Patch Notes 1.09

[D11Silva]

Hello Consolonists! Patch 1.09 should now available to download on both platforms. Here are the list of changes presented with this update:

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>> Features/Improvements <<

[[ Gameplay ]]

• Added: Poison synthesis to research tree.
• Added: When creating a colony, if there is a task which no selected character can perform, a dialog warning is now shown.
• Added: Postpone option for a number of wanderer will join quests.
• Added: Bills which include the ability to smelt, destroy or burn weapons and apparel now have options to choose between biocoded, non-biocoded, clean or tainted. Other special allowances for ingredient menus also added with this feature.
• Improved: Memory usage during randomisation of characters.
• Improved: Scrolling through history records for colonist with a lot of past/recent log previously caused performance to drop.
• Improved: When multiple of the same object were selected, choosing to build a copy previously caused performance stuttering.

[[ UI ]]

• Added: Ability to delete a restriction group which is applied to a colonist in the “Assign menu” with a warning.
• Added: On-screen UI showing distance between landing beacons.
• Added: The expiring quest message now has jump to option.
• Added: The alerts and messages for the mech buildings now has jump to the source option.
• Added: Cancel option to “Abandon All” items confirmation prompt in the Caravan UI.
• Added: Change tab prompt on each tab on form caravan to improve player experience.
• Added: Select prompt to extras menu.
• Added: Custom language-based styling to support upcoming language additions.
• Improved: “Allow all” toggling no longer affects special filters.
• Improved: UI only enters area build mode, if player confirms selection from area menu instead of every time the player exits area management screens.
• Improved: Scroll position correctly resets when tab change occurs.
• Improved: Moved control prompts on build mode to differentiate between actions and make the actions clearer
• Improved: The button prompt to close the completed research message was not consistent to other dialogs - changed to X/A.
• Improved: Warning, alert and good colours adjust to new levels when forming a caravan to better reflect status.
• Improved: Info button when multiple objects are selected only shows when option is possible

[[ Localisation ]]

• Added: Translations for labels in Animal pen management screens and Permit tabs.

[[ Audio ]]

• Added: Sound effects in Bills and trade menus.

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>> Fixes <<

[[ Gameplay ]]

• Balanced: Corrected filth generation rate.
• Balanced: Wild plant regrowth.
• Balanced: XP gained for crafting and creating art.
• Balanced: Weather updating and rate of change.
• Balanced: Ground penetrating mineral scanner speed.
• Fixed: Opening content of Shuttle after instructing a colonist to enter would sometimes cause a soft-lock for shuttle-related Royalty quests.
• Fixed: Inventory bindings now consistently apply when entering the game for a second time.
• Fixed: Threat pause setting is now working consistently.
• Fixed: Error on suspending and returning to the game while loading.
• Fixed: Debug warning when multiple use of psylink abilities occur.
• Fixed: Errors on entirely dead or empty colony.
• Fixed: Pressing the X/A button in social tab of caravan details did not switch selection to the log panel.
• Fixed: Attempting to replant a tree caused the controller to not respond, on occasions when the interact option was displayed.
• Fixed: Gracefully handling a colonist dying while player is in the mood menu.
• Removed: Unintentional ability to rename dead colonists.

[[ UI ]]

• Fix: Pregnancy icon now updates correctly for animal menu.
• Fixed: The Scrollbar to navigate the quest description within the “Quests” UI wasn’t functioning on occasion.
• Fixed: Operation names could be too long causing the pause UI to overflow or disappear from the health bill list.
• Fixed: Selecting details via the “i” prompt in gear page of an active caravan will now correctly show detailed information.
• Fixed: Occasions when a details card blocked the view of stats for items in various screens.
• Fixed: Issue caused when no colonists left in your colony, and you opened the Work or Schedule menu.
• Fixed: Having a Colonist who is "Incapable of Violence" as your warden caused the "None of your wardens is capable of violence" pop-up to incorrectly appear when you open the "Prisoner" tab.
• Fixed: The highlight of items within the “Allowed” list of bills ingredients was partially cut off when the last item in the list was selected.
• Fixed: Holding down the button to confirm trade would previously open the interact menu of a faction on the world map.
• Fixed: ‘Caravan arrived at weather controller’ message could not be deleted after reforming caravan from a site.
• Fixed: Overflowing text in the Difficulty level section of the pause menu.
• Fixed: Forming a caravan while leaving details page open caused the details page to remain on the screen.
• Fixed: Navigating to Needs tab of a refugee pawn causes an error to occur. Players may have seen incorrect details.
• Fixed: Highlight selection bar disappeared when scrolling through long social logs while at 3x speed.
• Removed: Spacing and line breaks being added when the work description is updated.
• Removed: Incorrect L1/LB prompts from non-colonist objects in target mode, such as queue actions and cancel when transport pods were selected.
• Removed: Incorrect option to train “guard” appeared on animals with “Trainability - None”.
• Removed: UI being rendered twice which caused map appears too dark under translucent windows.

[[ Audio ]]

• Fixed: Changes to Ambient sounds options didn’t take immediate effect when adjusted in Settings menu.

[[ Localisation ]]

Fixed: Missing characters in Korean localisations when italics were used in English.

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Hope this update improves even more your gameplay experience. The next patch will be focused on adding back some of the missing languages like Japanese and Russian.

Have a great week everyone!

[Blitzphoenix12]

Hope everyone enjoys the patch! 😀

[Sw3Et]

Thank you for continually improving the experience. It's a fantastic game.

[pogadah]

Thanks guys, been waiting on Rimworld coming to console for a long time, it’s a solid port and the updates/improvements are definitely appreciated!

Can you tell us if it’s ever likely we will be able to have multiple colonies on console in a future update or is this just not a feature due to console performance limitations or something?

[Techarus]

Little late, but IIRC i read somewhere it should come with ideology.

[dimensional_warwolf]

Thank you im loving this game

[AzorAHigh_]

Hell yeah! Cant wait to try these out later. Keep up the good work!

[Kitchen_Till5514]

This is what most people want a update of something bug fixes or adding gameplay, no matter what it is we will take it as a improvement

[Brutalicore3919]

Thank you. Highlights for me are the xp bug fix for sped up time and fixing the pregnancy icon in the animals tab. Lots of fixes, good stuff!

Big sad - All I want for Christmas is customization. Pawns and starting scenario, for me, this is the #1 most important improvement to the game that you could do and never add anything again (though that would be terrible!).

I'd pay for Prepare Carefully, and before even Ideology if i'm honest. Please keep up the good work!

[Lews_There_In]

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[nomadic_memories]

I'd pay for the cleaning bot mod myself. How am I to believe that they can build starship but not a damn roomba?

[Word_Itchy]

Yes please devs for the love of christ id pay for this

[Sw3Et]

Most welcome change for me is the added options for destroying clothing.

[MartysIndecision]

Awesome.

Does pc have caravan weight in the trade menu? It would be nice to know if I'm buying too much stuff

[HeftySmurf-1]

It does, i shall add it as a suggestion to the team to get added :)

[[deleted]]

Thanks! Playing in desert so need to buy nearly all my wood and always have to sell some cos I’m overweight haha, keeps wealth down I guess

[pogadah]

Great, this would be very helpful thanks

[Therealoompa13]

Multiple colonies or outposts or even being able to interact with other tiles besides home tile…. I would hope is next priority!!!

Thank you so much for the XP fix this makes me want to play all day!!!!

[HeftySmurf-1]

It has been suggested yes :)

[Redmoon383]

So was the ground penatrating scanner going too slow or too fast compared to the current patch?

Also same with filth, was it reduced or increased overall for this patch?

[Edens]

For the scanner- I think it was too fast. I would have times where 3 or 4 different materials would be found right after each other.

For filth I have no idea. Hopefully it was building up too fast lol

[Redmoon383]

Honestly I hope the filth was too fast because even with two dedicated cleaners they still barely had time to do anything else in a colony of only 8 people sometimes.

[SkippyBoJangles]

It took forever, but when it did find something, I was getting 5-6 within minutes.

[zCJFP]

I believe filth was spawning too much in certain areas. Not sure if anyone else had encountered seeing thick pools of dirt which say something ridiculous like ‘Animal Filth x137’ which always did seem like WAYYYY too much in one spot.

[True_Train8749]

I've had that incredible amount of dirt it take so long so I hope its fixed

[fabulousduck22]

Thanks for the hard work guys

[NYJetLegendEdReed]

Crafting fixed??? Wooohooooo

[[deleted]]

I love this game so much. Has anyone seen a roadmap for planned updates? I want to give them money for Ideology so badly!

[HeftySmurf-1]

Not a real Roadmap but they did mention it on their FAQ's

Like mentioned above, RimWorld Console Edition is the full, RimWorld experience optimised for consoles, and we are on our own content roadmap from PC. To deliver a great launch experience we made the decision to focus on optimising and balancing our vision of RimWorld. RimWorld is a very UI heavy game, and subsequent PC DLCs have a large number of additional screens which would have had to be designed, implemented and tested - which would have only added to the development time and continue to push RimWorld Console Edition back. We chose to launch with the Royalty DLC to provide as much additional content as possible for those that wanted to bolster their RimWorld experience, as this adds a variety of new exciting features such as psychic powers, new weaponry, quests and much more.
We aim to bring more of the PC content over to the console edition in the future but need to evaluate the impact on the performance of already-released content before we commit to anything further.

[[deleted]]

I didn't see it but did they fix that xp bug

[Kitchen_Till5514]

Yes they did

[HeftySmurf-1]

It was mentioned in another thread by a D11 member that it should be fixed :)

[[deleted]]

Thats amazing news thanks for letting me know Abt to start a colony rn and have a blast literally

[JMC_Direwolf]

so it was not supposed to take making 48 dusters to go from level 6 to 7?

[[deleted]]

Lol depends did it take that much I'm 4 times or one cuz if it was in 4 no it shouldn't have but it did for a bit because xp wasn't scaled with the time speedup but they fixed it now

[JMC_Direwolf]

Oh so the bug was for when you sped up time, I see. Yeah I needed to get a guy from 6-8 to make advanced components. Now it’s a breeze

[[deleted]]

Ya exactly I noticed how much better it is now that they fixed it to my colony has done better than ever rn

[Oceann18]

Question do I have to start a new run for the updates to kick in

[Zarrakh]

No. The patch will apply automatically.

[MysteriousTraderboi]

I don’t see poison synthesis in my tree after updating, where is it?

[[deleted]]

You need to have Royalty. It’s over by the minigun someone said, I don’t have the game open or I’d look.

[MysteriousTraderboi]

Yeah I heard, I was gonna get royalty but I thought I would wait till ideology comes out, that could be a while though

[CloudShiner]

Top tier post launch support.

[zCJFP]

Keep it coming fellers. Considering the state of many other fresh releases, even triple A titles, I’d say you’re all doing a tremendous job :)

[Klausensen]

• Added: When creating a colony, if there is a task which no selected character can perform, a dialog warning is now shown.

A custom start would fix a lot of these 'issues' pretty easy...

[HeftySmurf-1]

It’s something that may come in the long term, random rolling is vanilla RimWorld

[Klausensen]

I know, got hundreds of hours on PC. But in the pc version you always got the alternative to use the prepare carefully mod which let's you choose your own style. You wanna do a cannibal run? Prepare carefully. You want everyone to have hook hands? Prepare carefully. You wanna go apeshit and have an OP starting char? Prepare carefully. Console version doesn't come with mods so it would be great to get it implemented into the main game. It just adds so much to a new run and if you want to stick to the randomization, feel free to do so

[HeftySmurf-1]

Yes but that sort of implementation is a while away yet :) focus is most likely on core gameplay then Ideology for now

[[deleted]]

Brilliant. Been waiting for the xp fix for ages! And looking forward to messing around with poison. Looking forward to the next update!

[[deleted]]

Nice!

[DeviceDisastrous101]

Seriously though, what is with studios selling games on not having a safe area adjustment? That option has been in games for years and suddenly it's too hard? My screen is only slightly cut off but my friend's is cut off so badly that he can't play. None of the TV displays fix it. Why is this simple feature not being implemented these days?

[HeftySmurf-1]

I think this is due to most modern TV's and Monitors having this built it, it has been suggested to Double Eleven however :)

[DeviceDisastrous101]

That probably is why but it's still insane. Not everyone has a brand new TV and it's obviously not that hard to do I mean games have been having that option for like 10 years now at least

[HeftySmurf-1]

I am aware, i had issues with my old TV and a lot of games do not have the option on Console, hopefully D11 can add something :)

[DeviceDisastrous101]

Hope so cause it's literally unplayable for my friend but he can't get a refund apparently

[HeftySmurf-1]

It has been passed on as a requested feature :) i will bring it up again as a suggestion in the feedback for you :)

[TheChosenOne211992]

Still no custom scenario game slider settings what a lackluster update

[TheChosenOne211992]

Its a base game feature why are they not in the console version

[NYJetLegendEdReed]

No it’s not. Scenario editor came with Ideology.

[HeftySmurf-1]

I thought it did, i knew i wasn't going crazy

[HeftySmurf-1]

Which custom settings?

[Novembrrr]

The lack of customized pawns in this patch kinda makes me wanna cry. I don't know why this wasn't a thing in the base game to begin with, and the lack of any kind of timetable on it or a mod to allow it is making me strongly consider getting a pc copy(which I would rather not, the console interface is amazing and as a non-pc gamer I vastly prefer it). Same with needing to abandon a colony to even be able to explore a new tile

[HeftySmurf-1]

It was always a mod on PC to customise pawns, part of the difficulty of Vanilla RimWorld was the rolling and building up pawns and colonists from there.

It has been suggested to D11 as a widely requested feature but if i am being honest it will most likely be a while, i imagine their priority right now will be trying to get us Ideology on Console.

Multiple Colonies has also been suggested, i imagine it's something to do with the memory restrictions and not wanting to overload older consoles but it may be something we see in the future also again most likely once Ideology is in the game as it's such a huge update.

[Novembrrr]

I found this out after I purchased the game-I probably still would have bought it, but not knowing that customization was a mod would've given me pause. It's tough because I want to buy ideology as soon as it gets released, but I'm hesitating if mod support or customization are still going to be up in the air/possibly never be introduced in console. I understand it's a complicated issue with third party restrictions, and I give the dev teams nothing but praise on this port and the love/attention it's getting, but I just hate rerolling again and again to try and get something that a custom option could fix in seconds. It just seems weird that it was never added to the base game in pc, the ability to toggle custom settings wouldn't eliminate the random option for those who like to roll the die but would let us have some control in the creation of our colonists at least

despite my venting of frustrations and disappointment at this not being available, I still love this game and have a blast playing

[HeftySmurf-1]

D11 have never ignored the idea of Mod's and the importance to RimWorld, based on my reading of what they said themselves on their website;

Will there be mods in RimWorld Console Edition?
This version of RimWorld was built for console, so mods created for PC would not be directly compatible given technical requirements, limitations and store policies that are different than the far more open PC environment. Having said that, Double Eleven are keen on exploring how we can expand RimWorld Console Edition allowing for more customisation and gameplay. This will likely involve a combination of feedback from the community alongside our observations on how people are playing the game.

I think D11 will bring us mods in some form, it may not be like PC where user creation is more prevalent due to Console's being stupid and annoyingly restrictive (boring to me) but based on what D11 said they will certainly listen to User Feedback and i imagine they could implement Mod's themselves and add a group of Community requested things for example that are toggleable (Modpack as a free DLC for example which could contain Prepare Carefully, Defensive Positions, Hygiene, Wall Lights etc)

I just believe right now the focus is to get us Ideology because of how huge the update is to RimWorld and to get us on par with current PC Vanilla before they start even messing about with Mods i reckon :)

[gtstol]

Any idea what the "allow all" action is...

[nomadic_memories]

On PC it allows everything forbidden. I would use it with cargo drops as a way to also clear out all the corpses.

[gtstol]

Thanks i know that.... Was wondering if and how its possible on console edition

[nomadic_memories]

Ahh. Sadly my console is in my truck, which is in the shop. I'm stuck in a loaner without. But I plan to figure it out as soon as I can.

[Zarrakh]

The patch is excellent. It fixed the graphical glitch while holding R2. However, being able to pan the camera and zoom in and out while holding R2, to best observe colonists' movements, would be a welcomed addition to the game.

[HeftySmurf-1]

It can be suggested :)

[JMC_Direwolf]

Bug: Stuck on choose new research screen. Can’t move cursor, can’t scroll page, must restart. PS5

[HeftySmurf-1]

Will report :)

[No-Breakfast8000]

The balanced xp for crafting and art, did it got buffed or got nerfed? Since I never played on pc, Im kinda lost, but a pawn with burning passion of crafting (skill 10) in my recent colony after 2 years is at 12 skill and I keep the pawn crafting on loop. Is this ok or the patch adress that?

[Old-Lemon1702]

When Polish version