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Armor is Uncomfortable 3

No longer are colonists happy to be encased in a suit of heavy armor for eternity!

Armor Is Uncomfortable 3 (henceforth known as AIU3) is a VAST improvement over its predecessor, Armor is Uncomfortable 2. It has been rebuilt from scratch and is balanced out of the box with massive quality-of-life improvements, with alerts that warn of problems and much more easily accessible information. This intentionally masochistic mod is painful because it is challenging and not because it is obtuse. As your colonists wear uncomfortable armor, they get increasingly moody and suffer ill effects such as chafing injuries and poor sleep.

AIU makes Rimworld strictly more challenging. You'll need to think far more carefully about what apparel you assign your troops - light armor for long journeys and patrols, heavy armor for when you KNOW there's going to be a throwdown.

To avoid the tedium of changing outfits manually, you should use a mod like Gear Up And Go. Unfortunately, the creator of that mod, Uuugggg, sadly passed away ( o7 ), and you should instead use one of the successor mods
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3530234134


Apparel is assigned an "Cumbersomeness" value. This value is calculated based on that apparel's mass, coverage, armor rating, quality and material

The sum total of all the apparel a colonist wears is their "Encumbrance". If they have a Encumbrance of more than 100%, they are considered uncomfortable and will gain mood penalties over time. The higher the Encumbrance, the faster their Unencumberedness need goes down.

Once a colonist strips off their uncomfortable clothes, they'll need time to fully recover. If they wear armor before then, they'll have the same penalty they accrued before. This could take a long time if they were in armor for weeks.


Everything was rewritten from scratch, and everything works completely different now, but the premise is still the same. The longer you wear heavy armor, the more uncomfortable you get.
- Pawn encumbrance can be read from the gear tab
- Chafing hediffs from wearing armor too long
- Pawns no longer make themselves uncomfortable by overdressing
- New "abrasion resistance" genes added
- Talcum powder you can manufacture and apply to pawns to reduce the risks of overencumbrance


AIU uses XmlExtended for its mod options, allowing a true "I like my candy with razor blades" experience you've been craving. Crank up that difficulty! Or make it easy, if that's your thing.


AIU is very compatible, even with Combat Extended. AIU calculates discomfort dynamically based on the weight, coverage, and protectiveness of a piece of apparel, so it (usually) produces logical values. All armor mods should work just fine.

There are potential issues with alien humanlikes with custom body part groups - discomfort values assume roughly human anatomies, so things like tentacle sleeves and centaur barding will not produce discomfort when they should. This shouldn't be game-breaking.

AIU has built-in compatibility with Vanilla Factions Expanded - Pirates (warcaskets have 0 cumbersomeness) and Vanilla Races Expanded - Androids.

I do not own Anomaly, so I have no idea how this mod interacts with entities.


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