If you had to pick only 5 mods....

[Gadzooks]

... Which would they be?

Quality of life, addons, revamps, total conversions.... What 5 would make your "must have" list?

[Winterbloom [✚]]

Enb Prepare Carefully, Centralized Climate Control, KV Faction Control, KV Change Mirror, Callistans Legacy.

Note: These 5 do require hugs lib, harmony and alien framework but those arent mods, more of modding resources for other mods.

[Tiberius Rex]

Map Reroll, Prepare Carefully, Colony Manager, Work Manager, Better Workbench Manager - but really just 5? I probably would stop playing the game.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Prepare Carefully, Hospitality, RimHud, Pick Up And Haul, Blueprints

[Zorelnam]

combat extended, rimhud, rimworld of magic, character editor, VGP garden

[Lotus Elise]

hmmmm..... as for me It is impossible to play this game without at least three hundred mods correcting the imperfections and stupidity of the game.
But in a crisis situation, I think my choice would be^

1 Save Our Ship 2
2 Combat Extended
3 Dubs Bad Hygiene
4 Android tiers
5 Rimefeller

Combat Extended because it is extremely rare case when all mods (4... lol) can be compatible with CE (i hope...???)
Rimefeller because there are no good radiators to use Rimatomics on small space ship.

[Zane87]

In that order:
Edb prepare carefully
Fluffys Work tab (especially for subpriorities)
Fluffys Animal Tab
Herbalist
And a storage mod, probably project Rimfactory for the great package though admittedly I rarely use the other stuff aside storage as it makes the game too trivial.

My biggest gripe is that I can't set the subpriorities which especially for hauling is quite important imo. Packing/unpacking caravans for example are way more important recently than most other priorities so I'd like to set it accordingly.

[Hykal]

Better Pawn Control
Wall Light
P-Music
Allow Tool
Pick Up and Haul

You guys are missing out if you haven't listen to P-Music. It's just excellent music all around.

[Lotus Elise]

I chose without thinking. There won't be any more mods... This means that the mods should be maximally combined with each other. My bad.

I usually play with yayo's combat, because of this, vanilla "shooting" is not feels so bad like it feels after CE. CE minus.

I agree with @Zane87 - storage mod is important thing...
Throwing everything on the floor is good for the start of the game, but not as good for the mid to late game. Warehouse items in the vanilla game look like trash, so storage mods are a must. I do not like rimfactory because of cheating batteries... so I'll take LWM's Deep Storage.

in the alpha biome settings, you can disable vanilla biomes. so this is SCi-FI setup.

1 Save Our Ship 2
2 Alpha Animals
3 Alpha Biomes
4 Dubs Bad Hygiene
5 LWM's Deep Storage

[Iskander]

1. Rimhammer Core
2. Rimhammer Magic
3. Rimhammer Empire
4. Rimhammer Beastmen
5. Rimhammer Dwarfs

[taciturn(o)]

1 Colony Manager
I love micro management but cutting trees or getting steel is not something fun to micro manage
2 Work Tab
I forgot about it the first time I made this list, because I forgot it was not part of the vanilla game... how the ♥♥♥♥ do you guys can manage work priorities without this?
3 Dubs Mint Menus
So much better than the vanilla
4 Dubs Apparel Tweaks
It's so immersive to see your pawns taking their coat and hat off whilst inside their base
5 Factions Expanded Vikings
The best faction that Oscar designed, they are perfect for the game, vikings can fill that medieval gap, you get another taste opition when starting as a tribe, they don't ♥♥♥♥ with the game balance like the other factions mods (except settlers they are also quite good), and the events are also really good (Thrumbo hunt -now you don't have to wait for Randy to get a Thrumbo horn).

[Alexhandr]

Originally posted by Iskander:

1. Rimhammer Core
2. Rimhammer Magic
3. Rimhammer Empire
4. Rimhammer Beastmen
5. Rimhammer Dwarfs

Same.

[Zepol Yar]

Oh you are truly EVIL!!

Prepare carefully
Cleaning Area
Minfy Everything
Robots
Sidearms

[MortVent]

Pretty much my current mod list

1 - Hugslib
2 - Stacks XXL
3-5 none