Vanilla Expanded End of Year roadmap! (Patreon)

Hello folks!

This is a special End of year roadmap that will also double as January roadmap - which essentially means don't expect another roadmap until February!

In the year of 2021, despite the hardship from global pandemic, we have managed to release 32 brand new mods, as well as release huge updates for other, older Faction mods. This means that we are still releasing almost 3 mods a month - a number that hasn't changed since we started. I can't explain how proud I am of my team, and how happy I am to have them around to push me further than ever.

I would like to extend a huge thank you to the community that supported us, to our Patrons, new and old, to those who became patrons on our first month, and to those who only just now joined. To those that joined, immediately left and asked for a refund after already checking all the patron-only posts, and to those that left because their financial situation has changed. Huge thank you to those who are not in a position to donate and simply observe and play with our mods, and to those who hate our mods with passion and troll in the comments.

Huge thank you to the entire community. To Combat Extended fans spamming the same question, to the people who don't read the FAQ, to people who report bugs without logs, to people who message me on facebook or knock on my door in the middle of the night (just kidding).

It's not Tynan who made RimWorld so easy to mod. Well, it partly is. But the big part of what makes modding for RimWorld great is the community. The content creators, the modders, the players, the lurkers, the commenters, the trolls, the artists, the programmers.

Huge thanks to people from our testing server, the silent guardians who make sure that when the mod is released, nobody's save is buggered. Huge thanks to everyone who has ever worked on RimWorld or is still working on RimWorld. Huge thanks to Ludeon studios for delivering us this gem of a game. Huge thanks to my fiancee and my cat for lifting my spirits through the pandemic.

With this, we end 2021 and hope everything is better in 2022. Many of us lost their jobs, many of us lost their family members, their friends. To those people: Chin up. Randy Random won't always be in control, and I hope Phoebe Chillax takes over the wheel starting January 2022.

As some of you know, we are working on our own game now too. It doesn't mean the end of VE, not in the slightest. As I said many times, VE is more than modding, it's a family, and I don't abandon family.

If you'd like to support our game, simply visit our Kickstarter's prelaunch page and press that 'Notify me when the project launches' button. You can visit the Prelaunch page here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cracklewockgames/cursed-crew

When it comes to other 2022 plans, they are mostly all in the roadmap images above. On top of all that, we are still working on the RimWorld Lore book, which had to step aside for our game's kickstarter, for obvious reasons (one puts food on my table, the other doesn't), but the idea remains: It will be free for everyone to read online in a flipbook PDF format, and it will be available to purchase globally (shipping rates may vary) in hard-cover format. It won't be super cheap, as I am not a big publisher printing billions of copies, but I will do what I can to make it affordable.

With this I sign out for the year. I will read the comments here and on Steam, but since I don't plan to work, I most likely won't be answering them! 

I love you guys loads, stay safe, stay merry and happy holidays!