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This collection will be where I aggregate all my current and forthcoming mods that all aim to make rimworld a truly inhospitable place. Using these mods you no longer will be required to select extreme biomes to get extreme environmental difficulty.

I am a person who enjoys Immersion in my games and this mod collection is a step in that direction. My main overall goal is to make jungle, temperate and boreal forests much more difficult in a unique way. Weather and climate will now behave a lot more like the extreme biomes, temperate forests will have winters like tundra and summers like the desert. Wood and meat will be plentiful but the same plentiful trees and animals that help you initially will hamper, trap, and hunt you as the game progresses. Traders and visitors unprepared for danger will need escorts or struggle to survive in reaching your base through a jungle of hungry predators. More violent storms spark wildfires that spread quickly and form impenetrable walls of flame that can trap the unexpected. Heavier rain and fog hide the world from you and render your weaponry inefficient. This mod collection will make nature more dangerous than any raider could hope to be.

With this collection you will need to be smarter and more resourceful with hunting. Taking on larger animals should be planned and approached with care. Equally important will be ensuring that your colonists are'nt the only source of food left available. Firing near larger animals is not to be taken lightly; they can and will catch up to you. Your enemies, however, will get an appreciation for nature as well because they too are just food to the forest.

While only two are released so far, all of the forthcoming mods are actually complete and undergoing extensive playtesting before being released.

Current Mods:
  • Realistic Darkness:
    A mod with two versions that makes night much darker and makes weather more variable in terms of its colors and darkness as well as its visual effects. This mod contains the very slightly harsher effects of weather as well.

  • Hoarfrost:
    Makes cold snap events 10-33% colder depending on the season with winter being the coldest.

  • Hyperthermia:
    Makes heat wave events 10-33% hotter depending on season with summer being the hottest.

  • Kudzu:
    Makes your temperate, jungle, and boreal forest biomes completely overgrown with vegetation. While this may not make your game harder in terms of wood resources, such dense vegetation makes distance travel extremely difficult, leaves you more vulnerable to predatorary fauna, and wildfires become a truly serious threat. In conjunction with Hostile fauna, if a bear wants you for lunch, theres no easy escape.

  • Deadly Forest (Currently only found in the Kudzu Series):
    What I consider to be the heart of this collection. Makes predatory animals stronger, faster, more numerous, graphically larger, realistically armored (bear blubber makes weaker gunfire less effective),and hungrier. No longer can you shoot a bear with a pistol and live to tell the tale. Nor will you be able to easily outrun an angered bear, rhino, panther, or elephant.

Planned Mods:
  • Volcanic Cataclysm: Makes the Volcanic Winter event actually something to fear. This is the only mod on the list that is not done yet.

Items (15)
Realistic Darkness V2.01 for 1.3+-
Created by Willowisp
STEAM ID: 740930354 In vanilla, lights are for your pawns; in realistic nights, the lights are for you. Updated for 1.3 Tired of not being able to tell whether its day or night because they both look similar? Ever wanted lighting to matter? Well then this ...
Realistic Darkness Lighter Version V4.95 B18
Created by Willowisp
STEAM ID: 745800936 This mod's motto: In vanilla, lights are for your pawns; in realistic nights, the lights are for you. UPDATED TO A17, HAD TO REMOVE ECLIPSE FUNCTIONALITY temporarily and will rewrite the mod in xpath soon. THIS IS THE LIGHTER VERSION. T...
Increased Forest Density - Base Version V6.01 1.3+-
Created by Willowisp
STEAM ID: 751887749 Want a real forest? I have just the thing for you! This mod drastically increases plant density and turns your sparse woodlands and jungles into a primordial forest. THIS MOD WILL MAKE YOUR GAME MUCH MUCH HARDER IN THE BEGINNING; that i...
Increased Forest Density - Hostile Version V6 B18
Created by Willowisp
STEAM ID: 751448879 Want a real forest? I have just the thing for you! This mod drastically increases plant density and turns your sparse woodlands and jungles into a primordial forest. THIS MOD WILL MAKE YOUR GAME MUCH MUCH HARDER IN THE BEGINNING; that i...
Increased Forest Density - Deadly Version V6 B18
Created by Willowisp
STEAM ID: 751871219 So I released the A17 but the current version DOES NOT use xpath, YET. I'm working on it but this should work in the meantime. Also probably conflicts with Vegetable garden mod. WARNING This version of Dense Forests (Formerly "Kudzu") i...
Hoarfrost V2.0 A16
Created by Willowisp
UPDATED FOR A16!!! This mod changes the vanilla cold snap event to become more extreme. It is now approximately 20-33% colder depending on the season with colder seasons being worse. Along with other upcoming mods as well as my already released Realistic D...
Hyperthermia V2.0 A16
Created by Willowisp
UPDATED FOR A16!!! This mod changes the vanilla heat wave event to become more extreme. The max temperature range caused by the event is approximately 30% higher and it will grow hotter more quickly. Along with other upcoming mods as well as my already rel...
Helpful Lights and Miscellany V3.0 A17
Created by Willowisp
UPDATED FOR A17!!! IMPORTANT NOTICE; I'M GOING TO BE REMOVING THE TORCH AND LAMP CHANGES AND KEEPING ONLY THE BUILDING AND ITEM ADDITIONS. A small mod that tweaks vanilla torches and lamps, adds four lights, glass walls, and advanced sandbag fortifications...
HugsLib
Created by Symbolic
This is a library that provides shared functionality for other mods. For best results, make sure that HugsLib comes right after Core in your mod load order. Also includes the Log Publisher: press Ctrl+F12 to upload your Rimworld logs and get a link to easi...
Nightlings
Created by kaptain_kavern
A large deformed beast with rows of quills on its back. The rim is a violent place and the dead are a common sight. But over the years, disturbing reports of ravaged corpses started to increase in surprising numbers, all gut-wrenching and skewered with spi...
Mechanoids Extraordinaire
Created by Spino
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version: 1.3.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Ever thought having only 2 types of mechanoids was kinda... on the boring ...
Cold Desert Nights
Created by Taryn Winterblade
This has been ported to 1.1 by Mlie: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2042689053 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides a way to configure the temperature difference between day and night for ea...
CaveworldFlora
Created by Rikiki
This mod adds some caveworld flora. See the forum thread for content/changelog. https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=13172.msg133446#msg133446...
MiningCo. MiningHelmet
Created by Rikiki
This mod adds the MiningCo. mining helmet which is equipped with a light. See the forum thread for content/changelog. https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=14711.msg153940#msg153940...