Cloning An Army of Gregs in Rimworld Biotech

Rimworld's Biotech DLC has been out a while now so I got some mods involved and tried to make a cloning facility replicate progenitor Greg... it didn't go well...
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Rimworld is a video game, it's a colony management game and then so much more... This video follows the story of a colony starting from a single Greg.
Mod List -
Harmony
Combat Extended
Wall Light
Replace Stuff
Pick up and Haul
Integrated genes
Geological Landforms
Character Editor (to make greg, I used to use Prepare carefully but people warned me about it bricking saves and also it's not updated yet)
Biome Transitions
Camera+
Biotech Cloning
and all of Vanilla expanded (here's a workshop collection for Vanilla Expanded, in the mod manager in game you can just activate all the 1.4 compatible ones. - steamcommunity... )
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[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hey folks, Another veedja for you lot to enjoy (I hope). Growth Vats aren't great at the moment but I'm sure we've all got plenty of Ideas for how to make them better, let me know what you'd do to make them worth using! (Yes I am farming you for engagement, just reply ok?)

[@LibbyGrimm]

This is a court mandated engagement comment

[@LibbyGrimm]

If you want to re(do)/try this, something akin to Altered Carbon mod seems more suitable? IIRC it allowed you to copy all stats and/or traits via those fancy neck thingies. Seems like that would solve at least the "i have 0 in everything herp derp" thing if all of your stats were like flat 8, ten seems pretty generous but 8 is like breakpoint for outright failing a lot of things like food poisoning when cooking and not wasting materials when building. Having no traits is fine, having 0 skill is awkward. So iunno, if it's still updated, just juryrig that so you have a spare skill 8 colonist you can cut up and copypaste at the start, i don't think you can just make a spare one out of thin air, sadly. Still, bit of editing magic and nobody would notice if you just use character editor to make a pawn, copy paste em 3 times, kill em, extract the implant and delete the bodies to start so you can actually have a clone colony. Mod included a way to copy those implants, as much as it's canonically a "bad idea". Way base game does it is mostly funny and borderline useless, not conducive to actually playing at any length. As for using 0 skill colonists in this setup, it cooould work if you make that cloning process take like a single day and use human wave tactics. Ofc you'd still need *someone* to grow the food so probably not workable. Maybe a mechanitor with two starting farmbots beeping around and ability to make rapid fire guns at the start but, yeah, it'd pretty much die the same way to sheer incompetence eventually and it's not really a "clone colony" then.

[@Delfeacy]

Maybe you could do the growth vat cloning, and be a mechanator at the same time, the idea is that the mechs do the work so the clones can be freed up for combat specialization or just general cannon fodder

[@houndius3845]

Egg rolls taste pretty good

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Yep

[@themeerkat5157]

the reason your colony was lagging behind in terms of strength related to the threats it was presented was probably because you suddenly got injected with about 11k in wealth value thanks to that one caravan

[@Aurirang]

yes, random wealth spikes are probably the most deadly thing in Rimworld, ESPECIALLY with Cassy as the storyteller. Phoebe can throw you a curveball and Randy just chucks a few bottles of milk at you. (or throws a meteor 1 block besides your most valuable colonist, almost giving you a heart attack.) But Cassy is relentless.

[@jordantheciviclover6139]

9:05 the child’s like “please, I’ve lost my family. May I take shelter?!” Greg; “is your name Greg?” “No??” Says the 7 year old “Damn, that’s too bad” cold hearted Greg

[@chris_3934]

The slave Lu you got is a predefined character you can encounter. Has a sad backstory, as you may have noticed. I had a game where i searched for her like 6 in game years and never found her. nice

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Oh crazy, i didn't realize but i did read the backstories

[@NorroTaku]

there is lore now? is this turning into Kenshi? Beep

[@darkerdrako9863]

If there are backstories for sure i killed them all xD i usually get my 5 tribals to make a non strangers tribe so it gets harder if someone dies and never read these xD maybe next time i will try to check

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

@@NorroTaku Not exactly lore, but people like her or Tony Cefalu the surgeon are quite famous.

[@ortheum4217]

Yeah there’s a dlc you can buy which lets you add a character to the game, they say it will be in every person’s play through but you can only get one per account.

[@saturn580]

Imagine the terror Lu must have felt after being bought by a colony of Gregs, then the relief of discovering they only wanted her to cook for them. 🤣

[@foreignfat6009]

She was a prostitute, being sex slave wouldn't be the worst for her.

[@spritemon98]

Then all of them would be adorably cute trying to figure out how to interact with a woman

[@s.m.2523]

Not that much relief or not that cute if she kept trying running away.... (I have to ask, I beliive the option to have slaves is from Ideology. Can you free them and make them full on colonists ?)

[@Dontmindmeisnotoriginal]

​@@s.m.2523I guess you could always arrest them and recruit them like regular RimWorld

[@draketurtle4169]

@@s.m.2523they are just a prisoner that can do work for your colony, so just re-capture them as a prisoner and do the recruiting process

[@Logan0503]

The Gas Mask is actually a vanilla thing, I know because I don’t use any equipment mods and still have it. They were introduced in Biotech so non-wasters could live in polluted zones.

[@Khornecussion]

Meanwhile I just made my colony's cloned soldiers wear them because it was a Death Korps joke.

[@bloodstormwolf9512]

He meant the gasmask that specifically is added by vanilla expanded, not the base game one, I think.

[@barunmajumdar679]

I believe Greg the first is a clone of himself who came from another colony of Gregs. Greg was the last colonist left alive after the colony was wiped out. Greg the fourth would probably remove the fourth from his name and establish a new colony, continuing the cycle.

[@spritemon98]

Yes!!!

[@themeerkat5157]

then that would mean the OG greg came from a colony where they actually had infancies lol

[@TheStonedZone]

An infinite cycle of colonies of Gregs.

[@johngammon6450]

Maybe the 4th decided to end the cycle after learning that it just leads to more greg deaths

[@hayuseen6683]

Fun fact, the thing about clones is that every human contains the X chromosome related to female differentiation, so that one Greg may or may not be a bug in the game but is realistic.

[@planetfall5056]

I feel like growth vats can be good if you use the Great (Skill) genes. Guarantied 8 skill and a passion in anything you want is so good. Problem is you just cant afford to put every skill in so for you to have a rounded out colony of vat growns you really need 3 or four gene casts that specilize in different skills. I bet that clone start with 4 people each with different specialized genes would be really OP.

[@jaisummons2304]

Start as tribal work your way up only using those 5 colony has inbreed trait now I need ideas to take care of the problem

[@darkerdrako9863]

Just breed them with other people xd i got tribal start and i usually kidnap the xenos i need for genes and for ovums so you can get child later you need the artificial reproduction research as fast as you get the 2nd gen so they can breed without needing another colonist also growth vats could help so they dont get nauseas xd and leave the floor full on green

[@SirKingHoff]

aka, Bama it @@jaisummons2304

[@Luizi08]

love your videos, the editing and narration is top notch. I also like seeing people play with CE, as part of the team (meager artist, didn't do much besides the weapon textures and some misc stuff) it's encouraging

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

I find it hard to play without it these days, thanks for your work, and don't talk yourself down! the art for the mod looks great so thanks for that.

[@LibbyGrimm]

bruva your work is gr8 and i thank you for it.

[@NoogieBoogie12]

“Thank you for 5000 subscribers “ you’ve grown this channel beautifully

[@timbojohnson7213]

Congrats on seve- erm, I mean "five" thousand subs! Your content is so calming to watch and every time you release a new RimWorld video I end up booting the game up again! Keep up the good work!

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Glad i get you back to it, and thanks for the nice words

[@kyokyodisaster4842]

@@HazzorPlaysGames Your voice is genuinely really sexy. There I said it!

[@noobynoob138]

I love your architecture! My colonies are always just cramped and convoluted rectangle clusters without any hallways.

[@QuirkyAvik]

Umm this video was made 9 months ago, he is talking about passing 5k now he is at 105K with really good number of views on every video. LOVE IT! I love it when good content is rewarded. Probably had to grind which we often ignore.

[@BirchMonkey857]

I have only one thing to say about this video: Hahaha... Gary!

[@PzyhalovUstin]

Gary!

[@charlonburnis9753]

The format on these videos is so perfect. Definitely feels from a channel with much more than 5,000 subscribers (or 7.97k as of writing this). Very happy to be here so early :)

[@Sipze]

I found your channel few weeks back, when you posted the biotech video. Glad to see you have doubled your subs, because you deserve it. You make good quality content I personally didn't expect from a channel with 4k sub count. Early gongratulations for 10k subs!

[@domisunique]

As a fellow CE addictee I'm deeply confused as to how you've gotten CE on 1.4 and wish to perform the same magic.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Github version, gets updated before the workshop version, i suppose it's meant to be like a beta branch but i didn't have any issues

[@Tainted_Delusion]

Congrats! you got a shoutout from Rarr for this vid apparently he made a colony based around this idea. so happy to see your growth

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

oooh, thanks for the heads up, I'm a fan of Rarr, he seems like a cool war criminal.

[@Tainted_Delusion]

@@HazzorPlaysGames indeed he is

[@noopy757]

Great editing, engaging commentary, AND Combat Extended? Love your videos.. Not nearly enough Rimworld KZbinrs play with CE.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

I can hardly play without it anymore, I'd choose it over almost any other mod

[@xawee7254]

Growth vats are only really used to skip baby phase from 0-3 in this case their strong otherwise no

[@loveluclins]

They're valid for 13-18 too, as 13 year olds have a slower work speed, lower limb health, etc. Other than that, cheap shooters and cheap melee pawns. Have them hunt stuff for a couple levels in shooting and send them off, or just overwhelm the enemy in cheap, well armored numbers. That being said, I do feel like there needs to be a late game upgrade to make vat grown have at least two passions...

[@LinuxPanic]

Tugging right on the heart strings with this one. I might have to do a run like this myself. Thank you for the video!

[@ixavdacity]

Good mod, 10/10

[@lalalops833]

it's nice to see a RimWorld video that's about the fun of the narrative as it develops instead of randy random at 500% difficulty with no reloads and it's always combat combat combat combat combat

[@josh4601]

Holy shit dude, you only had 5k subs 5 months ago? Your viewer base multiplied tenfold in only 5 months, that must feel super overwhelming. Either way, absolutely loving your vids, came across them a couple days ago, around the release of biotech, since then been watching through your back catalogue of great videos. Hope to see you grow more :P

[@colbyh.4933]

I can’t believe you only have 10k subs. The quality and storytelling in these is 10x better than the vast majority of your competition.

[@zaphodlucs]

This mod is straight up the origin story of Horatio from endless space 😅 great stuff

[@jamesmcintyre2676]

I love how it was one year of "wow, 5k!" and now, he's got almost 50 times that mile stone.

[@skoovee]

and only a year later!!

[@p3ngu1n55]

you doubled subscribers in a week! you definitely deserve it too. i just found this channel and its been great to watch and even listen in the background.

[@Malaclypse_the_Third]

I think combining vat growth with high skill xenogerms works: plus 8 skill and a passion. It's like an expendable asset. Also looks like that genetic instability might have caused all the illnesses on Greg 4.

[@knpark2025]

Alternate title: Becoming Endless Space Horatio in Rimworld Biotech

[@zestfisher565]

Thank you for your content, both informed me on bits of Bio-tech I didn't delve much into or care to find out threw testing and wasting a week+ on. That and reminded me that we now can Paint things. . . And the video reminded me of Fallout 3's Garry Vault.

[@zacheymczachface]

Hello, really loving your content. Just so you're aware if you ever have a colony like this again with people who are bad at specific skills the book making mod helps a lot. I didn't realize but it trains the skill they write about, meaning if you have someone at a super low skill you can have them write books to gain experience on that skill. It's a fun way to train people that doesn't involve horrible warcrimes.

[@thisaccountnameiscompletel8949]

Now that’s what I call a Greggs.

[@legogurkan5297]

Your voice is very soothing, and your videos are really entertaining.

[@chris_3934]

The quality of your videos is so good! Keep up the work!

[@bubblegum03]

I love how at the end of the scene with you fighting the raiders, there's suddenly human meat in your storage.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

don't question it.

[@Sus_pumpkin]

Yum “pork”

[@RisingFlag100]

Great concept, cannot wait to watch it.

[@rocket_hops]

that poetic ending was brilliant, you could make a whole story about it with just that ending

[@draketurtle4169]

This is great video, I love that ending bit especially since whenever I play rim world is usually with tragedy than triumph, sometimes a colonist I really liked and was invested in gets a sudden case of missing fingers and infection, it’s then a scamble to patch them up and build immunity… oh wait they were the medic.

[@moar-chan1060]

Not enough war crimes.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

It is a pretty tame one to be fair

[@robocop1279]

The reason no one will buy flesh crafted organs is because they only work on people with that part of their ideoligon, if they use them anyway the pawn dies of organ failure

[@meteozer6687]

Another amazing video keep up the great work😎

[@mizubotoru9809]

Love the commentary! Gameplay is top notch, You have yourself a new long term subscriber. Can’t wait to see the content to come!

[@BionicleFreek99]

Slowly banging out a sad tune on a piano in a burning building after seeing your friends die, then passing out due to the smoke is actually a pretty metal end

[@notabot3717]

Really glad I found your channel I really enjoy these types of rimworld videos, can't wait to see what you’ll do in the future

[@godhand2018]

Dude I've watched a bunch of your rimworld videos now and they're all so well made. Got yourself another sub you really deserve more than 10k

[@gremlin8635]

gregtech players when the word "greg" is mentioned anywhere ever:

[@F101ENTER]

bro exploded in one year... 200k subs im proud.... and your a great youtuber!

[@noahnemec5711]

So this must be the origin story of Horatio then, huh?

[@Kirkmaximus]

It's like the devs want us to go specifically down the mechanist path...

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

It's certainly very strong, the only downside is needing a massive freezer for toxic waste (or being willing to dump it and have everyone hate you)

[@Dragonborn809]

W bros with the old stone chunks texture 💯

[@babokaas]

Very fun to watch! Really like the way you do the commentary. Subbed.

[@GrinningFeline13]

I'm subscribing after watching this video. You tell an amazing story, and I'm going to see how many others you've created after this. I felt genuine sadness watching Greg the 4th sadly playing the piano, waiting for the end to come.

[@3njoyer-0f-everyth1ng]

Hahaha, Gary! (props for understanding the reference)

[@charlesemerson7968]

All quiet on the western front is one of my favorites

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

I like to watch your videos in the background while I play Rimworld myself. It reminds me how silly the game can be, and it encourages me to keep playing.

[@toneprime3622]

I don't know why, but the way you mispronounce Jestalt as Gistalt is rather satisfying.

[@Exoticpets3256]

A brain scan for later game that would copy skills would be cool

[@garthrs]

I am so glad I found your content. I have laughed harder than I have in quite some time. Thank you.

[@untainted_snail819]

It's crazy watching the 5k sub milestone when you now have 200k subs. Nice!

[@justsul1337]

Just recently discovered your videos and I love your story telling. Keep up the great work

[@freeze2859]

Love your content man, keep it up

[@ericcalm9924]

Hazzor: Your mother and I expected more from you. Me: Dad!? TF!

[@willianlussin8981]

The finale is awesome... Just torching this god forsaken experiment is awesome way to go

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

It's by far the best way to end a rimworld game, up in flames with it all. If we can't have it neither can anyone else.

[@anthonylewis5503]

didnt expect the sad ending

[@aera3502]

Something you might consider if you (or someone else) revisit this idea is the Enhance Vat Learning mod, which appears to have come out about a month after this video.

[@malkavian6]

Here i see this 4 months later and you went from 7500 to 5000 to 44.5k so congrats on that. New sub here.

[@desidious4521]

There is now a mod that improves vat growing. It adds a couple of buildings that increase learning speed in the vats. Not as good as a colony dedicated to a kid. but 2-3x better than vanilla vatgrowing. The buildings look cool too, makes it actually look like a lab.

[@khoann]

An Adam Neely reference in a RimWorld video?! *plays the lick*

[@Ser_Matticus]

Honestly this whole concept would work better with another mod that gives modules to a growth vat (similar to a death rest casket) that lets the gestating occupant to gain skills and lets you choose the traits. Additionally this whole exercise would be far easier with a mechanitor to have Agri-hands and other machines to help give Greg Prime some aid when the first batches grow

[@swarrior67]

TBH Lu is my MVP. She has been in 4 of my colonies. A Insectoid Queen, 2 Types of Kitsunes, & a Neko.

[@mrcoldmiser]

Oh my god, that ending was amazing. Great storytelling.

[@Matoro342]

Greg is only a slightly more civilized name than Grug.

[@Postdotfuzz]

Adam Neely references in a Rimworld video? My KZbin life has officially come full circle.

[@TheDramon]

It's kind of crazy to go back not that much and see you mention getting to 5k subs

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Yeah it's been pretty quick. Still very appreciative.

[@maximlapochkin4355]

As i understood after the video, Greg is an English analog of name Gleb. Same silliness and no care at all from parents, who can give these names for their children

[@YaGirlZero]

This colony Connection terminated. I'm sorry to interrupt you, Elizabeth, if you still even remember that name, But I'm afraid you've been misinformed. You are not here to receive a gift, nor have you been called here by the individual you assume, although, you have indeed been called. You have all been called here, into a labyrinth of sounds and smells, misdirection and misfortune. A labyrinth with no exit, a maze with no prize. You don't even realize that you are trapped. Your lust for blood has driven you in endless circles, chasing the cries of children in some unseen chamber, always seeming so near, yet somehow out of reach, but you will never find them. None of you will. This is where your story ends. And to you, my brave volunteer, who somehow found this job listing not intended for you, although there was a way out planned for you, I have a feeling that's not what you want. I have a feeling that you are right where you want to be. I am remaining as well. I am nearby. This place will not be remembered, and the memory of everything that started this can finally begin to fade away. As the agony of every tragedy should. And to you monsters trapped in the corridors, be still and give up your spirits. They don't belong to you. For most of you, I believe there is peace and perhaps more waiting for you after the smoke clears. Although, for one of you, the darkest pit of Hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't keep the devil waiting, old friend. My daughter, if you can hear me, I knew you would return as well. It's in your nature to protect the innocent. I'm sorry that on that day, the day you were shut out and left to die, no one was there to lift you up into their arms the way you lifted others into yours, and then, what became of you. I should have known you wouldn't be content to disappear, not my daughter. I couldn't save you then, so let me save you now. It's time to rest - for you, and for those you have carried in your arms. This ends for all of us. End communication.

[@trentleeguevara7336]

You could most likely be doing the opposite of this on purpose for cinematic value, but manhunter animals can't do anything when all colonists stay indoors, making it a reliable strat when lack of a killbox. Additionally, having three of your melee colonists behind a door so that only one dog can funnel in one at a time to fight also works. Great videos though man, RIP Greg II.

[@DrPsychotic]

i love the way this ended I imagine watching all his clones die brought the final greg to insanity so he bombed the place and died in his "work"

[@Mojave_Courier]

What a silly story, I love how you approach Rimworld playthroughs

[@Quertus]

It's been a year. Time sure flies.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Aye laddy, that it does.

[@lukelblitz3627]

"he sat down and played a tune in the piano,until he died of smoke inhalation" Yo ho ho,yo ho ho ho....

[@Melonkracker]

Sending away Grumps was the most Greg thing I've ever heard 😂

[@LadyBlackmoor]

If you want to give this another go, vat growth works well with Vanilla Nutrient Paste Expanded and Enhanced Vat Learning

[@CG-my7gm]

I've discovered your cloud today and binging it and the not angry just disappointed is what tip me over the edge to subscribe

[@eliasgrandfield7793]

though tzeentch turns your hands into tentacles for a joke

[@12Prophet]

Travelling Trader: "Oh my God! No!" Greg: "Stop screaming and buy my lungs!"

[@mitchelloconnell3309]

When I heard the Warhammer 40 K reference I had to subscribe

[@ruberbandengineer9618]

the mother and you part made me laugh so much definitely subscribed after that

[@pill0bug347]

that is a very poetic ending to the tail of Greg

[@illusionfoxx4196]

The growth vats are definitely much better if you basically skip 0-3, raise the kids Normally till 13 for the passions, and then throw them back in till 18. Much slower overall growth, but it lets them come out the other end with actual skills and passions. Still, a fun little experiment to try vatgrown only!

[@Swarthy144k]

17:05 "First came the malaria... and then the alpacas" 🤣🤣

[@blakespangler3111]

Ah, so this is how Danny Gonzalez got his army

[@volkstarke]

The onlyvreal good use for growth vats ive found is to put new borns in. Get them through the phase of being carried then let them out to grow normally. Is working pretty well on my current play through.

[@BumpyLumpy1]

congrats on reaching seve- i mean five thousand subscribers!

[@nomedeuusuario]

felt like a vaulttec experiment 10 out of 10 a true masterpiece

[@evillead1989]

5k subs 8 months ago? Hot damn you are thiiiis close to 100k! Props! I just found your channel but I'm really enjoying it

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

A strange suggestion to you: Use Anima Trees for Psycasts, you can complete the ritual MULTIPLE times with the same pawn. Even pawns without psy-powers can meditate at them. So the objective is simple, how soon can you have 3 max level psycasters? (level 30)

[@oscarsweeney7155]

Repetition legitimises - good to spot another adam neely fan in the wild !

[@ShadowWolf2023-yp5zg]

Lol "If you haven't subscribed, not angry, just disappointed. Your mother and I expected better of you." I haven't heard a more funnier way to tell us to subscribe. Lol

[@rautamiekka]

Makes me just as enraged. Especially since he ain't exactly hurting for.