Beginners Guide To Rimworld 1.5+

a beginners guide for new players. this will help you get your feet on the ground and get you on your way to making awesome colonies!
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[@Noobert]

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[@Jcewazhere]

I would love for someone to play really, really, old versions of Rimworld. Like back when the fear mechanic was still in the game. People think it's hardcore now, but they know nothing :P IIRC they're available on the Ludeon studios website.

[@Atamosk-bu7zt]

Instructions unclear, punched thrumbo and now my hand is on the ground.... and now my legs are missing... and now i am but a humble torso.

[@generalpancakes]

I have 450 but never have got fabrication

[@Darkone19915]

@@Jcewazhere Are they really? I haven't seen those in years. I still wish Tynan had done more with the fear system and vanilla game door locks that were around way back in the early alphas.

[@b1cusj35]

u only have 17k subscribers fire the fucken writer and do it urself ur not gettin a doller u lazy inbred

[@Masterchezze]

Pro tip, if a trading caravan passes, and they have a slave. You can attack the slave (you loose a bit of relationship per hit), to lower their silver cost. The more you beat them the more their price drops.

[@elbonnybar]

hahaha. that's so great to know also pretty fuck up too. that par for the course in rimworld.

[@EckhartLuthor]

That is such a Rimworld thing, why have I never thought of it.

[@lechking941]

I had this tip thinks to the shit rimworld says mod.

[@Laireso]

Colonist: "Hey, how much for this slave?" Trader: "Ah, this one is worth 1150 silver, good sir!" *Colonist pulls out a Uranium mace* _BONG_ Colonist: "How much now?" Trader: "...uhh, I guess 1050, but pleas-" _BONG_ Colonist: "Now?" Trader: "Sir, I have to inform you what you are doing is VERY inappropriate behavio-" _BONG, BONG, BONG_ Trader: "STOP IT, STOP IT, FINE! 550 silver, last offer you savage!!" Colonist: "Deal..." :) *Colonist proceeds to drag the carcass behind their defenses*

[@dethmaul]

lmaoo. I just read somewhere that you can go into dev mode and do ten damage to whatever colonist you want, like you're slapping them.

[@Raptor-tooth]

If you can call it a colony, I just got the game and started on the hardest difficulty with naked brutality and Robbie Random set to "Losing is fun". Started out with a one-armed cannibal who is a great shot but not great at much else. I got a somewhat sizable base set up in the boreal forest before he starved to death. I could not get him to pick berries for the life of me. He did, however, snap out of a daze once to rush half way across the map and eat a dead raccoon, then go immediately back into a daze.

[@SwazyDragon]

😂😂🤣🤣😂 The mad dash to eat the raccoon. 🏃

[@Ruben-vy6iw]

- Just bought the game before watching this video - Went through the tutorial - tried to attack a pack of buffalos right after i completed the tutorial to get food And that’s how i ended here

[@neosuduno]

First colony, now that is a story. It involved slaughtering boomalopes in a wooden barn, meteors hitting my chemfuel next to my barracks while half of my pawns were down with the plague and every pawn trying to do everything and going nowhere. It was mercifully ended by a man-hunting Thrumbo herd, 3 rocket raiders and and infestation all at once. Then I started looking at guides.

[@elbonnybar]

hahahaaha. oh man. that shiet hilarious.

[@lechking941]

Sweet mercyful Randy who did you decide to use as the teller? Well if it's that chaotic it had to be Randy. Oh and my first was basicly blitz's rimworld experince as I did a cannibal colony. It lived. Never saw it die but than I learned about dev mode and my next dozen have cheated till I got into high about of mods. Than I just never finish it. Oh and currently I have only cheated so my colony don't get fucked by stupidity round of events that happen to be rim of horrors mod. (I HAD A FUCKIN STAR SPAWN NEARLY KILL one of my colonests. Oh and they frail things. As avali, but I do have by now a 80or so teifling and a kobold, (who has one the favor of my personal colonist who is my starbound main character I play with, or on eof them any way) so ya coloney is rocket as of now but living in their frozen waste just fine.

[@scottl9660]

I don’t know for certain, I’m not sure a guide would help with that. Maybe a guide on how to bury rimworlders while dead.

[@neosuduno]

@@lechking941 Yes, it was Randy. I realized not long after that Randy's description was not hyperbole.

[@Gromper7878]

Wow that is SUPER unlucky, LOL

[@theulfhednar2655]

In my last colony (it died 1 hour ago) I actually had a strange event which is probably a part of the alpha animals thing. A person joined my ranks randomly, did work though not much, and ate a shit ton. It was kinda strange but I let it pass. Suddenly, right after I had cleared a large infestation, that person suddenly "died". It turned out that it was a insectoid called a Mime that took the form of a colonist to eat my food, though since the game suddenly thought I was out of food for some reason, it dropped the facade and went on the attack. It's kind of a strange event but one to keep in mind.

[@Noobert]

That's pretty dope actually

[@ramiro4710]

I hate mimes, pro tip, if u get a fishy new colonist joining and u think something is off (100% of times, this is RM) quarantineimmediately and dont give any food to the new one, if after 2/3 days of starving the dude is still human u can release him, works fine for me (not always, prob 80% of times i can detect the mime using quarantine.

[@michaels2855]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AngieParty12380]

This story just single handedly made me decide to buy this game, TONIGHT!

[@FierceSurvior]

WTF... I didn't know this was possible.....

[@Bsilux]

Me who has 600 hours in Rimworld and still watching it.😅

[@beau9956]

LOL I was about to type the exact same thing!!!

[@Noobert]

XD

[@heimta9446]

Same here XD

[@tomhodges1552]

900

[@Mactaverum]

Add also mod the hell out of it 😅

[@TheSpookiestSkeleton]

Pro tip, if you arrest a social fighting pawn, you can just draft the one arresting them and it'll immediately end their fight without imprisoning them

[@TF2PNub]

Holy shit thanks for this! I havent had any limbs go missing from social fights yet but it was only a matter of time

[@BrenTenkage]

wow I legit didn't know that

[@canthurtcr8t503]

Thanks for the tip! I got a disaster very early in the game one of my pawn got his brain mangled in a social fight. Losing 70% manipulation and movement.

[@jeremylackey6587]

Ah yes. A social dispute naturally leads to ripping limbs off, so this is helpful advice.

[@dontmindme4469]

Holy shit. 1.5k hours and just learning this. Usually i let them a day in prison.

[@elbonnybar]

a couple of thing we kinda overlooked: - Temperature control is big one. - Hydriponics and the ideal grow temp for food and drugs (specially drugs) - the importance of Art. (cuz i know you're a man of culture) - also teching people about NOT DIGGIN TO DEEP INTO A MOUNTAIN. a.k.a Overhead moutain tiles. - also armor or better yet prostetics.

[@Vodkamester]

"NOT DIGGIN TO DEEP INTO A MOUNTAIN" Whoops... My first one was this. Starting with the 3 pawns picked a rocky terrain with a lot of minerals and other stuff but i was forgot about the necessity of food and wood as a needing material for starters. i was well preped from videos at least that was i tought. And off course because i started the game with vanilla expanded give or take a 100+ mods Around 60 hours of sweat and blood & swear to gods and devils, i was fine. No more manhunting packs of predatory animals, no lightning strikes directly hitting pawns, and finnaly: no more mentalbreaks. after 60 hours i had a chance to start my mining operations and carve my empire large business from the mountain. And what my story teller cannot done i made it my self: 3 out of my 5 pawns ended up a pancake under the moutain tiles including my doctors and yes... rest of the two was non capable of violence... and a very next day i got raid again... and that was a moment when i gave up...

[@Orsabell]

Pro tip! If you see a wild man and want to recruit them but you have no one with the skills for taming animals all you have to do is beat the crap out of them. Then when there down rescue them. For some odd reason they think highly of you saving them after you brutally beat them that they will either A.) Decide not to join and leave Or B.) Join because you were so Kind on saving there life from the danger that is yourself. Well we don't like answer (A) so we gonna keep beating them and rescuing them until they realize we are good people and eventually they actually will join. Be sure to use a club or wood because apparently your colonist will bite them and cause a infection in there torso and you have to waste medicine saving someone that is going to be making your colony more artistic. My longest attempt was 3 recuse missions, He may be a trauma savant now but damn the base started looking pretty. Side note you cant reduce there resistance if there a prisoner because they are treated like animals. You can however throw them in a cell and wait for the slavers to come by to make some extra profit.

[@Noobert]

Big brain here

[@proudpatriot3491]

This is hilarious. “The base starting to look pretty” after explaining he beat the man senseless a few times. It’s sick, it’s funny and why Rim World rocks

[@deplorabledegenerate2630]

My first colony involved building wood houses while my miners dug out a mountain side. When everything was smoothed over and nice I deconstructed the barracks. Collapsing roof got all three of them.

[@stuff9680]

Just remember Boomalope explode when they die so if one gets old it can suffer from heart attacks and die then your base is fire along with your other animals

[@gekkobear2]

One of my early runs had a toxic fallout on a map with a ton of booma-critters. Like living in a warzone, listening to the explosions all night. And those wooden outer walls may have been a mistake? Oh well. Die in a horrible fiery inferno and learn... Die in a horrible fiery inferno and learn.

[@lechking941]

@@gekkobear2 now I want that expetince

[@Fine_i_set_the_handle]

Psh my pawns get yearly age removed in the biosculptor

[@EighmyLupin]

Randy is both the hardest and easiest Storyteller, it just depends on what he randomly does.

[@namvo3013]

They say Phoebecan be rough, but she'll never send 2 sieges, a psychic ship and the flu to 7 men colony in 2 days like Randy

[@elbonnybar]

he keeps sending you shit, no matter if it's good or bad. i get hordes of self tamed dogs or chinchillas every now and then. also a horde of mad geese seem to be a common recurring event.

[@lechking941]

@@elbonnybar ya that's Randy for ya. So crazy you have a god base in year 1 or getting punished for sniffing that yayo by lethal overdose.

[@AngieParty12380]

I wish more games, such as Rougelikes, used a "storytellter-like" system.

[@detectivecotton6824]

My randy campaign is going really well he’s given me drugs, good psychic soothe effects, and a horde of 35 ducks with some minor raids… all at the price of killing my beloved dog with the plague thank you randy

[@gp6763]

For the easiest start choose a temperate forest with hills and the "permanent summer" attribute as a starting tile

[@Scott_Burton]

My first game, I went with Builder, Phobe Chillax, a diverse set of skilled pawns on a crash landed scenario, 2 tradeable villages nearby, no negative traits on my pawns, and a temperate forest. first 20 minutes, heat wave, my people couldn't go outside to do anything without starting to have heatstroke issues, and eventually anyone who went outside to collect food, was hospitalized with heatstroke, and my people ran out of food. I think my last pawn died at about minute 85. I was thinking. "hmm... That's not a good start"

[@austrelien298]

I just had the same experience on my first playthrough, hence why I'm here lol

[@ShineyWrap]

I just got this game. I underestimated the difficulty. Everyone died except the dog. It took me a few hours to realize the world is not just the map my base is on. This guide seems like it will help alot.

[@KPdewstar]

I highly recommend Phoebe on the lowest difficulty for a 2nd or 3rd playthrough. Its literally a different game. More comparable to stardew. Relax and farm and chill.

[@Noobert]

Oh ive done that before. Good for testing things out

[@DragonRiderShiru]

I do that with a ton of mods that makes everything other than combat more difficult

[@ScoopDogg]

You just condensed a five hour tutorial into 23 minutes without taking a single breath or using any editing software, you Legend. Now what's the fire button and why cant I jump lol. Noobert this game better be worth the NASA level learning curve, Ive just got my head around Kenshi lol.

[@Noobert]

We can teach you Zomboid next

[@ScoopDogg]

@@Noobert lol

[@stellavanhout5134]

Shorter, the first 90 seconds is rambling and self promoting his crap.

[@TheSneakyone18]

From what i've seen, trying to explain a simplified version of Rimworld to someone who's never played before is almost impossible since everything in the game affects, causes or is caused by something else within the game leading to small rabbit holes throughout the whole explanation lmao. Great video as usual, btw!

[@Noobert]

Which is why we make lots and lots and lots of guides

[@jax4652]

Simple: top down survival base-builder, where you assign a certain number of pawns to complete jobs to allow for survival and base building in a foreign world with many threats from environment to enemies.

[@hartincmajor202]

I've been playing this game for approaching 4000 hours. I'm just here to vibe

[@bbrucet3]

I like this guy. His voice isn't awful.

[@Noobert]

Thanks

[@lechking941]

Also does dumb shit getting the point over well

[@villainova8941]

Yeah, really sick of the British youtubers too

[@lechking941]

@@villainova8941 kind of left feild but ok i mean you proably have so many because you watch so many. and i know just as many aussie youtubers as i do brits just about. hell even a few more out in the world i think even a dude who maybe indian in origan. that indian does medical story vids but he coud have that decent idk.

[@hi7535]

Can't understand half the crap he says. Literally, his accent and him just talking fast make it sound like he's speaking gibberish sometimes. Oh well.

[@debufrestdebufrest275]

Some extra tips: the button to stop the home area to be set by the game is on the right side on the bottom of the screen (looks like an home) there is also another very useful one (looks like an hammer) that makes it so whenever something is destroyed ib the home area a blueprint is put in it's place so that your builder will rebuild it. You can also youse the room stats one to se what is important for a room as some stats are bright white and some grey, the white ones are important, the grey ones not.

[@lechking941]

Is there even an option to turn the auto reconstruct on?

[@hitmorelicks-gamingskating1856]

@@lechking941 yes

[@lechking941]

@@hitmorelicks-gamingskating1856 back when i made it i never knew it existed and was less skilled and just a number of things

[@hitmorelicks-gamingskating1856]

@@lechking941 ahaha

[@sedlinasera3891]

Note: you always get the deserter quest in Septober. It is scripted into the base game (with royalty obviously) as long as you don't abandon your starting location within those first two quadrums. You will get this event regardless of your standing with the empire and it doesn't matter whether or not you've helped the ambushed noble in the Aprilmay event For the video. Vents could be a helpful note for new players. Instead of going crazy and spamming heaters and coolers for every room a central heating and cooling setup can help out a lot in their power needs. It keeps the colony wealth down - and it is cheaper on the component front

[@khangvo9512]

I usually spend most of my time creating scenarios for my play through, wasted 2-3 hours created and then scrapped everything to start again sadly ;-;

[@lechking941]

Oof I get ya. I have yet to win or comet a game

[@beanerb822]

So you create senarios? Do you post them..sorry if this is a weird question as I'm new to the game

[@roberthilburn]

One tip that I pain-stakingly found out as my crops grew in. Be careful when clicking on your crop plots, because you can select all of them at the same time. I didn't have any animals to help with fabric, and being new to the game thought, "cotton works" Now I have a lot of cotton and am struggling on food. Otherwise, my colonists seem to love chopping down trees, to the point of forgetting to be jailers so I ended up with less mouths to feed as a positive...

[@ADHD_and_Crayons]

I'm certain that, in any survival game, we all remember our 1st & our best/fav runs. I'm still fairly new myself but my 1st run really showed me that going in partially blind was a bad move lol...... A capybara infected 1 of my 3 pawns, but injured 2 total. I wasn't able to heal the infection.......so I also learned how pet bonds are impacted when the owner dies. I lost my ENTIRE colony to a damn Terrier. I wasn't liking the spawn area I chose or the skills of my pawns, so I never bothered reloading an earlier save. To this day, I keep a wary eye on all pets lol

[@Moisty-oo4hx]

I just got the game and it’s so overwhelming 😅 I’m new to this category of game and there’s so many mechanics and small details which seems too hard to micromanage.

[@AngieParty12380]

I can't wait to play this. These types of games are wonderful for me exactly for the reasons they can be overwhelming. Feels like control in a chaotic world I guess.

[@fbi-federalbureauofinvesti9653]

Same still confused why people make double walls around the base

[@ZyzzavaCode]

@@AngieParty12380 have you played Factorio? If not, look into it

[@thechemistamvs5033]

@@fbi-federalbureauofinvesti9653 still?

[@fbi-federalbureauofinvesti9653]

@@thechemistamvs5033 Now I Know Why. I Learned It the Hard Way, My Base Got Invaded Twice At The Same Time I Killed About 20-30 And I Lost 6 Colonist Trying To Fix The Walls

[@thomasscroggs4410]

Important raider tip. Always check to make sure the raiders don't have the Raid Aging Disease. If you capture such a raider you will have to execute them, as you will most likely never be able to heal them fast enough to outpace the aging. They do make very good skill dummies for your doctors and wardens though.

[@FonVegen]

I hadn't played in a long time, but recently decided to get back into the game. My first colony there ended due to an unfortunate combination of a cold snap, solar flare, and a plague when I had only the most barebones infrastructure set up. Thanks Randy. Now on to the next attempt!

[@anthonyhurley6161]

I have 1,300 + hours in this game but I still watch all the tip videos because it really helps me out

[@asmrgamingOz]

ive got about 1285 hours to and yeah i still get hints and tips especially on aspects of my favourite mods

[@samuelfawell9159]

I will never forget what happened to my last pyromaniac, he set fire to my chemfuel storage, with a stone door the resulting explosion took out him, the building and my entire chemfuel supply, but I didn’t miss him, he was a pain in the ass, he was a Rival to most of my colony and apart from my supplies literally going up in smoke, it wasn’t a huge deal

[@julezprimetime]

Lmao

[@yorielcaraballo2987]

We shall praise the KZbin algorithm gods. Great video

[@Noobert]

Thanks and yes give praise

[@fcm3d]

I just started. A mad rat beat up all my guys and then a bunch of ducks moved in. A bunch of people wanted to trade but I couldn't figure it out until 2 hours in. Now we're all starving , slowly going insane, as lighting is coming down from the heavens setting the jungle a blaze and I've only played for like 3 hours. This is fun.

[@AngieParty12380]

First video of yours I've seen, and first time I've actually looked into Rimworld. 10 mins into the video, subbed to you and bought the game.

[@hafcat]

Started two days ago and have been playing at work while I have free time. It's been maybe half a year in the game. 2 of my colonists died. My dog died. A man in black came, immediately got injured, and my lone colonist nursed him back to health. He's been a beast the whole time and the only reason I picked him is because the game named him Fartier. Fartier the Farmer. So now it's just Fartier and Anarchist (the man in black), and a wild woman they imprisoned for stealing food. Except now they feed her and probably waste more now. I've tried to save two people on the edge of my map that crash landed and both died in Fartier's arms as he rushed back to the base. Sad.

[@pokemastericon]

Perfect timing. I literally started playing last week. Now I can see everything I've done wrong for the next playthrough (maybe with some needed mods though)!

[@gekkobear2]

Mods? Who would need mods? *Moves to block screen on Steam showing 165 subscribed mods* I don't have a problem... I can quit any time I want!

[@agenteiegaming]

yes very useful info for 900 hours i keep forgetting they need recreation

[@darkshadow5581]

honestly i tried so hard to play this game quiet a few times, but my first colony that lasted over an hour was a Solo cannibal frozen icesheet that i played side-by-side with a letsplay. Still not 100% sure why, but that really helped me understand the HUD and basics.

[@Intrusive_Thought878]

I know that this tutorial is pretty old now, but i can give some of my tips. First thing you do after starting the game, is making the schedule, my standard schedule is sleeping from 22 to 5, 3 hours of recreation after they wake up, and after the work, 2 hours of recreation. Always have a guy that only cook, otherwise you'll have huge problem with food. So if we had the setup behind us, we can talk about late game. First thing you want to do after making formalities is selecting some trees to chop, and placing down a campfire, butcher spot and a crafting spot, so your cook could feed your pawns, and crafting spot, if you are chad like me, and spawn wihout nothing. After you've set up some campfire, you should hunt some animals or harvest berries, so your cook could use his new kitchen, dont forget about storage space near your kitchen. After your food supplies will grow, build your first building, and make interior at least 5 blocks wide, so you could build hi-tech research table here after some time, but for now, you should have fun with normal research table. So after you placed your research table, prioritize researching cooling systems, so you could make a freezer, and then the fabrication, so you could make components, cause they are rare as damn if you use them all. After it all, i just do my own buisiness with mods, i build some houses, farms or factories, but late game, peace.

[@Noobert]

Thanks for sharing your tips mate

[@novasolarius8763]

Punched a thrumbo. Nothing bad happened. Great advice. As for my first colony... Well, I took the new solo mechanitor start. To give you an idea of my experience at the time, I had finished the colony and done nothing else. To make a long story short, my colonist got attacked by a rat. The wound got infected because I didn't know that I had to enable self-tend, then she died from her infection.

[@_Nythim_]

Horses make for great pack animals because your colonist actually rides them during the caravan trip, cutting the time down by loads. My current colony has a nearby settlement 0.7 days away, with a horse it’s 0.2

[@louissteyn6871]

Live on the equator, it has a permanent summer and as a result has a year round growing season, useful for getting used to the game or having a more relaxed experience

[@kalmarjan7122]

Great video, and great tips! I like how you keep it interesting throughout.

[@Freaky_Lemonade]

It’s also a useful tip to conserve your components that you start with because until you research a lot of high tech stuff those and the compacted machinery will be your only source of components basically don’t go on a building spree making alot of component consuming items

[@some_meme6707]

Starvation got my first and second colony. My fourth colony had an overwhelming amount of steel and died to 31 snowhares (i had everything going for me weapons and armor wise, assault guns and charge rifles and such). The rest has become a blur but I remember getting into mods soon after this. The most interesting death I've had so far is a double heatwave (took a quest a second after randy dropped a different heatwave on me. Devilstrand wasn't cutting it at 93C) followed up by a mech cluster with 7 centipedes.

[@mydogswilkickurass]

My golden retriever just died yesterday and the "who's a good boy" part litterally made me cry

[@CheddarPerson_05]

I remember my first play-through and during a raid, My main gunner she got beat down by a lone tribal, then the medic kept vomiting due to food poisoning and the last dude collapsed. Food Poisoning.

[@Josestorm05]

13:50 the perfect shot actually happened to me he got the best stats for shooting a whooping 13 but when I checked his health card it said he was a pacifist and couldn't shoot a gun or hold a weapon but he had 6 in farming so at least he could tend the fields

[@siaowun9418]

Pro tip don’t raise an army of rats or Guinea Pigs for the meme value. It costs an insurmountable amount of food and your pawns will waste half the day giving them head pats while you wonder where your rice stonks went.

[@Wisegirl6521]

Zone the rats and pigs away from your food stockpile so that they would eat grass

[@siaowun9418]

@@Wisegirl6521 yeah but in order to keep animals tame, they require some rice and some time to give them headpats even if you zone them outside. Found that out the hard way.

[@Wisegirl6521]

@@siaowun9418 how many rats/pig do you have in your army maybe limit it to only ten and grow hay grass that don’t cost as much as rice to feed them

[@JoshSweetvale]

I've got a tribal start, slowly climbing up the tech tree, my base is starting to become fortified... Gonna sell some drugs for machinepistols and learn electronics after that.

[@robertjohnson1973]

Thank you man! I’ve watched so much Rimworld content, but felt utterly lost when I started playing last night

[@Noobert]

Glad i could help

[@doomofyoutube3978]

i’m in your exact situation 😂😂

[@drkrowxbox510]

Been watching this game for years, finally got it yesterday. First problem: colonist has equal melee/guns, and would get a -20 if i gave them a gun or melee and it always says brawler has no melee weapon/hunter has no gun Problem 2: no traders Problem 3: lost a colonist to a rabbit somehow (monty python moment -.-) Absolutely love playing this game though

[@jmatt440]

so you lost a colonist to the killer rabbit of caerbannog?

[@Driftwood420]

This isn't a beginners guide, this is top tips. This really didn't explain what you actually need to do as a beginner or how.

[@Meesvenema12]

Great guide! Thank you so much man :)

[@jasonemmanuel1031]

Boomalopes are dangerous, and fire is scary. That is all I learned after the tutorial on my first world

[@ANTOperassic]

You are severely underrated, you put in alot of work into all your videos and I know, deep down, that you will reach mega heights with time :)

[@Noobert]

Thanks a bunch mate

[@finalbossdoge3466]

This has been very useful thank you :)

[@rodrigonoal]

First colony was a lost naked gal. I eventually hunted a boomrat and set aflame half of the map. Then, after rebuilding, getting some leather clothes, and developing some tech, a wild turkey attacked her. She killed the bird, but was left crippled, and bled out just outside of her home.

[@vulcanz1327]

I luv everything the way you just make the vids is really really good. Keep it up👍❤️🔥

[@Noobert]

Thanks mate :)

[@erivanel]

I really like your videos and the way you show things, please keep up the good work

[@remontariv1130]

Pro tip Use the nutrient paste dispenser as it uses less food materials than your standard stove meaning you'll be able to free up more colonists to do whatever you want Granted they need power and taste awful but the benefits outweigh the downsides

[@Death2all546]

It’s debateable which my first colony was. There was the first game where one pawn walked into an insect cave and died (less than 2 days in). And I just noped and started a new game. Then the one where I tried to make a mountain base but only managed to get a 6 tile long hallway. The only doctor died of malaria, a wildman got in and ate the survival meals, and the two remaining pawns started starving before the rice could finish growing. Then 2 guys with clubs showed up and beat them to death.

[@Jcewazhere]

Wait, was it "Feed me, human" or "Feed me human"? Those are very different sentences... "Do you want to eat, grandma" or "Do you want to eat grandma"...

[@pumpkinpeen5937]

do you want to eat grandma, grandma?

[@ferretwithacathat292]

A colony full of physcopaths: "HMMMM INTRESTING"

[@Eristasa]

I am very confused... title and video don’t seem to fit correctly... this meant to be an April fools thing?

[@Eristasa]

Nooooooooooo! I have been had!

[@nutrynity4240]

It's April 3

[@Noobert]

i made mistake. it has been fixed

[@mitchellkrever421]

If you are getting tired of vanilla Rimworld but don't want to get caught up in modding , I highly recommend: Hardcore SK. It's a mod pack that gets continually worked on and adds a lot of depth to the game while being balanced. Do a tribal start, it's a lot of fun!

[@eversostrange6337]

What you said was if you don't like want to mess with mods I have an overhaul mod for you lol

[@xXJarvikXx]

Thank you good sir, I just started.

[@Delerben90]

this really worked, thanks.

[@ShadoSpartan44]

so true, i enjoy the journey of progression in this game

[@purplepinetrees5106]

I've never played rimworld before cuz no PC but it's coming out on console so I'm very excited

[@Chozo4]

First colony was a dunk in the dark and started with naked brutality and a 10yo child. Was able to erect a shelter in a small 2*3 space in the edge of a rock formation. First raid came up, bonked me (my pawn had the wimp trait) , and kidnapped me. End colony attempt. 😅 Proceeded to retry with the same pawn and instead waited out till the raider gave up bashing walls in. From there on it was harvesting berries, carving out the mountainside, and forming the base day by day till I got another child dropping from the sky (an yttakin). While children have penalties they are still very capable at running a small colony. Also, having an yttakin with animal warcry early game feels very OP. Can be used to defend yourself or back off a hungry predator about to turn your pawn into second breakfast. OH, fun fact, apparently using the default custom storyteller settings is identical to strive to survive. My first runs used these settings with the only change being to change child growth rate to 100%. It was an adventure to say the least.

[@lucaxb1651]

Brilliant video!!!

[@aidanderson53X]

I kinda like taking the base pawns you start with and choosing from them rather than rerolling anyone. Having imperfect pawns makes for a more fun experience. Plus it's more relaistic. I feel like a hiring manager who doesn't get exactly what he wants and has to made do with his applicants.

[@VraxisKurgan]

My first time playing this was yersterday and my 3 men crew died to one of the exploding citters when i used all 3 of them to attack it with melee😅

[@boneythelynx8884]

Lol but you learnt a valuable lesson for your second colony

[@gripaveli1779]

"Where's the lamb sauce?" you have earned my sub sir

[@Gaston-08]

This guides for me. Thank you.

[@Noobert]

Glad to help

[@LPScarlex]

i've played rimworld like literally just three days ago and I've had a manhunter alpaca maul one of my colonists to an abasia, 10/10

[@DMacDaddy]

First Game today! I've been eyeing this one for years. Finally spent the money. Fun but totally confusing at first glance!

[@chiefnug865]

great tips

[@lorenzocassaro6188]

Fun fact, the first time I met Thrumbos, I managed to kill one with my pawns unscathed (a couple of them wandered into the map and one was literally so crippled it could barely even walk: easy prey!)

[@suup9797]

I just started and weirdly the most I’ve survived on crash landed is like 3 hours and the most I’ve survived on tribal is about 9 hours (and the tribal ones were killed bc I decided I guess I can beat the game and it was about to be winter so I went for it and everyone died) I also tried naked brutality bc I was bored and they got killed by a gerbil

[@lexi5323]

So on my first play through, a random pack of Yorkshire Terriers joined the colony and bred like mad. Next thing I know, I had 16 Yorkies which tbh, made me a whole lot of money through trades. But eventually, they bred so much that it just became a hotel for dogs and I didn’t have the heart to put them down, so a new game it was 🤷🏼‍♀️ was late planting crops and became desperate for food, I turned them into cannibals. And then a mad cougar killed everyone so.. karma, I suppose. 😊

[@gabrieljoseozanan6989]

The MiB often fires in my colonies when I'm not actually in danger. It's mostly because everyone except the medic is down in anesthesia due to 'mandatory bionic upgrades', then the medic goes into Overdosing because more often than not, I do not pay attention enough to all the drugs I have lying around.

[@NoobMaster-ml1wv]

Good vid my guy. Keep it up

[@Noobert]

Thanks, will do!

[@daneilgame123]

I just *got* rimworld and everything is going perfectly in my first colony (Ravenously hungry -20)

[@glitzyghoul4426]

I just bought the game when I saw biotech!! I'm soooo lost lol. Thanks for this, can't wait to learn things so I can start modding :D

[@BoloBouncer]

"Chess table. Gotta make sure your pawns are entertained." Well played sir.

[@gekkobear2]

"common sense" mod IMO is crucial. Pawns should be smart enough to clean before doing doctoring/cooking/sleeping or doing a job where cleanliness matters. And then cooking (in a small floored room) is workable but not required. Tribal start in particular; manage your "wealth". Give crap away if it's rising too high. Seriously, I just hand out loot I got like I'm Santa at Christmas sometimes. Low wealth is better than a mechanoid raid on your tribals armed with clubs and bows sitting on a huge stockpile of gold and silver. You can get gold later when you can defend it; you can't get a colony later when mechanoids have turned the area into an inferno of pain. Last thought... your base is nice; but really not the end-all be-all. Don't die for it. Bugging out with whatever you can carry lets your colony survive and restart elsewhere with whatever you can grab. Skilled colonists with some good stuff make for a better "re-start" than a new game. When your 4 guys see 20 mechanoids incoming, and your turrets/killroom isn't up to snuff? You got your wealth way too high. Grab what you can, call it a learning experience, and run like fun.

[@gekkobear2]

Add some Slightly advanced tips for the ones wanting a bit more info? Sounds like fun. Lets do some less known ones. 1) Smooth walls are very nice. You can repair them. You can build power cables in them, and they're (mostly) more durable too. Using them where possible on your outer walls makes a lot of sense even if you can't build them yourself. granite has 900 for a smooth wall, or 520 for a built wall. Which do you think lasts longer when you're repairing it to stall a sapper? ;) Limestone smooth-700 built-465 Slate smooth-500 built-390 Marble smooth-450 built-360 Smooth sandstone (weakest stone) has 400 durability. sandstone brick wall has 420. Okay, sandstone stinks. Bummer. 2) Dirt doesn't need cleaned, but isn't that dirty. Dirt floors everywhere avoid you tracking in dirt. Stone floors (natural, not built) don't pick up dirt aside from vomit and blood. And don't have a serious "dirty" modifier for researching or cooking. If you have a handy mountain with stone ground nearby? Set your cook up there. Just keep you butcher table outside/away some to avoid blood. But it's not pretty? Get a small statue for that; and you still avoid a massive cleaning job. 3) The Anima tree (for tribals and those who capture tribals). It says don't build on/near it and tries to warn you building anywhere near it... And it is lying to you to make you suffer needlessly. I think Randy wrote that part. The tree is for 2 things, in order of importance (IMO). 1) Grow grass to get to 20 to gain psycaster levels. This is unaffected by building near the tree. Yep, no change. Surrounding it with walls or leaving it in a pristine grove gets you the exact same Anima Grass grow speed when a natural focus guy meditates there. 2) Meditation psyfocus to gain psy-power. This is affected; but it's not terrible. You have a base 50%/day (≈2%/hour). It can give you another 30%, getting to 80%/day (≈3%/hour). Lets say you schedule 3 hours to meditate? Oooh, you get 9%, not 6%? But it's half the map away and you spend an hour walking there and back in those 3 hours... so you lost all of your gain. But at least you're outside the walls where the manhunting warg pack will eat you; and your grass is far enough away that Randy's dry thunderstorm will burn the grass away (the tree doesn't burn, but the grass surely does, trust me, Randy hates me having Anima grass). So build it inside; just leave 20+ dirt/gravel areas for the grass to grow (and clear other trees if needed, anima grass will replace grass, but not trees). 4) Psyfocus shuffling (generally for tribals). Your lone recruited tribal wizzzard is doing well, but has to meditate a ton as he keeps burning psy-mana like a crazy man? Wish you had that 30%, even halfway across the map? No. Don't say such heresy. Don't even think that. Are you a cannibal/psychopath/bloodlust/masochist/undergrounder? Then you're in luck. (ascetic, slightly less so) Build 5 Sarcofa... Sarcophi... coffins near your meditation spot by the tree. Fill them with people (whoever you've got). If you can get a relative of your wazzard in one. (wall for an ascetic). Because you use your best psyfocus. 0% tree or 28% coffin pile (38% if you were related)? Coffin is better. (22% for an Ascetic with a wall). AND if you're in range of the tree? Then you still grow grass for your next captured tribal to gain more wizzzird powers. Yes, really. That's what I do, every time. 5) Do NOT get a tribal wizard a royal title. Just don't. Titles give me psypower? Only if you have a LOWER level than the title. If you have a level 3+ tribal psycaster, and grind him up to be a knight? He needs a fancy bedroom and a throne room and you get NO PSYPOWERS. You already had level 3, so they skip you. And now you have a throne room, so you spend your meditation time on your throne. Away from your tree, and you have to block your guy out of his throne room entirely to avoid that. 6) If you want a Royal for psypowers and especially the permits to call in troopers and airstrikes? Okay, Get an Ascetic one. They want a crappy room and terrible clothes. They won't complain about either. You only even need a throne room when you want to do a title ceremony; and then you can let the braziers burn out; it's not important to him. Count Gekkobear in his crappy dirt closet with his tribalwear and no throne room? +5 for a crappy bedrooom, 0 for no throne or no braziers, 0 for clothes, 0 for not a count bedroom. Vagabond Kings are the best kings... apparently. Who knew?

[@slomow-1540]

My felling said the ducks from the start is from his experience with duck in discord.

[@Noobert]

XD

[@CatLover-lk9gz]

Another random tip. Take full advantage of your starting area. Full time growing period? Farm till you drop "don't survive of hunting only for like three years"

[@jessejohnson5197]

NOOOBERT

[@Noobert]

yes

[@zushinkubrendy618]

@@Noobert Hi

[@nick0875]

15:50 If they decide to not join then you need to use more aggressive forms of persuasion. The medicine and food spent on saving them wasn't cheap and you can always use more colonists.

[@MrStickyblu]

I aint forget about you noobert I'm having a fight with my mod menu keep up the good work

[@BritishLewis]

them dam popping sound effects

[@bradmunro7732]

My very first game i lost too a manhunter pack it was something embarrassing like hares or guinea pigs. 2800 hours played and i still loose to self inflicted things like thrumbo hunting going wrong, or any standard cocky things. Rimworld is good at putting u in your place like that

[@chinupofficial4421]

With the royalty TLC I have found the best thing to do is wait for a royal tribute to come to your settlement and use either a slave or a colonist you don't care for to lure the ancient danger to them. I have never had a moment where they weren't able to take them on yet and also if you're like me and don't care too much if one or two of the soldiers needs to take a med bed up it can be a good way to farm their opinion up

[@primachpepe8597]

my first colony, Randy bless his soul, decided that we needed a plague. Followed by a raid. Where i lost 2 pawns, and 2 pawns were down due to the plague. man in black came, colony stabilized. Randy gifted me chickens. SO. MANY. CHICKENS Also MIB also catches plague chicken population started out around 8 or so. This soon exlpoded to over 30. I did not know what to do, nor did i have the food to feed them. the chicks would hatch, starve then die, as i had no hay grass, kibble or even normal foods like rice to feed them, as my colonists were in bed due to the plague. I couldnt grow more food, and they ate what food was there. Shady Creek was lost, barely 3 years in As a Dwarf Fortress enjoyer, i felt right at home

[@Jcewazhere]

The rich explorer mistook the line for the colony ships as the line for the suicide booths. In most playthroughs he gets what he wanted in the end, but only after finding out he didn't actually want it.

[@uverhaul]

8:48 ROCK AND STONE, BROTHER!

[@thebulletkin8393]

I watch so much rimworld content but I don’t know how to play myself. I’ve barely survived a couple years and never get to the end game or even mid game state. Thanks for doing a guide though, as having to restart this many times gets a bit old.

[@koresaliva]

You have to fail to win and Invest to start producing, the more you learn and fail, the less often it will happen in the future

[@Samrtfirdeg]

Also plant as much as you can early game to deal with food and make pemican

[@samcooper1761]

My entire colony was just killed by a group of 4 mad boomrats. edit: It was year 2, so many people had already died, but we had a decent walled base and had even finished a killbox, but the boomrats caught a lot of pawns outside and I stupidly sent the others to rescue them and they were downed as well. Then a Man in Black showed up to save my colony but he was downed by the boomrats, too. I then watched my pawns die one by one as I could do nothing.