There's one new win condition and it involves hosting the High Stellarch (Empire faction leader).

Yes!

I expect almost all mods to not depend on Royalty, it's really up to the mod authors though.The same mod can run with/without Royalty.

It should run beside mods just fine.

unstable is now equivalent to default branch

Yes, Royalty depends on features in 1.1.

They'll always be there as a faction in the world (the refugee Empire), but there is a designed path where you don't ally with them and instead work against them. You can get roughly the same rewards in different ways, and they add some variety to raids.

Right after the game released in 2018 I started work on a free update, and soon after that an expansion. Hired a bunch more people, head count is now more than double what it was during RW development, so we're able to develop two things at once. That's how we built the free 1.1 update and the expansion at the same time. I've worked on it directly the whole time.If you look back to the RW release announcements, you'll note that I said the game is done but I'm not necessarily done with it. I've never been against expansions if they add meaningful new experiences without detracting from the base game. It's a great way to enrich a game after the base game has been stretched to completion (which it was after 5.5 years of development). And it comes alongside a free update with a bunch of new stuff because some improvements just didn't make sense not to give to everyone.Also worth noting that RimWorld costs $35, not $50, and the expansion costs $20, not $30. Also worth noting that the ... Read more

Originally posted by Kulgan from Crydee: My sources say he’s working on a spin off called “Rumworld”:

RumWorld follows three♥♥♥♥♥♥heads from a drunken crashed space liner as they build a distillery on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the violent Australian vibe of Bundaberg Rum, the deep spices of Admiral Nelson Spiced Rum, and the exoticness of Bacardi and 10 Cane.

Manage colonists' thirsts, violence, individual drinking preferences, and hangovers. Engage in small-team tactical drinking games. Fashion structures, weapons, and apparel from glasses, empty bottles, lampshades, vomit, or parts of your clothing. Fight bounces, dogs, girlfriends, boyfriends and each other. Torment and urinate on cute pets, push over farm animals, and try to talk to the opposite sex. Watch colonists lose relationships with family members, lovers, and spouses. Discover a new generated world each time you wake up, having forgotten the entire previous day. Build distilleries in the ...

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