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If you ever thought that the racial diversity in rimworld is... not that diverse and you want to change that, you came to the right place. This framework allows to easily add new humanoid races without any C# knowledge, purely in xml.

• Custom graphics with weighted skin and hair color selection
• Changing graphics with lifestages
• Drawing various body addons (e.g. tails and ears).
• Integration in the starting pawns (so players can start with them), as well as slaves and refugees
• Gender distribution
• Backstories
• Drawsize (independent from race size)
• Support for genderless races
• Optional immunity to aging related body problems
• Optional forced traits
• Customizable thoughts, with specific configurations for eating and butchering humanlike races
• Modifiable relation chances
• Race restricted clothing, weapons, research projects, buildings, bills and plants.

If you are interested in creating your own alien race mods for RimWorld or want to discover or discuss alien race modding, please feel free to join us on our Discord server!

Date	Comment
2024-05-03	General Settings, Body Addons, Extension Graphics, and Backstories pages have been updated with new and modified syntax for RimWorld 1.5.
2024-03-14	A new development version of Humanoid Alien Races has been released with preliminary support for the unstable branch for RimWorld 1.5. Please check out the RimWorld 1.5 Migration Guide for more details.
2024-01-29	A new version of Humanoid Alien Races has been released with Ideology styling station support, new children and age-based customization, and support for vanilla abilities. Please check out the full change list here.
2024-01-20	Added a new page for Features In Development.
2023-08-24	Added raceGenes documentation to General Settings.
2023-05-29	Added undocumented feature drawWithoutPart to Body Addons.
2023-05-17	Added consolidated pages for Royalty and Ideology DLC compatibility. Updated Race Settings page.
2023-04-29	Cleaned up and updated documentation for Thought Settings, Relation Settings, Compatibility, Backstories, and PawnBios.
2023-03-29	Added documentation for female offset and size options for General Settings, as well as previously undocumented headOffsetSpecific options. Added documentation for female offsets for Body Addons.
2023-01-29	Added new old-age hair options in General Settings.
2023-01-26	Added missing documentation for offsetDefaults and anchorReplacements in General Settings. Added missing points tag to fertility age curve examples.
2023-01-03	Changed canGetPregnant to canReproduce in Race Restrictions.
2022-12-22	Added a note about tox gas resistance in the RimWorld 1.4 Migration Guide.
2022-12-21	Added documentation for xenotype and reproduction restrictions in Race Restrictions
2022-12-14	Added missing documentation for drawOnGround, drawForMale, drawForFemale, drawDrafted, drawUndrafted, and jobs fields for Body Addons
2022-12-13	Cleaned up and reorganized the RimWorld 1.4 Migration Guide Added Biotech reproduction and children compatibility settings in General Settings