RimWorld

RimWorld

Launch into empty space
87 Comments
KING POSEIDON Nov 25, 2025 @ 5:16am 
For anyone having issues with open maps remaining in the colonist bar, you can open dev mode to forcefully close maps. Make sure you save first because the maps are randomly numbered.
[Name removed for breaking TOS] Nov 24, 2025 @ 9:51am 
Is this compatible with Vanilla Gravship Expanded?
Gundam Pharmacist Nov 17, 2025 @ 3:03pm 
Is there a way to expand the size of the space tile? Only have a 100x100 space for a space colony which is pretty snug.
dimenion Oct 29, 2025 @ 8:38am 
То что нужно!
FripouilleSaharienne Sep 20, 2025 @ 6:14am 
compatibility problem whit " sky islands " mod : quests appear on the empty sky tile, and genrates a normal map
Ataka Sep 18, 2025 @ 9:11am 
There’s a UI issue when a Gravship moves from an empty space tile to another location.
An empty background slot remains in the Colonist Bar, even though no colonists are present.
The original empty-space tile still seems to count as a settlement or world object.
Any advice, tips, or workarounds would be greatly appreciated if anyone has encountered this.
🪐Jove✨ Sep 17, 2025 @ 3:56pm 
Cant abandon tiles. Might have to take a break from this mod
Ebonyte Sep 2, 2025 @ 5:47am 
So, how do I abandon a space tile after I've left?
juho.saarikko Aug 29, 2025 @ 8:38am 
@Eliza513 This happened to me without this mod or a gravship on a regular world tile because the new flooding mechanic made the entire map unlandable, so it's a bug in the base game.
Eliza513 Aug 28, 2025 @ 10:19am 
Hey, just figured I'd mention this. If you accept a quest that involves a shuttle being sent to your tile (ie: relic quests where they want you to send X number of colonists to an ancient complex), while your only colony is a gravship on an empty space tile, and your gravship doesnt have space for a shuttle to land, it can sometimes (but not always) cause an error that keeps occurring every single tick, rendering the game unplayable (1 TPS) and basically forcing you to reload your most recent save. No amount of dev mode nonsense Ive tried in order to just get the quest to disappear or whatever and stop this error from getting spammed seems to work
天国的波利 Aug 23, 2025 @ 9:36am 
The space map is too small that big ship will be deleted(bug?).and there will be attack by raiders, which is not good. they airdrop to the spaceship.
Readtext Aug 21, 2025 @ 8:10pm 
Will the landing force land on the ship?
水游鱼 Aug 15, 2025 @ 10:39am 
‘rocket man’can do that,settings are in its ui @Peter Kitsuné @ВЫХУХОЛЬ
Peter Kitsuné Aug 14, 2025 @ 4:02pm 
Any chance of a bigger map? The default map size just barely fits my spaceship, and definitely has no room for a space station as well
ВЫХУХОЛЬ Aug 14, 2025 @ 7:52am 
Hello, can you increase the size of the map? My space bucket does not fit when building a station
Max Pendragon Aug 12, 2025 @ 8:46pm 
@Hartz V Betatester

Yeah. Pretty sure the issue is, if your gravship is larger in any dimension than the default space tile this mod makes, it causes an error as your ship is landing in an area where the map size physically cannot handle it, and as such giving the error about "trying to load out of bounds" causing it to just fail to load anything, deleting it.


Basically if your ship is larger than the small square this mod uses, you can't land in space anymore. This is a big problem as you can easily build a ship bigger than that with just 1 or 2 grav extenders.
Hartz V Betatester Aug 12, 2025 @ 9:36am 
@max pendragon Ever found out what it was? Same thing happened to me :(
Max Pendragon Aug 9, 2025 @ 3:21pm 
Just had an issue where the game deleted my ship and colonists too. I think I know what it is, let me double check.
masternetra Aug 8, 2025 @ 8:07pm 
Now just need to remove the land requirement for selecting the area your ship arrives at.
M1911A1 Oversize® Aug 6, 2025 @ 6:52pm 
can you make a mod that removes sound from space and call it something like "in space no one can hear you scream"
Kupie Aug 6, 2025 @ 3:36pm 
I wanted so badly to be able to temporarily generate larger maps when I launch into empty space, so I made a mod for it

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3543638542
//SlipperyPete:. Aug 2, 2025 @ 5:23pm 
This mod is a great idea, but the map that is generated by going into an empty space in orbit is tiny, my gravship basically takes up like 80% of the space. I hope you have some way of making an update that has bigger map sizes.
Kupie Jul 30, 2025 @ 10:41am 
There's like 5 autosaves kept at all times. I have mine set to half-day, that's just the mod life
TheLemon Jul 30, 2025 @ 8:17am 
Bro my ship is gone... Dont know if I have a bug or what but my ship and all of my people are done... As soon as I jut into orbit nothing happend and then it autosaved. Now I am looking at nothing but space with no people and no ship. I dont know if I am doing somehting wrong or what.
JohanTron2000 Jul 30, 2025 @ 6:05am 
that wouldnt make sense since ur in orbit?
juako Jul 30, 2025 @ 3:18am 
Would it be possible to make the thruster animation keep playing to give the illusion that the ship is still flying ? anyways, this mod is very cool
Kupie Jul 29, 2025 @ 8:15pm 
Hey mod author, if you'd like maps to just be the map size set upon world generation this will do it. When Rimworld generates a map it looks for this field in the XML and resizes it to the Gravship, minimum of 100x100 size if the gravship is smaller than that.


<Patch>
<Operation Class="PatchOperationRemove">
<xpath>Defs/WorldObjectDef/canResizeToGravship</xpath>
</Operation>
</Patch>

I'll be testing this on my own game
Aschevacuum Jul 29, 2025 @ 5:45pm 
so, no raids? or just center drop?
Winter Contingency Jul 29, 2025 @ 8:06am 
There is a mod for custom map size called Better Map Sizes (Continued).
Kamberli Jul 29, 2025 @ 2:42am 
It would be nice to have a bigger map. Running out of space buidling my spacestation as I need quite a big space for the ship and open platforms for raids to land so they dont crash into my pressuried rooms lol.
Evenstaar Jul 28, 2025 @ 11:38pm 
But can we reverse the polarity and launch into full cave?
Mikumin Jul 28, 2025 @ 8:00pm 
add the sea too please
Dust Jul 28, 2025 @ 4:38pm 
I would like to know how raids work. A lot less useful to be in empty space if it makes raids just crash into you and destroy your pressurization lol
Vamp Jul 28, 2025 @ 3:30pm 
The comments are beautiful, never stop rimworld community.
Ecclesiarch Faraday Jul 28, 2025 @ 2:50pm 
You guys telling them to hush don't understand sci-fi fans lol.
Lunar Lunatic Jul 28, 2025 @ 1:47pm 
This is exactly what i've been wanting!
Keylithe ಠ_ಠ Jul 28, 2025 @ 5:11am 
does landing on empty space have a change for the grav engine to malfunction?
Celgaming Jul 28, 2025 @ 1:36am 
Enemy raids? Do they just land on your ship with this?
Jean1337_ Jul 27, 2025 @ 8:34pm 
Please make the generated map larger
AllHackNoSkill Jul 27, 2025 @ 8:09pm 
For such a sandboxy and creative game, people love taking it seriously
oscillix Jul 27, 2025 @ 7:47pm 
rimworld players can be so humorless. chill yall
穿山甲鸡汤 Jul 27, 2025 @ 6:30pm 
无需考虑为什么能停,问就是反重力
Vicks Jul 27, 2025 @ 5:28pm 
Why are all these comments arguing about trying to use real world physics for an optional mod in a place as far away from physics as possible with hits psychic wizard courts and vampires fighting cannibals for control of a shared food source?
Kokorocodon Jul 27, 2025 @ 3:46pm 
@Higarian It does because it's sci-fi, it may not be possible to build something like this nowadays but it "could". Trying to work the math for that is no sin.
Higarian Jul 27, 2025 @ 3:42pm 
@vanillaification tenically, you are flyng an anti gravity ship that can bend gravity. So no math we have has any point here
MajestyKK Jul 27, 2025 @ 1:05pm 
is it possible to add a setting for map size? By default, only a 100x100 space is available for placement, which is a bit too small for building a large space station
vanillaification Jul 27, 2025 @ 10:48am 
@Benetrator its impossible for this orbit to be geostationary, its far, far, FAR too low to the ground

Earth low orbit is around 200x200km, geostationary is 35,786x35,786km

and while yes it depends on how fast the planet rotates and all but the rimworld has a 24hr day as well, and is presumably a similar size to Earth as well

either way it doesnt matter because its a videogame where magic exists lmao
Laurient Jul 27, 2025 @ 8:27am 
Gabriel message was just an IA message with a steam porn profile (pornhubpl) -_-
Benetrator - Beton Jul 27, 2025 @ 6:37am 
Also who is saying that the orbit is not geostationary?
Drasca Jul 27, 2025 @ 5:13am 
*Steel does burn, but it requires a lot of heat than typical flames.