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RimWorld

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Mod, 1.5, 1.6
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Pawn Editor

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Steer the story in the direction you want it to go. Heal injuries your ultratech soldier obtained during a fight with a rabbit, teleport missing pawns back, change backstories that do not fit the narrative.

Pawn Editor is a new editor for your pawns inspired by great mods like Character Editor and Prepare Carefully.

Your last colonist exerts her final breath as she dies. Not even her ultratech armor or archotech implants could save your colony from... a rabbit? Tend to your pawns and shape them in a way that fits the story you had in mind.

Reality can be whatever you want it to be
It’s not just about changing the way your pawn looks.
  • Change the backstory, trait or skills for your pawns. Use filters to easily find that specific item you are looking for.
  • Quickly change the options for an item your pawn holds. You can even modify the trait of a persona weapon.
  • Changing the appearance for your pawn is as easy as ever. The new appearance editor allows you to easily see all available options. All you have to do is decide which one you want.

Save what you want, and nothing more
At the bottom of the editor you find three buttons; save, load and randomize. Instead of saving and loading simply the whole pawn, clicking these buttons opens up a dropdown allowing to select you only a specific set of features you want to save. Depending on which tab you are on, the options will change.

The randomize buttons works in a similar way. A dropdown shows a selection of things you can randomize. After selecting a feature to randomize, another small button shows up allowing you to repeat the last randomization. Keep clicking until you get something you like.

Build from the ground up to be extensible
Modifying your pawns is fun, but what use is it if it does not work with your content mods?

Pawn Editor was build with mod compatibility in mind. Simple mods should work instantly, and more advanced mods can create new tabs to house their own features.


Humanoid Alien Races 2.0 - Supported
Vanilla Skills Expanded - Supported


Q: How do I open the menu?
A: The menu can either be opened when starting a game and clicking the 'Pawn Editor' button at the bottom of the screen. You can also completely replace the vanilla window through the settings. In game the menu is opened by enabling dev mode and clicking the new button at the top of the screen.

Q: Can you add support for mod x?
A: While we will add support for bigger mods, adding support for every mods anyone wants is a very time-consuming task. You're more than welcome to ask us to support a mod, but you can also add support yourself! Pawn Editor can easily be extended with more tabs. If you need any help on how to add support for Pawn Editor, check out the GitHub wiki or join the Discord.

Q: Can I share my saved characters with my friends?
You can! Pawn Editor creates a new folder in in your default RimWorld save directory ...\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\PawnEditor. Simply copy the .png and .xml of your character and send it over.

Did you know that you can also export the portrait of a character? Click on the load button and select 'export portrait'. You will find images of all four directions for your favorite pawn on your desktop.


ISOREX - Project lead
Legodude17 - Main coder
Taranchuk - Coder
Helixien - I'm not sure what his role is but I swear he helped

Community contributors
TreadTheDawnGames, mycroftjr, Inglix, fofajardo



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[github.com]

Bug reports in the comments are ignored, post them either in the Discord or on the GitHub page.
Popular Discussions View All (13)
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Dec 29, 2025 @ 1:50am
Issue Report
MxCheeseSauce
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Nov 4, 2025 @ 7:48pm
Feature Request
l.lampenoir
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Oct 24, 2025 @ 9:38am
Potential Bug: Favourite Colour Behaviour
Josh Mate
711 Comments
Rosath Mar 5 @ 5:02pm 
uh, broke my save, it's probably the culprit because I can't even create a new one: chronological age edits break all edit buttons smh
LucidLasagnaConsumer LLC Mar 2 @ 6:27pm 
im having issues where none of the buttons in the gear tab work except the quick functions. This is the case even in just vanilla. As far as i can tell its a nulldef error, and this mod hasnt caught up to1.6?
FelipeGames2000 Feb 22 @ 4:17pm 
A forked version has been released
Considering that the mod has been "pseudo-abandoned", not getting any improvements aside from the bare minimum to have it running in the latest version, I personally recommend you guys to check it out
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3667931113
Feb 22 @ 2:30am 
How do I save traits to apply to other colonists
Monkeyboypick Feb 15 @ 12:13pm 
I'm having a small issue. In game, at least, I can't see all the pawn relationships in the relationship tab. I was trying to specifically make people hate each other, but I can only see two specific people from my colony in there, for anyone I select.

Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!
Vindeada Feb 12 @ 3:44am 
in game pawn editor is broken completely...
Chip Feb 12 @ 12:44am 
temporary fix for the age thing that should work (last i checked):
click into a text field that is NOT the age you want to edit (biological or chronological) and then use the arrows to set it accordingly
unfortunately typing the age manually does not work
and if you are clicked into the age field (yk like that blinking line for typing is there), pressing any arrow sets the age to its minimum value which is why you have to click out of it first

there are many other odd problems with pawn editor (including an issue where all pawns created after the latest update are forced to have the favorite color they were generated with and you can't change it + sometimes it bugs and makes a pawn have NO favorite color at all - luckily there's also a temporary fix for it if you go into the pawn's data file and know internal color names at least) but it unfortunately doesn't seem like the creators of the mod update for bug fixes, only for major game updates (so, just dlc drops)
NotThisGuy26 Feb 2 @ 1:05pm 
I am having the same issue as Snowcraft.
Snowcraft Jan 28 @ 10:51am 
Any time I try edit a pawns' age it will set their age to 18, not whatever I set it to, and cannot be altered by any means. Any attempt to change the age will immediately set it to 18 instead.
EXOX3 Jan 25 @ 4:47am 
maybe can add a button near the menu like character editor in the bottom right corner of the screen