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ekudram edited this page Feb 24, 2026 · 3 revisions

🔥 !passion Command (1.21 update)

Gamble coins to spark (or boost) passion in your pawn's skills — giving faster learning and happy mood boosts! Viewers love risking coins for big skill upgrades. 🎲💥

TL;DR: !passion lets viewers bet coins for a chance to add minor passion (🔥) or upgrade to burning passion (🔥🔥) in a skill. Higher bets = better odds, but crit fails can remove passions! Very powerful for colony strength.

🎯 Command Syntax

Basic (random skill): !passion

Targeted skill: !passion

List your current passions: !passion list

Examples:

  • !passion 200 → Bet 200 coins for a random skill to gain/upgrade passion
  • !passion shooting 500 → Bet 500 on shooting skill specifically
  • !passion list → Shows your pawn's current 🔥 passions (e.g. Shooting 🔥🔥, Plants 🔥)
  • !passion medicine 50 → Small bet on medicine to try for minor passion

Note: Skill names work partial/case-insensitive (e.g. shoot, SHOOTING, med).

🔥 Why Passions Matter (Super Important!)

In RimWorld, passion is one of the biggest hidden powers for your pawns:

  • No passion → Learns skills at only ~33% speed 😴
  • Minor passion (🔥) → Normal 100% learning speed + +8 mood when doing that work 😊
  • Burning passion (🔥🔥) → 150% learning speed + even bigger mood boost! 🚀

Passionate pawns level skills way faster, become experts quicker, and stay happier doing their jobs. Many players overlook passions early-game, but they make or break late-game colonies (especially for doctors, shooters, builders, growers).

Streamer tip: Passions are perfect for "power-up" moments — viewers feel like they're directly making your colony stronger (or risk breaking it on bad rolls). Balance settings carefully so it's exciting but not game-ruining.

📊 How the Gamble Works

You bet coins → RNG roll decides outcome:

  • Success ✅ → Gain minor passion or upgrade minor → burning in the skill
  • Critical Success 🎉 → Guaranteed upgrade (or new passion) — big win!
  • Failure 💔 → Nothing happens, coins lost
  • Critical Failure 💥 → Lose an existing passion (or gain a useless one like Artistic) — ouch!

Odds improve with bigger bets (up to your max settings), but crit fails get less punishing on high wagers.

Your pawn must be alive and assigned — use !join / !mypawn first.

⚙️ Settings You Can Tweak (In-Game Command Editor)

Go to RICS tab at bottom → Command Editor → Search for Passion.

Easier to get passions (viewer-friendly, more wins):

  • Raise BasePassionSuccessChance (default 15% → try 25-35%)
  • Raise MaxPassionSuccessChance (default 60% → up to 80-90%)
  • Increase PassionWagerBonusPer100 (default 1.0 → 2.0 or more for big-bet rewards)
  • Lower crit fail chances (CriticalFailBaseChance down, MinCriticalFailChance to 1%)
  • Raise CritSuccessUpgradeVsNewChance (more upgrades on crits)

Harder / more risk (high-stakes drama):

  • Lower base/max success chances (10-40%)
  • Reduce wager bonuses
  • Increase crit fail base chance (15-20%)
  • Lower CritFailLoseVsWrongChance (more "gain useless passion" troll moments 😂)
  • Raise TargetedCritFailAffectTargetChance (targeted bets more likely to backfire on the chosen skill)

Pro streamer advice:

  • Start with defaults → watch chat reactions
  • Make it easier during slow streams to encourage bets
  • Make it riskier during hype moments for epic fails/wins
  • Set MinPassionWager low (10-50) so everyone can play
  • Cap MaxPassionWager (500-2000) to prevent one viewer breaking economy

All these are adjustable in the Command Manager window!

💡 Tips & Best Practices

  • Use !passion list often — show chat what passions your pawn already has
  • Target key survival skills: Shooting, Medicine, Plants, Construction — huge colony impact
  • Small bets = safer fun; big bets = stream highlights (wins or hilarious fails)
  • Combine with !mypawn to show passion changes live
  • Warn chat: "Crit fails can remove passions — bet wisely!" 😅
  • Great during recruitment or after pawn deaths — helps new pawns catch up fast

No pawn? → "❌ Need an assigned pawn! Use !join"

🔗 Related Pages

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