Interface
Optics
by The AshForge Team · v1.1.0
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Summary
Built because a player told us they couldn't comfortably read the game's panels. Optics scales the text everywhere the game draws it — no panel left behind — and while we were in there, it also unlocks the camera so you can get right down among your colonists instead of watching them from four storeys up. Two sliders, and both take effect the moment you confirm.
Details
• UI text size, 100%–200%. It scales the text the game itself draws, so it reaches every panel rather than a handful we remembered to patch.
• Camera zoom-in, 1.0×–8.0×. The game normally stops you about four pawn-heights above the ground. At 8× you're level with a colonist's chest — and the camera is stopped just above the surface, so it can never sink into the terrain.
• Both are sliders under ESC ▸ Mod Settings, and both apply immediately — no restart, no reload.
• Your settings live on your machine, not in your save, so they follow you from colony to colony.
Needs AshForge Tools for the settings screen.
Requires the AshForge Mod Loader — enable it from the AshForge Hub.
Changelog ▾
v1.1.0July 24, 2026
- FixedThe text size slider only ever affected the game's own panels. Mods that style their own windows — Wealth & Trade, the AshForge Tools panel, the World Map — set their text size per widget, which overrode the game-wide setting, so their panels stayed the same size wherever you put the slider. They now scale with it.
- AddedOptics now publishes the chosen text size for other mods to read, so a mod can grow its whole layout — panel size, padding, row heights — to match, not just its lettering. Mods that use this ship alongside this release; others are unaffected, and none of this requires Optics to be installed.
v1.0.0July 12, 2026
- AddedFirst release. Bigger UI text, and a camera that can get close.