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EdB Prepare Carefully

Customize your RimWorld colonists, choose your gear and prepare carefully for your crash landing! Use the optional point limits to try to create a balanced start or keep points disabled to build the starting group that you always wanted to try. Save your setup as a preset so that you can start your game the same way later.


A new release for RimWorld 1.6 and the Odyssey expansion is now available.

This release includes a couple of bug fixes, some better error checking that may avoid some compatibility issues with other mods, and one or two other changes.

We've seen the discussion about people having trouble getting the update automatically from Steam. The problem doesn't seem to be in our control--it works for some people and doesn't work for other people. We're hoping that just releasing a new version may fix the problem, but please keep giving us feedback. Unsubscribe/subscribe is still the best advice we have for this problem, unfortunately.

We're keeping an eye of discussion about compatibility with other mods. Please keep giving feedback on that. If you suspect that a specific mod is causing the problem, please try that mod alone with Prepare Carefully/Harmony and see it works. Sometimes it's not the mod you think.

Change notes:
https://github.com/edbmods/EdBPrepareCarefully/blob/v1.6.2/Resources/CHANGELOG.txt



Yes. The mod is now available for 1.6. Even though the mod is not really in active development anymore, we do try to update it when new versions of the game are released. We'll make it work with the new version, try to make it compatible with as many other mods as we can, and then we'll go back into hibernation until the next version comes out.

First and foremost, make sure that you've enabled the mod. This will be obvious to experienced mod users, but if you're new to RimWorld mods, you need to go into the Mods menu when you start the game and explicitly enable a mod after you've subscribed to it.

If you've got dozens of other mods installed, it can be difficult to know what's causing this. Sometimes, an error while loading another mod that is before Prepare Carefully in the mod order causes Prepare Carefully not to load properly. In other cases, I have heard that some people have success with uninstalling and then reinstalling the game, but it's difficult for me to recommend that approach. Posting the game's log file somewhere (if you know how to do that) can help, but only do so if this if you've pared down the number of mods you're using to a minimum.

This usually happens because another mod is doing something that Prepare Carefully does not expect, and it causes an error. It's impossible to test with every mod out there, so issues like this are inevitable. However, we do try to continue to improve the error handling in the mod to try to avoid them.

When you have dozens of mods enabled, they can interact in unexpected ways, so I can't say that it definitely doesn't matter where you put Prepare Carefully in the load order, but in principle it shouldn't matter too much. When we're testing the mod, we usually put it at the bottom of the mod list.

You'll need to experiment to figure out which mod is causing the problem. If you have development mode enabled, you'll likely see some clues about where the error is happening. If you figure out which mod it is, you can let me know, and I'll try to take a look. Unfortunately, a lot of times when I try to reproduce a problem, it works just fine for me--it's frustrating.

We're always trying to make Prepare Carefully compatible with as many other mods as possible, but with so many mods out there it can be difficult. Help us by trying to figure out which mods are causing problems and reporting it in the "bugs and issues" discussion.