This mod is absolutely fantastic; I wouldn't even consider playing the game without it. I'm eagerly anticipating the next update.

HEY LOVE THIS MOD.. 1.6? LOVE U THX

Thanks for the mod! Been using it for a while. Just wanted to remind you to tag it for 1.6 if it works, so people won't be confused.

@изнасиловал утюг
you can just translate it with deepl or any other LLM and extract translation mod,so that you can finish the work without mastering a foreign language.Though translate it might still a hard work.(Someone translated the mod into Chinese by deepseek before i complete the work,and it still cost him about 2 or 3 days due to the great amount of text)

Loved that you made references to Jecrell, Black Mirror and Love Death + Robots and expounded on your love for the game. I will now be making use of your mod my fellow RimWorld enthusiast.
(Gave you the most expensive award available, keep it up 🫂)

@ 母が犯された politics is need to be out of gamer's community
If I speak russian, it doesn't mean, that i live on Russia. You need to be more loyalty to other people and don't be the nacist

@ 母が犯された Whilst I know you mean well, and I completely support Ukraine, there are so many Russians who do not support Putin or this invasion, so I don't think it's fair to exclude people just because of where they were born.

There are Russians all over the world who are supportive of Ukraine. It's fair enough not spending money on anything that could end up with taxes going to Putin, but it's dangerous to tar all Russians with the same brush.

Same goes for being against the IDF or Netanyahu etc, doesn't mean it's okay to be against Jewish people as a whole. Same with China, America, wherever - be against the leader, and those who support or turn a blind eye to them, but remember there's plenty of people in these nations who not only disagree but actively protest against them.

TLDR: Be against the tyrants and those who support them, not against entire nationalities and cultures. Unless it's within Rimworld, in which case I'm all for making those bandits into hats...

Hey, Ostrich-Hungry! The name of the guy below means "r@ped an iron". Nevertheless, in light of current events, I think it's best not to support the implementation of the russian language in as many products as possible. It is not OK to support the culture that is currently committing genocide against another nationS (not only Ukrainian). It is not my intention to attack you personally or to force you to do anything, but it is crucial to be aware of the implications of your actions. Thanks for the mod.

Hey @изнасиловал утюг! (lol I have no idea what that means)
Thanks so much for appreciating the mod enough to offer localization support. It really means a lot.

Please, take no rush for a Russian translation. I totally understand it can be frustrating that I'm not actively working on all the planned features at the moment, but I want to give this project my full attention to do it. Some major improvements are coming, and they might significantly change the content.

If someone starts translating now, they might have to redo a lot of work later. I’d hate for you to waste money or time because of that.

I haven’t forgotten about the mod, and I’ll be back on it as soon as I can!

Can anybody do the russian localization pls? I will pay fo it

麦当捞饭: yes, it works! nothing bad reported by me or other users.

for 1.6？？

@Gamesense0: Thank you! I will! I'm just really reaaally busy right now, shamefully.

These are so good... Please keep writing

Wow the new DLC looks like a great fit with your mod. Especially with all the new ships

Oh, 1.6 it's already avaible in the "unstable" branch. I will try it.

@schmidtkaffee: It should, yes. But let's see if there are any mechanics affecting backstories. I haven't seen any announced. Maybe it's better to wait for that big update before making any big changes.

should work in 1.6?

Great writing, I love more backstory lore

Thanks for the reply, looking forward to more updates! Will do on the suggestions part in the future.

@Yuka: I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT!
Trust me, I already made an update correcting almost all the "forced" disables. (you can see the changes in "change notes"). The ones I left behind make some sense or at least complement the backstory/hint of personality for that backstory.

If you have an opinion, I encourage you to put it in the "suggestions" section. I assure you that it will be read in detail, and possibly integrated into the mod.
Right right now I'm waiting to build some heavy features before making the big changes.

This seems really promising, but so many interesting backstories contain lots of disabled work, which is frustrating. Completely understandable that some severe backgrounds like lifelong bred killers being unable to care, but less severe backstories should maybe have less disabled work types.

People can change after all, and they have just began a new life on rimworld.

Man I love this mod. Such an awesome addition to every colony!

Thanks for replying! Maybe I’ll try Cherry Picker to turn off that background story. Anyway, I’m really digging this mod – please keep doing what you’re doing!

I should make a "good" version of the Armored Division Commander mm, and change the name of that one to "disgraced" or something like that.

@MistyMemory: Hey Misty! Well… it’s actually working as intended, lol.
Yeah, it’s annoying, but it’s a trait from "Vanilla Traits Expanded" and it behaves exactly the way it’s supposed to.

The whole point is that, even though the character is "prepared" for battle, they can’t handle the pressure of it. There are a few real-life cases like that too, and that’s the idea behind that specific backstory.

Hey, first off, thanks a ton for making this mod! But while playing, I noticed the Armored Division Commander’s backstory adds a “coward” trait by default. When I tested it, this actually caused attacks to glitch out or disappear randomly. Would you mind tweaking the mod to remove that part of the backstory? I’m really loving these two mods (apologies if the translation sounds weird—I had to use a translator for this)

YES. I love making my rimworld runs a blend of wildly different universes. It's such a unique vibe that's difficult to put to words. Like even base rimworld is like that with magic, sci-fi, and western themes, (and occult if you have anomaly; love it to bits), but with modding you can keep adding to it and it just... works.

@Realm Imp: shamefully, no. closer thing I could grant him was better "immunity" to diseases.
That one was made by @Ravinglegend. Guy really knew what he was doing, so I doubt there is a better way.

Does the venom soldier have buffs against poison?

Also, for ancient players, this is absolutely needed for creating new backstories, or I have no way to differentiate those born before the time of the vaults from those born after.

Currently, you only have pre-collapse backstories. I could make a lot of post-collapse backstories that would fit amazingly good.

And well, you get the idea of where I'm going with this. But precisely because this update is going to be so big, I won’t be adding new content until I’m done with it, since It’ll basically mean a total rework.

I have overly ambitious plans for how to make these mechanics work. If I can pull it off, many childhoods would become subcategories in their own right. There would be pawns with origins that match what they become (like jobs exclusively tied to the sea for pawns who had waterworld childhoods. Or elite military types, the crème de la crème, starting their training from childhood)

Basically:

- I could encompass all the lore of Wastelanders, Metro, and Fallout into childhoods that originate from a "radworld."

- I could make adult backstories that feel "harsh" line up with a childhood in places where that would make sense. People who aren't necessarily bad, but shaped by virtues or flaws rooted in the environments they were raised in. Like the previously mentioned world that would serve as a sort of origin similar to the Death Realms in X-Piratez (I don’t think you’ve played it, but it's basically Mad Max Australia).

I'm waiting to start my work with @Eragon (the creator of Rimworld Together) and see what we can archive. Hopefully we can make certain backstories be assigned only to a particular group of pawns. That way, we could have so so so many good ones that necessarily would need childhood consistency. (I can't make a Adulthood backstory about a guy who lived some glitterworld childhood and ended up in a deathworld match for survival. It's funny a few times, then it gets stupid)

I dare say the potential of this mod hasn't even begun, which is why I'm surprised so many people are paying attention to it.

@rout: I will add it! I had a similar idea too, but mine was about one pawn born into a world where these types of activities were not seen as immoral, a mix of gladiatorial games and Mad Max. Maybe even add some element of pride or whatever.

But yeah, since I watched squid games season 2 I thought about making something in the spirit of "I HAVE BEEN IN THIS RIM BEFOREEEE" lol

thank you rout!!

Had an idea for a backstory:
Death Game Survivor - This pawn was forced to participate in a brutal death game to entertain the wealthy clientele of a megacorporation. This harrowing experience led them to be extremely distrustful of others, but gave them valuable combat experience.
+Shooting
+Melee
-Animals
--Social

@Ostrich-Hungry: Okay

@KILLHET: Hi! I'm sorry, but no! I have no clue about russian and it's A LOT of text...
I don't even know how the game handles localization in other languages. It can't be so hard, but never did.

Hi! Does it support Russian?

It's a normal raider faction. I forgot whether it's yttakin or pigskin. But reading it again I guess it's not actually Ancient backstory, but still from your mod? I guess I do read your mod description wrong.

@fyodord: did it belong to the "ancients" faction? what was the nature of the raid?
Ancients backstories should not spawn in pirates, for example.

I've seen Ancient back stories on a raider with no extra age (so his age is biologically and chronologically 42). Is it intended? I don't know if I read your lore wrong but I thought these back stories is only intended for people who lives ages ago.

If you notice something like this (I'm sure a native English speaker can tell it better than I can) you are welcome to let me know in the "suggestions" discussions tab.
Please, seriously. It's not going to discourage me from the work I'm doing. It's simply to improve everyone's experience.

I've noticed a few spacing issues, some redundant phrases, one that other things to fix. I’ve got them noted down for the next version. Nothing major, but I think it could use a bit more consistency in how I separate the paragraphs from the backstories, also I’ll review the writing in a couple of places too.

See the "Seafarer" for example (It is in the screenshots). I was writting an alternative way to focus in the way he stayed at his port city, and didn't notice I left some of it in the writting.

"... But Simon stayed behind"
"...But he made the choice to stay"
REDUNDANT

see? that kind of stuff. Its not that simple to notice while you are doing it. I'm sure reading them all after a while will help me to give them some tweaks.

@rout: Wow, those are some of the nicest words anyone's ever said about something I made. And in Rimworld, no less! With the amount of amazing mods there are. Thank you, really!
Very appreciated.

That's great to hear! I'm really excited for your next update, this is one of my top mods!

This mod is sick, I read some comments and I commend you for suffering so that we may ascend into greatness.

@STEVE SCRIGGINS: I really want to finish this phase because I’d love to keep writing new backstories.
But... if I add 100 new ones now, that’s 100 more I’ll have to go back and revise later.
Having these features in place lets me think about writing details that used to be impossible to add due to limitations.

...yeah i don't envy your upcoming to-dos, but went to download the mod to read up on the backstories and i like the xml comments you have here and there

@STEVE SCRIGGINS: Thank you!!
Yeah, I think it's better to finish this part of the project first to see what can really be done... and once that’s in place tweak each backstory to implement those features.
(I don’t remember if I included the Ancient and Obsidia backstories in the adults recount, but if I didn't, that’s over 200 backstories that need changes, lol... plenty of work just with that!)