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Insulated Power Armor

Adds insulated armor to the game. No more deciding between a parka and marine armor on cold biomes!

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Technical Info:

- Unlocks by researching the vanilla researches, plus additional light research on RimWorld 1.4+
- Does NOT overwrite/delete vanilla armor. Feel free to use them to save on cost if you don't need the extra weather insulation
- Mod is XML only and overwrites nothing. Contains no XPath operations. This is an extremely compatible mod.
- Can safely be added to an existing game.
- Before removing this mod from an existing game, please make sure that you unequipped and destroyed all armor from this mod including the ones your colonists are currently wearing.
- Translation ready.
- Does not require RimWorld Royalty, but if you use it, it will add insulated Royalty DLC variant armors for use.
- Does not require RimWorld Biotech, but if you use it, it will add insulated Biotech DLC mechanitor armor for use.
- Designed and balanced for RimWorld 1.4 and higher, but should work in older versions.

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New leather armor:

- Leathery skullcap, craftable at a crafting spot or tailoring bench
- Leathery armor, craftable at a tailoring bench

New plate armors (craft at a Forge):

- Insulated steel, plasteel, and uranium plate armor, with your choice of insulating fabric.

New flak armors (craft at a Machining Table):

- Insulated flak jacket and pants, with your choice of insulating fabric.

New power armors (craft at a Fabrication Bench):

- All-weather, cold-weather, and hot-weather recon armor, marine armor, and cataphract armor (with prestige, locust, phoenix, and grenadier variants if using Royalty)
- Insulating recon, marine, and cataphract helmet (with prestige and locust variants for Royalty)
- Insulating marine armor and helmet (with prestige and phoenix variants for Royalty)
- Insulating cataphract armor and helmet with prestige and grenadier variants, if using Royalty.
- Insulating mech commander helmet, mechlord helmet, and mechlord armor


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* How does it work?

New recipes are added to the forge, machining, and fabrication bench when you unlock their appropriate research. In addition to the vanilla materials, you also provide your fabric of choice for insulation. When crafting is completed, you will craft an insulated version of the armor instead of the vanilla version.

Insulated armor provides a substantial boost to standard heat and cold insulation from their vanilla counterparts, enough to make even recon armor a viable option on sea ice. The amount of heat and cold insulation is scaled with the fabric or leather used; muffalo wool will provide a very large boost to cold insulation, while devilstrand will be better suited for heat insulation.

Power armor can be further customized for use in all kinds of environments. Tailor them to your needs, or stick with vanilla armor if it suits you.

Be aware, insulation does add slightly to armor weight; after all, fabric isn't weightless. Insulated armor also takes a little bit longer to craft than standard vanilla counterparts.

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Mod Compatibility:

This mod makes no modifications to the base game whatsoever. It only adds new recipes. Therefore, mod should work with almost every mod out there, as long as they don't substantially modify the base recipes for power armor. I make no promises on whether this mod is well balanced or not versus other mods.

Other mods that add new fabric and leathers for crafting should be compatible.

This mod also works well with Save Our Ship 2. Insulated power armor is capable of withstanding the cold, harsh vacuum of space, if crafted by a skilled crafter using proper insulating material. To enable EVA capability, load this mod after SoS2 in your mod load order.

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Credit:

This is a fork/continuation of Insulated Armor, originally by Squirting Elephant.

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Changelog

Version: 1.31. Insulated Mechlord armor now counts as royal armor, same as its vanilla counterpart.

Version: 1.3. Added insulated Mechanitor armor! Requires Biotech DLC.

Version: 1.2. Rebalanced all armors for RimWorld version 1.4, and rebalanced research requirements. Renamed insulated power armor to all-weather, and added cold-weather and hot-weather variants. For 1.4 added insulated flak and plate armor, and added leather armor and skullcaps. Biotech DLC specific armor is NOT supported yet, but is planned.

Version: 1.1. Added support for RimWorld version 1.4. Biotech DLC specific armor is NOT supported yet, but is planned.

Version: 1.0. Added support for RimWorld versions 1.1 and 1.2.

Version: 0.9 (beta version). Initial Release.