/rwg/ Rimworld General

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>>163811912
Carrying is baseline. Thrumbos and humans haul the same amount, but since Jensen has enhancements then he gets to haul more since I believe its based on manipulation or another stat.

Nice glad someone made a new one.

>>163812616
oh well, I'll still train any elephant I can get my hands on.

>>163812509
>>163812731
long live /rwg/

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>>163812509
1st for comfy snow cabins (I really wish you could hide power conduits)

>>163813189
Oh, don't let that bad news hold you back. Currently training a warpack of grizzly bears whenever the natives get too uppity. Would love some elephants myself but I haven't had much luck with traders and I don't have the right biome.

Though, come to think of it, I really wish you could craft leather pouches that you can put on work animals and such. It would certainly help haulers that want to bring in a season's harvest of corn but need to make about 15 trips of about 75 units each to complete it.

>>163813332
Mods, mang.

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>>163813568
Wait, really? Didn't know it existed for that.

>>163813332
I'm usually too afraid to make my buildings out of wood past the first year. It's a shame because they're pretty『comfy』.

Been working on avoiding square-shaped buildings recently because muh aesthetics and found this new style in bedroom making. It does not give a room bonus but it looks nice and comfy, not to mention that they interlock well with other circle buildings of the same size (it's basically the same area as a sunlamp).

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>>163814005
Was inspired by the subreddit, by the way. I just really, really liked how his base looked.

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It would be cool if they added squatters in the game. Squatters would be junkies that you have to remove before they take over your map by reproducing and building shacks. You could harvest them though by arresting and enslaving them. please make this into a mod

>>163814165

That base is a clusterfuck if I've ever seen one. I usually do something similar for trading stockpiles or very occasionally indoor farming.

colonist pregnancy added when?

colonist rape added when?

children added when? child soldiers added when?

>>163819564
MOD

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hmmm... where to settle...

>>163819564
Soon.

>>163820483
That patch of green near the center with all those communities looks comfy. All the bonuses of being in a temperate biome while having nearly year-round winters and great trading/raiding locations.

Favourite biomes /rwg/?

Arid shrubland is pretty comfy but it isn't much of a challenge, tundra mountains always bodes well for excitement.

Are you a barracks builder or an autistic village builder? I myself like to build a village for my pawns.

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>>163819564
>>163819986

Since almost all of rimworlds mods are either on the workshop or are on tynan's official forums I doubt that we'll even get a place for mods like that.

>tfw we'll never get a raider playthrough with pleasure and labor slaves and forcefull conscription and indoctrination of said slaves' children

What are good mods right now?

>>163821761
Full autism village maker here. Considering a cold desert start next, though the simplicity in temperate forest biomes make them my favourite.

>>163821873
It's possible we may get slaves in the future. The game already plays with the idea of slavery through the buying and selling of prisoners

The game of thrones mod for CK2 introduced a "visit chambers" button for captured ladies and got no real flak from that (it was pretty fun to fuck around, literally, and deal with all your ass-hurt vassals). Though considering that we'll never see actual animations for anything sexual aside from Sims-tier hearts and shit you might as well just imagine your depravity when you captured that knocked down tribal girl and "convinced" her into cleaning your base for you.

>>163822086
Efficient Light, Prepare Carefully, Quality Builder, and A Dog Said... (animal surgery :3) are some pretty good lite mods.

Expanded Prosthetic and Organ Engineering is pretty god-tier, though it adds quite a lot of strong features into the game. If making robocop is your calling then DL this one.

Madskills is underappreciated, it removes skill decay. Skill decay is ass, it pretty much makes combat skills pointless since periods without raids drops their levels quick.

>cassie rough and haven't had a single raid in 10 days
is there a problem or is this rng luck?

Anyway, how the fuck does comms trading work? I have a skill 12 social colonist use the comms, but I can't offer 300 silver or 600 silver to trade with another faction.
Is a caravan supposed to come near my home tile for me to be able to trade?
I never fucking see caravans on the world map

>>163822574
Also does rimworld have an expanded slavery mod?

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>>163822664
What year are you on? Caravans randomly enter your map, the more friendly factions you have the more caravans you should see. The comms building allows you to offer silver to improve relations (about +15) with every faction but pirates/raiders for 300 silver and with 600 silver you can call in a specific caravan (general goods, exotic, slave traders to offload your unwanted prisoners, etc.). Trust me, the 600 silver is worth it if you have something worth selling.

Rarely, a merchant ship may pass by your planet and give you an opportunity to trade goods. You need an orbital trade beacon on your stockpile to trade with them, however. I suggest the mod "More Trade Ships" in order to see them more. It's kinda OP, but it's not like you're getting free shit and I really like managing an active economy.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=725465444&searchtext=

So far, the world map is mostly for your own use. If you have nearby settlements with passable terrain you can set up your own caravans and trade goods. Since you made the journey you can mage HUGE profits but it's pretty tricky to manage since your caravan can get attacked and the journey may require tons of food for supplies.

>>163823180
Oh, and I asked what year you were on because raids scale with wealth and I find that raids only start becoming a concern once you start moving past the "we discovered agriculture and shiz" chapter as a colony (unless you get hit with bad RNG or are ill-prepared).

I usually play on the tryhard highest difficulties, so I see more raids, but I imagine 10 days is around the max-average of "bad things not happening" for a colony. Just wait and see.

>>163821442
i settled on the south pole and everyone froze to death within minutes.

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Friendly reminder that you can use sleeping spots to trick pawns into "force firing" at ground spots. Useful for making your friendos with incendiary launchers suppress fire onto chokepoints instead of them tracking that melee tribal rushing your line and setting everyone on fire.

>>163823474
That doesn't sound comfy at all!

What is a best way to deal with centipedes armed with inferno cannons?

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>>163823654
no, it was really sad, actually. they were all from the same family. Sel, Bob and Scooter. When Scooter died, our pet warg Manic had a mental breakdown.

:(

I hope this makes it better. On our first night, and things are looking comfy as they've ever been. We're also not on an ice ball.

>>163824952
so comfy!

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>>163824952
>that campfire and cave combo
That's pretty good. Makes me wish your caravans could set up camp and forage for food all Oregon Trail style.

>>163822574

>sims-tier hearts and shit

From what I hear the sims games have a rapidly growing adult modding community. Didn't even know sims games could have comprehensive sex mods until like eight months ago.

In either case I'm more interested in more extreme playthroughs with raider colonies. The standard mood debuffs and RNG dictating what colonists I get make it impossible for me to do something like slavery or anything to do with cannibalism. It would be interesting to build a cannibalistic colony with buffs to eating people and debuffs to eating anything else and cause all sorts of mayhem all over the planet. I think I saw some talk of some cosmic horror cultist mods in the last thread so I'll probably check that out.

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>>163824925
Spread out your pawns and keep them in cover. Your snipers should be able to outrange them so keep them safe, if you're lucky they'll do massive damage to their weak spots.

Centipedes armed with inferno cannons (or anything in general) have terrible accuracy so you have to fight them in large open spaces so their chances of doing damage to you is minimal. This is also why you need to spread your pawns out, not only do you get a flanking advantage but a clustered firing line is asking for a wipe. If you have any rockets now is a good time to use them (grenades are strong too but it means putting that pawn in danger since inferno cannons are somewhat accurate in close range), mechanical pawns can't bleed out but shredding their sensory parts makes them inferior in a fight.

While not necessary, and perhaps overkill, turrets are amazing against mechs because they're not immediately set ablaze when hit by the cannons unlike colonists so they make great distractions while your firing lines pound the pedes. This is why it's always nice to have walls or blind spots near your defenses so that you colonists can hide behind them and "reset" the pedes aggro onto the turrets.

Centipedes can never catch up to you by the way, so a "fall back" area is always great if things get too hot, literally.

tl:dr inferno cannons wreck groups but are actually bad weapons themselves. The cannons do a bit more damage than the base pistol and are very akin to the standard molotovs raiders use.

>>163826708
It should also be noted that ranging the centipedes counters them 100% of the time regardless which weapon they have equipped. The scyther snipers are intended to counter this but, due to their speed, end up engaging your colonists WAY, WAY before the centipedes even arrive. If you're fighting scythers and pedes at the same time then things are going to get MESSY.

>>163826482
I'm hearing nothing but good things about the mod. I'll probably considering adding it into my next playthrough or the playthrough after that one (I want to try a frozen desert colony but I think a dark, swampy map would fit the cult one better).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=764375772&searchtext=cthulhu
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=26078.0

>Have colony with 9 people so far
>Only two can fight
>the rest have the no violence trait
Its basically one ex super soilder my boy shazz and his husky saving the colony

fuck do i do this is suffering my poor husky just had its right eye shot out

>>163827112
get him an eyepatch?

>>163826708

>tfw always used to focus on the pedes instead of the much deadlier scythers

When you first see them tank the shots that they do it's easy to panic and focus on them instead of the real threat. The truth is that centipedes are generally shit and they move so slowly that if they spawn out of one of the crashed ships their forces are frequently split allowing you to deal with the scythers before ever having to engage the centipedes.

Personally, I think the game needs a few more sentient threats like new types of mechanoids, especially for later game colonies.

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we survived long enough for a name!

suggestions?

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>>163827112
>only 2 out of 9 can fight.
That's honestly pretty poopy, friendo, but it sounds like you can have a lot of fun here.

Your colonists can't fight... directly! I would suggest becoming the engineers that your colonists' pacifist-nerd god wants them to be and start pooling your resources into making traps, turrets, and IEDs. Have your colony's defenses as automated as much as you can make it and have your gritty soldiers go around making sure any breaches are secured (and to protect your pawns from being captured and running down fleeing raiders).

As an added bonus, you can disable your colonists from fleeing when near enemies and prioritize them repairing walls and turrets mid-combat if you have little hallways that the engies can run between behind the defenses.

Honestly, I think filling your base with nothing but turrets, walls, and IEDs sounds hilarious.

>>163827409

Any sort of name that denotes suffering at an extreme level. How about Insectoville for all the bugs you'll have to deal with?

>>163827676
b-but we haven't seen any bugs!

Is there any way to get a big mountain to dig in without randomly generating worlds for 2 days?

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>>163827409
I named my faction "Overworld"... and my town "Valleyville" because it was in a valley...

I usually go with something that fits my "ambition" for the colony. If it's a research outpost I might call it "Outpost Thule" for example. Though since I prefer creating little towns I tend to give them Pokemon-esque names like "Lonely Lamplight."

Personally, I would name the site something cute like "Hearth Home" or "Pyre's Den"

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>>163827905
I hope you don't mind reddit but they have some good seeds, and there is no shame in using someone else's seed!

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorldSeeds/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorldSeeds/comments/5j2iri/a16_def_mtn_seed_justin_size_30_4568n_1800w/

The last one is the one I'm currently using and it's picture related. There's quite some mountain areas to the north and west you can dig out and the natural valley protects your base if you haven't fully moved into your mountain home.

>>163828119
Thanks!
Looks sweet. That valley looks defendable as fuck. I just hope there are no hidden surprises just behind the first layer of stone.
Shame that there are no geysers inside but whatever, I will go big on solar and wind.

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>>163827368
I would love a creature similar to the geth from the Mass Effect series. They would basically be like raiders with cybernetics and the inability to bleed.

It would also be cool if there was a random event where a "rogue" AI came and joined your colony.

>>163827931
They are cute. I went with "RAID" for the faction name, because bugs, and "The Hive" because of the honeycomb layout and I'll jump at the chance to make an Alpha Centauri reference.

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how defensible am I?

>>163828498
Geysers are random! I believe... The geyser near the center of the map is there in my game but I also have two others inside the valley. So if you want to be a cool dude you can keep spawning new colonists with the map until you get proper placements though between getting good colonists and geyser locations it might be a bit tedious.

I won't spoil much (mostly because I've settled in the valley and only explored a bit of the mountain) but there was an ancient danger somewhere west in the mountain. Though I imagine that's also random, too.

Good luck!

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>>163828523

>new mechanoid siege units
>they're MLRS quadropeds
>all their rounds are incendiary
>mfw

I need this level of eternal suffering in my life

>>163828617

If you plan on defending from the inside of your cave base your outdoor power generating and agricultural assets are going to be in severe risk of a righteous torching by tribals and raiders.

>>163828929
yeah, i realised maybe 45 minutes in that i completely forgot about power. I haven't played this game in quite a few months so I'm more than rusty. This thread made me want to play again.

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>>163828534
I like the name, "The Hive" makes me think of either a popular bar in a sci-fi setting or some villain's bustling lair.

Tunnelworlds and Hiveworlds always fascinated me in Rimworld but we know so little about them. I kinda wish they were inhabited by altered/modified humanoids that look like bug people so that I can fulfill my fantasy of playing a literal ant-colony simulator.

>>163828654
I'm a bit worried about infestations, they can be a pain for mountain colonies. I normally build inner killboxes, usually not that large, just to maintain some level of control over my base just in case an infestation gets out of control. Though usually having open areas is enough to combat the bugs.

>>163829089
I recognize that portrait...

>>163829089
>ant person image
>ss13 flashbacks to bay
Jesus, when will the ss13 mod incorporate bay species.

>>163828617
>>163829089
Meant this (you) for you, that's usually a sign that I need to go to bed.

>>163828791
AAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>163828929
>>163829006
In the first year of my colony I had exposed wind turbines that would sometimes be targeted by raiders. It was a bit costly to repair but it sometimes made raids easier since it would split the raiding party. In terms of food you could double down and use the ((fair and balanced)) tilling feature that vegetable garden has. I would be lying if I said I didn't use it, I really like having a lot of animals so I need lots of space for my haygrass :3.

Practically, I would set up a perimeter wall facing the west side of your base (large enough to protect those two geysers there) so you can set up farms behind it and turbines facing into the sea.

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>>163829248
Myr girls are a cute.

>>163829461
source?

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>>163828929
>>163829006
>>163829373
This is pretty much all I'm hoping to need when defending my beachhead from attacks. There is a three-tile thick granite wall just above the geothermal room that serves as my perimeter. It's not as defensive as you think it is, it's mainly to keep out predators and small attacks, but it's served me well into year 2 moving on 3.

I'm hoping to put a fridge and maybe some beds inside my star fort so when I get a raid where the raiders "set up" before attacking I can set my pawns into the fort zone where they can eat meals and such and avoid some crankiness.

Turret spots not yet determined. I actually have not built a single turret in my colony yet.

>>163829491
It's artwork from Fenoxo's Trials in Tainted Space. It's a lewd RPG with simple gameplay elements but it's pretty charming and worth a look for some of us pervs here.

https://wiki.smutosaur.us/TiTS/Anzhela

The artist is Adjatha, according to the wiki.

>>163829089
>>163829373
I'm now terrified of bugs. Never dealt with them before but people keep talking about them.

Also, I'm thinking about how to defend. The only ways at my base are the beach to the east and from the northwest, meaning the higher geyser is going to end up being my main defensive outpost, if that's where i have to defend.

>>163829980
WELP, knew I had deja vu

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>>163830135
Bugs are about as dangerous as large predatory animals. The scare is because they can spawn on you and they can explode in population when not taken care of.

They TRY to spawn in dark areas over areas that are lit, so a common meme is to leave tunnels away from your base in the dark so there is less chances for an infestation in your base. They are not a major threat when dealt with patiently and coolly. Avoid fighting them in small spaces and try to lure them into a firing line in open rooms. Luckily, the buggabears aren't too smart and you can lure them one at a time if you're lucky. Your layout with the large rooms is actually pretty effective against infestations but you should consider non-linear rooms too. You don't want a infestation to cut your base in half because they are blocking a major artery.

Try to keep an eye out for the hives that spawn when the infestation event procs too. It's entirely possible for hives to spawn in a single room AND for a forlorn hive to spawn elsewhere where you least expect it.

If you can funnel attacks towards the choke with the shallow water then you're golden because of the movement penalty and exposure to gunfire. Though I also suggest keeping an eye out for that thin strip of rock to the north of your base and the building due west when sappers show up. Especially the western building, though you can use this predictability and lay some traps around there and some sandbags.

>>163830710
damn, that's some really good advice anon. thanks.

right now i can't find any steel so i'm kind of stuck, and i'm going to see if i can split the two subrooms into bedrooms efficiently. they were originally meant for hydroponics but i can't build anything without steel. so things are kiiiind of beginning to go tits up but we'll pull through i'm sure

>>163831076
Steel management can be annoying, luckily a single vein or two can keep an early colony going for a while unless you're actively making steel furniture/walls. I'm not looking forward to my hydrophonics project myself because of the component cost, luckily I have some good soil tiles that has kept my colony going for a few years now.

Looks like you have some open veins around and outside your valley area if you haven't mined them already.

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>>163823368
>but I imagine 10 days is around the max-average of "bad things not happening" for a colony.


sometimes the RNG just doesn't want to do anyting

>>163831687
>sometimes the RNG just doesn't want to do anyting

Yeah, had randy giving me nothing but droppods and caravans for a year and then spammed raids and manhunter packs, the infestation directly after a boomrat pack was enough to seal the deal.

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is rose wang a goner? i can't get to her

>>163834790
background: it told me a space pod had crashlanded and there might be someone who survived. after accidentally killing marty's ex-wife who attacked us i was hoping for a new crew member but i'm pretty sure she's marooned out there forever.

>>163834790
That's a really unlucky pod landing.

I don't think there's anything you can do since making the area traversable would take too much time

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>still not on sale

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After playing for several versions normally with a hefty amount of savescumming, I tried playing with permadeath. Immediately I was shown I was shit and had to figure out asap how to be efficient, I ended up getting my first win recently in v15c on ironman. But now I can't ever go back, the pain feels too good

>>163836234
You have to be careful with what mods you use too.

>>163836574
I only use Expanded Prosthetics & Organ Engineering and would recommend it to anybody, though I don't know if you lads think it's cheesy

On the long run losing bodyparts and shit is a major problem, and the prosthetics in the base game are too basic. This way you can still have functioning guys if you just invest time and a large amount of resources

>>163835053
They said it won't be on sale anytime soon.

>>163836815
Balance is a mess anyway right now. If you play vanilla you simply cheese everything with turrets anyway, so I don't see where epoe would be cheesier.

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>>163812509
Is this game worth $32.99 Canadian?
Keep in mind that this is the yearly salary of an average Canadian and is equivalent to $3.50 American.

Thanks Trudeau.

>>163837106
Just download it to try it out
I eventually bought it for about 20 european monopoly moneys

>Start as tribe because extra people is nice and for the change of pace from being a spacer.
>Immediately get pirate raids and sieges, don't get hardly any guns because I can only kill the melee guys before the group runs.
>In the meantime, buy some chickens from a trader.

>Several weeks in, Chickens have taken over my base.
>Have to plant a ring of haygrass around myself because they eat the grass too fast.
>Confine chickens to haygrass fields because they keep eating my pemmican.

>Notice every raid afterwards, the pirates focus on the thousands of chickens surrounding my base instead of my tribals, who are now all equipped with great bows.
>15 man raids come and I take no casualties beyond hundreds of dead chickens.
>Have to have four cooks working at all time to keep up with the demand for butchering dead chickens.

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>>163837068
Yeah they work on pretty much everything except caterpillar mechs and humanoids with long-range weaponry/explosives. Another one of my favorites, the trap corridor:

Because of the AI even smart enemies will always try to go around instead of breaking down the doors, while your colonists can just go through. Can destroy entire raids on its own

So you can raid other settlements now
Too bad that building the spaceship is much easier than building a strong enough force to wipe outposts

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>>163837486
Lastly the bunker:

Make a dark room and knock holes in the wall, make sure to add a build roof zone over it. You can have colonists shoot from behind the walls - your guys get a large cover bonus, enemies get a penalty because of the darkness, and you're unaffected by the weather. You can win straight up shootouts with caterpillar mechs with this

Those two combined with turrets have carried me through the game

>>163837486
>>163837857
these two are both great designs, i'm gonna implement them asap.

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>>163837376

>>163837486
This is 2cheesy4me

>>163837376
Tame carnivores that prey on the chicken for extra defenses and less butchering

>>163838443
Will tame carnivores actually eat other tamed animals though? I guess I could get some wargs to try and take care of some of the population.

I tried taming rhinos and elephants, but after two in game years they're still not able to be released on the enemy. And really, all the meat is fine, beyond my inability to store all of it, I can at least load it up on muffalos and sell it to nearby tribes.

>>163838787
Yeah they don't, you'd have to somehow un-tame some chicken, but I don't think thats possible
I really only liked imagining a huge pack of wolves feeding on a giant orbiting ring of chicken

>>163837667
Is there any point to wiping out nearby settlements? It just means some raiders further out are going to attack you since there's no good way to clear the entire map of other settlements.

I was hoping killing nearby pirates would cause their raiding frequency to go down.

>>163838364
You can also have a two tile wide corridor, and place traps alternately so as to leave a path in between. Colonists are smart enough to always avoid the traps, but they are invisible to hostiles. That way you don't need to use doors and don't risk colonists setting off traps when rearming a corridor, but it's less efficient

>>163838889
Does the frequency stay the same even if the pirates attacking you are from halfway across the world? If so that sucks

ffs can someone be so nice and link me the mod that disables the retarded "50% to kill instead of down npc" thing?

>>163839374
I wasn't aware of a mod like that but if you want to down NPCs just lure them into melee and beat them unconscious with fists, highly unlikely they die this way and they can't shoot from up close

>>163838968
Personally I just use traps as a few tiles wide moat in front of my firing position, with a door to allow for injury-free exiting of the base

>>163839374
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=27580.0

you fucking lazy ass

>>163839580
I was clubbing this one bitch for the last 30 minutes (25 of that was loading)
Fuck that.

>>163839673
thx m8, i was looking for it just didnt knew the right keywords

>>163839772
Doesn't any melee weapon increase the chances of killing them by a lot? I don't recall anybody dying from getting fisted, not when colonists fight among themselves either

>>163838889
Right now there's none other than for "fun", and that's why I 'd rather play something else for the time being. The "victory conditions" are weak. I wish there were domination type victory conditions and the building a fucking spaceship should be much harder, especially now that there's more shit to do

>>163839963
According to the mod thread there is a 2/3 chance of scripted instakilling a downed pawn that isnt a colonist/prisoner.
Weapon doesnt matter unless its something unnecessarrly oversized.

>>163828617
>Tucked away little cave alcove by the sea
That's pretty damn comfy anon.

>>163827931
Undertale mods when?

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>>163840263
Keep it in your yiffing general

>>163840493
I haven't been to /utg/ for a little over a year, it has gone to hell in a handbasket. It's like a literal slice of tumblr on 4chan, it's fucking terrible.
By "Undertale mod" I mostly meant like having an underground colony or something with monsters and stuff. Just like Dorf Fort.

>>163818098
Shuuuush it's aestethics
>>163814165
Reminds me of a dude in DF thread with circle based rooms.

>>163840765
Going z-levels and digging down actually sounds a bit too much for mods to handle. I mean... maybe? It's kinda possible with creation of new maps and how 2-3 different encounter/settlement maps can be up at the same time but I am no modding wizard.

>>163823180
Thank you. Now I set up trade beacons on my stockpiles, but I still can't click on the two options. I'll check again if my silver is in the stockpile range.

>>163823368
I'm on day 26

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>>163837106
>>163837294
It's a fair price for the game, I would say pick it up immediately once it goes on sale but it's well worth the money as it is now. Tons of hours sunk into it already.

>>163840263
I would appreciate any subterranean/cave mods. I know the dev said z-layers wouldn't really be a thing but I would love 1 upper z-layer for towers/upper floors and 1 lower z-layer to represent caves and such.

>>163841038
While z-levels would be awesome I doubt Rimworld could handle it. What I mean is having an underground "biome." Pretty much just a mountain biome that covers 90% of the map with giant mushrooms, giant spiders, hidden ancient altars tucked away in collapsed cave systems and stuff.

best biome for building a base thats not in the mountain?

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>>163840893
Yeah, his base looked very organic.

>>163841273
Yeah, they need to be in your stockpile. I'm not sure if the silver stockpile needs a beacon for calling caravans and relations, I imagine it does, since I've never not used a beacon on that stockpile.

>>163841038
I'll keep my fingers crossed for the dev making z-layers later in the game's lifespan when he sees some potential in it. I think he's trying to focus on making his own thing instead of a Dwarf Fortress clone but I think a "cave layer" update would be really hype.

>>163841908
the same one where you build in a mountain

>>163841573
It would be awesome if the "underground" biome was tied to the impassable mountain tiles. Perhaps make them enterable cavern like maps that you simply can't pass through on the map—like a house with one entrance.

I could see it being added to some massive tribal update, alongside subterranean plants like glowing mushrooms and shiz for new drugs and crafting.

>>163841908
I like Boreal Forests a lot. Usually the entire map is fertile, so it's easy to grow lots of crops, and there's more trees than you could ever use. Not too much water either.

Arid Shrubland has a year round growing season, but is filled with sand, so it's hard to use a lot of the map for agriculture. Either way, I'm starting to dislike mountainous terrain since I get way too many bug infestations on them. Instead, picking a coastline works well since I can have my safer zone of the base in the back and only have to defend three sides.

>>163841908
>>163842030
He's not meme'ing you either. Maps with lots of mountain tiles are excellent for strip mining since they have the most resources.

Though biomes outside mountainous ones would be boreal forests for harsher, longer winters while maintaining trees, wildlife, and growing soil and jungle biomes for tons of soil, trees, and animals. Watch out for diseases in the jungle, that is its "downside."

Temperate flatlands and hills is also pretty good, but it's kinda generic too. Arid areas is another choice, but it's pretty sandy and the soil is usually not that great but if you get a good farming spot it's usually a full year growing season.

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where should i set up my base /rwg/

>>163840263
Thanks. World seed is "Earth". Little island in the northern hemisphere about the size of Madagascar. I'm getting screwed over by RNG but at least the land is pretty.

>>163835053
>>163837020
It's not even out. It was a kickstarted game
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tynansylvester/rimworld
It won't be on sale before it's out that's for sure. Otherwise it's stepping on folks who kickstarted it in the first place.

How would colony aligned mechanoids work? I'm not familiar with animal traning, so if you classified them as an animal wouldn't they just wander around without your guidance? classifying them as a colonist seems a bit weird since they're not actually human and can't gain skills. I remember there being a mod that added bots, how did that work out?

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>>163842868
You posted 3 thumbnail pictures man. I can't make heads or tails of where they connect to be honest but from what I see you have there pretty damn cool map. I like 3rd one.
>>163843293
You are probably talking about MAI mod https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=3612.0
I haven't really used it that much. It was fucking up with my modpack so I set it on the side for the time being. You might wanna look into it I guess.

>>163843293
If I were to do mechanoids, I'd do them as a mid-late thing you can build yourself, requiring steel, components, and an item built from an AI core. There would be several types of mechanoids, all able to handle a specific task and unable to preform others. The item you build from the AI core would get a quality and determine their skill at whatever they do (Which would be locked in after their creation, they wouldn't get any better at it.

A farming mechanoid would just plant and harvest crops all day and night, and it would have body parts that fit its function. A hauling mechanoid would probably be large and carry a pack or something that it can load multiple items in. Cleaning ones might look like those little robot drones that scuttle around and clean your floor.

Combat ones would be similar to the ones we have currently, centipedes and scythers, and you'd build them with a weapon upon creation which could be changed out like a medical operation. All of these mechanoids would require a charging pad or something similar so that they would need to recharge once every few days, similar to a human sleep cycle.

Later on, I would create parts that can be purchased and installed in your mechanoids like cybernetic parts, such as enhanced servos to increase their movement speed or bigger batteries to let them last longer in the field. The end would be a colony would rarely get the parts to build a mechanoid, though each one would be somewhat unique and purpose built and more effective at their given role than a human. Losing one would be difficult if it were kept out of combat, since any injury could be repaired if the parts are found via trade ships, except the AI module.

>Dead man's pants moodlet
WOW

GONE ARE THE DAYS OF BLAPPING NIGS AND WEARING THEIR THREADS

>>163844282
>Not creating a specific uniform for civilians and soldiers.
>Not making each piece of clothing out of the same material to ensure uniformity among the populace.

Get a load of this tribal.

>>163842868
Somewhere in the valley in that center image would be pretty defensive. I would also consider setting up rooms inside those little mountain "islands" there, like the ones in the first section, and maybe connecting them all through bridges if you want to do something unique. The one on the right is also pretty good if you want a tighter colony (so long as that's not an entrance to the map on the left there).

>>163843293
The AIs from the MAI mod pretty much worked like super-colonists but how the mod-author added them into the game I wouldn't be able to say. At least we know there is potential in adding other "sentient" races into the game now through mods.

I imagine someone could code the mechanoids as any other animal and have them never wander into the map randomly except through events like Thrumbos. Heck, you don't even need to code them to be like animals. So long as they mechanoids are friendly to your faction they pretty much will act as guards, though it would be neat if you could position them manually.

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>>163844424
Currently planning on going full devilstrand for that "gimme that spanish inquisition, senpai" look. Though I might consider a panther farm next game for full black.

>>163844282
Now there is even more benefit to lewdly stripping tribals while they are still alive to avoid that penalty.

>>163844424
YOU WANT ME TO SEW?! AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT SHIT

WHAT'S NEXT? ''This gun was touched by a bad mans it hurts my feelies to hold i will hav mental breakdowne and let them shoot me instead'' HA HA

It's time to go down to the planet /rwg/, post your pawn, there's only room for 3 in the pod

>>163844902
>John "CIA Man" Doe
>trigger happy
>wasn't happy that the other guy brought one more person into the pod

>>163844771
Does 'dead man's clothes' still affect dudes with psycho trait?

>>163844902
>>163845168
The other two would have to be Anon ''big guy'' Ymous and his cute anime wife

Is it feasible to use hallways/rooms of superheated air as a base defense?

>>163845414
I haven't tried it out but probably not

>>163845556
Yes, but creating a means to efficiently do it might take some time. Geothermal generators can naturally raise room temperatures to around 70-90, so that might make a good base for your gas chamber.

>>163845556
Crazy temperature zones are feasible to wipe out insect infestations, but I don't know how it'd work out with raiders/manhunters. You'd have to keep them occupied (series of doors) long enough for the heat to knock them out and when they get in through e.g. a broken door it will immediately lower the temperature, also you'd have to replace broken doors all the time

>>163845556
Mmmmmaybe? I mean heated air causes people catch fire but it demands enclosed rooms and enemies raiding you even if end up inside the trap will probably leave destroyed walls and doors behind.

I used to freeze bugs to death but it's different situation than a raid.

>>163845839
Also on a related note, this may be old news but they changed the AI so that when creatures such as Thrumbos are locked in, they will just break the wall to get out (whereas it used to be easy to just build a cell around them while they are asleep and let them starve to death)

>>163845727
Wouldn't raiders start breaking the generator/set it on fire as soon as they see it? Wait, at those temperatures wouldn't the generator catch fire on its own?

Pathfinding is the biggest challenge, game slows down because either too many pawns or too large map. T saves optimization for last and without a gamechanger z levels are not happening.

>>163845839
>>163845556
>>163845889
>>163845727
I suggest a room that's about 3 tiles thick, granite walls preferably. In the room you will want stone chunks, steel slabs, sand bags, etc.
in order to slow down the raiders since you're trying to bait the raiders into thinking that they can freely pass through the room. Secondly, you are going to want some way to really increase the heating in the room, I suggest throwing some molotovs into the room and keeping pieces of useless wooden furniture around to catch ablaze.

This mod will also work, too, if you want to go full 3rd Reich on some tribals.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=726121441

Lastly, make sure to set a stockpile of granite blocks near the exit and entrance of this heat chamber and set your construction pawns to start walling in the room. The three-tile thick walls will get damaged but will never fail so long as your room heats up fast enough and deadly enough to at least incapacitate. Your structural weaknesses are the one-tile thick walls that your pawns hastily constructed to wall the raiders inside your room, but your pawns should be able to repair them if they are targeted and the raiders breaking through before the heat consumes them is unlikely.

This works against mechanoids, too. It's kinda gamey, but nothing is stopping you from literally building an over around a crashed ship. Though I've seen them break through three-tile thick walls before.

Here's an old video example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VibjtMVwbKI

>>163846449
I imagine the generator can handle heat levels hot enough to kill without catching on fire, though you might need to find a balance. You could also just use the steam geyser itself to generate heat, but you won't get power that way.

Okay, yearly avg temp +84C extreme desert here I come.

I don't think I'll last very long.

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>Kind
>[Pawn] is a nice person. He has a tendency to brighten everyone else's day and never insults others.

>>163847454
I should try this sometime. If you don't overextend and you set up a "cooling room" near your farms/work areas you should be able to survive the first season at least.

>>163848309
I lasted for 4 minutes, heatstroke got to me. Setting up a cooling room took too much time. Maybe tribals would fare better since they can just drop down passive coolers, but that's behind a tech for crashlanders.

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Rate my colony

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>>163847498
I hope he's cute, too.

>>163848452
Pretty comfy, anon. Would send caravans and drink your beer.

>>163848393
Damn, did you try embarking during the winter? I believe that's a setting somewhere.

>Work speed penalty for working outdoors in a bad temperature

Now I have to build a stonecutting shack next to the rock dumping stockpile

Also for those that have their tables all the way inside the base so pawns have to walk half a mile per rock, please do like this anon and have the dumping pile, cutting tables, and a priority stockpile just for bricks right next to each other outside. Bricks don't deteriorate. Your rockcutting slaves will thank you

>>163848690
No, I didn't tweak that, and I'm thinking it defaulted to summer since the temperature was 80 when I landed.

I'll try again.

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>>163847498
>kind
>brawler, more likely to start social fights

>>163848393
Reminds me of the first time I tried ice cap. Dead from hypothermia before I even got a simple room with a campfire built.

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>>163848860
He's just a bit emotional, anon.

>>163848970
I imagine that's part of the appeal. The whole "you're on life support 24/7" meme of keeping your temps stable.

Now I really need to try this out. The coldest biome I settled in was a boreal forest.

>>163849119
Make sure you have multiple builders man. And Boreal forest is to comfy not to play, cold but not killer winters is nice.

>>163848458
He's an 88 year old thin, nervous charity worker. Dad of one of the colonists, incapable of violence. He joined while running away from raiders.

Maximum nice grandpa

Said raiders when they arrived, started fighting an autotamed elk and shot one of their own guys to death. The remaining two awkwardly waddled up to the base and got shot by colonists without even firing back (???)

>>163848452
3/10

>>163848970
I found ice cap easier, actually. You just put down campfires and you can survive for a bit at least. Here you have to construct a power grid to cool down a room, and you're basically fucked if your builder messes up when constructing the solar plant.

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Pirate merchant arrives with two teenage slaves. She looks too good not to buy, she has a lot of potential. I may get the male, 16 years, to keep her company and maybe to clean and haul around the base.

>>163849707
I've never bought a slave, how does it work? Does everybody get a ''oh no we are bad slavers I am sad now'' moodlet? Can the slave flip you the bird and run away?

What's your coldest seed, boys?

I've got a -121c mountain currently, and I'm looking for worse.

>>163850256
Why?

>>163850389
Why the hell do you think

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>>163849810
Despite assisting slavery by participating in its economy the general consensus is "yay, we bought slaves and saved them from a life of servitude!" Funny, considering I plan on making Turtle a farm laborer.

Though no, there is no moodlet attached to buying slaves but there is one for selling slaves. As far as I know buying a slave just outright makes them a full citizen of your colony. Though it would be nice if the dev expanded on slavery as a whole. It's a pretty good merchant event.

Also, fun fact, you can get an estimation of a pawn's worth as a slave if you inspect them. I believe it's attached to their skills, their limb condition, etc.

Another annoyance with an extreme desert embark is that while temperature drops to manageable levels during the night, plants still won't grow since they're "resting". So your greenhouse will need a lot more cooling than you'd initially think.

>>163850835
Can't you just use sun lamps to keep them growing at night? Those work even on outdoors crops, you just have to watch out for rain (a wall nearby for a single roof tile over them is enough)

>>163850971
No. Plant rest cycles will be strictly tied to the clock. You might as well turn off the sun lamps during night, because they do fuck all.

>>163851068
Is that recent or has that always been the case? I wasted a lot of electricity if it's the latter

>>163850835
There's actually a mod for that.

>>163851154
It's always been like that.

>>163851171
Well there's a mod for everything.

>>163850835
I had no idea that this was a thing.

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>>163851208
>All plants rest from hour 19 through hour 4. More accurately, plants rest for 45% of the day, leaving 55% of the day for growing.
During the plant resting time period, plants will not grow no matter the light level.

Well shit

>>163851436
Well plants do rest in real life too, so it makes sense. How Tynan implemented it is lazy as fuck though, plants just sleep during the night and grow during the day regardless of any factors that might apply.

Same with animals, actually, they all sleep during the same hours. Even if they're nocturnal like cats.

>>163851571
Yeah, it's why it would be nice if there was an easy way to set up sun lamps on a timer, but alas.

>>163851626
What do these plants need rest for man, from all the walking around they do? We could have potatoes in half the time man, half the time

I might be a complete idiot but is there a way to build roofing in god mode?

I wanted to pre-setup a small area for my guys in a spot that has -140 degree weather and I can't seem to find any way other than letting them roof it themselves.

>EAC connection interrupted
you know what fuck this shit game

>>163851847
Well have you ever tried photosynthesising for 12 hours a day? Shit's hard work.

>>163851916
just dig into the mountain. mountains are great for retaining heat so create a small room in a mountain as a makeshift base while you set up your main one outside.

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>>163851962
?

>>163851916
Like the other anon said, mountains are really good for that.

In the debug menu search for Tool: Make Roof. I never used it before, but I imagine it just spawns a constructed roof at that location. Try not to flatten your pawns by spawning a floating roof! :L

>>163851962
What? This game doesn't even have EAC.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! NOT GOOD!

>>163854067
Build one or two of these >>163837857
around it, position everyone safely behind a wall and start shooting. If you have EMP grenades equip somebody with them

>>163854067
DO what I do, build turrets around it. Piece of shit alien ships.

>>163854740
They're not aliens you dingdong

>start with 4 tribal kittycats
>halfway through stonecutting
>deep one shows up and bites off a hand and a tail from 2 pawns

It's not like I wanted this colony to last or anything.

>>163856461
Not him but the description literally says ''alien ship'', it's just that all that ever comes out are bots

>>163856728
There aren't any aliens in Rimworld, just post-singularity humans.

>>163856853
I don't think anyone is disputing that...

>>163856728
Mechanoids aren't aliens, though. They're robots gone rogue that were built by advanced human societies. Also keep in mind that the word alien can be used to describe something foreign and outlandish as well.

>>163856710
I feel ya, while I believe the dark young are more of a physical threat, deep ones give you -20 mood just from looking at them (which is kinda bullshit imo) so they're a bitch to take out.

I've found the best way to kill deep ones is to give everyone a gun, draft them and group them up to face it,mass fire should do it's thing.

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>>163856853
They're aliens to my planet at least.

>>163854067
AVE MARIA

>>163857197
Yeah that was my point, alien is a general term for from a different planet and isn't referring to little gray people

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>>163857296
DEUS VULT

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>>163857456
It was a bit risky, should the scythers have survived the blast they might have seriously injured my colonists since they were not behind cover. Luckily only two centipedes survived and distance between them is usually more effective than cover since they love AoE effect weapons.

I should have went the safer route but I wanted to try the IED meme that I saw someone use earlier.

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It's been hard times.
Let's hope shub likes tribal blood and sends me goats.

>>163857296
I meant to try this myself. Is there a viable strat where to put them while spending the minimal amount needed to get them to explode? Or is it too rng?

>>163857878
Cult mod right? that cult hood is pretty neat.

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Despite this being my comfiest game (started as tribals) I've lost the will to take this save any further because Cassy on Rough just isn't enough challenge now that I'm not brand new to this game.

I wish I could up the difficulty in an already started game :(

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Pretty happy with my base.
r8 on what to improve

left batteries are emergency, available via switch.

bottom right is my actual battery capacity. Never run out of energy since I covered all the geothermals.

>>163858179
Your greenhouse is triggering my OCD

>>163858105
You can. Difficulty scales with wealth, gather a bunch of Plasteel and clench your anus.

>>163857993
RNG has a fair bit to do with it. If I was seriously unluckily none of them could have gone off and I would not have seen the chain reaction I needed to harm the mechs.

For things you can actually account for, proximity and numbers seem to be important. I think I got the right amount of IEDs but I should have made them tighter together. The center right pair did not go off in the explosion which would have killed the caterpie with the minigun.

I stockpiled components from merchants so I was a bit comfortable with blowing them here. Though if resources were limited I would have set up a bunker somewhere, perhaps in a way that I could lure the scythers away from the pedes. I really hate fighting them together.

>>163857293
The mood debuff was okay, but I always start as tribals and a few clubs and pilas aren't enough to gun down cosmic horrors. Doesn't help that they're fast and deal high melee damage.

>>163858346
Is Randy more fun that Cassandra in general or can it be really fucking awful?

>>163856710
Is deep ones part of a mod? I've never found one on any playthrough and I have 142 hours.

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>>163858105
you can though?

>>163858262
you mean the ultra packed arrangement for efficiency? Never got around doing it, i have more than enough food as it is and components are too valuable to rearrange the hydroponics at this point

>>163858531
makes sense, I tend to use my triple rocket launchers to pick off scythers and kite the centipedes with shields. using that many resources is unacceptable imo

>>163858714
I only play on Cassandra. Cassandra is fucking awful after you get 500 plasteel though let me tell you. Raids and psychic ships every hour, sometimes every 30 minutes. And the raids are crazy hard.

>>163858105
Go to your options and find "Choose Storyteller." It should let you change your difficulty, too, but I don't know if it updates immediately or not. Difficulty determines the intensity and frequency of bad events, so the other anon is also right. Acquiring tons of wealth will ensure far larger raids.

>>163858179
I really, really like that sentry nest in the northwest side of your base. Nice and simple, and it looks effective without sacrificing aesthetics.

Your two living areas are also pretty. I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses green carpets to match the beds.

>>163858796
No, the fact that it isn't symmetrical horizontally or vertically. Move those two off centre middle ones to the very top and put them in line with the rest.

>>163858729
They're from the call of cthulu mod.

Could I send a caravan armed with weapons to conquer pirate bases?

>>163858834
I personally find Cassandra consistently harder than Randy 9/10 times but the times Randy decides to whip out his dick and drop it on your shoulder can be pretty damn ugly.

>>163858714
In my experience randy tends to do nothing at all at times, then suddenly you get a poison ship followed by a raid and a solarflare. If you are ready to get instantly fucked in the ass after a two hour borefest, randy is the way to go

>>163858971
thanks anon, appreciate it

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>>163859224
Ooooh yeessss! I believe you can take prisoners, too, but I haven't tried it myself. I'm nothing but a humble farmer, tending to my crops and muffalos.

You should also check out the transport pods that you can research. Mortars, guns, soldiers? Launch anything towards a raider camp and become sci-fi commando team you're meant to be!

>say fuck it
>equip 20 colonists with plasteel longswords
>raid happens
>bait them to come close
>divy out targets to my swordsmen
>raiders get fucking wrecked, and can't retreat because their legs are cut off
Jesus why didn't I do this before?

>>163859224
yes

>>163859869
The one thing that keeps me from doing that is the random chance that makes bullets kill people near instantly

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Fuck yeah it worked, meat's back on the menu, boys!
>>163858071
Yeah, there'a also robes and masks of the gods.

>>163860049
There's a mod for that.

>>163860049
>what is personal shield

>>163858714
The biggest upside to Randy is that you have more chances of getting events that give you more colonists and better chances of capturing prisoners that have a reasonable recruitment percentage since Randy has a softer "high cap" on colonists. Also, Randy is far less predictable than Cassandra. I find that Cassandra gives you a good pounding every now and again and between the poundings she gives you better events to alleviate some of the pain.

I would suggest Randy for a very survival orientated run such as an ice sheet colony. You'll have to adapt to whatever he throws at you since he's apathetic to your pleas and plights instead of putting up with Cass bullying you or throwing you presents if you're doing poorly.

>>163860153
I know but I am a jew when it comes to mods that modify combat balancing.

>>163860137
>demon goat meat
Mmmmm, sacrilicious

>>163860206
that reminds me. Can you craft these things and I just havent found them yet or do I have to obtain them solely through raids and combat supplier which never show up?

>>163859869
Melee is underrated in this game so long as you use your noggin' before charging in and making sure you have enough warriors to pin down gunners.

>>163860476
I don't know if you can, which is strange since if you can craft power armor then surely you have the tech to craft kinetic shields.

>12 days since any traders or raiders came
>normal difficulty
What the fuck is going on

>>163860850
Build something ambitious like a zoo or a star fort in the meantime. You could also try bumping up your difficulty, too. Raid prevalence is quite affected on the difficulty you're playing on. I believe there is a limited amount of "bad" events that can happen in a short period depending on your difficulty settings/story teller. So seeing a manhunter pack usually means that you won't get a raid for a few days.

>>163861424
Thanks, it's weird because I was consistently getting raids before, and my last manhunter pack was like 7 days ago, maybe it's lucky rng?

>>163861540
Most likely "lucky" RNG. Whenever I get into a dry period I just start working on some projects which keep me distracted long enough that I wish I didn't hear the red alert sound when it does show up again.

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>pyromaniac snaps and starts to ignite shit
>rainfall 5 seconds later

poor guy

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>>163861937
I hope afterwards you harvest his organs and feed them to the boars

best map time for building open bases?

large hills?

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>>163858262
fixed

>max temp
>lowest rainfall
>in driest of dry desert
HOW DO I SURVIVE? ONE FUCKING OUTAGE AND EVERYTHING IS COOKING

raids being fried alive while your guys just sit inside is pretty cool tho

>>163863484
Passive coolers, a shitload of them.

>>163863484
you bean because of fire hazard?

build stone floors under anything that deals with power.

at the beginning cut plants in a radius around your base and later on make sure you have at least 3 tiles of non-flammable floor that no fire reaches your base

>>163863964
I think he means heatstroke, love.

>>163863870
no trees, like two of them cactus thingies on the whole map

>>163863964
no, I mean when the batteries just unload and my base heats up to 60 degrees celsius and my hydroponic plants just die, and my food reserves get smaller and smaller because my harvest is all dead


maybe I shouldnt use solar but wind turbines?

Is there a mod that enables religious practices such as sacrificing and such in a way that doesn't go all supernatural like the Cthulhu mod? Executing prisoners always gives non-psychopaths negative thoughts even if the colony is full of barbaric tribals, which doesn't really make sense.

I want to make a colony that worships flat chests, because lolis seem to have a mythological status in Rimworld.

>>163863239
Beautiful

>>163864443
Then grow them

>>163864443
that is a hazard of the biome. To keep rooms from heating up in case of fire, take a colonist and open up a wall tile immediately so the heat can get out.

Build smaller rooms so you have a reserve when one burns down.

What else can I say, desert biomes are one of the hardest.

>>163863484
>outage
there's your problem m8. Have a combination of solar and wind production and a backup fully charged battery housing located off your grid for emergencies with enough power to last three days.

>>163864870
Ever heard of solar flares?

>>163864925
grow something that produces wood for passive coolers

>>163865103
Easier said than done when all you have is gravel.

>>163865167
hydroponics.

you seem to be able to make a lot of excuses but what your colonists need is someone who looks for solutions

>>163864925
solar flares destroy your crops, that is true. You have to keep enough food to offset a lost harvest tho. try to designate 2 for 150 or 4 for 300 pemmican and disallow its use. in case of a drought, use this as emergency rations.

solar flares are pretty much the only event where you are helpless and can't do anything in advance

>>163865167
Post a pic of your map

>>163865240
Can't grow trees on hydroponics

>>163865291
Can't, I ragequit a while ago.

>>163865359
Hahaha, oh wow

>>163865359
Make room
Heat/cool room
Light room
Plant trees on grass
Tada

>>163864764
funny, Im struggling enough to produce edible harvest

>>163864870
thanks for the input but as the other anon said, that still doesnt help me if I have solar flares left, right and centre

>>163864801
fire really isnt that much of a problem desu, I dont use wood to build anyway, and the mini fires when shit blows up, I can handle them easily

>>163865476
You don't have grass on desert
Most gravel you do have is limited to food production
Outages kill crops

?????????

>>163865476
>grass
>desert
retarded or just stupid by choice?

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How do you use animals?

boars are best for rapid breeding and can be used as canonfodder in fights, hauler slaves otherwise.

alpacas produce imo the best amount of wool for high quality textiles and don't seem to consume too much

don't know about wargs yet, while good in meelee fights, they are still bullet sponges until they get within reach and they are a potential danger when their bonded idiot dies

chickens make decent prices with traders but the eggs seem to be underwhelming, at least that's my impression.

dogs are trained and sold at the first opportunity, everything else is pretty much slaughtered on arrival.

thoughts?

>>163865885
yo that's a lot of pigus

>>163866072
I lose 4-6 per raid/ancient ship and slaughter them in case food runs low which is super rare

>>163865885
Only animals I think are worth a damn are chickens, wild boards, alpacas, cows, and muffalo. Only reason I say muffalo is for caravans but this can be solved with mods.

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>>163866480
Chicken caravan mod.
Powered exoskeleton for your chicken so they can carry shit for you when forming a caravan.

>>163865885
I like big cats. They're fast and have a high DPS. Bears are probably overall best though, since they can learn everything and take a beating on top of dishing out a lot of damage. Wolves are okay, but seem very squishy.

If you only look at maximum efficiencies, chickens aren't really worth it - while one egg is worth 5 units of any other foodstuff, they consume more than 5 units between egg cycles. If you're limited on meat though it's a decent way to convert veggies into animal products, allowing you to make fine meals instead of simple ones.

>14 days now
>still no traders
>still no raids
I don't get it, I'm on rough cassie.

>>163869271
You can cheatmode yourself some fun.

Post rare and essential A16 mods everyone should be using

>>163869271
Switch to Randy

>>163871136
Lovely hair style

New player here, what am I looking for in my first 3 settlers?

>>163871136
EPOE

Holy shit I haven't played rimworld in ages, this new planet generation is blowing my mind. Is it viable to start on an island? Can I travel across water or even oceans? I'm thinking of a comfy start on an island with one other settlement

>>163872079
Able to do almost everything, not slow and preferably with a workspeed boost

One person with high medical and one person with good construction skills would be good, but you can make do with anything as long as they're not seriously crippled

>>163872560
I've never started on an island and I don't think you can walk across oceans, however drop pods are build able now and can land your caravan something like 30 tiles from your base.

>all these people with fancy mega bases and billions of colonists
>I can barely scrape together 5 before shit goes tits up
Are people save scumming or is everyone just that lucky?

>>163872769
>>163872560
Vehicles would be nice.

Imagine tribals attacking from canoes or pirates attacking from a sailing ship. Traders docking their sailing ship at docks if the player built one for high volume trading. A landing strip or landing pad would allow space traders to land a shuttle or something. Space pirates landing a dropship pretty much anywhere on the map that's not mountain.

Raiders attacking with post apocalyptic dune buggies/technicals with crews of 2, one to drive and an other to man the machinegun.

>A wild Thrumbo appeared!

>Never heard of this animal before, fuck it looks cool though. "Lots of hunters would pay a lot for its coat, eh? You got it"
>Set up dudes behind auto turrets, Thrumbo rushes dude, tears his leg off
>notlikethis.w/e
>reload, same strat, start kiteing the Thrumbo around
>realise I can just tame it instead
>reload again, attempt to tame, can't force tame for some reason?
>realise if i can just take him down and bring him inside i can hopefully rescue him and bond with him
>fight thrumbo
>kill thrumbo
>reload
>fight thrumbo
>down thrumbo
>thrumbo gets back up
>kills everyone
>fight thrumbo
>something else goes wrong
>this shit goes on for literally half an hour
>finally get everything right
>down thrumbo
>no guys down
>take thrumbo inside
>a wild timber wolf appears
>my big beefy ex-raider guy gets apparently stunlocked by a timberwolf and gored straight to death
>my keyboard hit the ceiling

i'm too tired for this shit. The Hive is coming along nicely, though.

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>>163864443
Wind turbines give a lot of power at the cost of being tied to RNG. They usually don't stay "dead" for too long however.

>>163865885
Chickens lay eggs with are meat substitutes. Pretty useful if you got nothing to hunt.

>>163873938
I would be lying if I said I didn't savescum to save my favourite colonist or two because some RNG giveth and taketh but the day-to-day functions of my colony does not need sacescumming. I used to have a similar situation where I would hit a maximum of about 7 colonists before my base eventually collapsed until I started learning improvements on my playstyle.

I would say that the most important thing to watch out for is "progressing" towards projects too early since you might not need them yet or the resource consumption may be screwing over your other more necessary projects. Another important issue, although similar as the first but said in another way to emphasize it, is progressing past important projects.

When a colony collapses it is usually because of more than one issue, but it usually inevitably stems to a "major" issue that served as a catalyst for it all.

>>163874192
>rerolling for an hour to get the perfect beautiful kind nudist 16 year old fuckpuppet to colonize a new planet with

suffering

>tfw your colonists can't reproduce and you can't make a horde of child labourers to haul and clean while the grownups do the fighting

suffering, game breaking lack of immersion, uninstalled, unsubscribed.

>>163877787
>you can't capture young tribals and chain them naked to your room for breeding
absolutely criminal lack of immersive gameplay

>>163877894
>pawns don't have a random chance to develop the Cannibal trait after consuming human meat for a prolonged period and thus negate the debuff (some other traits should prevent this from happening though)

Anti-realistic unimmersive shit

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>>163876835
cont.

The first issue I want to focus on is running out of food. This is somewhat a humorous one since its as simple as you would expect it—just grow more crops. Now then, you still have to assess the situation.

Does your biome have poor soil or poor year-round growing weather? You might want to consider getting hydroponics ASAP. I'm not a huge fan of hydroponics because of the resource cost but if that's you're only hope (rip) then you're going to need to b-line it in your tech.

Does you biome have lots of soil but a harsh growing winter that may extend from late fall to early spring? You're going to need to cultivate larger farms to create a stockpile. Go for the overkill. I would say 500 meals (even better if you already have them stockpiled so you don't have to cook all winter) is pretty alright for a colony of 10 to last a winter. I would suggest growing corn since it gives you the greatest yields, but you should also grow rice and potatoes since they grow quickly and you want to avoid early game starvation.

This many meals means you need to consider having your food stockpile near your kitchen and your kitchen near your meal stockpile and your meal stockpile near your dining room. You can do this with only one stockpile but I prefer animal corpses>butchered foods and raw plants>meals. Cooking is often a full-time profession in Rimworld, so try to make the chef's life a bit easier and maybe the chef will kiss YOU.

3 chefs, 3 farmers is a good number for a large (15 man) colony. You might need some part-time farm hands to harvest the crops when the time comes and you should set your farmers with secondary jobs when everything is planted. Also, get haulers. Lots of haulers. Nothing is worse than reaping what you sowed but being unable to put most of it away before it spoils.

tbc.

>>163878126
>my bonded hunter can't be lovers with his husky
when will the persecution of furries end

>>163878172

food cont.

It should be noted that strawberries make an amazing crop if you have fertile soil/hydroponics. They grow amazingly fast and can be eaten without getting a "ate raw food" mood penalty.

Speaking of mood penalties...

>>163878291
You can fuck space cats though.

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R8 my colony.

Pirates raided us killed two, other has an infection and we've got no medicine and now I'm abandoning it and going to try to kamikase the fuckers that screwed us over. Had no defenses cause the settlement was nested inside a pond and mountain.

Wish me luck.

>>163878681
nvm one of them broke his peg leg and had to be put down cause he's too fucking slow and the other two are on mental breaks.

>>163878681
Tell us about your cult, anon.

No seriously, please do. I'd like to know what exactly you can do with a cult and how it affects gameplay because the modders who makes these mods enjoys being a vague fuck

>>163879295
You can do all sorts of spells to summon shit and get other effects. There's social shit for cults with them causing fights between the cult and non-cult guys. It's neat.

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>>163879242
The absolute moron set fire to our cold storage room while being inside it.
Looks like we're not going out in a blaze of glory, not the kind I was looking for.

>>163879295
What >>163879783 said; highly reccommended mod, you can also build a church and have sermons for good thoughts, but if the preacher isn't very charismatic you might also get bad thoughts.

The spells are also dependant on which god you focus on, you raise your standing with a god to unlock more spells by holding sermons dedicated to it and giving food offerings.

There's also a research tree, you don't have all the features unlocked from the beggining. You have to wait for a pawn to get possessed and write a grimoire, you then decypher said grimoire and study it to unlock everything else.

You can sacrifice prisoners in the same altar you hold sermons at(but you need to upgrade it to level 3 by researching), this is how you cast spells, So far I've only tried shub-niggurath, she gives you nice bonuses to farming and researching, as well sending a group of goats for you to slaughter, one of them even joins your colony and gives you milk.

To convert people to your cult you have to set the investigate successful cults research and have the desired pawn researching it, the research is repeatable, but the pawn will lose sanity while researching, low sanity gives you a few buffs and debuffs.

I think that's about all I know, feel free to ask anything more spescific.

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>>163878497
cont.

Mood penalties are a bitch, and there is no faster way to end a colony than a cranky colony. A raid can slaughter everyone in a day, but a colony doomed to social collapse is dead before they even know it.

The first year is always the toughest since you can’t start the game with camping gear. The most important things you need to cover immediately are FOOD (including its stockpile), SHELTER, and CLOTHING. There is no order of importance here in regards to handling your colonist’s moods, they are ALL important and you should consider colonists that have skills/passions in cooking, growing, and construction. The ability to haul and clean is also very important.

First things first: CLOTHING. Clothing should be something you can check off your list immediately. I would suggest never starting a game with a naked colonist unless they are a nudist. It is basically a permanent -8 malus to their mood. That is usually the difference between not having a mental break and having one. I would consider setting up a clothier’s workshop sometime early but not before you finish working on FOOD and SHELTER. The reason for this is that a.) You want to make toques and parkas for the winter and b.) Your first colonist to join your community is usually a naked guy that wanders into the map. I find that on average that colonist is always the crankiest and it is usually because he is naked (he is often the first to die too, but that is for other reasons). If your biome has shitty weather then I suggest making parkas ASAP for the cold or cowboy hats and dusters for the heat (yes, a heavy duster makes your colonist less hot).

>>163881876
cont.

Second: FOOD. The first thing I do in almost every start is to set my colonists to starting growing food for the season and for my construction worker to start making the walk-in freezer. There is really not much else to say about this, hunger is a terrible mood malus and you should take priority in never running out of food. I shouldn’t have to say that fine and lavish meals are a must if you have the resources and time for it, just remember that they need meat to make and they use up a lot of food. What I DO want to talk about is DINING TABLES. Tables are some good shit, anons. The penalty for eating without a table is not as massive as it used to be but it is a mood malus that does not need to exist. As a bonus, when your construction workers start getting really good at their jobs you can assign them to rebuild your old shitty plywood tables and chairs and turn them into grand artistic masterpieces that max out your colonist’s comfort rating (+10 mood) for a limited time. You can set up a picnic table outside if you want to create a dining area early, but I suggest making a decent dining room later on that’s big enough to hold lots of pawns and decorations. A mid-tier dining room is basically a free +10 mood bonus for any pawn that eats in it ("ate in a impressive dining room!").

>>163882090
cont.

Thirdly: SHELTER. I would argue that shelter is tied to food in terms of importance, perhaps even more so when going outside freezes your colonists. The theory on bedrooms is simple. The sooner your colonists stop living in a barracks the better off you will be. Not only do barracks give a “shared room” penalty they also tend to give a “disturbed sleep” penalty when a colonist goes to bed later or wakes up earlier than most. Now then, if you want to go full min/max giving your colonists 15x15 bedrooms filled with sculptures and masterwork flower pots will make them VERY happy, but that’s pretty uggo looking. Just try to aim at around 20ish EMPTY tiles in your bedroom (too much furniture, even beds, can make a room cramped). Since we’re talking about furniture, I need to remind everyone that “awful” furniture should be deconstructed if you can help it; they negatively affect the beauty in the room. I find that giving a bedroom a well-crafted bed (also gives +10 to comfort when they wake up!) and a flower pot or two is enough to keep people happy.

Remember to set up coolers and heaters the moment you have the resources available for it. Colonists hate sleeping in bad temps and since colonists are very apt to break in the morning since they are also hungry it is a good idea prioritize these buildings right after your first power-generating structures.

>>163880741
Played around with it a bit in dev mode, seems that some spells aren't working yet. Has loads of potential and even new endgame goals, will use it when I start an evil colony or something along those lines.

Thanks for the detailed reply, though.

>>163882214
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI

Defending your colony is perhaps the penultimate goal in Rimworld. You can set up the perfect colony but it can all means nothing if you can’t defend it. This one is pretty hard to discuss, considering that adaptability is king in regards to base defenses. Not everyone is going to start in a valley, have a coast beside them, have natural chokes, etc. While it may sound like a copout my best advice is to participate in the ((reddit)) or right here in /rwg/. We are more than willing to serve as your armchair tacticians if you stumble into a situation and you need help.
That being said, he’s a small list of things that you should know.

1. The Assault Rifle and Charge rifle are kings of the battlefield. Snipers are also god-tier, but they should remain as fire support and assassins due to their low fire rate. Snipers can break a raid by pounding the raiders with a few good hit but you need a good firing line in case that doesn’t happen.

2. The incendiary launcher is an amazing weapon, especially against tribals. Set down sleeping spots on chokes and target them with your launcher to create a blazing flame.

3. Your colonists can safely shoot over the shoulder of an ally but any tile further than that risks friendly fire.

4. Never fight scythers and centipedes together if you can help it. Scythers can one shot if left unattended but splitting your firing lines away from the pedes makes taking down those tanks even harder.

5. An ideal “killbox” is one where it’s large enough that your ranged units can get free hits in on your attackers (melee especially) but not so large that the attackers have time to spread out when they enter the room. Centipedes actually do poorly at a distance.

6. IEDS are overpowered but take components to build. A good set of landmines WILL stop a raid, but consider the resource cost.

>>163880741
Wow, this mod looks amazing. It definitely is getting bumped up to the top of my playlist.

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>>163877894
>MATING PRESS
>Implying they're not already hungry for your midworld dick and need to be chained down.
(though maybe that's why they want it)

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>>163877894
>>163884817
>you will never explore uncharted planets and meet their exotic natives
S-Stop it, anons. It's bad enough that my colonists are intermingling with the recruited natives.

>>163878291
Genetically modified humans are a thing lorewise. I wouldn't be surprised if we see semi-humans in the near future.

It would definitely be a nice upside for the lack of true ayys.

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rate my base /rwg/

So glad /rwg/ has gained traction again, love you guys
n-no homo

>>163887161
Post it as a jpg so I can see it please.

>>163887691
*non erotic hugs*

>>163887161
Geez, that base looks really secure. You did a good job carving out that rock and making it your own.

Would sell beer to/10.

Is that also an exit out of the base near your med-bay? Is that secure?

My hunter got his foot bitten off by a god damn wolf. Do I replace his entire leg with a pegleg or is a regular leg with no foot superior to a pegleg

>>163887691
You're welcome. I found this game on Steam by accident and immediately searched up the general. Saw it was practically dead and have spent the past few days talking to myself in here.

What are some good Hospital designs? If it's one thing I haven't figured out it's that.

Should I build a bunch of med beds in a barracks style room or separate them all into single beds per room?

>obsessively building the perfect little family of four
>each member has his or her little quirk
>sending them down to the planet to watch it all fall apart horribly
>bonus points if their tragic flaw played a part in their demise

>>163889871
Med beds barrack room style, using the silver you start with on sterile tile is also a great investment as it greatly reduces the chance of infection.

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>>163889431
I'm pretty sure a leg without a foot is better than a peg leg but I might be wrong. The expanded prosthetics mod adds wooden feet (and perhaps more advanced versions) to help stumpy colonists.

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=10571.0

>>163889540
It's a living.

>>163889871
Here's my current triage center. It's currently pretty chaotic because of a raid and its incompleteness (and a damn solar flare). I'm hoping to spruce up the single bedrooms with some flower pots and TVs facing the beds so the colonists don't get too board (especially if they're bed-ridden until a surgery due to injury). The current "prison" area is only temporary too. I'm hoping to build a new prison elsewhere and use that room as an emergency area if the hospital overflows again.

>>163889976
I'm glad I'm not the only one that obsesses over creating some theme or something with my starting colonists.

I might do something stupid sometime like creating a scenario where a bunch of cyro-frozen Nazis wake up from cryosleep and start building a Fourth Reich on a new planet.

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>>163888389
Thanks m8
Yeah there's an exit there with a titanium door with an explosive slightly away from it.
>>163887859
Apologies m'lord

>>163890830
Do it with the Cult mod, and use the Wehrmacht mod. Or Great War.

of all things a warg attack is what almost ruins the colony
>sparkles tries to rescue her pet fox
>gets ravaged by wargs at the gate
>breaks free and starts running back towards the firing line through the crossfire
>auto turret bullet hits her in the heart and she dies instantly
>wargs continue to shred people apart until theyre all killed

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>>163891806
:(

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>>163891806
forgot pic

>beautiful colonist gets her nose and ear shot off by a savage with a longbow

this world is cruel to do something like that to something so lovely

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L-Lewd!

So if I put a growing zone like this and just set sowing off, my guys will automatically harvest fully matured trees as they happen, yes? Or do I have to do something more to get maximum lumber.

>>163893194
Forgot screenshot, too lazy to fix it, just imagine I have a big 25x25 growing zone over a big patch of grass, trees and bushes and sowing is set to "off"

>>163893194
>>163893298
I've never tried something like this, but if it works let us known.

>>163892954
Install the prosthetic mod. They have one for noses. You must fix this, for her sake.

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>>163884817

>you will never revenge raid a raider base and steal all their females forcing them into being nothing more than breeding sows
>you will never then implant their children with IEDs and send them back to the raiders
>you will never send captured prisoners back with explosives or diseases to annihilate their home colony
>this will never be a siege tactic

I just want to trick my enemy into believing they're getting their people back and abusing their foolishness.

>players can't find rich soil with their eyes
>ludeon makes rich soil 'easier' to spot
>also makes rich soil only appear near water, effectively removing 99% of it

What should I be growing in regular soil for maximum efficiency? I have a fucked up looking rice line growing along the pond already

>>163893678
It does work, they started seeking out fully grown trees shortly after I asked

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>tfw iguana gets into yayo stash and fucking dies
RIP Iguana 1

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>doc and rest of colony bury sparkles in a granite tomb with a nice sculpture that was made earlier
>doc cant handle the loss of his love
>begins to lose it, convinced it was everyones collective fault that sparkles died
>doc snaps, guns down trigger while he's gardening, imprisons the other 2 in their rooms with a granite wall
>locks himself into the freezer and turns it up to -270c and waits for his sweet release
>stranger joins the colony
>the colony is in ruins, blood, shells and debris litter both inside and outside the base
>breaks into the freezer and finds doc
>doc is still awake and puts a round of buckshot into her without hesitation
>doc wanders outside the freeze and attacks melissa, sparkles pet fox
>melissa shreds doc alive
>doc bleeds out on the floor
what wild ride, does anyone else like to make up stories for their colonies if things dont go well?

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Post your taverns/dining rooms.

>>163894215
Video game cruelty potential is almost a necessity when playing games like Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, etc.

>>163894717
I actually kinda like the look of rice fields following along the ridge of a pond or river.

In lieu of fertile soil I would suggest just farming larger swathes of land. It does mean more farmers, but the alternative is spending resources for hydroponics.

>>163895241
My imagination works far better when things are hitting the fan.

It's why I don't try too hard in making sure my defenses are "perfect." I quite like getting a bit gritty and letting my colonists fight in trenches and stuff.

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>>163894215
>you will never be able to bring your artillery along with your caravans to besiege raider forts and shell them to hell and back

Most fun I ever had was when I had depleted manpower due to a mechanoid hive being found and an insect infestation so my hospital was chocablock and then we got sieged by some raiders so the few able bodied men I had left were on the mortars doing counter-battery fire, ferrying the wounded and the ammo to the hospital inside the mountain. Fun as fuck.

Probably going to start another game tonight on boreal forest mountain biome loaded up with Cthulu mod in order to make a mountain cult, not sure if I should do tribal or crashland start, willing to take suggestions.

I want to like the Combat Realism mod but I'm not sure if I could be fucked dealing with all that individual ammo shit, even if it is super immersive, I just don't trust my colonists to not be incompetent. Plus, has anyone found that the Rumours & Deception and Romance Extended mods cause weird bugs like your colonists disappearing through the map and whatever? I'm not sure where the conflict is, quite peculiar.