This is the Medieval Collection, a gathering of all fully compatable mods that aim to completely override the vanilla experience while still maintaining the full vanilla feeling. All textures match the theme set by the mod "medieval overhaul" and the vanilla game. This modpack aims to give a full realistic medieval vibe while both trying to keep all vanilla features and holding the reins on a full fledged fantasy playthrough. There are medieval counterparts to a vast majority of industrial plus machines and items that have been turned from "Sci-fi" to fantasy in order to fit the theme. for example, the medieval gene assembler. I hope y'all enjoy, it took me a lot of hours to find and sort order everything here.


This modlist is prone to not work properly without using the mod load order I have here, once you create this order I highly recomend saving the list as a preset if you want to reuse it. However, do what you will, everything is compatably with this load order.

Before sorting, I suggest going into the games files (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods) and add
a bunch of empty folders. Name these "Exeptions", "Function-Large", "Function-Medium", "Function-Small", "Pawns or Animals", "Function-Animals", "Function-Pawns", "Factions", "Items and Things", "Buildables", "Floors", "Plants", "Function-Map", "Visuals or Retextures", "Misc", and "Patches" you don't need to do anything but rename the folder to these names and restart your game, these act as placeholder mods in the mod list to help sort between the catagories.

This is purely informational, you can skip if you just want what works with this modpack

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picky mods that have to be placed before a certain mod and therefore end up in the wrong catagory, I just throw them here, its before everything and therefore will be in the correct order.

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frameworks that alter the games gameplay in significant ways, Large being things like "core"
"framework" or "Overhaul", Small being small minor adjustments to one catagory of gameplay, like the mods "Smart Medicine",
or "Medieval Gene Assembler". Medium is everything in between. The hardest part of creating a conflict free modlist is
determening the mods that go in these three catagories.

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any mod that adds xenotypes or animals, NOT factions

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any mod that alters animal behaviors, "Giddy up 2", "More caravan animals", "Graze up", etc.

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any mod that alters pawn behaviors, "Rational Romance", "Do your F****** research", "Allies are Helpful", etc.

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Factions, "Profaned", "Divine Order", or others

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any mod that adds new content in the form of things, as a general rule of thumb, if a pawn can put it in its inventory, it goes in this catagory.

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This is where the Great Piramid of Giza would go, anything that adds structures, can be furnature, can be walls, just NOT FLOORS.

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Now you can do floors

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Plants

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mods that alter the world map or map generation

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mods that change the looks of other mods or change the looks of anything vanilla, i also use this as a spot for simple visual effects like "Simple FX: smoke"

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Whatever you cant really catagorize, or just stuff thats so small it doesnt really need to be in the Functions-small catagory

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Patches, Compatability mods, tweaks, things that purely change other mods.

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If you run these 5 mods, they are really picky and want to be at the bottom: "What's that mod", "Resource Dictionary", "Performance Optimizer", "Better CG: Mothballed and World pawns", "Rocketman"
Likewise, these want to be at the very top: "Harmony, "Startup impact", "HugsLib", "Cherry Picker"


finally we can get to the load order for this collection
link to load order (WIP) [docs.google.com]