Realistic Planets 2 is a full overhaul of RimWorld's world generation process. It keeps the base continent shape, then rebuilds terrain, climate, and biome placement so planets feel believable, diverse, and fun to play on.
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==FEATURES==
- Rebuilt terrain + climate generation: RP2 runs a layered climate simulation (wind, moisture transport, rain shadows, seasonality, aridity, drainage, wetlands, and more) to produce more coherent worlds instead of just shuffled tile values.
- Better biome placement and variety: biomes compete on climate fit using many world factors, giving cleaner transitions and more natural regional patterns.
- New custom biomes included: Prairie (Grasslands for people without the Odyssey DLC), Steppe, Savanna, Oasis, Permafrost, and Cold Desert.
- Expanded world creation controls: sea level, rainfall, temperature, axial tilt, hilliness bias, presets, randomization tools, and Advanced Climate settings.
- Advanced Biomes screen: enable/disable individual biomes, adjust biome frequency, apply score offsets, search/filter/group entries, and save/load full biome profiles.
- Biome Editor [BETA]: edit a biome's scoring behavior and key biome-def values, then save/load per-biome presets for testing and custom setups.
- Hydrology options: choose between improved vanilla-style drainage/wetlands or a deeper flow-based hydrology simulation (with expanded rivers/lakes/wetland behavior). Advanced features require the Odyssey DLC.
- Integrated Map Mode Framework fork: includes RP2-aware map modes for climate and terrain analysis, plus RP2-side fixes/integration.
- Planetary Lighting system: dynamic sky colors, sun/moon positioning, eclipse support, and real map shadows with configurable realism options.
I recommend a new save out of an abundance of caution, but old saves should load fine.
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==COMPATIBILITY==
Currently has patches / support for:
- Alpha Biomes (load before RP)
- Faction Choose Biomes
- Faction Control
- Geological Landforms / Biome Transitions
- Medieval Overhaul
- More Vanilla Biomes
- My Little Planet [BUGGY, FIX IN DEVELOPMENT]
- Pollution Tweaks
- ReGrowth 2 (load before RP)
- Vanilla Events Expanded
- Vanilla Fishing Expanded
- Vanilla Landmarks Expanded
- VFE Insectoids 2
- World Map Beautification Project (load before RP)
- World Tech Level (load before RP)
- Worldbuilder (load after RP) [can't use the Worldbuilder planet generation UI]
- Progression: Scenarios (load after RP)
- Progression: Storytellers (load after RP)
Other mods are compatible without patches, such as:
- Boots Sensible Factions
- Faction Customizer
- Faction Territories and Vassalage
- Map Preview
- Mutator World Icons
- Vanilla Animals Expanded
- Vanilla Plants Expanded
- World Domination (load after RP)
- mods that add biomes (biomes may need to have spawn rates adjusted using available customization options)
- (most other mods that don't explicitly interfere with world generation)
Not compatible with:
- Map Mode Framework [integrated version replaces this]
- ReGrowth: Expanded World Generation (Continued)
- Tilt the Planet
- (This mod substantially alters the world generation pipeline. Mods that rely on or modify vanilla worldgen steps will almost certainly need compatibility patches, or will be incompatible with RP2's design.)
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Modders: Note that the packageID and assembly name for this version of Realistic Planets are not the same as the old 1.x ones.
PackageID: koth.RealisticPlanets2
Assembly name/title: Realistic_Planets_2
This version is also substantially different under the hood, so just updating the ID/name will likely not restore compatibility.
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3533147031]Legacy 1.6 (Discontinued)[/url]
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Inspired by [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3225521979]Realistic Planets Continued[/url]
Incorporates a custom fork of [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3296654393]Map Mode Framework[/url]
All credit for previous releases or other mods goes to their original authors.
