Mod «Rimtalk» for Rimworld (v1.6)

RimTalk - AI-Powered Dialogue

Bring your colonists to life with RimTalk, a revolutionary mod that uses Google's Gemini AI to generate dynamic and context-aware dialogue for your pawns. Gone are the days of repetitive and generic interactions. With RimTalk, every conversation is unique, reflecting the pawn's current mood, thoughts, and situation.

How it Works

RimTalk integrates directly with Google's Gemini AI to generate dialogue in real-time. The mod analyzes a pawn's current thoughts and actions and uses that information to create a prompt for the AI. The AI then generates a line of dialogue that is displayed in a bubble above the pawn's head. This process happens dynamically, creating emergent and immersive conversations that are unique to your colony's story.

Features

• Dynamic Dialogue: Colonists' speech is generated by the powerful Gemini AI, resulting in conversations that are always fresh and interesting.
• Context-Aware: Dialogue is based on what your colonists are doing and thinking, making interactions feel more natural and immersive.
• Multi-Language Support: The AI can generate dialogue in multiple languages, allowing for diverse and culturally rich colony experiences.
• Minimal Performance Impact: AI generation is handled in the cloud and API requests are asynchronous, ensuring a smooth experience.
• Configurable: You can adjust the frequency of conversations to your liking and even suppress messages that the AI can't process.
• Easy to Set Up: Simply get a free Gemini API key from Google AI Studio and paste it into the mod settings.

How to Get Started

1. Subscribe to the mod on the Steam Workshop.
2. Obtain a free Gemini API key:
   
   • Go to Google AI Studio[aistudio.google.com].
   • Click on "Get an API key".
   • Copy the generated API key.
3. Launch RimWorld and enable the RimTalk mod in the mod list.
4. Open the mod settings for RimTalk.
5. Paste your Gemini API key into the designated field.

That's it! Your colonists will now start having unique and dynamic conversations in their preferred language!

API Rate Limits (Free Tier)

The mod uses Google's Gemini API with the following free tier limits (as of August 2025):

• Requests per minute: 30 RPM
• Tokens per minute: 15,000 TPM
• Requests per day: 14,400 RPD

For most gameplay sessions, these limits are more than sufficient. The mod is designed to respect these limits automatically.

For more information about rate limits, visit:
Standard API Rate Limits[ai.google.dev]

Configuration

• Gemini API Key: Your personal key for accessing the Gemini AI.
• Talk Interval: Controls how often colonists will attempt to speak. A lower number means more frequent conversations.
• Suppress unprocessed interaction messages: When enabled, interaction messages that occur too frequently (within the talk interval) and cannot be processed by the AI will be completely hidden instead of showing the original message.

Performance

Wondering about the impact on your game's performance? Rest assured, RimTalk is designed to be lightweight. All the heavy lifting of generating dialogue is done in the cloud by Google's servers. This mod simply sends a request to the AI service and waits for a response. To ensure smooth gameplay, these requests are sent asynchronously, meaning they run in the background without freezing or stuttering your game. The result is a minimal performance impact on your computer.

Compatibility

RimTalk is designed to be compatible with most other mods. It does not alter any core game mechanics and should not conflict with mods that add new pawn types, thoughts, or jobs.

It also works alongside dialogue-related mods (e.g., SpeakUp). If desired, you can enable the Override option in the config to force AI to regenerate dialogue (useful for non-English output or custom variations).

Troubleshooting

• No dialogue appearing: Make sure you've entered a valid Gemini API key in the mod settings.
• Frequent pauses in dialogue: You may be hitting rate limits. Consider increasing the Talk Interval setting.
• API key issues: Ensure your API key is correctly copied from Google AI Studio without extra spaces.

Credits

• Development: Juicy

Required mods:

• Interaction Bubbles

Updated to version 07.09.25

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