English is not my first language, so please forgive any spelling mistakes.

I'm in complete shock! In 3 years of playing this game, I've never seen this happen!

I sheltered 3 refugees, including an 8-year-old child. They betrayed me, which is fine, but the CHILD WITH A CLUB HITKILLED 3 COLONISTS! 3 hits to the head! 3 instantly dead! I'm abandoning this colony and starting another. The only survivors are a newborn baby, the baby's father who is a pyromaniac, and a damn cook who lost both arms and an eye!

Is my RNG that cursed, or has this happened to you guys? I've had colonists instantly killed by blows to the head before, but for a child, it's new.

Disables mental breaks for slaves and introduces three new options to further customize and enhance slavery:

Features

• Mood-Based Suppression (Highly Recommended): Mood directly impacts how fast suppression falls. Miserable slaves will lose suppression drastically faster, while happy slaves will stay compliant longer- or forever.
• Total Suppression: Disables rebellions completely when a slave is at 100% suppression. Can be used to make slave soldiers viable or just make slavery less of a hassle.
• Suppression Offset: A simple slider to globally increase or decrease the amount of suppression slaves receive. Use it to fine-tune 'Mood-Based Suppression' or to make vanilla slaves harder to suppress as a trade-off for no longer having mental breaks.

Why use this mod?

For Gameplay: Needing to pamper your slaves so they don't lose their minds every day ruins the point of slavery. In vanilla, converting prisoners takes forever, but it's practically mandatory unless you want them taking massive mood penalties because you "chopped trees" or "fed them their friends." This mod buffs slavery and makes it a genuinely viable, low-micromanagement way to get use out of a pawn.

For the Story: Vanilla mental breaks lack consequences for slaves. Even if you've broken their will and kept them fully suppressed, they can still just decide to take a 24 hours (mental) break whenever they feel like it, while your warden watches impotently. You can retaliate, but they'll never learn or gain self-preservation.

Finally, there's already the suppression mechanic, and having both doesn't make sense. If a slave is miserable, they shouldn't 'Sad Wander' for 24 hours undisturbed before going back to their tormentors- they should fight or flee.

Dynamic Playstyles

With the Mood-Based Suppression feature enabled, slavery scales naturally with how you treat your captives:

• The Brutal Slaver (Very Low Mood): If you run a "work-to-death" camp, suppression will drop rapidly even with a collar and strap. To keep them compliant, you will actually need to play like a slaver: maintain good wardens, fill rooms with terror sculptures and gibbet cages, and occasionally beat suppression into them- or even execute the most unruly slaves to inspire terror in the others.
• The Standard Camp (Average Mood): Slaves sitting at ~25-55 mood will play more or less like vanilla, but without the annoying, consequence-free mental breaks.
• The Elite Vanguard (High Mood): If you treat your slaves well, their suppression will hold steady. This allows you to safely equip them with marine armor and weapons, forming elite, loyal slave-soldier armies like Janissaries, Mamluks, or Sardaukar without the constant fear of a heavily-armed rebellion.

For those who don't know, modders have created two separate Vehicle Raid mods.

One is named Vehicle Raid Framework and the other is named VVE Raid. I can't speak to VRF yet as he just did a big rewrite and I didn't add it to my modlist, but VVE Raid?

Holy fuck is that good shit!

I have a 65 man colony that is built up nicely with defenses, a valley base between two mountains. Been dealing with mech raids, Empire raids, infestations, all good and had built up my defenses nicely. So I was thinking, okay, nobody can threaten me, starting to feel like there won't be any more close calls. So I added the VVE Raid mod on a lark to give it a shot.

Then I got my first vehicle raid, which was a large raid of pirates with a ton of vans, off road vehicles, cargo trucks, dirt bikes and motorcycles. They knocked out a couple walls that I haven't had knocked down in a very long time as they rolled up Mad Max style and dumped a shit-ton of infantry and were able to breach into my killbox before my defenders were fully set up. However, their lack of armored combat vehicles meant I was able to run them off despite the breach. I'm thinking, huh, that's neat! Really gave a different feeling as I watched a large component of trucks and cars come up to my walls and start dumping infantry out. Very cool feeling, very different after 6k hours playing Rimworld.

Then I get a second vehicle raid. Light tanks, flame tanks, IFV's, armored cars and a scytherman. Probably around fifteen armored vehicles with a large infantry support component, tox raiders, so they're throwing gas and knocking down walls to open up my base for their vehicles.

Despite using my defensive Buryah as they approached (which thank god, because if I didn't have that to take out the Scytherman, shit would have gone real sideways) and calling in a small squad of allied support, they were able to breach into my fields which hasn't happened all game. I lost two of my best colonists, one of which was a psycaster who I screwed up moving and he got murked by a light tank shell.

I haven't even faced a serious T3 vehicle raid yet and just am loving it. Have enjoyed the vehicle mods as a concept but felt they were making me a bit too OP since raiders couldn't use them, but now I have a reason to build rapid reaction tank units which I've never done before.

If you've been waiting to use the vehicle mods for modders to implement vehicle raids, give it a shot. The VVE Raid one isn't perfect yet, but it's already a wild time when you get a armored vehicle raid. There was something truly uniquely scary about seeing that Scytherman light up and launch a barrage at my colony, was great.