Updated to 1.6 : - )

Thank you to aquiles11 from the Rimworld Mod Market on Discord for taking care of the update!

Updated to 1.5!

Also added Rubaboo from my Rubaboo mod , it fits well with this content, and compressed some of the textures so they're easier to see while placing buildings. Perhaps someday I'll even make a better thumbnail.

If you like this mod, check out my latest release: El's Archeology !

@Snuggl yeah, that's a good idea! I'll try implement and update this week

Love your mod in my tribal playthroughs! :) The water tanks could be improved in two ways though:

- Make them stuffable, so they can be built with fabrics other than cotton.

- When they explode, place a blueprint for a new one. It's tedious to keep track of them and rebuild them manually.

@El Check out the collections that include this mod! There's a big youtuber using it in his series

Question for you, lads. An extra 1,000 people subscribed to this mod at the end of May and I'm curious - how did you get here?

Hey all, I've released a new mod with a similar flavour to this one:
Ilk of the Old Gods , a tribal Empire analogue, with new titles, permits, blood sacrifice, and even hallucinogens!

@El I get the mechanics goals, and yeah, I like how DBH makes passive coolers use water instead. The rest is like, I understand the goal to use unused resources. My brain just goes "Huh"? at them. I'm not really complaining at you or asking you to change it. I don't know what would work better, tbh.

@vae_losh, should be fine to add mid-save!

@StarlightSovereign Sure - the gameplay goal was to reduce reliance on wood for tribal colonies, and give them more flexibility. I admit that the mechanics require some suspension of disbelief, but I'd argue that vanilla passive coolers do too: evaporative cooling doesn't actually consume logs of wood, but the moisture from berries might actually work. And who knows, maybe insect jelly really would react with jade endothermically!

I love the things this mod adds. I don't love the fact that passive coolers are fueled by ... berries? and agave? and that a freezer is fueled by insect jelly. My head just won't wrap around those, sadly.

Is this okay to put in mid-save?

I didnt realize how much I needed this mod until a dry thunderstorm started wildfires in mah swamp

Updated to 1.4! Sorry for the delay and thanks to Sl4vP0weR at https://github.com/SlavRim for update support : - )

Gimme a shout if there's any bugs.

absolutely amazing. obviously the main reasons why i rarely spend much time at all with tribal playthroughs solved.

Love these, i always want to play tribals but fire makes me always become another steel bunker type, would you be able to make some kinda adobe resource? that may be cool

This is awesome! I love low tech mods.
Keep it up! Awarded!

Thanks guys!

@Zankle, The firefoam popper has a much larger radius than the water tank - I think the firefoam popper covers 305 tiles with firefoam, whereas this tank just covers 64 tiles with water. Also, this actually has to catch fire to activate, whereas the popper activates when there's any fire nearby.

I'll balance out the costs as I get more feedback though, I deffo don't want it to replace firefoam for industrial playthroughs.

The water popper doesn't completely replace the foam popper later? What can the foam popper do that the water one doesn't?

yeah tribal foam poppers with water for the win :)

Cool mod! As a low tech player this is great!