thanks

Made an update of this:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2404731911
Hope it helps anyone!

1.2?

It should work fine as it is

Would you happen to know what, if anything, needs doing to update this mod for v1.1 compatibility?

No

Any hard incompatibilities?

Aw ok thankyou so much. :)

this is just like any other joy source. Since it needs electricity it is mostly useless for caravans.
Great for Blind people tough

I am searching for recreational for Caravan.. Can this mod will be a solution?
I hope so.. I am currently having recreational deprive from my colonist who is in cavaran far away from my base.. I hope I can find some solution. :)

I have no plans to add music

I hope it doesn't recieve music. We already have the game's soundtrack for music, and radios with music has already been done by Jecrell. The thing is it is a bit annoying when Rimworld music is playing and then all of a sudden the radio is activated by a pawn and two songs start playing at once.

If you ever do decide to make the radios play music, could you make an optional version with no sound files, so it doesn't play music?

I hope in the future updates, we will be able to play whatever music we put in the folder.hahaha
Thumbs up

Just like TV's thy are silent

One question:
Does it play anything in-game?

Did you know that the first radios did not require electricity? See Crystal Radio on Wikipedia. Might be cool for a XIX century colony.

I might try to implement that soon, but not at the moment

Will pawns get the mood bonus while working in proximity to a radio? I like the idea of being able to listen to the radio in the workshop or cooking in the kitchen :D

I am suprised you are the first to bring this up. Yes it is a bug and I totally overlooked it somehow.
Thanks for reporting that. It is fixed now

hi, i think there is a bug in your mod. in the file JoyGivers you only listed
<thingDefs>
<li>Radio</li>
</thingDefs>
meaning all other radios wont work?

Thanks. I only want to edit it because I need a joy source for hospitalised patients but TV's are a pain to fit in and having like 3 of them in one room seems excessive. One radio in the middle of the room would suffice so all the patients had something to keep them occupied. Thank you again!

Why do you need a higher radius? Their Joy level won't increase by being nearby, just by choosing to listen (same as any other joy source). The radius of other joy sources like TV isn't much different either.
If you do want to edit it, go to Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\1489320417\Defs\ThingDef_Buildings\Buildings_Joy.xml and change the watchBuildingStandDistanceRange values and watchBuildingStandRectWidth to whatever you want.
I might tweak it in the future

Any way to easily increase the listen area? I can edt XMLs if it's possible to change via XML edits but it'd be great to have as a setting. 5x5 just feels way too small to me.

And it's Fixed

it is "JoyGiver_WatchBuilding". But yeah, removing the chairs makes the radius obsolete

Another reason the chair makes sense, is that there is a radius to listen, but the colonists chooses to stand right on top of the radio. Not sure if there is a "get as close as possible" part of the mod.

I am working on another update, I think I'll re-add the chairs there. The mod menu is at the moment beyond my modding skills, so that won't happen for some time

Cant you add it as an option in mod menu?
Will allow me to use the same chair for several recreations, for my 1 person base.

agh ok thanks for letting me know im after something thats got some localized music playing

Since televisions are silent, I decided not to add any sounds

Can we the players hear the music being played?

I removed it, that they sit on chairs since they didn't listen to the Radio if there was no chair around. Unsure if I should re-add it

I was under the impression that the radio worked like the TV, but my colonist is standing on the same tile as the radio (normal version), ignoring the chairs in the radius.

Now if I can only get my Westernization Project music to play on these

The range just determins, how close pawns will go to listen to the Radio. In theory you could tune up any radio loud enough to have a much higher range. But I guess I could increase it by 1

the free standing one should probably have a larger range than the small tabletop radio, since it has larger speakers.

@Love Centaur - Done

@theigabod - Sorry, I didn't test the mod enough before updating it. Your problem is partially fixed now. Well, every new build radio won't have this issue.
To remove your malfunctioning radio, go into options and enable "development mode". Now you have a bar at the top of your screen. Click on the Middle one to open the "debug action menu" in there search for "destroy", click on it and left click on your radio (nothing else), than right click somewhere to unselect the destroy tool. Go back to the options and disable dev mode.
And your'e done. Sorry again for the inconvenience!

@Love Centaur - Good suggestion, I will implemet that in the next update.

@Silt if you want a radio that is free standing, they had those. They were basically a piece of furniture. http://userpages.bright.net/~geary/old/sparton1.jpg

Just gave this mod a try today and discovered that the radio can't be deconstructed or moved once it is built. I only tried the one that isn't on the table. It would be nice to be able to minify it and move it to another room. As it is, I'm going to have to get creative and find a way to destroy it without blowing up everything else in that room.

No. It's the same as with television or chess. They can only focus on one task

Will Colonists eat while listening to the radio?

Done

Alright

If its permanet, make it a 1x1 if possible.

I could make a separate radio that is always on a table, would be a single table tough (or 1x2), not a bigger one. Not sure if that would be desirable

Possible to make the radio sit on a table? Just looks a bit weird to have it on the ground.

That is currently not within my coding skills. There is a B18 Mod for something similar with the Comms Console. Might be updated to version B19 some time

Could this also be made as pre-requisite to 'communication' events. Know what I mean?
Without a radio, those events just appear without warning?

dunno.

Sounds amazing!