Colony Sims Talk Ahoy! (Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, etc.)

[visual plank]

theyre basically immune to all the traps and can tank a LOT of damage

and are good at crushing obstacles, walls, whatever you need

cleared mech compounds by just having the mechinator and the rest of the armed colonists basically staying a room behind the vanguard mechs

moving in after theyve triggered or disarmed any traps

[fervent lantern]

OSKAR?

[sullen anchor]

Oskar have no regrets and welcomes whatever may come

[clear hare]

I'm enjoying the breach and clear life with all these new landmarks

One man with chainshotgun, one man with emp grenades and a backup weapon

My colonists descend from their ship with breach axes and a determined expression

I am the breach raiders now

[candid dock]

yeah, This DLC seriously gives you options when it comes to leaving the map and exploring.
It's been so god damn good.

[oak sail]

Chain shotguns our beloved 😌

Suki ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) One man with chainshotgun, one man with emp grenades and a backup weapon

[visual plank]

mechinators eating good with bots basically designed to breach and clear

tunnelers are genuinely fantastic for exploring ruins

their shields protect them from explosive traps and turrets

they can dig through walls

their melee attacks are really strong and theyre very well armored

[candid dock]

I wish I could get more gravlite panels, but I'm not fully prepped to go into space

[visual plank]

there are ground locations with them

the gravship quests that pop up

[clear hare]

If you use Mort's corporation mod they sell them

(Adds an empire-esque evil megacorp and a deserter-for-mechanitors cyberpunk faction)

[sacred crater]

yeah you can just get them from quests

[candid dock]

I've tried to go do the quests but even they are risky.

[visual plank]

Well uh

Thats how you get them

Risky quests or asteroid mining

[clear hare]

Actually the more I think about it this is fucking brutal

My colonists are raiding an outlaw hideout station and the concept of swinging my ideo's very pointy breach axes when everyone's wearing vacsuits is nightmarish

As if CQB in space wasn't bad enough

[sacred crater]

Get vacuum exposed nerd

[sacred crater]

Yeah that’s the idea haha

Gotta take risks in the rim if you wanna go big

[fervent lantern]

New Amberlight has been refitted with better turrets

[clear hare]

Ow, lost two pawns doing just that

One died to a cryptosleep ancient who was carrying an explosive belt

And one fucking stepped into a doorway to emp grenade a defender turret

And the fucking thing instakills him first shot through the brain

Just unlucky, I've done that tactic a dozen+ times and never even been hit

[fervent lantern]

oof

[sacred crater]

Those are some scary looking guns

[fervent lantern]

they are!

[clear hare]

YIKE

[small geyser]

That's a meteor strike inches away from your shell stockpile? 😬

[oak sail]

Those are plasteel walls too

[fervent lantern]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3534446972&searchtext=

hm

[untold grotto]

the perfect mod to go with my squishables pawns

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541372285&searchtext=squishables

[clear hare]

This is the captain of the Valentine speaking- all hands prepare to repel boarders, I repeat, all hands prepare to repel boarders. We have mechanoids incoming.

(I love getting stuck on an orbital platform while 30+ militors break down my hull and try to breach and clear my colonists)

[candid dock]

my mechanoids normally get yeeted everywhere else

[clear hare]

This might be the only time outside of cave bases where the 30 militor raid is a threat

[oak sail]

Consider: kill the 30 militors with 30 militors

[clear hare]

We are a peaceful research vessel 😇

(ignore the vacsuited breach raiders)

Right now I'm turning my space ship into a space station

which was annoying to get the grav extenders aligned to form a good circle

[clear hare]

Got an outer 'airlock' ring, and then an outer ring with living quarters, rec room, hospital, workshop, lab, and shrine

now I just gotta sort the inner ring with some space for storage and whatever else I need

It's designed so if you're not breaching, you go have to enter via the security room, then travel to either the bedrooms or rec rooms to go 'in' a layer

[sacred crater]

Pretty sure those are steel

Oh actually yeah it’s concrete

[civic mango]

I dig the "ufo" style ship!

[visual plank]

literally watched this mf run in there and eat food in the food store instead of walking to the table

piece of shit

and yes, Pews count as chairs for eating at tables

WHY

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS

[oak sail]

Maybe get rid of one of the doors? It shouldn’t matter but also they shouldn’t be doing this anyway so 🤷‍♀️

[visual plank]

nah its "too hot" in the room

they wont eat at a table if the room would make them sweaty

for some reason

[sacred crater]

Unsafe temperature is a binary

Just give them a duster

And they’ll stop this

[visual plank]

It did help get them properly inhumanized

[fervent lantern]

The New Amberlight on her 11th year, with her crew

[woven perch]

Everyone one gets fancy bedrooms now

[visual plank]

mf entering a new region like the god damn brotherhood of steel

[woven perch]

The way there is a corpse just hanging outside feels absurd

In a good way

[fervent lantern]

the heck do you mean catfish have toxic spines????

[fervent lantern]

CITIZEN OF THE RIM, DO NOT BE ALARMED

[fervent lantern]

its gone now, thankfully

[candid dock]

yeah they do have toxins in their dorsal fins

[fervent lantern]

huh

[sullen anchor]

Like real cats

[dapper shoal]

but not like fish

[ashen urchin]

Yeah catfish spines are brutal

They're serrated

[sacred crater]

And are also toxic

[fervent lantern]

jesus christ

and people eat them 🤔

[visual plank]

people catch them with their bare hands

by stuffing their hands into their mouths

[fervent lantern]

huh

[ashen urchin]

I mean they only have a couple of spines and they're huge so kinda hard to miss

not on any part of it that you're gonna eat either

[gleaming flax]

It's just embedded in the dorsal and pectoral fins

If you move your hand up the fish, you can get stabbed and it burns for a while, but it's not very harmful to us

Generally

[visual plank]

It's called noodling

They stick their hands into catfish burrows and jab their hands into their mouths and grab em and haul em out

[clear hare]

intentionally making myself miserable with an Anomaly start in a scarland ruined city

spawn in
There are 54 hostile enemies on the map

okay I did literally ask for this but wow that's a lot of bug nests

also everything is awful, there's nearly no soil, every animal has scaria so my ghoul is almost always starving and threatening to go feral, and everything sucks forever

[oak sail]

we just got rimworld, we love that baby pawn's needs literally get translated from baby talk 😌

Can they not eat rotting bodies?

Suki ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) also everything is awful, there's nearly no soil, every animal has scaria so my ghoul is almost alwa…

[clear hare]

Nope

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fbjq9w0zcixff1.png

(Source: Jahalbrook)

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fjr86df6ez0gf1.jpeg

(source: banneddan1)

[oak sail]

oh yea, is cataphract armor only available from the royalty dlc?

[sacred crater]

Well… toxpotatoes are always an option

I suppose that doesn’t help the ghoul though

[clear hare]

in this case I mean literally there's no soil

[sacred crater]

Ah.

That bad huh

[clear hare]

though I can get by with planters from one of the VE mods

[sacred crater]

I should visit the scarland once I’m more established the

There’s apparently lot of loot in those ruins though

I can’t believe Mr Samuel streamer didn’t realize he could just rotate his gravship

When he built a gravship with a broadside only available on one side

[clear hare]

Also on my other save, god, skip is so good

I use a pawn with Skip to trigger hunter drones and just yeet them away

[oak sail]

We believe so

17, catgirl (it/she) | sylvania_ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) oh yea, is cataphract armor only available from the royalty dlc?

[errant turtle]

Psst, 17 (@compact dawn), you have been pinged by @smoky birch.

[visual plank]

Yes

Royalty is honestly a lot better than I remember

It's really not hard to just enjoy the content and turn off honor quest rewards and just do quests for them for sick loot

Since you can turn off honor rewards just like goodwill rewards

[fervent lantern]

whoaaa

[oak sail]

i take it back this is mildly more concerning than normal

[clear hare]

Fun fact, psychic drones scale with sensitivity

[sacred crater]

That’s when I pop mind numb serums

[oak sail]

also how do we stop everyone from cheating on each other all the fucking time

[serene edge]

Stop them from interacting with each other

[visual plank]

Rimworld colonists will do everything in their power to ruin their own lives

[sullen anchor]

The Human Condition 😌

[visual plank]

Edit their xenotype and disable flirting

[candid dock]

it's difficult to do so without doing extra modding (that sometimes just don't even work)

[visual plank]

make new, better humans with a new xenotype without such flaws as flirting

[clear hare]

Mods like Way Better Romance

Stops colonists acting like desperate 17 year olds

But you will lose time to more joint social events

[visual plank]

combine Way Better Romance and Intimacy for the true raunchy romance experience

[fervent lantern]

SEXOOOO

(cough)

sorry about that

[visual plank]

it is kinda mad annoying how FAST people become lovers in rimworld

literal first day after landing on a rimworld? lovers and broken up seventeen times

like jesus christ priorities people

[fervent lantern]

big FUCKING ship

[sacred crater]

At this point I recommend getting aelanna’s spacer furniture mod

It allows you to set up pipe system that automatically reloads your turret from a connected supply shelf

[smoky birch]

Before royalty this was the only purpose of psychic sensitivity

[sacred crater]

Yep

With royalty psychic sensitivity became from a purely negative stat to the god stat

[clear hare]

Huh til

[sacred crater]

Yeah it used to be a purely negative stat

Long before royalty

[dapper shoal]

yeah psychic dullness was also really good

all it meant was this stupid meme event didnt crater their mood

[smoky birch]

We still instinctively avoid psychic sensitivity tbh

[serene edge]

Well it still boosted the positive mood bonus from psychic soothes too

[visual plank]

i like the mod that boosts bandwidth and mechlink range with psy sensitivity

[visual plank]

the helmets and masks stay ON during the gay friendly hookup between friends

[gleaming flax]

Is that Andersen Andersen and Han or Andersen and HanAndersen

[visual plank]

thats han and andersen having platonic gay sex on andersens bed

[fervent lantern]

well that was easy. 51 manhunting giant butterflies

[woven perch]

Giant butterfly is new

[fervent lantern]

they're from a mod

[clear hare]

Darn it I built a village again and forgot to arm everyone to the absolute teeth and now cassy wants to kill me

30 vikings, 15 wasters, manhunters and more

[fervent lantern]

Pardon?

https://tenor.com/view/armored-core-armored-core-mech-mecha-gif-9444072778134407134

[fervent lantern]

hm

[sullen anchor]

A raider must have been hiding underwater

[ashen urchin]

Saw one on another discord where they caught a kidney

guessing that's the same raider

[fervent lantern]

my robots...

[visual plank]

what mod?

[sacred crater]

AOBA’s dead man switch

[fervent lantern]

Yep!

[fervent lantern]

goose

||its a swan||

[ashen urchin]

Swans are just geese that love drama too much

[visual plank]

Swans are big and fly low and slow but you can't shoot them because they suck at fucking

[candid dock]

wat

[visual plank]

Rambling

[oak sail]

🏹🏇

[clear hare]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1minsq0/walmart_supercenter/

[fervent lantern]

it rly puts into scale how big the carparks are in america when you see them through a bird's eye view

[sacred crater]

I’m making a Rimworld mod

Commed this art from someone

[visual plank]

That's a gune

[dapper shoal]

wow they paved paradise

[visual plank]

True paradise would be rows of growth vats

I play Rimworld like the Kaminoans

[fervent lantern]

oh SICK

[sacred crater]

Thinking of making Roland’s rifle from Ruina too

[sacred crater]

(Yes above is Tamaki’s sniper rifle)

[dapper shoal]

theres this channel on youtube where a city planner plays cities skylines and in one of his series he had a like three part episode building a Walmart in dead silence

it ate like a third of the map

[sacred crater]

hak hak hak

unattended gnomes won't know what hit them

[oak sail]

Are those engraved bullets?

[sacred crater]

yes

fancy engraved pulverization round

explodes on impact

meant to be used for antistructural purposes

but it'll fuck up a person too

if sniper rifle isn't your jam we got semiautomatic rifles/shotgun too

in normal firing mode it just shoots your regular old railgun slug

in CQC mode it shatters the bullet inside the barrel so it comes out as a storm of shrapnel

[oak sail]

Damn that logic do be atelier

[sacred crater]

got the pistols too

though I have no idea on what to make them do

[civic mango]

Last image of my latest colony before the High Stellarch took them all off-world less than a quadrum later. (ignore the tiny gravship I built it like 8 years into the colony and used it maybe twice lol. the colonists hated it)

[clear hare]

I see you, gigantic stockpile workroom in the center!

Nice looking colony!

[oak sail]

how do we get this godsdamned boomrat out of our godsdamned house without blowing it up

[untold grotto]

is it a pet or a random one

if its a random one probally tame it then give it a far away zone it cant leave then release it

[oak sail]

it's just a random one

[visual plank]

there was a mod called Shoo

but there is also BoomMod which stops boom-creatures from exploding from melee attacks

[oak sail]

Put in a firefoam popper and then blow it up?

17, catgirl (it/she) | sylvania_ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) how do we get this godsdamned boomrat out of our godsdamned house without blowing it up 📎

[clear hare]

I know this isn't what you asked but like, as long as you have everyone there and they can firefight, just kill it

boomrats don't boom that big

furniture can be repaired easily

Now, don't do that with a boomalope

[oak sail]

ah

yea, no, we've only had run-ins with boomalopes so far

[sacred crater]

get fucking pulverized lmao

[woven perch]

I think you could use one more bullet

[elder aurora]

this feels like a decision from a ps3 era rpg where you can pick "be good or bad and the story changes"

[last pebble]

If there's a cap on villagers these have the same incentive

[elder aurora]

if only there was to make it even funnier

[civic mango]

move your meals to another room (or wall em off, or otherwise deny access), then hold a door open that leads to outside

[sacred crater]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3544349984 first time modding

[fervent lantern]

SICK

[sacred crater]

I spent some time making this visual gag

[fervent lantern]

thoroughly funny to me that my automadroids can fish

[sacred crater]

Why is there a giant

[fervent lantern]

why not?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[civic mango]

y'know, I thought everyone else was just small for a moment

[visual plank]

Big & Small Genes?

[fervent lantern]

yep

[visual plank]

yahar

love dat mod

lets me make wolfgoats

which idk if u know but

kinda a big fan

[fervent lantern]

WOLFGOAT

!!!!

[visual plank]

THATS A BIG RAID

fuckin randy gives me loads of plasteel then uses that as an excuse to kill me

when i havent even done anything with it

i have steel plate and shotguns

i HATE to abandon so much hydroponics

but i have no MEDICINE

[visual plank]

i wonder

does this work like a solar flare

because correct me if i am wrong the grave ship command console doesnt use power

all the gravship stuff is, sensibly assumedly shielded and powered by the grav whatever

[clear hare]

Yeah you don't need power

a number of these quests are cheesable using gravships

[visual plank]

okay fourth mech cluster in a row i am starting to remember why i stopped playing with royalty

not because the actual royalty system wasnt neat

but because mech clusters suck

[sacred crater]

bling

[visual plank]

Man, the Impact weapons from the Impact weapons mod didn't really have the Impact I thought they would

Reactive would've been a better word than Impact, if you wanted to make exploding bullets with a good name for a mod page

[sacred crater]

Heheheh

Maybe try out a Pulverization round from my mod

I might make the effects a bit stronger

Need more balancing passes

[visual plank]

These are cool but they're so explosives they're a hazard in close combat

Though the slugger having a chainsaw bayonet is cool

[sacred crater]

Lmao

[dapper shoal]

reactive bullets. they watch and react for a live audience.

[visual plank]

I was just hoping for more of a high single shot damage type focus than a burst splash damage focus

By the name "impact"

Idk

[vapid wedge]

[oak sail]

https://bskye.app/profile/azulcrescent.bsky.social/post/3lw4fu4vzuc2u

[oak sail]

????????????????

[sacred crater]

hey free meat and plasteel

[oak sail]

and 3 archite capsules????

[sacred crater]

sometimes the storyteller is kind

[warm rose]

Been playing a gravship start game, it’s a lot of fun being pursued by the mech hive, though I did feel the need to mod the game to make the mechs come every 10 days. The default barely pressures you at all imo

[serene edge]

Lmao the storyteller wants you to die

[visual plank]

with that many colonists? 12 megasloths is not a threat

[sacred crater]

Yeah

Esp with automatic weapons

[civic mango]

yeah I was about to say, funny that it's marked as a 3 star quest

[oak sail]

haha. well. we accepted it, and then immediately got bodied by 12 megasloths, and had to reload an autosave

[sacred crater]

Lmao

[clear hare]

I was gonna say, 12 megasloths is A Lot Of Megasloths

[serene edge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3552197538

[warm rose]

For those who have taken down the mechhive: how prepared do I actually need to be? I’ve got a fairly late-game colony at this point but I’m not sure if Im ready to take it on

[sacred crater]

Maybe make sure you have plenty of wake up and go juice and stuff

[warm rose]

Well my plans are delayed for a while lol, my level 5 psycaster with no previous heart issues had a fatal heart attack

[oak sail]

rip

[oak sail]

based

She's usually a really good colonist too!

[warm rose]

As it turns out this actually completely doomed my ship lol (also me hoovering up way too many materials and getting very wealthy)

I died to 48 militors

[clear hare]

Send 48 militors.
No pikemen
No centurions
Just militors
You will certainly not regret fighting 48 militors

[smoky birch]

Overwhelming firepower is a valid tactic!

[sacred crater]

With combat extended I just go for putting maximum ammo down range

I usually turn up the ammo cost way higher too

It’s fun in a different way I guess

48 militors would terrify me

[candid dock]

48 of anything is terrifying in general.

[sacred crater]

Militors are easy to kill but they have a pretty powerful shotgun for their size

[clear hare]

yeah the way vanilla rimworld works, numbers are incredible

even in CE it can be a problem

Especially with militors because holy shit shotguns cause a lot of injuries

[sacred crater]

Not very useful as a player mech but on the enemy? A swarm will destroy a player squad id you let them get close enough

Short of spacer armor anyways

[candid dock]

they are very useful as a player mech
Just has the issue of how do you support that many

[clear hare]

As player mechs I've only ever used them as desperation melee blockers or a distraction

[sacred crater]

Yeah maybe

I usually gravitate towards using DMS soldieroids

[elder aurora]

if there were 48 scary gun enemies i would simply fly away on my gravship

[warm rose]

Overheated 😔

I was up to 80+ launch quality too

[oak sail]

hey, does anyone know if there's a mod that lets you, say, grow rice or haygrass in the same zone you're growing trees?

[woven perch]

There is a garden mod that lets you have a garden zone that can plant anything

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2869260174&searchtext=garden

Here

Can't control the actual individual frequency of the plants though

[woven perch]

Forgot to reply

[oak sail]

Hmmmm...
We think you could probably do that in vanilla by just designating the rice/haygrass in zones surrounding where the trees are actually being planted, but it would be a massive pain

17, catgirl (it/she) | sylvania_ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) hey, does anyone know if there's a mod that lets you, say, grow rice or haygrass in the same zone yo…

[smoky birch]

\ Replies on pluralkit proxies unfortunately do not ping, you have to react with 🔔/🛎️/🏓 insteade

[errant turtle]

Psst, 17 (@compact dawn), you have been pinged by @smoky birch.

[woven perch]

Ooh I see

[candid dock]

yeah, what I would do/have done is first set a growing zones for trees, then once all trees are planted, delete the squares from the grind that are ONLY tree squares, and then try switching the growing zone to not trees.
I assume in that case the trees will just grow along with the stuff around it.

[oak sail]

well, as it turns out, we're pretty sure you just. can't grow crops next to trees, period

we tried the gardens mod, but it wasn't exactly what we were looking for

ended up manually making a checkerboard pattern and filling in the spaces with another, different grow zone, but we can't force our grower to plant cotton next to the trees or vice-versa

oh, hmm. we ended up trying to make it just one big garden with only trees and certain crops allowed, but then we noticed that our pawn could place crops next to trees; made the same checkerboard pattern, with only trees allowed in the odd spaces, and only crops between them, and now she's planting them like normal

(maybe not the best thing to show off, but this does prove that it works)

ah, this mod might be a bit bugged, actually. we don't have devilstrand unlocked yet, but our pawns are planting it anyway

[fervent lantern]

mmm heat vent

[clear hare]

Toasty

[sacred crater]

but can we bake bread on it

[civic mango]

big grill

[oak sail]

Hey question for those who play rimworld. What are some decent mods?

Either interesting or just QoL improvements

[fervent lantern]

I'll bring up some later. Gimme a ping since I'm in class atm

[clear hare]

Vanilla expanded adds a lot of mix and match content for little overhead

[azure belfry]

I just started rimworld this week

On my third and so far most stable colony

not really sure what to do or why at this point though, i have lots of food and guns but research is crawling along and i can't get more than 3 pawns without one dying or defecting

[untold grotto]

you also need to work on their needs and make them happpier

or they will keep having breaks

[azure belfry]

hmm well i guess i could build them real rooms and bedrooms instead of putting them in 1x2 cells

unless theres a more expedient way to make them happy

im trying to grow drugs but the riverbank keeps flooding

i also accidentally started in a tropical area for this one which i understand you're not supposed to do as a beginner

[untold grotto]

theres advantages and disadvantages

better farming

[azure belfry]

hasnt been too bad except for one of my starting pawns getting infectious eyeball parasites that drove him insane

[sacred crater]

uh yeah that'll help haha

[azure belfry]

whats like the minimum room size for them to not bitch about it

[sacred crater]

not bitch about it? 3x4

[azure belfry]

perfect

[sacred crater]

for them to get mood bonus?

4x4

[untold grotto]

but you generally want better than that

[azure belfry]

ah not too bad

my main problem in terms of gameplay is pawns not finishing things they start

[sacred crater]

4x4 also gives you enough space to put in furnishings etc

which improves rest rate

and thus, lowers the amount of time they spend sleeping

[azure belfry]

they kinda half finish shit, and then i have to manually order them to finish the project piece by piece

or itll never get done

[untold grotto]

some stuff you just gotta wait because it takes a while

[sacred crater]

yeah

[untold grotto]

you also need to change prioties

[sacred crater]

time is the resource

better bedrooms actually help with this

because pawns spend less time sleeping with better bedrooms

[azure belfry]

well the problem is when i need something done urgently

guess thats also a time problem but like

time to build every-other block of a destroyed wall, forcing me to click and point pawns at every single wall segment to get it repaired

[sacred crater]

oh you can just turn on autorepair

it's the little hammer icon bottom right

[azure belfry]

that was a more abstract example

[sacred crater]

building generally is a mid-priority job

so pawns will abandon it to do self-care etc

[azure belfry]

hauling and research are also things they wont do without my direction

[sacred crater]

hauling is low priority job

research is lowest priority job

they'll never do research if they have anything else they can be doing

[azure belfry]

i set my designated researcher to do fuckall else and he's still out there farming...

[untold grotto]

you need to use manutal prioties

[sacred crater]

did you allow him to do farming job

[azure belfry]

yes i do

[sacred crater]

because if he's farming with farming task disabled on his work rota

that's a bug

[azure belfry]

it's set at 4 i guess i can literally turn off all his activities

[untold grotto]

theres also diffrent jobs in terms of length

for example having a medic be also your researcher is fine

because medic is a low time job

[sacred crater]

you also want a lot of different variety of recreation activities btw

[azure belfry]

dont worry i have a tv

[sacred crater]

because pawns develop resistance to particular kind of recreation activity

[azure belfry]

no cable tho

[untold grotto]

farming and cooking is also time consuming

[sacred crater]

so they spend more and more time on it

[azure belfry]

just one vhs of jerry macguire

[sacred crater]

yeah that's gonna be a time sucker

you want a few other recreational activity source

[azure belfry]

when can i start to do something fun or funny

i thought guns would be cooler than they were but now combat is just rocket tag

i really need more recruits too

i played around with caravans a little until i sent one guy to his doom against a swarm of somethings

[sacred crater]

honestly I play with CE so combat with guns are a bit more fun I guess

potential for the funnies depends entirely on your goals

[azure belfry]

what makes it different

i have no idea what i could even have as a goal

the tech tree is not very inspiring at a glance

[sacred crater]

so base game, whether bullets hit target or not is based on % chance when you fire the gun

CE turns bullets into physics object

and also makes them much more lethal

rimworld is highly moddable so there's a lot of fun mods that can be added to expand your goals

the most latest DLC adds a fun playstyle that gives you a sense of progression

where you can, instead of building out a colony

build a spaceship

[azure belfry]

yeah i saw that, a little heady for me at this time maybe but something to work up to

[sacred crater]

only dlcs that i recommend is like biotech and odyssey

[untold grotto]

the bigger the clonoy the more you have to manage

the bigger the raids that come after you, and the more your pawns need to be happy

theres an expectation mood sorta thing

early on they don't expect more than just a barriks thats ok

and ok food

[sacred crater]

yeah

still you generally want like

5-6 pawns

and maybe a few mechs

[untold grotto]

more pawns also lets you speclize them more

wich becomes more important over tim as well

crafting starts out as a low time job

when your just making a few things

but becomes much more time conusmeing over time

that and the skill of the crafter affects quailty

[azure belfry]

i have a designated crafter

who has been pumping out lmgs

mostly as trade goods, god bless america

which is why im also trying to grow drugs

but anyway im already making good to exquisite meals, my crafter is also the cook lol

i guess i just need to up my interior decorating game

[untold grotto]

you dont want crafter to also be your cook both are time consuming jobs

[azure belfry]

i think he's back to being the cook mostly now

i got another random pawn from an event who had like crafting 13 but she died

we killed her, anyway. Somehow I got the "wanderer was secretly waiting to kill you!" resolution 3 times in a row

this is what i meant by pawns keep defecting

[sacred crater]

oh uh

crafting lmgs as trade good is

bad

[azure belfry]

I saw someone creating basically meat slugs full of redundant organs, this is one of the things that got me to be like "what is this rimworld thing"

[sacred crater]

you aren't getting most bang for buck

[azure belfry]

im sure of that

i just have a surplus of them

[sacred crater]

weapons when you are selling gets a huge malus

to their price

[azure belfry]

my dreams of arms trading... up in smoke

[sacred crater]

the real moneymaker is selling armor

[azure belfry]

aha

[sacred crater]

clothes

[azure belfry]

clothes are shockingly high on return

[sacred crater]

yes

and also trains your crafer

and if you are living in tropics

[azure belfry]

ive been growing cotton so i guess i can make more parkas or something

[sacred crater]

you are gonna be swimming in skins of animals

[azure belfry]

maybe, i wouldnt say animals are especially more numerous

[sacred crater]

more numerous than my desert base for sure

[azure belfry]

well yeah

compared to just temperate woodland, where my last 2 bases have been, its about the same

maybe just with some more troops of monkeys sometimes

[sacred crater]

but yeah you are gonna have plenty of fur if you just do a lot of hunting

there are also some other mods that add sense of progression that I think is Fun

[azure belfry]

we actually have a lot of livestock come to think of it

[sacred crater]

like aelanna's Eccentric series

and also rimefeller and rimatomics

[azure belfry]

we've been raising alpacas for wool

[sacred crater]

rimefeller allows you to be an oil baron

[azure belfry]

neat

[sacred crater]

rimatomics allow you to build a nuclear fission reactor

[azure belfry]

actually we have shitloads of animals now that im remembering

its been a few days

but i think we have like 6 gorillas hanging around the base

[sacred crater]

yeah

hunting gorillas is always a risk because they can fight back but nothing a line of lmg shooters can't deal with I think

[azure belfry]

no i just managed to tame two of them and theyve been reproducing

[sacred crater]

ah

[azure belfry]

so now i have a squad of burly gorilla defenders

[sacred crater]

well just shank a few of them for fur

oh i guess that works too

[azure belfry]

can i biotech the gorillas to carry guns

[sacred crater]

no

[azure belfry]

fuck

[sacred crater]

but i generally don't bother with defense animals

[azure belfry]

they are amusing but mostly useless id agree

i have turrets anyway

[sacred crater]

they also cause more work for colonists etc

[azure belfry]

i just send them hunting with Shootsgoodman

i tamed a cobra to see if i could extract venom from it, i could not

[sacred crater]

did you know that you can milk boomalope for chemfuel

[azure belfry]

i knew you could milk them for something

[sacred crater]

In CE you can also milk them for explosive compounds to make bullets that explode on impact

[azure belfry]

pew pew

when can i start making genetic abominations

[sacred crater]

if you have biotech

or vanilla genetics expanded

[azure belfry]

i have biotech

idk i guess im curious about what level of the game i should be able to reach before i'll be equipped to play around with the weirder dlc stuff

[sacred crater]

Threat rating at site of exploration is balanced around what you bring… but id bring decent weapons and armors anyways

[azure belfry]

thank god combat is not yet miserable in this game

tho i never remember to do special abilities when i have them

[oak sail]

does anyone have any tips on fighting apocrytons?

[sacred crater]

Depends on what mods you are using

Also, dlcs

If you have anomaly

Psychic shock lance to the face

Instantly kills it

Or downs it enough to murderize it

If you have certain mods

Blasting it with a few rockets do the trick

Otherwise uhhh just shoot it with a bunch of charged weapons and hope for the best

[oak sail]

oooh, we do have one of those

Charlie! ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) Psychic shock lance to the face

we have everything but anomaly

Charlie! ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) If you have anomaly

[sacred crater]

Yeah apocryphon is very psy sensitive

So should probably be vulnerable to psychic shock lance

[sacred crater]

Oh wait

Looked it up on the wiki

It has special immunity to psychic shock

🙁

Okay so emp and heavy weapons is probably your best bet

Hit it with an emp launcher or a mortar and then pummel it with high damage and armor piercing attacks

You want to focus fire on it first since otherwise it will endlessly resurrect its adds

[clear hare]

Fight round a corner

Get into melee, smack it, if it jumps away pull back around the corner

And then yeah emp and focus fire

Or you can hit it with a doomsday lmao

[oak sail]

does that include insanity, too?

Charlie! ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) It has special immunity to psychic shock

er, we should probably just look it up ourselves

we'll see what we can do wrt fighting it around a corner, the place it keeps spawning when we try to fight it is in a big empty area on the edge of our map

[sacred crater]

Immunity to all lances

But it’s adds aren’t immune

If that makes a difference

[oak sail]

hm

it could maybe be nice to set one of its scythers off right next to it

[clear hare]

It should come to you

After preparing

Of course that's only useful if you have walls

[clear hare]

Got my rimworld jacket today!

[oak sail]

oooooh, where'd you get that? 👀

Suki ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) Got my rimworld jacket today! 📎

[clear hare]

It was one of those merch order things a whiiiile ago

Lemme find a link

https://rimworld.junipercreates.com/p/7984140386495

Sold out rn but might return

[candid dock]

RIMWORL

[oak sail]

really proud of our little hitsquad tbh :3

[clear hare]

the little horns!

[oak sail]

right?? they're so cute 😌

tbh we've been tempted to find some mods that add more horn options and edit our save a little to customize them more

[oak sail]

No Tropacana 😔

17, catgirl (it/she) | sylvania_ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) really proud of our little hitsquad tbh :3 📎

he's too heavy to bring along unless we send two shuttles 😔

Luxury thrumbo shuttle…

also, huge win for the mortar team while our main fighters were away

[tall escarp]

hey remind me, do you harvest harbinger trees or do you have to cut them down for meat/bioferrite?

[clear hare]

Cut them down iirc

Or rather it's a harvest but it destroys the tree

[compact dawn]

s: hmm

s: okay, random question, but can you take your gravship with you when give up your colony in the archonexus questline?

[civic mango]

I haven't done it with a gravship myself, but my thought is no. You can take the pawns, the clothes and armor on their backs, a few animals, and ~7 items (rarely a full stack of said item, and a weapon counts against that limit). You might be able to take the gravcore if you uninstall it, but idk for sure. Typically constructables aren't allowed, even if they're quest rewards (chemreactor, psychic pulser thing, vanometrics etc)

[oak sail]

right, that makes sense

we've just been wanting to do a run where we get every ending possible, so that means we'll probably have to pivot to doing gravship stuff this colony

[oak sail]

> shoot frenzy
> the shooting in question:

[tall escarp]

the archon mod from Vanilla expanded goes kinda nuts lol

[fervent lantern]

ZAP

[elder aurora]

the game had this event that seemed so cute and slapstic "oh no! look at the beavers! they are gonna eat all the trees! you better kill them quick, before they go and eat all the trees!" and then i found out they were actually freak genetic mutant super murder beavers

[fervent lantern]

Them being called alphabeavers shoulda clued you in

[oak sail]

lesson for next time: actually bother to plan out our base

a schoolroom wedged in next to the Evil Dark Secrets Lab™ is obviously a fantastic idea

It’s educational!

How else are you gonna learn about the void?

[oak sail]

hmm. is it worth it to hold onto old lungs, or should we just sell them?

[sacred crater]

Just sell

That’s a lot of packaged meals

I’m guessing you are trying to save on refrigeration costs

[oak sail]

If you can't make bionic lungs, it might be a good idea to keep one or two around? But definitely don't need 5 we think

oh, no, we just had a spare "make survival meals forever" bill stuck for after the cooks had already stocked up on other meals

we keep,,,, i think it's 50x lavish and 100x fine vegetarian?

oh, no, that's how we got those lungs in the first place lmao

Rose (It/Its) | The Labrynth Doll ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) If you can't make bionic lungs, it might be a good idea to keep one or two around? But definitely do…

Oh

Then yeah just sell em

we are not harvesting people's organs (unless you count ripscanning)

(Packaged survival meals don’t need to be refrigerated right?)

no, they don't, but we don't have a better place to put them all

Fair

tbh it's kind of worked out that we use them as, like, trade barter most of the time

we don't really need 700 survival meals, and they go for, like, ~1000 for every 40

An ethical colony economy…

it's fun to just rock up to someone, pick up their fanciest toy, and be able to instantly go from owing them thousands to figuring how few we need to rob them of all of their silver

[tired aspen]

pinning this thread for me

[oak sail]

we stepped onto an enemy drop pod and now they aren't getting out?

it's letting us run at 6x speed too

,,,,,, i wonder if we can just bring craig over and incinerate these before they get out

ah, no 😔

[tired aspen]

question
should I be worrying about the position of bedrooms/the recreation area compared to colonist work areas?

[fervent lantern]

🤔 depends

its usually a good idea to have bedrooms near recreation and away from work areas, to maximize workflow

i think

[tired aspen]

why away from work?

[fervent lantern]

uhh

🤔

[dapper shoal]

5 spaces between beds and worksites iirc

otherwise they get disturbed sleep

this is not affected by walls or LOS

ok ok i made that up apparently

wiki says don't have LOS of 7 spaces to another living being, this is affected by walls

[oak sail]

should we bother busting down these walls?

we finished exploring the whole rest of the base, but we don't know if there might be, like, loot or something we might be missing

[civic mango]

my vote is no

[sacred crater]

If you don’t see a vent into these areas

They contain nothing

Secret rooms do exist

But you can tell them by existence of a vent

[oak sail]

alright, we'll keep an eye out for vents in the future then

we've already left at this point

[sacred crater]

Yeah vent rooms usually contain some good loot

[elder aurora]

i smply do not install mods

[oak sail]

That also works

We just install mods that should have been in the game already. Mostly QoL stuff

[oak sail]

https://www.tumblr.com/keicrockerrw/793652916479246336/thrumbo

Dumbshiet

Thrumbo!...

Tumblr · Sep 3, 2025, 8:00 AM

[oak sail]

> a nearby settlement

> nearby

[candid dock]

ahhh only just a small jog

[clear hare]

https://www.reddit.com/user/Maxinuz/

[clear hare]

https://www.reddit.com/user/Ipunchfaces/comments/1ha77x1/rimworld_4koma_comics_index/

[oak sail]

why do people keep giving us skulls???

[sacred crater]

Why, do you not want skulls

[candid dock]

SKULLS FOR THE TREE THRONE

[oak sail]

If only thrumbos could eat those instead of the bonsais

[fervent lantern]

there's a mod for adding the bad to the bone riff on extracting a skull

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3277105234&searchtext=bad+to+the+bone

[oak sail]

THRUMBO PLUSHIE

https://rimworld.store/p/8078048559295

[oak sail]

We need it!

[oak sail]

sure. 69 militors. that's a mechanoid raid, i guess

You will never regret fielding 69 militors!

[oak sail]

does anyone know how to get vampires to show up? it's been 12 (in-game) years and they're still no-shows

Uhh… not sure honestly
We think they’re just very rare, there are two quests they are guaranteed to be part of but that’s it

No clue how rare the quests are though

[gleaming flax]

Rimworld or DF?

[oak sail]

rimworld, we can just never remember rimworld's name for them

also,

ah. this was not as funny as we thought

[gleaming flax]

Ah, yeah I think sanguophages are just super rare

[oak sail]

What’d y’all get?

17, catgirl (it/she) | sylvania_ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) ah. this was not as funny as we thought

anomaly spoilers(?), ||the dead corpse of one of our still-living colonists||

[oak sail]

Ah

That seems bad

[oak sail]

does anyone know how to calculate dps? we got a unique weapon, but we don't really know how it compares

[sacred crater]

how it compares to what

[clear hare]

Looks pretty damn good

[elder aurora]

have one pawn equip a normal one and then do a side by side comparison vs a random wild animal

[civic mango]

• 15 damage x 5 shots = 75 damage total
  divided by:
• 1s aiming + ~0.42s (time it takes to fire 5 rounds at 720rpm) + 1.7s ranged cooldown = 3.12s
  = ~24.03dps assuming all shots hit on unarmored target

which is quite good! there may be some factors which change aiming or cooldown time and obviously armor, cover, range and shooting skill matter too

[gleaming flax]

You can multiply by the accuracy to get the DPS at range too

[oak sail]

https://youtube.com/shorts/lR8MuTb6PqE?si=QEHBrbB_m0nudqw8

[oak sail]

yesssssssssss finally

[smoky birch]

😌

[sacred crater]

Kill them all

[oak sail]

D:

[sacred crater]

Don’t let the vampires suck

[oak sail]

hmm, cannot decide on mods to download

[light ocean]

download them all and just leave them disabled until you want to use them :)

[oblique trout]

alright i've gotten so bored during the holiday (i finished playing swat 4 and warframe just isnt calling to me rn) im actually considering playing rimworld again

please send mod recommendations

[oblique trout]

this is what i have so far (will update as i get recommendations from elsewhere)

[sacred crater]

Oh you are running combat extended

Well in that case uhhh

Aelanna’s eccentric tech stuff

The combat extended guns and armor mod

F3 jumpsuits

Turkler’s generic ammo mods (remember to tick generic ammo option in combat extended On)

I’d get rid of run and gun for CE

AOBA’s deadman switch mods can be interesting and come with CE integrated patches

I’d also go with all the regular performance and qol mods

Grab rebuild door and corners ofc

[oblique trout]

i've completely forgotten them

[oblique trout]

eccentric seems a bit bloated

I got a recommendation from a rimworld friend for dead man's so I'll grab that

[sacred crater]

Uh

Dead man switch is significantly more bloated than eccentric haha

But yeah both are good

Anything in particular you are looking to experience this playthrough?

[oblique trout]

no

i haven't played since like, a bit after biotech came out

and i never even got close to endgame, just midgame at most

[sacred crater]

Hmm

Did you get the gravship dlc

[oblique trout]

odyssey?

yeah

[oblique trout]

final modlist

oh god i've completely forgotten the storyteller choice to Not Suffer

[sacred crater]

There’s actually a better alternative than cameras + these days

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232415388

[oblique trout]

okay something has gone wrong somewhere

some mod has made it so higher difficulties = some of the starting gear doesn't spawn???
i did phoebe on strive to survive and only the starting revolver food and components spawn but i put it on adventure story and the rifle and knife and medicine are there now

[candid dock]

well if you start it on an easier difficulty to get the necessary stuff to spawn in, then just up the difficulty, should be fine. I think.

unless you wish to spend another however many hours trouble shooting.

[oblique trout]

it was pawn editor

The mod is apparently quite buggy

I spawned in the missing items

[sacred crater]

Yeah I still use char editor because pawn editor feels buggy to me

[oblique trout]

forgot my biggest issue with rimworld, the pawns are so dumb they wont remove the roof before the walls

and thus end up killing themselves

i should not have to mod this in

nor should i have to MANUALLY designate removing the roof first

[oblique trout]

combat extended question, is there an ammo vendor or a way to add ammo to weapons vendors

[sacred crater]

War merchants usually carry ammo but not specific ammo

Sovereignty mod gives you a faction that sends a regular flow of merchants who often carry rifle or intermediate rifle ammo

Which is the most useful

[oak sail]

someone in our colony is an imposter

,,,,, does anyone know if creepjoiners can do two creeps, or do they only get the one?

[sacred crater]

Two creeps?

Coding wise they only get One Danger

So if you are aware of the danger associated with the creepjoiner

You can clear them

[oak sail]

hmm

Charlie! ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) Coding wise they only get One Danger

then, follow up question: does ||crumbling mind|| count as a creep, then? or does that not count, since it only effects them

cause if not then we might have wasted a healer mech serum

It counts yeah

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

s: this narrows our list of suspects down a bit then, ty

You got metal horrors?

we got metal horrors, yea

although we aren't supposed to know that yet

but! suspect one hasn't creeped yet, and suspect two is currently entubed

Unfortunately we haven’t done a rimworld run in a while so we don’t know how to deal with metal horrors 😔

[sacred crater]

Isolate suspect

Wait for them to drop flesh

Interrogate suspect

They’ll turn

Exterminate perp

[oak sail]

suspect one seems to be in the clear -,-

[oak sail]

we've analysed enough grey flesh to be able to do surgical inspections

but they're all coming up blank

they're all coming up blank

[serene edge]

Have you done them all with a single doctor

[oak sail]

no, different doctors

we've done multiple inspections with different doctors on the same pawns, even

either literally everyone's infected or nobody is

i kind of regret installing anomaly now

[serene edge]

https://tenor.com/view/daiwa-scarlet-daiwa-try-not-to-laugh-ishowspeed-dasca-gif-7053030785952324560

You might be cooked

[oak sail]

FUCK

what are we even supposed to do about this?

FUCK

IT WAS IN THE CRUMBLING MIND CREEPJOINER

[candid dock]

nah, don't regret installing anonmaly.
Think about it like this, you have a story to tell now.

[clear hare]

sneakily insert your evil wires into an innocent colonist
they start experiencing sudden severe brain degeneration

played yoself

[sacred crater]

Huh

It’s possible for pawns to naturally develop crumbling minds I think

But odds of this happening is remarkably low

[oak sail]

the metal horror was just the healer mech serum trying to get free

[fervent lantern]

mildly concerning amount of meat

[fervent lantern]

hmm

[civic mango]

that's SO gender

[oblique trout]

whole time i forgot to get quality builder (lets you set a quality for buildings to made to, if they're below it they will be deconstructed and rebuilt)

[light ocean]

me telling an inexperienced colonist with a passion in construction to repeatedly construct and dismantle the same piece of furniture until it's flawless (it takes them years)

[clear hare]

martial arts training montage

I don't fear the colonist who has built 1000 pieces of furniture

I fear the colonist who has built one piece of furniture a 1000 times...

[light ocean]

🙂‍↕️

[oblique trout]

rimworld equivalent of spongebob's essay

[oblique trout]

not sure where to build from here ngl, i know i need defences beyond two rifle turrets but i can't build defences for the life of me

[clear hare]

on a basic level, walls

Something like this

and then dirt path the wall so that if it's flammable it can't spread

3 wide dirt blocks embers

leaving an open double door down by the landing pad and throwing some barricades or sandbags behind it with some traps would do you for most raids

I also like doing turrents to one side, surrounded by sandbags or barricades all the way round

even a wooden wall helps with like, manhunter packs

[oak sail]

you should also take advantage of that ground around the lake in the bottom left

that's prime farmland

depending on your steel situation, consider replacing your existing conduits with hidden conduits-- they won't trigger those zap events

maybe consider expanding your workshop into a proper workshop storeroom

[oak sail]

guess who just almost had an entire godsdamned raid dropped on her wife and newborn baby

[light ocean]

I'm getting the RimWorld Itch again 😔

I must plan the perfect scenario and modlist

and then get bored of it after a month

[oblique trout]

rate the prison layout (do note that in the finalised design i moved the heater into the hall and put vents in)

I was tempted to use the ReBuild cell walls and door but those don't feel appropriate for this kind of prison cell

Maybe as a holding cell

Or a "hey stop having a mental break pls thanks" cell for colonists

[oblique trout]

it's good to know that i should never interact with any mechanoid fights in CE as the lancers just cheat

also even if i BLOW UP the reinforcement beacon with a satchel charge, the first thing that i always do, it still goes off

entirely unfair

[oak sail]

You’re… giving your prisoners comfortable rooms? And not just putting them in random two tile rooms with no furniture?

atlas (#1 IPS-N fan) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) rate the prison layout (do note that in the finalised design i moved the heater into the hall and pu… 📎

[candid dock]

hey look, humane living conditions.

[oblique trout]

tbf it's the bare minimum

they are still granite rectangles, with only room for clothing, whatever the nightstand has, and a space to eat

[oak sail]

😟

Rose (It/Its/She/Her) | The Labrynth Doll ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) You’re… giving your prisoners comfortable rooms? And not just putting them in random two tile rooms … 📎

what???

we just put our prisoners in spare bedrooms

[oblique trout]

that's my usual early game tactic

but i want a dedicated prison now

[oak sail]

We currently have a prisoner in the battery storage room while we put together proper rooms

[candid dock]

admittedly my normal bedrooms are the ones where I am min maxing the hell out of space because so many other rooms are more important.

[oak sail]

(Tbh I always put them into a dedicated prison barracks after the early game but sometimes it’s funny to pretend I’m actually a horrible person)

17, catgirl (it/she) | sylvania_ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) what???

[sacred crater]

MY PRISON BY COMPARISON

this way when the entities inevitably break containment

they die first

[candid dock]

see I couldn't do this, because I take prisoners to make them colonists.
If I don't want them, they bleed out where they got fended off from in the raid.

[oblique trout]

how does this hospital look? all hospital beds, two TVs so they're all covered, cooling and heating (protected with granite cause i am smort), autodoor, and storage for medicine/implants

with space to expand behind to make a genelab/rejuvenator room

[civic mango]

a single end table can service two beds (or more if you're crazy but it looks dumb imo). so you could save some room/materials and even put an extra two beds with the saved space if you move the other beds over. I also like to put a table in my hospitals for the doctors/patients to eat off of if they're mobile.

[clear hare]

it's not finished mate :V

but yeah slap a table and chairs in there, sometimes I do a chess table first for more recreation options

[oblique trout]

user atlasrules87 reportedly forgot to make psychite production with a hussar colonist

problem's solved now at least

just need to get rid of her completely incompatible ideoligion

she's a hussar but no body modification or drugs

[tired aspen]

When making a base, should I overbuild by a lot, for further capcity?

[candid dock]

plan for it, but don't commit till you need it.

due to the way the game scales threats to wealth, you wanna be careful of building big base without it properly being defended...to an extent.

unless you've tweaked the difficulty, you're generally better off being a bit more careful with wealth management, and making sure that atleast some of that goes towards keeping your base safe.

[clear hare]

I mark out space for additional bedrooms and buildings but yeah, don't build them until I have the people and ability to defend them

I also play with the Floors Are Literally Worthless mod which helps keep wealth in check

[candid dock]

Yeah, checking the value of items you place also helps.
me getting flash backs to the time I used wall lights everywhere, and they inflated my wealth so bad.

[clear hare]

Me, crafting a meticulous base

The humble gold plate armour a tribal dropped and I forgot to sell:

[oblique trout]

just leave a little wiggle room in case you need to expand for more colonists/new buildings

like, i've left room behind my hospital to add a genetics lab

but also room for more beds

[oak sail]

survived our first death pall

it happened right after a raid and a devourer attack, and then we had some allies jump into help, only to get eaten by all the shamblers and turn into shamblers themselves

in better news, our pantry is full! :D

(unfortunately, our pantry is full )

How do you have so much meat!?

by farming a lot of large animals, plus some amount of hunting

https://tenor.com/view/legally-legallyblonde-gif-19775060

We usually just stick with rice the entire game!

(genuinely, it's been a bit of a headache to get going smoothly but it hasn't been that huge of an issue)

your pawns are missing all their vitamins and nutrients 😤

Rose (It/Its/She/Her) | The Labrynth Doll ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) We usually just stick with rice the entire game!

Delicious nutrient paste…

most of what we do is just what we would personally do if we were ever in our pawns shoes, tbh

only having one kind of thing in your food like. ever? seems like it'd suck

i mean, we even have had all of our hydroponic greenhouses growing different foods

Maybe I should get Rose to play rimworld and like

Force her to make a colony for normal people

it makes the game very fun and relaxing :3

making our pawns happy makes us happy

it's really really fun to build little communities

[sacred crater]

A decent animal farm will produce more meat than you know what to do with

Can easily acquire kibble through hay and insect meat

[oak sail]

hmm

is kibble a better foodstuff for animals than hay?

[civic mango]

hay is good for herbivores. kibble is actually more nutrition dense than hay, and is good for pretty much all animals and doesn't rot. however kibble is more labor intensive as it needs to be "cooked" at a butcher table, whereas hay can be eaten as a plant and after harvesting.

note that you can actually turn hay into kibble

[oak sail]

hmm

i think we might try that out, we didn't even realize we were missing it

[sacred crater]

It allows you to feed herbivores with insect meat so it adds to total nutrient efficiency

[civic mango]

usually I bill the following, in this order:

• make kibble forever using insect/twisted meat and any veg
• make kibble until you have 250 using any meat and any veg
  (for the times where there isn't any insect meat laying around; but I am a shameless mountain base addict)
  with a shelf or three in the barn dedicated to hay, kibble, and fertilized eggs (if necessary)

[oblique trout]

oh my god right that's what insect meat can be used for

I got rid of all my insect meat because colonists dont like it

[sacred crater]

Yeah you just cut it with hay to make kibble

And feed it to animals

[oblique trout]

well i don't have any insect meat anymore, and i haven't had an infestation for a while

so i'll keep it in mind

rn i just have the uh, chest freezer mod

installed in my barn

with a bunch of hay

as you can see here

[oblique trout]

rate my colony (also give suggestions on what to do next as im kinda stumped)
orange: muffalo pen
purple: prison cells
black: corpse dump/crematorium
blue: dormitories
yellow: dining hall
turqoise: laboratory
magenta: kitchen/butchery
white: workshop
green: storehouse
cyan: freezer
white: infirmary

[oak sail]

maybe add a rec room?

atlas (#1 IPS-N fan) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) rate my colony (also give suggestions on what to do next as im kinda stumped)
orange: muffalo pen
pu… 📎

[oblique trout]

could honestly split the dining hall into a rec room/comms room

though honestly eventually I will want that entire building to be the workshop/storeroom

because i have rimefeller, dead man's switch and rimatomics

[oak sail]

we've been having one of our artists make some statues, but she just keeps making ones of her wife

not that we can blame her tbh

We diagnose her with terminal lesbianism

[oblique trout]

local builder of the colony made a masterwork dining chair of... her friend breaking up with their boyfriend

wtf eva

said chair is also in a prison cell

also geothermal generator that ISN'T enclosed by granite 😧

[oak sail]

It looks like it’s in the middle of the base, so if it’s being hit things have already gone horribly wrong

[oblique trout]

true

[oak sail]

,,, is it normal to enclose geothermal generators? we have multiple that are right in the line of fire during raids, and they've never been destroyed before

We do it if they’re far away from the main colony

Sometimes raiders melee them to death

oh, huh

i guess we've just never run into that

[serene edge]

I remembered them being targeted if not enclosed

[oak sail]

also, taking this opportunity to share what we managed to make, finally, after about 10 years worth of trying to get our artist a creative inspiration

https://tenor.com/view/hedgehoglove-hedgehog-arici-gif-21931845

[compact dawn]

s: also also; we're taking some advice we've seen given to others, and decided to build some little defensive shooting galleries

[clear hare]

niiiiiiice

[oblique trout]

raiders love smacking them to bits so usually yeah

[oblique trout]

kerfur :)

[oblique trout]

i need serious help how do i build defences for combat extended and rimworld in general

i can never get this down

and raids are getting to the point where they're becoming insufferable

[oblique trout]

this is what i have right now

three turrets, and a big perimeter wall in progress

[clear hare]

for CE especially you need lots of cover and you need to flush people into the open

so L shapes and other breaks are good

double walls

having internal defences is also good

there's also a variety of kill corridors from simple to ridiculous

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xxmPGJCK1Xc/hq720_2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEYCJUDENAFSFryq4qpAwoIARUAAIhC0AEB&rs=AOn4CLA6e0ZLgS9iiTpHU0T0PKwm8PQOkQ

this is the classic simple one

(colonists fast path in a zig zag, enemies do not)

Oh and in CE having a nice mix of weapons

You want a couple people with machineguns or something that causes suppression

a grenade launcher or something that fucks people up who ARE suppressed

and then from there it's kinda up to you

if your L break or cover is close to where enemies pop out you want a lot of shotguns, machine pistols, and close range fight winners

or you can space stuff out and have more people with sniper rifles or marksman rifles and plan on picking people off as they come in

I mostly use turrets and other stuff for distractions and drawing aggro rather than for any combat power

Oh and smoke is a great GTFO equipment

ideally you should have somewhere to go if it's clear things are Not Going Well

like a second covered position inside the base

I can give you more advice if you post a screenshot of your base during the day lmao

[sacred crater]

Sniper rifle to pick off armored people

Invaluable in my defensive Strat

[sacred crater]

Line of sight blockers funneling targets into optimum range of a kill zone

Guarded by heavy turrets

[clear hare]

yes I forgot 'making sure you have armor negating weapons'

and something for mechanoids. Lots of things for mechanoids.

[sacred crater]

Rocket launchers for mechs

Disposable rocket launchers

You can also wear one that goes to your utility slot if you have DMS

Either that or just use auto cannon turrets or similar

[oblique trout]

real weird rimworld bug going on in my save rn

[Ref 46C4AA31] Duplicate stacktrace, see ref for original
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch2 (string)
Verse.DynamicDrawManager:DrawDynamicThings ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Map.MapUpdate_Patch2 (Verse.Map)
Verse.Game:UpdatePlay ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Root_Play.Update_Patch1 (Verse.Root_Play)```

happens for every pawn on screen, every second

they're all currently sleeping

everyone in bed save one person is invisible too

when flade here gets into bed he becomes invisible too

[oblique trout]

Even weirder

I load it on steam deck with the exact same save with the exact same mods and exact same mod configs

Nothing

[clear hare]

Wild

Also god I hate the empire being mad at me

I have an event for you

"Is it an aerodrone bombardment"

it's like five of them lmao

This is why I have to live in little tunnels under a mountain like bin laden

[oak sail]

we just send them our trash (excess leathers and wools from farming) to buy influence

[clear hare]

sadly this is a deserter playthrough so hoes mad

but I let my visibility get too high so now they keep bombing me

[sacred crater]

I just laugh in my energy shied

[clear hare]

I just

[oblique trout]

The bug just fucking went away when I started the game the next day

Awesome.

maybe it was me resetting graphics setter

[oak sail]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/s/DWPbOsOXXs