Kindred Skies – Pregnancy Tweaks
[b]Kindred Skies – Pregnancy Tweaks[/b]
Lightweight, configurable baby-centric storytelling for RimWorld 1.5 & 1.6
[i]Inspired by (and big thanks to) [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3542243921]Pregnancy Pack by konstantynopolitaneczka[/url]. I loved the vibe but wanted a smaller, focused feature set, so I made this with help from GPT-5 Thinking because I can't code. Yeah, I know...[/i] 🍼
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[i]Engie was patching up the killbox when the drop pod slammed into the potato field. Onesan ran over yelling, “Please be glitterworld meds!”
It wasn’t.
It was a baby.
No note. No clothes. Just a very loud arrival.
They stared. The baby sneezed.
Onesan declared it a blessing. Engie declared it “someone else’s problem.”
Now the colony has a baby, and nobody knows what to do except panic, argue, and build increasingly elaborate cribs out of uranium.[/i]
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[b]Features[/b]
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[*] [b]Newborn Drop Pod[/b] — A new incident that drops a baby as a [i]guest[/i]. Choice letter with [i]Accept / Reject / Postpone[/i].
[*] [b]Adopt Newborn Gizmo[/b] — Closed the letter? Select the baby and click [i]Adopt newborn[/i] to welcome them.
[*] [b]Pregnant Raiders[/b] — Small, configurable chance that hostile humanlike females spawn pregnant. Early→mid stage only (never “about to pop”) and only of reproductive life stage.
[*] [b]Fertility Blessing[/b] — A gentle, configurable map-wide fertility buff.
[*] [b]Xenotype Options[/b] — Babies can be Baseliners or roll a xenotype: [i]weighted by your colonists[/i] or [i]random from all[/i]. Baseline % slider included.
[*] [b]Sliders & Toggles[/b] — Enable/disable each feature. Tune incident chances, min refire days, pregnancy chance & stage range, blessing duration, etc.
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[i]Randy says it builds character.[/i]
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[b]Does this replace vanilla events?[/b]
No, this adds a new incident. Vanilla rescue/drop-pod events still occur.
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[b]Compatibility[/b]
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[*] Requires Harmony.
[*] Biotech recommended (xenotypes & pregnancy use Biotech). Without Biotech, newborns default to Baseliners and pregnant raiders auto-disable.
[*] Should play fine with storytellers/incident packs.
[*] If baby faces look “floaty” (extra eyes/brows), that’s a facial/overlay mod—check its options to disable overlays on infants.
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[b]Settings (Mod Options → Kindred Skies – Pregnancy Tweaks)[/b]
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[*] Feature toggles: Pregnant raiders, Newborn drop pod, Fertility blessing
[*] Pregnant raider chance, “hostile humanlikes only,” reproductive-stage requirement, pregnancy stage range (early→mid)
[*] Newborn Baseline %, Xenotype source (Colonists weighted / All xenotypes)
[*] Incident base chance & min refire days
[*] Blessing duration (days)
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[b]Save Compatibility[/b]
Safe to add to existing saves. Removing is usually fine; active incidents/hediffs will just run their course.
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[b]Credits[/b]
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[*] Design & code: Finn (Kindred Skies)
[*] Artwork: custom gizmo + cover by Finn
[*] Inspiration: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3542243921]Pregnancy Pack by konstantynopolitaneczka[/url] 💚
[*] Assistance: built with help from GPT-5 Thinking (AI assistant)
[*] Harmony by Brrainz
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[b]FAQ[/b]
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[*] [i]Letter shows a key or is blank?[/i] Restart the game after updating (translations load on startup).
[*] [i]Can babies auto-join?[/i] They arrive as guests. Accept via the letter or the gizmo.
[*] [i]Pregnant raiders late-stage?[/i] This mod caps to early→mid. If another mod changes severity on spawn, tell me and I’ll add a patch.
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[b]Bug reports / suggestions[/b]
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[*] [i]Please include:[/i] what happened, what you expected, the red error line(s), and a screenshot of your mod list.
[*] [i]Known quirk:[/i] baby face overlays usually come from visual/overlay mods. Just disable overlays for infants in that mod’s settings.
[b]Thanks for helping make this better![/b] 💚
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[b]Localization[/b]
Strings are keyed and easy to translate:
KS_NewbornDropPod_LetterText
KS_FertilityBlessing_LetterLabel
KS_FertilityBlessing_LetterText
KS_AdoptNewborn_Label
KS_AdoptNewborn_Desc
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[b]License[/b]
Code: MIT. Art: CC BY-NC 4.0. Please credit “Kindred Skies – Pregnancy Tweaks”.
