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Rimworldis a highly volatile game. Thanks to how random events are, disaster can be around almost any corner. In that same vein, it’s sometimes up to chance whether you can get your hands on some vital pieces of equipment or resources. Sometimes, you just want to play god and shape your story with a bit more control.
Enter console commands, or Rimworld’s version of the feature, at least. The developer mode, accessible through the options menu, adds a whole host of tweaks and commands that aren’t normally available to you. It can be a bit overwhelming, though, so here’s the rundown.
How To Enable Developer Mode
Enabling Developer Mode is simple:open up the Options menuwhen in-game. In the General tab, there’ll be a’Development mode' setting, set to a cross by default. Select this to enable the mode.
This will do two things:
The three most relevant features added with developer mode for enhancing your gameplay are the Debug Actions, Debug Settings, and God Mode features.
Debug Actions
This is where you’ll find a lot ofactions that you’d expect from a ‘console commands’function, such as spawning incidents manually, killing certain creatures or pawns, changing factions, or altering pawns in exactly the ways you want (healing them, improving their skills, or even resurrecting them, for example).
Most of these are self-explanatory, but we’d recommend saving before experimenting with any of them in case you end up with an outcome that you aren’t prepared for.
Debug Settings
This menu is filled withtoggles that will allow you to alter how the world worksand what sorts of information you have available to you. Significant ones include enabling or disabling general damage, pawn damage, storyteller events, and diseases. you’re able to also toggle ‘cheats’ such as fast ecology, research, and learning.
You can also findsettings related to certain DLCshere, such as Ideology settings and Grav Ship tweaks.
For those who mod the game heavily, it might also be useful to use the Show FPS Counter accessible through this menu to keep track of your game’s performance.
God Mode
This is available in the Debug Settings menu, but is also a toggle on the banner at the top of the screen. It’s important to note that this is a cheat that helps you build things instantly for free and sell things that aren’t yours, and doesn’t actually protect your pawns from harm (as you might expect a God Mode to do). To protect your pawns from harm, you’d need to disable player damage in the Debug Settings menu.
Some of the actions are preceded by a’T:'- this means that it’s atargeted action. Upon clicking on such an action, you’ll then have to click on the area or object that you want the action to interact with. Right-clicking will then remove that action from your pointer.
The palette icon on the top bar enables theDev palette, which is a customised list of commands and settings that you create yourself by clicking the pin icons next to them. This allows easy access to the commands you use the most.
How To Re-Enable Development Mode If You Disabled It
If you havedisabled Development mode(whether or accident or to avoid temptation) and wish to re-enable it, it’s quite an easy fix.
Disabling Development mode simply creates anempty file inside your Rimworld Config folder, found by navigating to \AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Config. Delete the file called ‘DevModeDisabled’ and when you relaunch the game, Developer Mode will be accessible again.
The above method works for Windows. OnLinux, use a console to type the following: cd “~/.config/unity3d/Ludeon Studios/RimWorld by Ludeon Studios/Config”
