Rimworld
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LRangerR
Local Legend
@Brave Little Sapling Yeah, I have a lot of fun with it. I'm not demented like many other players are out there, and I'm not judging either. Rimworld is just a game, but still I like to respect my pawns lives and choices, and I like to breathe life into them so that the colonies I create feel truly lived in. For example, I decorate rooms with things I feel the pawns would like, or like to have. A warrior gets some of his older armors or weapons on a shelf, or maybe an ornamental sword, a gourmand gets a "candy dish", a chemical curious one gets a stash somewhere, a socialite gets nice chairs, an animal lover gets a pet bed (preferbly inconveniently placed bc we stardewans all know how animals are), etc etc etc. I once had a craftsman who was a workaholic with an entire mini workshop in his bedroom, it was very cramped and he loved it because he was always getting that big mood buff. Did what I could to make his room pretty but he didn't care that much.
I also set their priorities based on their personalities. Also their eating habits, drug habits, and other little things that most people wouldn't care about. It's definitely a different playstyle,but I'm not the kinda guy who likes to cheese my way through games and make the most awesomest thing ever (tm)! I like Rimworld because it's a story telling game.
To me, the engine is the platform, the canvas, if you will. The pawns are like the medium, and the storyteller is the artist. I am simply the observer and participant who guides the parameters of the game along within the confines and rules of the game itself. Sometimes the colonies aren't very dramatic, and are snuffed out by a harsh world. Sometimes they struggle greatly, but sometimes they truly thrive.
I had one game where I had a thriving colony that was making a lot of progress towards its goals, but it wasn't quite successful yet. Then tragedy struck in a series of events that followed a catastrophic raid. The colony lost all but one of its hunters, and the warriors were in poor shape, all the craftsman were lost, as well as all the negotiators. It was a very hard several years, and I really wasn't sure if they were going to survive even the first winter, in fact they almost didn't. But alas, they eventually got a random recruit and bought a few slaves (and freed them) and then were back on their path. That one hunter though...he literally single handedly saved the colony that time.
I also set their priorities based on their personalities. Also their eating habits, drug habits, and other little things that most people wouldn't care about. It's definitely a different playstyle,but I'm not the kinda guy who likes to cheese my way through games and make the most awesomest thing ever (tm)! I like Rimworld because it's a story telling game.
To me, the engine is the platform, the canvas, if you will. The pawns are like the medium, and the storyteller is the artist. I am simply the observer and participant who guides the parameters of the game along within the confines and rules of the game itself. Sometimes the colonies aren't very dramatic, and are snuffed out by a harsh world. Sometimes they struggle greatly, but sometimes they truly thrive.
I had one game where I had a thriving colony that was making a lot of progress towards its goals, but it wasn't quite successful yet. Then tragedy struck in a series of events that followed a catastrophic raid. The colony lost all but one of its hunters, and the warriors were in poor shape, all the craftsman were lost, as well as all the negotiators. It was a very hard several years, and I really wasn't sure if they were going to survive even the first winter, in fact they almost didn't. But alas, they eventually got a random recruit and bought a few slaves (and freed them) and then were back on their path. That one hunter though...he literally single handedly saved the colony that time.
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Brave Little Sapling
Rancher
@LRangerR You summed up the premise of the game so beautifully! It really is all about experiencing a story and observing (and appreciating) the colonists unique personalities and passions, witnessing their accomplishments, and mourning with them when tragedy strikes. It's difficult to not save scum to get optimal outcomes from messed up situations that claim the lives of your star pawns, but that's really not how the game was intended to be played. It truly is a Lord of the Flies simulator and I think the hardest part of the game is learning to accept whatever the storyteller throws at you--but once you do and you overcome the darkest of situations, it feels amazing!
I've been attached to specific pawns in every playthrough we've done; it's impossible not to. The very first pawn I felt that for wandered in as a wild man named Purple; he was domesticated and became an amazing craftsman as well as a very brave fighter--our current colony's religion is based off of him and has been dubbed Purplism, founded by the Purp faction at the Purple Plains settlement. Fabio the fallen mechcommander who's colony fell into chaos and disrepair upon his death whom I mentioned earlier was another pawn that I will never forget; he almost died as an infant after his mother lost her first husband and wandered sadly into a bug infested cave WHILE SHE WAS CARRYING HIM... Cassandra was a very benevolent storyteller that day as Fabio was rescued somehow unscathed after a bloody battle with the bugs who followed a 5 year old highmate to the settlement after we accepted her plea for help; she later became Fabio's wife.
The stories and lives of these little people is so enthralling I don't understand how anyone couldn't fall in love with this game. It's so awesome you take so much care to create personalized quarters and schedules for your pawns, I would love to do something similar but it just becomes so resource (and space) intenseive to not have barracks for sleeping quarters, but I always prioritize jobs based on passions and give them a MASSIVE rec room with everything they could ever want to help balance it out.
God, I could talk about this game for days on end haha.
I've been attached to specific pawns in every playthrough we've done; it's impossible not to. The very first pawn I felt that for wandered in as a wild man named Purple; he was domesticated and became an amazing craftsman as well as a very brave fighter--our current colony's religion is based off of him and has been dubbed Purplism, founded by the Purp faction at the Purple Plains settlement. Fabio the fallen mechcommander who's colony fell into chaos and disrepair upon his death whom I mentioned earlier was another pawn that I will never forget; he almost died as an infant after his mother lost her first husband and wandered sadly into a bug infested cave WHILE SHE WAS CARRYING HIM... Cassandra was a very benevolent storyteller that day as Fabio was rescued somehow unscathed after a bloody battle with the bugs who followed a 5 year old highmate to the settlement after we accepted her plea for help; she later became Fabio's wife.
The stories and lives of these little people is so enthralling I don't understand how anyone couldn't fall in love with this game. It's so awesome you take so much care to create personalized quarters and schedules for your pawns, I would love to do something similar but it just becomes so resource (and space) intenseive to not have barracks for sleeping quarters, but I always prioritize jobs based on passions and give them a MASSIVE rec room with everything they could ever want to help balance it out.
God, I could talk about this game for days on end haha.
LRangerR
Local Legend
@Brave Little Sapling i really could talk about it for days on end too. I had one old wardog one time, he was trigger happy and wielded some kinda gatling gun and I called it his varmint gun, because he was always killing squirrels and rats with it. Anyways, one day Mr Anders got in a shootout and lost his leg. We weren't even close to the tech level so he got a pegleg and was confined to the fort which had a workshop, prison, armory, and it was expanding. Eventually he died, but that fortress became 'fort anders' until I eventually lost the colony, but fort anders weathered some serious battles and sieges. We even had a space to pull out mortars and return fire with them. Nothing like dropping incindiary on too of you enemys ammo pile. Now THAT colony, I was really sad to see go.
And another time, there was a massive fire. I mean massive as in my colony had fires on 3 sides of it and there was no rain in sight, pretty standard rimworld stuff. But there was this one tree, to this day I still don't know how it survived, but it was burned and survived the maelstrom alone in a field of ashes. We designated it as the marriage tree, and the head Canon was something like, "may your union last the way this tree has survived something blahblah". It was super romantic I swear. But then one day there was a toxic fallout and obviously all the vegetation was doomed to die, so I had a statue commissioned (or took one from the museum, idk) and found one with a fitting epithet and put it right in front of the tree until the tree fell. And that is how the Wedding Tree was forever memorialized in said colony. There was even a Pavillion and a park springing up in the area.
However, the cheesiest way I have ever found to make money on the Rim is to make statues out of silver. Anything that is at least I think Good will sell for a profit easily, and anything else you can send someone to town when he has an Inspired Trade. It feels so dirty but is pretty satisfying.
And another time, there was a massive fire. I mean massive as in my colony had fires on 3 sides of it and there was no rain in sight, pretty standard rimworld stuff. But there was this one tree, to this day I still don't know how it survived, but it was burned and survived the maelstrom alone in a field of ashes. We designated it as the marriage tree, and the head Canon was something like, "may your union last the way this tree has survived something blahblah". It was super romantic I swear. But then one day there was a toxic fallout and obviously all the vegetation was doomed to die, so I had a statue commissioned (or took one from the museum, idk) and found one with a fitting epithet and put it right in front of the tree until the tree fell. And that is how the Wedding Tree was forever memorialized in said colony. There was even a Pavillion and a park springing up in the area.
However, the cheesiest way I have ever found to make money on the Rim is to make statues out of silver. Anything that is at least I think Good will sell for a profit easily, and anything else you can send someone to town when he has an Inspired Trade. It feels so dirty but is pretty satisfying.
Brave Little Sapling
Rancher
@LRangerR It's really incredible how much meaning one can find in this game; the story of the marriage tree is precious! It reminds me of our symbolic gold wall in our current colony's rec room. Every time we start a new game, we begin with basic wood walls, then as we amass stone blocks the walls get replaced. It was a few in-game years before we noticed we forgot to upgrade one 5-segment long wall on the interior of our base that ran between the rec room and the workshop, we also wanted the beauty of the rec room to surpass 200, so we memorialized the last original wall by turning it into gold! Silver statues really are a gold mine--anything silver, really, especially if you have a gifted artist! We once had so much human leather from fallen enemies that we found out human leather chairs sell for quite a pretty penny, too! We normally mass produce yayo and smokeleaf joints to fund our operations so it was nice to spice it up a little bit with some forbidden furniture.
Brave Little Sapling
Rancher
That's hilarious! I would sacrifice a leg for Jenna Marbles to return to YouTube!
LRangerR
Local Legend
I would sacrifice your leg too, but only because thats your style :pThat's hilarious! I would sacrifice a leg for Jenna Marbles to return to YouTube!
Pangaearocks
Farmer
Which mods have been incorporated into the game?
Used to play it, a lot. Bought Biotech eventually, but tbh I liked it more with the simple concept of humans in outer space trying to survive, instead of all these robots, vampires, pigmen and so forth, with psychic powers to boot.
Not played on the computer for long now, it only boasts a 770 gfx card, but had so much fun playing modded Rimworld a few years back. With a modified Storyteller with uncapped raids. It got extremely dangerous in the end game let me tell you!
One of the most hilarious stories was in our large under-the-mountain bases. All sorts of stuff was stored in storage rooms, with open doors for easier access. One night a prisoner jailbreaked, wandered into the hallway, stepped into the storage room right next to the cells, and picked up something. Then ran further into the base. I frantically ordered anyone nearby to tail after the escape artist, hoping to overpower him in time. You see, he had picked up one of those star wars gadgets that would death beam our location...
Our pawns failed, and the weapon was set off. Despite being deep underground, the damage was obscene. Yet somehow our chasing pack survived, surely due to marine armour, or what it was called. Bleeding profusely from torn off limbs, but they lived.
Disastrous event ofc, and most of the base including the research room and most of the gigantic recroom was aah and cinders. But I sat there laughing hysterically at the lunacy of it all Talk about suicide mission and going out with a bang!
We rebuilt and left on the spaceship we built too. Good times.
One colony got wiped out by a siege. Our largely wooden base got incinerated by artillery. Our best fighter took a direct hit and died. Soon after the rest was unable to move with nobody able to rescue them. The siege lasted long enough for a man in black to wander in. Who was incapable of violence...
Another colony got murdered by angry pigs. Figured we'd get some free meat and opened the door in the walls, but they overran our poor pawns, and the last survivors were left in the grass to bleed out over the night. Bad way to go
These days I have become a console gamer, shockingly to my past self. Used to be a PC masterrace. But new hardware cost an arm and a leg (and two lungs, whistle), and PS5 didn't - so console it was. Can't imagine playing rimworld without mods, tho, so not bought it again. But I sure had lots of fun with it back in the pc days
Used to play it, a lot. Bought Biotech eventually, but tbh I liked it more with the simple concept of humans in outer space trying to survive, instead of all these robots, vampires, pigmen and so forth, with psychic powers to boot.
Not played on the computer for long now, it only boasts a 770 gfx card, but had so much fun playing modded Rimworld a few years back. With a modified Storyteller with uncapped raids. It got extremely dangerous in the end game let me tell you!
One of the most hilarious stories was in our large under-the-mountain bases. All sorts of stuff was stored in storage rooms, with open doors for easier access. One night a prisoner jailbreaked, wandered into the hallway, stepped into the storage room right next to the cells, and picked up something. Then ran further into the base. I frantically ordered anyone nearby to tail after the escape artist, hoping to overpower him in time. You see, he had picked up one of those star wars gadgets that would death beam our location...
Our pawns failed, and the weapon was set off. Despite being deep underground, the damage was obscene. Yet somehow our chasing pack survived, surely due to marine armour, or what it was called. Bleeding profusely from torn off limbs, but they lived.
Disastrous event ofc, and most of the base including the research room and most of the gigantic recroom was aah and cinders. But I sat there laughing hysterically at the lunacy of it all
Talk about suicide mission and going out with a bang! We rebuilt and left on the spaceship we built too. Good times.
One colony got wiped out by a siege. Our largely wooden base got incinerated by artillery. Our best fighter took a direct hit and died. Soon after the rest was unable to move with nobody able to rescue them. The siege lasted long enough for a man in black to wander in. Who was incapable of violence...
Another colony got murdered by angry pigs. Figured we'd get some free meat and opened the door in the walls, but they overran our poor pawns, and the last survivors were left in the grass to bleed out over the night. Bad way to go
These days I have become a console gamer, shockingly to my past self. Used to be a PC masterrace. But new hardware cost an arm and a leg (and two lungs, whistle), and PS5 didn't - so console it was. Can't imagine playing rimworld without mods, tho, so not bought it again. But I sure had lots of fun with it back in the pc days
LassieFish
Farmhand
I don't play myself, but my human has it, fairly heavily modded (im not sure which) but in his last save he started a clone army, he had embryos in growth vats, but then one of them was born a twin...of 78 freakin babies...it only stopped ejecting infants when one was stillborn... we had to ship off babies to his allies just to stop them from dying in their own vomit, we genetically modified them to be ugly so no one would cars if they died... we butchered and ate those babies so at least the cannibals would be happy, we had not the growth vats, power, food, or man power to handle that many tiny needy vomit machines.. plus the other embryos in the other growth vats are in danger of spirting 20 at once too, no one is safe, the freakin ghost babies are going to haunt me forever...that save is poisoned by cold, dead, sticky baby hands... only like, 20 of them survived to childhood....
So yeah, pretty cool game
Brave Little Sapling
Rancher
That storyteller effed you HARD, my god! I feel like the two things you NEED in a man in black are medical and at least the ability to do violence, otherwise what's the point of a "savior"? RIP besieged base though
They've incorporated a LOT into vanilla, thankfully. I know for sure wall lights, couches, and books have all been added. They also added crawling mechanics so your suffering pawns can attempt to crawl to safety during firefights which allows you to keep all your fighters fighting and your doctors don't have to wander into the line of fire to rescue people; it's quite fun to trace the blood trails too, they tell one heck of a story! If you couldn't mod Rimworld I really doubt we'd have so many hours in it; the concept is great, it's super deep even in vanilla, but ugh, the virgin UI
I can't imagine playing Rimworld on console. It just seems like there's too much to do in any run to do it all on a controller, imo, but maybe a steam controller could bridge that gap. I also haven't touched a console since the PS4 so maybe it wouldn't be as brutal as I'm envisioning with whatever new doodads the PS5 controllers have haha.
Brave Little Sapling
Rancher
The possibilities really are endless... and horrific haha. Cannibalism almost feels like a hack in the game sometimes; so long as the raids and travelers keep coming your pawns can eat and clothe themselves with the skin of their victims into infinity--at least until the game decides to send back-to-back-to-back mech clusters and infestations, but that's how you know you've made it on the Rim I suppose.
Pangaearocks
Farmer
True, she boned us pretty badly there, and I liked that colony. But lesson learned, wooden houses don't mesh well with fire artillery from sieges. Another colony basically died to heat strokes from a siege, because I wasn't able to remove roof to save people before going down. It was awful. Almost anything can kill you on the RimThat storyteller effed you HARD, my god! I feel like the two things you NEED in a man in black are medical and at least the ability to do violence, otherwise what's the point of a "savior"? RIP besieged base though
They've incorporated a LOT into vanilla, thankfully. I know for sure wall lights, couches, and books have all been added. They also added crawling mechanics so your suffering pawns can attempt to crawl to safety during firefights which allows you to keep all your fighters fighting and your doctors don't have to wander into the line of fire to rescue people; it's quite fun to trace the blood trails too, they tell one heck of a story! If you couldn't mod Rimworld I really doubt we'd have so many hours in it; the concept is great, it's super deep even in vanilla, but ugh, the virgin UI
I can't imagine playing Rimworld on console. It just seems like there's too much to do in any run to do it all on a controller, imo, but maybe a steam controller could bridge that gap. I also haven't touched a console since the PS4 so maybe it wouldn't be as brutal as I'm envisioning with whatever new doodads the PS5 controllers have haha.
Man in black incapable of violence probably isn't possible any more actually. Pretty sure I saw that in patch notes way back. Not sure about medic tho. But if all are dead and you get a lone man in black living there, it's kinda futile if he or she can't defend from attacks, nor kill animals. Farming takes too long.
Agree that console isn't a good fit for games like this. Not sure what's included on console either, cause it looks like there is a different version number system from PC. It doesn't have all dlc tho, so probably way out of date.
What I preferred mod wise was quality of life, like more reasonable cleaning and carrying. It makes it a little easier tbh, but spending a day to pick up a gun and a hat got old fast, when the raid was far away. Otherwise I preferred to keep things unaltered, so I wouldn't add mods with lots of content additions.
One thing that always drove me mad, however, was how patients would start to crawl our of the hospital to do recreation or pick up a meal. Often before we had time to give life saving operations after nasty raids. Nothing I tried could fix it, so always had to watch the hospital like a hawk. Don't think any of the mods I had caused it either, cause I tried loading without mods, and it still reproduced. Anyway, I hope that annoyance has somehow been amended now. Was infuriating to see patients try to kill themselves like that with alarming frequency.
Speaking of horrors, there was something pleasing about landing an artillery hit right in the middle of a 200 people pack of natives, and killing most of them.
Accuracy on those things were horrible lol, but sometimes...
Brave Little Sapling
Rancher
It drives me completely batty when patients get out of the bed for any reason. I've had too many childbirths cancelled 'cause mom wants to drink some chemshine.
I've not experienced a crawler leaving the medbay so hopefully that's been patched somewhere, but that would enrage me haha "YOU'RE INCAPACITATED!! ACT LIKE IT!" It must be frustrating to be a God if Rimworld is any indication; free will is overrated. Lol
laundry basket
Farmhand
I love this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LRangerR
Local Legend
Hay gurrlllll, long time no talk!It drives me completely batty when patients get out of the bed for any reason. I've had too many childbirths cancelled 'cause mom wants to drink some chemshine.
Do you manually set your people's behaviors? Like, drug addiction behavior?
It can be quite the storytelling device
Brave Little Sapling
Rancher
HAAAAY!! Hope you've been well! <3
I set their drug use and whatnots in one of the tabs, I can't remember off the top of my head which one, but it's where you control their clothing and how much medicine they carry--I don't think there's ever been a pregnant person whose drug habits have been altered after conception so that would probably be the easiest solution to that particular problem, haha. Do you use any mods to change their behaviors further or are there any tips you'd recommend that would improve my experience controlling these little 2D psychopaths?
Side note: My husband and I have officially created our most successful colony to-date! Year 9, $850,000+ wealth, NO CHEATING EVEN ONCE, with Randy Random. A colonist is ascending her way through the nobility ranks and is currently an archcount, most wealth is derived from a massive chemshine operation (and also via human leather because the faith dictates that enemy combatants are sustenance), there are 15 colonists, three of whom were born from love found in a hopeless place (there would have been five but one stillbirth occurred and that same colonist miscarried after a social fight, but it's okay because her daughter who is very much still alive is one of the most skilled among them and has now found a husband), and one colonist is the widow of the singular colonist who started it all, naked, afraid, and missing his eyes--he lived almost a full year by himself and built a rudimentary dwelling complete with a simple freezer (yes, he botched a LOT of things due to having no eyes), before succumbing to an infection following a raid. A few months later, two people wandered in to give him a proper burial and pick up where he left off--his wife joined a few years later as a wanderer, had a mental break, ran wild, died to a woodland critter, and was resurrected with an eltex staff but she was suffering from dementia and also MISSING HER EYES like her late husband (whose body was the victim of two corpse obsessions and desicated to nothing shortly after the second exhumation; Christ figure? YES) which were then cured with bionic eyes and mech serums to restore her brain to working order--she's only like 34, c'mon. It's been a wild ride and there have been I think seven souls lost along the way but dang, it's satisfying to look at the base and the graphs and be like, "I did that," while knowing you didn't abuse dev mode to get there.
LRangerR
Local Legend
Wh...you know what? Nevermind. Rimworld. The stories that the game tells are absolutely hilarious at times. And Randy is an absolute menace.
I try to not play with mods (on rimwod, yes, I know) and I don't have any of the expansion packs, dlc whatever you wanna call it. Most of the mods I install are minimally invasive, a lot of vanilla expanded stuff, but also the cute lil pink kobold mod is adorable. Lol.
As for tips, hmm, that's a tough one. Especially with not being able to see your colony. I personally try to lean into their skills, and build around that. I don't mess with drugs that much, but I HAVE had colonies that are full of a bunch of lil stoners, lol. One thing I do at times is I set their drug use mood % thingy so that it's at their mental break threshold. The minor break one, but major could be a thing too. That way they only go for the stuffs only if they're feeling stressed or depressed or whatevs.
Funny story tho, one time I had a guy (girl? Don't remember), who had several cases of drain bramage, and her mental capacity was SUPER low. So low, that one day she went to puff the jolly green giant and it killed her bc the green stuffs debuff is a flat subtraction to mental ability (I forget what it's called). She had been through a LOT too and had recently recovered from some war injuries. The docs tried very hard to save her life and she pulled through, only for me to get the popup and to go find her passed away in a chair somewhere. I was understandably frustrated that time, lol. She was a good egg.
As far as controlling stuff, alpha beavers. One or two is enough, and set their munchmunch space to an area where your turrets chill. Give them a clear line of fire when enemies attack, and with almost no upkeep. Actually, 2 alpha beavers might be too much...they're ravenous.
What kinda map are you guys on?