While You're Up / PUAH+

Opportunistic hauling. Haul-to-inventory improvements (if Pick Up And Haul is installed).
A must-have with PUAH. Compatible with existing saves. Any load order.
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Much of this mod is improving Pick Up And Haul (optional; installed separately). If you already use PUAH, you want this mod too.

"But my pawns are walking farther!"
Yes. A slightly longer journey now to avoid a much longer journey next time.


Pick Up And Haul+: Better unloading
We enhance all inventory hauling by unloading only once at each storage destination, in closest order.
We cache haulable destinations to improve performance.

Opportunistic hauls
Vanilla has support for opportunities, but with limitations: haulable near your start position, and storage near your job.
We prefer these, but drop them as requirements to include hauls along the path.

We skip opportunities when bleeding or forming a caravan.

Pick Up And Haul+
Modified to grab only surrounding things whose unload path is also opportunistic.

Haul extra supplies & ingredients closer
If hauling resources to storage would bring them closer to their job, do that first (grabbing extra).

Your builder will never again cross the map to retrieve a single component.



Pick Up And Haul+
Modified to grab extra things headed to the same storage (when higher priority).
Grab extra supplies & ingredients headed to the same storage (when equal priority).

Storage building filters for mod compatibility
Permit or deny for any storage building through settings, or leave automatically managed with mod updates.





Common Sense? Yes. (I prevent incompatible settings from being on at the same time.)
LWM's Deep Storage? Yes. But off by default for Opportunities because storing items takes time.
Perfect Pathfinding? Yes, both of our "Pathfind" settings should be compatible.

@Modders: You can set your JobDef to <allowOpportunisticPrefix>true</...>. This is a vanilla feature.


Vanilla's opportunistic hauling was well-optimized for performance, which this mod painstakingly preserves in its enhancements.
Likewise we aggressively cache all haul destination lookups for all features, even base Pick Up And Haul.




• Enable Draw colored path detours in settings.
• Pay attention to job descriptions, is it "on the way to" or "closer to"?
(Moody can display them all.)
• Remember you can disable features without restarting.


1. Please save a game when a bug occurs, then reload to verify it reoccurs.
2. Disable the mod from its own options menu - did the bug stop? If so...
3. Send me[discord.gg] your save (Options → Open save data folder). (They zip much smaller.)
I can now fix your bug in days instead of months! 🎉🥳


I intended to fork[gist.github.com] the original While You're Up, until I saw RimWorld 1.0 added it[github.com]. This mod improves vanilla's integration, and so is a spiritual successor to the original While You're Up 💜.

I used to make things for myself, but stop short of sharing them with the world. When coding I would have passion to fuel me, but when finished it was gone.

I always wanted to share my creations back with the communities whom I benefited so much from in the way of their creations, but it pained me that it took more than snapping my fingers.

Instead I'd falter to endure the minor tediums I struggled motivationally with: the descriptions, explanations, settings, code repositories, websites, screenshots, videos, and community sharing.

Like a mind-numbing office job, I would think how I could be working on the next thrilling project instead... if I only let the current one sit: finished for me, but no one else. And for years I did exactly that with dozens of projects; I let them sit.

But now I'm not just coding. I publish what I make for myself, and all those projects I've spent years on are finally seeing the light of day[github.com]. :)

Thank you for enjoying them.
- Christopher Galpin (CodeOptimist)

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