Keep Your Gear

Keep weapon and inventory

Downed pawns keep their weapon and inventory instead of throwing everything on the ground - for colonists and enemies alike, each side with its own options. Destroyed hands no longer disarm a pawn.

Stripping, capturing, selling and caravans keep their vanilla behavior.

What it does

• Downed pawns - colonists, raiders, animals - keep weapon and inventory until they recover, or die with it on the body.

• A weapon stays equipped when the pawn loses the use of its hands; it is usable again once the pawn can hold things.

• A kidnapped pawn drops its gear where it was grabbed, so it stays recoverable.

• Pawns that spawn downed - rescued allies, quest survivors - keep their weapon too.

Settings

Separate options for colonists and for other pawns, each covering weapons and inventory, on downed and on death. The "dead" options work standalone: a pawn can drop everything when downed but keep it on death, or the other way around. Colony animals and slaves count as colonists; prisoners and visitors count as other pawns.

Things to keep in mind

Deliberate trade-offs that keep the mod balanced:

• A downed enemy who wakes back up is still armed - keeping gear means keeping it for everyone.

• Gear on dead pawns stays on the corpse: strip the body to take it, or it is destroyed when the corpse rots away.

• A downed pawn's kept inventory cannot be accessed directly; recover, strip, capture or kill the pawn to get at it.

• Enemies rescued by their own faction leave the map with their gear.

Compatibility

Requires RimWorld 1.6 and Harmony. Pure Harmony mod: no def changes, nothing saved to the game state - safe to add and remove at any time.

Successor of "Do Not Drop Weapon" and "Where Is My Weapon?".

Source code: https://github.com/Riketta/KeepYourGear