Installation

Installation

RimObs is a shared dependency installed by other mods. If you subscribed to a mod that lists it as a requirement, this is what you got.

Steam Workshop

Subscribe to the RimObs Workshop item. Mods that depend on RimObs declare it in their own About.xml, so the Workshop usually pulls it in automatically when you subscribe to a dependent mod. You would only subscribe manually if a setup guide tells you to.

After subscribing, restart RimWorld and enable RimObs in the mod list before any mod that depends on it.

Manual Install

1. Download the latest release zip from https://github.com/cryptiklemur/rimworld-observability-collector/releases.
2. Extract it into RimWorld's Mods/ folder so you end up with Mods/RimObsCollector/ (or whatever folder the zip contains).
3. Launch RimWorld, open the mod list, and enable RimObs before any mod that depends on it.

What Gets Installed

Two pieces ship together:

• Assemblies/RimObs.dll -- the mod-side library. RimWorld's Mono runtime loads this at startup alongside your other mod assemblies.
• Collector/<rid>/RimObs.Collector -- a per-platform native binary that runs alongside the game. The four supported runtime IDs are win-x64, linux-x64, osx-arm64, and osx-x64.

The collector cannot live under Assemblies/ because RimWorld's ModAssemblyHandler loads every .dll in that subtree into Mono, which crashes on the net10 assemblies. See Architecture for details.

Updating

Steam Workshop handles updates automatically. For manual installs, download the new release zip, delete the old folder from Mods/, and extract the new one in its place.

Uninstalling

• Workshop: unsubscribe from the item and disable it in the mod list.
• Manual: delete the mod folder from Mods/.

Either way, local session data and diagnostic bundles stored in your platform's appdata directory are not removed. Delete those manually if you no longer want them.