Lighter Than Fast

Adds 5 playable races and their factions from the game Faster Than Light

Engi - An industrious race

• Engi, poor at combat, yet skilled builders

• An android like anatomy that allows modularity and specialization

Special

• 85% shooting accuracy / 80% melee hit chance

• 125% construction / drug / smithing / smefting / sculpting

• 90% social

• 120% Immunity gain speed

• 4x sockets( each socket has 1 core slot and 1 rom slot); 8 slots to customize your engi efficiency

Race traits

• Beauty 0%

• Immunity 80%

• Hard worker 30%

• Industrious 20%

Mantis - A race to kill them all

• Mantis, insectoid race, fast, feared fighter, poor builder

Special

• 115% Speed

• 130% Melee hit chance / 125% Shooting hit chance

• 120% sharp damage / 105% Melee evasion

• 75% Construction / 75% Drug production

• 85% Mining / 90% Smelting Smithing Tailoring

Race traits

• Bloodlust - 30%

• Psychopath - 30 %

• Cannibal - 30 %

Rockmen - A robust race

• Rockmen, slow, lot of hp, fireproof, good miners

Special

• • 150% Health scale
• • 110% mining speed
• • Fireproof, comfy temp over 9000 (frost may bite though)
• • Natural armor
• • 85% speed
• • 150% Hunger rate
• • 105% psychic sensitivity to depict religious inclination

Race traits

• Ascetic 10%

• Tough 10%

Slug - A psychic race

• Strong-willed, socially awkward, xenophobic

• Capable of weakening their enemies

Special

• Psychic ability : Cast a debilitating area of effect power that will decrease the combat and defensive skills of the enemy humanlikes in the zone.

• Drooling - they will generate some slug dew ressource now and then.

• Drooling again - They will spill some rainbow puddles all day and night.

• 50% psychic sensivity / 110% toxic sensivity.

• 90% Social.

• Immunity to slug powers and mind control.

Race traits

• Xenophobic - 80%

• Bisexual - 60 %

Zoltan - An electrical race

• Diplomats

• Ingenious experts of technology

• Living powerplants

Special

• Supply power to batteries that are close enough

• 115% Recruit prisoner chance

• 105% Research

• 85% Health

• Explode upon death without friendly fire

Race traits

• Beautiful - 20%

• Kind - 20%

• Xenophile - 50%

• Engie bench to craft roms / claws / shieldmet.

• Shield bench helps synthethize shield layers for Shieldmet : prevents melee attacks.

• Slug dew and kraptyl (2 new raw ressources and related walls/floors)

• Eggs + new ressources = magic. Equipable too.

• Synt claws for Mantis.

• Roms cpus coolers for Engis.

• over 150 Backstories, village names, colonist names.

• Many faces for Engi, Mantis.

• Corpses.

• Races playable from regular tribal start.

• ClodFish, Backstory teller, FTL races life destroyer.

• Canute, Transcendent, for his feedbacks.

• Erdelf, Humanoid framework creator.

• Lilairen, Literary priestess

• Mehni, Rimworld modder for releasing Pick Up and Haul and exposing my mod flaws.

• Roski, Callistan race modder, for helping me patching pirates and outlanders.

• Sentient_Worm, RimWorld veteran, for all the feedback.

• Sera, Apini mod creator, for allowing me to use her sprites.

• Wyvern, Mantis lover, for his feedbacks and errors hunting skills.

• HAR discord, what a bunch of nice people!

• Ludeon Forums for the feedback and discussions.

Other FTL inspired mods

Be sure to check these mods that are also inspired by Faster Than Light, enjoy :)

• Clone bay

• Mindcontrol

• Teleporter

• Crystals

• Lanius

Stand alone versions

They are are marked as incompatible with this Lighter than fast mod: Since they use the same definitions, they would pop up harmless errors.

• Engi race - standalone version

• Mantis race - standalone version

• Rockmen race - standalone version

• Slug race - standalone version

• Zoltan race - standalone version