Custom
User-Folder

RimWorld saves all configuration file (base-game & mods), savegame, presets, logs, etc. in your user-folder. In some instances it can be useful or necessary to redirect the location of this folder, which the game allows via a simple start-up parameter. The Readme.txt in the game's install-folder already has all the instructions to achieve that, so we're just repeating them here for the ease of access.

There are a few reasons to redirect the user-folder - most of them are rather niche though, so unless you have good reasons, it's nothing you really have to - or should - think hard about.

• Installing the game on a portable drive
  While not exactly a good method - you can install the game on a portable hard drive or even USB-stick and take it with you to play on other devices without having to install it locally. In such a case you can redirect the user-folder onto the portable drive to take all your settings and saves with you.

• Using multiple individual mod-lists at the same time
  If you want to use different modlists/setups at the same time and your mod-configs are differing between them, running the game out of one user-folder can be a problem - you technically have to change mod-settings each time you switch your modlist/saves. To avoid that you can make multiple installs of the game each with its own user-folder or even use only one install of the base game & mods and just have different shortcuts on your Desktop to start the game from different user-folders. While this works; mod-managers like RimSort are able to make 'instances' of the game with the same benefits as well - and depending on how tech-savvy one is, this could simply be faster and easier to achieve that way.

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