1. Introduction

2. Installation Guide

4. FAQ

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Created for my Youtube series found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=driaD6rEMiw

Looking to uncover the ancient Mechanoid slaying weapons and technology used by the Ancient Super Soldiers, General Pain, Chainsaw Hands, and their surviving crew, set a one-way course for a distant Mechanoid planet to either die in a glorious last-stand, or finally discover a way to combat the machine menace.

Heavily inspired by the Matrix, Pacific Rim, and other man vs monster style end-of-the-world scenarios. The goal is to fight against unstoppable odds, with many Mechanoid mods and interactions, but without risking the life and humanity of your people. Fight proxity battles with mechs, remote controlled clones, and peak human physicality with downloaded Kung-fu, instead of the usual bionic supersoliders in power armour with charge rifles.

Please use the save game for the full feature set include custom starting map, factions, and Ideoligions! You can create your own starting characters and remove the default characters using character editor!

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For any new complex mod pack you should FULLY reset Rimworld, and all related files, to ensure no old, outdated, or incompatible mods are left behind.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)


1. Follow the above steps to clean your installation
2. Subscribe to all with the button above
3. Open RimPy
4. Press "Sort"
5. Press "Save"
6. Press "Run"

I would highly recommend stripping mods and optimising textures too!


PLEASE consider swapping to RimPy, it is a much more useful tool capable of auto-sorting your mods, cleaning up unneeded files, and optimising textures to save on memory usage!

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 "MachineWar(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.