@Thundercraft
People are free to use whatever mods they want; however, mods like this and those that make armor cover the hands/feet usually do so because the creator/s and users don't understand the game balance in the first place so don't even realize the mod is disrupting the balance. Especially in cases of armor mods, most creators think Tynan made a mistake and they are "fixing" it.


Steel walls are flammable because you usually start with/have easy access to steel, which would usually start you with a fire-proof base vs having to first make a Stonecutter's Table, cut stones and then put up stone walls.

Conduits are flammable so that if you leave large portions of your colony's conduits unprotected(I.E. walls, turrets, fire-foam poppers) and lazily strew them all around the place then raiders can do significant damage just by starting a fire or few. You have to plan out your conduits to not only ensure redundancy in case of attack but to ensure the conduits are also easy to protect/put out if they are attacked/set on fire.

The alternative would be raiders breaking conduits one-by-one, which would take significantly longer than starting a single fire and charging your pawns. The time it takes different raiders to break whatever conduits get targeted by their AI would make them spread out more and become an easier force to defeat. By breaking individual conduits it is possible for raiders to only destroy one conduit as they path to your pawns leading to, "Oh, no! They broke a single conduit in my redundant system. How terrbilulz."

If raiders are set to attack a minimum amount of conduits then players could string conduits across their kill zone to distract the enemy and you would only have to replace the ones they managed to destroy before you shot them down. With flammable conduits some raiders/a raider will light a fire or few and move on, minimizing the time they spend not charging your pawns and potentially burning down the entire conduit chain to cost you more resources than in the inflammable scenario.


Armor does not cover the hands/feet because Bionic limbs do not have any, which gives them less total hp than natural limbs but also means you don't have to constantly build replacement hands/feet/fingers/toes.

Bionic Arms/Legs have 30-hp from a 30-hp shoulder/leg; however, bionic limbs can only be destroyed/permanently impaired with a total of 30 damage.

Natural Arms have 120-hp from a 30-hp shoulder and arm, 20-hp hand and five 8-hp fingers. There is also a 20-hp radius and a 25-hp humerus that don't count toward total hp.

Natural Legs have 95-hp from a 30-hp leg, 25-hp foot and five 8-hp toes. There is also a 25-hp femur and tibia that don't count toward total hp.

Fingers/toes can be destroyed by most attacks in RW, resulting in permanent performance reductions.

Hands can be destroyed to render the entire limb useless with 2 Assault Rifle shots(22 dmg) or 1 Sniper shot(25 dmg), which can also destroy the feet and any of the bones in the arms/legs to make them useless.

Natural limbs can bleed that can cause death or at least reduce consciousness, which results in performance reductions.

Natural limbs can feel pain that can reduce consciousness and mood, which results in more mental breaks.

Natural limbs can scar, which permanently reduces part hp and efficiency and can cause pain.

Bionic Arms are just shoulders but armor still covers the arms because they are about 9.6x more likely to be shot than hands and 17x more likely to be shot than fingers.

It appears that Tynan's intention was for early game loses to be fingers/toes and some hands/feet, which are easier to replace than full limbs; however, flak and even hyperweave dusters don't protect the arms very well so they can still be lost, putting a greater resource drain on your colony. Once you have some bionic limbs installed and can start making organs you may want to sacrifice the better torso protection of full flak/flak with duster for the superior limb and head protection of Recon/Marine until you eventually get Cataphract.


I was never arguing that mods like this and any that make conduits inflammable should be forever alone. Because many players make comments like, "Why is this like this? It makes no sense." I hope to inform them of why, balance-wise, some weird game choices exist so they might go, "Oh. That makes sense. Maybe I don't need this mod."