Vanilla Factions Expanded - Settlers - A Western Frontier in RimWorld

Vanilla Factions Expanded - Settlers brings frontier towns, outlaws and bounty hunting to RimWorld. Inspired by western films, it adds settlers, equipment, quests and chemfuel-powered structures that give colonies a Wild West character.

Settler towns grow around a central road, with buildings lining both sides. New clothing, headgear and weapons help your colonists fit into this frontier setting.

Outlaws and bounty hunters

A dedicated starting scenario lets you lead a bandit group hostile to every other civilization.

World quests provide opportunities to pursue bounties or raid caravans. Protection demands and caravan guards scale with colony wealth, making these encounters respond to your settlement’s development.

Chemfuel and chemshine

The mod expands chemfuel-themed construction and introduces chemshine, a highly volatile alcoholic drink distilled from chemfuel.

Its agricultural content includes chemroot, which needs at least 120% fertility. It grows in rich soil and hydroponics, but not ordinary soil.

Animals can drink chemshine too, including muffalo.

Diego Dire

Diego Dire favors western-themed events and reverses the usual difficulty curve: a dangerous beginning gradually becomes more forgiving before the cycle starts again.

The mod’s features remain available with other storytellers. Diego simply makes caravan raids and bounty hunts more frequent.

Integration and existing saves

Support for Vanilla Apparel Expanded gives settlers additional clothing. Vanilla Weapons Expanded integration adds weapons such as lever-action rifles and sawn-off shotguns.

Compatibility is listed for Combat Extended and Westerado.

The supplied dependency information names Vanilla Factions Expanded - Core. Check the requirements for your selected game version when installing.

Existing saves are supported, but adding the settler faction to an already generated world requires a faction-discovery system, such as Orion’s Faction Discovery mentioned in the description.

Artwork and design: Oskar Potocki
Programming: Trunken, LimeTreeSnake and Kikohi
Storyteller artwork: Vitalii