You are my savior.

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.

ESSENTIAL mod, thank you!

@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. :)

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.

nice mod, works for 1.4

the description is gold

update mod to 1.4?

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.

wake up samurai

@Dragonling i believe (for uinotincluded at least) if you remove both the vanilla time speed controls and have no time speed widget, you can not even pause/unpause the game. so, working as intended

It doesn't do anything while the buttons are hidden. While the button are shown, the mod works fine. P.S. Thank you for the mod, I've been using it for quite a while

Doesn't work as in doesn't do anything? Or doesn't work as in breaks the game?

The mod does not work if speed buttons are hidden, for example by Performance Optimizer mod

i can confirm that
i went on vacation and rimworld wasn't working right but when i get home and back to my cat the game worked again. so buy a cat if you want rimworld to function as intended

smh these people who don't read the system requirements before buying a game

@Reianor Unfortunately, no. Most of RimWorld only properly works with a cat in your home, so you'll need to go get one immediately.

But what if I don't have a cat to stand on my spacebar?
Should I get one? Or do you think I can still enjoy the mod without one?

hi if you check your ludeon folder for a file called something like this:
Mod_1551734715_SafePause.xml

you could maybe try to make a backup of it somewhere else, and then delete it,
and then try editing the mod settings (in game) to recreate the file..

maybe something happened with the config file (it does happen sometimes)

alex, that's strange, me and others have tested it on all three supported versions, and yours is the first reported experience like that. What do you think could be different about your setup?

This isn't doing anything. I can still spam pause as fast as I can press space, or even hold it to rapidly pause and unpause, even if the pause timeout is set as high as 15,000 ms.

Can you please update to 1.2? :-)

Does it not work???

Will this be getting an update to 1.2?

1.2

Hmm... Given that I probably don't use this the same way you do, I would probably be turning on and off tactics mode way too often. I'll see what I think of it. Thanks!

Hi lilwhitemouse, that's a feature option I could consider adding if there's support for it. However...

The case you described is exactly what my other mod Tactics Mode is for. Toggle on tactics mode for Maverick and then the game will pause and focus on him the instant he finishes putting that armour on.

Is there a way to make the pause on pause only apply to Letters pausing the game?

If I hit the keyboard to pause, I want to be able to unpause really quickly sometimes (usually) - come on Maverick, finish putting the armor on so I can pause and change your queued orders, come on, there! Oh no, not done yet, wait wait wait, unpause, almost done, there! No, still not done, wait wait wait, unpause,....

10/10 description

@orfanclub6 Yes, that's basically the point.

does it work if my game auto-pause it self ?

that story is me, subbed

I guess it's unlikely, seeing how this mod was made pretty much a year ago, but it would be great if this could be updated to be compatible with Smart Speed, which adds the 4th speed option.

"A shorter secondary timeout also protects against your cat standing on the spacebar!"
made me smile

I would use this mod, but because I am a God I never have this problem

I would do this contantly, even knowing I have the autopause set on, it's like survival instinct backfire lol, thanks for something I never knew I needed!

Very nice

You know my cat so well...

I nearly fell of my chair from reading the description!
That was gold!
Yes, i have experienced something similar, but not with raiders, but 9 scythers...
10 colonists turned to just 1½ colosists, missing 1 ear, and both legs...
He only survived that because mere moments later, a wonderer joined, with great medical skills...
My "relationship" with Randy Random is what we call a "Love/Hate" relationship :P
He makes for the best stories.

Amazing! Thank you for making this!

*Wipes tear* "It's beautiful..."

Thank your for this!