RimWorld

RimWorld

Caravan Gear v1.6 [B19]
Thom Blair III  [developer] 17 Sep, 2018 @ 12:52am
Tents
I have tried making tents and they are possible, but they are a lot more difficult to make than I was hoping for.

I can make normal Rimworld walls that are made of 1 wood each tile or 1 cloth each wall unit or door unit, but once made, you cannot just take them down and reuse them since in Rimworld, as far as I can figure out, when you deconstruct, you never get back as much material as you put in. So, when you deconstruct something made from 1 wood or 1 cloth each, zero materials back.

As a result, that means you would have to either cut down wood when you want to make a tent, or carry enough cloth to make enough tents to get you through your journey.

What do you think you would prefer?
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Omega13 17 Sep, 2018 @ 10:36am 
Cheap low hp but quick to build shelter walls would probably serve just as well as a tent if those are unrealistic.
Thom Blair III  [developer] 17 Sep, 2018 @ 10:43am 
Yes, that was what I was thinking. So, I was thinking to make them cost 1 wood per wall and 1 wood per door and have next to no hitpoints.

There is also the problem of making the doors be able to replace a tent wall. When I've tested how to make a tent before, I could never figure out how to place a tent door on top of a tent wall, so you have to leave a space in the tent wall where you want to put the door.

It was kind of problematic and if I add tents to the mod, it might confuse people since it's so different from normal Rimworld door & wall building.

I wasn't sure if people would want them or not. What do you think?
Dusty Lens 19 Sep, 2018 @ 6:41am 
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1234361720

This mod has a unique system for adding in tents which, apparently, is both in the process of being updated for 19 and frustrating to update between versions due to the mechanics that it employs. Basically it's a prefab tent that auto deploys and is repairable when it's in its packaged state.

I personally feel that tents are an extremely nice part of the wandering experience, but agree that I'm really uncertain what systems are worth it. Especially when you're confronting the issue of Rimworld's constructing/deconstructing materials system.

I'm really not certain if the juice is worth the squeeze with respect to rigging up some kind of unique tent materials or alternative construction system. It's a puzzler.
Thom Blair III  [developer] 19 Sep, 2018 @ 6:51am 
Originally posted by Dusty Lens:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1234361720]This mod has a unique system for adding in tents which, apparently, is both in the process of being updated for 19
Awesome! Yes, this is the mod everyone was suggesting I update, but the programming required is too hard for me, so I've just made these things so far. If it ever does get updated, it'd be a great addition to camping / caravaning.
TechnoByrd 8 Nov, 2018 @ 1:34pm 
So, it's been a month, but Alias has already done an update for Nanondalt's tents, which work really well. You can take a look here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1523058989
Last edited by TechnoByrd; 8 Nov, 2018 @ 1:34pm
Thom Blair III  [developer] 8 Nov, 2018 @ 3:06pm 
Yes, thank you for sharing that.
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