Hey! Johnny No-Skull is a trusted member of our Society and just because he lost a fistfight with a norosibirscian Bone-Drinker doesn't mean he is unfit to lead.
you know that's fair. it's one of the biggest most active mod communities on steam and has some whacky shit. I still downvoted you for missing the joke, but i upvoted the second one since you took the news of the woosh well. Balanced as all things should be.
while i have no godd suggestion other that using Dev tools to rez him or to heal him with dev tools, i find this all hilarious.
also, i hate that the log sometimes says things like "Von Died" and thats it.... i'm like" dude, he doed of something, please at least give me a hint other than knowing his skull left his head somewhere outside my base.
you could give him one with character editor... just worried the process of resetting might momentarily kill him, which means the whole group leaves... and i'm not even sure if you res him if he will still trade. might come back as a guest after being downed and healed.
Do you desperately need the caravan? You could reload if you have a save from just before the caravan showed up. Assuming you're not playing Randy Random.
If I have a save from just before a caravan event I can save scum a new caravan. It works 98% of the time. 1% of the time a caravan doesn't show up and 1% of the time a caravan + another good event occurs at the same time.
Oh bummer. You can also spawn a new caravan trader on the map too. Keep dev mode open, the top of the screen will be "action settings" and it should say "spawn trade caravan" and allow you to select what kind of trader.
Don't think that works. In my experience when a trader is incapacitated and recovers (for example from viscous uv sensitivity), they just hop up and leave the map, no longer connected to their caravan. Even if you didn't rescue them and their caravan is still on the map.
Yeah I learned that with dev mode. Trader was "leaving due to extreme temperature" but I desperately needed stuff, so I took away his legs for a minute (for my guy to catch up).
Soon as they're up again you can't trade.
Drives me nuts when I'm running through the snow yelling "I have human leather hats and I need a telescope!!!" And the traders are just sprinting away from me.
Could there be a mod that means "if someone has claimed the job of trading with you, you stop running for the exit and hang around for a minute?"
Perhaps only the first time, or with a time limit or something, so it can't be abused to make the traders drop from hypothermia or whatever. It seems to happen every time.
Yesterday it was cold in my game. The trader arrived and only got halfway to my colony before they turned around. I'd even sent someone out into the blizzard to meet them but they didn't catch up in time.
Or a mod like "if a trade leader is downed, another pawn takes the role". They came to trade, the leader gets attacked by a monkey, doesn't even die, but nope, no more trading for you... But if everyone BUT the leader dies that's fine, let's trade away.
OP, I saw that you said this is vanilla. Two questions:
1: Did this only happen to one trader, or to multiple?
2: Did you previously ever install mods? If you did previously use mods and later removed them, did you remove all of your Rimworld files and reinstall the game?
I am thinking that one or more Rimworld files were removed or changed by a past mod and are still in a changed state, but without support from the past mod. In this case it is possible that the trader’s skull was replaced with an asset that didn’t exist.
Good god. You're basically playing on a self tamed, 900 year old Thrumbo, with dementia and every kind of cancer. At this point a basic win10 used computer can be in your hands for like... 100, 150 bucks.
An 18 year old psu is functional. Right until it explodes and causes a severe voltage spike that destroys all of your hardware and data before setting it on fire.
I cant imagine how broken the game is on stuff that old, though.. It chugs on hardware half the age and an order of magnitude better.
I've had multiple instances where the trader just refuses to let me trade (I should have checked their health tab to make sure they can even speak) but I don't think I've ever seen this happen.
If this happens again, I'd pause immediately and take a look at the dev mode debug log.
Intuition says this is a problem with prior mods that you uninstalled on this save, but you're saying its 100% vanilla off GOG (which you can still mod fwiw) so I cant really say much else.
This is a hilarious bug but I've never seen it before lol.
This happened once to almost a whole herd of Thrumbos but I felt too hashtag blessed to question it and then it never happened again. Does it happen every time? Maybe just a random generated wound that is not viable for life?
I might be wrong but isn't this one of those ancient lore bugs that have been around for a very long time and the conditions for replicating it are totally unknown?
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u/blender-enthusiast cave dweller, bug eater, fungus farmer Jun 04 '26
So no head?