RimWorld Mods

Dead Can Serve Mod

Author of the Dead Can Serve Mod: mlie

Dead Can Serve Mod expands RimWorld with a dark and extensive system for corpse utilization, allowing the dead to continue serving the living through production, research, farming, medicine, and even work assistance. Balanced for vanilla gameplay and safe to add to existing save files.

They born to labor and die with serving.
Death is not the end.








Dead Can Serve Mod Features

Technology system

A dedicated tech tree contains all content added by this mod. If you do not research a technology, its related items and mechanics will not appear in your game.

New items

  • Protein Powder: refined from humanlike or animal corpses. High-nutrition food without cannibal mood penalties.
  • Blood Bag: extracted from humanlike corpses and used as medicine.
  • Antiseptic Corpse: processed corpses that can be stacked and used for construction.
  • Corpse Fertilizer: enables the creation of blood soil with 175% fertility.
  • Large Maggots: protein-rich organisms bred from corpses, ideal for animal feed.
  • Programmed Memory Disk: stores a dead pawn’s memories and skills for advanced production.
  • Trained Mechanites: nano-robots extracted and trained using a corpse’s neural patterns.

New jobs and production

  • Breed maggots from humanlike or animal corpses.
  • Produce protein powder, chemfuel, and fertilizers from corpses.
  • Experiment on corpses to train the Medicine skill.
  • Create vanilla psychic artifacts and mech serums using memory disks.
  • Harvest organs and produce healer, resurrector, and neurotrainer mech serums using mechanites.

New buildings

  • Crucifix: a lifelike corpse sculpture that can provide tactical cover.
  • Planter Coffin: corpse-based planter with 214% fertility.
  • Corpse Irrigator: powered planter with 333% fertility and directional nutrient output.
  • Maggots Breeder: slowly generates large maggots.
  • Corpse Servers: semi-mechanical workers built from antiseptic corpses and memory disks.

Compatibility notes

  • Designed to be balanced with vanilla RimWorld.
  • Safe to add to existing save files.
  • If errors occur, test with only Dead Can Serve Mod and its requirements enabled.
  • Always share logs using the Log Uploader.
  • Use the Discord channel for error reporting.
  • Do not report errors via discussion threads.
  • If you have a fix, submit it to the GitHub repository.
  • Use RimSort to sort your mods.

Languages: English, Chinese and Russian.

Additional credits: CaptainSnafu, Ogliss, PH, 教父.

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