you said that you could mine away the "lockdown" crystals so you could use the shards from that to build with if thats possible to do

like walls and doors

That would be possible. What would the shard material do ? How special would the walls and doors be ?

Crystals make gems of their colors : 90 % primary 10 % secondary.
Gems they generate are now more easily minable. The resulting crystal shard item is the same color as its original gem. 2 new drug recipes made of shards : 1 that can be snort, another that can be eaten. When a crystal snort, its secondaray color will change to itsSecondarColor+GemColor/2; When a crystal eats, its primary color will change to itsprimaryColor+GemColor/2; Gems generated with a frank color spectrum now have new properties. yellow low cover but still unpassable/orange scheduled explosive on activation/red explosive on hit/pink extinguish on hit/blue emp on activation/green forces growth around on activation.

ok, i know this is not a suggustion for THIS mod but after seeing a reddit post, and a mod for a simular game (civilization) i cant stop thinking about how a splatoon mod may be in rimworld and scince this mod is baised on another game that does not have a whole lot in terms of numbers of games like splatoon. i think it may be possible (though i think you may need refrence for some of their weapons and abilities) and not only that, i think that they could be part of some sort of post apocaliptic senario, considering in the world of splatoon, they built above where humans used to live.