RimWorld

RimWorld

Vanilla Outposts Expanded
RedPine 12 Jan, 2022 @ 6:16pm
Suggestion: View and manage outpost inventory
The only way to view the inventory of an outpost is to either visit them with a caravan, or extract a pawn at the outpost to make a caravan on the spot. Even then, any items loaded onto pack animals or pawns cannot be viewed.

Being able to see and manage this information would let me know how many supplies I need to deliver to a camp before that camp can safely pack up and move to a new location, prepare for raids by supplying weapons and armor to pawns in advance, etc. This would be especially helpful in the early-mid phases of the game where weapons and armor are being constantly upgraded as new technology and trade partners become available.


Secondly, I would like to have a "resource cache" or "vault" type of outpost whose sole purpose is to store (and refrigerate/freeze!) large quantities of loot while attracting as little attention from raids as possible. Wealth management is incredibly vital for many types of playthroughs, and having a relatively balanced way to store items without losing track of where they are stored would be quite helpful.

If outposts could be set to deliver resources to a central cache or "capital" camp, that would also be quite helpful, as it would preserve the convenience of not dumping wealth inside a colony at a bad time while also making it easy for a caravan to pick up goods at a central location.