RimWorld - Damned Colonists in Space

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

Preferable animals that can eat grass from the ground to lower the burden of food/cargo capacity of the caravan.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

I've had a few events, but they've been mainly stranded/wounded wanderer ones. I've got a couple of miniguns and some decent armor now, plus pod launchers. Think I'll try the adventure mode strategy and check out the map.

Make sure to pack properly. The food indicator of course is important. The game won't tell you to bring bedrolls and medicine. Don't bring pregnant pack animals. Also make sure your people have weather-appropriate clothes. I had a guy who forgot to bring a coat once and he lost all his fingers to frostbite on a long trip because you can't stop halfway to build a textile factory.

I was expecting ambushes (had a few) so I sent a married couple armed with charge rifles and marine armor, plus plenty of food. Turns out I derped my mission 'cause I sent them in the dead of winter, and marine armor doesn't have a really good thermal rating. They both died of hypothermia. Oh well, at least they were both married, so now I don't have to worry about a lonesome widow burning down the camp 'cause I sent her husband off alone to mine uranium in the wastelands.

I've got deep drilling/scanners now, so maybe there will be some more closer to home.

 

[Kev Inkline]

I guess it's not a stretch to say their marriage ended up...frigid

 

[Risewild]

I've made my first real attempt at building an escape ship. I've built everything but the engines, and I'm out of uranium. The map doesn't have any, and no traders seem to have any in stock. Is there a way to get any more? Deep drilling, maybe?

You can use the "Long Range Scanner".
You set it to find uranium, make a researcher use it and after 8 (or something like that) days, it should spawn some uranium lumps on the world map near your home area (it then needs +/- 10 days to "recharge" If I remember correctly). Repeat until you have all the uranium you want.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

I've made my first real attempt at building an escape ship. I've built everything but the engines, and I'm out of uranium. The map doesn't have any, and no traders seem to have any in stock. Is there a way to get any more? Deep drilling, maybe?

You can use the "Long Range Scanner".
You set it to find uranium, make a researcher use it and after 8 (or something like that) days, it should spawn some uranium lumps on the world map near your home area (it then needs +/- 10 days to "recharge" If I remember correctly). Repeat until you have all the uranium you want.

Deep drilling is working. Found some just south of my base. Been pulling in some decent amounts, and almost have enough for the reactor. Couple engines later and my crew are born again astro-bastards. All I'm worried about now are those raids that you get while powering the ship up. I've heard stories, man...

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

never ending scalating +20 dudes parties all over. Preparing the surrounding with traps, mines and turrets helps.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

never ending scalating +20 dudes parties all over. Preparing the surrounding with traps, mines and turrets helps.

I've got 9 turrets so far, 3 north side, 6 on the south side entrance. I've got some choke points with wooden traps, and I plan on building a few more turret/sandbag locations. My ranged men are armed mostly with miniguns or LMGs, and I've got a charge rifle.

I'm mainly worried about grenadier/sapper type raiders hitting my flanks. I can handle choke point defense, but right now I've only got 6 colonists and a few trained huskies (and a pig named Wilbur). I don't know if they can hold off a flank attack for long. I think I'll build some looping trap mazes before I get serious with launch. I don't want this long-planned escape to get raped at the last minute.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

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LOL. And that's all she wrote. Made some more turrets, finished the reactor. All that was left was a couple of ship engines, and my pyromaniac decides to go into a fit and burn the settlement down while all my other colonists are sleeping. Gotta love Rimworld. Some people just wanna watch the world burn.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

haha classic rimworld. One time one of my colonies meet their doom by a bunch of chicken going insane and laying havok from the inside.

 

[Modron]

LOL. And that's all she wrote. Made some more turrets, finished the reactor. All that was left was a couple of ship engines, and my pyromaniac decides to go into a fit and burn the settlement down while all my other colonists are sleeping. Gotta love Rimworld. Some people just wanna watch the world burn.

Can you build cucksheds and assign more suicidal colonists to reside in them?

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

No. They're all dead.

What I can do is start another game and not pick anyone with the pyromaniac trait.

 

[Zombra]

You could also have woken up one person to put out the fires ... but what do I know?

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

You could also have woken up one person to put out the fires ... but what do I know?

They did. But the internal temps went up several hundred degrees, and most of them caught on fire and passed out while the flames raged. The Man in Black showed up to help, but by then most of my crew was dead... ironically, the pyro starter was still kicking.

Eh, it was fun to watch. Randy Random is a good AI to play with. Moments before the fires started, I got an item drop full of smoke leaf. Must have been a sign.

 

[Nutria]

This is why I always consider fire hazards from the very beginning. I try to separate my workshops, kitchen/dining area, and apartments by 4 tiles. As soon as I'm doing well and have the opportunity to, I pave over the alleys between them. It's a little less efficient to have a base more spread out it and means building more walls, but I think it's worth it to know that you're not gonna lose more than a quarter of your base in one fire.

 

[dextermorgan]

Built a wooden base and kept a pyromaniac around?

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

You could also have woken up one person to put out the fires ... but what do I know?

Randy Random is a good AI to play with. Moments before the fires started, I got an item drop full of smoke leaf. Must have been a sign.

What do u mean with good? Randy is the only proper way to rimworld bruh. Also on the smoke leaf drop

 

[Alienman]

Breaking news!

Today a transport ship from Demor II transporting a vital cargo of eye patches was destroyed in orbit of a nearby rimworld planet. We do not know the cause yet, but what we do know is that our one-eyed citizens on Yuroga will continue to suffer with reduced depth perception for a while longer.

 

[Zombra]

Wanting to try Rim of Madness, I added a bunch of appropriate mods. Now I'm getting a raft of error messages when I open the game.

Full log and mod list: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/3b3687a08658a43fe3a83ce025b825d6

Can someone mod savvy tell me how to reorder them or if I have to remove something?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jimmious]

Zombra Call of Cthulhu Elder Things requires Humanoid Alien Races 2.0, I think that's your issue seeing your log

 

[Zombra]

oh. forgot to turn that one on. let the madness begin

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

Zombra https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/cy0ppf/rimpy_mod_manager_with_automatic_mod_sorting/
Use this tool to sort your mods, solved alot of problems for me

 

[tindrli]

that from above didnt worked in my case. but this one do the job flawlessly

https://steamcommunity.com/app/294100/discussions/0/1815422173040371698/

 

[Zombra]

The problem with [Rimworld] is that it never goes on sale.

Just get it. It's worth full price. If you get it on Steam you can always refund after an hour if you don't like it.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

a bit unfair, because after one hour he probably still has to figure how to have a roof on his head.

 

[Grunker]

So I'm playing this and I'm fucking horrible at it. But damn it's addictive as all hell