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Rimstation 13 - The Quest For Spess

Mod is being updated to 1.4 in stages, if you're not interested in playing an incomplete experience, do not play with this mod until this message disappears.


Rimstation 13 is a mod intended to replicate as best as possible the functionality and atmosphere of Spacestation 13 in Rimworld as a singleplayer experience, it is an ongoing project due to the inherent complexity and massive amount of content contained in Spacestation 13. This mod is based on the /tg/ Branch of SS13 as it is the one I am most familiar with.


Spacestation 13 is a game in which the player takes the role of a crewman on a futuristic Plasma Research Station run by a corporation known as NanoTrasen. There are usually between 20 and 60 crewmembers onboard and each is controlled by a player with their own jobs to fulfill and responsibilities to the station, these vary from Security Officers to maintain order and Atmospherics Engineers to keep the fully simulated atmosphere inside the station from leaking out into space or catching fire and killing everyone. There are also Botanists to grow food and Chefs to cook it, Engineers to build and repair, Scientists to Science and Doctors to heal the myriad viruses and wounds that can be sustained as part of the complex health, body and chemistry systems. Throw in the fact that an unhealthy number of the crew are either incompetent or have been given various kinds of malicious tasks to complete and I'm sure you can all see the potential for catastrophic meltdown which can be easily equated to Rimworld's own sick brand of awesome.

As of v0.17 Rimstation 13 requires the Humanoid Alien Races 2.0 framework to run, this is to allow other controllable races like Cyborgs, Podmen and all the others. As of v3.0 (1.2) it also requires the Harmony mod, like everything else.

I've set up a Discord for the mod to make it easier to hear what you have to say about the mod, Bugs, Balancing, Suggestions and so on, there's also some channels for general SS13 and Rimworld banter. It'd be great if you stopped by to let me know what you think of the mod.
If you'd like to contribute then you can buy me a coffee here; fund my caffeine addiction. Trust me, it directly benefits the mod.

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The Storyteller artworks were created by Auros/Spessmenart and are used with permission (thank you!). They are not covered by a Creative Commons or share-alike license, they may only be used with their direct permission.

If you play Rimworld with many mods enabled please read the compatibility section before subscribing



This mod is not made with compatibility in mind, some mods will not work and this is not something I intend to devote time to avoiding. This mod is made to emulate Space Station 13 and is to be considered a full conversion/overhaul of the base game to reach that goal.


Q: A: The mod is intended to totally overhaul RimWorld into a new kind of experience based around Space Station 13. It removes most vanilla content and replaces it with Space Station 13 related content. Bear in mind the overhaul is a work in progress and there is a massive amount of stuff left to carry over, as such you will encounter some vanilla content during gameplay which is being phased out each update.

Q: A: I highly recommend starting in a "Mountainous" area for this reason as this ensures ample access to raw materials. This mod is very steel heavy in construction.

Q: A: Not yet, however I hope to add this in later on. It has been done before in other mods and in the earliest builds was actually part of the base game so it can definitely be done.

Q: A: Sure but you may find it lacking in content if you don't understand the context.

Q: A: Maybe, maybe not. Compatibility is outside the scope of this mod and if making it compatible with a certain mod means negatively impacting the vision of this one, then I'll choose RS13.

Q: A: If you don't like the spessmen then this isn't the mod for you. Secondly, I'm not maintaining multiple mods just because you're too lazy to delete a few PNGs, all you have to do is delete the pawn sprites in the mod folder.

Q: A: Honk.




I do not claim to have created any of the textures within, they were all contributed to the public branch of the /tg/ source which is freely available and licenced under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence available here[creativecommons.org] the /tg/ source is available here.[github.com]

The exceptions to this rule are the RS13 storyteller textures, they are original pieces created by Spessmenart and may not be used without their express permission and are not to be taken from the mod and used elsewhere.

All code may be used or modified freely in other mods, however it may not be rehosted or redistributed elsewhere in its original form.

I would like to give thanks to the RimWorld modding Discord/Slack for being an inexhaustible source of modding experience. There was almost always someone willing to try to help, even with my most mundane problems, I wouldn't have gotten this far without them.

Thanks to Erdelf for the Humanoid Alien Races framework and great insights on Harmony patching.
Thanks to Mehni for being an omnipresent invaluable source of debugging help.
Thanks to Rikiki for allowing others to use code from their Laser Fence mod, I used parts of it for the Plasma Walls in RS13: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=14711.msg153939#msg153942
Thanks to The Spessbox discord community for sticking around for the years this mod has been in and out of development, I'd have abandoned it altogether without you guys. In particular, Minnowz has always been a regular source of inspiration, a great guy to bounce ideas off of and occasionally even a solid helper with the ridiculous amount of grunt work this kind of mod requires, as well as Johnny FiveAces, one of my greatest advocates even when I don't deserve it, and a constant voice of positivity.
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