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# Institution: Core — Wiki
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*The shared foundation of the **Institution** suite: a set of RimWorld 1.6 mods about what an
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institution does to the people inside it, and the crime, policing, and justice that put them there.*
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Core is the engine every other Institution mod runs on. **On its own it changes nothing you can
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see** — no items, no jobs, no new menus. It sits completely quiet until another Institution mod is
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installed on top of it. You install Core only because something else asks for it.
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This wiki explains what that hidden engine actually does once a mod above it puts it to work — down to
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the exact numbers, because knowing how the numbers move is half the fun of running a prison.
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---
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## The one idea
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> **Every pawn has a criminal propensity on a spectrum — nature (traits) × nurture (circumstance,
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> mood, treatment) — and the colony can police it.**
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That single sentence is the whole suite. Colonists, prisoners, and slaves drift toward crime on a
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continuous spectrum; a policing and justice layer discovers, catches, punishes, reforms, or paroles
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them. Core is where the *spectrum* itself lives — before anyone is caught, before there is a record to
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read, before there is a warden to search them.
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## Why a shared engine
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The propensity idea didn't start out abstract. It grew up twice, in two different mods: one deciding
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which drunk, miserable pawn starts a mess, and one deciding which prisoner whittles a shiv the moment a
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door opens. Both were asking the same real question — *would **this** pawn do it?* — and each answered
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it its own way, which meant they could disagree about who was dangerous.
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Core exists so they stop disagreeing. When the contraband system, the justice system, and the gang
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system all read one disposition engine, they agree about who is dangerous instead of each judging it
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separately and drifting apart. The pawn who is "the scary one" is the scary one to every part of the
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suite at once. That coherence — not any single number — is the point of a shared foundation.
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Core carries exactly the three things every Institution mod needs and none should own alone, and
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nothing else:
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| Pillar | Answers | Page |
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| **Propensity** | *Would this pawn do it?* (nature × nurture) | [Propensity](Propensity.md) |
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| **Criminal record** | *What has this pawn actually done?* (one history per pawn) | [Criminal Record](Criminal-Record.md) |
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| **Secured context** | *What kind of hold is this pawn under, and who may search them?* | [Secured Context](Secured-Context.md) |
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The distinction between the first two is the spine of the whole design: **propensity is suspicion, a
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record is fact.** Propensity says "this pawn *seems* dangerous"; a record says "this pawn *has*
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escaped twice and shanked a guard." Keeping them separate is what lets the colony act on evidence
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instead of on vibes.
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## The pages of this wiki
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- **[Propensity](Propensity.md)** — nature × nurture in full: the trait-weight table, the nurture
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multiplier ladder, the disposition formula with worked examples, and why each pawn's roll is fixed
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rather than re-rolled.
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- **[Criminal Record](Criminal-Record.md)** — everything a record remembers, who fills in each part,
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how it persists across saves, and why *reform* is the pivot of the whole suite.
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- **[Secured Context](Secured-Context.md)** — the Free / Prisoner / Slave kinds, what counts as
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"held" versus what counts as "able to hide something," and why the suite keys off this instead of
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"is a prisoner."
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- **[Treatment Engine](Treatment-Engine.md)** — the shared rehabilitation maths: mark a condition
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treatable, reduce it a little each session by skill and facility quality, and build a recovery track
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toward discharge. Ward's psychiatric care and Justice's reform run on this one engine.
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- **[Modder API](Modder-API.md)** — the "for modders" page: the tools any mod can call to build on
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Core. Players can skip it.
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## The suite
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Each mod stands alone as an install; together they form one system. Core sits underneath everything
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else.
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| Mod | What it adds | Needs |
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| **Institution: Core** (this) | the propensity / record / context engine | base game only |
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| **Institution: Contraband** | concealment, improvised shivs, tunnels, warden search, warden corruption | Core |
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| **Institution: Justice** | classification, deterrence, discipline, parole, regime, and **policing** (colony crime → weighed arrest) | Core, Harmony |
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| **Institution: Gangs** | gangs as contraband economies: joining, smuggling, rivalry, fights-as-crime | Core, Contraband, Justice |
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| **Institution: Ward** | psychiatric care — a prisoner treated, not punished, on Core's treatment engine | Core, Harmony |
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| **Foul Play** | the vessel + substance + throw framework, home of the "Piss Nuke" | standalone; bridges to Core + Contraband |
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## Requirements & load order
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- **RimWorld 1.6.** Core needs only the base game — no Harmony, no DLC, no other mod.
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- Load Core **before** any other Institution mod in your mod list.
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---
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*Part of the **Institution** suite.*
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