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[Akura]

Recently noticed a mod the developers themselves said was impossible: Z-levels.

[pisskop]

Is is actual Z-levels, or some kind of C:DDA pseudo?

[Mephansteras]

The save our ship mod is better then the DLC.

Damn, yeah, that looks awesome. I'll have to try that one out.

[Akura]

Is is actual Z-levels, or some kind of C:DDA pseudo?

Judging from the description, it seems to be pseudo - it generates a new map for each z-level based on the map above or below it. Then again, there's a lot of interaction between different z-levels, like floors creating a "roof" below or vice versa. The mod maker is planning to add shooting between different z-levels, so it might progress to being actual z-levels, or at least blur the line to the point the difference is meaningless.

I don't plan on using it myself anytime soon though.

[Mephansteras]

Proper z-levels would be great, but it does look like that mod has a ways to go before it is really usable.

[Grim Portent]

Is there anything quite as Rimworld as finding a pregnant dog passed out drunk in your overflow stockpile? 

Good thing being wasted doesn't make animals have miscarriages, I need those puppies.

[IonMatrix]

Hey guys, do any of you know how to, like, set the "priority" of appliances? I'm attempting a sea ice base, and during some hard times there might be not enough power to power both the sun lamp and the hydroponics/heater, and I'd very much rather power up the hydroponics for growing when there are enough power than unstably power the lamp and kill all my crops.

[Akura]

Power Logic might be what you're looking for. A capacitor sensor switch, for example, can monitor the power left in a connected battery and turn off the connection to the sun lamp if it gets too low. You might have to finagle the power connections so that the sun lamp is connected to the power conduit from the capacitor switch while the hydroponics are connected to a different conduit.

[IonMatrix]

Oh, well, thanks. I realized I can just, you know, turn OFF the sun lamp and then wait for more energy to get stored.

Right, so currently in my sea ice run the morning tempatures are somewhat endurable in my cloth parkas but the night temp isn't. Problem is, it takes a bit more than a day to get to the nearest faction base, but my pawns will still try to sleep. Even though the tempature at night is like, negative 55. Is there a way to make them just shut up and keep walking? Without mods, becuase I can't access steam workshop in China.

[n9103]

Nexus Mods is my preferred mod source off-steam. Sometimes on-steam as well.
I know they have a significant Rimworld repository there. The official forums are also a good resource.

[IonMatrix]

Um, thanks for the information I guess?

Still, though, is there a way to make caravans not sleep without mods?

[delphonso]

As far as I know, no. I've lost a couple colonists to the caravan AI, which I'm not a huge fan of...

[Draignean]

Um, thanks for the information I guess?

Still, though, is there a way to make caravans not sleep without mods?

Have you tried setting their labor cycle to a 24-hour work block? Requires some micromanagement when you're done, but not an impossible amount.

[IonMatrix]

Hm, I'll go test it on a new colony.

[SQman]

Randy was relentless lately.
So I went with a standard tribal scenario, just with three settlers instead of five. Right now they are more or less on the same tech level as the crashlanded start. Up to yesterday my tribe consisted of:
-human farmer, gunner, part-time cook with an artificial hand (lost to infection, had to be replaced with a rather crude medieval prosthetics). Also good at trading.
-harpy builder, if an emergency arises she can craft. Since her building partner got killed by raiders she's the only one doing construction.
-human researcher/animal trainer. Since most of the animals are domestic anyway he can focus on turning us into a technological powerhouse.
-orc farmer with good medical skills, husband of the harpy. He works the fields at night to provide us with tasty tasty onions.
-mincho (ice cream slimegirl) craftswoman. She's decent in many things, good at nothing. She's the emergency medic and cook, also takes care of animals and prisoners. Cutting stone blocks is still her main job.
-mincho cook, also kensei skilled in rifle and blade, in her case it's a tuned assault rifle ++ and a battle axe.

Yesterday's session begand with a UAC raid. Two guys with heavy assault rifles crept up to the wallless side of the cozy swamp village whre they were met with suppressing fire. The first one hid in a bad place and was gunned down quickly. The other one we had to rush, but it was all okay. Our mincho warrior got shot quite badly, but due to her regenerative abilities she healed before she reached her bed.

Then Randy sent insectoids - a megascarab, a spelopede and a megapede. Thanks to out new UAC guns we turned the bugs into taming material. Our researcher used the bug meat to tame a lockjaw - a huge lizard that causes a painful disease on bite.

Then a shuttle crashed just outside of our village. The survivors were a nyaron (cargirl) artist, a space elf warrior, and a nyaron with no skills to speak of and horrible traits. We've captured the first two for recruitment and left the last one to die. There was also a misket, a double-barrelled shotgun, and a kugelblitz launcher.

That was about it for the good things, because a space battle started above our village. A pretty good recruitment candidate fell down into the swamp, but she was immediately obliterated by a stray gauss cannon slug. Curiously the only damage to our buildings were destroyed power cables to the wind turbine and freezer, a tipped over statue in the lab. Our beet harvest was also ruined.
Then a kijin assassin showed up in my researcher's house. Our guy got up and defended himself with his hook sword. Unfortunately he's not much of a fighter, so he got set on fire and ran out as soon as possible. The harpy, being a good neighbor, assaulted the assassin with her claws. Finally the lockjaw appeared and bit the assassin on the eye, which combined with the lockjaw disease caused her to collapse in pain. I have no idea what to do with her now. Probably should just let her go.