mlieThe Gradual Romance Mod is a near-total overhaul of RimWorld’s relationship system, introducing new romance stages, expanded flirting mechanics and a completely reworked attraction calculation model.
Gradual Romance Features
New interactions
- Flirt: Pawns flirt in personality-driven ways. Suave pawns are subtle, nice pawns offer help, aggressive pawns make crude comments, rational pawns argue their case, and shy pawns may struggle to speak.
- Ask To Move In: After spending time together, a pawn may ask their partner to share a bedroom.
Expanded romance stages
- Lovebuddies: Purely physical relationship.
- Sweethearts: Dating without physical intimacy.
- Paramour: Both romantic and physical, but not exclusive.
- Boyfriend/Girlfriend (Lovefriend): More serious than paramours, but not yet lovers.
- Lover: Reached after asking to move in.
Overhauled attraction system
- Pawns evaluate more than appearance.
- Greedy pawns favor wealthy partners.
- Ambitious and social pawns value popularity.
- Bloodlust pawns seek similar outlooks.
- Major contributing attraction factors are displayed to the player.
- Attraction factors are configurable via XML and can be extended.
Alien integration
- Automatically patches humanoid aliens if no custom patch exists.
Compatibility notes
- Requirements: HugsLib and Psychology.
- Load order: Load after Psychology and HugsLib.
- Incompatible: Most relationship mods, especially Rational Romance.
- Save games: May break existing saves.
- Status: Alpha, work in progress and potentially unstable.
Support and troubleshooting
- Test whether the issue persists with only the Gradual Romance Mod (and required mods) enabled.
- If it disappears, re-enable other mods gradually until the issue returns.
- Always share your log using the Log Uploader.
- For best support, use the Discord channel for error reporting (discussion threads may be missed).
- If you have the solution for a problem, post it to the GitHub repository.
- Use RimSort to sort your mods.
Additional credits: Nationalitys.
