RimWorld Guide: Wealth Management - Kill Raiders Before They Even Arrive [2024, 1.5+]

[@AdamVsEverything]

Sorry about the slightly worse video quality on this guide. This is the first time I have worked with someone else to make a guide and there was a lot of fine-tuning and learning. Future guides, even co-op ones, will have the video quality that you've seen in the past. Having said that, I don't think the video quality is terrible, and you can still get all the applicable information out of this. I'm looking forward to making a ton more guides this year ranging from more simple things to more number-heavy things. Let me know what you'd like to see a RimWorld guide on in your own comment below (I get notifications on new comments but not replies for some reason). And, as always, thanks for watching!

[@ichifish]

Didn't think the video quality was bad at all. Was SHOCKED by the aesthetically pleasing base.

[@AdamVsEverything]

@@ichifish Pfft, who would just build things out of various sized efficient rectangles..

[@PGMP2007]

ADAM ! THIS IS PURE GOLD THANK YOU for the effort and the info.

[@elpozomierda5106]

Dont even think about it is as good as the others

[@Fish-ub3wn]

10/10 gj

[@torymiddlebrooks]

"Don't stores 6000 brick, 4000 rice and expand your base too quickly" *feelings of personal attack intensify*

[@fractalgem]

Me trying to store 10,000 food and viewing that as a sensible amount of food to keep on hand...

[@torymiddlebrooks]

@@fractalgem IF THESE TINY IDIOTS DIDN'T KEEP STARVING EVERY YEAR WE WOULDN'T BE HAVING THESE ISSUES, AMIRIGHT!?

[@huldu]

Had over 30000 corn saved up for a rainy day and the enemy raids didn't seem that bad to be honest. Not sure how the threat is increased per difficulty tier but I'm playing on strive to survive with commitment mode.

[@torymiddlebrooks]

@@huldu Inexplicable, but you also are probably pretty good at fighting raids. 4 pawns, a barely built base, a few farm animals and 3 mortars and 14 raiders was pretty common in my runs. A lot of variables with storyteller and mods and such too.

[@nathanjohnston9762]

@@huldu same. I'm not on commitment mode, but I am playing strive to survive. I have hoarded way too much stuff, and all my pawns are worth 50k+ because of their implants and xenogerm. The enemies just aren't bringing the heat. I'm trying to attract a worthy opponent, but they all keep dying too fast.

[@codyvangogh8111]

I once had 350 components and a trader showed up and I decided not to buy components. Twenty minutes later I was out of components.

[@wolfen210959]

Yeah, but how many days did you have to wait to restock ? I once waited over a year for Randy to send me any traders. :(

[@AdamVsEverything]

😨 This is the scariest story I've ever read on the internet.

[@trishamiller7859]

ABC!

[@l.pietrobon3925]

I've had 50 components for years now lol

[@ChrisR395]

Doing a transhumanist/tunnellers run and the number of components I get through is insane.

[@inspray5307]

Im just a hoarder and no-waste type of player. If I see a dead cougar on the other end of map, I'm gonna go there and butcher it for the fur. This makes it so hard to manage wealth and I'm at 100k before even equiping everyone with smgs. I might try managing wealth for once with this guide

[@AdamVsEverything]

Awesome! And that's completely find as well, just harder to succeed on the harder difficulties with that playstyle. Whatever you have fun doing or trying is what's important.

[@treyfolkmen7942]

When I tried 500% threat difficulty, my solo colonist got raided by 13 people with only 30k wealth. Then immidiately by 20+ people, because previous dead raiders raised my wealth to 50k lol.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yeah, it is a tricky thing to balance at times. It's one reason I use the 'sacrifice method' in a bunch of my runs. I'll have to make a video about that sometime as well.

[@MyFirstYoutubeHandle]

The long and short of his sacrifice method is to recruit a pawn that he doestn want, then kill him. When a pawn dies it lowers raid points that the story teller can throw at you. Do that with the right timing frequency and all raids will be much easier. Source: 415.33 hours (I just checked) of watching Adam on Twitch....

[@AlexanderHL1919]

@@MyFirstKZbinHandle Downing a pawn also reduces the next raid size without having to kill someone. Its muc more reliable as colonists joining is random, though granted, with 1 pawn, the story teller will push pawns on you pretty often.

[@Elrohof]

@@AlexanderHL1919 Downing a pawn is best if they're a Wimp, since you're unlikely to actually harm them and thus can easily down them multiple times. Yes, it stacks.

[@tabithal2977]

Could you also just anesthetize them? ​@@Elrohof

[@fnutarf2085]

You'd think having litteral hundreds of dead raiders on the map would deterr enemies from aproaching

[@halo007Mex]

They come like flies xD

[@Elaver]

“We’ll destroy their base this time!” “We’ll destroy their base this time!” “We’ll destroy their base this time!”

[@henryplumb7459]

Stereotypical soviet doctrine, many dead corpses? They didnt use enough men!

[@ChiralLegioN]

Bro ive been scouring YT for good Rimworld guides for the last 3 days. Now that ive found you i feel like all my problems have been solved.

[@makavelismith]

Your problems have just begun.

[@ichifish]

Having watched your play throughs I can confirm that A) wealth reduction is a personal passion, B) you really know your !@#$#. Also 10/10 for a bazillion timestamps.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol, thanks! And my pleasure, thanks for watching.

[@billfred9411]

It's interesting to see how different people play. For me i normally play with royalty in mind so I just have to accept that my map wealth will skyrocket at some point. I would never throw away gold silver or plasteel.

[@krzkam7792]

@@billfred9411 I wouldn't either. Instead always try to process them as fast as i can and sell just to reduce wealth, but eventually the pile up in a rate i cannot content.

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

as a hoarder, the biggest thing I took away from this, is an explanation why I get absolutely wiped by a lich event in every playthrough I've ever done even though I lacked the offense to handle it. lol.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yeah, even with (most) mods, the wealth mechanic can still creep up and kill you.

[@casualwoomy]

fresh animal corpses counting as wealth is bizarre because you'll end up with situations where raiders kill a manhunter pack and then take the animals they just killed, count it as stealing, and leave

[@gossamera4665]

Whoo, free cougar!

[@Matrium0]

Great guide, thank you! I have 800+ hours in Rimworld and used to play on highest difficulty. Strategic Wealth Management is essential there and I noticed that I actually dislike this part. Like a gold meteor drops and I am not even exited for it, because "don't want that wealth". Turned down the difficulty a bit and now enjoy that much more - it's still basically the same difficulty overall, but you don't have to throw stuff away all the time

[@justdie0k]

What would you say is a good difficulty to not have to mid max your wealth on?

[@r3dp9]

The big things I learned: 1) Losing a caravan is still a win, since everything I put on caravans is a disposable liability anyways. 2) You can park a caravan ON TOP of your colony to prevent ambushes while still storing whatever you want. You'll still have to feed the caravan, but for certain types of colonies this is an incredibly valuable trick when transition from early to mid game. 3) Non Ancient Danger ruins, including buildable roads add to wealth, and should be deconstructed or destroyed. Non-buildable junk and non-buildable roads (asphalt, dirt, etc) has no wealth value. Everything else I already knew, but if I didn't watch this guide I wouldn't have found the invaluable nuggets of knowledge that slipped through the cracks. Thanks a bunch! You just might have saved my current playthrough!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Awesome! Thanks for watching. And yeah, you can store things there safely forever. Just need to drop them some food now and again.

[@RedBeard26]

Dude, your guides are absolute top tier. "You might not know how to create a caravan, but dont worry. This is the perfect time to learn" You come off as very welcoming and eager to teach new players. As a noob, I really appreciate these guides!

[@davidm8371]

I'm playing the game on relatively easy settings, but am getting hammered by raids. I started to go through and triage my setup yesterday, and this helps a lot. I already burned a lot of "worthless" stuff, and am gathering all of the stuff that I can sell so that I can gift or trade it with my handful of allies. Also, I have far too much food sitting around.

[@nickmudd]

I downloaded a mod that lets you ignite anything while drafted. I didn't get why raiders and pyros could light things but I would need some kind of weapon to make fire. Definitely a mod I would think needs to be in the base game

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yeah, I would really like that too and have talked about it being silly before. Even tribals apparently have some sort of quick-light ability/item. What's the name of the mod?

[@Komyets]

​@@AdamVsEverythingI know this is a very old comment but I figured maybe you'd still like to know the answer haha. A mod made by Owlchemist named "Scattered Flames" has an optional "Ignite" gizmo that can be enabled in its mod options. The mod itself mainly affects how fire looks visually, and also enables you to toggle the "firewatch" function of the game (the thing that triggers rainfall whenever too much fire is on the map) Lastly, it has that neat "Ignite" gizmo for your pawns. So there you have it :P

[@infpdreams]

I don't know what exact series of Twitch raids led me to your content, but it's reignited my love for this game. I play on a custom mode where I still have to deal with environmental hazards like food and disease, but raids aren't as bad. It's always nice to see someone who plays on crazy hard difficulties who doesn't at all try to gatekeep or make people feel bad. I play a lot of RPGs on max (sometimes modded to be harder than the vanilla max) difficulty, but RimWorld's one that I'd rather chill out to, instead. I get to see the crazy stuff the game can throw at you on high difficulties by watching you play, which I appreciate. Guides like these still have helped me be smarter about the game and understand some of the stuff that didn't make sense to me before. Thanks so much for making this game even better for me.

[@andreasguillot2057]

Happy to see a video consolidating all of Adam's great advice. I am not producing 200 meals in advance anymore.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Awesome, hope it is helping!

[@drach420]

Outstanding guide. Informative, concise, and comprehensive with plenty of illustrative examples. Looking forward to the raid point one. Thanks a ton for all the inspirational playthroughs -- I'm having a blast cranking up the difficulty and dying a little bit farther each time.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it and that it helped. The next four guides we're working on finishing up right now are: Raid Points, Components, Friendly Fire, and Schedules.

[@tortoisex]

Well said

[@Ragatokk]

@@AdamVsEverything I can't seem to find your raid points guide.

[@caesaraugustus8281]

Great video. This explains why my 12 man colony got raided by 42 tribal enemies. Thank the luck I had 4 Thrumbos wandering through and used the animal pulser on them. They didn't survive long, just long enough for my peeps to take good defensive positions and lay waste to the heathens. Spent the next 3 days cremating enemies.

[@genericytprofile852]

Raiders when there's 3 colonists: "Meh" Raiders when there's 3 colonists and 6k stone bricks: "Holy shit, this is an avengers level threat" Love the content btw, very in depth video. This is exactly the kind of detail I was looking for. Keep it up dude!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol. yeah, it is a bit silly. And thanks!

[@tuankhangcaonguyen5545]

Yes, thanks for this adam, been playing for 4 months but still doesn't know how to probably not amped up the raids to literally breach mechanoids in just 60 days in rimworld

[@AdamVsEverything]

This will definitely help with that, then. Thanks for watching!

[@shaun4772]

Excellent guide to a subject that seems simple on the surface, but has a ton of nuance to it.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks! And yeah, I doubt knowing that buried tainted clothing still counting will help anyone play better, but it is interesting (for instance). :P

[@wolfen210959]

Oh wow, the "wealth" of information in this vid is staggering. Thank you very much. :)

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol. Thanks for the comment and the pun.

[@PcDragonProductions]

That was without a doubt the most in-depth rimworld guide I've ever enjoyed watching. So professionally made! Very Informative. Much like!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[@jacobgame2757]

This has changed how I play. Never realised this was a thing. I just hoarded all the broken weapons from raiders and never thought about it. Just had a huge bonfire :D

[@romeobenvolio4145]

Jesus... 1300 hours in this game and I'm learning new little tips and tricks; in this case, I've never thought to deliberately grenade items before; instead I've always been lazy and simply never "allowed" dropped junk to be hauled back, preferring instead to let it deteriorate via the elements at the pace a snowcone melts in the arctic. Holy shit! The "rapid-fire" knowledge nuggets regarding wealth are very helpful! A lot of this is easy-to-manage stuff!

[@__shifty]

you GOTTA make more guides! its fast, concise, bam bam bam! slamming info in my brain like neo in the construct! i love it

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol, thanks. More on the way!

[@kae5717]

Watching this in early 2025, still solid stuff! I was in the habit of uninstalling stations when I didn't use them, this guide taught me otherwise. (While raids are exciting, I get too attached to my pawns and the sheer stress of defending... this helps a lot)

[@MortalSmurph]

How to find Storyteller Wealth: Options -> Development Mode. Hit "Open the View Settings", the third button at the top, and check "Write Storyteller". Then, back on the main Rimworld screen, hit the Magnifying Glass button. "Wealth" is Storyteller Wealth. "Base Points" is Raid Points.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for posting this!

[@MortalSmurph]

I'll be replying to this comment with updates. There are surely some mistakes. There are some things we forgot to add. There will be patch changes. Biocoded Weapons: Don't count. Flowers: Don't count. Thin Roof: Doesn't count. The video states: "All implants always count at full value". More accurately: they always count at full market value when implanted. When not implanted implants are an item and the market value is affected by hit points.

[@keithyaj2095]

Thx man

[@thebulletkin8393]

I was going to say at the rice section that a guide on food, how much colonists need and so on would be really useful, but you already had that idea, you’re just 10 steps ahead of me!

[@cr0ctus]

The strat of using a nearby settlement as a bank is one I use all the time. Have someone you don't care about squat there and drop pod them things you want to save for later. Maybe give them more pemmican now and then. Then you can farskip to them to retrieve items you want, split the caravan from them, then farskip home. EZ

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yep! Farskip is such a crazy good Psycast.

[@boromirtheblasted883]

I may be a masochist but I thoroughly enjoy the adrenaline rush when 100 raiders show up to play against my 15 person colony.

[@The-Wa]

live for the battle

[@kurosu-samaklipleri7090]

Tough volitile brawler Super soldier coming through!!!

[@thalassaer4137]

Same, tho I get the best adrenaline when 80+ imps coming to fight my 3 custom vampires(removed the phobia but still dies to fires fast) Well...3 vamps and an army of robots lmao

[@Deca4531]

Wow, this was awesome! As far as guides go this was great, all the information or clearly explained and often shown (us visual learners appreciate that) and i came out of it not just knowing the answers but understanding them. Really, fantastic job, i cant wait to see more.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Glad you enjoyed it, more on the way! Thanks for watching!

[@vladorio]

Finally. Among all these videos "how-to-become-rich", there is a video "how-to-make-wealth-do-not-kill-you"

[@AdamVsEverything]

Hope it helped - Thanks for watching!

[@raiwenduravwin3166]

So good at hitting em in the hurty spots they die before they get there!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol, that's right!

[@TrashwareArt]

Even if you're not wanting to min-max the game this is valuable information. I had the habit of accumulating as much wealth as possible for some reason and kept being annoyed at how often I was getting 10 person raids on my 5 person base. Depending on your playstyle this could be very punishing, but perhaps I should tell myself its okay to play at smaller levels.

[@AdamVsEverything]

It's for sure good stuff to know at any level!

[@marc-uc1vg]

its definitely just good to know on a base level, because of how most games teach you to hoard resources

[@michaelrichards5340]

I don't understand, on higher difficulties enemies don't retreat? Because I had 11 OP guys getting raided by a small community lol but after a while when their numbers start ti drop they tend to start fleeing

[@petko021tv]

I would like to profusely thank you for this guide, especially the point that fresh corpses count for wealth. I was doing a high diff ice sheet challenge and kept being confused why the raids were ballooning so out of proportion. After a lucky meteorite and building a crematorium my wealth chart looked like the American economy after the Stock Market crash of 1929.

[@bkm8707]

Watched on TV and phone and now I'm commenting in order to feed your favorite algorithm. Love your work, Adam. Miss ya on Twitch, hopefully soon I'll be settled in on the island and can watch more regularly. Mahalo!

[@AdamVsEverything]

That's awesome. And no worries! I know it is a big change, not to mention the new time difference. Stay safe!

[@OneHunchMan]

Outstanding guide Adam

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@skyesfury8511]

This helped me understand why I got a 50+ man raid 10 days into my new save. I got a couple items that added around 80k each wealth to my colony. I knew wealth played a factor in how raids are calculated, I just didn't know the details. This vid helped me understand that it wasn't a mod issue (or rather, not a glitchy mod setup), just me holding on to some things that I REALLY shouldn't have held onto.

[@amigosmundousa2246]

Plus used mod Max limit raiders raid 100 good mod for late game when player wealth surpassed 1 million or choose limit mod option.

[@deathdoc3134]

Thanks for the guide! I can see myself keeping a closer eye on my colony wealth as I progress to harder difficulties. Looking forward to the next guides!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Hope it helps! And many more on the way this year.

[@trishamiller7859]

Omg finally! Thank you! You made wealth management easy! Smurf-a-licous even!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Gargamel hates this guide!

[@Narvre]

Yaayyyyyy I've been so excited for more guides since you mentioned doing them on stream.i watch your stream vods so much that I feel like I dont need them anymore but heck I love watching them anyway hahaha

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol. I do go over pretty much everything I make guides on during playthroughs. Thanks for watching!

[@plumbum9688]

Your guides are honestly great! Very informative and concise. Really puts into perspective why i get overwhelmed in the late game all the time haha

[@outro-gabriel]

finally a in depth guide on these things

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@thepeacefulnetch]

I've been binge-watching this series, and I just want to thank you for the thought and effort that clearly goes into these videos. I really appreciate how you are careful about focusing on what's important, concise explanations, presenting data without getting lost in it, pointing out further complications for those who want to go further down the rabbit hole later, and being very, very clear that these choices are just options. Part of Rimworld's fascination for me is how incredibly flexible it is.I don't want to be told there's a "best" way to do something, because that sells this game short. I want to be told, if you make this choice, here are some implications and possible results/consequences.I enjoy seeing a creator respect the game and its myriad creative players like you do. You also have good pacing, your graphics emphasize and clarify the information you're presenting, and you break the information into manageable, logical chunks, which helps when presenting options n a game this complex. Putting information together to be digestible and interesting like you do takes a lot of time behind the scenes, so I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to do it. Also... looking at ocd stockpile of 6,300 rice... gave me some very useful information. XD One question I'm left with: when you're trying to avoid wealth inciting larger raids, what are some options for dealing with colonists' unhappiness with a lack of wealthy surroundings?

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks, I appreciate you watching (and the kind words)! As far as the last question, the main two things I do is use a barracks (they are extremely wealth and space efficient for the mood you can pump out of them. Make sure your barracks triples as dining and recreation and is pretty + large. You can do this for free by planting daylillies in dirt floor (they don't need sunlight). The second is scheduling. Which, after I get through this current medical situation crap, I have a guide planned for.

[@thepeacefulnetch]

@@AdamVsEverything oooh! I’d been making pots for the day lilies, but in the floor sounds like a great idea. A single cell zone. Or a row… Thanks for the response! I hope they figure things out and you have your energy back soon. For your sake, of course. Definitely not my selfish desire to have more videos in this series. Nope. Not at all. 😏

[@lowfn]

Nice guide! Interesting to see all the different ways wealth works. I always simply avoided mining any resources until I needed them, and might stick to that, but will keep this in mind if I do any more brutal runs!

[@CharliMorganMusic]

I had no idea this was a mechanic. So much makes sense now.

[@iller3]

First time rim player here... thanks! very helpful, confirmed most of my Paranoia

[@ImSquiggs]

I remember a tactic people used in the early betas for wealth management, but I didn't see you cover it in this video and I'm wondering if anyone knows if it still works. You used to be able to half-construct buildings to "hide" the wealth of the building materials. So, it was common for min-maxers to build endgame spaceship parts and forbid them to never finish constructing them, because it could take all the Plasteel/Uranium/Gold/ect out of their wealth, and as long as you didn't construct it you could always just cancel the build for 100% of your materials back.

[@mymusicmen13]

Wow, lets break and ruin the game for ourselves! You must be having so much fun!

[@ImSquiggs]

@@mymusicmen13 Haha, weird small thing to get angry over there buddy, you're really trying to be outraged today huh?

[@Nevera476]

​@@mymusicmen13 this whole video about how to break the game to control threat. It's a solo game, no need to gatekeep

[@PaulMab9]

@@ImSquiggs Some folks just like being salty, what can ya do? Rimworld is, among other things, a storytelling game. If we're enjoying ourselves, we're winning~!

[@antonfilimonov9131]

Wow, I'm very interested and intrigued

[@Джой-42]

Thank you for tips, Adam! Have a good day, sir.

[@AdamVsEverything]

You too. Thanks for watching!

[@TheSparrowLooksUp]

You know, this was a fascinating peek into the guts of this incredible game, but I am one of those people that this type of meta gaming doesn't appeal to, and that is totally OK. I appriciated you effort on this one (and overall) and look forward to seeing more of your work!

[@AlexSilva-rg8qt]

Daang i came from a live on twitch and learn a lot on this video, thank u so much

[@PGMP2007]

ADAM ! THIS IS PURE GOLD THANK YOU for the effort and the info.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Glad to help!

[@thepeacefulnetch]

No! NOT GOLD!!!! Crap, you're going to have so many raiders...

[@Youwanttodream]

Great video, educational, concise, and yet not rushed !

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks!

[@_skud]

When I learned about wealth interactions with raids. I tried this exact play style. I caravan more than ever, buy whatever I need, then dump everything else. I keep a nice pocket of silver/goods In case I need to pick up a rare item. Extremely effective. Too easy, almost.

[@peppermor8227]

Most professional Rimworld guide I ever seen. Keep up great work!!!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@FlameDevily]

I also love managing my wealth, one thing I prioritize is staying ascetic while rushing charge rifles before covering my floors with cloth.

[@imbkjewelz]

Very nice guide on RimWorld wealth management. Definitely worth watching.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@zukazealanee]

Was watching live and was requested to comment, so comment.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks!

[@entelin]

I have an obscene amount of time in Rimworld, but the way wealth works has always been the thing I hated the most. It basically means two things: 1. Technically there is no progression, playing "optimally" is basically living in the dirt and using traps. 2. It's anti fun. In most games if your smith creates a legendary sword, that would be exciting! In Rimworld you basically get it off your map ASAP.

[@AdamVsEverything]

yeah, it is a bit silly. Luckily they added Wealth Independent Mode, though. Highly recommend trying it out if you have not.

[@entelin]

@@AdamVsEverything I tried it, it's also kinda broken though. It just scales regardless of anything, but can also be reset by resettling. So that mode tends to be either impossible, or way too easy, depending on where you wind up in the curve. The way it should be done is also a cool extension to the gameplay the raid score should be based on an estimation of actual combat ability, but raids should be motivated by various reasons which can feed into the storytelling. For example you might get a message saying that the raiders demand some particular valuable item you have. The raiders may give you an option to just give them that item and they would leave. So then they would send one pawn into your base to get the item, and if he's successful they leave. You might get regular tribute demands, maybe at the start of the game you might get starving raiders who demand food, or any number of other reasons. But the point is it would give more meaning to the raids, and when someone invades someone else, they are going to bring what they think they need, not some overwhelming horde, or one guy with a club, something appropriate and scaled by difficulty. This way you can have fun amassing wealth and making your base pretty, which may to some degree increase the frequency of raids, but scales the raid according to what the raiders think they need.

[@cats4president]

that was incredibly informative! even for an old rimworld veteran, like me. i had the misconception that mined (but not collected) steel , outside of home area, did not count.

[@TheBobskid]

Enjoyable guide, thanks

[@AdamVsEverything]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[@gael6204]

Great video! Thanks for the guide Adam!

[@AdamVsEverything]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[@dowjonesjones9450]

So helpful. Was playing rimworld last night and got my whole base and pawns rekted this knowledge would have been great lol

[@AdamVsEverything]

Hopefully it will help out for the future lol

[@p_tassa]

Great Rimworld wealth guide! This helps a lot. I wish i would've learned about wealth and it's consequences when i first started playing. That would've made it a lot more fun (or a lot less frustrating) for me. Most games I'm trying to hoard resources so this was a big change. Thanks!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yeah, it is tough not to hoard things, for sure. It feels like a good thing to have years of food and tons of extra medicine ... but RimWorld punishes for that :P

[@Rel_Ortal]

It's human nature to do so, honestly, and the game's other mechanics push you to hoard things (needing to prepare for winter, toxic fallouts and similar events, needing components to repair various things, etc). Considering there's already both a visible mechanic for punishing high wealth (in the expectations modifier) and that wealth being involved with raid scaling isn't stated anywhere outside that one custom difficulty setting, I've always felt that it's an odd mechanic to have in the game. To have it be a good idea to burn your own things to the ground or just dump money on the side of the road is just...so unintuitive.

[@OhNoTheFace]

Although to be fair this is only super punishing on 500%. I have done the normal Losing is Fun without worrying too much and can normally keep up

[@MasterGhostf]

"Dont start multiple years worth of food", don't personally attack me

[@ArthurHerbst]

Didnt know columns add so little to your wealth. Stange, since they need quit some resources. With when extreme wealth management is necessary, it could be viable to store your gold/silver/plasteel in columns. If youre okay with loosing 50% in the end that is. You could have used this in the Archeonexus run! Build like 200 Gold columns (Worth 20k wealth) and then deconstructed them in the end for 200.000k wealth! Would take for ever though.^^

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yep! There's several things in here that would have helped with that. Another example is turning auto-repair off, punching a gold statues (or silver etc) to below 50% durability, and then minimizing it into item for. Then, once we have enough, just reinstall them all and repair them to hit 350k :P

[@ArthurHerbst]

@@AdamVsEverything Oh, thats true! With a good artist (even production specialist) even more effektive.

[@AppleBiscuits]

More wealth = more enemies = more organs to harvest = more wealth Rimworld demonstrating that it takes money to make money

[@AdamVsEverything]

Well, it has definitely turned me into a cruel capitalist overlord when I play... :P

[@ArthurHerbst]

I just found out that bonded Persona Weapons do not add wealth! Thats good to know i think :)

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yep! They do not have market value.

[@okaylord]

Great guide! I feel like playing again once I get a few days off from work.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Awesome, good luck!

[@savinakis]

Thanks guys, great info!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@doxscund8821]

One fun way to get rid of junk is to play on a swamp biome (if you hate yourself). Throwing stuff into pools of water or mud will be claimed by the swamp within a few days.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Definitely. I try to use any nearby water on my maps for just this reason.

[@areius001]

Great Guide! Thanks for sharing vital information!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@codesouls4469]

Great guide, I'm super guilty of over producing and overmining 😅, thanks!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol, I think almost everyone is. Thanks for watching!

[@mathmns]

I always knew a full straw floor base was the way to go. Clean and cheap

[@AdamVsEverything]

Lol. I wouldn't say best ... but it sure is an option. It'll also double as a quick-starter for pyros to turn the base into an oven!

[@shaggyd00kale58]

*Siege mortar raider rubs hands excitedly after firing off incinerator shell*

[@wujek7616]

Me casually looking at my 500 yayo and 4000 psychoid leaves stockpile:

[@OrignalSpider]

wow, lots of good information on wealth. Thanks.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@jassirflores2567]

Oh man... This is goldie, i use to have ALWAYS a min of 10k rice and 100 processed lavish food as a backup and almost never get past the Mid-game (pre-component fabrication) and now i see why hahahaha, i will start managing things, it will be a lot more fun

[@ArramzyChaos]

I recently started a Transhumanist, tree connection, human primacy, rancher colony. Between the huge amount of tamed animals, their products, me shoving my colonists full of bionics asap and building with more expensive materials from the start (as they didn't want to cut down trees without a huge mood debuff) I got raids (and worse, mech clusters) like I had never seen before. In the end I think I only survived because of some lucky anima tree psycaster levels, maybe helped by the combat animals and Gauranlen Dryads I got (but I'm unsure as to how much they are worth in terms of wealth, so maybe they added more raiders than they killed), they were especially deadly if I got unlucky with traders for a while. I simply had to come back to this video and check if there was anything I could do to limit their size, and it turns out: quite a bit. This video was very helpful thank you.

[@Josh-if7to]

Great guide, informative and to the point with no BS.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks! It's a topic I see asked about (and misunderstood) nonstop all over the place. Feel free to share the video if you know anyone that plays.

[@gerardip8659]

Really usefull guide about wealth management Adam! TY!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Glad you liked it!

[@smiffytom]

A video that's just as good as your streams, thanks for the info! Great vid sir Now I know so much more, and still suck at this game!

[@AdamVsEverything]

That's kind of you to say. Thanks for watching!

[@zachsuedmeyer2526]

Never played Randy, only played Adventure story, never won. Going to try some of these tips. Likely just research hella hard and keep wealth low enough until it is time to rev up.

[@zachsuedmeyer2526]

@@gamingguruoz I'll look into it :)

[@AdamVsEverything]

Good luck! Hope the guides and playthroughs helps. As always, just let me know if you have any questions.

[@zachsuedmeyer2526]

@@AdamVsEverything i died about 4 hours in trying this style. My colony got raided while 2 of my pawns were down due to illness/addiction and my third pawn went on a daze/wander. Idk how you do it lol. It seems impossible even st low difficult. Thank you for your video though, if I learn a bit more about how things work ill win 1 eventually

[@zachsuedmeyer2526]

@@gamingguruoz thanks for the advice but I try to keep mods limited. I have the wall lights mod and then a couple music mods because vanilla music gets to be a bit much for me. I'll try to check out a video where that mod is in use and see if it is for me or not

[@Otis151]

Re: the rice accumulation… I’m guilty. Haha. Thanks for the guide. Lots to think about.

[@AdamVsEverything]

No problem! Thanks for watching!

[@icantwrite2802]

Me looking at my 3 prestige cataphract and marine armors, 12 excellent to masterwork quality cataphract marine armor and helmet, 20,000 lavish meals, 30,000 rice, 2,000 thrumbo fur, 5,000 muffalo, and a my faction leader and his wife's bedroom and throne room that is made entirely of gold both exterior and interior.

[@Rekkesque]

Great guide! Need to get rid of a ton of marble artwork now...

[@AdamVsEverything]

At least you can trade it to someone for some 'wealth that can defend itself' :P

[@dominicthomas8726]

Nice info dump buddy. Thanks for putting in the hours to dig up the data. x

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@Tamizushi]

I strategy I've been using recently to manage wealth is to intentionally leave some items outside to deteriorate. For the most part, I'm talking about weapons, but more generally, any weapon that I don't plan to sell and that won't become less useful if damaged is fair game. You can configure a stockpile outside to only contain items with above 40% of their hitpoints and let lifters do the hauling.

[@G-Fiti]

Very detailed video, I liked that you also added a little note on the likely bugged smoothed stone walls :D

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks! There's actually been a couple of RW changes since this video that I need to make a post about. Basically, unclaimed walls around the map no longer count for as much wealth until you claim them.

[@GoingtoHecq]

My basic strategy so far has been to just make stuff purely to trade for armor, weapons, and bionic. Art? Sell it. Jewelry? Sold. Capes? For customers only. Etc. Been doing a little chinchilla farming. Very effective. If I can't process the chinchillas they sell well on their own.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Yep! 'Wealth that can defend itself' is one of my mantras (for my playstyle).

[@joea5183]

I get as much of any type of textile that I can get. Then, I make clothes. Then, I burn anything less than excellent. This way, I am always crafting/building to get my pawns levels higher. It also keeps wealth down and increases protection and speed/comfort/beauty.

[@jacksonk4105]

Please do a work preference tab guide, I have a lot of trouble managing this tab, especially with lots of colonists

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks! I have that one on the list already. It's not one of the immediate next ones, but it is on the way!

[@Aramsham]

Huzzah more guides!

[@AdamVsEverything]

And many more on the horizon!

[@Charnotx]

Wealth wealth wealth wealth wealth. Yay, wealth!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Wealth!

[@michaelrichards5340]

This video explained a lot because I have colony with 11 ppl 9 of them are now half human due to to bionics and their market value during caravan screen setup is 22k, yet I was confused as to why my colony itself is worth 1mil because I had wood floor and barely impressive rooms but I didn't realized buildings like a shield generators turrets that can wipe 26 man raids by itself was contributions to wealth so in short, even attempting to survive or defend yourself can spike wealth, but you can keep growing as long your colony can defend itself. Another thing is to be ready to deal mainly with the environment changes rather than raids, it's one thing to recover from a raid but surviving a toxic fallout month or a global warming 2 year would mean having stock piles of food be necessary.

[@pedropimenta896]

Extensive research at it's best!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@ramezhachicho1777]

This is why I always play wealth independant. Having raids hurt more just because you stored a little extra food makes no sense to me.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Wealth independent is a ton of fun to play, for sure.

[@nandi0821]

Hi Adam! Thank u for this awesome guide too! :)

[@AdamVsEverything]

My pleasure!

[@TheHamerer]

One thing I never know about is the appropriate time to invest into devil strand. It's right there at the beginning of the tech tree but I feel like it's more of a mid game item for me. A few times I've tried to rush it I got absolutely wrecked.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Devilstrand is a super good defensive material, especially for the textile type level. It doesn't add any wealth while it is growing but does as soon as it is harvested (and then it increases further once made into clothing etc). I'd say planting some as soon as you can is fine, just make sure that if you accidentally overproduce you send someone out to trade off the excess (or donate it to make some friends) right away.