Modern Notifications

◆ Modern Notifications ◆

RimWorld scatters everything that wants your attention across three different corners in three different styles. The pop-up messages float as plain text at the top-left, the alerts stack on the right, the clock and controls cluster at the bottom-right, and the letters pile up beside them. Modern Notifications pulls all of it into one clean, dark, icon-driven card system, so a single glance tells you what is happening, how bad it is, and where. Fully standalone, with Harmony as the only requirement, and safe to add or remove at any time.

✦ One Place For Everything

• Docked notifications: the top-left text pop-ups become tidy cards that stack in the bottom-right, right above your alerts and letters, so everything lives in one column. Prefer them at the top-left? A single toggle floats them back into a draggable strip you can place anywhere.
• Type-coloured cards: every message carries a coloured left edge, red for threats, amber for setbacks, teal for tasks, green for good news, so you read the tone before you read the text.
• Faithful behaviour: click to jump, right-click to dismiss, hover to highlight on the map, all exactly as the base game does it.

✦ Alerts With a Live Timer

• Cards that fit: alerts size themselves to the full label, so no more clipped, wrapped warnings.
• A draining urgency bar: the left edge of each alert starts full and bright, then shrinks and fades the longer you leave it unaddressed. A fresh problem looks nothing like one you have been ignoring for a season.
• Right-click to snooze: silence an alert for a while. It returns on its own, or sooner if its situation changes.
• Critical means critical: the worst alerts gain a red background and a warning badge so they cannot be missed.

✦ A Rebuilt Bottom-Right

• Styled speed controls: five crisp icon buttons for pause through ultrafast, with ultrafast unlocked from the start and no developer mode required. The active speed glows, and every keyboard shortcut still works.
• A widget drawer: the vanilla display toggles tuck into a clean drop-down grid, so the corner stays calm until you want them.
• One information panel: weather, temperature, the date and the season share a single card, each with its own icon. Temperature is colour-graded from freezing blue to scorching red at a glance.

✦ Weather and Effects, Read at a Glance

• Live weather icons: clear skies, rain, thunder, snow, fog, wind, sandstorm and more, each drawn to match.
• Effects in the weather area: a toxic fallout, a solar flare, an eclipse or a cold snap shows up right beside the weather with its own icon, not as a stray floating box.
• Danger you can see: hazardous conditions glow red or amber and wear a warning badge, so you know the difference between a pretty aurora and a deadly pall.

✦ Letters That Show What Happened

• Event icons: a letter from a raid shows crossed swords, a manhunter pack shows a fang, disease shows a virus, a trader shows coins, a crash shows a drop pod, a quest shows a scroll. You know what it is before you open it.
• Plain letters keep an envelope: story and manual letters with no incident behind them stay clean and simple.
• Distinct on purpose: letter cards wear their accent on the right edge, so they never blur together with messages and alerts.

✦ Plays Nicely With Your Mods

There are no hard dependencies here beyond Harmony. The icon matching was tuned against a deep scan of large content mods, so their weather, conditions and event letters are recognized automatically and given a fitting icon and the right danger colour. Anything unfamiliar still falls back to a clean neutral icon or the plain envelope, never blank.

• Alpha Biomes: acid rain and moldy air show the toxic mark, volcanic ash falls as ashfall, forsaken nights show a moon, petal storms a bloom, and ambient radiation a radiation symbol.
• The Ashlands: ashfall and ash storms use the ashfall icon, sulphuric rain the toxic mark, volcanic wind and eruptions the volcano, and the wandering beasts a paw.
• Vanilla Events Expanded: dust storms become sandstorms, hail and ice ages snow, fertile rains and crop sprouts a bloom, geomagnetic storms the interference mark, tidal flooding rain, meteorite showers a comet, and earthquakes the seismograph.
• Vanilla Psycasts Expanded: eternal nights, umbral veils and void storms show a moon, psychic flashstorms a bolt, time quakes the seismograph, and solar rifts the solar flare.
• ReGrowth: blizzards and foggy snow read as snow, drizzle and monsoons as rain, sandstorms and foggy sandstorms as sandstorms, and windy weather as wind.
• Nature's Pretty Sweet: dust storms become sandstorms, lava smoke the volcano, thick fog the fog mark, superblooms a bloom, and its diseases the virus.
• Nuclear war mods: nuclear heat and winter show the radiation symbol, while missile and satellite strikes show the crossed swords.
• Spaceports: kessler syndrome shows a comet, shuttle arrivals and mystery cargo the trade and visitor icons, and derelicts a drop pod.
• Custom races such as Kiiro and Milira: their join and refugee events show the newcomer icon, festivals and trades the coins, raids the swords, and fallen angels a visitor.
• Medieval creatures and DankPyon events: roaming beasts and golems show a paw or drop pod, eclipses the eclipse, and mineshaft infestations the insect.
• Vanilla Factions and Mechanoids Expanded: pillage and outpost raids show the swords, and junk chunk drops a drop pod.

Every match is automatic and keyword based, so newer and smaller content mods are usually picked up too. None of these are required.

✦ Make It Yours

• Dock messages to the bottom-right, or float them top-left and drag them anywhere.
• Scale the notification cards and the whole bottom-right panel independently. Text scales with the panel.
• Set panel opacity over the map.
• Tune alert opacity, the countdown fade time and the snooze duration.

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🛠️ Mod Disclaimer & Quality Assurance

A Note on Development: Parts of the code for this mod were generated with the help of Claude AI. This is not a low effort "AI slop" upload. Every feature was designed, tested and polished by hand.

My Quality Commitment:

• Fully Tested: Every feature and line of code has been thoroughly tested in-game to ensure it functions as intended and integrates smoothly. • Active Support: I am fully committed to maintaining this mod. If you encounter any bugs, compatibility issues, or unintended behavior, please report them in the comments or a dedicated discussion thread. • No Abandonware: I will actively patch, refine, and update this mod to keep it working and up to standard. • No Coffee: I will never ask for donations for AI created / assisted mods. I share these in the hopes they spark joy for someone, making AI generated content and then begging for money that could go to artists and people more deserving is NOT respons