Alpha 4

This is a sub-page of Proto:RimWorld.

Sub-pages#

UI DifferencesSo many!!!!!!!! Texture DifferencesEnough texture changes to make a grown man cry

Unused Content#

Door Key#

There is an unused door key item which can be spawned with the debug menu.

Hats#

Various textures for hats exist in the game data but cannot ever be seen in this version of the game, even with the debug menu.
KevlarHelmet

M1Helmet

PowerArmorHelmet

CowboyHat

=== Tactical Game leftovers === There are some textures leftover from a distant ancestor of Rimworld, Tactical Game.

There is a "missing content" icon, presumably as a failsafe for if a texture fails to load or does not exist.

Colony creation#

On dropping into a map, a regular and a dumping stockpile zone are already marked, both 5 by 5 tiles. 3 sleeping spots are also present. This is not the case in the final game.

Storytellers#

5 storytellers exist in this version of the game, instead of the 3 in the final game. The scroll bar in the storyteller section leaves room for 3 more.

Item/building differences#

The home region is not automatically set when building.

Weapons#

The following is a list of all weapons available in the game at this point. Melee weapons have not been added at this point in development.

Armour#

Armour & clothing cannot be crafted, equipped, or taken off in this version of the game, so none of them have item textures. The only way for a pawn to get certain clothing is to be randomly generated with it.

Resources#

• There are only 3 types of animals: Muffalo, squirrels, and boomrats. These three plus human are the only meat types available.
• There are only 6 growable plants: Potato, strawberry, rose, daylily, dandelion, and oak tree. Potatoes, berries, and agave fruit (the latter two are both harvestable from wild plants) are the only vegetarian food types available.
• Components aren't added yet, but a few items have the thingclass "ThingWithComponents"
• Silver, metal, and uranium are the only ore items available, although silver and uranium don't generate in the world. (maybe wrong)

Wood & walls#

Alpha 4 is one of the last versions of the game to use the logs/planks system. Much like how debris must be cut into bricks at a stonecutter's table in the final game in order to be useful, logs would have been cut at a sawmill into planks.

Buildings#

• Wood and metal walls all had built-in power conduits, while log walls & stone walls did not.
• Regular doors transmit power, this is not the case in the final game.
• Table sizes are 2x2 and 2x4. In the final game, there is also a 2x1 size table.
• Machining bench has no purpose other than to disassemble mechanoid corpses. (maybe wrong)

Mechanical Differences#

Absent mechanics#

• Temperature
• Hediffs (colonists use a HP system)

Needs#

Colonists have only two needs in the needs tab, food and rest. There is a separate "Thoughts" tab with three need bars, "Loyalty", "Happiness", and "Fear", Loyalty being set to the value of either Happiness or Fear, whichever is higher. If the Loyalty score goes below a certain threshold (as indicated by an orange line), then the colonist will go into a mental break. Additionally, if the Loyalty score of a prisoner is below the threshold, all recruitment attempts will fail.
Similar to the final game, colonists will have "thoughts" that react to their surroundings, all of which provide a modifier to their Happiness (left) and their Fear (right) values. These thoughts expire over time.

Skills#

There is no "Animals" skill.

Traits#

To do: Categories that need doing: More societal positions Medical and body Aug abilities INACTIVE

All traits have the following description:

Traits are just fun story bits for now; most of them don't do anything. This will change in future versions.

The following is a list of traits, categorised as they are in the game data:
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" ! Talents and Skills || Note/Fate || In current version? |- | Mind reader || || No |- | Math talent || || No |- |Language talent || || No |- |Rapier wit || || No |- |Radiation tolerance || Possibly turned into "tox resistance" gene. || No |- |Imaginative || || No |- |Business acumen || || No |- |Charisma || Possibly turned into various backstories that influence the social skill. || No |- |Gunsmith || || No |- |Impersonator || || No |- |Sexually experienced || Possibly turned into "high libido" gene. |- |Sexually inexperienced || Possibly turned into "low libido" gene. || No |- |Artistic || Possibly turned into "tortured artist" trait, or any number of artist-related backstories.|| No |- |Musician || Possibly turned into a backstory. || No |- |Knitter || || No |- |Weaver || Turned into a backstory. || No |- |Weather predictor || || No |- |Leader || Possibly influenced the Ideology expansion's leader system. || No |- |Fashion knowledge || No || |- |Vehicle mechanic || Possibly turned into a backstory. || No |- |Culturally adaptable || || No |- |Eidetic memory || || No |- |Photographic memory || || No |- |Empathy || Possibly turned into the "Psychic bonding" gene from the Biotech expansion. || No |- |Gadgeteer || Possibly turned into a backstory || No |- |}

Research#

Scrapped researches#

The following research options are available in Alpha 4 but not in the current version of the game. Many of them focus on unlocking modifiers instead of new items or buildings.