RimWorld is not your typical construction sim. It has its own peculiar atmosphere and the gameplay may turn into a real emotional rollercoaster for those who can’t manage their colony alive and healthy.
On hydroponics rice seems to be a good choice because it grows at 140something%. On soil it doesnt seem to matter that much. I don't like to grow corn for food indoors if there is a risk of losing the crop due to emergencies. Hydroponics or not?
Of course, you can always start a new game if you didn’t manage to escape the planet the first time around, but it is much better to learn a few tricks beforehand and take care of your characters properly in RimWorld from the get go. This guide will provide you with such advice and let you survive even in the harshest of environments.
Choose a landing site as your difficulty
There are several biomes in RimWorld that can serve as a landing site for your colony except an Ocean biome, which is unlandable. All these biomes offer different conditions – some are more favorable, while others are quite extreme. These different biomes influence the difficulty of the gameplay, so choose landing site in accordance with your skills.
- Temperate Forest is the easiest and most favorable biome in the game.
- It will provide you with tons of materials and the climate is suitable for long-term farming.
- RimWorld is a Colony Builder with resource and economy management aspects. It was originally launched in its Alpha state in November of 2013 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux but was also launched on Steam early access in July of 2016.
- A full guide to everything Rimworld Hydroponics. From efficient hydroponics layouts to basic information like building costs and stats. This guide will be helpful for beginner and veteran players to the game and include everything from basic statistical information on hydroponics and farming in Rimworld, to optimal hydroponics setups and layouts.
- In order to get hydroponic basins in Rimworld, you first need to research Hydroponics at the research bench. You will also need sun lamps which can be built after researching electricity. Hydroponic basins and sun lamps are a great combination because it allows you to use these basins indoors.
- Mountains and Plains are considered normal difficulty biomes since their conditions aren’t fully favorable, but are still very suitable for colonization.
- For example, Mountains are full of resources, while Plains have enough flat areas for building although they can’t protect you against enemies too well.
- Ice Sheet and Extreme Deserts are the hardest types of biomes.
- The conditions there are extremely unfavorable and can lead to a quick death of an entire colony, if you can’t provide for your people in time.
Learn the most important skills
Some skills are more important than others, so make sure that your characters have these skills as their specialization at the start of the game. All the useful skills in RimWorld can be divided into two groups: primary and auxiliary.
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- Primary set of skills includes: growing, cooking, construction and mining.
- These are absolutely necessary and will provide your people with good food and decent constructions.
- Auxiliary skills consist of: research, social, crafting, animals and combat.
- After you’ve established your colony and satisfied the basic needs of your people, these skills will help you strengthen your positions and protect you from the enemies.
Keep your colony sustained and secured
There are three things you should do as soon as possible after the crash landing: set up your shelter, provide food for your people, and protect them from the raiders.
Set up your shelter
- The very first things you need to build are separate bedrooms for each of your colonists with beds and doors.
- Then, make a storage room, which is just as important.
- You can’t leave your stuff outside, as it will rot and become useless, especially your weapons get rusty really quickly. So, make a big room that can keep your things away from moist and wind.
- Lastly, make a kitchen and a freezer to preserve your food.
- Also, set up a praying room to keep the morale of your people high.
Providing food
The initial food packages will not be enough to feed your people for too long, so you need to take care of farming as soon as you have your base ready.
- Start with a smaller growing zone and increase the area gradually.
- The sowing and the growing will take a few days, so be patient.
- Give one or two men weapons and send them hunting.
- Then, craft a butcher’s table for your kitchen, so you can cook your meat, as well.
- Don’t let your men eat raw meat, and be ready to craft an electric stove.
- If you don’t have electricity yet, then make a fueled stove that functions on simple wood.
Protection from raiders
- The basic security set up for your base can be as simple as a barricade made of sandbags and a couple of turrets.
- These will be able to protect you from raiders at the initial stages of the game.
- Later you will have more resources to build an entire wall around your base.
- Also, set up traps all around the wall on the outside, for example, mine traps.
- Put several snipers on the perimeter and keep the lights outside and keep darkness inside – in this way you will be able to see your enemies, while they will not be able to see you.
- This will give you a huge advantage during raids.
Provide first aid when needed
Injuries during the raids are inevitable. There are different types of injuries in RimWorld: simple scratches, deeper cuts and gunshot wounds.
Simple scratch doesn’t need to be treated and well-fed character will heal automatically. However, deep wounds need to be cured as soon as possible, otherwise the character will most likely get infected and die. That’s why you will have to build a medical bed in the separate room for these purposes.
Also, don’t forget about the mental health of your colonists, as their mood swings can hurt the success of your campaign just as much as their physical wounds. So, pay attention to some fine arts in all kinds of forms, such as beautiful flooring and sculptures.
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Game Info
RimWorld is a Colony Builder with resource and economy management aspects. It was originally launched in its Alpha state in November of 2013 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux but was also launched on Steam early access in July of 2016. The main focus of the game is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your settlement members by providing them with food, shelter, and resources. Each settler is randomly generated at the beginning of each play through, though new travelers may join along the way. Starting in Alpha 14, players can choose from one of three starting scenarios (Crashlanded, The Rich Explorer, and Lost Tribe) each with a varying amount of supplies, knowledge, and settlers.
AI
Additionally, players choose one of three AI Storytellers that will determine the difficulty of the game, frequency of random events, and severity of said events. The three AI are:
Cassandra Classic
The standard storyteller for the game. She employs a steadily increasing curve of difficulty resulting in tougher events over time.
Pheobe Chillax
A much more tame AI. If she activates a random event, it’s usually weak or isolated so it can be easily handled. On the easier difficulties, she allows for a lot of base building to prepare for raids, alien ships, or mad animals.
Randy Random
A truly random AI. Any event could occur at anytime and chaos is guaranteed; good or bad. You could have an eclipse knock out electronics while an enemy tribe raids your base right before a lightning storm breaks out and starts fires around your base. You could also have animals join your settlement right after a new recruit wanders in and cargo pods drop valuable resources from the sky.
Traits & Skills
Settlers are given traits dependent upon two backstories: adult and childhood. Traits can provide valuable buffs, like a permanent mood boost or increased walking speed, or devastating nerfs, like a natural interest in drugs or increased likelihood to have a mental break. Traits can also limit what a settler is able to do. For instance, if a settler spent their childhood as an aristocrat, they may refuse to do “dumb labor” like hauling items or cutting plants. In addition to traits, settlers are given a randomly distributed amount of skills across 12 categories. The amount of skill points in a given category dictates its effectiveness when the settler is preforming relevant tasks. Settlers are also given random passions for specific categories of skills in one of three levels, denoted by a number of flames next to the skill. With no passion, a settler will gain experience of said skill at 33% of the normal rate, with 1 flame (interested), settlers will learn at the normal 100% rate, with 2 flames (burning passion), settlers will gain experience at 150% of the normal rate.
Health
Settlers health goes beyond a maximum number of hitpoints in Rimworld. There are 30 body parts or organs that work together to determine a settler’s effectiveness in 13 categories such as sight, manipulation, moving, communication, and consciousness. Settlers can lose any of these 13 functions if their bodies are damaged in accidents, fights, animal attacks, or shootouts. When a body part is damaged or destroyed, it will affect the relevant categories as well, so if someone loses a pinky their manipulation will be limited just like a real person’s would be. This can lead to settlers losing basic human functions, like losing vision if they are shot in the eyes, or the ability to talk if a deer bites their jaw off. Luckily some functions can be repaired if your colony has a talented doctor on staff (or an okay chef). If a colonist loses a leg they will be unable to walk, unless a dexterous doctor can successfully shove a peg leg in place (although the colonist will be slower). You can also upgrade a colonist even if they are perfectly healthy with bionic body parts like legs, arms, and eyes which will increase their respective functions.
Mood
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Colonists can struggle to keep their spirits up in the chaos of survival. They have thoughts on many of the events that occur in their lives such as deaths, conversations with others, the environment they work and sleep in, and even the weather. These thoughts combine with the natural mood adjustments that come from traits like optimism, pessimism, and depression to form a colonist’s overall mood. If a colonist’s mood drops too low they can risk suffering a mental break. The severity as well as the frequency of mental breaks increases the lower a colonist’s mood drops. Depending on the level of mental break a colonist may eat their sadness, binge on drugs like beer and smokeleaf, or even go on a fire-starting spree.
Social
Colonists like all humans, need social interaction for a rich, full life. Rimworld tracks a colonist’s opinion of the others they come in to contact with. Throughout the day, colonists will chat, argue, and even fight with each other depending on their relationship. If it goes well enough, colonists can choose to become lovers and after some time, marry one another. If it goes poorly enough on the other hand, colonists can become rivals.
Animals
Rimworld has a massive amount of animals that roam the different biomes of the planet. Like in a real ecosystem, there are predators and prey – mammals, reptiles, and amphibians – food, fur, and livestock. Depending on how you want to co-habitate and utilize the animals around you will determine their value. In addition to animals familiar on this planet like grizzly bears and chickens, there are also those of another planet. Boomalopes and Boomrats while similar to their non-boom counterparts, have the alien property of exploding when they die. Although now extinct on Earth, Megasloths roam the lands in Rimworld once again, thanks to advances in genetics. In addition to Megasloths, Muffalos (descendants of the Earth Buffalo altered to be more cold resistant), Wargs (thought to be engineered for population control, they are fierce and vicious wolf-like creatures), and Thrumbos (Mystical and extremely powerful creatures with the finest horns and fur in the universe) create a unique environment with much to explore and learn. Animals can be tamed to work for you, help you hunt, and produce things like fur and milk that can be harvested for your colony’s use. Sometimes creatures even form a bond with specific colonists.
Plants
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The plant life in Rimworld is very similar to that of Earth which means, like Earth, its crucial to utilize for a successful colony. Early on in the game, lumber is crucial for many things including shelter, heat, and light especially if you’re starting with a Tribal start. Trees, depending on the biome your colony is in, can either be harvested wild or planted and grown in specific places. In addition to trees, raspberry bushes, healroot, and agave can be foraged in the wild. Edible plants include strawberries, rice, potatoes, and corn, and can all be farmed by your colonists during the growing season in your biome or year-round with an indoor grow light. Some animals and pets can graze on grass around the settlement, with larger population needing to be restricted to specific pastures on a cycle to allow regrowth. Instead of open grazing, animals can also be fed hay that is grown by colonists with kibble, a meat and grain mixture, allowing for plentiful food supply for herbivores and carnivores as well. Flowers can be grown as a beautifier to make your colonists happier. Healroot is a medicinal herb that, when cultivated, can be used to treat sick and injured colonists and acts as a base component for more effective medicine. Textile supplies can be grown from cotton plants and a unique mushroom called devilstrand, which is high in quality. Finally, the “leisure” plants of psychoid, hops, and smokeleaf can be grown by colonists for either recreational or entrepreneurial use. Hops produce beer, smokleaf gets rolled in to joints, and psychoid’s leaves are refined into cheap Flake and expensive Yayo. All of these have a risk of dependence and when someone has a mental break, they may binge on them.
Resources
The resources that you will use to build your colony can be mined out of the ground and produced from wood and plant material. Wood is usually the first resource collected and used for construction but is quickly replaced with steel for stronger, fireproof dwellings. A sentence outline uses complete sentences:. Different types of stone rubble can be carved down into bricks, including marble, granite, limestone, sandstone, slate, and the expensive jade. Stone and wood can be used to make sculptures to beautify your colony or sell for profit. Colonists will mine rock and metal in the early stages of the game but can research a Deep Drill to hasten mineral collection. The Deep Drill is used in conjunction with a Mineral Scanner or Ground Penetrating Scanner to locate pockets of valuable resources, which are identified only after being dug up. Fuel can be refined from wood and plant material after some additional research as well.