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

[oak sail]

cute 😌

,,,, we're starting to realize that our colony is getting. Pretty Big

42 colonists, plus 2 babies

[oblique trout]

my friend that is absolutely ginormous

i dont think most get past like, 15

yet alone 30

yet ALONE 42

[oak sail]

they just kept showing up

idk

[oblique trout]

wow that's a lot of impids

[oak sail]

is it?

[oblique trout]

oh do a lot of people just have horns

[sacred crater]

Pretty sure some of those are partial impids

[clear hare]

Welp I buried my first revolutionary

What's that Konrad? A random-item tantrum?

'Oh okay it's not a bad one'

[Punches concussion grenade]

[candid dock]

reminds me of when I had chemfuel barrels, and had a cybernetic colonist with fire arms punch our chemfuel canisters.

[clear hare]

Nice little twisty murder maze

time to go piss the empire off until they bomb me again

[sacred crater]

My deaths are usually very silly

Like sending my melee specialist to suppress berserk rage

[ashen urchin]

hm can't decide what map I wanna play in timberborn

[clear hare]

Not a death but I did have a random joiner turn traitor right next to a guy with a plasmasword

Who immediately spun around and cut his arm off, dropping him

[oak sail]

that's. a very large pile of corpses lmao

Suki ↩️

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[clear hare]

Don't worry about it : D

[oak sail]

fair

we dispose of most of our corpses just by dumping them in the ocean

[woven perch]

This is why I'm an advocate for letting pawns set fire to things in vanilla

Just so you can make a cremation chamber

[oblique trout]

i've reached the point where every raid is just a nightmare to deal with

guess im going back several saves to improve my defences

okay i guess im starting a new save because i just cannot be asked to deal with this

[sacred crater]

I burn them in crematorium

[clear hare]

I just dump em outside for now

[oak sail]

this is why you don't pick social fights with sanguophages, folks

[ashen urchin]

Who punches someone in the toe

[candid dock]

you asked for the toe puncher?

[compact dawn]

s: i think she was just showing off

s: punching someone in one specific toe and not a single one more is definitely a power move

[oblique trout]

plans...

[woven perch]

Man this makes me wanna play Rimworld again

[oblique trout]

what does one even accept

this is awful

i think the shuttle may be worth more

[serene edge]

Its still 3 Honor

[oblique trout]

it LANDED ON ONE OF MY BARRICADES

EXPENSIVE!!!!

[oblique trout]

no idea what to take ough

[clear hare]

Lowshield pack if needed, barrels otherwise

I love a low shield pack, it's a classic 'acktually I win this fight' button

[oblique trout]

i went for the archite packs because the others can be got somewhat easily

[clear hare]

Oh true, i normally don't bother doing archite stuff

But that is the rarest thing

[oblique trout]

I have an Anomaly question: how do you get creepjoins to stay permanently

I got a perfect human drifter creepjoin

and i want him to stay forever

[woven perch]

Arrest them

Then recruit them normally, perhaps

[oblique trout]

i think that works yeah

thanks

[oak sail]

just had most of a mech cluster fall into an ocean

i didn't know that they did that

[civic mango]

that is funny to imagine the cluster just sploosh-ing into the ocean (also lmao at the pure carnage on the beach to the NW)

[oak sail]

oh oops

i really need to remember to clean that up

[oak sail]

[sacred crater]

Good thi bf you remembered medic cycle

[oblique trout]

need some tips on how to improve my defences here, they just don't work well

they can be attacked from all sides but the rear

[sacred crater]

Well it seems like you have embrasures

So you need to delay them from reaching your position

Barbed wires, fully enclosing walls except for a singular point, etc

[oak sail]

you should probably move the lines back further towards the right, maybe use that outcropping in the middle as a start

atlas (#1 IPS-N fan) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) need some tips on how to improve my defences here, they just don't work well 📎

seconding what charlie said, you should try to set up your defenses so that a) you can get your pawns there quickly, and b) enemy pawns can't; the further your targets are from your shooters, the longer they can fire before they get engaged in melee

if you can narrow down where enemy raids usually walk while approaching your base, try putting down some landmines there, maybe adding some walls to funnel them better too

tbth we play on easy mode so our advice probably isn't the best, but this is all stuff that we do and it works pretty well

[oblique trout]

I turned that into a wall

I can probably add a gate and put some defences by it

[oblique trout]

this is what i have rn

[candid dock]

me with the hand of God deleting that creature because nope, biggest pain in the ass to fight as I am never prepared for it.

[oak sail]

wraiths?

[sacred crater]

Revenants yeah

[oak sail]

spooky

[oblique trout]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GjjHrydt4M

[oblique trout]

Why is it that raids get to be absolute bullshit the second they crest 1000 raid points

[dapper kelp]

the amount of steel you've used on just floors is killing me

[clear hare]

Cleaning easy :3

also not flammable, which is big for CE where smoke actually kills people

[dapper kelp]

making components hard

[clear hare]

jokes on you, I haven't got tech yet lmao

[dapper kelp]

I personally always need every crumb of steel just so I can build enough shit 😭

[dapper kelp]

REAL

[clear hare]

simply steal everything you need from the empire

[dapper kelp]

they are also more beatiful tiles so it helps offset having a barracks

[clear hare]

what if everyone just fuckin' died

sieges are just free shit

[dapper kelp]

real

[clear hare]

Loaded back in just to take a screenshot for you

MORE STEEL WASTED

[dapper kelp]

YOU LIVE IN A MOUNTAIN

PLEASE

JUST

[oblique trout]

just smooth the floors

[dapper kelp]

GET TILED FLOORS

[clear hare]

NO

[dapper kelp]

OR SMOOTH THE FLOORS ACTUALLY YEAH THATS A GOOD IDEA

[oblique trout]

smoothed floors give one more beauty than tiles

[dapper kelp]

THANK YOU ATLAS

[clear hare]

I don't want beauty

it's a deserter base

[oblique trout]

or be like me and make fine marble floors

[clear hare]

I want to be able to swab the blood and insect bile off the floors

also the empire keeps firing aerodrone missiles at me

I think I have floors are worthless as a mod on right now, but it still just bothers me that this colony would spent time on that

My colony is just a staging point for terrorism against the empire and pirates

I've done nice bases when it suits the theme though

forced perspective Manor House for hospitality

[oblique trout]

the power of the atom...

[oblique trout]

finally improved my northern defences

[oak sail]

do sightstealers just never stop coming?

[sacred crater]

They come in 3 waves

If you kill all of them and don’t get any more pop up notification saying “distant howls” or whatever

You are safe

Well safe if you ignore all the other horrors

[oblique trout]

I love my perfect human drifter with some unknowable horror tethered to him which I only know of because he got headshot one time and then The Horrors came (and then I reloaded a save)

he has a neurocalc and a psychic reader because he has insane stats in everything

so he’s my colony leader and main researcher

and my trader

[ashen urchin]

I thought it was just that they have a % chance to call in more sightstealers, not a set 3 waves?

[oak sail]

finally starting to gear up to take on the mechhive

[oak sail]

absolutely devestated at the idea of leaving this colony behind for the archeonexus map after, tho, we've grown way too attached to everyone 😭

[oak sail]

Can you at least bring the thrumbos? 🥺

[oak sail]

we can only bring a few of them 😭

Sophia (She/Her) | The Labrynth Princess ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) Can you at least bring the thrumbos? 🥺

😭

,,, what is it with this game and dry thunderstorms

we've only ever seen one in our entire life, but they show up more often than regular thunderstorms here

[clear hare]

Too many people fucking with weather generators I'm guessing

Plus mechanoids

You're 100% right though

My least favorite weather and I swear one per quadrum MINIMUM

[oak sail]

we have a kid with paralytic abasia, is there any way we can help him learn in bed?

[civic mango]

there is not afaik. TVs dont count for learning. Could stick em in a cryptosleep casket and disallow glittertech meds until you can cure the abasia

(sidenote: bloodfeeder kids who are deathresting will also not learn)

[oak sail]

oh, we don't use glittertech meds outside of our biosculpter tubes

but i'll stick him in cryptosleep until i can find us more healer mech serum, that's a decent shout

[clear hare]

honestly, he's only paralysed for less than a year

so he's not gonna miss that much learning, depending on how like

intense you are about maximizing learning

[civic mango]

remember that kids age at 4x speed, so 27 days will get them most if not all the ways to the next growth stage (2 years away)

it is just one stage though

[clear hare]

yeah, it's 5-7

Which I guess is a big deal if you wanna put out strong peeps

but also 17's colony is enormous

so imo they still get the later growth stages so it's whatever

[civic mango]

oh yeah lol

[oblique trout]

here we go

[clear hare]

https://youtube.com/shorts/bte45O1fLns?si=O35JzCDGD2MFggVm

[oblique trout]

this guy's animations are great lol

oh boy manhunter rhino pack i think it's time for the reliable strategy of "sit inside my nice fortified compound and wait for them to go away"

ok nevermind a bulk trader killed like four of them i can deal with three

oh my god shuttles are AMAZING for toxpack dumping

~80 a shuttle load

[oblique trout]

Cavemen really don't like having toxic waste thrown by their homes

Who would've guessed

that's not gonna stop me though

[oblique trout]

ok maybe they do

these are the guys i've just been dumping shit on for the past god knows

[oblique trout]

i've reached that point again where rimworld fucking sucks due to constant bullshit

i love two mech clusters and either a shambler assault or a third offmap one

[oblique trout]

i will reload some saves and dial in my raid scaling mod a bit

[oak sail]

is there anything useful we can do with all these shards?

[oblique trout]

it's Anomaly stuff

it's for rituals and anomaly buildings/items

[oak sail]

anything else?

[oak sail]

I think there are a bunch of buffing serums you can use them for

Or turn people into ghouls

Oh hey, you can make psychic lances out of them

[clear hare]

Use a polluter to fight a polluter

[oblique trout]

nah it was just a baby's first volcanic winter machine

[sacred crater]

Implant them into pawns you care about to give them death defiance

They’ll resurrect even if they are missing an entire head

[oblique trout]

i think i gotta ditch combat extended 😔

just makes the combat so grating

is yayo's combat worth using? i tried it a while ago but burnt out before i got very far

[ashen urchin]

honestly you've forgotten how infuriating vanilla(and yayos because it's just edited vanilla) is

while CE's deadliness can be annoying at times, watching 10 people spray an area and miss every single shot due to a diceroll is even more infuriating

[oblique trout]

I've been recommended vanilla combat reloaded

I will try that

and yeah vanilla combat sux

My main problems with CE is getting the loadout system to work which is a skill issue on my part and how fucking deadly mechanoids are

like okay they should be dangerous but good god, i hate how every single turret and any mechanoid with a decent firearm (needle gun, charge lance, beam graser/repeater, etc.) just slaughters anyone

[ashen urchin]

yeah mechanoids are truly terrifying in ce

[oblique trout]

and it becomes really, really fucking annoying when the game throws two mech clusters at you and then a third off map one

[ashen urchin]

but it's important to remember that they're incredibly weak to fire

[oblique trout]

GGRGGEGEHEGHEGHEGHGHRREGFHGHGGHH

that's the one thing i didnt try

i kept using EMP and sabot

[ashen urchin]

CE even (or at least it used to) tells you this with a message just before mechanoids are able to spawn

[oblique trout]

I've seen that message before but didn't see it this time for some reason

[ashen urchin]

it's what makes it possible for tribals to even touch them

[oblique trout]

And I just thought missiles and EMP was the solution

because they're robots

[ashen urchin]

technology really does not like overheating :v

[oblique trout]

okay that's true

but still

grah

i think i may reinstall CE

[ashen urchin]

but yeah stickbombs for tribal have incredibly low range but are incredibly powerful, loading up a bunch of those on one pawn and sending them into basically anything will mean neither that pawn or the other thing will exist :v

because the first stickbomb will cook the rest

[oblique trout]

i've been using satchel charges

satchel charges + locust armour

[ashen urchin]

molotovs makes em cry real hard due to the sticky nature of it

mechanoids are basically why flame weapons have that debuff that keeps setting people on fire for a bit after getting hit by em

[oblique trout]

alright

i think i'll just

reinstall CE, and make some fire bombs

what about AP incendiary?

[ashen urchin]

satchels also don't really have the penetration iirc, back when I played I really liked having bunkers with manned anti tank cannons

API also works well iirc

[oblique trout]

oh yeah i've been recommended to use the manned weapons

i kinda haven't been

[ashen urchin]

manned weapons are incredibly powerful in ce

allows you to punch way above your weight

even just manned medieval weapons are real good

I forget which mod it was from but there was a medieval big crossbow thing that could pen some of the mechanoids, and just absolutely rip apart an entire line of squishies

[oblique trout]

might be medieval times

speaking of mods is there a mod that makes you place somewhere for traders to muster

[ashen urchin]

that's another reason why the howitzers etc are real good, toss an ap shell in that and it'll not stop until it hits the ground or a wall as long as what you're fighting is industrial

I've wrecked like 10 enemies with a single round before lol

[oblique trout]

found it

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3507108484&searchtext=trading+spot

also how the hell does show hair with hats work

i want helmets to be hidden when not drafted

[ashen urchin]

there's a mod for that

[sacred crater]

Centipedes are basically hard coded to be extremely vulnerable to Prometheum in CE yes

If you coat them in prometheum fire I’m fairly sure the burn tick damage prioritized their brain first

They die in extremely rapid order

Only issue is fire weapons kinda suck otherwise

[ashen urchin]

having a mod that lets you manually detonate IED's is incredibly nice

[clear hare]

It's a weird but real change

Because in vanilla they do not give a fucking shit about fire

I still use missiles and things but I generally play with mechanoids off or severely reduced, I hate them

[sacred crater]

I use high caliber or charged rounds

Or run

[oblique trout]

i can never figure out where to put a base

i want to use that big huge rock in the top left for housing and such

[oak sail]

Somewhere around here for the entrance maybe? It seems relatively defensible

[oblique trout]

a friend suggested that yeah

[clear hare]

I'm a dead center building tbh

[ashen urchin]

Also another thing I thought of, don't discount just leaving small stacks of chemfuel out at the entrance to your base

At best it gives you something to shoot at to make a prometheum explosions that coats everything in prometheum, at worst the raiders steal a bit and probably explode in a chemfuel explosion later when blown up by something else

[clear hare]

Slowly training up a B team of captured tribal and medieval rookies

Don't worry, expendable squad, it's just a name

I shall give them shotguns and assault rifles and throw them at the empire!

........cw: dark ||hmm, expanded apparel DOES have an explosive belt...||

[oblique trout]

I think rimefeller has barrels of prometheum

Also pourable fuel spills and igniter grids

[oblique trout]

week one highmate with the skills im missing

i think i will

(for reference i need cooking social and intellectual)

[oak sail]

friendly reminder that those have a very large blast radius and can set each other off

Suki ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) ........cw: dark ||hmm, expanded apparel DOES have an explosive belt...||

[clear hare]

Very true- one long range lucky shot and your strike team becomes an arduous cleaning task

[oblique trout]

im getting flashbacks to command and conquer games

oops one of your bomb trucks got blown up

Now the rest will join them :)

GLA postal service...

[clear hare]

Current casualties

1 dead, two brain damaged

Not great

Did salvage a recon armor and a marine armor though

I really need more full time crafters and some more dosh

[woven perch]

Lmaoooo???

You can fucking do that?

[supple drum]

They said they used ancient mining industry mod but that's it

So I assume the flying kill box is possible lol

[woven perch]

Flying killbox is fucking hilarious

[oblique trout]

all killboxes are boring killboxes

but also kidnapping the entire fucking raid and forcing them to die from vacuum exposure is very funny

[ashen urchin]

not needing killboxes was the main reason I went into ce

[candid dock]

okay the flying kill box is hilariously creative.

[oblique trout]

same honestly it's one of the things i abhor the most about vanilla combat

that and armours being a fucking percentage chance to protect you

instead of just

a flat value

either negation like damage threshold in fallout or a percentage reduction like most games

unrelated: wow yttakin kinda stink

how do i even put them in melee? shield belts and prayer?

at least this one has like, 19 animal handling

[sacred crater]

Ghoulify them

Honest answer

It negates most of their weakness

While improving their strengths

Remember to install bionic melees to ghouls

And bionic legs for speed

But yeah just install some shards into captured yttakins with good melee stats

And they’ll make perfect ghouls

[oak sail]

started the assault on the mechhive yesterday

we,,, are pretty wildly over prepared

[sacred crater]

That one is pretty easy as endings go

Esp if your gravship has big ass guns

[oak sail]

good to keep in mind

it does, yea, but there's nothing close by for it to shoot

[sacred crater]

Only real issue is your pawns getting tired over the long fighting but it’s nothing that a mind numb serum can’t fix

[oak sail]

the landing proboscis idea kind of backfired on us too, the hive is big enough to go up right against the edge of the map

oh we'll probably just let them sleep, we have a bunch of legendary royal beds for them to use

Charlie! ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) Only real issue is your pawns getting tired over the long fighting but it’s nothing that a mind numb…

[sacred crater]

Heheh

It’s a habit now for me to assign mindnumv serum into pawn inventory

After a disastrous incident during anomaly ending

[oblique trout]

i havent started the anomaly stuff yet

[oak sail]

oh, hmm

[oblique trout]

I think I'll just keep her as a non-combatant

Which is a bit of a problem as I have a non-combat highmate researcher/priest, an old man who is both a relationship and bonded to the highmate and this yttakin who can barely even stab

[ashen urchin]

They're really nice if you can design your base in a way to nullify long range weapons

them being psychically dull also means drones affect em less

[oak sail]

also, what kind of biomes do ny'all go for, when you don't go for just, like, temperate forest

we're thinking about scouting out to see where our next colony should be, but we don't want to exactly throw ourselves in the deep end and get surprised when things go to hell

we're maybe thinking about doing a glacial sheet base for our last or second-to-last colony, but still

it'd probably be fun to do that for our anomaly ending, tbh

[ashen urchin]

I haven't played it in years(stopped around the time dlc was released and haven't had the cash to pay the tax to get back in lmao), but I'm one of those weirdos that liked jungle biomes with alpha animals

[oak sail]

ooh

[ashen urchin]

Raptor shrimp my beloved

they're great combat pets cause unless they straight up die they'll probably regenerate in a few hours

This also makes them a great defensive vanguard because they get downed while taking a good bit of the enemy with them, and then by the time the enemy has gotten further in they're back up and cutting them down from behind

[oblique trout]

ohhhh my god she's a fucking pyro too

i didnt even realise

get outta here girl

[ashen urchin]

I do really wish the dlc's would get on deeper sales cause I have been missing it a bit

[oblique trout]

https://tenor.com/view/jack-tanamen-gecky-incorporeal-gif-21102682

tynan sylvester and meaningful amount taken off in a sale are oxymorons

[ashen urchin]

buy his book btw

:v

[sacred crater]

I do gravship plahthroughs these days so I just move around a lot

Biomes I tend to stick around long term in the ship though are the new plains biome

For the farming to restock up on luxury goods

[oak sail]

:(

they keep trying to stab our colonists

[ashen urchin]

You have how many colonists?

[oak sail]

idk, haven't counted in a while

[civic mango]

56 by a quick count (+/-2)

[oblique trout]

how do these defences look, chat? mounted flamethrower and medium (rifle round) sentry

with a wall of embrasures with a backstop

[clear hare]

https://youtube.com/shorts/h5QGkh24qS0?si=0vpEAdtOcot-C9cx

[dapper shoal]

there was a mod that made pitchblende have syndromes back in the day (but i'm not sure that's how that works irl LOL)

[ashen urchin]

I feel like with the with how modding is going we're like a year or two at most away from someone making this a reality

[clear hare]

Gorgeous colony

[dapper shoal]

most of the modding stuff is to do with making the procedrual stuff accessible to players

something i've wanted to do is make the human entity even more random with procedural language and stuff

i think i got as far as taking someone else's random language code and replacing their sounds with toki pona sounds

i wanted it to generate three languages based on toki pona, esperanto, and ithkuil every time you started a new game and somehow make human civilizations use one of these each and go from there but...

...it turns out i don't remember jack shit about Lua from making roblox games when i was like seventeen

[supple drum]

Rimworld uses Lua?

[dapper shoal]

some of the hardcoded procedural content [e.g. the systems used to generate demons, "angelic" languages in vanilla, some of the stuff surrounding necromancers] in Dwarf Fortress was moved to Lua to facilitate modification and probably some under the hood stuff i dunno

my language brain is fried

but hopefully that makes more sense to read

most of the stuff you can touch without working on something like dfhack is actually pretty plain text so its very accessible overall but you have to get creative with custom reactions to make the game play really differently which is something e.g. squamous has achieved

[supple drum]

Oh I'm dumb

I thought this was about rim world

[dapper shoal]

dwarf fortress is one of those things i'll write too much about while excited if i ever post a huge block of t ext it's probably about dwarf fortress or some strategy game i'm hyping up because i'm the first person to play it in 20 years

[oak sail]

ty!!

Suki ↩️

[Reply to:](#1176792551227924560 message) Gorgeous colony

[oak sail]

finally leaving it behind 😭

[oak sail]

😭

No more will there be adorable baby thrumbos with wine stains on their horns roaming the fields 😔

[oblique trout]

this is just incentive to make an even PRETTIER colony for the third one

you're doing archonexus right 17

[oak sail]

yep, and every other ending on the way

[oak sail]

the new colony is going well

[oak sail]

:3

[dapper kelp]

that is a prime location

[oak sail]

did not realize that marshes counted, when pawns were looking for a place to go swimming

[woven perch]

That's kinda gross

[oak sail]

eww

[oblique trout]

they are simply nourishing the bog

[fervent lantern]

flourishing in their lane

[dapper shoal]

they will get parasites

do you know what cryptosporidium is little pawn

[oblique trout]

it's that guy from that game

https://tenor.com/view/destroy-all-humans-destroy-all-humans-remake-destroy-all-humans-crypto-crypto-cryptosporidium-gif-17834574954728361057

[upbeat yoke]

Area is littered in corpses but the muddy water is the problem? ^^

There also is some seriously eldritch stuff going on. Or is this just a powerful Psycaster?

[oak sail]

idk! apparently the big archeotech buildings kill things around them

[dapper shoal]

well yeah but it's also a parasite that gives u superdiarrhea which is appropriate

you can get it from swamping it up in the bogs marshstyle

[oblique trout]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061059310966288465/1471569200299638958/RDT_20260212_190409.mp4?ex=698f691d&is=698e179d&hm=f27782b51b2be6ed50e8e3ced30934f76481b8c703b73a510b648205fcd4b9c3&

[oak sail]

can you be raided from cave tunnels like this?

[civic mango]

It's possible, but I think it depends on your neighboring world tiles and whether or not they are Impassible mountains or not. Even if so, they might be even less likely since you've re-blocked it off.

[clear hare]

I would entirely block up the cave with wall. Like, every space up to the border, then at least if it happens you have time

[oak sail]

that's what we're thinking of doing, yea

[upbeat yoke]

My colonists are dying because for some reason they prioritise refueling the oven rather than the passive cooler during a massive heatwave of 50°c

I had to cramp several beds into a small living unit because thats the only one where temperature stays at 30°c

[oblique trout]

there's a 15 year old with these perks + great memory + quick sleeper should i pick him up

[woven perch]

Oh hell yeah scanner bot

[oblique trout]

true actually

The downside is forced fog for just under a week so

magnificent beard for a 15 year old

[woven perch]

He comes with melee passion

Problem-solution in one neatly wrapped package with a bow

[oblique trout]

body mastery person with fast walker and void fascination with these stats

do i do it

[oak sail]

?????

(also, our evil plan of using our gravcore to make the toughest possible walls got foiled by the fact that you can't put gravship substructure underground 😭)

Jay, heretofore un-epithetited (she/they/any) [sylvania] ↩️

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[oak sail]

Weird, does she have the psychic bonding gene somehow?

17, catgirl (it/she) | sylvania_ ↩️

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

no, and none of our other colonists who'd left bonded animals behind still have those bonds

also, we did not sell our colony to the venom chokers

we have no idea how or why the venom chokers would have him

Weird

[clear hare]

I think that's the game repopulating your lost animals and NPCs. It won't do it for all of them but it will for some

[clear hare]

I have been fucking with the empire and then they sent a raid

I did immediately lose three colonists but we won, kinda. I killed some mechs, four empire soldiers and 3 got away

Empire in CE does not fuck around

(I lost one colonist to a triple rocket, then two to a charge sniper rifle)

[upbeat yoke]

I kept getting raided three times in a short time before my colonists were even healed.

Lots of flamethrowers

[oak sail]

https://reddit.com/comments/1r6wyki

[clear hare]

😌

[oblique trout]

i love that the kid helmet is a bike helmet

so dumb lmao

solid steel bike helmet

[oak sail]

just got another progress screenshot, only for our game to crash a minute later

[clear hare]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1r9ub69/surgery_by_nickliesat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[clear hare]

So many shelves

Shelftopia

[oak sail]

they're Efficient™

[clear hare]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

THE MECH WAR BEGINS

A warqueen and uhhh

12 centipedes and escorts in CE

I used like, 20 mortar shells, an anti-grain EMP charge launcher, 10+ disposable rockets, 3+ triples, a doomsday rocket

two dozen charge weapons backed by uranium slug rifles, autocannons, and anti-material rifles

and it was STILL hell

amazingly I might not lose anyone to this, but I have about uhhh 10 casualties?

I think a LOT of these injuries are Large and Small Fragments from so many mortars and rockets with shrapnel flying everywhere

[woven perch]

This is why I enjoy the storage mods lol, the ones that give you crates and piles

[clear hare]

Some Flesh Beasts Have Arrived

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPsMzXfUW60

New Narrative Playthrough

Done in the amazing style of Mu-as-Documentarian

observing the colonists as if they're acting entirely on their own

[sacred crater]

Fleshbeasts are non issue with sufficient automatic firepower

Are those smart guns

[oak sail]

is there any downside to feeding twisted meat to animals

or using it for kibble

[candid dock]

No, it's only downside for pawn consumption is a -10 mood penalty if ate in any form.
PAst that it's actually very effective for feeding animals with.

[oak sail]

hmm

[sacred crater]

The only downside is it overloading your freezers often

Which is why I tend to convert it to chemfuel for sale

[upbeat yoke]

I highly recommend stockpiling vegetables like rice outside of coolers. They usually last long enough to effectively never spoil, unless you harvest like an absurd amount

[oak sail]

we're harvesting an absurd amount

[elder aurora]

harvest less

[clear hare]

no

[elder aurora]

then rot

[dapper shoal]

i'd say compost it but i think the only mod with compost is the hygiene mod and the hygiene mod only lets you compost dookie

[candid dock]

there's a mod that let's you terraform tiles, and it gives you a composter that you can make fertiliser out of, to make rich fields.

its actually something I run with always because I know one would want to live with the map, but if I'm living there long term.

its being terraformed.

[oak sail]

uhoh

[clear hare]

beggars no!

mood -3 beggars not helped

[oak sail]

it doesn't help that we couldn't have helped them anyways

[clear hare]

for me they always get mobbed by like

jaguars or some random edge of map predator

[oak sail]

i don't think we've ever seen that happen before

anyway, time to try to cheese an apocriton fight

:3 worked like a charm

[ashen urchin]

Haven't played dorf fort in over a year, so before the lua update. Anyone happen to have a nice modlist?

[oak sail]

rice

[oak sail]

[sacred crater]

Absurd quantity office for the size of the colony

[oak sail]

we're gonna have more people eventually

we're just giving ourselves space to expand

[sacred crater]

i often build non-sustainable bases haha

[clear hare]

I'm up to 50 colonists in my Deserter Base now

so much for being a small cell, it's now a full company

[clear hare]

https://youtu.be/HxNGCp36xtU?si=megS_Ga8CbPkKFDN

More skull boys fun

[oak sail]

good news: our food forest experiment is incredibly successful

bad news: So Much Wood

[oak sail]

Did y’all cut down an entire forest?

[elder aurora]

just set it on fire

[fervent lantern]

c r a b

also bump!

[oak sail]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/s/tUauMD3tYG

[clear hare]

Just had a real 'arm the kids' moment

90% of colonists off site, I get a raid

Two parties
It's pigs
they're dynamite sappers

Managed to pick a couple of the west group off, turrets on my north wall slowed down the other group

Then I get tied up in melee around the gate trying to slow the west group, leading to having to emergency doomsday my own gate and blowing up one of my own pawns

North group is dueling it out in the courtyard against loopholes guarded by two kids with charge rifles and an 86 year old pawn with frail/double cataracts/etc

One of those fights that would have been flat unwinnable in vanilla but was just about doable with CE

[sacred crater]

yeah

CE allows force multipliers

speaking of force multipliers

I'm in a menace mood so I downloaded some mods which should allow me to build an armored platoon in rimworld

[fervent lantern]

hmm

[sacred crater]

Alarming

[oblique trout]

C2 is strong, major, this colonist is Shooting 20 (burning passion)

[clear hare]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnQ67hNPeQg

[oak sail]

You know i don’t think the SKULL BOYS!!! can be trusted to use chain shotguns

[fervent lantern]

hmm

what's on the workshop today?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3507116291

ah lmao

[upbeat yoke]

I liked the mod that drops a nuke when your colonists eat without a table more

[light ocean]

I've fallen to my urges and I'm planning a new playthrough 😔

[light ocean]

Might fuck around and use Life Lessons

[clear hare]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1em-j6e-Hd4

[oak sail]

https://reddit.com/comments/1svb440

[clear hare]

I love the NPC caravan trade goods

telescope, tv, drawers, jade statue

jade, uranium, steel

components

[idle depot]

You could say they're always one step ahead

[light ocean]

ain't that a kick in the head

[oak sail]

guess who just had a forest fire

How will the thrumbos survive this!? 😭

well, there's still the other half of the map