1. Introduction

2. Installation Guide

3. FAQ

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Created for my Youtube series found here: https://youtu.be/pgxyxc4S02I

Imagine Rimworld from the perspective of the Empire. Sure, you might get the occasional vanilla faction popping up with the same armour and weapons and you, but what about... modded colonies? Horrible anime waifus, monstrous cybernetic colonists that could singlehandedly wipe out the whole empire, and milkable colonist mods!?

What if you played as the Empire, and finally got to see through their eyes what it is like to fight against the full width of the darkest depths of the steam workshop - the most depraved, twisted, frustrated colonies going.

This modpack is based on the save included below - you play as the Empire, using only base game Empire tools such as psycasting, cataphracts, free troops, and extra bases, and attempt to take on the 'average player experience' featuring katana wielding cat girls, cybernetic warriors, and unbalanced weapons and armour.

If you do not play with the starting save you will have a mess of conflicting factions, technology, and ideas. It'll be one of the worst Rimworld experiences to play. You've been warned!

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For any new complex mod pack you should FULLY reset Rimworld, and all related files, to ensure no old, outdated, or incompatible mods are left behind. Reinstalling Rimworld or unsubscribing from mods WILL NOT fully reset your reinstallation and old files can still persist!

Folders that should be reset fully before beginning a new modpack:

Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods (Manually installed mods folder)
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100 (Steam mod download folder)
AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios (Your user configurations, saves, etc)

Imgur Picture guide for Steps 6 onward as this can be a bit more confusing for first-time users: https://imgur.com/gallery/0ktDs6N

1. Subscribe to the collection, and allow the download time to complete, might take a while to copy over!

2. Download the load order file from the above "Load Order (Mod Manager)" google drive link.

3. Open Rimworld and enable Harmony and Mod Manager ONLY, making sure harmony is at the top, while Mod Manager is at the bottom, like so:
- Harmony
- Core
- Royalty DLC
- Ideology DLC
- Mod Manager

4. Restart Rimworld and go back into mods, if it looks different and has new options, mod manager is working correctly.

5. Close Rimworld

6. Type EXACTLY(without quotes) "%appdata%/../LocalLow" into Windows Explorer (the bar at the top of windows folders, etc).

7. Open the "Ludeon Studios" folder. Then "Rimworld by Ludeon Studios" folder, then ModLists (this folder WILL NOT appear until you have enabled Mod Manager and Harmony in Rimworld, go back to step 3 and restart Rimworld.)

8. Paste the Mod Manager XML file from Google Drive into this folder (LocalLow/Ludeon Studios/Rimworld by Ludeon Studios/ModLists)

9. Restart Rimworld ONCE the file has been copied

10. Go back into "Mods"

11. Click on the button called "Create, apply and manage mod lists" on the further right of the other button in the BOTTOM CENTRE of the screen.

12. Click "Load mod list"

13. Click "EmpireExperience(ModManager)", if this does not appear then either restart Rimworld OR you haven't placed the file in the correct place. Redo steps 6 onward.

14. Restart Rimworld and you're done!

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Q: Is this a virus? (I get this a lot)
A: I 100% get the caution, but Youtube is my job, I have 160k+ subscribers, and if I tried to do anything even remotely malicious I would lose my ability to pay rent overnight. Obviously I wouldn't maliciously spread a virus amongst a Rimworld mod pack. You are more than welcome to ask amongst comment sections, my discord, or even here on steam if you're unsure. If you want to be extremely certain, I would highly recommend using the files with something such as https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload which will check the files amongst many masterlists provided by security companies.

Q: Why didn't you include X mod?
A: I only had a 48 hour window to create and test the modpack, and produce the accompanying video. But I'm always up for new suggestions.