RimWorld

RimWorld

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Smarter Construction
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Mod, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
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Aug 19, 2020 @ 1:37am
Jul 16 @ 7:14am
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Smarter Construction

Description
Stop your pawns from constantly building themselves into a wall or blocking something that hasn't been built yet. Great for filling sapper tunnels and rebuilding walls.

Currently only affects construction (not installing minified structures). Right click => construct will bypass the mod so you can trap things intentionally. Can be added and removed from saves, removing gives some one-time errors you can ignore.

Compatibility
  • Blueprints: fully compatible
  • Misc. Robots++: fully compatible
  • Home Mover: uses minify and install so it can still trap pawns
  • Replace Stuff: uses custom code so it can still trap pawns
  • Achtung!: if you force construction this mod won't apply, but it isn't really an issue since it has custom forced job logic
  • Linux: compatible again!

Performance
Now even faster, and with much less fps drop! Profiling revealed a 1.5% slowdown at the peak of the second gif (10 builders and ~600 wall segments at max speed), and no impact when not constructing anything. For optimization purposes areas of 50 100 tiles+ are considered open.

Found a bug?
Please post it in the bug reports thread with a full log and a screenshot if applicable.

Source and older versions
Can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/dhultgren/rimworld-smarter-construction
Popular Discussions View All (4)
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Jul 19 @ 5:29pm
PINNED: Bug Reports
Hultis
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Sep 20, 2020 @ 5:27pm
PAWN started 10 jobs in 10 ticks error
Kittamaru
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Aug 11, 2022 @ 7:04pm
GitHub version out of date?
Irritant
540 Comments
······无言 Aug 26 @ 7:43am 
what is the difference between it and smart mining
Echo Ichor Aug 24 @ 12:13pm 
I second the question about building in corners. For the longest time, I could build conduits and piping in inside corners of perpendicular walls, but I no longer can. I...badly need that feature back, whatever it was that added it.
Illusia Aug 14 @ 11:06pm 
Read online this mod permits building in corners, but running it now doesn't seem to be the case. I know at one point I was able to.Probably shooting into the dark but does anybody maybe know the mod that did seeing as it may not be this one after all?
Ravarion Aug 1 @ 9:02am 
does this work the same for traps too?
Österreich-Ungarn Jul 30 @ 7:34pm 
does this also apply to trap halls?
斩尽世间挂壁 Jul 28 @ 4:32am 
you are hero
ohz Jul 26 @ 2:21pm 
Ahahah the gif is hilarious
Shoeeater25 Jul 19 @ 11:38pm 
Thank you, my lord. No more braindead Pawns.
Sneed Fartbuckle Jul 19 @ 5:57pm 
Holy fuck, i didn't know this was a thing, I will send my first born
Hultis  [author] Jul 19 @ 5:54am 
Nice, then I can snooze on it.

@Smartkillerzo: seems very unlikely to be this mod, give log if you think it is.