Top Rimworld QOL Mods! My Best Rimworld Quality of Life Mods (Rimworld 1.2)

A list of mods, and small mod showcases, on my personal favourite Rimworld Quality of Life mods. These are in my opinion the very best Rimworld QOL mods you can get at the moment and I'd personally struggle to play without them in my game. I feel that the vast majority of these mods should be in the base game, and it's unfortunate that they aren't.
A list of these QOL mods will be made (Currently in the process of doing that, already found a few more I'd like to add in, whoops) as well as a Steam workshop link.
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[@BaRKy]

Modlist will be coming in a google doc or a steam workshop one! Which mods do you think I missed? I had a few good ones in the live chat to be honest..

[@PGMP2007]

I saw your video on my feed and i was thinking who i was going to give my twitch prime sub. The answer came right away. Have a great day Barky.

[@Swarthy144k]

I like hearing you talk, keep the Rimworld videos coming. 🤤

[@BaRKy]

@@PGMP2007 Wow, thank you so much!

[@pendantblade6361]

You can rename animals in vanilla Barky

[@pendantblade6361]

Minify everything is a cheat mod and i dunno why you included them on the list

[@dogerio]

Only mod I don't see here is "Replace stuff". Can't live without it

[@Eishiraf]

I glad that I found your comment...God it struggles me so much cause I can't replace item where I want it to be.

[@dogerio]

@@Eishiraf Haha, yeah. That mod is definitely a must have

[@omgfackdehell]

Yes!!!

[@Mactaverum]

I've already got the vast majority of these mods and completely agree with your choices. Very solid list.

[@BaRKy]

Thanks Scott

[@johnpatz8395]

Thanks, great video. I already had subbed to a lot of the mods listed, but you also list a bunch of good ones that weren't around when I was playing last, or at least weren't well known at that time.

[@benny6639]

Nice list! Other nice mods i couldn't live without: Quality builder Show draftees weapons Stabilize Where my weapon? Color coded mood bar Complex jobs

[@ricardomesquita8167]

There is one that i discovered a few weeks ago and its doc world which amazingly sorts all of your mods contents so, all of the beds go Into the beds tab, all of the rec stuff goes into recreation tab, etc it also separates cuisine from production, it has it's own animal, farming, and lots of other tabs Works really well with reorder so you can change the order in which these appear and it's kinda of mandatory to use with architect icons. I'm playing with 350 mods and it separates all of the content in 30 or so tabs in total and I just feel in love with it really. The organization is fantastic. Some mods keep their tabs while some of its content go into the generic tabs and its just perfect Coudnt recommend enough.

[@m0k9]

I'm not too sure if you remember me but I'm moo kun from 2 years ago, I joined your discord and kept watching your main channel and secondary channel where you had your interesting topics to talk about, back then you had about 5k subs.. just wanted to say you are awesome :) keep it up man!

[@TheAndrew1987]

the more planning mod is really good, especially the increased visibility, diff colors and being able to copy/paste plans

[@paigeremde1261]

I really like the show hair under hats mod and the interaction bubbles mod!

[@BaRKy]

I love those two mods, I probably should have added them in yeah. Oh well, I never thought of them.

[@jakebocskovits7426]

Here’s a few I found that I use as well. -Temperature control unit by Murmur. (Keeps rooms at set temperature that’s perfect for freezers) -pick up and haul by Mehni (allows a pawn inventory and carry weight so they haul multiple items at once, not sure if you said this already). -faction blender by SineSwiper (faction/race mods are now have their races/names randomized among the factions instead of faction specific. (Also adds two new factions, one hostile and friendly faction with every unit type in the game (along with mod races) in its ranks.

[@SirMesmer]

Hey, for conduit there is subserface conduit mod, which for price of greater amount of work it alows you to burry them underground.

[@XX-ro7ob]

thank you so much made my game soooo much better

[@halo12390]

this is very helpful. thank you

[@ichifish]

Great list, thanks! Since you've got realistic rooms and minify everything, I'd throw in LMV's deep storage for a trifecta of base-building joy. I also like Colonist Bar KF, but it conflicts with some other bars. No Rim HUD? And not to be (too) pedantic, but any mod that makes playing easier lowers the difficulty even if it's just by allowing the player to take absorb information more quickly (like colored mood bars) or making it less frustrating (allow tool/blueprints). In single-player games "OP" doesn't matter, just that we should be careful, like Barky was, not to assume that the game isn't easier. Some are definitely not QoL mods, like minify everything (which I don't use 'cause it seems OP) or realistic rooms and LMV's deep storage (which I use and are super OP). If I didn't have mods I probably wouldn't be playing, but I also wouldn't be able to crank the difficulty to merciless and still enjoy the roleplaying part of it.

[@epiccollision]

So if you had a perfectly good fridge, instead of moving it, you say break it down to its base components(kinda) and rebuild it at the other location...we even move houses. You just want minify to hire a movers and dispense beer and pizza?

[@ichifish]

​@@epiccollision I'm confused. You know that video games aren't the same as real life, right?

[@MilkieFeline]

"In-Wall Coolers and Vents" OR "Temperature Control Unit" are interchangeable must-haves for me. Personally, I prefer TCU because it eliminates the need for heaters on top of doing everything that IWCV can.

[@mattg726]

Good vid, thank you.

[@ObliviousNaga]

You missed pick up and haul. The greatest hauling mod ever to be made

[@OpreanVictor]

That's not really a Quality of Life mod. It makes hauling a lot easier.

[@KiotheCloud]

@@OpreanVictor Thats what "Quality of Life" means basically make stuff easier :/

[@OpreanVictor]

I'm sorry, I meant that Barky said he would not include balance breaking mods in this list, so it doesn't belong here. It's a great QoL mod!

[@ObliviousNaga]

@@OpreanVictor it doesn't break the balance in my opinion. Just speeds up the hauling process so you dont have to wait 9h just for a pawn to haul one thing at a time. The balance part is more about the vanilla carrying capacity or weight limit I think which would make sense to have backpacks or something along those lines. Hauling more than one type of item is not balance breaking which is what I use it for and actually makes sense since you could do that in real life

[@Diarmuhnd]

@@OpreanVictor That mod is not balance breaking if pawns have 'normal' carrying capacity. gosh. Work smarter, not harder. lol

[@Nuschler22]

Thank you!

[@Xyskii]

I was just thinking about the rimHUD mod

[@nejiha]

Yeah, playing without it in 1.2 was definitely really noticeable That one and RPG inventory

[@ricardomesquita8167]

Awesome inventory is very nice too

[@BaRKy]

This was on my initial list, I just think it changes things a bit too much for some people.

[@rowde8203]

Instead of "invisible conduits" I use "underground conduits". It's a more balanced alternative imo.

[@Trickyman26]

This is so true. Invisible conduits cost 1 steel, same as regular one. Underground conduits cost 2. But my most favorite is Subsurface conduit: It costs 3 steel and a lot more work (50 vs 1). It do not decrease beauty. Additionally, you can choose to let you build it on walls or not, so you than have to build normal conduits there, which inflicts Zzzzt and fire damage. So much choices!

[@orbit692]

whats balanced

[@microcosms2420]

Character editor is like an expansion on the prepare carefully mod that offers more customization for your colonists, especially if you downloaded race mods and would like to play as them

[@jujurm]

I think I play with almost all of them I can back you on this list! You don't use replace stuff? This is one of the most time saving mod I know

[@alif205]

How about Rimpy? I heard it's was a great tool to manage your mod list.

[@Barkly]

Nice :)

[@back8056]

Barks for the win!

[@elQueFaltaba]

Achtung! has a couple other very handy uses, like keep a formation when you move colonists (have melee in the front, for example) or give them forced orders (work on this until is finished) that should have been mentioned ..

[@BaRKy]

You're right, whoops.

[@Solidsteakx]

Same with allow tool

[@pendantblade6361]

Barky Allow Tool already allows you to cut blight!!!!

[@ObliviousNaga]

So many people don't know it because it's in a drop down menu on plant cut

[@dibidus6080]

@@ObliviousNaga Yup, just right click the cut plants command and choose cut blighted plants. Saves you from installing a mod you already have within another mod.

[@asszudemi3650]

You definetly need to add "replace everything" it lets you Replace wooden walls and Objekts with other materials without having to tearing them down first

[@Asmitha90]

Why dev didnt implement work tab mod into core is a pure mistery for me... Edit. Insted of mad skillz i propse statick quality since it lets you customieze pasion gains, crafting quality etc.

[@enkidamu3543]

Can you slow down when you show the mod names? I’m trying to follow along to install the mods but you have the name up for around a second. Good stuff though :)

[@Nevera476]

The only reason i dont run minify is because it conflicts with save our ship. For a mountain base its awesome to move smoothed stone into gaps instead of ugly brick walls

[@marethyu1013]

I suggest dont steal my walls mod if using minify

[@jcaashby3]

I just got the game. I think I am going to play a bit more before I use these mods as I want to see how the vanilla game plays. No point in adding mods before I even see WHY the mods were made lol.

[@TheDreadedHope]

Personally, I have "Remove Door sounds" open and closing a lot of doors get annoying. Color-coded Traits, lastly More Tabs: Medical, & weapons are my must-haves

[@JackOBee29]

Invisible conduits is op

[@tssitcom]

Has Mod Manager been updated to vers 1.2 yet? From what I'm finding online so far, it hasn't. Anyone got any info on this?

[@minemoder2346]

can we get a link to an instance with al the mods in it?

[@christianstorms3950]

I wouldn't call "Realistic Rooms" a QoL mod for this list, because it does rebalance the Vanilla values. I like it, but it doesn't fit. Where is "Replace stuff"? that is an essential. "Don't mind me passing", "Brrr and Phew", "Loading in Progress".

[@sren.matthiesen9270]

Silent doors is the best mod ever made for Rimworld.

[@BaRKy]

No, harvest organs post mortem is

[@sren.matthiesen9270]

@@BaRKy Solid choice :) My hatred for the door sound is not rational, but it is very real. The game is unplayable without silent doors mod.

[@lionllew6601]

Does deep storage count as qol or not?

[@T3AMstudios]

Why not put the mod list in the description so we can quickly look through it rather than rewatching the video

[@TheAndrew1987]

can you put timestamps?

[@Swarthy144k]

BaRKy I really like that your channel is very Rimworld focused, but I really think you can reach a wider audience if you'd consider doing a let's play/tutorial series for... Baldur's Gate 3 (or some other crpg). 😁

[@BaRKy]

Woah, you think so? Baldur's Gate 3 Playthrough would be awesome, especially considering I'm planning on playing it anyways. I have some Arelith footage coming up.

[@Swarthy144k]

@@BaRKy Niiiice 👌🏾

[@ichifish]

Not that you shouldn't, you should do whatever makes you happy, but I only watch Rimworld.

[@SkSafowan]

You should have add those mods name and timeline in the description !!!

[@Mati-ib4mx]

Just watch the video

[@sahara5509]

where is the mod list link?

[@Hansulf]

Doctoring? Just have a few prisioners and remove and put back parts on them at infinitum... 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 legs and the mandibule. Thats a ton of XP jajajajaja

[@apxa4]

Achtung, Defensive Positions! Heat Map, Commons Sense, Allow Tool! Room Sense, Auto-cut blight, blueprints! Animals Logic, jobs of opportunity, mad skills, phermacist, Realistic Rooms, smarter construction, architect icons,

[@justiceforjoggers2897]

Anyone know about deepsaves? The Vanilla Expanded factions keep dissapearing and that's the error

[@sakul174]

have you figuered it out? i am having the same issue

[@justiceforjoggers2897]

@@sakul174 Unfortunately not, at least I can keep re-adding them every time I reload

[@gahmivolka6582]

Yea I always thought the decay thing on skills is kind of dumb.. You mean to tell me a pawn who hits lvl 8 on planting and starts planting heal root and then goes to bed or goes rec. Then decays back to 7. They magically forget how to plant heal root within that super tiny amount of time... lol Yea last time I checked I don't magically forget how to do something overnight haha.

[@1973Louis]

Actually no if I am correct the skills decay start past 10. So your skill won't go below ten but all experience gain to reach 11 can be lost.

[@gahmivolka6582]

@@1973Louis even then it is retarded. Lavish meals if I remember take lvl 12 to make them. Same scenario. If anything it shouldn't decrease your skill but maybe do like a temporary debuff that your first like 5 things you do of that profession are slower than normal. As you would just be "rusty" in doing it. You wouldn't completely forget how to do it.

[@jacobtb1]

I would add "quality colors"

[@TheRealPhantomWolf]

You do realize that the auto cut blight mod is not needed since the Allow Tool mod already has that feature in the mod?

[@caesarkillz6608]

Try out Job in Bar and Colony Groups :)

[@_reaper137]

missing "Recipe Icons"

[@beavatatlan]

Im first

[@BaRKy]

Thanks for being first!

[@kevinkorenke3569]

I have over 100 mods active. I'm trying to prune that list and you arent making it any easier...

[@BaRKy]

There's no crashing this plane.

[@Gist258]

best QOL mod is do not auto update to break all the mods you are using.

[@prettygoodgamer8844]

Nothing is op in a single player game

[@nicolasbram165]

Well its just some mod make the game too easy..

[@prettygoodgamer8844]

@@nicolasbram165 ok

[@jhonnmesa9622]

Honestly I can't find a reason on why I shouldn't download every mod in this list

[@Nuschler22]

I think you have that backwards. The game itself is that bad without the mods. To be fair, it's a sub average game with no mods. It really is tough to play. Only mods make the game playable.

[@r0yce]

Wall lights....

[@theallseeingkuma1569]

I dislike the Minified mod, they (raiders) took my gosh dang Steam Vent!

[@BaRKy]

Hahaha, yeah. One downside.

[@BaRKy]

Git gud small son.

[@theallseeingkuma1569]

@Zanard Bell true dat

[@jan4602]

Check out don't steal my walls mod so raiders won't steal them anymore.

[@theallseeingkuma1569]

@@jan4602 That's a thing?!

[@muhammadfitri1315]

harmony hugslib jecstool mod manager achtung follow me defensive position edb preparecarefully heat map locks common sense allow tool room sense prepare landing --1.1 not update yet map reroll auto-cut blight blueprint camera+ color coded mood bar animals logic jobs opportunity (while your up) --1.1 not yet update mad skills minify everything use minified building pharmacist avoid friendly fire realistic room research pal damage indicator smart speed smarter construction architect icons automatic night owl blue print totals tooltip Invisible conduits in case you cant wait for barky to release the mods list via steam workshop / google doc

[@dylanarnejo6941]

where did "quality of life" name come from?

[@JessiTheBestiGaming]

Can someone redo Additional Joy Objects with Spectago tea? I'll literally pay you $40

[@werenostrangerstolove7739]

Why? We need the joke mods too

[@humanearthling1847]

moody

[@logangrey6910]

Make mod list for steam plz

[@BaRKy]

In the works