
Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
* Rimfridge
Adds storage with build-in cooling
* [JD] Simply Storage
Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
* [JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration
Same but for rimfridge
* Stack XXL OR OgreStack
Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

==''1005'' Graphical Improvements==
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===''1005A'' Graphical Improvements, General===
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* World Beautification Project + addons
Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
* Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair
Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
* Graphics Setter
Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
* High Quality Textures
What it says on the tin
* Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods
Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props
Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
* RimThemes
Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
* Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic
Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

===''1005B'' Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body===
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* Beautiful Bodies
Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
* FemaleBB + bodytype add-on
This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, you should be okay.

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair===
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* Replace Vanilla Hair
As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
* Roppoi Hair
* Vee Hairs
* Gommy Hair mk2
* Amerio anime hairs
* Eccentric Extras
* Gw hair mod
* Mokan Hair
* GW-HornHair

===''1005C'' Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair===
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* Vanilla Hair Expanded
* Won hair_women + hair_men
* [Ods] Hair
* [SS]Lovely Hair Style
* Rim Seraph Hair
* Extended Hair

==''1006'' Content Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

===''1006A'' Content Expansion, Major===
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* RBSE OR EPOE-Forked
These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
* Glittertech
Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
* PolarisBloc
Similar to glittertech
RimCuisine2 + addons
One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
* Zipangu
Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
* Alpha Animals
Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
* More Practical Traits
What it says on the tin
* Xeva + addons
Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

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* A Dog Said...
The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
* Alpha Biomes
Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
* Biomes Core + Biomes Islands
Adds island maps and swimming to the game
* Rimsenal + assorted addons
Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
* Go Explore!
Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
* Vanilla Events Expanded
Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
* Utility Columns
Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids
Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
* Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons
Adds a wide range of new firearms
* Sparkling Worlds
A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
* Soft Warm Beds
Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
* Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
* Apparello 2
Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
* More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

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* Alpha Animals
Already mentioned above
* Magical Mengerie
Adds several mythical creatures to the game
* Orion's More Mechanoids
What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Ditto
* Super Mechneko
Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
* Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon
Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
* 虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon
Like the above, but insect-themed

==''1007'' Gameplay Mechanics Expansion==
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

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* RimFactory + addons
A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
* Rimworld of Magic
Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
* SOS2
Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
* Rimatomics
Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
* Rimefeller
Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
* Dubs Bad Hygiene
Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
* What the Hack
Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
* Gidduup + assorted addons
Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
* Combat Evolved
A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
* RimJobWorld
Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal1ty, r4pe, necr0philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
* Pawnmorpher
Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns). Unlike Genetic Rim, research requires a lot of experimentation (on actual pawns) and collecting of data.
* Psychology
Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
* Questionable Ethics Enhanced
Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
* TiberiumRim
Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
* 妖怪村1.32
I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, though some parts do not.

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* SRTS + addons
Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
* Genetic Rim
Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
* Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch
Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
* Bondage Beds
Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
* Preemptive Strike
Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
* EbD Prepare Carefully
Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
* ED-Shields
Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
* Crash Landing
Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
* More Faction Interaction
Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
* Infusion 2
Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
* PsiTech
An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
* Orion's Hospitality
Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
* Orion's Gastronomy
The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
* RimCities Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
* Social Interactions Expanded
Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
* Backup Power
Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
* RimDeed
Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
* Guard For Me
Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
* Empire
Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
* RimWar
Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
* Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
* Organ Harvest Post-Mortem
Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
* Expanded Roofing
Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
* Roads of the Rim
Allows construction of new roads on the world map
* Remote Tech
Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
* Animal Armor + addons
What it says on the tin
* Death Rattle
Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

==''1008'' New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods==
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

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* Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
* Xenobionic Patcher
Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
* Androids
Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
* Android Tiers++
A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
* Anty the War Ant Race
Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
* Avali
Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
* Crystallods
Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
* Dragonians
Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
* Epona
Centaurs. Assorted tech levels. Have their own custom space suits for SOS2 compatibility.
* Idhale
Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
* Kijin
Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
* Kurin
Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
* Mincho
Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
* Moyo
Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
* Neclose
Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
* Oni
Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
* Orassan
Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
* Rabbies
Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
* Ratkin
Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
* Rakkle
Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
* Revia
(Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
* Nearmare
Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
* Xenoorca
Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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* Annelitrice
Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
* Arachne
Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
* Ancient Species
Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
* Astoriel
Elves
* Bun
Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
* Ferian
Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
* Forsaken
Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
* Garam
Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
* Giants
What it says on the tin, really.
* Nyaron
Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
* Silkiera
Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
* RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.

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**Table of Contents**
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**1001** Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

**1002** Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

**1003** Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

**1004** Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

**1005** Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
**1005A** Graphical Improvements, General
**1005B** Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair
**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair

**1006** Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
**1006A** Content Expansion, Major
**1006B** Content Expansion, Minor
**1006C** Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

**1007** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
**1007A** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
**1007B** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

**1008** New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
**1008A** New Alien Races Content, Major
**1008B** New Alien Races Content, Minor

**1001** Colony Utility
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[SYR] Doormats Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
Programmable Vents Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
Meat Blend Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
Veggie Mix The above, but for plants
DontBlockDoor Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
Trading Spot Choose where trader caravans loiter
Mine it all Allows you to designate an entire resource vein for mining with one click
Cut plants before building Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them
[SYR] Set Up Camp Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
Roads of the Rim Build roads on the world map
Locks2 Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
Pawn Rules Restrict food for colonists, prisoners, animals, and guests. You can even import or export these settings between games.
RT Solar Flare Shield Build a shield to protect against solar flares
RT Fuses Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
Share the Load Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
In-wall coolers and vents Don't like how vents create a massive weakspot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
Power++ Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
No Random Relations Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
Royalty Tweaks Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
Smart Medicine Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
Xenobionic Patcher Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
No Burn Metal Removes flammability from steel and other metal
Faction Blender Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
Realistic Rooms Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
Expanded Roofing Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
Imprisonment on the Go Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
Simple Slavery Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
Prison Labor A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
Power Logic Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
My Little Planet Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

**1002** Player Utility
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TD Enhancement Pack Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
Colony Groups A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
Interaction Bubbles Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
Damage Indicators Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
Better Pawn Control Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
Pawn Rules Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
Camera+ Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
RimHUD Makes the bottom-left info window completely custoizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
Character Editor Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
Map Reroll Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
Map Designer Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
Whats that mod Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger More detailed control for these tabs
Relations Tab See relations between all factions at a glance
Allow Tool Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
Toggle Harvest Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
Dub Mint Menus Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
Directly Abandon Settlement Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
WikiRim Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
Heat Map Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
Appearance Clothing + HAR addon Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
Better Roads Makes roads easier to see on the world map
Dubs Mint Minimap Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
Recipe Icons Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
Filth Vanishes with Rain What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
Better Time Format Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
Armored Floors For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
Better Message Placement Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
Drop All Inventory Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
Defensive Positions Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
Keep Bed Ownership Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
Research Pal Forked Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
Bionic Icons Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
Allow Tools Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
More Harvest Designators Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
Vein Miner Similar to above, but for mining
Rangefinder Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
Loading in Progress Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.

**1003** Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements
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Dubs Performance Analyzer Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
Rocketman Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
PawnTargetFix Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
Perfect Pathfinding Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
Path Avoid A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
Word of Freelove Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
Kijin This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
More Trait Slots With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
Animal Logic Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
Smarter Construction Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
Smarter Deconstruction and Mining Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
Mining Priority Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
Pickup and Haul Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
Haul to Stack Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
Rimthreaded Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

**1004** Storage
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Deep Storage Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
Netrve's DeepStorage UI Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
Rimfridge Adds storage with build-in cooling
[JD] Simply Storage Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
[JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration Same but for rimfridge
Stack XXL OR OgreStack Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

**1005** Graphical Improvements
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**1005A** Graphical Improvements, General
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World Beautification Project + addons Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
Graphics Setter Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
High Quality Textures What it says on the tin
Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
RimThemes Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

**1005B** Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
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Beautiful Bodies Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
FemaleBB + bodytype add-on This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, oyu should be okay.

**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair
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Replace Vanilla Hair As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
Roppoi Hair
Vee Hairs
Gommy Hair mk2
Amerio anime hairs
Eccentric Extras
Gw hair mod
Mokan Hair
GW-HornHair

**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair
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Vanilla Hair Expanded
Won hair_women + hair_men
[Ods] Hair
[SS]Lovely Hair Style
Rim Seraph Hair
Extended Hair

**1006** Content Expansion
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

**1006A** Content Expansion, Major
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RBSE or EPOE-Forked These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
Glittertech Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
PolarisBloc Similar to glittertech
RimCuisine2 + addons One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
Zipangu Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
Alpha Animals Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
More Practical Traits What it says on the tin
Xeva + addons Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

**1006B** Content Expansion, Minor
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A Dog Said... The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
Alpha Biomes Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
Biomes Core + Biomes Islands Adds island maps and swimming to the game
Rimsenal + assorted addons Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
Go Explore! Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
Vanilla Events Expanded Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
Utility Columns Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons Adds a wide range of new firearms
Sparkling Worlds A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
Soft Warm Beds Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
Sometimes Raids Go Wrong Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
Apparello 2 Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
More Vanilla Turrets 1.1 Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

**1006C** Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies
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Alpha Animals Already mentioned above
Magical Mengerie Adds several mythical creatures to the game
Orion's More Mechanoids What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Ditto
Super Mechneko Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon Like the above, but insect-themed

**1007** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

**1007A** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
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RimFactory + addons A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
Rimworld of Magic Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
SOS2 Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
Rimatomics Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
Rimefeller Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
Dubs Bad Hygene Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
What the Hack Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
Gidduup + assorted addons Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
Combat Evolved A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
RlmJobWorld Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal***ty, r***pe, necr***philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
Pawnmorpher Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns).
Psychology Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
Questionable Ethics Enhanced Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
TiberiumRim Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
妖怪村1.32 I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, though some parts do not.

**1007B** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor
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SRTS + addons Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
Genetic Rim Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
Bondage Beds Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
Preemptive Strike Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
EbD Prepare Carefully Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
ED-Shields Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
Crash Landing Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
More Faction Interaction Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
Infusion 2 Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
PsiTech An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
Orion's Hospitality Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
Orion's Gastronomy The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
RimCities Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
Social Interactions Expanded Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
Backup Power Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
RimDeed Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
Guard For Me Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
Empire Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
RimWar Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
Organ Harvest Post-Mortem Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
Expanded Roofing Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
Roads of the Rim Allows construction of new roads on the world map
Remote Tech Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
Animal Armor + addons What it says on the tin
Death Rattle Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

**1008** New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

**1008A** New Alien Races Content, Major
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Humanoid Alien Races 2.0 Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
Xenobionic Patcher Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
Androids Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
Android Tiers++ A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
Anty the War Ant Race Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
Avali Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
Crystallods Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
Dragonians Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
Idhale Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
Kijin Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
Kurin Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
Mincho Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
Moyo Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
Neclose Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
Oni Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
Orassan Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
Rabbies Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
Ratkin Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
Rakkle Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
Revia (Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
Nearmare Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
Xenoorca Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

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Annelitrice Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
Arachne Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
Ancient Species Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
Astoriel Elves
Bun Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
Epona Centaurs. Assorted tech levels.
Ferian Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
Forsaken Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
Garam Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
Giants What it says on the tin, really.
Nyaron Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
Silkiera Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.
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**1001** Colony Utility: Quality-of-life mods that directly increase the efficiency of pawns in their daily activities

**1002** Player Utility: Quality-of-life mods that do not directly affect the colony. Things like UI improvements, more detailed information, and automating repetitive player tasks.

**1003** Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements

**1004** Storage: Mods related to storing stuff

**1005** Graphical Improvements: these are purely cosmetic changes; graphical changes that improve readability or better convey information are under the Player Utility category
**1005A** Graphical Improvements, General
**1005B** Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair
**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair

**1006** Content Expansion: Adds new content, but does not significantly change any core game mechanics or game balance
**1006A** Content Expansion, Major
**1006B** Content Expansion, Minor
**1006C** Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies

**1007** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion: Adds new content with a significant impact on core game mechanics or game balance
**1007A** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
**1007B** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor

**1008** New Alien Races Content: Covers notable alien races and supporting mods. For the sake of keeping the list a reasonable length, most races that are functionally little more than a reskin with minor stat changes have been omitted. The list here tries to focus on the more novel or interesting races.
**1008A** New Alien Races Content, Major
**1008B** New Alien Races Content, Minor

**1001** Colony Utility
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[SYR] Doormats Prevents outdoor filth from being tracked indoors
Programmable Vents Vents that shut off when rooms reach a certain temperature; allows you to passively heat rooms without overheating them during hotter days
Meat Blend Allows mixing of all meat types into a single type for easier storage (you can opt out insect or humanoid meat to avoid mood penalties)
Veggie Mix The above, but for plants
DontBlockDoor Prevents random dropped items from holding the door open and allowing in invaders or prisoners
Trading Spot Choose where trader caravans loiter
Mine it all Allows you to designate an entire resource vein for mining with one click
Cut plants before building Lets you get the plant resources from plants under a building blueprint, instead of destroying them
[SYR] Set Up Camp Create a small, temporary local map to perform actions you can't on the world map.
Roads of the Rim Build roads on the world map
Locks2 Doors can be set to allow/block visitors, pets, or specific pawns in your colony
Pawn Rules Restrict food for colonists, prisoners, animals, and guests. You can even import or export these settings between games.
RT Solar Flare Shield Build a shield to protect against solar flares
RT Fuses Build fuses to prevent BZZZZT events
Share the Load Allows multiple pawns to haul resources to a construction site, instead of just one at a time
In-wall coolers and vents Don't like how vents create a massive weakspot in otherwise sturdy walls? Try these. Vents no longer replace walls, but are added onto them, leaving the wall behind even if the vent is destroyed
Power++ Adds the ability to transmit power wirelessly, both on-map or across the world to other sites
No Random Relations Don't like the game randomly deciding a pawn has an uncle/sister/cousin? This is for you
Royalty Tweaks Makes the more restrictive or annoying parts of royalty content optional
Smart Medicine Allows pawns to carry medicine with them and use it in the field
Xenobionic Patcher Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
No Burn Metal Removes flammability from steel and other metal
Faction Blender Adds new factions which take pawns from all available races, as opposed to the norm where each faction is only composed of a single race
Realistic Rooms Makes it so colonists merely want bedroom-sized bedrooms, and not apartment-sized ones
Expanded Roofing Allows the creation and removal of overhead mountain, glass roofing, and even solar roofing.
Imprisonment on the Go Allows the capturing of prisoners without an enclosed sleeping space. Very useful when attacking enemy sites.
Simple Slavery Allows you to draft prisoners and put them to work
Prison Labor A mod that is much larger and more sophisticated way to make use of prisoners than Simple Slavery, but has a reputation for being buggy. (WARNING: May cause an assortment of bugs relating to jobs)
Power Logic Adds power buildings that allow creation of logic gates, sensors, and so on.
My Little Planet Allows you to change the planet's landmass, effectively controlling how vast or cramped the planet is

**1002** Player Utility
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TD Enhancement Pack Improves a ton of small things in the user interface of the game
Colony Groups A major overhaul and improvement of the colonist bar
Interaction Bubbles Allows you to see conversations or interactions beteween pawns without digging through the game log
Damage Indicators Adds floating numbers that display the damage taken by pawns or buildings
Better Pawn Control Greatly increases the control you have over food, drug, and equipment policies
Pawn Rules Allows restricting of bonding, romance, and artisan crafting
Camera+ Removes default restrictions of camera zoom levels
RimHUD Makes the bottom-left info window completely custoizable in color, font, size, tabs, etc.
World Edit Tired of rerolling for the perfect site at a river, coast, mountain, or whatever? Just edit the world.
Character Editor Allows completely changing of every aspect of existing pawns. Even if cheating isn't your thing, it's good to have installed to easily fix bugs that may occur without manual save editing
Map Reroll Reroll the local colony map if you don't like the exact layout of certain things
Map Designer Allows creating maps using custom parameters, instead of them being dictated by the world map tile.
Whats that mod Adds text at the bottom of every item/pawn/thing's info window showing what mod it's from
Change map edge limit Build up to the map edge if you so desire, to wall off access to raids/carvans from certain points of the map
Work Tab, Animal Tab, Colony Manger More detailed control for these tabs
Relations Tab See relations between all factions at a glance
Allow Tool Allows map-wide forbidding, selection, or allowing.
Toggle Harvest Allows control of whether growing areas should be planted or harvested
Dub Mint Menus Consolidates the work tabs from every workbench and recipe you have access to, in one location
Directly Abandon Settlement Allow you to abandon locations on the world map
WikiRim Adds an in-game database of items and recipes you can search
Heat Map Adds an overlay to see temperatures in all rooms at the same time
Appearance Clothing + HAR addon Allows you to set appearance of pawns completely independent of whatever gear they're wearing. Vital for preventing incompatibilities or missing textures if you play with many races that have race-exclusive gear
Better Roads Makes roads easier to see on the world map
Dubs Mint Minimap Adds a minimap to the game, making tracking of threats far easier
Recipe Icons Makes scrolling through recipe lists easier by attaching relevant product images
Filth Vanishes with Rain What it says on the tin, rain can clean outdoor terrain of filth. Slightly improves performance by removing filth periodically
Better Time Format Let's you see the exact in-game time instead of just a vague approximation
Armored Floors For a great cost, allows you to prevent infestations in certain areas
RPG Inventory OR Awesome Inventory Adds a visual paper-doll like inventory, making it easy to see equipment at a glance
Better Message Placement Prevents popup messages from blocking the colonist bar
Drop All Inventory Allows you to rapidly unload cargo from your caravans without having to wait
Defensive Positions Allows you to have pawns move to pre-selected locations and draft themselves with a single hotkey
Keep Bed Ownership Prevents ownership of beds from being erased when they need to sleep using a bed on another map
Research Pal Forked Greatly improves the research screen with a better UI and more detail
Bionic Icons Allows you to determine which implant is which at a glance by adding pictures to them.
Allow Tools Adds improved tools for allowing or disallow en masse
More Harvest Designators Similar to above, but for designations concerning farming and wild planet harvesting
Vein Miner Similar to above, but for mining
Rangefinder Allows you to toggle a big circle around a pawn constantly showing its maximum firing range.
Loading in Progress Allows adds or removing of objects from drop pods without having to unload and then reload all pods' contents.

**1003** Performance, Bug Fixes, and AI Improvements
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Dubs Performance Analyzer Arguably the single most important tool for improving game performance. It allows you to see specifically which parts of the game are causing the most slowdown, allowing you to identify and solve bugs which don't normally report errors, or identify which of your mods is secretly causing game slowdown due to poor coding.
Rocketman Essentially reduces the frequency at which the game checks low-importance things, to greatly improve game performance.
PawnTargetFix Makes ranged attackers focus more on the nearest target rather than selecting one randomly
Perfect Pathfinding Makes pawns travel in a straight line instead of moving almost entirely at diagonals with large detours
Path Avoid A useful tool for fixing pathfinding quirks; allows you to paint pathfinding costs onto terrain, allowing you to override normal AI pathfinding. Good for forcing pawns to use roads and avoid traps or obstacles.
Word of Freelove Removes the normal hetero-only restrictions on the Word of Love psycast in the Royalty DLC
Kijin This race mod isn't really a "fix", but has a research project to achieve double yields from animals, effectively allowing you to have half as many animals on the map without losing productivity. This in turn can save on game memory.
More Trait Slots With a lot of mods adding (or sometimes even requiring) new traits, this mod allows you to increase the maximum number of traits allowed on a pawn, allowing you to fully make use of these mods
Animal Logic Allows very precise tuning of animal behavior instead of being at the mercy of whatever values are vanilla
Smarter Construction Improves construction reach, greatly reducing incidents of pawns trapping themselves
Smarter Deconstruction and Mining Similar to the above, but for preventing roof cave-ins
Mining Priority Prioritizes which metals to mine by value, instead of just by distance
Pickup and Haul Allows colonists to use their inventory for hauling purposes, greatly increasing the amount of items they can move in one trip
Haul to Stack Prioritizes hauling to drop off goods an an existing stack of that good, instead of creating multiple incomplete stacks which add clutter
Rimthreaded Rimworld is normally limited to a single CPU core. This mod attempts to force it to use multiple cores. (WARNING: This mod has an incompatibility list a mile long, so read it before attempting to use this mod!)

**1004** Storage
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Deep Storage Lets you store multiple stacks on one tile
Netrve's DeepStorage UI Improves the interaction menu of deep storage building
Rimfridge Adds storage with build-in cooling
[JD] Simply Storage Adds a much greater number of containers for Deep Storage
[JD] Simply Storage - Refrigeration Same but for rimfridge
Stack XXL OR OgreStack Allows you to change how many individual items can be placed in a single stack of items, drastically effecting storage capacity.

**1005** Graphical Improvements
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**1005A** Graphical Improvements, General
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World Beautification Project + addons Greatly improves the graphics of the world map
Hats Display Selection OR Show Hair Allows you to hide helmets, or have headgear that doesn't remove hair from the pawn
Graphics Setter Improves sharpness and reduces blur of sprites
High Quality Textures What it says on the tin
Gloomy Deco + other Gloomy mods Technically a furniture mod, but adds a lot of decorative objects focused on cute or low-tech appearance
Vanilla Furniture Expanded Props Similar to above, but more modern and serious-looking
RimThemes Change window/UI colors and transparency to whatever you desire
Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic Adds a large number of purely cosmetic implants; animal ears, horns, tails, etc

**1005B** Graphical Improvements, Pawn Body
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Beautiful Bodies Greatly increases body detail without changing body shape (therefore retaining full compatibility with every vanilla clothing mod)
FemaleBB + bodytype add-on This adds a new type of female body shape and increases its, ahem, bust size, though the body itself remains pretty vanilla-like in that it lacks high detail and shading. What makes this mod noteworthy is that the author has manually re-created from scratch literally hundreds of pieces of armor and clothing from almost every major mod to make them similarly more revealing and skimpy (and to fit the new body shape). Mod settings allow you to decide which races this new body type will apply to, and which will remain vanilla. As long as your mother doesn't see this, oyu should be okay.

**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Detailed Hair
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Replace Vanilla Hair As the name suggests, overrides vanilla hairs with far more detailed and higher resolution versions.
Roppoi Hair
Vee Hairs
Gommy Hair mk2
Amerio anime hairs
Eccentric Extras
Gw hair mod
Mokan Hair
GW-HornHair

**1005C** Graphical Improvements, Simple Hair
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Vanilla Hair Expanded
Won hair_women + hair_men
[Ods] Hair
[SS]Lovely Hair Style
Rim Seraph Hair
Extended Hair

**1006** Content Expansion
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

**1006A** Content Expansion, Major
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RBSE or EPOE-Forked These two mods are the main competing frameworks for rimworld surgeries. A detailed comparison on them can be seen here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZaHNbrRg_4vl6HeRlmTmvFfIB1cjUtCGhg8wjtXISk/ )
Glittertech Adds a large range of very late-game advanced technology. May be overpowered.
PolarisBloc Similar to glittertech
RimCuisine2 + addons One of the largest mods dedicated to farming, cooking, and food in general
Zipangu Similar to the above, but wholely focused on Japanese-themed cuisine. Also has a large amount of Japanese furniture
Alpha Animals Adds a huge number of non-earthlike creatures to the game
More Practical Traits What it says on the tin
Xeva + addons Adds five new factions and a wide array of weapons, armor, and enemies. (Combat Evolved compatibility not available, but patch is in progress)

**1006B** Content Expansion, Minor
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A Dog Said... The main framework for animal surgeries and bionics used by the community
Alpha Biomes Adds several non-earthlike exotic biomes to the game
Biomes Core + Biomes Islands Adds island maps and swimming to the game
Rimsenal + assorted addons Adds a vast number of weapons and armor to the game
Go Explore! Adds random events which cause ruined locations to appear on the map, ripe for plundering
Vanilla Events Expanded Adds an assortment of vanilla-like events
Utility Columns Adds columns that double as other furniture, such as lamps, freezers, orbital beacons, traps, or graves
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids Insectoid focused pack. Besides the usual, also adds a range of implants and genetically-engineered animals to perform various jobs
Vanilla Weapons Expanded + addons Adds a wide range of new firearms
Sparkling Worlds A large assorted mod. Adds new events, new glitter tech crafting recipes, a new faction, etc.
Soft Warm Beds Makes beds a combination of a bed-frame and bed-sheet, rather than just a single item.
Sometimes Raids Go Wrong Adds a small chance that hostile raids will crash their drop pods, arrive hungover, be chased by maddened animals, and so on.
Apparello 2 Adds a vast amount of new clothing types.
More Vanilla Turrets 1.1 Adds a large number of turrets for base defense

**1006C** Content Expansion, Wildlife and Enemies
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Alpha Animals Already mentioned above
Magical Mengerie Adds several mythical creatures to the game
Orion's More Mechanoids What it says on the tin. Adds stronger mechs.
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Ditto
Super Mechneko Adds very tough, anime-style robots with giant titties
Kemomimihouse + hardworking addon Adds cute pets that can be assigned job priorities, have skills, and do work exactly the same way as colonists
虫娘 Insect girls + hardworking addon Like the above, but insect-themed

**1007** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion
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(Author's note: The "major" and "minor" categories below are purely a reflection of the mod's size and complexity. These categories are not a reflection of usefulness, quality, or gameplay impact.)

**1007A** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Major
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RimFactory + addons A massive mod that allows you to automate huge portions of colony, or automatically perform most tasks normally impossible to automate in Rimworld
Rimworld of Magic Adds character classes to the game, along with associated spells and abilities, in a manner similar to D&D
SOS2 Adds starships, space combat, and interplanetary travel to the game
Rimatomics Adds detailed nuclear power, along with very powerful turrets to the game
Rimefeller Adds the oil industry to the game, allowing production a large number of normally unproducable materials from oil (plasteel, neutromine, etc)
Dubs Bad Hygene Adds toilet, hygene, and thirst mechanics to the game. Also includes other useful utilities like central air conditioning, fire sprinklers, irrigation, etc.
What the Hack Lets you capture, modify, and upgrade mechanoids for use as pets
Gidduup + assorted addons Allows animals to be ridden, both on the local map and world map. Add-ons allow for riding mechs, and for caravan use.
Combat Evolved A major overhaul of fighting to make is much more deadly, unpredictable, and somewhat more realistic.
RlmJobWorld Oh boy, you found it. NSFW, 18+, etc. This is the ultimate sex mod for rimworld. Bestal***ty, r***pe, necr***philia, even pregnancies across species (and not just aliens, animals too). Not found on steam for obvious reasons, but any competent google search should lead you to it. You pervert. And sorry for the weird censoring, stupid word filters on pastebin.
Pawnmorpher Furries: The Mod. This allows you to mutate pawns to give them animal-like body parts, or even turn them into animals (who are still sentient so act like pawns).
Psychology Instead of relying on pure RNG to determine pawns compatibility with each other, adds a massive amount of personality sliders and sexuality sliders to determine how well pawns get along
Questionable Ethics Enhanced Medical Ethics Violations: The Mod. Grow human organs, clone people, install mind control devices, etc.
TiberiumRim Adds the namesake highly infectious, but infinitely renewable resource, along with a full set of vehicles (functionally, mechs) and a large amount of accompanying equipment and structures.
妖怪村1.32 I don't know what the name says, either. This is basically a catch-all mod from Japanese mythology; about 20 mythical creatures, plus an assortment of armor, traits, weapons, buildings, furniture, medicines, body parts, etc. The reason this is listed under gameplay mechanics expansion is that some weapons are "intelligent" in that they gain XP and level up through combat, which is a neat idea. Note that while most of the content has a translation, though some parts do not.

**1007B** Gameplay Mechanics Expansion, Minor
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SRTS + addons Adds aircraft for rapid traversing of the planet.
Genetic Rim Allows harvesting of genes to create implants or dozens of new animal species
Genetic Rim Alpha Animals Patch Expands the above to include creatures from alpha animals
Bondage Beds Allows players to control addict pawns without resorting to removing the legs or spine, by simply tying them to a bed
Preemptive Strike Allows the construction of facilities to detect friendly traders and enemy raids before they arrive
EbD Prepare Carefully Allows you to manually create starting cargo and pawns on game start instead of relying on RNG
ED-Shields Unlike most shield mods which merely add shield generators, this mod allows precise customization of each shield's functions and abilities using modules
Crash Landing Adds a starting scenario and random event involving ship sections crashing to the planet
More Faction Interaction Overhauls traders, faction expansion, and other diplomatic things
Infusion 2 Adds "enchantments" to gear, so that the effectiveness of something is more than just its quality and material alone.
PsiTech An alternative to the royalty psycast system for psionics
Orion's Hospitality Allows you to effectively run a hotel. Charge guests for beds, feed them, and make them happy to improve faction relations and earn more rewards
Orion's Gastronomy The above, but instead of a hotel, you can run a restaurant.
RimCities Adds unique settlement types (cities, duh) and assorted quests involving them (conquest, defense, assassination, etc)
Social Interactions Expanded Gives social interactions more diversity, and allow traits to change due to events
Backup Power Allows various power sources to autonomously turn themselves on or off based on power remaining in batteries.
RimDeed Adds a sort of employment agency where, for a fee, a company will find new possible recruits for you.
Guard For Me Allows the hiring of very powerful pawns on a temporary, salaried basis.
Empire Adds a mini-game involving the creation of settlements and their taxation/defense. (WARNING: Will almost certainly break any semblance of a balanced game economy due to the exponential growth of wealth)
RimWar Effectively allows conquest and war between factions. (WARNING: May cause significant game slowdown, to say nothing of balance issues caused by factions being removed from the game through destruction)
Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids Mechanoid focused pack which not only adds the usual (new weapons, enemies, etc), but automated factories and supercomputers, and a "total war" mechanic tracking mechanoid progress on a global level
Organ Harvest Post-Mortem Harvest organs and implants from dead pawns. (WARNING: This most destroys the game economy's balance due to each dead raider producing several times more wealth than normal, from harvested organs)
Expanded Roofing Allows you to build or demolish overhead mountain, as well as other utility roofs (glass, solar, etc).
Roads of the Rim Allows construction of new roads on the world map
Remote Tech Adds an assortment of traps that can be activated remotely without need for a pawn to trigger them.
Animal Armor + addons What it says on the tin
Death Rattle Normally pawns will instantly perish the moment a vital organ (such as the heart) fails. This mod instead gives you a small time window to perform surgery or hook the pawn up to life support before they actually perish, just like how it works in real life.

**1008** New Alien Races Content, and Supporting Mods
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(Authors Note: Races are divided here into major and minor. Major races are those that either have large anatomical differences from normal humanoid pawns, or they have a particularly extensive amount of secondary content (pets, buildings, weapons, armor, factions), or are otherwise novel in some way. Minor races are those that are just humanoid pawns and have little content outside of race-specific armor and weapons.)

(Author's Note: Nearly all races support one of the two competing bionics mods, RBSE or EPOE. If you are unable to perform bionic surgeries on a race, it may be because you are missing whichever of these two the race supports. Alternatively, the mod Xenobiotic Patcher makes all surgeries cross-species, but occasionally causes some odd or nonsensical surgeries to be unlocked, though this isn't really a problem if you avoid using them them.)

**1008A** New Alien Races Content, Major
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Humanoid Alien Races 2.0 Not a race mod, but an underlying framework required by nearly every race mod in existence.
Xenobionic Patcher Have lots of races installed and worried about bionic compatibility? This makes every surgery compatible with every race
Androids Robots that can customize their bodies and traits upon assembly.
Android Tiers++ A far larger robot mod, albeit one that has earned a bad reptuation for hurting game performance. It has truly unique features things like mind-uploading, mind-copying, but also completely destroys game balance due to its overpoweredness.
Anty the War Ant Race Quoting the author, "The problem child of the universe." Lots of unique mechanics here: An anty can be transformed using pheromones, making them a queen to constantly produce new children, or alternatively you can turn them into a soldier, or an acid suicide bomb. They also recycle prisoners into meat computers, living generators, or human cattle that slowly waste away for new food. Their weapons are mostly acid-based, and they have grenades which can instantly deploy a sandbag cover. Lots of neat stuff.
Avali Bird lizard people things? One of the single largest mods in terms of supporting content (buildings, armor, weapons). Spacer-tech
Crystallods Crystal people. The race itself pretty unremarkable and uses very old graphics, but they have extensive supporting content such as a unique type of raid, a large array of new psycasts, and a unique way to generate power.
Dragonians Dragon girls. Have the advantages of being able to graze, be milked and sheared, but still a sentient pawn. Tribal-tech
Idhale Basically ghosts. Immune to conventional attack, but in turn are also unable to attack others.
Kijin Japanese Oni (demons). Have a number of unique techs which improve the productivity of farm animals, and their own unique win condition. Japanese/medieval-tech.
Kurin Three-tailed foxgirls. One of the most popular race mods, so have a large number of add-ons mods or ports. Spacer-tech
Mincho Ice cream slime girls. A living testament to the horrors (or brillaince) of genetic engineering. Extremely durable bodies; probably the only race listed that can literally survive their heads being blown off. And then grow it back.
Moyo Deep sea dwellers. Blood from this race can be harvested and turned into a wide range of drugs, from mech serums to cocaine. Spacer-tech
Neclose Some sort of combination of huge-titty girls, jelly fish, and sea pickle. Unarmed attacks will paralyze and eventually cause comas. Can also create fleshbeasts to act as menial works.
Oni Roughly based on oni from Japanese lore. Available as both an animal version and a sentient pawn.
Orassan Anthro-cat people (though de-furry patches exist). Specializes in arctic survival; they can farm ice like soil, and can turn normal strone into an enhanced type of concrete. Spacer-tech
Rabbies Rabbit people with a global addiction to a drug called Planetarium. Modern/Spacer-tech.
Ratkin Cute rat people whose raids can burrow using drill machines, allowing them to appear inside your base similar to insectoid infestations. Steampunk-tech.
Rakkle Naga-like snake people with a few unique mechanics. Firstly, most of their vital organs are actually in their snake half and not their human half (which is quite useful in Combat Evolved where cover protects the bottom half of a pawn first). And like snakes they can periodically shed their skin, or consume one giant meal and slowly digest it for an entire week instead of eating daily like most other species.
Revia (Yes, more fox girls). A focus bloodlust and sacrifice; they can generate lost body parts or permanently improve stats by sacrificing prisoners. (WARNING: This mod has been known to cause a few serious issues, such as traders not having any inventories, ever)
Nearmare Fairy-like race that can summon will o' wisps to aid them, and is very strong against mental/morale damage.
Xenoorca Killer whale mermaids. Like their namesake they're large, powerful and predatory. (Only appear as a pirate faction by default). Spacer-tech.

**1008B** New Alien Races Content, Minor
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Annelitrice Mimic shapeshifters which appear unremarkable, but are actually composed of hives of worms. They have special abilities to keep resurrecting themselves after death. Modern-tech.
Arachne Spider people. Besides the eight-legs thing, are fairly vanilla. Spacer-tech
Ancient Species Half-Elves. Assorted tech levels
Astoriel Elves
Bun Bunny People. Tribal-to-Industrial-tech
Epona Centaurs. Assorted tech levels.
Ferian Anthro-Fox people, not much here beyond the race.
Forsaken Coal-black skin, horns, and glowing eyes. I assume some sort of demons? Glitter-tech, with very powerful equipment. Have their own unique biome in Alpha Biomes mod
Garam Furry cat girl pseudo-pets. Highly detailed in-built animation, but the only race in this list that use their own unique framework (not HAR), causing a number of compatibility issues
Giants What it says on the tin, really.
Nyaron Mass produced cat girls. Every weeb's dream
Silkiera Foxgirls with big tiddies. Medieval-tech.
RimEffect Races Can't comment on these since I haven't tried this mod yet.