On a timer
First wave after 5 days, then one every 2 days. Points follow a curve scaled by your difficulty.
Wave Survival Reforged
Mod
RimWorld 1.6 / 1.7No HarmonyStoryteller
A rebuild of Wave Survival [Game Mode] by Justin C, with Philbro's storyteller art. Random events are off. Raids arrive on a timer, each wave stronger than the last, and a supply pod lands at your orbital trade beacon every day.
Every fourth wave is special and every tenth is a boss. The next wave is decided ahead of time, so the alert and a small HUD tell you what is coming and from whom.
What it does
Special waves
Sieges, sappers, breachers, mechanoids, manhunter packs and mass animal insanity. Royalty adds mech clusters; Anomaly adds shamblers, fleshbeasts and sightstealers.
Boss waves
Every 10th wave: a great siege, a warband or a mechanoid hive at one and a half times the strength.
Know what's coming
The next wave is rolled when it is scheduled. The alert and HUD name its type, faction and strength, and a report follows each wave.
Daily drops
Steel, wood, stone blocks, silver, components and medicine by chance, survival meals when food runs low, and sometimes a weapon.
Stockpile caps
Each item stops dropping once you hold enough, counting what still lies near the beacon.
No beacon yet
After 3 days without a beacon, a smaller drop lands near the colony.
Presets
Casual, Standard, Brutal or Custom. A run keeps the preset it started with.
Best runs
When your colony falls, the run goes on a local best-runs list with its waves, kills and days.
Screen effectRimWorld 1.7
The screen edges glow as a wave gets close. Can be turned off.
What's new
Follow updates (RSS)v2.0.0Current
- Data-driven wave table —
WaveTypeDefs inDefs/WaveTypes.xmlwithpool(Normal / Special / Boss),kind(Raid / Incident), strategy, arrival mode, faction filter,minWave,weight,pointsFactor,bonusPoints,canSplit. New: drop pod raids, drops in the base, breachers, mechanoids; Royalty mech clusters; Anomaly shamblers, fleshbeasts, sightstealers; boss waves every 10th wave. Game defs are resolved by name without errors, so a missing one turns that type off. - Points curve —
pointsByWaveSimpleCurve, optionalwealthBlendtowardStorytellerUtility.DefaultThreatPointsNow,breatherDaysafter special and boss waves, range checks for every config value inConfigErrors. - Pre-rolled waves and HUD — the next wave (type, faction, points, split) is rolled when scheduled and saved; the alert and a toggleable HUD show it, and it runs as announced.
WaveTrackersends a wave report (killed, downed, fled). - Presets — Casual / Standard / Brutal / Custom, copied into the save at run start (
RunSettings). Covers wave strength, first-wave and between-wave days, special interval, supply chances, the still-alive mood, wanderer chances. The Wave Survival scenario locks the storyteller. - Run stats and best runs — saved
RunStats; on colony loss a letter and a local top-10 list in the mod settings. - 1.7 wave vignette — GLSL
WSR_WaveVignettein1.7/Shaders, ramps over the last 6000 ticks and flashes on arrival, coloured by pool. Settings toggle.
9 more changes in v2.0.0
- No-beacon fallback drop — after
noBeaconFallbackDays(3) a half-size drop, no weapon, near the colony. - Build stamp —
WaveSurvivalReforgedBuildInfo.BuildStamp, log prefix[WaveSurvivalReforged]for the Azrael hub. - Two builds, one source — 1.6 loads
1.6/Assemblies(net472). 1.7 loads1.7/Assemblies, a.NET 10 build againstKrafs.Rimworld.Ref1.7.4998-unstable. Released through the normal workflow and docs-site zip. - Full difficulty scaling — threat scale applies to every point, including the starting points and bonuses.
- Supply drops — loose items near the beacon count toward
maxStockpile; weapon weight is commonality × √price; the beacon is cached. - Alerts — text built once per check and translated on use.
- Phantom waves — announced only after spawning; fallback to a plain raid, then a manhunter pack, else postponed with a message and the wave number kept. Split raids only when each half meets the faction minimum.
- Trade ship without comms — the trader is gated on
CanFireNow. - Saves:
saveVersion2. A 1.0 save loads with the Standard preset, the same wave number and countdown, stats seeded from the wave number, and the next wave pre-rolled on the first check.
Older versions (v1.0.0)
v1.0.0
- Added: Wave Survival storyteller: random events off, raid waves on a timer that grow each time, every fourth wave a siege, sappers, manhunter pack or mass animal insanity.
- Added: Daily supply drops at the orbital trade beacon; Wave Survival scenario; wave countdown and beacon alerts.
- Fixed: Component drops checked silver instead of components; drops due before a beacon existed were lost; a special wave no faction could run was skipped.
Good to know
- Pick the Wave Survival scenario, or the Wave Survival storyteller with any scenario.
- Every number is in Defs/WaveSurvivalConfig.xml, and wave types in Defs/WaveTypes.xml.
- Chinese Simplified and Russian are included.
- Does not need Harmony.
Works with
- RoyaltyOptional — adds mech cluster waves
- AnomalyOptional — adds shambler, fleshbeast and sightstealer waves
Multiplayer is not supported.