Rimtalk mod

RimTalk - AI-powered conversation

Bring your settlers to life with RimTalk, an innovative add-on that leverages Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence to create live and situational replicas for your characters. Gone are the days when communication was monotonous and predetermined. With RimTalk, every conversation is unique and reflects the current mood, thoughts and atmosphere of the resident.

Working order

RimTalk directly interfaces with Google’s Gemini AI for real-time replica creation. The modification studies the actual thoughts and actions of the character and uses this information to form a request to the AI. AI then forms a conversation phrase that is displayed in a cloud over the head of a resident. This process happens spontaneously, giving rise to casual and engaging conversations that are unique to your community’s story.

Functions

Live Talk: The colonists’ speech is created with the help of the powerful AI Gemini, thanks to which the conversations are always new and fascinating.

Context Adaptation: The replica is based on what your settlers do and think, making the exchange of views more natural and engaging.

Multilingual support: AI is capable of generating dialog across multiple dialects, allowing for the creation of diverse and multicultural settlements.

Slight impact on performance: Replicas are created remotely and API requests are asynchronous to ensure smooth operation.

Customizable: You can adjust the frequency of conversations as you like, and even turn off messages that AI can’t process.

Easy to start: Just get your free API Gemini key into Google AI Studio and enter it into the add-on's settings menu.

How to get started

Sign up for an add-on on Steam Workshop.

Get your free API Gemini key:

Go to Google AI Studio [aistudio.google.com].

Click Get API Key.

Copy the generated API key.

Launch RimWorld and activate the RimTalk mod in the Add-ons list.

Open the RimTalk mod settings.

Insert the API Gemini key in the appropriate box.

That's it! Now your colonists will begin to have unique and lively conversations in their preferred dialect!

API limits (free level)

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

Requests per minute: 30 RPM

Characters per minute: 15,000 TPM

Requests per day: 14 400 RPD

For most gaming sessions, these limits are more than enough. The add-on is designed to automatically comply with these restrictions.

For more information about limits, visit:

Standard API Limits[ai.google.dev]

Configuration

API Gemini Key: Your personal code to access Gemini AI.

Frequency of conversation: Regulates how often residents will try to talk. A lower value means more frequent conversations.

Ignore raw interaction messages: If this option is active, interaction messages that occur too often (within the conversation period) and cannot be processed by AI will be completely hidden, rather than shown in their original form.

Efficiency

Worried about the impact on your game's performance? You can be sure RimTalk is designed to be lightweight. All the complex work on the formation of dialogs is carried out in a remote service on Google machines. This mode simply sends a request to the AI service and waits for a response. To ensure smooth gameplay, these requests are sent asynchronously, that is, they are executed in the background without causing a "freeze" or slowdown in the game. As a result, the performance impact on your PC is minimal.

Compatibility

RimTalk is designed to be compatible with most other add-ons. It does not affect key gameplay and, in our opinion, should not conflict with mods that add new types of characters, beliefs or occupations.

Problem solving

Replicas don't appear: Make sure you entered a valid API Gemini key in the add-on settings.

Frequent missed conversations: You may have reached the speed limit. Try increasing the Conversation Frequency setting.

Questions with API key: Make sure your API key is accurately copied from Google AI Studio without unnecessary spaces.

Mod tested on game versions: 1.5, 1.6