Overview
A simple guide to change the relationship between all factions in your game. Don’t waste time generating world after world just to get the faction standings you want. With some simple editing you can easily shape any world to your desires.
Summary
Whenever you start a new game most of the faction standings are randomly generate and can often be a nuisance. Especially if you’re using a mod like Faction Control which tend to overwrite all base settings and turn most of them hostile. But fear not, with some simple editing you can quickly create the perfect world order. Even with modded faction.
Requirements
First you will need a text editor in order to change your save files. Notepad++ should do the trick and cover all your basic modding needs.
Notepad++ Official Site[notepad-plus-plus.org]
Editing
Step 1: Create a world with all the factions you desire and then save the game. (this method will also work on games in progress as well)
Step 2: Quit to OS and navigate to your save folder.
(Win10 – UsernameAppDataLocalLowLudeon StudiosRimWorld by Ludeon StudiosSaves)
Step 3: Open up your save file with Notepad++ and press ctrl+f. Then search for ‘thing_human’. This should take you to the first humanoid faction in your world. (the others should follows below)
You can change most of it, but what’s important here is the loadID. This is a faction’s unique designator. This means that if Red Army got loadID 7, then they will be recognized as Faction_7 in the parts ahead.
Below you’ll see a section called relations. This is where you can change all the faction standings. BUT BE AWARE, the goodwill value displayed is the other factions opinion of the one you’re viewing. (yeah, it kinda works in reverse)
– <def> determines what ‘group’ the faction belongs to (outlander, tribal, spacers etc.)
– <name> that will be displayed ingame (can be changed to anything you like)
– Faction_# refers to the loadID (faction in question)
– Goodwill range from -100 to 100 (how much they’re hated or liked)
– ‘<hostile>True</hostile>’ determines whether they are at war (factions at war can never be allied with) (delete or add this line as necessary to each relation)
Example
Blue Army has loadID 5.
Faction_7 is Red Army which hate Blue Army (Faction_5) by -100 and are locked in war.
Step 4: Change the settings to whatever you prefer for all your faction and then save the changes.
Step 5: Load your game and enjoy the new world order =)
(Below the faction relations you’ll see the settings for the different faction leaders. These can be changed in the same way as well if you want to personalise your game even more.. Or just mess around).