@WalkingProblem Sure hope you'd add a max amount of colonists as I think it can help a lot from overpopulation. A great concept.

I’m also thinking about relaunch the mod as a new workshop item so that people can actually find it (thinking about it)

I saw some of the comments in the workshop page – I may do some of the ideas/suggestions – but mainly I may also add a mod option to decide how frequently new colonists will join (and perhaps at what time). But this is for the long long future…..

After years away from Rimworld modding (and in fact, the Rimworld game itself) – I have decided to restart modding work on Rimworld – with the main objective just to update all my mods to the latest version.

The first to get updated is “A Colonist A Day”.

Its a small C# mod, but a good gateway to guide me back to modding, as I forgotten quite a lot of stuffs. Thankfully, the advent of ChatGPT means I can save a lot of time trawling the internet, forum, discord and google for information and know-how.

AI is also the main reason why I’m back – because its gonna speed up the mod updating vs the entirely blind modding that me and all the OGs used to do.

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nah, Wanderer Joins without your permission

wanderer joins shows a pop-up you need to accept (i think)

what's the difference between this and vanilla making a scenario with a reocurring "wanderer joins" event?

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Also it seems that whatever timer you have set keeps going when the game is paused, because I stepped away and when I unpaused I got two new colonists

1.4? Also, instead of using a timer and custom event.. Why not just call a "Colonist Joins" event every day at a specific time (like 12h), that way it will stay consistent between saves and the player will know exactly when they will get a new colonist

Good mod, enjoyable for creating cannon fodder factions like the imperial guard.

One suggestion I have is possibly having a choice to set the starting equipment for the new arrivals, or even just let you choose from the unit templates for other factions.

I know it could be exploited but I tend to just use character editor to arm all my new arrivals and change their ideologies anyway. So would be a nice optional thing, especially for mods like Zombieland where you want the new people to have a fighting chance of reaching your base.

Might also be nice to have more options for intervals and perhaps spawn counts at each interval

Also in terms of mod incompatibilities, not a major conflict but with Rim of Madness vampires I was having vampire colonists spawn and instantly burn to death.

Also occasionally had them spawn in undiscovered cave networks so I could see their marker but not the terrain.

Keep up the good work!

I agree with FlamerDasher25, also you should be given the option to only accept people of your same ideology or religion.

Give us the option if we should accept the colonist or not.

will this be compatible with alien races?

worked on a way to disable it temporarily and the adjustments yet? :)

this mod smells like pineapple and frumberries, i like it

@Elth - Feature coming soon. Possibly in the next update.

@Evelyn - Yeap. The option to adjust the frequency will come in the next update as a mod setting option.

I havent work on it yet. (just to add)

This could perhaps be made to act like the printer in Oxygen Not Included.. An option to tweak it to every 4-5 days or so and to say *no* or have an alternative choice of resources/items instead, this way it's not an overwhelming challenge and you have control over how fast they flow in. You don't have to do this, of course, just a thought.

is there a way to disable it temporarily?

@Gyger - https://evilgenius-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Genius <-- this game?

Oh, I never heard of this game before~ haha My bad!

@WalkingProblem In the first Evil Genius, you had a steady flow of (free) minions who were construction workers, hence yellow jumpsuits and hardhats.

@Eat n Squeak - because you cant change it once you start the game. (right?)

And in future updates for this mod, I can add more options...

@Gyger - yellow clothes? Sorry, i missed the context

wait whats even the point of this, why wouldn't you just add Wanderer Joins event in the scenario editor as a recuring event every 24 hours

You just need to make them wear yellow clothes (and hardhats if available).

Hi All,

I have added an intro video to this mod into the workshop "gallery". Hope its interesting.

And if like my work, do subscribe to my youtube channel! I'm trying to grow it to a point where it can generate income to fund the modding work (thus you guys can benefit too with the free mods!)

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@Khaydar - damn! I should have thought of that!

@tkgamer77 - hmm... at the moment no.

But I will be expanding on this mod, and probably add such options into some form of mod setting some day.

Just in time for my Death Korps of Krieg scenario! is there any way to force the joining colonists to be your colonies ideoligion? I can't convert them fast enough, lol.

"One colonist a day, keeps the Man in Black away."

@Kaiser_Of_Aldi - You can start a new game and see how long you can last with this....

If you dont want it to be "never-endingly" - can I recommend you to pair up this mod with my WalkingProblem Happening Storyteller mod?

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295107035&tscn=1633843076

It will keep everything interesting. ENDLESSLY interesting...

@DisKorruptd - hmmm..... thats a very very good point.... (pondering...)

Yeah, maybe I can change it to that and set a mod setting for people to adjust that...

On facebook, someone told me to add the ability to change the frequency of the colonists joining - so for that, will also need mod setting.

@Bloodletting Finale - Hmm... noted....

Why dont you just set up a concentration camp else where and use them as meat shield during a fight? LOL

I will look into it~

@Trouble - who is mas? LOL

mas chose anger

Can you remove the debuff of banishing colonists with this mod?

It would be fun to get colonists every day, but I want to select only the best for my army. So banishing useless colonists (pacifists) every single day would be a massive problem.

Wouldn't it be possible to have this happen at a specific time of day in game? like when it hits noon, a new pawns comes in? wouldn't have to save time if it happens the same time every single day

I feel like this could get really hectic, you just made rimworld a game about micromanaging a never-endingly large populace, its no longer "who is the best at this" its now "How many of you arent doing this" I want to try it but at the same time I dont because I dont believe my computer would put up with this for a minute

this might actually make for a pretty interesting challenge.

@Badass Trans Knight - I'm rather "behind" when comes to the new stuffs added to Rimworld over the past 2 years.... Anyway, if anyone find it useful~ Thats great~

I created this mod in a whim of sort. Its like a "warm up" for returning to update the other massive mods that is still waiting for me to update. =P

Its always useful to start with a small mod to gain some happiness and momentum before starting work on a draggy massive mod.

Kinda neat, but also completely useless; you can just add a repeating 'wanderer join' event to your scenario. This is only worthwhile for existing saves.