Looking for good modding resources to learn to mod Rimworld

[thenightgaunt]

The Biotech DLC has given me some ideas for mods I would like to try to make, but I've never modded Rimworld before. I've got a little experience with C# and I know a little bit about xml, but that's about it.

Can anyone recommend some good resources for learning how to mod rimworld? So far I've been looking at the Rimworldwiki's page on modding (which isn't great) and Oz's Rimworld modding tutorial on github (which is great for getting started, but expanding past it is tricky).

I'm also trying to find an active forum where modders talk about mods and where I can ask for advice on issue I run into.

The rimworldmodding subreddit is low traffic and is 99% people requesting mods, and the ludeon forum is just as low traffic these days (the last post that's not someone announcing they updated a mod in the "mods" forum was from 10 days ago).

Thank you.

[whatamidoing]

I'm pretty sure there's no such active forum. If there's any, it's probably on Discord, but I'm not touching that. For learning how to, look at the code for the game and other mods that do related things. Probably going to need to read the Harmony documentation too.

[thenightgaunt]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

I'm pretty sure there's no such active forum. If there's any, it's probably on Discord, but I'm not touching that. For learning how to, look at the code for the game and other mods that do related things. Probably going to need to read the Harmony documentation too.

Darn. Thank you for the info though.

Do you know of any sites or resources that are a bit more in-depth than the wiki? About what does what and where various things are located?

For example, I'm trying to add a line in a single def from Biotech (basically to let an ability target animals as well as pawns). But I'm not sure if there are other defs at play or if there's something else that would need to be changed. I'd check the wiki, but the value "targetingparams" doesn't come up in a search on there.

That's what I mean by a site with a bit more in-depth info.

[whatamidoing]

For XML stuff like that, there's the autodocumentation[htmlpreview.github.io] that shows what the game uses where.

[Bathory]

I'm also taking my first steps into modding Rimworld. If you'd like, we could keep in touch to share what we've figured out.

Currently I've added XML for new xenotype, faction, and items. But I'm reading through the C# source code and figuring out how to create my own abilities.

[thenightgaunt]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

For XML stuff like that, there's the autodocumentation[htmlpreview.github.io] that shows what the game uses where.

Thank you. This will be really helpful!

[thenightgaunt]

Originally posted by Bathory:

I'm also taking my first steps into modding Rimworld. If you'd like, we could keep in touch to share what we've figured out.

Currently I've added XML for new xenotype, faction, and items. But I'm reading through the C# source code and figuring out how to create my own abilities.

Thank you for the offer. I may take you up on that. Though I'm currently drowning under work/life so it might be a bit (the joy of having small children). But i'll reach out to you when I get back to this.

Good luck with your own project. :)

[Jackochainsaw]

You might want to check out this video by Eck314 on YT.

YouTube™ Video: How to Make a RimWorld Mod - Step by Step 

Views: 45,016

I found Jecrell's original Plague Gun tutorial and updated it to work with RimWorld 1.3. Since I was basing this off of Rim World 1.0, we walk through all the differences and steps necessary to get...

It's a step by step for Rimworld mods which can give you a bit of insight, it's a 2 hour vid that is pretty comprehensive and there is a template that he links in the video that you can use as a basis just to make a starter mod. I was considering learning to mod in Rimworld myself as I have a few ideas to toy with but don't have the time at the moment due to work. I believe that as well as C#, Rimworld uses JSON, it's similar to XML. The only tricky thing with the mods is the debug so my advice is to start simple and make it more complicated in increments.

[brian_va]

in case you haven't see them:
https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Modding_Tutorials

theres also this from the ludeon forum
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=33219.0

there was also a discussion "fairly" recently that had a few links, with fairly being somewhat lose in meaning.