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Editors
The Editors section gives you easy in-game tools to customize what your viewers can do. Use them to control prices, traits, events, weather, and more.
Open them from the RICS button in the bottom right, or from Mod Settings.
Control exactly what viewers can buy and how much things cost.
- Simple guide: Turn items on/off, change prices, set buy limits, and apply quality rules.
- Great for keeping the economy fair.
Customize available traits and their properties
- Purpose: Configure which traits viewers can acquire
- Access: Trait prices, karma requirements, availability
- Use Case: Balance trait acquisition, create themed trait sets
Control weather events and climate manipulation
- Purpose: Manage available weather types and their effects
- Access: Weather prices, cooldowns, and impact settings
- Use Case: Control climate events, set weather restrictions
Configure game events viewers can trigger
- Purpose: Manage raid events, incidents, and game occurrences
- Access: Event prices, karma requirements, cooldowns
- Use Case: Balance event frequency, control game impact
See and control everyone chatting with your stream.
- Simple guide: Search viewers, edit their coins/karma, manage their pawns, ban people, or do bulk changes.
- Great for moderation and keeping the economy fair.
Change how chat commands work.
- Simple guide: Turn commands on/off, adjust cooldowns, set permissions, and create custom aliases.
- Good for fine-tuning what viewers can do.
Choose which races (and xenotypes) viewers can buy.
- Simple guide: Enable/disable races, set prices, control age ranges, and pick available genetics (Biotech).
- Useful for theme or balance.
Control the queue for viewers getting pawns.
- Simple guide: Set how the queue works, adjust offer timers, and manage who gets what.
- Helps keep pawn distribution fair.
Control research and item quality (up to date).
From Menu Bar (Recommended)
- Load your RimWorld save game
- Look for the RICS button in the bottom-right menu bar
- Click the button and select any editor or tool from the menu
- Load your RimWorld save game
- Open Mod Settings → RICS → Game Events & Cooldowns
- Click any editor button in the "Event Management" section
- Menu Bar: Click RICS button in bottom-right corner
- Main Menu: Mod Settings → RICS → [Specific Editor]
- In-Game: Options → Mod Settings → RICS → [Specific Editor]
- Backup First: Save your game before making major editor changes
- Test Gradually: Make small changes and test their impact
- Balance Economy: Ensure prices match your coin reward settings
- Consider Karma: Use karma requirements to gate powerful items/events
- Start with basic store items and events
- Enable common traits only
- Use moderate prices and cooldowns
- Gradually expand as community grows
- Curate themed items and events
- Use karma requirements for alignment
- Set appropriate cooldowns for balance
- Consider story-appropriate restrictions
- Enable most events and items
- Lower prices and cooldowns
- Minimal restrictions
- Prepare for colony impact!
- Per-Save: Editor changes are saved with each colony
- Global Defaults: New colonies use mod defaults
- Backup: Always backup saves before major edits
- Large store/item lists may impact performance
- Complex event chains can affect game speed
- Monitor frame rate after significant changes
- Editors not appearing: Ensure you have a game loaded
- Changes not saving: Check if you have write permissions
- Performance drops: Reduce number of enabled items/events
- Missing DLC content: Verify DLC is installed and enabled
- Individual editors can typically be reset to defaults
- Full mod reset available in Global Settings
- Backup saves before resetting
- Settings Overview - Configure core mod behavior
- Commands List - View available chat commands
- Economy Guide - Balance coin and karma systems
Next: Explore each editor in detail using the links above, or start with the Store Editor to set up your viewer marketplace.