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DUE TO STEAM COLLECTION CHARACTER LIMITS:

All information you will need is available on this google doc - all of the mod settings, install instructions, etc are right here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1698o1AMwcilZ7IQx5wRhKHyuTop16Is8_LI9XmKbV1g/edit?usp=sharing

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1. Modpack Concept
1.1. Scenario Concept

2. Installation Guide

3. Essential Mod Settings
3.1. Important Things You Might Want to Adjust

4. FAQ

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Rimworld has an incredible amount of overpowered mods, all of which tend to add their fair share of unique items, unrivaled explosions, and ridiculous spectacles. The question is how do you use so these incredible showpiece mods without wrapping up the campaign in a short few hours?

My first idea was limiting your starting technology - having absolutely nothing and earning your overpowered assured-victory makes it all the sweeter anyway, right? The only problem with that is with overpowered mods come overpowered factions, and with some of the more basic balance-destroying mods, such as medieval-era quarries, inflating colony wealth to astronomic proportions, the countdown to total and utter player colony destruction at the hands of a giant monster is far too short for comfort.

So why not put a hard limit on tech progression across the board? With TechAdvancing, the player can only research what technologies are available to their current era, and then progress into the next era by completing all of their current accessible techs. Coupled with Ignorance is Bliss, which restricts possible raiding factions to those with a similar tech level to your own, and Arcane Technology, which prevents you from simply buying a charge rifle and gunning down medieval archers en masse, you've got yourself a balanced experience, era by era.

Well, at least for the start of the era.

The next problem is that even exceptionally powerful modded factions have specific gear, and unless you have a faction that also has access to the full breadth of an eras technology, they can never match the player - not to mention optimise loadouts and bionics as the player would. Even the Archotech factions would pale in comparison to some of the equipment these mods can put out, and without a way to keep buffing raiders continuously (with the expection of PC-dredging 500-man raids) they wouldn't ever be able to match the sadistic tendencies of the player and their cyber-army.

And that not even mentioning the absurd room-size, map-spanning railguns the player can build as defences.
No longer do I have to wonder what a spaghettified VOID monster would look like with the magic of Antimatter Annihilation!

So there was a solution - obvious, and challenging, and unique. Melee only. That, more or less, balances the playing field at the higher levels. Sure, the player can build swords with ten billion hitpoints, but now you have to get close enough to use the thing.

The modpack has a few extras to help make a purely melee build more viable, including Supreme Melee, Swords!, and many other fancy weapons and bionics mods to boot.

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Ohm, an Archoseed, with the innate knowledge of all technologies and skills, bestowed at birth by the great archo-sentience, has landed on a distant Rimworld to begin the planets ascension process. And then a stay lancer shot Ohm in the head and that knowledge was gone. Wiped from existence by one angry toaster.

Now Ohm has to rebuild from scratch, slowly uncovering everything there is to learn, with the aim of once again attaining the mighty archosentience.

Ohm also really hates guns, as you probably would if you were blindsided by a mechanoid.

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Imgur Picture guide for Steps 6 onward as this can be a bit more confusing for first-time users: https://imgur.com/gallery/0ktDs6N

1. Subscribe to the collection, and allow the download time to complete, might take a while to copy over!

2. Download the load order file from the above "Load Order" google drive link.

3. Open Rimworld and enable Harmony and Mod Manager ONLY, making sure harmony is at the top, while Mod Manager is at the bottom, like so:
- Harmony
- Core
- Royalty DLC (Optional)
- Mod Manager

4. Restart Rimworld and go back into mods, if it looks different and has new options, mod manager is working correctly.

5. Close Rimworld

6. Type "%appdata%" (without quotes) into Windows. This WILL NOT take you to the correct folder, but is a shortcut to get to a folder near it.

7. Go BACK to the AppData folder from the new folder windows has just opened from the previous step.

8. Open the "LocalLow" folder.

9. Open the "Ludeon Studios" folder. Then "Rimworld by Ludeon Studios" folder, then ModLists (this folder WILL NOT appear until you have enabled Mod Manager and Harmony in Rimworld, go back to step 3 and restart Rimworld.)

10. Paste the file from Google Drive into this folder (LocalLow/Ludeon Studios/Rimworld by Ludeon Studios/ModLists)

11. Restart Rimworld ONCE the file has been copied

12. Go back into "Mods"

13. Click on the button called "Create, apply and manage mod lists" on the further right of the other button in the BOTTOM CENTRE of the screen.

14. Click "Load mod list"

15. Click "Archoseed" or the NAME of the downloaded file, if this does not appear then either restart Rimworld OR you haven't placed the file in the correct place. Redo steps 6 onward.

16. Restart Rimworld and you're done!

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Go to the google doc instead.

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Q: How do I do...
A: Go to the google doc.