\o/ Glad to hear, I really do like your backstories.

@Reprogrammed Automaton: A guy suggested that in a previous comment. I took a look and I can. Yes. I will do backstories for VRE: Androids.

Would it be okay to sugest more android backstories for VRE: Androids?

@LambdaFan - True enough, we should wait and see how it hashes out I suppose.

@Gerewoatle: I don't think you should be thinking negatively about this seeing how well VFE: Medieval 2 turned out, though that won't stop me from being disappointed at there being no vaults.

new version here! For this release, I've added just one new backstory: adulthood backstory "bloodrunner".

However, the revisions to the previous backstories have been MASSIVE (full details are in the changelog).

I also have a number of completed backstories that haven't been released yet. I'm planning to give them some final tweaks before adding them. The majority of these are for the 'Offworld' origin (the most common spawn type, typically all your colonists will be "Offworld").

Furthermore, I'm looking to create new backstories specifically for the Empire faction. This update removed many of the new spawns that weren't Imperial-exclusive, and I want to better differentiate the core RimWorld tech with the Empire's unique background.

This is the only time I have done something that might cause trouble if you had a colonist with the backstory of "botanist apprentice". It was a fairly new backstory, so the chances of it are really low (I hope).

@Ostrich-Hungry - I agree. Honestly, the faction, living in and finding the secret bunkers (and all the submods related to it) were by far the more interesting part of the mod. I never had much use for the blatantly overpowered supersoldier stuff, and I'm not sure why they'd choose to create yet another inevitably grossly overpowered system of abilities when they already have VPE to remove all challenge from the game.

But with that said, it's not out yet. I suppose I'm just pessimistically speculating.

@Gerewoatle: That's awfully sad, for many reasons. Poor people who did those amazing submods around vaults or even mechanics like the sling relay.

O7!

@Ostrich-Hungry - From what I've been able to discern, they seem to be focusing primarily or exclusively on the supersoldier genetics part of Ancients rather than the faction.

Umm, the Vanilla Expanded team are going to make the ancients exclusively a quest? Does anyone know anything?

I mean... won't you be able to play them anymore? God, thank goodness I haven't been making new backstories for them, lol.

If that's the case, I'll adapt many of those backstories to the regular pool.
If they remain a separate faction, I'll leave things as they are.

Maaaany of the initial backstories I created were subsequently reworked with a new perspective and a significantly higher level of quality. Having spent some time on the project, My standards are far clearer now.

Thank you to everyone who supported this mod and gave it SO much visibility. I'm almost embarrassed because for a long time there were some stinky quality backstories and nobody complained. What a nice public.

I'm actively working on improving the ones that ended up being too convoluted or shallow, but to be honest most of them are quite good right now.

Total ratings 511
Positive ratings 501 (98% of total) <----- (this is A LOT!, thanks, really!!)
Negative ratings 10 (2% of total)

- new childhood backstory: "impoverished noble". (Imperial Royal exclusive)
- new childhood backstory: "silo monk" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz) .
- new adulthood backstory: "proud barbarian" (Tribal exclusive, Conan 1982 inspired. Been wanting to make this one since a LOOONG time ago.).
- new adulthood backstory: "pet culler" (https://people.com/pets/hbo-chernobyl-dog-death-scene-explained/) .
- new adulthood backstory: "liquidator".

Quite the opposite, I truly appreciate your work, schmidtkaffee!

@Ostrich-Hungry
So my dearest deepseek cheated me, and a coincidence happened too when i search for what's the other meaning of cheese pizza, LLM always make up lies or stuck in illusions even i just let them do auxiliary works.
Anyway, thanks a lot for that,

@schmidtkaffee: Lol, no, not at all! I just think it's absurd to make a pizza the core of a backstory. It assumes pizza delivery exists in Rimworld, which isn't insane, but it introduces a totally mundane element into a setting that's all about the breakdown of normality. (For context, it's a reference to "Futurama").

@Turu D. Sleep: yes! I worked that in an update. Now there is almost no disables, trust me. I will take a look to some of the older backstories and see which ones makes sense to enable disabled works.

This looks good, but there are too many backstories that disable certain skills and disable dumb labor. I always need to use character editor to reroll their backstories if I capture a pawn with great stats. Wish there’s a setting to tweak this.

Well,I am updating the translation, looks like you changed the text of cryo delivery. When i translating, i found that the cheese pizza is in the double quotation marks, so does it refers to a real pizza or something else?
I thought it might related to something Epstein did, but it doesn't make sense in the text, so i need some help.

@Vanasonic: that's what I thought too! I'm gonna write a couple of backstories of people doing "Dumb Labor". The job is in the game, after all.

I actually prefer boring backstories. it makes those pawns way more cooler when they rise above that and do great things in my colony.

this is easily one of if not the best backstory mod and it keeps bigger. love the rat cult lore

- new childhood backstory: "rat cult" (Cult exclusive)
- new adulthood backstory: "vermin prophet" (Cult exclusive)
- new adulthood backstory: "rich explorer"
- new adulthood backstory: "midworld carpenter"
- new adulthood backstory: "relocation officer"
- new adulthood backstory: "executive guard"
- new adulthood backstory: "arbitrator"
- new adulthood backstory: "arbitrator" (variation)
- new adulthood backstory: "arbites judge"
- new adulthood backstory: "med-fabricator"
- new adulthood backstory: "classified agent"
- new adulthood backstory: "lumberjack"
- new adulthood backstory: "shadow thief" (Pirate exclusive)

remember to check changelog for all details!!

I'm planning to add some backstories for menial work, with little to no effect on stats. For example, someone who worked at a docking bay moving boxes, or had other boring, tedious jobs. It would just be for added flavor.
I could add some incredibly interesting and strong backstories just to balance this. It will be a matter of luck if you get one or the other.

What do you guys think? Don't worry, for the time being I will continue the same.

- new childhood backstory: "scholarly lordling" (Imperial Royal exclusive)
- new childhood backstory: "beloved ward" (Imperial Royal exclusive)
- new childhood backstory: "junior executive"
- new childhood backstory: "alley rat"
- new childhood backstory: "academy cadet"
- new adulthood backstory: "xenoflora scout"
- new adulthood backstory: "colonial marine"

- new childhood backstory: "pariah"
- new adulthood backstory: "club bouncer"
- new adulthood backstory: "zoo keeper"
- new adulthood backstory: "infiltrator"
- new adulthood backstory: "concierge"
- new adulthood backstory: "industrial scaffolder"
- new adulthood backstory: "monastery stonecutter" (medieval exclusive)
- new adulthood backstory: "blank assassin"

+ bugfixes in changelog

- new adulthood backstory: "foreign attaché"
- new adulthood backstory: "military advisor"
- new adulthood backstory: "sky ninja"
- new adulthood backstory: "frontier surgeon", inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Rogozov
- new adulthood backstory: "mycologist"
- changed satellite engineer stats, and enhanced its description.
- "urbworld justiciar" now has no restrictions. enhanced its description with a separator. now has -4 in "mining", -3 "animals", and -2 "plants".
- changed <bodyTypeFemale> to "Female" in the "containment specialist" backstory, to better reflect Half-Life Black Ops.

sooo great, thx

oh, I think I forgot to include this:

- new adulthood backstory: atmospheric technician

- new adulthood backstory: botanist's assistant
- new adulthood backstory: paratechnician
- new adulthood backstory: civil servant
- new adulthood backstory: luxury pet breeder
- new adulthood backstory: security designer
- removed Construction bonus from "hazard class veteran"
- Sniper01 redone.
- Enhanced many backstories (Outlaw Tech, Military Chemist, Warlord, and more. I don't remember them all but I'm taking a better look at many).

time to work

My man right here is one of THE GOATers for the insane lore-drops!

no problem big dog still love the this mod

@Zero: I'm not sure if I can do this without a proper framework, as it involves 'pawn types' or 'pawn races'. I only have access to factions, and even that is limited. I'd probably need to work with a more experienced modder to handle this kind of thing.

can you make a few for androids from VE

THANK YOU!!!!

updated:

- updated to 1.6
- new adulthood backstory: nuclear trooper.
- new adulthood backstory: deathsquad operative.
- new adulthood backstory: deathsquad officer.
- new adulthood backstory: titan engineer.
- removed "VTE_Coward" from "TankCommander"
- "fortress commandant" now has "Construction" bonus instead of "Shooting". Also, tweaked his stats.
- fixed redundant text in "seafarer"
- removed "failed martyr" and "war hero" from spawning. need to improve the writing of both.

It's totally fine thank you!

Ok love you

@Alex_: I know, I'm sorry! I feel bad about saying that and not doing it. Been too stressed and didn’t wanna rush or mess it up.
Will try to get a look between now and tomorrow. It’s not that complicated to do.

you have not updated the mod like you said you would

Hey OH! Been using your mod since the first day, and I can clearly feel your passion for writing backstories!
I think maybe you can try to write some specific race-bonded backstories for races in Vanilla and Vanilla Races Expanded? Because I find that all of them are still rolling backstories in vanilla rules, which makes many weird scenarios, imagine this -- a Hussar who need to take Juice or Luciferium to survive, generated with a poor tribe/medieval backstory...
I have tried hard to find if there is any backstory mod on this, but found none.

That sounds amazing

been using this mod for a while and it is so great, just ran into a futurama backstory and it was so fitting for rimworld lol

Felnel: It works as it is, I wanted to keep this version till I make some big changes but I will update it today with some minor fixes!

Any chance to go 1.6?

@意予天青: no! I will fix it now.

May I ask if the background story of the armored division commander's cowardice has been modified?

thank you a lot @Mlie. That's really useful!

@InspiriTY: yes!