RimWorld

RimWorld

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Mod, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5
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29 Oct, 2018 @ 8:46pm
3 Jul, 2024 @ 1:22pm
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Safe Pause

Description
"Stop accidentally unpausing the game"

Have you ever coincidentally tried to pause the game at the exact same time a raid starts, and a moment later realize that, because the raid already paused the game, you actually unpaused the game. Then as the drop ships are coming down, you try pausing the game again but in your panic you accidentally double tap the space bar, and again you utterly fail to pause the game. You make a swift correction, decisively striking the space key. Wait, the game is still unpaused-- were you mistaken? Had you actually tapped it 3 times, or did you double tap it again? Your miserable self can hardly take the pause button's defiance any longer and you find yourself mashing it repeatedly, pausing and unpausing in quick succession, as the raiders have already disembarked and are making a weird, choppy beeline for your farm animals at about half normal game speed?

Safe Pause can help! When the game gets paused, Safe Pause will disable unpausing the game for a short amount of time (defaults to 1.5 seconds but is configurable in the mod menu).

A shorter secondary timeout also protects against your cat standing on the spacebar!

Also available on GitHub[github.com].
42 Comments
EAST 21 May @ 10:32pm 
You are my savior.
Nin-Sama 21 May @ 12:27pm 
It'd be a bit much to ask, but can you add an option that the pause only activates if something other than the player stops the game? I have a dumb habit of pressing pause whenever a harmless letter pops up, which also means I unpause the game whenever a threat that forces to pause the game pops up. But having a cooldown while manually pausing and unpausing the game is very annoying.
HIM🐀 20 Nov, 2024 @ 11:30am 
ESSENTIAL mod, thank you!
Ancalagon 19 Nov, 2024 @ 7:33pm 
@Yukon Only 95 days later, your prayers have been answered! I decided to turn your idea into my very first Rimworld mod to challenge myself to get all the tools set up: One-Way Pause Button

I still prefer Safe Pause's implementation. :)
Yukon 16 Aug, 2024 @ 1:14pm 
There is one function I want from a mod like this. Just make space bar pause, and ONLY, pause. I can just hit 1 to proceed at normal speed. Still, very helpful, thank you. Will be adding.
firshpear 22 Nov, 2023 @ 5:03am 
nice mod, works for 1.4
Pan 22 May, 2023 @ 9:31am 
the description is gold
thorman123456789 1 Apr, 2023 @ 12:38pm 
update mod to 1.4?
Shard 28 Nov, 2022 @ 3:04am 
Should have checked here earlier, but... I can confirm that it has zero issues in 1.4 for me, with 800 other mods running, so I'd say it is probably safe to just bump the version number.
HIVEMIND 20 Nov, 2022 @ 7:39am 
wake up samurai