Vanilla Christmas Expanded - Christmas Decorations, Gifts and Festive Events for RimWorld

Vanilla Christmas Expanded is a festive mod for RimWorld that introduces Christmas decorations, seasonal activities, presents, and additional gameplay mechanics. It allows players to bring a holiday atmosphere to their colonies, celebrate special occasions, and receive rewards through a dedicated festive system.

The modification revives one of the earliest Vanilla Expanded projects, expanding its original concept with additional holiday-themed content. Rather than focusing on the traditions of a single country or culture, it brings together different festive ideas to make celebrations a more meaningful part of colony life.

Christmas Decorations and Holiday Content

Vanilla Christmas Expanded introduces various festive additions designed to make RimWorld colonies feel more lively during the holiday season.

The mod was originally developed around an Advent calendar concept, with content revealed in daily additions. These additions range from small decorative objects to more substantial gameplay systems.

The mod includes:

• Festive decorations: Holiday-themed objects for decorating your colony.
• Seasonal activities: Additional ways to celebrate special occasions.
• New gameplay mechanics: Systems connected to celebrations and holiday rewards.
• Festive events: Events that contribute to the seasonal atmosphere.
• Christmas presents: Rewards containing useful resources and other items.

The content is not limited to a particular real-world holiday tradition, allowing players to incorporate festive elements into different types of colonies.

Festive Favor and Santa Seasonal Storyteller

One of the central mechanics of Vanilla Christmas Expanded is Festive Favor, a special system associated with holiday celebrations.

The mod also features the Santa Seasonal storyteller, who provides an additional way to receive rewards.

When Santa Seasonal is active, the storyteller tracks your accumulated Festive Favor and converts it into presents on Decembrary 10th.

The storyteller is optional. Players can enjoy the other content from Vanilla Christmas Expanded without selecting Santa Seasonal, although they will not receive presents through this particular mechanic.

Christmas Presents and Rewards

Presents can contain a wide variety of items, with their contents depending on the quality of the gift.

Possible rewards include:

• Building materials and construction resources.
• Medicine and medical supplies.
• Books.
• Gold.
• Random valuable and expensive items.

High-quality presents can contain randomly selected expensive items from both the base game and installed mods.

This means that the reward system can provide different types of equipment and resources depending on the content available in a particular playthrough.

DLC Requirements and Save Compatibility

Vanilla Christmas Expanded does not require any RimWorld DLC to provide its main holiday content.

Certain individual features may depend on additional mods or DLC, but the mod also includes content accessible without those requirements.

Important compatibility details:

• DLC: No DLC is required for the core mod.
• Existing saves: The mod is expected to work when added during an ongoing playthrough.
• Santa Seasonal: Optional storyteller for converting Festive Favor into presents.
• Year-round gameplay: Holiday content remains functional after Christmas.
• Removing the mod: Uninstalling it from an existing save may cause errors or damage the save.

Creating a backup before attempting to remove the modification is recommended.

Authors

• Oskar Potocki - Graphics and visual design.
• Sarg Bjornson - Programming.
• Taranchuk - Programming.
• vitalii - Storyteller artwork.