mlieRumor Has It…. Mod expands social complexity in RimWorld by adding new gossip-driven interactions, personality traits, and colony-shaping social events focused on pawns talking about each other.
Rumor Has It…. Features
New interactions
- Chat About Other Pawns: Pawns share their opinions about others.
- Quarrel: Arguments can damage even friendly relationships.
- Spread Rumor: Pawns share nasty, unsubstantiated tales about disliked colonists.
- Share Secret: Deep personal revelations can strengthen bonds.
- Reveal Secret: Trusted information may later become gossip.
- Apologize: Pawns attempt to mend relationships after insults or harm.
- Make Peace: Pawns may apologize on behalf of others.
- Culture Clash: Social friction caused by cultural misunderstandings.
New traits
- Compulsive Liar: Frequently invents stories about others.
- Gossip: Talks about others constantly and cannot keep secrets.
- Gushing: Shares secrets too easily.
- Manipulative: Skilled at influencing others but divisive.
- Peacemaker: Attempts to resolve conflicts and gains mood if successful.
- Trustworthy: Keeps secrets and avoids spreading rumors.
New events
- Defection: Socially isolated pawns may leave the colony and join an ally.
- Splinter: Hostile cliques may leave together and form a new faction, taking belongings.
- Brawl: Divided colonies may erupt into mass fights.
All events can be toggled in the mod Options menu, though divided colonies will still suffer social consequences.
Additional changes
- Reduces negative social impact of Annoying Voice, Creepy Breathing, Disfigured, and Ugly traits between pawns who share them.
- Added support for Trait Value.
Compatibility notes
- Can safely be added to a game in progress.
- Removing it mid-save may cause issues.
- Intended to be compatible with Psychology Mod, though some concepts may overlap.
- See if the the error persists if you just have this mod and its requirements active.
- If not, try adding your other mods until it happens again.
- Always post your log using the Log Uploader.
- For best support, please use the Discord-channel for error-reporting.
- Do not report errors by making a discussion-thread, I get no notification of that.
- If you have the solution for a problem, please post it to the GitHub repository.
- Use RimSort to sort your mods.
Additional credits: Original mod by Rainbeau Flambe (dburgdorf), based on SeveralPuffins’ “Rumours and Deception”. Quarrel incident from Linq/Word-Mule.
