RimWorld Quickstart (for testing/modding)

Overview

If you’re tinkering with the game or with some mods that you’re altering/creating, you’ll want a way to quickly get into the actual map and test your things out.There is a very simple way to set this up!As per this thread: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=26317.0

What it does

It will start RimWorld and immediately load a small map with the standard scenario, and with all of your currently loaded mods!

So if you’re modding the game and you have to keep restarting and reloading a world just to test one of your changes, this will allow you to skip through all of the main menu and scenario starting stuff right into a loaded map!

Just remember that if you want to test a newly created mod, you’ll have to start the game normally to open the mod menu and set it to active.

Steam (direct method)

In the main client window, go into RimWorld’s properties, then set a launch option like so; -quicktest
Don’t forget to remove the launch option when you’re done debugging!

Steam (better method)

In the main client window, click on ADD A GAME in the lower left
Then select Add A Non-Steam Game
Navigate to your RimWorld folder and select the game’s own RimWorldWin.exe
This will create a shortcut to your Steam install of the game – if you use an alternative install (for modding perhaps) then obviously navigate to that instead
Right click on your new addition in your Steam library and click on Properties
Rename it to something like RimWorld Testing
Click on Set launch options and write -quicktest
Click on Ok, Close and boot the game through this shortcut whenever you want to quickly test something!

Non-Steam (Windows)

Navigate to your RimWorld folder and right click on RimWorldWin.exe
Click on Create shortcut
Right click on the shortcut and click on Properties
In the box where it reads Target, put the current file path in double quotation marks, add a space after the closing quotation mark and write -quicktest like in this example;
C:GamesSteamsteamappscommonRimWorldRimWorldWin.exe
to
“C:GamesSteamsteamappscommonRimWorldRimWorldWin.exe” -quicktest
Click on Ok to save and close the window
Use your new shortcut to launch a quickstart test version of RimWorld with your currently loaded mods!

Technical info

I used (the modified) ILSpy and searched, found this:

using System; using UnityEngine.SceneManagement; namespace Verse { internal static class QuickStarter { private static bool quickStarted; public static bool CheckQuickStart() { if (GenCommandLine.CommandLineArgPassed(“quicktest”) && !QuickStarter.quickStarted && GenScene.InEntryScene) { QuickStarter.quickStarted = true; SceneManager.LoadScene(“Map”); return true; } return false; } } }

This prompted me to try out the launch option and it worked! 🙂

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