Rimworld

[patent summit]

So I just have to finish off the one near my base.

[quiet shale]

tho that means no more free insect jelly

[patent summit]

Oh my god, the pony ideoligeon effect is adorable

[quiet shale]

yeah

[livid skiff]

You mean "Oh my [insert deity figure here]". /s

[patent summit]

snrk

[livid skiff]

Because RNG changes it each reroll, unless certain mods make it the first thing to pop up.

[patent summit]

Plans got derailed by a heat wave, another raider, and food poisoning. Trying to keep everyone alive before investigating the nearby hive.

Okay, a little shorthanded but gonna explore this cave to see if there's a hive left

Nope, we're all clear!

[fallow steppe]

[patent summit]

Okay, so had to go hunting to keep from starving. Then mined some more steel, got my watermill online and FUUUUUUUUU

Aaaaand a quest to suffer psychic damage on my females, but it's a Charity quest so my pawns will be mad anyway if I turn it down.

Crud, I wasn't paying enough attention to the time and it auto-failed.

Craaaaaap

[fallow steppe]

yes there will be a lot of that

[patent summit]

Well, the refugees are leaving in 7 hours so I'll be able to build my food stockpiles aga- god dammit.

[fallow steppe]

Best get to growin

[patent summit]

The first refugees are leaving AND MY GOOD COOK IS LEAVING TOO

[livid skiff]

There goes all the curry. /s

[patent summit]

I literally cannot cook.

I think my only option is to accept the refugees and hope someone there has cooking, and then go nuts trying to hunt until my next crops are ready.

I got one with Cooking 5. It'll have to do.

[quiet shale]

can you build nutrient paste dispensers?

might hlp with the cooking

nutrient paste sucks, obviously, but it beats dying

[livid skiff]

You need enough power and resources to get that going, but that is a good idea if pressed.

[quiet shale]

oh right

i dont know what resources are at your base

[patent summit]

I could build the nutrient paste dispenser, I suppose.

[livid skiff]

Going by a previous image, they should have enough to build.

[patent summit]

Crap, one of my ponies got an infection.

[quiet shale]

oh thats not good

bed rest and prioritise good doc/medicine

[livid skiff]

I have a mod that helps with doctoring levels, but yes.

Nutrient paste dispensers also work with prisoners if you set up the room right. They can feed themselves, break faster, and whatnot too.

[patent summit]

I'm getting raided by one guy with a grenade belt

Thankfully, this is the main entrance to my colony

Crap he actually got through

He threw one grenade that missed completely, got shot & tried to run but my melee pawns got him.

[livid skiff]

Probably need to melee him since he just has grenades.

[patent summit]

Plus side, I now have frag grenades.

I think I need to narrow that entrance into more of a killbox.

[quiet shale]

now i have a machine gun

[patent summit]

Well, nutrient paste is now on the menu.

The pawn with cooking skill decided to take rice out of the nutrient paste hopper to make a simple meal.

[quiet shale]

yeah they will use whats closest usually

[patent summit]

Yeah, I just suspended cooking entirely for now. Nutriend paste dispenser is online and we'll live with that for a while.

[quiet shale]

FYI rice is not a great yielding crop for food
rice for fast but inefficient food
taters for growing in low quality soil
strawbs for food that dont need cooking
corn for most efficient yields, though its slow and should be guarded. lasts 60 days too

[quiet shale]

probably wanna put a wall around that paste dispenser but otherwise a good spot
raiders will target it

[patent summit]

Fair.

[livid skiff]

There is also nutrition as well, which does something, so I tend to have multiple things happening for that bit.

Dispenser can also take up to 8 things, so feel free to expand around it a bit to take advantage of that if you want.

[patent summit]

Excuse you, no you may NOT have pony fur.

[quiet shale]

gotta love rimworld

[fallow steppe]

i just made a field for each one

i am finally home now and ican play rimworld too

i am almost at the endgame, i'm building my ship

[patent summit]

Oh damn, nice. I've never made it that far.

I did find a neat trick from a YouTuber. If you get an Ambrosia Sprout event, just put a growing zone over it, turn off sowing, and leave on harvesting. Whenever it's done growing your pawns will automatically go collect them.

I also used this trick to put single-square growing zones on wild Healroot and Berries so my pawns will pick them when they're fully grown.

[fallow steppe]

that's exactly what is happening with the ambrosias in the middle of my turrets here

[patent summit]

Nice!

[quiet shale]

o

thats awesome

theres mods i normally use, like "allow tool" that let you select ready to harvest plants only

but thats a non-mod solution that would work

[patent summit]

Mhm! I'm also trying something I saw in a video for my killbox entrance.

[fallow steppe]

finally finished my ship and did started the startup sequence. i'm only a third of the way through it and i've already had 3 raids

my turrets are putting in overtime

still haven't lost a single colonist though

assuming that holds, i'll be leaving with 21 of them

[quiet shale]

Good luck

[patent summit]

Finally got my killbox up.

[quiet shale]

Nice

[patent summit]

Royal crashed, and because it's a Charity quest I had to take it.

That went fairly well.

[patent summit]

[patent summit]

Got another shuttle crash, but this time it's actually inside my colony.

Let's see how the killbox works out

Not bad.

[quiet shale]

nice

i love using mods like this for my defences: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3277482616

walls you can shoot through but cant be melleed though

[patent summit]

An alpaca went mad, busted down my fence and then ran through the spike traps.

[quiet shale]

lel

[patent summit]

Last time I played, I got a Geothermal power generator online, dug out what's going to become my new prison, and got some actual housing built for my core pawns. Also had another charity refugees quest, so I have refugees again.

[patent summit]

Great. I have a mad bison and a pack of manhunting raccoons heading towards my killbox. The bison will make it there first, which is a problem because it'll power through at least a few traps before going down, so raccoons may make it in.

That was stupidly effective.

[quiet shale]

hell yeah

[patent summit]

Meat's back on the menu, boys!

There's just a little fire outside

[quiet shale]

just a small one

its fiiiiiiiiiiiiine

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/ccnkYMiJeGU?si=dpSs6a3uERIuLa4p

[quiet shale]

P much

[livid skiff]

Either one can work, but given what you see in art, all of the main ones are fine with tech bits.

[quiet shale]

i think the eclesiarchy are less likely to want cybernetics, but there are always schisms that dont give a shit

[fallow steppe]

launched my ship! i left with 21 colonists

[quiet shale]

I've never launched any myself
Congratulations

[supple merlin]

😌 you get the reward of getting to listen to waiting for the sun

[quiet shale]

Damn good song

[quiet shale]

ok so
thats a space station

i ahve no idea what to make of the rest of this, but that is very clearly a space station in the background

and shuttles, but royalty had that already so its unclear how excited i should be about that

[patent summit]

He's got minerals and fungus in canisters, plus a compass on his belt bag. So possibly exploration/resource gathering in new ways. The shuttles may mean we can send shuttles up for orbital debris.

Also: BIRDS

[quiet shale]

oh right

birbs

if they're adding flying creatures...

[patent summit]

This also means my current run will likely break because of Pony mod.

[quiet shale]

you're always able to downgrade to a previous version i believe

but yes

[patent summit]

Mhm, but I'll be too eager to play the new stuff.

[patent summit]

Is it bad that the thing I'm most excited for is FISHING?

You can also fish! Different fish appear in different biomes and bodies of water. Colonists can reel in meals like tuna and salmon, as well as other strange catches.

[fallow steppe]

Neat!

[patent summit]

Performance improvements: A major part of update 1.6 is performance optimizations, especially for late game colonies that often struggle with performance. We reworked many systems to spread out their workload. The pathfinding system is now fully multithreaded and batched, and the lighting system is also multithreaded to make it much faster. There were lots of optimizations made to caravan foraging calculations, egg-laying pawns, alerts, hauling, animal pen calculations, as well as fixes to several major memory leaks.

We significantly reduced game launch times in version 1.6! For example, on our development machines version 1.5 previously launched in 18.57s with all expansions. Now version 1.6 launches in 4.66s - and that's with an additional expansion!

Note that your startup times and performance improvements may differ from our tests due to bottlenecks unique to your PC or mods.

[rancid sail]

I'm so excited, mainly because this will cut my mod list in half with all the stuff being made vanilla

[quiet shale]

Fishing is a godsend on sea ice naked brutality runs

Damn this looks awesome tho

Wait
This is Save our Ship 2

[rancid sail]

I never really played save our ship 2 because it was incompatible with combat extended, but this dlc straight up just allows for that

[patent summit]

Holy shit, THANK YOU LUDEON

Better planning: Plans are more versatile than ever. Sketch out your base using 9 colors to differentiate your plans. Use blue for living quarters like rec rooms and bedrooms, orange for production and workshops, red for furniture, and so on. Plans are a lot easier to use too. You can copy and paste plans, rotate them, and give them names to remember what they’re for.

Designator draw styles: Designator tools, like placing walls and floors and giving orders, now have different drawing styles - this changes their pattern when you click and drag them. Previously, there were only rectangles and straight lines. Now, you can choose from shapes like angled lines and filled or empty ovals. Great news for builders who want to add more shape variety to their base! (No more googling pixel circle generators.) Squares are also easy to make - just hold control while drawing with a designator.

[quiet shale]

Lol
Those are both mods

They're just adding mods

This whole dlc is mods

Which I don't have a problem with mind

[patent summit]

Easier building upgrades: You can now place blueprints over certain buildings to swap materials or upgrade them. This applies to walls, conduits, doors, sandbags, barriers, fences, chairs, and beds. For example, you can place a plasteel wall blueprint over an existing wooden wall - this means you don’t have to manually deconstruct the wall, wait for it to finish, and then place the new wall blueprint down.

[quiet shale]

Also a mod

[patent summit]

Scaria rework: Scaria got scarier! Infected animals now look the part - mangy, red, and covered in sores. You really don’t want to get close, because wounds from scaria-infected creatures cause “scaria infections” - these behave like a normal infection, but cause full blown scaria upon reaching 100%. Humans turn too.

[fallow steppe]

Holy shit yes

[quiet shale]

Note: not a complaint
Having still stuff baked in makes it more reliable and responsive and modders can more reliably work off it when building their own things

[quiet shale]

That's... oh nooo

Wonder if scaria is curable then

[patent summit]

Combined with the addition of birds... that could be a nightmare.

[fallow steppe]

Sure it is

[quiet shale]

Oh birds!

[patent summit]

The whole thing is amazing. I'm not entirely sold on the gravships, but it could be fun.

[quiet shale]

It sounds like gravships are portable colonies

That's insane

You bet your ass I'm gonna build a flying colony ship

[patent summit]

Oh, also:

Caravan camps and quality-of-life changes: Pitch temporary camps while travelling as a caravan. This creates a playable map for your colonists to eat, stabilize, and regroup when someone's bleeding out, starving, or sick with the flu. But don’t get comfy - after a few days, enemies will close in. Camps can also be formed when a caravan would be considered “lost” (like everyone becoming incapacitated from food poisoning), giving you one last shot at survival.

The caravan tab makes it a lot easier to load or unload items. And in an emergency, you can order your caravan to depart immediately - colonists will get out of there ASAP, leaving behind unpacked items, animals, and even downed friends.

[quiet shale]

(Also a mod)
I'm gonna stop that now

Islands! Insane biomes!

[rancid sail]

I like the idea of the landmark system

Mainly because I was using a mod to do that already

[quiet shale]

Ye

So many modded features

Man this one looks as huge as biotech

[rancid sail]

The performance changes look promising

[patent summit]

Yeah, this is going straight to the top of "must have DLC" lists.

[rancid sail]

I wonder how it will integrate with the other DLCs

[quiet shale]

Room changes: Colonists are happy with mediocre bedrooms, and they’re less upset by awful ones. Medical beds contribute less toward a room becoming a hospital due to situations where barracks could become hospitals from a single bed. Some production buildings now get their best work done when they’re in the right room (e.g. research benches in labs). This makes it more rewarding to build reasonable-looking bases with purpose-specific rooms, instead of stuffing everything into one big hell-chamber.
Ok that's neat

[patent summit]

I expect new Ideology things around the new terrain & animals. Maybe one about wanting to go into orbit every so often, like the Body Modder trait.

Royalty might have quests to build gravships for royals or require you to own one for certain ranks.

Biotech may have some new mods/species, because there's a lot in the notes about new Archotech.

Anomaly... probably not much, honestly.

[quiet shale]

Anomaly was an anomaly tbh

[patent summit]

Yeah, it's a neat DLC, but completely optional.

[quiet shale]

Really did not fit with rimworld vibe in my opinion

[patent summit]

I liked it with the Archotech explanation for the monsters and powers. Then again, I've always enjoyed Lovecraftian stuff.

[quiet shale]

Eeeeh
Take it or leave it in my book

[patent summit]

Yup. I turn off the events for certain runs, just because I don't want to deal with them. But once in a while it's very fun.

[quiet shale]

I should dive into it properly at some point

I tried

But...

[patent summit]

It's fair if it's not your vibe. It really takes over your run if you get into it, you practically dedicate your base to dealing with the Anomaly stuff.

[quiet shale]

Ah...

[rancid sail]

I'd hope for something to do with royalty considering being spread across space is kinda their gimmick

[livid skiff]

I do not want to deal with scaria-infected Canadian Murder Cobras geese.

[fallow steppe]

I had to fight 8 scaria-infected grizzlies that one time, i don't want to think about doing that under this new system

To be fair that filled my meat stores for like a whole season

[quiet shale]

scaria infected animals dont give meat tho

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1l92j0z/16_runs_much_better_than_i_expected_with_300400/

That is an insane number of pawns.

[livid skiff]

Beta for 1.6 is up though. There might be something to that post.

[patent summit]

Mhm, some folks are testing it and reporting a lot of speed improvements.

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1l9e3lt/psa_in_the_16_beta_be_sure_youre_making_your/

So, as you may have noticed if you read the patch notes, 1.6 includes a new system where basically every building in the Production tab* works best in a room that matches its role. What you may not realize (since it was basically irrelevant before) is that the drug lab is, in fact, a Laboratory building. Putting one in your workshop has a decent chance of flipping the room on its own (and dragging all your Workshop buildings down); if it doesn't, you'll be dealing with a fairly substantial workspeed penalty for all your drug-making endeavors.

-# *The crafting spot, butcher spot, and butcher table do not have associated rooms

[quiet shale]

gtk

[patent summit]

They also changed it so you can't avoid the "Barracks" penalty by making a bunch of Medical sleeping spots/beds to turn the room into a "Hospital". Saw a YouTuber use that trick recently.

[quiet shale]

well you probably can if you add even more beds

[patent summit]

I'll have to find the post, but IIRC the fix makes it so Barracks overrides Hospital.

Capped the contribution from medical beds towards a room becoming a hospital. This prevents a medical bed from turning a barracks into a hospital.

[patent summit]

Added a “Make default” button for policies.

Bills can now be renamed.

Ooof, keeping horses just got more difficult:

Horse food consumption increased to 0.86 nutrition per day (up from 0.68).

Added dev tool to set the stuff of a thing.

[quiet shale]

i did see that but thought that it just made it harder to turn into hospital
i've never even thought about doing that so its no biggie forme

[patent summit]

This guy finally made a playlist of these videos... right before 1.6 was announced.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs3acGYgI1-ubID1HgPX31AgC0N95GO_P&si=aSeCrsPwLzPLKNSx

[quiet shale]

Lol

[patent summit]

I'll be looking forward to his Vanilla 1.6 playthrough.

[patent summit]

Speaking of, he goes over the announcement and some 1.6 testing.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bAO6XeToy5U?si=ar4dwxac8-twvuFJ

This clip.
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxo_F99fKAiQd66Yw8AqPKaBzB3EBNgRRX?si=cU8PTQiOLjTPDb16

[quiet shale]

there are already 1992 mods for 1.6 lol

[patent summit]

Yeah, apparently the big modders already got access so they could prepare. Guessing a ton of cosmetic mods don't actually need changed to be compatible.

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1la28so/as_dumb_as_it_sounds_cooking_on_a_door_is_cooking/

I saw some YouTubers trying to use this trick to avoid the Kitchen ever getting dirty, but it doesn't work.

[quiet shale]

oof

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lat5b9/new_pathing_just_hit_16_testing_get_in_here/

[quiet shale]

Oh thank God that infuriated me

There was a mod for that bit it noticeably reduced performance

[patent summit]

Yup, that's why the pathing was so bad. It's a very resource intensive calculation, so to keep the game playable it seems Ludeon originally just had the pawn start on a straight line to the destination, then check for obstacles / the fastest route... but since that could change at any time (enemies, ship chunks falling, new construction) they had to do the pathing in short bursts to keep things playable. Which led to this drunken wobble pathing.

Now that pathing is multithreaded, they can actually just do that calculation on its own and finally walk properly7.

[quiet shale]

Yay

Yeah the faith it mostly used a single core really hindered the game, multithreading solves so many issues

[quiet shale]

CAST IT INTO THE FIRE ISILDUR

[patent summit]

This is beautiful:

[quiet shale]

Oooh that's pretty

Not very practical tho

With vanilla expanded mods it's more livable with sand and water crops

[livid skiff]

No.

[quiet shale]

https://tenor.com/view/isildur-legendarium-shout-gif-13508401

That's my one mod abuse

[rancid sail]

I suppose you'd have to survive off of fishing

[quiet shale]

Oooh right fishing is being added

Yeah suddenly a lot more plausible, tho I dont knowhow effective fishing will be

[patent summit]

Plus you will be able to use heavy bridges to build on top of.

[quiet shale]

Oh right, those are also default

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lg0ayy/note_to_myself_do_not_sacrifice_boomalope/

[quiet shale]

Hehe yeah lol

[quiet shale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3505241400

make animals sapient! they can use guns

[patent summit]

Okay, yeah, this is a mod I'm always going to use:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=937759575

[patent summit]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHqSuWJSw8SDZ63Np0ahGtZBVkDs7_JnE&si=Vfs-cPIHq09t-znv

Playthrough on 1.6 beta, if you want to see some of the new features in action.

[patent summit]

TIL you can fix paralytic abasia with Glitterworld medicine.

[quiet shale]

yeah

[patent summit]

TIL grenades can be used to destroy corpses.

[patent summit]

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxf9CScPWcI9rowqJW1bDYoUJ7S862TzuQ?si=T_eiqNHefMadQd3f

[patent summit]

Oh my god, I just had the dumbest idea for a themed run.

Picking three Pigskin survivors to start the game, then building a ship for them.

https://tenor.com/view/pigs-in-space-gif-12340099

[quiet shale]

that reference is lost on me im afraid but sounds fun

[patent summit]

... Mega, please watch The Muppet Show. It's an absolute classic.

[quiet shale]

i know who the muppets are, just not this specific reference

[patent summit]

It's from the old 70s/80s series, it was a recurring bit on that show.

Basically making fun of sci fi tropes.

[quiet shale]

fair enough

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/5j0hwTrgjrQ?si=Hcn7k4AIPKp6BXdE

[patent summit]

Odyssey comes out on July 11, 2025

[quiet shale]

oh a release date, nice

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lq3tnd/psa_from_vanilla_expanded/

[quiet shale]

Gtk thanks

Tho I'm on 1.6 beta now

[patent summit]

I thought about it, but decided to wait for full release. Sadly I'm working for nearly a week straight when Odyssey releases, so I won't get to play right away.

Plus side, that means any big bugs should be patched by the time I get around to it.

[quiet shale]

Also mods updated

[patent summit]

I think all the mods I'm interested in have already updated. I'm mostly just doing UI/QoL mods. The only big change is Ponies of the Rim, and I'll have to see if that's up to date yet.

[quiet shale]

There are two pony mods, one that adds equipable plushies that's already updated

[fallow steppe]

Is cloudy canvas in that one too?

[quiet shale]

Lol no ocs

Lotta cannon ponies

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lsm1w8/16_reels_expanded_storage_v105_out_now/

[patent summit]

Ponies of the Rim will be getting an update to 1.6 eventually.

[fallow steppe]

-# now add kirin

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lu9mdx/what_is_a_rimworld_tiphack_you_learned_that_saved/

[quiet shale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3520130671 oh my god what a mod

[patent summit]

Oooh, that's pretty awesome.

[quiet shale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3328729902 they did a health tab mod too, dunno how good that is in comparison tho

[patent summit]

I can see how that might be useful, but it seems a bit overkill to me.

[quiet shale]

depends if you have any surgery mods

[patent summit]

I barely play with mods at all.

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/1-iTKCAcahY?si=g20JBk-27cOCoAnh

[patent summit]

https://www.youtube.com/live/PmDJjWa72sg?si=lDEc62O9tRFQ9g1c

Livestream in an hour and a half from this post.

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/p3cFD1jLtk8?si=ILaCdMSnZSJkr9zg

We eatin' good on the Rim today!

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lvstmy/important_psa_from_vanilla_expanded/

All Vanilla Expanded Mods Now Compatible with RimWorld 1.6 & Odyssey DLC!

We're excited to announce that all Vanilla Expanded mods are now updated and fully compatible with RimWorld 1.6 and the Odyssey DLC. This massive update involved over 100 mods, with both minor tweaks and major rewrites, and we’re proud to say everything is ready ahead of the DLC launch.

A few mods are not included because they're being reworked, and there's no point updating the old versions. (Furniture Expanded - Security; Factions Expanded - Ancients; Factions Expanded - Mechanoids.)

[patent summit]

https://bsky.app/profile/ludeonstudios.bsky.social/post/3ltovopubf22a

Ludeon Studios (@ludeonstudios.bsky.social)

RimWorld - Odyssey releases in ONE HOUR!

Bluesky · Jul 11, 2025, 1:01 PM

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lul6lp/playing_rimworld_together/

[fallow steppe]

Ponies of the rim will be updating for odyssey soon right?

[patent summit]

Yeah, they are dependent on Humanoid Alien Races, so were waiting on that to update.

[fallow steppe]

Ah

I wonder if they'll add alicorns at some point

[patent summit]

Would be interesting, but hard to balance. Unless they give them a unique racial ability.

[fallow steppe]

Or crystal ponies or batponies or yaks or other mlp races

[muted crow]

soon

[patent summit]

Yeah, I'd prefer to have batponies, crystal ponies, and kirin first.

Well, gonna go for a minimalist mod list to try out Odyssey

I'd love to stream it, but my husband is on a conference call.

[fallow steppe]

Yaks special ability is to destroy walls and barriers

[patent summit]

... I am afraid to find out what a "rat habitat" is.

Okay, I think I found where I want to crashland, this sounds awesome

[fallow steppe]

Of course you'd chose Furry Lake

[patent summit]

Okay, wow, I was not expecting this.

[quiet shale]

[quiet shale]

oooh that stuff is gonna be sludge

[patent summit]

OMG ancient hedgehogs (anti-tank barriers)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_hedgehog

[quiet shale]

those arent new? or ive been playing modded so long lol

[patent summit]

I'd never seen them before

Well, most of the mining is out in the lake.

[amber elbow]

I have, the last couple of times I dipped.

[amber elbow]

Shoo be doo…

[patent summit]

Oh, my colonists:

Marat is the new geneline in Odyssey, Starjack: not good at melee, but vacuum-resistant and temperature-tolerant.

[quiet shale]

oh right! vaccum!

[patent summit]

I apparently have a pet crow... that can be trained to attack.

[amber elbow]

Makes sense, everyone’s got a plan until they get a crow in the face

Considering how smart crows and ravens are, I wouldn’t be wholly shocked if they could be trained to do something like that IRL, although their fragility makes the utility a bit dubious…

[patent summit]

Well, guess we're going to see what's behind Door #1...

Okay, that's just teasing us.

Been lucky so far

[amber elbow]

Apparently the Avali mod and Alpha Genes mod work on 1.6, so my plan when I get home and can actually play is to do a classic shipwrecked scenario as, well, Avali.

[quiet shale]

they were updated a while ago, yes

[patent summit]

-# shitshitshitshit

Oh you stupid fucking crow

Welp, this is going to be a mood hit for Boone

[quiet shale]

🐦‍⬛

[patent summit]

Well, let's see if that was worth it

[muted crow]

Free food

[patent summit]

Ah, sonovabitch, I didn't see the Wasp drone!

Well, that got people hurt. And the box contained... a map

I think it's time to just make some basic quarters in the areas I've unlocked.

Alright, going to set up base in the starting two rooms. Reina is self-tending, and Boone & Andrews are married so they get a double bed in their own room.

Oh neat, apparently pawns will read maps for recreation

[patent summit]

(Took a pause to make a sammich)

So I think my plan is to wall off part of that hallway, turn it into a freezer with a small airlock outside (purple are doors), and put a nutrient paste dispenser into the wall of the "dining room".

Pawns can swim for recreation!

[quiet shale]

[patent summit]

OMG they even submerge up to their necks!

[quiet shale]

hmmmmm
fascinating

im playing naked brutality
lets do it

[patent summit]

Oh damn, naked brutality in the desert? Good luck!

-# shitshitshit

[quiet shale]

oooh wow theres literally no dirt at all

[patent summit]

Guess you'll be eating meat.

[quiet shale]

im hoping the ancient weapon stockpile might save me

this.. is gonna take a while

im gonna go install one of the survival mods

[patent summit]

After a night's sleep, we have power and some lights.

[quiet shale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3188968318
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3183591922
i cant do naked brutality without these
there is a desert and arctic expansion but those arent 1.6 yet

[patent summit]

Oooh, nice

Production spots is definitely going into my modlist.

[quiet shale]

ye

cant do everything, but can do a lot

great for early game or caravans

[patent summit]

Okay, so this Ancient Military barrier is actually impassible. Gonna have to break it to save me some walk time.

I had to amputate Rena's leg to save her from infection. 😦

[quiet shale]

tough call
better leggless than renaless

yeah my pawn is starving, not much of a suprise
unfortunately all the starting animals left and i didnt realise how many resources i needed for planter boxes

im a try again

what! last time i beat 2 iguanas with a stone club with zero injury, this time i died to one

[patent summit]

Oof

[livid skiff]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel archotech.

[patent summit]

I am running a Transhumanist ideoligeon, so she'll be happy when she gets a nice leg replacement.

[quiet shale]

gotta run!

bai

[patent summit]

Oooh, I bought all the Components off a travelling merchant, and he left me an extra as a gift.

[amber elbow]

I’m thinking about what to do in Rimworld once I get home, and I’m thinking an Avali crash landing (as above) on a post-apocalyptic rimworld with just tribals (no insects/mechanoids/Empire), on Peaceful difficulty with some tweaks.

Endgame goal would be to build a ship and escape the planet, probably.

Although I kind of like the idea of instead settling into a permanent colony that might become a nucleus for rebuilding.

Less clear endpoint, though.

[patent summit]

Neat!

[amber elbow]

I’ve always been more of a builder in strategy games and it’s been a very long time since I properly played Rimworld, so not starving is likely to be enough of a challenge

[fallow steppe]

Ooh i like the idea of a post-apocalyptic world like that

[amber elbow]

Well, the rimworld you land on is already implied to be post-apocalyptic, with the insects and mechanoids being left over from whatever conflict left it that way and the tribals being descended from the survivors of the war.

So it’s not a very big jump to make it just Fallout or Mad Max straight up.

[fallow steppe]

I'm interested in a tribal start, i just don't want to get my shit kicked in by pirates and mechanoids with lasers

[amber elbow]

Fair enough!

[fallow steppe]

Even though unicorns come with OP lasers already

[amber elbow]

I mostly don’t really care for the base defense aspect of play, like I said I enjoy building and tend to neglect defenses.

[fallow steppe]

I'd just like to have to do the whole tech tree, last time I started 1/4 of the way into it

Also i know more things now, i can improve how i develop the base over time

[amber elbow]

I haven’t played in so long I’m basically starting from scratch.

[fallow steppe]

And I'd add a couple mods that manage medical things and stuff better

maybe I'd add a mod that lets colonists have children

[amber elbow]

I have Biotech, so they can have kids by default

[patent summit]

Ah damn, I forgot, you have to research Fishing.

[amber elbow]

[patent summit]

I'm currently hiding indoors from a Manhunter squirrel anyway.

[amber elbow]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouHaveResearchedBreathing

A bit more justified though…

[patent summit]

Oh god, I haven't seen VG Cats in years

[fallow steppe]

[patent summit]

So I took the city name from the map tile, and decided to go full furry for my faction.

[quiet shale]

You don't have biotech?

Easily best dlc

[patent summit]

One-legged Rena is hunting a buck ... in the lake.

Protip: If you construct a Wall Light behind a Military Barrier, your pawn can deposit the materials, but will just stand there instead of constructing it. I'm having to destroy it to get back there.

Ugh, Wasters

Hm. Good melee, but the drawbacks don't seem worth capturing

Well, apparently if you don't forbid doors, pawns will just walk right into unexplored rooms.

Hm. I did down her.

[fallow steppe]

Meat

[patent summit]

Heh. No cannibalism for this run.

[fallow steppe]

Organs

[patent summit]

Possibly

[quiet shale]

Nice to meat you

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/FutmQwQ-O2A?si=PHZsxT4-I02zJIBk

Discord's overlay crashed Rimworld, so I had to roll back to the last autosave... which is before that raid.

[fallow steppe]

[patent summit]

It gave me a Heat Wave instead. :/

... and a raid.

So I downed the Waster, had Rena try to heal him without medicine... and he got up & started attacking her.

She killed him by smacking him in the finger with her rifle.

Not going to do it just yet, I want to clear out this tile first.

[quiet shale]

Oh niiice

[patent summit]

Yup. It pops after 12 days on your map, if you didn't do the Gravship start.

A lynx started hunting my Starjack and downed him. Gotta try to save him.

[amber elbow]

[fallow steppe]

[patent summit]

Oh great, now I'm in Silent Hill

Had another raid, thankfully he came in from the most defensible angle possible. Downed him, tried to treat him on the spot, he got up and started attacking so Rena killed him.

I guess trying to save enemies in the field is just never going to work.

[fallow steppe]

Eh, you get so many chances though

I added several people to my colony by almost killing them

[patent summit]

So at this point, one-legged Rena is the only colonist upright.

Alright. Boone healed enough to get up.

[fallow steppe]

Thinking back on it, i only ever had 2 married couples and one were lesbians

So i might have got one kid out of it

[patent summit]

Welp. Boone wandered off to try and haul something from the edge of the map, and a lynx hunted & downed her. My other pawns are moving so slow, I don't think they'll save her.

.. nope

Aaaand literally neither of the survivors can do Plant work.

Holy crap, another raid.

Oh no

... Andrews never re-equipped his gun

Well, we still survived it.

[quiet shale]

Rimworld!

[patent summit]

Yeah. If I can manage to handle the next couple days, I may risk trying to turn my researcher into a Mechanitor.

Yeeeah, I don't think so.

... we had a Mad Donkey event. Fine, I'll keep everyone ind-

Daze: Andrews

Goddammit

Donkey downed him, Rena managed to kill the donkey

[fallow steppe]

Damn you're just getting bent over a barrel aren't you

Or you're fast-forwarding a lot between raids

[patent summit]

Yeah, and this is Strive to Survive.

I think the raids aren't coming too fast, but these damn predators hunting my people have done real damage.

[fallow steppe]

Do you have spike traps and bottlenecks yet?

[patent summit]

Bottlnecks, yes. I was literally building spike traps when the lynx attacked.

Now my builder is down

[fallow steppe]

How many colonists do you have?

[quiet shale]

2

One died

[patent summit]

Yeah, just two now.

And for some reason I can't butcher this donkey. x.x

[quiet shale]

Scaria?

[patent summit]

Doesn't show it

[fallow steppe]

That shouldn't stop it

[quiet shale]

It can cause the body to rot

[fallow steppe]

I made like 3 years of grizzlyburgers from 8 scaria bears in my run

[quiet shale]

Tho I think they updated it

Lol

[rancid sail]

mmmmmm mad bear disease burgers

[fallow steppe]

Grizzlyglizzies

In my run i had a severe lack of good crafters for a long time

So i struggled to make enough clothing and armor and weapons

But my investment in hops and cocoa paid off and i was able to buy most things from sales of beer and chocolate

Oh and leather, i had so much leather from my huge meat farm and the aforementioned lack of pawns available to craft it into anything

I'm just glad you don't have to tan the leather yourself, that would take forever

[patent summit]

I don't have much choice

[fallow steppe]

Make him sow the fields so he's the one the predators go after

[patent summit]

Well, he can do some construction. And he has a very small Hunting skill, so I can put him to work fishing once that's researched. And he can research, so tthat's good.

He can finish building the anima pen I was making for the ducks.

Welp, that's getting butchered.

[fallow steppe]

I had so many of those

They're good haulers once they're trained

And tanky, they'll survive raids. Also they leave free fur everywhere

[patent summit]

Okay, for some reason Alexae (the cult survivor) was able to butcher the donkey and the megasloth

[fallow steppe]

Sweet, caravan animals!

Also meat, if you set it up right

[patent summit]

Cassandra is feeling sorry for me. Just had drop pods of Guinea Pig meat arrive.

[quiet shale]

be prepared for a big raid tomorrow

[patent summit]

Built the dromedaries their own pen, since the duck pen didn't have enough food.

[fallow steppe]

My pen was a huge area that was half hay field and half cocoa orchard

Next time I'll build "airlocks" at the gates though, so all the animals don't make a break for it when some dipshit drops a log on the gate tile and keeps it open

Though i think there's a mod for Don't Drop Shit In Doorways

[quiet shale]

dontblockdoor hasnt been updated since 1.4 :(

[patent summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINFr12GxUs

Alright, I explored the first building fully. Going to plan out uses.

Four purple rooms at the top will be bedrooms. To the right will be hospital and workshop.

In the middle of the structure is going to be a prison divided into four rooms, with access to a nutrient paste dispenser (teal blue).

The lower room in yellow will become the Sanctuary for rituals.

Main problem right now is I basically have no one who is good at Plants, and I have some crops that need harvested & I'm out of wood.

[amber elbow]

Losing is fun…:P

[patent summit]

I wound up having to make Rena plant cut/grow, so she can chop some wood & then try to harvest our crops before winter.

That'll be where I leave off for today.

[fallow steppe]

You're making me want to start another run

But i have other games to get through!

[patent summit]

heh. I've basically put aside everything except Fallout 76 & Rimworld at this point.

[river sonnet]

i like the horses in Rimworld

[quiet shale]

horses are great
my colonists need meat

[river sonnet]

noooo !!!

[fallow steppe]

My ponies enjoyed many a horseburger

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lx8bpu/odissey_psa_you_dont_need_to_use_the_new_scenario/

You can use the Scenario Editor to give yourself a starter gravship regardless of your start. You just won't have the research Basic Gravtech to start, so you'll have to learn that on your own.

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Bluesky · Jul 11, 2025, 5:15 PM

[livid skiff]

I have a mod that lets me arrest folks, so that doesn't happen as often.

[livid skiff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FutmQwQ-O2A

[quiet shale]

oh good i built some grow pots out of slate and my rice is 70% grown, im suffering malnutrition so this is great

wild woman moves in
wild woman harvests my crops, poorly i might add

i kinda dont want to bludgeon her to death for her meat tho

but i maye have to

:(

she dead...

...oh my next batch of rice reached a harvestable state

might not have needed to do that

she had good skills and an interesting geneline

oh well

[quiet shale]

a trader came along and i was able to buy 50 food! that will last me a few days while more rice grows

[quiet shale]

food has been sorted
thanks to this place being a desert, its always growing season, and i built a wall around my grow pots so no more wild people taking them

now i can start growing other things, like cloth and wood

[amber elbow]

I started the new game I discussed yesterday last night, but I spent so long fiddling with my ideoligion and choosing the start tile that I didn't get to actually play any

[quiet shale]

mood

[amber elbow]

Also, it turns out my starting characters are 24 year old dad, 17 year old teen pregnant daughter (father: unknown), and 14 year old daughter's friend

[quiet shale]

there are worse starts

[amber elbow]

(Dad is 278 calendar years old, daughter is 45, and friend is 395, so there's obviously cryptosleep nonsense going on)

Well yeah, I did the "regenerate until you have decent stats and passions" thing.

[quiet shale]

...dont think about it

[amber elbow]

Both daughter and friend are coma children, which tracks and kind of explains their friendship.

[patent summit]

I had a stupid idea in bed last night: a Gravship start with Raider ideoligeon, customized around a Viking raider theme.

Valhallism, Raider meme, with a Zeushammer relic weapon named Mjolnir. Melee specialist titled "Lord of Thunder."

[quiet shale]

spending ages hacking this open leads to a whole underground complex on a new map
neat

this is the reason i chose this map tile as my base btw

[quiet shale]

theres two doors i need to hack to explore more, but this is super neat!

i might move my base down here, if i can figure out stable power and food solutions, probablym ushrooms for both

[quiet shale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2453428418

[patent summit]

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Bluesky · Jul 12, 2025, 4:00 PM

[quiet shale]

finally felt confident enough to hack the rest of the doors
found some bugs, those were a real threat, and another single drone. not a lot of extra loot but i did find a polux seed and a charge rifle, so i guess i cant complain too much

most of the rooms had tables and ruined cooking rooms for some reason tho

im wondering if i start moving everything down here or close it off
i dont think raiders can get here

[rancid sail]

I love these bunkers, but they're full of wasps which mess up my shooting pawns badly

[quiet shale]

this one is on my starting map
im playing naked brutality
90% of my steel has come from it, and its not a lot of steel

[rancid sail]

They can spawn with medicine and survival meals too, so they're generally just really helpful

[quiet shale]

it did! i found 16 of each

food isnt a problem anymore tho, but the medicine is nice

tell you what, getting stuff out of external maps is a pain... you gotta tell your pawn to add stuff to inventory, then tell your pawn to leave map, this breaks your control of pawn so you gotta switch maps and tell them to go underground and manually pick up more items and then haul them to the surface

its why im hesitating if i wanna move underground

[rancid sail]

I can build the building that lets you have a permanent colony and a gravship simultaneously, so I thought about settling on a tile that had 3 of these bunkers, but that is the reason I chose not to. It takes too much time for pawns, especially if they're injured from the wisp robots that I hate, to haul one thing at a time. It also clutters the ui as all 3 of the bunkers register as separate maps

I haven't seen enemies move into the underground though, so it could be quite useful to hide out during a raid or dangerous event

[quiet shale]

i think if i started underground, or had the ability to go there when i started the map, id move there. just ignore the surface completely as much as i can

but yeah they need to find a better way to handle sub-maps like this

[rancid sail]

It's still a really fun landmark to clear, especially when it has beds and food built in so you don't have to leave half way through clearing it

[quiet shale]

like i said, this one just had lots of kitchens

still, thanks to mods, it gave me plenty of steel and some components

decided to cheat and give my pawn a modded carry capacity gene to help with the tedium, then im just gonna seal it up

[rancid sail]

Can't blame you, I'd go insane if I had only one hauling pawn to move stuff in and out

[quiet shale]

more than one pawn wouldnt help! youre still having to manually select what to haul

WAIT YOU CAN ENTER THEM LIKE CARAVANS

FUCK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD TO KNOW

[rancid sail]

Yeah I should've said, it makes them gather all the items and put them at the entrance/exit

[quiet shale]

for those like me that didnt know, that "enter" button is what you want

im mad

[quiet shale]

buys all 4 medicine from caravan
caravan drops 10 more as a gift
aight not gonna complain about magic medicine

royal tribute collector gave me a gift of silver

[amber elbow]

I was generating a character today and acidentally popped off furry space raptor Sam Bridges

But with guns!

[quiet shale]

It's courier 6!

[amber elbow]

Oh lol, even better.

Unfortunately I ended up playing barely any yesterday, and instead reading about the lore for a completely different game I have no intention of playing

I think this is because I don't understand Rimworld well enough to set reasonable intermediate and short-term goals, so I'm not motivated to play it because once the game starts I don't really know what to do next, but of course only through playing can you learn that sort of thing...

[patent summit]

There's some way of treating it like a caravan, as long as you unforbid the items when you're leaving it'll all deposit around the entrance aboveground. Saw a streamer do it.

[patent summit]

Oh you found that.

[quiet shale]

Yep

I might pin it actually

[quiet shale]

Therr

[quiet shale]

If you want, you could stream it, I don't mind giving advice
In general tho it's a sandbox, if you want to turn raids off completely, go for it, become drug lords, aim for royalty... once basic base is set up the sky isn't even the limit anymore

[patent summit]

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Bluesky · Jul 13, 2025, 3:28 PM

[patent summit]

The Rimworld wiki is really good for that. Though it needs updates for some of the new content.

https://rimworldwiki.com/

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Quickstart_Guides

[quiet shale]

i have never looked at this

[amber elbow]

Right, I know it's a sandbox and it's up to me to set my goals...I have 100 hours in it or so (mostly way way back though). The issue is more...conceptual, you might say. An example might help. Right now, I'm thinking of doing a game in CK3 starting as Haestinn of Nantes and forming Brittany (small-bore stuff for him, but whatever), then playing it as a tall kingmaker, putting relatives on thrones but not holding land outside of Brittany, up to 1453.

When I imagine that goal, I can already see a lot of the intermediate steps I need to get there: I need to conquer Brittany quickly, for example, with his starting armies, and then probably convert to Christianity, maybe even swear fealty to West Francia, to escape any counterattacks. I'll need to put my Steward on development, use my cash to build holdings. I might want to get prestige from raiding before converting to institute Scandinavian Elective succession to help manage succession. And so on and so forth. I have a pretty clear idea in my mind of what I need to do, in other words, to get to that endgame goal.

For Rimworld it's more like "Start game -> ??? -> Escape planet!" I know where I'm starting and where I want to end, but I don't have the intuitive feel built up from more or less successful games of all of those intermediate steps I should take, or even want to take at each individual phase of the game. The result is that it becomes easier to look at other people playing or read about it or just play a different game I have a better handle on instead.

[quiet shale]

well forget the "-> escape planet" part, its optional

personally i play rimworld with one colonist because i focus on that single colonists story
turn them into a mechanist so i can ease the workload with bots

after that... what happens happens

[amber elbow]

Right, I was using it as an example of an endgame goal that I want to pursue, like having a tall Brittany. The issue is that I need an overarching goal to pursue or else I get bored and lose interest.

[quiet shale]

well

mods!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411401573

one thing you can do is focus on one aspect of the game, such as making a large ranch, building a big gravship, aiming for royalty, gathering gene packs and making genetic super people or even ac tually doing anomaly related stuff for once

[patent summit]

Ideology can help with that. Works to focus you towards a certain playstyle.

You can choose an egalitarian one and help as many other people as you can. You can be a raider and plunder your neighbors. Or a drug lord, enslaving others to work your fields so you can sell drugs to traders.

Royalty lets you focus on making your pawns... well, royalty, and getting all the benefits of that.

[amber elbow]

What I’m thinking right now is using a different Avali mod and play nomadically—staying in a tile for a quadrum or two then packing everything up in a caravan and moving on.

Whenever I get to the point of having a gravship obviously switch to that.

One of the advantages of this would be avoiding getting bogged down in designing a big base, since it would all be getting thrown away anyway.

[patent summit]

Yeah, Quill18 did a Gravship start and quickly discovered how fun it was to move every time things got hairy on a map. Plus you don't have to care about making permanent defenses or anything like that.

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lzww3a/in_case_you_are_waiting_for_the_update_of_some/

Unfortunately, Uuugggg the author of many praised and core mods has passed away. It was announced by his mother in the Ctrl f mod comments section.

[quiet shale]

oh fuck

they made some amazing mods

[patent summit]

Mhm.

[quiet shale]

well i hope they're at peace, wherever they are

il pray to god to pass on a message: 1.6 when?

[patent summit]

Apparently his mother is looking for someone to take over some of his mods.

Also, people in the Reddit thread are asking Tynan to add him to the list of in-game names.

[quiet shale]

that would be neat
and yeah i saw the post

[amber elbow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1lzxi1q/something_to_break_the_spaceship_streak_a_humble/

This is very cool and efficient, I will be taking notes…

[patent summit]

Oooh, nice. I should do something similar, my current game has a small "courtyard" in one of the buildings. Which I discovered by taking down part of the wall.

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1m1bfy5/odyssey_fun_fact_the_max_length_of_a_ship_berth/

You cannot chain grav extenders, they must be connected to the main core, so if you wan't to build the longest ship possible, the core has to be in the center.

[patent summit]

I'm considering streaming Rimworld tomorrow. If I do, what would people like to see?

[quiet shale]

Naked brutality start >:)

[quiet shale]

vanilla expanded events is fun!
i live in a desert so id be shocked if this affected me a lot

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1m1ev4n/the_types_of_gravships_i_saw_people_share_on_this/

[patent summit]

Cool, looks like I'm doing a Gravship start then! I may stream that around noon EDT, which is <t:1752768000:R>

[quiet shale]

Blergh I'm gonna be out I'm afraid
Good luck

[patent summit]

Aw damn, sorry.

If I can set up OBS on my laptop, I'll record the stream & upload it later.

[patent summit]

Stargint my stream: https://discord.com/channels/98609319519453184/156145528743133186

[fickle nebula]

Ah, so this is what you were talking about!

[patent summit]

Yeah, that's it!

[fickle nebula]

Thank you.

[lilac stirrup]

"Head part and trunk part still exist mutual adaptation problems between mods.

"I have tried make an extremely small volume ~~(FPV)~~pegasus————of course the head-body ratio became"

[patent summit]

Oooh.

[lilac stirrup]

under CEmod I made a fortress.

[quiet shale]

Embrasures are god tier

[lilac stirrup]

Being in the dark with the target also reduces the hit rate

roof can creation dark

[patent summit]

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Bluesky · Jul 18, 2025, 7:40 PM

[fallow steppe]

What about DLC?

[uncut bone]

Anomaly and Biotech are 10% off
Ideology and Royalty are 15% off

[fallow steppe]

Hm

[quiet shale]

They're worth full price
Well ideology and biotech are

Royalty is great
Anomaly... I dunno really, it's too niche in my opinion

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1m3lgu4/in_case_you_missed_it_pick_up_and_haul_has_been/

[patent summit]

Anomaly is definitely niche, for people who enjoy cosmic horror. But it also adds flamethrowers, so that's a consideration.

[supple merlin]

i should pick up the rest of the dlc, i hav royalty but the total cost is owie as someone whos average game price is £6

[patent summit]

Yeah, it's expensive. I'd rank the DLC priority as:

1. Odyssey
2. Biotech
3. Ideology
4. Royalty
5. Anomaly

I personally love Anomaly, but I can admit it's a very specialized playthrough, and only has a few things that affect the core gameplay. While Odyssey, Biotech, and Ideology add tons of replayability to the base game.

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1m3tdix/update_from_alex_uuugggg_his_parents/

[quiet shale]

That's awesome

[muted crow]

why are they so BEEG

[lilac stirrup]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2920751126

with https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1874644848

[muted crow]

Ooh neat

I need to get the dlc

[lilac stirrup]

One raid per day

I also add 100 meteorites in a day

But after filling the map there is no drop meteorites

[quiet shale]

i can recommend biotech ideology and the new one, royalty is alright but anomaly is hit or miss tbh
its too nich compared to the others, more an isand of content than something that integrates itself with the rest of the game

[patent summit]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/498327545507219356

[quiet shale]

btw i finally got aorund to building one of these in game
it adds a bunch of animated balls to the pit, when your pawn gets into the pit, a bunch fly across the room
and they react to your mouse! you can just push them around the pit, they dont leave its square confines tho
weirdly high-quality mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3530842173&searchtext=

apparently when you build them, they generate a new ancient stockpile that you can just explore

[patent summit]

> pick a valley carved through mountains by a river
> "wow this is really defensible"
> there are four insect hives in the caverns```

[patent summit]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=3534543546

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3529626689

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3491552121

[versed shell]

thought y'all might get a laugh out of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT84I8adIYs

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1mayau6/it_is_unwise_to_carpet_the_entire_ship/

[tawdry quartz]

Is Rimworld worth it

And is there a pony mod for it

[amber elbow]

Yes and yes:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3223243284

[quiet shale]

Yes and yes:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2349465544

oh i genuinely never noticed the titlecard of that one lol

[fallow steppe]

I used the first one and found it was awesome

I do not like the title of the second one

[quiet shale]

its just a mod that adds plushies

[tawdry quartz]

Ah

I'll wait for it to go on sale

Should I be buying any DLCs?

And are they necessary such as the case in Paradox titles?

[quiet shale]

biotech, ideology and oddesy yes, royalty maybe, anomaly...if you like that kind of thing
and the game rarely goes on sale

necessary? no, but the three i listed ad significant amounts of content that are worth getting

[tawdry quartz]

I see

Thanks

[patent summit]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/498327923676161143

Fix: Alligator eggs hatching into sea turtles.

[tawdry quartz]

One more question: Does this mod have alicorns?

Because the steam only says earth pony, pegasus and unicorn

[amber elbow]

I don’t know, I haven’t played it

I just pulled it to demonstrate that such a mod exists.

[tawdry quartz]

oh

[quiet shale]

i think you can make alicorns if you hae biotech

biotech adds gene modifications

[tawdry quartz]

Huh

And is there OP mods in Rimworld?

Like Stellaris Gigastructures/ACOT

[quiet shale]

duh

many op and cheat mods

many end-game mods too, and and-game vanilla features

especially with the DLCs

[tawdry quartz]

Ah

I'm kinda limited on money

So if I get the game I'm thinking 1 between Royalty and Biotech

[quiet shale]

biotech by far

biotech is "whoa thats awesome"
royalty is "oh thats neat"

[tawdry quartz]

Thanks

[fallow steppe]

this mod does not have alicorns afaik

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/hkoNZTFaxX4?si=nVpYBf1Bmniqyo32

[versed shell]

heheh, is this helldivers Rimworld? or like, SUPER EARTH themed?

oh it so is, nice

[patent summit]

I think the game is trying to tell me something.

[fickle nebula]

Paid Volcanic Winter? Fear Pods? What does it mean?

[quiet shale]

im not sure where the confusion is
you can get paid to have a volcanic winter
fear pods are new to me but either you're going out to space to find pods or pods dropp with stuff inside thts scary

[muted crow]

Climate change really was an inside job

[patent summit]

Basically they're offers to have something bad happen on your current map tile, in exchange for a reward.

[fickle nebula]

Okay then...

[quiet shale]

ah so a mechanoid attack

[patent summit]

Basically, though it says they may stay dormant. I'm going to see if I get the reward immediately, or if I have to clear them out.

If I get the reward immediately, my ass is accepting the Volcanic Winter as well, grabbing all the rewards, and flying away.

[quiet shale]

[patent summit]

Jesus christ the game has it out for me

This is in addition to the quests.

"Fuck this ship tile!"
https://youtu.be/hm5KI8zSeVs?si=qhx9mz_bQCIgrELW

I did have to defeat the mechanoids. Fight didn't go amazingly, but I did it. So now to haul in the treasure, take the winter, and GTFO.

[fickle nebula]

[patent summit]

I did wind up leaving that tile, and some faction got mad at me for "polluting".

[fickle nebula]

Any way to blow it up from orbit?

[patent summit]

Nah, once you leave a tile you can't interact with it anymore.

[fickle nebula]

Oh well.

[livid skiff]

There are mods that remove that IIRC

[patent summit]

Oh dear. A boomalope went mad, and a tribal caravan arrived right after.

And now's the perfect time to call in the mech ship so I can make a Mechanitor.

[quiet shale]

Lol
Dew it

[patent summit]

The Imperials just straight up wiped out the mechanids.

[quiet shale]

Lol

[patent summit]

... one of the people I captured & converted just seduced my vampire.

[quiet shale]

Nice XD

[patent summit]

Now if only I had room to give them their own bedroom.

[fickle nebula]

I thought vampires were supposed to be the seducers, not the seduced!

[patent summit]

Right?!

[amber elbow]

I could see this as being a fun story, tbh.

[patent summit]

TIL you can actually go into other towns and destroy them. If you destroy a raider town, you gain faction rep with all the other factions.

[quiet shale]

ye

[patent summit]

I definitely plan to land on some of these raider towns and wipe them out then. Getting real tired of impid raids.

[fickle nebula]

Sweet!

[patent summit]

I may have a chance to stream this weekend. Unfortunately, I lost my Space Vikings run due to a conflict, so I'd have to start a new one.

[quiet shale]

Nooo

[patent summit]

It's okay, I have ideas for all of these that should be fun.

[tawdry quartz]

How hard is this game's learning curve?

[quiet shale]

Eeeeeeeeeeh

Hard to say?

Theres a lot of difficulty options, you can tailor your experience very finely, turn any challenge off entirely if you want, start with super humans, mod out annoying aspects...

[tawdry quartz]

ah

[fickle nebula]

I vote for a playthrough with Masque's pony OCs. She is open to the idea.

[amber elbow]

Ooooh yeah, that sounds cool

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/VpaO9XyaQYI?si=Y1TtQ2yIxJMvxE9O

[quiet shale]

ah the worst option

im gonna be busy most of the weekend

apparently we're swapping around visiting days for grandma so im now going on weekends

i didnt get asked about this mind

just what was decided for me

[fickle nebula]

[patent summit]

Aww, I'm sorry. I'll try to get another day to stream for you.

[patent summit]

Alright, so we're going with the spooky option! This one I'm not as familiar with, but I do want to try it out.

This will probably be on Sunday, since I'll be helping out my mother Saturday.

[quiet shale]

yeah it keeps fucking changing

everything changes every week

shes dying tho, deteriorating at a fast pace

[patent summit]

I'm sorry you're having to go through this. It's never easy.

[quiet shale]

the stress for me is when things get rearranged

[patent summit]

Yeah, that makes everything more difficult.

[quiet shale]

oh apparently my aunt, the one doing most of the work here, the one who is power of attorney, is getting a PIP review
as in, most of her income is being reviewed, and that will fuck over her income

just a lotta bullshit all at once

[patent summit]

God, I'm so sorry. That's horrible. 🙁

[patent summit]

I have bad news for Reinor, this map is getting destroyed when I take off in my gravship.

[quiet shale]

oh i wonder how that quest works with the gravship

id save before trying it mind

[patent summit]

I'm guessing it auto-fails if you take off without a grav anchor on the map. :/

Aaand I had to reload anyway because my hunter accidentally hit one of the locals when shooting.

[quiet shale]

oh nooo

[patent summit]

Ah, good, I got it back.

[patent summit]

... I just realized the locals are coming onto my ship and eating my food.

[tawdry quartz]

i did not know masque could commit warcrimes in games

[patent summit]

It did not actually auto-fail on takeoff.

[fallow steppe]

I need to get around to a new playthrough

Maybe when beaver game is done

[quiet shale]

whats the car mod? doesnt looks like vanilla vehicles expanded

[lilac stirrup]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3410965054

[quiet shale]

thanks

[lilac stirrup]

~

[livid skiff]

They need a Toyota Hilux mod. The memes/IRL usage sells that.

[lilac stirrup]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035308934

[livid skiff]

There we go then.

[quiet shale]

perfect

[lilac stirrup]

[livid skiff]

I do like the Tesco trolly being a thing to use too.

[lilac stirrup]

I also want a modification，a HMG is welded behind the motorcycle.

[quiet shale]

lol

[lilac stirrup]

Truly badass

https://www.recoilweb.com/dshk-on-wheels-motorcycle-mounted-machine-gun-168913.html

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/01/03/motorcycle-technical-dshk-hmg-syria/

awa

[patent summit]

I plan on streaming tomorrow around noon EDT-ish, will probably run 3-4 hours if I can.

[fickle nebula]

Need me to record?

[patent summit]

Nope, this time I'll be on my desktop, so it should be fine. I figured out what was wrong on my Mac, so hopefully next time on that I should be able to record too.

[fickle nebula]

Okay, sounds good.

[patent summit]

https://bsky.app/profile/ludeonstudios.bsky.social/post/3lvjgqfa3gk2e

Ludeon Studios (@ludeonstudios.bsky.social)

LAST CHANCE to grab the Odyssey collection before it's gone!

➡️ 11 hours remain: rimworld.store

Bluesky · Aug 3, 2025, 7:41 PM

[quiet shale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3464571012&searchtext=

[amber elbow]

Happily, not tempting: no thrumbo

I wonder if there’s a mod that lets you play as anthro thrumbos out there. I would guess they would play somewhat like yttakin…

[patent summit]

Hm. That's a nifty idea.

[quiet shale]

Theres a thrumbokind race out there, or was for 1.5

But the really interesting thing is the sentient animal mod lol

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3505241400

Just make any regular animal into a pawn! Why not!

Yes they will want a real bed now

And real food

[patent summit]

I saw that mod, I loved the pic of an elephant with a gun strapped to it.

[amber elbow]

Thrumbo with a minigun

[fallow steppe]

I wish i could have given my megasloth army miniguns

[patent summit]

Welp, my recording the other day wound up being 8 Gb. Downloading it to my iPad Mini so I can edit it for YouTube.

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/BvX2E912RvU?si=5TTmOzdZWuhTV674

[fickle nebula]

That's big.

About how big my playthroughs when I was beta-testing Station to Station were.

I think... I gave google a fit when I tried to get them to the devs.

[patent summit]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/498328557405079879

[patent summit]

I just saw the most Rimworld thing ever in a stream: (TW: child death & mutilation)

||A colonist went through labor, but the baby was stillborn. The YouTuber was devastated, because it'd never happened to him before. Then he realized one of his pawns had just taken the baby's corpse to the Butchering Table and... well...||

[quiet shale]

oh noooooo

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1mjn3mo/til_about_grow_and_plant_cut/

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1mmr6u6/dmca_filed_on_vanilla_expanded_framework/

Apparently someone is going around throwing false DMCA takedowns at various mods.

[versed shell]

oof

[livid skiff]

Comments suggest that it is hitting the HOI4 folks as well.

[quiet shale]

Its hitting a bunch of games

[patent summit]

Yeah, Stellaris got hit as well.

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1mmuxdt/fuck/

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/azoDzBVY0ZM?si=MFgk1fJSUu1UcAVz

[tawdry quartz]

biotech is very expensive

so i might have to settle with royalty

or no dlc for that matter

[quiet shale]

biotech has the most content, thats why its so expensive

[patent summit]

It's kinda crazy how much is in Biotech when you start messing with its systems. Mechanitors, biosculpting, gene alteration, new threats, etc.

[quiet shale]

wrong channel?

[patent summit]

dammit. i am not awake.

[tawdry quartz]

my wallet

[patent summit]

This is a fantastic site for planning out your Rimworld base or Gravship:
http://gridpapr.com/

[patent summit]

Yeeeah. Plus side, you don't have to get everything all at once, so you can budget for when you want new DLC.

[patent summit]

I used this to help design an "outrigger" gravship:
http://gridpapr.com/edit/cbcf8e0f83caabf933f8963f4d3cd986

[tawdry quartz]

base game alone is like 80% of my budget

i don't think i'm affording any dlcs anytime soon

[patent summit]

oof

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/VfpcW6rOiig

Audio isn't great, will have to work on that next stream.

[fickle nebula]

So is your avatar a Rimworld themed raccoon? 🤪

[patent summit]

Hee. I took my new design for my fursona and pasted it over the Rimworld character.

[quiet shale]

Oh lol that's great

[patent summit]

Glad you like it!

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1mqtcc8/check_out_rimsort_v1037_its_awesome/

https://github.com/RimSort/RimSort/releases

[quiet shale]

oh thank god, something more updated than rimpy

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1mqg7up/starjack_changes_in_the_upcoming_patch/

The biggest changes are that they now do everything better in space at the cost of doing everything worse on the planet, and also can now work plant jobs. The other two changes are a shift of melee skill from poor to awful and from cold tolerant to super-cold tolerant which should hopefully let them deal with the cold of space without a suit. This has also led to a slight decrease in metabolic efficiency resulting in them needing a bit more food.

[livid skiff]

I've never used anything like that, but good to know.

[patent summit]

I haven't either, but i may try it out.

[quiet shale]

Its a godsend if you're using a semi large amount of mods

[patent summit]

Let's see if we can make this compete with EaW.

[tawdry quartz]

good time to enter

[quiet shale]

Oh there's a discord?

[tawdry quartz]

Although IDK if anything can compete with EAW

[amber elbow]

All things end.

[fickle nebula]

Orange Slice and Cocoa Nibs go to space?

[patent summit]

Heh. I might do a ponies game, but not with my OCs. Rimworld does... bad things to pawns.

[fickle nebula]

Dang, but I understand. Rimworld can be a cruel and vicious game under the right circumstances.

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/VFzuv--szs8?si=WrubqENkpd6ZK0xQ

[patent summit]

Was planning to continue streaming today, but my allergies are going nuts. x.x

[fickle nebula]

[patent summit]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3550874423

Inspired by the "Future Tech" from Sid Meier's Civilization series (especially one from Civ 6), this mod adds a new research tab called "Repeatables" with a repeatable research project.

Once the project is fully researched, it grants your colonists a small incremental stat buff, randomly chosen from a list. The project then resets its progress to zero, allowing it to be researched again indefinitely. You can view the cumulative buffs in the research project’s info panel.

[lilac stirrup]

Naked Brutality start——————though I opted to set up a line of traps to crack open the ancient.

[versed shell]

oh dear, is the ancient some kind of animal?

[quiet shale]

Every starting colony map has what's called and ancient danger in it
You crack ot open for some nice loot... and some randomised enemies
Might be mechanoids, insects, usually contains ancient soldiers in crypto sleep

[lilac stirrup]

Yes have super big mechanical rats, need use traps give them come point surprise.

Inside internally hides gold cheese throne, satisfy one celebration-like oil soda water chocolate

miehehehehe

[quiet shale]

What?

[lilac stirrup]

lmao ——————

Actually is ultra-fabric + power armor possibility

[versed shell]

good luck with the fight

[lilac stirrup]

all ultra-fabric

[lilac stirrup]

l have traps the will be —— tarp

[patent summit]

And the soldiers may be:

• Hostile
• Neutral
• Dead

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/8m7NbjF1oAQ?si=wiABtzL7t0O-efJ5

[patent summit]

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

[cobalt pasture]

been playing with a lot of the Vanilla Expanded mods

I now have centralized air conditioning

[quiet shale]

vanilla expanded is fantastic

[cobalt pasture]

real

I still need to build some chemfuel shit

tbh, I'm probably just gonna send enemy prisoners into a drilling outpost on the Mainland

and call it a day

[quiet shale]

lol

[cobalt pasture]

just chuck their deliveries in

Empire has also been a godsend

I have a special hatred for domestic resource extraction

only industrial production must occur in the homeland

[patent summit]

I wish I could just get this as a mod. I don't really care about most VE stuff, but central air would be fantastic.

[cobalt pasture]

it's from Vanilla Temperature Expanded

[patent summit]

I might look into that one then, thank you.

[quiet shale]

vanilla expanded adds a lot of individual things, i recommend looking at individual mods from it
recycling is a pretty reasonable way to get rid of wasepacks for example

[patent summit]

God, yeah, I don't know why Vanilla completely refuses to give you a way to remove waste packs.

[quiet shale]

it does

you have wastepack vaporisers

but they're slow and stupid

[patent summit]

Oh, huh. I never did find those.

[quiet shale]

they're late game machanist stuff

you gotta fight the mechanist bosses to get the next teir of signal chip

[patent summit]

Ah, alright. I still need to do a full mechanitor run. So far the two I tried died horribly in the early game.

[quiet shale]

oof

[patent summit]

The first one, I just didn't get defenses quick enough & the first raider knifed me to death.

The second one, I was exploring an abandoned chemfuel refinery. Spotted a Hunter Drone in a room, and thought I could lure it into an empty room... but it was too fast, went off in the doorway and set the chemfuel shelves on fire.

You can imagine how that went.

[quiet shale]

well i assume

[patent summit]

[patent summit]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3516409503

[patent summit]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1909914131

1.6 update is out

[quiet shale]

nice

ill probably use this version, if its meshed with anomaly stuff

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/q2AEcWyJtdE?si=ONHrVhdR1wOXxTbs

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1n2m9d3/update_164566_improves_gravships_shuttles_and_more/

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/498331094794371516?l=english

Fishing now has its own category in the work tab.
Fuckin finally

[versed shell]

that's so cute

[uncut bone]

https://derpibooru.org/images/3663464
Apparently this is a Rimworld reference

[quiet shale]

yes

the mod Vanilla Races Expanded - Sanguophage adds the drain casket that looks like that
you put prisoners in it and it drains blood from them automatically, even letting you put it into tanks for convenient long-term storage for food for your Sanguophages (vampires)

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/xGtUjTM6hd0?si=UBTFbp-1h-N81JFc

[versed shell]

i'll give this a look sometime

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/7IuBNtBtbr4?si=nIIIFb51uj-MgIeO

[patent summit]

Playing a new Rimworld game. A kid I rescued has become an "adult" (age 13), so now I get to pick a trait.

Gee, I wonder which one.

[quiet shale]

Hypersensitive isnt bad if you want psycasts from royalty

[patent summit]

Yeah, I considered it. But I don't have any yet, and I'm not going for a Royal playthrough, so Kind seems a better option. That way he's not miserable every time a psychic drone hits.

[quiet shale]

Fair

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/ubN2fD1KMNA?si=786mukBhAZ_kQvow

[patent summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1nng34q/mod_preview_remix_gravship_blueprints/

This should be amazing for letting people share their gravship designs.

Due out later in the week

[patent summit]

[quiet shale]

lol
thats a book i think

[patent summit]

Yup, fished up a Masterwork book.

[quiet shale]

awesome lol

[livid skiff]

Nice catch.

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/mWD7MI48_OE?si=bCLr-aekkoDiI0Yn

[cobalt pasture]

that's it, I'm building a hedonistic society built on slave robot labor

[fallow steppe]

did you miss the stellaris thread or something

[patent summit]

https://bsky.app/profile/ludeonstudios.bsky.social/post/3m2pkgiaxxc2e

Ludeon Studios (@ludeonstudios.bsky.social)

A thrumbo at your side and a boomalope to light up the night. 🤍🌙

Coming to YouTooz on October 10th.

Bluesky · Oct 8, 2025, 9:09 PM

[amber elbow]

Thrumbo

[quiet shale]

thats neat

[fallow steppe]

nifty

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/PTZlZvVHlRE?si=26jIEK3MXFZle9G4

Found out why Noobert has been taking some weird sponsorships lately. Apparently he went to visit his fiancee in the Philippines back in May, and getting her a visa to come to the USA has been a nightmare. So he's trying to get money any way he can.

[quiet shale]

Ah

...getting a visa to America seems like a poor move ngl

[patent summit]

Yeah, not good planning on their part. :/

[quiet shale]

depends when they started

[lilac stirrup]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3235678612

[patent summit]

[lilac stirrup]

badass

[versed shell]

your ponies are locked and loaded

[patent summit]

https://ludeon.com/blog/2025/10/update-1-6-4630-released/

[quiet shale]

Shuttles arriving to pick up a pawn on a pocket map will now land on the parent map instead.
dang that sounds like a hilarious bug

[patent summit]

Yeah, I saw some folks using it to basically crash into undergroind areas.

[patent summit]

https://youtu.be/hz0MXuD2kGI?si=YSxrIYBypaEoPLcI

[lilac stirrup]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3551203752

AI is so sick

[patent summit]

[fickle nebula]

Well that was a unqualified diaster.

I managed to moon myself.