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RAT LAB 3.1: THE INTERACTIVITY UPDATE
Turn RimWorld into a massive social experiment. Rat Lab allows your viewers to interact directly with your game through a web dashboard—spawning items, triggering raids, and managing the chaos—all with [b]zero performance impact[/b] on your game.
THE PERFORMANCE REVOLUTION: INTRODUCING "SIDECAR"
Previous streaming mods slowed RimWorld down by forcing the game to compress video. Rat Lab 3.1 uses a revolutionary [b]Hybrid Architecture[/b]:
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[*] [b]ZERO-OVERHEAD CAPTURE:[/b] We no longer ask RimWorld to render the stream. A separate, lightweight "Sidecar" process captures your window directly. Your game runs at full speed while the Sidecar handles the heavy lifting.
[*] [b]SILKY SMOOTH 60 FPS:[/b] By decoupling the stream from the game tick, your viewers get a fluid 60 FPS video feed even when your colony is lagging from 500 tribal raiders.
[*] [b]FIREWALL BYPASS:[/b] We have upgraded our networking to use standard secure web ports (WSS/443), meaning you can now host from strict networks like dorms or offices without port forwarding.
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FOR VIEWERS: GOD MODE ENABLED
Viewers access your colony via [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fratlab.online][/url][url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fratlab.online]ratlab.online[/url][ratlab.online]. No Twitch account required.
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[*] [b]MY PAWN (NEW!):[/b] Viewers can [b]Play RimWorld Inside RimWorld[/b]. Adopt a colonist to unlock a private tactical dashboard. Issue move orders, toggle draft, and set work priorities for your specific pawn in real-time.
[*] [b]INTERACTIVE PINGS:[/b] Viewers can click anywhere on the video feed to create a visual "Ping" in your game, highlighting resources or danger.
[*] [b]LIVE INVENTORY:[/b] See exactly what is in every stockpile and what every colonist is carrying, updated in real-time with item icons.
[*] [b]FULL BIOGRAPHY:[/b] Inspect colonist traits, health conditions, and mood breakdowns without the streamer needing to click on them.
[*] [b]REAL-TIME DASHBOARD:[/b] Monitor colony wealth, power consumption, and faction relations live in the browser.
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THE STREAMER PANEL: TOTAL CONTROL
You are the Storyteller, not the victim. Our dedicated Streamer Panel gives you god-like control over every aspect of the experience:
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[*] [b]FULL ECONOMY MANAGEMENT:[/b] You decide the inflation. Set exactly how many coins viewers earn per minute (passive income) and tweak the price of every single action individually. Want a Raid to cost 10,000 coins? Done.
[*] [b]GRANULAR COOLDOWNS:[/b] Prevent spam with precision. Set global cooldowns to pace the stream, or enforce specific limits like "One orbital bombardment per hour."
[*] [b]ACTION TOGGLES:[/b] Don't want mechs destroying your medieval run? Distinct toggle switches for every single event allow you to enable or disable specific interactions on the fly.
[*] [b]KARMA BALANCING:[/b] Force a balance between "Good" (Healing, Drops) and "Bad" (Raids, Disasters) events to keep the story interesting.
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FULL DLC & MOD SUPPORT
Rat Lab now fully integrates with all official DLCs and select popular mods:
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[*] [b]ROYALTY:[/b] Viewers can trigger Tribute Collectors or summon Anima Trees.
[*] [b]IDEOLOGY:[/b] Viewers can demand Rituals, spawn Gauranlen Pods, or trigger Hacker Camps.
[*] [b]BIOTECH:[/b] Viewers can summon Bossgroups (Diabolus, Warqueen, Apocriton), drop Wastepacks, or deliver Genepacks.
[*] [b]ANOMALY:[/b] Unleash the horror with viewer-triggered Death Palls, Blood Rain, Pit Gates, or summon the Golden Cube.
[*] [b]ODYSSEY:[/b] Support for the Odyssey mod events like Gravship Crashes and Hunter Drones.
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HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY
Rat Lab 3.1 now uses direct DirectX/Windows Media Foundation integration, offering universal hardware support:
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[*] [b]UNIVERSAL GPU SUPPORT:[/b] NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs are now [b]fully supported[/b] out of the box. No driver configuration required.
[*] [b]ZERO CONFIGURATION:[/b] The Sidecar automatically detects your hardware and selects the best available encoder (NVENC, AMF, or QuickSync).
[*] [b]CPU FALLBACK:[/b] On systems without a dedicated GPU, the optimized CPU encoder ensures you can still stream, though performance depends on your processor.
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HOW TO START
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[*] Subscribe to Rat Lab and the required [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3593423732]RIMAPI[/url] dependency.
[*] Launch RimWorld. The mod will automatically guide you through the set up process. Here you can select if you want to stream your game, at what resolution & framerate and other QOL settings.
[*] Open your mod settings and go to the rat lab mod, copy your admin url and open it, then copy your password to access your private game admin panel.
[*] Set up your economy and game settings and then share your private link to your friends or chat! If you have it on public mode they can find your game at [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fratlab.online%2F]https://ratlab.online/[/url]
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PRIVACY & TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE
This mod includes a bundled executable ("stream-sidecar.exe") used exclusively for window capture and video encoding.
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[*] [b]Data Transmission:[/b] Game state (JSON) and Video (MP4 fragments) are transmitted to our relay server at [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fratlab.online]ratlab.online[/url] via encrypted WebSocket (WSS).
[*] [b]Persistence:[/b] No video is recorded or stored. Session data is held in RAM and wiped immediately when the session ends.
[*] [b]Authentication:[/b] Sessions are secured via a unique Session ID and Stream Key generated locally on your machine.
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COMING SOON
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[*] [b]In-Game Music Controls:[/b] Viewer voting to pick the colony soundtrack.
[*] [b]Monument Building Queue:[/b] Vote on grand structures—enforced via vanilla-style quests.
[*] [b]Twitch Channel Points Integration[/b]
[*] [b]Full Interactive Map[/b]
[*] [b]Global Leaderboards[/b]
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CREDITS
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[*] [b]Art:[/b] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdfifd.carrd.co%2F]djfjdfofdjfjd[/url][dfifd.carrd.co]
[*] [b]Dependency (RIMAPI) & Beta Testing:[/b] aenclave
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OPEN SOURCE
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fbraasdas%2Fratlab-mod-github]Rat Lab Mod Source Code[/url][github.com]
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fbraasdas%2Fratlab-server-github]Server Infrastructure Source Code[/url][github.com]
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