Ratings or Favorites are greatly appreciated.


*Note* These mods are for Rimworld version 1.2

All of these mods are centered around improving Rimworld's performance. This should be especially useful for those on limited / older systems. While each of these may only contribute a slight increase to performance, when looking at the list as a whole I think it helps quite a bit. A huge thank you goes out to all the authors for creating these awesome performance saving mods!

*Note* To skip the below descriptions just scroll all the way down, added these based on questions I see in discussions on a daily basis. Hopefully this helps

Most of this mod will not improve performance, however you can set how often pets attempt to haul items which will affect performance greatly.

This is an amazing tool that can help you to pinpoint exactly how much memory each mod is using (helps identify problematic / laggy mods). It also has a set of performance enhancing tools.

This mod will cause less to be drawn / animated where power conduits and power cords are concerned. Minor increase in performance.

This mod removes the healing emote animation when pawns are in the hospital / getting treated. Minor increase in performance.

This prevents events from spawning pawns with random relations to your colonists. Seems to help lag during Raid generation, but not confirmed. Possible slight increase in performance.

This is a simple mod that removes all shadows. Slight increase in performance.

This mod removes the sleeping emote animation for pawns. Minor increase in performance.

While this mod does not directly increase performance in any way, you can use it to manage your mod lists more efficiently and remove possible conflicts with load order. I find my game runs best when configured properly using RimPY.

This mod removes the open and close noises from vanilla doors. Minor increase in performance.

This mod changes the way plants are drawn in rimworld. Instead of using multiple images per plant it will use only ONE per plant. Minor increase in performance, especially with large farms.

This mod removes the ambient jungle inset noises from jungle maps. Minor increase in performance in Jungle maps.

This mod prevents the game from drawing any debris. Minor increase in performance.

This mod will not directly increase performance in any way, though I like to use it in conjunction with RimPY to help manage my mod lists. IMO this is the best in game mode manager available.

This mod is useful for a very specific situation. If you are frequently getting jobs limit tick red liner errors you can use this mod to change the way rimworld tracks jobs. You can follow instructions to increase or decrease the rate at which pawns will be able to initiate jobs. Minor inrease in performance for players who experience this red liner error frequently.

This mod can be used to either inrease or decrease the quality of textures in Rimworld. Minor increase in performance.

Lets you specify the target frames per second, helps with older machines or if you want to help restrict bandwidth for other programs IE spotify or youtube that are running in the background.

This mod allows you to customize/remove all emotes in the game on an individual basis. Similar to the mods that remove specific emotes, this can have a small impact on framerate and performance.

This mod removes the need to fuel braziers, this has the effect of eliminating lag caused by fueled lamps. Noticable increase in performance especially for tribal playthroughs.

This mod completely removes the social system from rimworld. Why would you want to do this??? The social system im Rimworld causes significant performance issues, the older the colony is and the more pawns generated during the game the slower it will run. This mod takes the drastic step of removing the social system so that lag is elminated. This mod has a strong impact on performance!

This mod removes the refueling job from all torches . Saving a little on Tribal Playthroughs with lots of torches.

This mod removes the refueling job altogether. Anything that requires fuel will run forever save for random breakdowns.

This is a FANTASTIC mod for performance. The tools RuntimeGC provide allow you to speed up rimworld especially on long time saves (the longer you have been playing the more it will help!). Check out the mod page for more information but I consider this a must have, allows for periodic cleaning to help speed things up. Major increase in performance depending on variables.

This mod is IMO a must have especially if you currently use a colonist bar mod. This mod has been highly optimized to lower lag and will perform MUCH better than any other colonist bar mod. I saw multiple 10's of FPS increase with this mod over Color Coded Mood Bar.

This mod does not necesarilly help with getting FPS though it is very useful for heavily modded games to help show you what programs are loading when Rimworld starts. This way you can gauge impact for each mod (especially those that take a long time to load).

This mod addresses the extreme lag that people with modded games can experience when trying to form a caravan (every time you add a person or item the game lags for a few seconds to minutes on end). Caution though as this mod aggressivley removes the ability for your pawns to forage while on caravan, be sure to pack enough food!

This mod does not neccesarilly help with FPS though I find it helps my games run much more smoothly and reliably. As I understand it it changes the way some patches are applied and cleans up some messes mod tend to leave around. *Important Note* Mod is about to go through a major update that may cause save breaking errors. Be sure to backup the mod to local and use that until more instructions are posted on the DocWorld mod page.

[ShamelessPlug] I also make some of my own mods, check them out below [/shamelessplug]

RimCast Cable Television (Compilation)
[RCTV] Mars Perseverance Landing
[RCTV] Elon's RimRud's

Robot Mod Collection
Medieval Fantasy Mod Collection
Quality of Life Mod Collection
Star Wars Mod Collection
Realistic Pawn Texture Mod Collection