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Skill Forge
"Instant expertise, no textbooks required."
How do I install Skill Forge?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Skill Forge for RimWorld in one click.
</>What does Skill Forge do?
That new recruit with terrible shooting and no crafting is a liability, and grinding skills up the honest way takes forever in RimWorld. Skill Forge lets you just set them where you want. Dial any colonist's skills to whatever level you need and light up their passions so they learn fast and love the work. Turn a clumsy wanderer into a master surgeon, make your gunner a dead-eye shot, give your builder the crafting chops to churn out top-quality gear. Refresh Colonists pulls up your current roster, you set the numbers, and Apply locks it in. Suddenly you've got the specialist team you always wanted instead of the random hand the game dealt you. Perfect for players who want to build a dream squad without the years of grind, and for rescuing a run where every recruit rolled useless. Tune one colonist for a specific job or overhaul the whole colony into a team of experts.
</>What is Skill Forge?
Skill Forge gives you full control over your RimWorld colonists' abilities. Pick any colonist, set each skill to the level you want, and switch their passions on, so a clumsy recruit becomes a master crafter or a legendary shooter in seconds. Build the exact team your colony needs. Free from ProjectMods, one-click install.
</>Common questions about Skill Forge
What does Skill Forge do in RimWorld?
Skill Forge lets you rewrite any colonist's abilities in RimWorld to whatever you need. Pick a pawn, set each of their skills — shooting, crafting, medicine, construction, and the rest — to the level you want, and light up their passions so they learn faster and gain the mood bonus from doing work they love. A hopeless recruit can become a master surgeon or a legendary shooter in seconds. It uses two controls, Refresh Colonists to load your current roster and Apply to lock in the changes. It's built for players who want to shape their ideal team rather than hope the storyteller hands them the right skills. Toggle it off to keep skills earned the normal way.
What do the Refresh Colonists and Apply options do?
These are Skill Forge's two controls and they work together. Refresh Colonists loads your current RimWorld roster into the mod, so the list reflects exactly who's in your colony right now — useful after you recruit someone new, lose a pawn, or a colonist joins from an event. Once the right colonist is selected and you've dialed in the skill levels and passions you want, Apply commits those changes to that pawn. So the flow is: refresh to get an up-to-date list, adjust the numbers, then apply to make it real. Hit Refresh Colonists again any time your roster changes so you're always editing the correct, current set of people.
Can Skill Forge set passions as well as skill levels?
Yes — and passions are half the value. In RimWorld a colonist's passion for a skill controls how fast they improve at it and gives a mood boost when they do that work, so a high skill without passion slowly decays and feels flat. Skill Forge lets you switch passions on alongside setting the raw skill number, so your master crafter not only starts at the top but stays motivated and keeps their edge. That makes for a colonist who's genuinely built to specialise, rather than one who's temporarily good but bored. Combine high skills with matching passions to create the definitive expert for each job in your colony.
Why is the colonist list empty or out of date when I first open Skill Forge?
If the list looks empty or doesn't match your current RimWorld colony, hit Refresh Colonists — that's the button that pulls in your up-to-date roster. The mod reads whoever is in your colony at the moment you refresh, so if you opened it before loading a save, or your roster changed since you last looked, a refresh syncs it. This is by design: it keeps you from accidentally editing a stale list or a colonist who's no longer around. As a rule, tap Refresh Colonists whenever you open the mod or after any change to who's in the colony, then pick your pawn and make your edits.
Why would I use Skill Forge?
Because so much of a RimWorld run comes down to whether the storyteller happens to give you colonists with the right skills — and often it doesn't. Skill Forge lets you build the team you actually want: a dedicated doctor who won't botch surgery, a legendary shooter for defence, a master cook to end food poisoning. It's great for fixing a roster that's all farmers and no fighters, for roleplaying specific characters, and for skipping the slow grind of training skills from scratch. Use Refresh Colonists then Apply to shape anyone. It's free from ProjectMods, installs in one click, and toggles off whenever you want skills earned normally.
What options does Skill Forge include?
Refresh Colonists
Load your colonists into the dropdown. Press this first, in-game.
Passion
Set how passionate the colonist is about the skill.
Apply
Apply the level and passion to the chosen skill.
Skill Level
The level to set the chosen skill to (0 to 20).
Select Skill
Pick a single skill, or All Skills to set every skill at once.
Apply To All Colonists
Turn it on to train every colonist at once instead of just the selected one.
Select Colonist
Pick which colonist to train.
Skill Forge lets you set any RimWorld colonist's skills to any level and light up their passions, so you can build a team of masters in seconds — a free mod from ProjectMods.
System Requirements
What features does Skill Forge include?
- Set any colonist's skills to exactly the levels your colony needs
- Light up passions so pawns learn faster and enjoy the work you assign them
- Refresh Colonists pulls your current roster, then Apply locks in your changes
- Turn a random recruit into a master surgeon, dead-eye shooter, or top-tier crafter in seconds
Best For
- Players who want a dream team of specialists without waiting years for skills to grind up naturally
- Anyone stuck with a run where every recruit rolled useless stats and incapable work types
- Builders who need a high-level crafter right now to produce top-quality weapons and armor
- Roleplayers shaping colonists to fit a character concept, giving each survivor the skills their story calls for
Miracle Worker
Patch up every wound, cure every illness, regrow lost limbs, and even bring the fallen back to life — all with a single press.
Eureka (Instant Research)
Finish whatever you are researching in an instant — or unlock the entire tech tree in one press.
Unbreakable
Bullets, blades, fire, falls — your colonists walk away from all of it. Take on the toughest raids without losing anyone.
