Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeon
v3.0 beta — RimWorld 1.6 — by Crimsonking
It’s the red paint. Three coats. That’s why it goes three times faster. The engineers can say whatever they want.
The full Zeon mobile suit lineup from Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, brought into RimWorld. Eleven suits. Nine weapons. Four built-in abilities. Three Zaku II power cell upgrades. A permanent-enemy faction that sends Zakus first and asks questions when the colony is rubble. An orbital drop pod.
The Principality of Zeon sends its regards. So does the man who built the Gundam and chose not to fly it.
MS-05B Zaku I — The original. Already obsolete. Still a walking fortress by Rim standards.
MS-06F Zaku II — The backbone of the One Year War. The suit that made the Federation afraid.
MS-06S Char’s Zaku II — The Red Comet’s personal machine. Built-in Char Kick. (Royalty: thruster jump.)
MS-07B Gouf — Close-combat specialist. Built-in Heat Rod electric whip.
MS-09 Dom — Maximum armour on hover jets. Built-in Scattering Beam Cannon.
MS-14A Gelgoog — Zeon’s best production suit. Built-in beam saber. Arrived too late.
MS-14S Char’s Gelgoog — Commander-type, pushed further. (Royalty: thruster jump.)
RX-78/C.A. Casval’s Gundam — A prototype built to personal specification. The fastest, best-armoured suit in the mod. (Royalty: thruster jump.)
Custom white-finish variants of the Zaku I, Zaku II, and Gelgoog are included for use with Character Editor.
The Principality of Zeon spawns as a permanent-enemy faction with world map settlements and escalating raids — Zaku I vanguards early, Gelgoog elites late, with Char’s personal unit at the highest threat tier. Pilots and suits are capturable.
With Royalty, Zeon operates a full military rank system. Six ranks from Conscript to General unlock permits — supply drops, mobile suit support calls, and a direct intervention by Char Aznable in his personal MS-14S.
An orbital drop pod large enough to deliver a full mobile suit fireteam. No DLC required. Zeon used it at Jaburo. You can use it wherever you want.
REQUIRED
Exosuit Framework by Aoba
OPTIONAL — RimWorld: Royalty — Thruster jump abilities and the Zeon military rank system.
OPTIONAL — RimWorld: Odyssey — Vacuum resistance on all suits. Zeon suits are sealed combat platforms.
Research Fabrication and Exosuit Framework first — both are required before any Zeon research unlocks. From there, the mod has two entry points:
- Zaku I — lower research cost, good if you want something on the field quickly.
- Zaku II — the main branch. Unlocks the rest of the Zeon tree.
Everything crafts at the Fabrication Bench.
From the Zaku II, the tree branches outward:
- Char’s Zaku II and Gouf — branch directly from the Zaku II.
- Dom — branches from the Zaku II.
- Gelgoog — requires the Dom.
- Char’s Gelgoog — requires the Gelgoog.
- Casval’s Gundam — requires Char’s Gelgoog and the vanilla Charged Shot research.
- HLV — requires the vanilla Transport Pod research and the Zaku II.
The three Zaku II power cell modules each have their own branch off the Zaku II node.
Each suit has two parts: a module item you craft and a wearable apparel the pawn equips. Install the module in an Exosuit cradle to produce the wearable. Weapons work the same way — craft the weapon module, assign it to the suit’s hardpoint. Weapons can be swapped freely without dismantling the suit.
The Zaku II has an extra internal Power Cell slot that accepts one of three refit modules: Ground Type, Hi-Mobility, or F2 Upgrade. Only one can be equipped at a time.
Four suits have dedicated gizmo abilities — no module needed:
- Char Kick (MS-06S) — rocket-assisted close-range strike.
- Heat Rod (MS-07B) — electric whip that stuns mechanoids and staggers organics.
- Scattering Beam Cannon (MS-09) — chest beam spread for area suppression.
- Beam Saber (MS-14A / MS-14S) — wide melee sweep.
Build the HLV pod adjacent to an HLV launch cradle. Keep the cradle fueled with chemfuel. Load pilots into the pod, then use the launch action to target any map location. The pod holds significantly more payload than a standard transport pod.
Earn Zeon honor through quests and combat. Six ranks unlock progressively stronger permits:
- Pilot — basic supply drop.
- Ace — Zaku II support team.
- Officer — advanced supply drop + mixed mobile suit squad.
- Commander — elite strike team.
- General — Red Comet intervention: Char deploys in his personal MS-14S.
🌍 Translations
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Japanese ~ 良い文明に感謝します
Mod design, XML, and writing — Crimsonking
Exosuit Framework — Aoba
The foundation that makes modular suit swapping possible in RimWorld. None of this works without it.
Mobile Suit Gundam — Yoshiyuki Tomino / Sunrise / Bandai Namco
The One Year War happened from 0079 to 0080. This is a fan work made out of love for the source material. No copyright claim is made or implied.
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Sieg Zeon.
