How do you like them Pineapple.... grenades : Rimworld Anomaly Ep9

That was some nice calm for a while, then Randy decided he was bored and we were most definitely not bored after that. It's weird how not monstrous all the raids are, well barring that 43 person one that was pretty horrible. But the mech for example were way weaker than previous waves. On the bright side I think we can finally go moderate wealth now as we just about have the tech to manage it.
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[@selensewar]

A petition to resurrect Dumbshit Mk. 1. He's a part of the original crew, we can't just leave him behind like that! Think of the children, they're attached to their uncle!

[@neokorps4580]

Legacy Soul matters!

[@RFC3514]

The new one should be Dumbershit. Or maybe Dumbshitter?

[@erebus5170]

When your favourite show recasts your favourite character...😢

[@killerjoe117]

“What, like reverse Mormons??” Francis you’re killing me 😂

[@PaleoWithFries]

Came here for this. Francis. God loves you. We love you. No more notes.

[@brianshilling]

My immediate reaction after the "drive your colonists mad" was So, like, regular Mormons?

[@keyokediacherus2063]

My wife's reply to that comment was "Oh, so Westboro Baptists?". (They're the ones that go protest at funerals and the like)

[@SlimThrull]

@@keyokediacherus2063 Your wife sounds awesome.

[@Crowwalker100]

My roommate is Mormon. He literally shot soda out his nose. And I fell out of my office chair laughing giving my cat another reason to hate me.

[@chalor182]

"Hey he finally has more than one ghoul! This will be great!" Minutes later..

[@user-hf9gx2xe8n]

It's fun how Fransic turns off "fire at will" and then for the life of it can't notice it

[@LonarYolhala]

Peshet: "What a lovely deathrest! Good morning everyone, did I miss anything?"

[@johns6014]

"When did Dumbshit become a fourteen year old girl?"

[@samir5740]

Smerk: -u missed a thing here or there... Peshet: looks at the ghoul -"who is this?" Burç: -"that's Dumbshit, mom. want some blood?" Peshet: -"did i slept so much that the ghoul got hairy?" NomadGunslinger: -"that, and then some more. here's the log of the last few days." Peshet: -"this have like FIFTY PAGES in here!! what the hell?" NomadGunslinger: -"i know, i know, still have the last mech raid to log in, will do as soon as i can. busy, busy."

[@Gremlindude101]

Something people seem to be unware about, is that metalhorrors will automatically burst out of ALL infected colonists when either; A) A metalhorror has been detected via surgery/interrogation. B) When the metalhorrors have infected 50% (approx) of your colonists. There were cases that metal horrors would infect more than 50%, but this was an unintended bug, which was fixed in later patches. You do not need to worry about any metal horrors continuing to lurk in your colonists, the moment they are detected, they will ALL burst out. There won't be any who remain hidden that still need rooting out. Edit: Also, Paramedic Mechanoids are king in this situation. They are perfect for rooting out Metalhorrors, because they can NEVER lie. Even if the Mechanitor who 'controls' the mech is infected. Aditionally, the game doesn't ever just decide "Hey, I wanna throw a metalhorror at these guys. I'll just BS and say this one was infected before arrival!" They either are infected, or not. Babies however are the exception, simply because the game treats them as new colonists that joined from outside, instead of, you know, locally grown. This is something that HAS already been fixed (apparently.) Creepjoiners have potential downsides for joining/rejecting them. One of which is the metalhorror infection. However, from what I can gather, due to him joining your colony at such low wealth, the metalhorror remained dormant until your wealth and population rose to help balance it out. After all, getting a metal horror so early in to your run, would be colony ending. Finally, a misconception with metalhorrors is that they completely control a colonist. They do not. The colonist is still in control of their own body for the most part, completely unaware anything is wrong, hence why you can still send them to their death and have moods. However they do 'guide' their actions. It just sits there in your head, letting you go about your daily life, but if it spots the opportunity to infect another person, it will take it, and leave the colonist with no memory (or altered memory) of what just happened, for example, adding an extra ingredient in your cooking. They also, mechanically, do NOT attempt to kill your colonists in other creative ways, such as 'accidentally' throwing a grenade too close to your colonists. That was just bad aiming, but a funny coincidence.

[@r3dp9]

IIRC interrogations don't trigger metalhorror reveals, but take awhile. Once you know someone is a metalhorror, it's easy to assign them a surgery, and if they pass the surgery you know the doctor is infected.

[@JoshSweetvale]

/Slaps forehead PARAMEDIC MECHANOIDS!!! I hadn't thought of that. Either I'm losing my touch or you sir are _very_ clever.

[@FoundationAfro]

"You can't death refusal if there's no corpse!" - Francis of House John, 2024

[@muspul7727]

Francis: “Guys I'm not a monster, what kind of a person do you think I am" Also Francis: “Wow I didn't expect you guys to not be monsters like this”

[@SRFirefox]

"[Colonist], why are you not shooting?" he says after turning off fire at will. Never change, Francis.

[@seanhunter111]

"So the way this works is you get a vampire and then you lobotomise them..." might be the most "Francis John" sentence ever.

[@lauramae6548]

"Mummy, when is Uncle Dumbshit coming back?" "Oh sweetheart, dead people don't come back. Except me after deathrest I guess. And shamblers. And bandits with death refusal. And resurrection serum. Actually maybe I need to rework this whole "death" concept. Fuck it, go play with Dumbshit 2.0 and stop asking questions"

[@thatotherdavidguy]

So, while the storyteller *can* decide to falsely claim that metalhorrors were retroactive, raiders and "creepjoiners" do legitimately have a chance to start infected.

[@grejwers1324]

Also Nomad was most propably like this since every creepyjoiner has some kind of negative trait and he had none before this point.

[@thatotherdavidguy]

@@grejwers1324 Yes, though some of the negative traits only occur if you reject their join offer, so it is always possible to get lucky

[@currentlyatlas5074]

​@@grejwers1324 yeah I'm pretty sure the negative are really bad but it can also be neutral, one thing that can happen is there heart liver kidney and lungs break down meaning they all have to be replaced, another is Fleshbeast emergence which just kills them and become a flesh beast, they can also lead a jailbreak of all your enteies. The more meh ones are they can leave the colony, become a traiter and attack or they could just do nothing. This time is anywhere between 3-30 days after arrival I got a timeless one (like a teenager) perfect memory one (14+ in every stat and has 0% drain of learning so it never goes down) and he choose to just leave the colony so I shock lanced him and recuited him as he was trying to leave. I definitely think that perfect memory and body mastery (no need for sleep, food or comfort) are the best ones

[@naseweis6105]

i had a slave from a trade ship who came infected

[@JoshSweetvale]

I _really_ despise the whole 'pawns can be infected *independent of *logic* bit.' There's gotta be a mod for that. As for me, I'll just rush to deathless pawns with high melee.

[@karhukoplafilms8192]

That vampire has to be so annoyed all that fighting and chaos happens Immediatly when she goes to rest and because that was not enough, she will be really confused that the ghoul has the same name but is different species than she remembers

[@johns6014]

Not just a different species. Dumbshit went from being a fifty year old man that she knew as a human to a little fourteen year old anime girl with a tail.

[@alchemysaga3745]

TBF, she arrived with DumbShit the First and they were crew mates even before that. She's also really smart, meaning she probably remembers his face. So she probably put the two things together and figured out that he died.

[@River_of_Egypt]

1:02:20 "Wha? Why? What did I do Randy?" You played the game and he is Randy.

[@wizz1358]

I remember when Francis made that video a few months back talking about how he edits his videos and how he reduced the outro volume until no one complained about being woke up by the loud outro, and I was wondering "who would fall sleep to such amazing content", today I was one of those persons... Tiredness got the best of me and I missed like half of the video, now I have to watch it again

[@entitledOne]

Francis seems to be tired. Disabled fire at will a few times and wondered why the pawns aren't shooting at will

[@Antik13671]

I think he does it fairly often tbh. Tbf he is narrating what he is doing so I guess we can give him that. Or that he has been drinking undiluted "tea" during recordings 😂

[@Y.O.L.OS6XGod]

Really tired or really drunk as fuck because multiple times he went to the "choose target" button next to the fire at will, and didn't even see it the red cross😢

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I make a lot of small mistakes like that, can't help it for some reason.

[@entitledOne]

@@FrancisJohnYT you still rock. I have trouble playing the game on anything slightly harder. Meanwhile you're rocking on max difficulty with all kinds of handicaps

[@Y.O.L.OS6XGod]

When I saw FJ running a colony in Rimworld:😁 When I am the guy who runs the colony:💀*F*

[@caelerys9555]

just FYI, you can Sanguophage your Ghouls. They don't need hemogen, and Deathless is kind of stupid on a Ghoul. I usually do it on Nehandertal or Hussar ghouls, but should be just fine on a Yattkin once Pechet gets access to it

[@anthonyzepeda2171]

“I have plenty of this resource! It must be very common... Or maybe I’m not using enough of it”.

[@410aio]

Quick tip, if you capture those cultists with the "inhumanised" condition, they have a special option as prisoners called "study", so you can get some research out of them also^^ Also, you really need to remember turning those "hold fire" back on lol!

[@CorerMaximus]

Holy crap- unicorngaming's story in the credits was amazing. Also- loving the Rimworld series. I look forward to Rimworld DLCs and expansions not to play them, but because you put out an amazingly entertaining series on them! :D I kinda wish you would play more Rimworld outside of new DLCs; but if nothing else, I hope once this ends, the next DLC is soon after so we get another series from you! :D

[@FuLou1988]

Those Hatechanters are op AF. Killed one of my colonies just because of the amount of them when they attacked ( i only needed to kill 4) and almost all of them had death refusal which disabled my melee Killbox because the corpses pilled inside the base before reviving.And because they are cultists they also never break.Your KB is actually perfect for this Francis :D

[@hoerleiche88]

Burc telling stories of his past: "I remember when Uncle Dumbshit changed one day. He went out to save us from a group of Mechanoids, and when he came back he looked alot tougher and hairier. But he also stopped playing with me during my naturewalks. I still miss the old Dumbshit."

[@drachna]

When the metal horror rips its way out of its host, and finds the Students of Cthulu waiting for it.

[@lifelesssquash9935]

The metal horror bursts out of the most suspicious colonists chest; FJ immediately wonders "can we keep it"!? Rimworld for the win!

[@43alphaomega]

My wife misheard "Francis John" to be "Rancid John" and I think this would be a great name for an uncensored second channel

[@Tamizushi]

BTW you can get 10 bioferrites by smelting a nerve smiker. Stuffable weapons and equipment made from bioferrite are also smeltable. Smelting is actually a decent source of that stuff.

[@92thorstein]

In vanila balance room full of toughspikes is way too good source of bioferrite. To make containment facilities satisfying it is worth to play with 300% min. containment strength multiplier. Vanila balance is "dump and forget" sadly.

[@waveclaw]

Grenade Killbox: the self-cleaning killbox

[@vRANDv]

Cleaned the 8 components that the mechs dropped pretty well

[@danielduncan6806]

The crawling on the ground is just the best.

[@VileProject]

No Joke, I kinda liked the idea of Peshet's kid being the traitor/metal horror. She came to the colony pregnant. It fits all too well that some shady science faction sent Pershet and her team out into the Rim to "study Cthulu stuff," but in reality, SHE was the test subject. She was carrying the horror inside her all along. I almost think I'd like that better than the random wandering traitor story.

[@nickmcrae8577]

"why aren't you shooting" lol

[@kylerd5663]

You forgot the most important part of that: *turns off fire at will* ; moments later: "why aren't you shooting" lol

[@brendanrobertson5966]

and he never realised why...

[@vulkandrache1928]

This is the kind of stuff that potentialy makes me stop watching a channel entirely.

[@tyraelpl]

FYI FJ, you missed that latch is only 14 yo so i think she has like what, 80% of the adult HP? IIrc only once they turn 18 they are considered adult and have 100% hp no? And please save the original Ds, he's been so loyal.

[@geraldp8022]

Yeah alot of talk of looking after our own, instantly discarded for an upgrade

[@burntjoint]

@@geraldp8022 I gasped when he just instantly gave up on Dumbshit like that and gave his name to the new one. After everything he has done for the colony and to just end up like that is wrong.

[@dathaniel9403]

I was yelling at the screen when Francis had "fire at will" disabled on almost all of his pawns during that attack. Yeah, no wonder it didn't go well, only one of them was actually shooting!

[@Sheldezare]

Francis, these are magical entities, they could've been like a parasite ghost attaching itself to a newborn. There's now it makes more 'sense'.

[@Genesis8934]

17:57 According to the discord and friendly anecdotes I've heard, robots (i.e., mechinator bots) do not lie on surgical inspections. So that's one way to mitigate it. That said, hearing about metalhorrors is holding me back I think from buying the DLC. I'm interested to see how "easy" they are to deal with and if they're colony-ending. edit: hmmm. 21:17 Did you get them all I wonder... Maybe we need a mechinator to build a surgery bot to be absolutely sure lol. 55:03 Smerk had Fire at Will toggled off. You did the same thing during the cultists' raid. lol

[@thest0mpa]

He did get them all, once 1 emerges they all do if you have multiple.

[@92thorstein]

"horror-like" anomalies are threatening only to small colonies. 1. Revenant can attack up to 3 colonists before it will be easy prey for your shooters 2. Unnatural corpse haunt only 1 colonist and when awoken can be easily killed by few shotgunners 3. Metalhorrors welp - it is quite easy in industrial start to do proper quarantine proceders even without mechanitors (spiketraps&turrets or ghoul guardians). Quite reasonable trick to trigger them is to queue surgical inspection at single pawn by all your colonists twice. The idea here is - if inspected pawn wasn't metalhorror - after first round of operations he should be infected. So at second round he should trigger emergence. Also as you saw - emergence isn't that lethal.

[@cigarr3870]

I feel sad about dumbsh*t and I don't know how to feel about that. FJ you really do make these playthroughs very meaningful.

[@telioty]

He needs to bring the original dumbshit back!

[@r3dp9]

Given what it must be like to be a ghoul, maybe it's for the best that DS 1.0 gets to take a nap.

[@notandy8890]

Maybe you could implant a nuclear stomach on the prisoners you intend to have be ghouls, so that they only eat 25% of normal, since they won't get cancers.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Nuclear stomachs are weak to EMP, mean that if we are fighting mechs and body blocking with ghouls they will be stopping to throw up all the time. Going to have to figure out a way to optimize the ghouls with genes I think.

[@Rexini_Kobalt]

the kids: frolicking, having a good time everyone at home: _literally in The Thing_

[@anotheruser676]

Nomad Gunsling AKA Don't Trust Me 'WE KNEW IT!!' 'WE ALL KNEW IT!!!'

[@Yunners]

At some point someone thought "Lets take Alien, The Thing and The Borg and smash them together, what could go wrong?" Metal Horrors are, well, horrifying.

[@teebob21]

Everybody loves a little Lovecraft, and Lovecraft loved his cat.

[@dehb1ue]

“Why aren’t they shooting?” while they’re all on “Hold fire” 😂

[@jayowen5824]

Since you have two doctors, the best strategy for dealing with metalhorrors is to inspecting a third colonist a total of three times, alternating between your doctors. If you find nothing after three inspections, either both doctors are infected, or neither of them are.

[@r3dp9]

Brilliant! It does assume the chance of infection is 100%, I'm not sure if that's the case. Much research needs to be done...

[@SovereignHumanBeingX]

"He's a goul." "He's always naked." 😂😂

[@johnjohnsin3762]

Continual reminder that your bloodlust people can wear tainted clothes which are significantly less value than clean, that includes all armor too and flack vests.

[@thesentientneuron6550]

And so can psychopaths, right?

[@johnjohnsin3762]

@@thesentientneuron6550 I believe so.

[@tuukkapuranen9375]

1:07:48 "Nice to way make a yunners." Oh no... :D

[@francisdoherty5580]

19:00 Nomad's mind wondered. "The meds would do that" she remembered. She knew what was going on and why. As the darkness closed in, her memories exploded. She'd been attacked by the cloud at the end of her last groups ritual. Then she heard the screams......

[@LilTikiBoy]

I would personally resurrect Dumbshit 1.0. It only costs some twisted meat and a bit of bioferrite, and even without tough and robust they are still pretty hard to kill. Just give them both ghoul plating, adrenal hearts and ghoul barbs, and you'll have a small force of murder machines that can't be broken and can also be brought back to life with ease. That is never a bad thing out on the rim.

[@AlthaeaMedea]

Yeah, Dumbshit 1.0 did sterling work for the colony. Be a shame for a fluffy interloper to take their crown!

[@johns6014]

I agree with this. There's no reason to leave him as a corpse considering his history with the group, even if the little girl is tougher than him. You have plenty of meat anyway, so it's not like there's a reason to only stick to one ghoul. It really calls into question FJ's stance that "we take care of our own" to throw Dumbshit to the wolves and then abandon him with such a casual air.

[@cigarr3870]

@@AlthaeaMedea I have to say, i got a tinge of sadness at this.

[@urboyfriendsucks]

Yes please!

[@Lapisia]

I second....or it's probably the fifth or something at this point...this. Sure Dumbshit 1.0 isn't the best ghoul around, but he has proven himself to be plenty useful. Also I think it's funny to have Dumbshit 1.0 and Dumbshit 2.0. And technically Dumbshit 2.0 _is_ an upgrade on Dumbshit 1.0, so kinda fits that way too. (looking at the ending, Uncle Dumbshit and Auntie Dumbshit is great as well. Although Auntie Dumbshit isn't much of an auntie just yet)

[@toddboward4771]

RIP Dmbsht. Long live Dmbsht 2 Ghoulie Boogaloo

[@thr3308]

I happened to notice the metalhorror gave its age as 11 days, so that could tell you when Randy stuck it in Nomad Gunslinger. I haven't checked the tapes but I think Nomad's been around a bit longer than that?

[@nate_0723]

The "reverse Mormons" comment was gold.

[@hellvor7015]

Eating tacos and watching chaos

[@aleksanderborowczak3830]

I've started playing anomaly myself and I noticed they changed the start - you got 2 pawns and the ghoul, but now its easier, 3 pawns and the ghoul.

[@bruhder5854]

Hate chant just seems like a way to force you to split your forces and start clearing them out from opposite ends and sort of coverage back in the middle. The longer they stay active, the worse the effects will become.

[@daved1302]

As far as your starting ideology. You can avoid the column and such requirement by selecting fire lantern festival. However, if you chose an alter, it is better to go pew then cushion (requires cloth I think). Also more importantly, it is best to select the small alter. There are several requirements that come with it, they are randomized. You want the one that only requires 1 space and floored tiles, not things like columns. When you do it that way you can make a one tile room, floor it and put the small alter there, then make a second one anywhere to do your conversions, role changes and festivals.

[@dahn57]

Capturing a metal horror? I'm sure there's no way THAT can go wrong... It's like fighting John Carpenter's The Thing, and when you have got it on the ropes, saying, "Hey, let's just keep it as a pet!" 😛

[@lauramae6548]

Dumbshit went into the earth to fertilise plants just like his namesake. Ashes to ashes, manure to manure (seriously though bring him back pls 💗)

[@Warmachine15550]

Sad to see I didn’t hit the max growth for the first time but there’s always the others, I think nimble wasn’t the worst option could always become a melee fighting cyborg

[@williamlai29]

35:32 Francis is starting a "Harems" play.

[@mmistry8445]

Congrats on the 100K

[@jeb8401]

This has a lot of a "hot wire in a blood sample" vibes going on. - The Thing 1982

[@Eon2641]

I can't even imagine how disgusted I would be with how cleanly this resolved for you if I had lost my colony to one of these 😂

[@azrobbins01]

Nuclear stomach is a good option for a ghoul, since the self heal the cancer.

[@techienate]

That grenade box massacre was a thing of beauty

[@telioty]

You need to bring Dumbshit Prime back! We take care pf our own!

[@RFC3514]

Invisibility is a useful spell, but with the revenant spines I'd say it becomes less essential than skip, berserk and berserk pulse. With those three (plus invisibility, from either source), two pawns can often dispatch a raid of *any* size. Which just shows how broken the whole psycast thing is (in addition to making no sense that _only_ your pawns can use spells, although tribals could supposedly get them just by meditating near a tree).

[@FrancisJohnYT]

We have terrible spells so far, no berserk, no skip and only one pawn with invisibility who has terrible psy sensitivity.

[@fluke2352]

Good Jobe dude!! We all appreciate you!!

[@102Chewy]

Congrats on properly handling your first colony ending event! Metal Horrors are joke and you dealt with this very well. Shame you got so spoiled with them, but that was unavoidable. There's a few more though. But most of those are locked behind upgrading the monolith and they each require some "unique" methods to deal with. Can't wait to see how you deal with my most troublesome anomaly. But that's locked behind the monolith's upgrade and they frankly suck to deal with for a few reasons. Wont spoil, but lets just say they are "hungry".

[@pigonionsalad]

19:00 the hesitation in swearing at metalhorrors despite saying dumbshit all the time xD edit 28:50 warmachine's growth moment text saying they're interested in "drawing pictures of machine gods"...the game knows

[@Jaythack]

All that DS has done for you, bring him back!!

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

13:00 that killbox is... cheff kiss.

[@grejwers1324]

Im asking once more, please advance the monolith because the higher tier anomalies are incredible and fun(Also consider changing the anomaly meter to something more like 35% in storyteller settings so you get more anomaly stuff). Other than that i reccomend you make some disruptor flares, they are amazing because they stun everything they hit, uncloak enemies and give a moving and conciousness debuff.

[@Jonsse]

This episode should be titled: "No-one fires at will!"

[@Dragonlord7012]

I liked the Boom-Box killlbox Edit: I'm supprised FJ hasn't started spamming Ghouls in Crypt-Caskets, and FridgeZombie-IED's. Edit2: apparently if you give a Ghoul a power claw you should replace the other hand with a wooden hand so they don't use it for punchint, and it ups their damage.

[@pigonionsalad]

my favourite music beat, the rhythm of grenades!

[@Dragonlord7012]

@@pigonionsalad Dropping beats like we drop bodies. And colony wealth.

[@1Flyffer1]

you can put a nuclear stomach in a person before making them a ghoul for the .25x hunger rate when you get to bionics. you might be able to give a ghoul one but I haven't tested that

[@naseweis6105]

you can use all bionics and even genes on ghouls. but rememer the vomit fountain if you use any emp.

[@twitchunlimited7450]

perhaps we use military rankings to differentiate the ghoul brigade but keep the name the same

[@chrismaxwell3405]

need to get Void sculptures, so you can make the 6x Void Statues to improve your rituals MORE!!!!!

[@Dr.Do0m]

if ur cook is infected with metalhorrors he will spread the horrors into the whole tribe^^

[@Y.O.L.OS6XGod]

FJ i read on the Rimworld Wiki that now pawns can use the incinerator with a shield belt on it, it's not a bug, it's intended

[@hellvor7015]

The Geneva Convention can not be enforced if you are on fire.

[@Y.O.L.OS6XGod]

The Geneva "suggestion"😆

[@marcusschimpfle2975]

Did anyone else notice he forgot to remove Hold Fire form some of his guys and then was complaning that they wern't firing without checking that?

[@1Flyffer1]

if you get a nociosphere, you can contain it forever if you don't study it. But study the first one, it's as useful as it is dangerous. Make sure to grab turret packs, they are amazing! Last tip, keep your base lit up : ^ ) Great content Francis, absolutely loving your return to the rim!

[@Vherok]

I need a sleep accelerator irl

[@salemprompthous3820]

For the kill-box: use shelves for the grenades. Shelves don't need a roof, but a zoned storage needs both walls and roof for the grenades to stay protected from the outdoor elements I'm guessing FJ knows this, and this was just a quick test, just felt it needed to be said 😊 Edit:39:08 And FJ has built the shelf. (Possibly been there a while, personally didn't notice it before)

[@salemprompthous3820]

Not really surprised about the metalhorror results, honestly. Whenever someone comes along and joins, and the introduction ends with "But you feel there's something they're not telling", that pawn will definately have something that shows up later. Metalhorror is one of those events. Don't trust you, was a perfect name for them 😅

[@salemprompthous3820]

Latch: 14 year old, tough will just negate the smaller frame of a child, and probably won't be the tanky ghoul one would prefer...? With ghoul upgrades, Latch would get even tougher, but they'll still be a child and generally have less hp than an adult

[@EskoLuontola]

@@salemprompthous3820 Would there be a skill for aging them?

[@salemprompthous3820]

@@EskoLuontola without mods, no. When turned ghoul, they don't age normally anymore, unless this was fixed in a recent patch (haven't played since the last big fix)

[@Mikufanboy3]

You can hit the cultists and not kill them to avoid triggering them attacking, ideally having all of them bleeding beforehand, though you need enough mood to buffer the drone effect

[@deathdealer646]

Imo the metal horrors should auto attack once they've infected half your colonists. That way it's still a challenge but less a auto wipe if it just randomly gets your cook/Dr.

[@bradleypeate3266]

the shard being spread is usually from a doctor or a cook putting it into the food from what I understand also if your a cultist they lie 100% of the time I think since all mine lie lol

[@robocraftian2042]

Please bring back dumshit prime, he’s become my emotional support ghoul

[@Mikufanboy3]

Another neat tip, you can just use the holding spots instead of the steel chain slabs to help manage wealth. If you can somehow capture entities with brain damage they will never escape containment, possibly even have lower wealthy value. I'm uncertain if the most reliable way to do this is to spam psychic shock lances or getting a lucky shot in.

[@r3dp9]

Electroharvesters (periodic electric burns to a random body part, chance to scar) and coolers (hypothermia to all body parts, chance to lose limbs) are the go-to methods, from what I hear.

[@pklemming]

That must have been a wimpy randy roll for that combat cluster. Do you have visible raid points installed? You also may want to roof and light where your pawns stand for the killbox.

[@tyraelpl]

Perfect! Thank you FJ!

[@jmatya]

Dumbshit reborn was like a Rick and Morty moment 😅

[@Sytesh]

Need to get ghoul barbs and a Power Claw on that ghoul. Maybe Stoneskin gland while you're at it. The adrenal heart for ghouls is also great and has a super short cooldown.

[@keninishna]

I second powerclaws they add a fair amount of damage and don't require high tech bionics and can be made in the machine bench or even just one powerclaw and a wood hand on the other hand so they only attack with the power claw if he wants to go the discount route. I'd also add a nuclear stomach works well on ghouls if he can find one or eventually does get around to researching it. Also he could create a ghoul tailored genetic pack at some point.

[@RFC3514]

Yeah, given the time when he joined, I'm pretty sure Nomad _could not_ have had the metalhorror when he joined your colony. It was a later (random) event, and the text just lies.

[@grandfremdling3841]

35:27 - loyal pawns are not easy to recruit!

[@zaftnotameni]

when he mentioned that he hates to fight in the field...... who's gonna tell him? 😆

[@r3dp9]

Shhh! 😅

[@MathewSan_]

Great video 👍

[@NelsonGuedes]

"Death refusal all you want" 💀

[@FTRek]

For me it was always stranger with unknown bio that brought metal horror, so I don't think what people say is correct.

[@GenXGamerGirl]

I had a piece of flesh in my research lab, I thought it was the most recent colonist, so I had arrested him and was interrogating him. The metal horror left the body of a different colonist and attacked the colony. Not sure what triggered that to happen.

[@BrendanWinterSC81]

Epic kill box, well done. 👏 - I like how tidy it is, why spend time reducing wealth after the battle when you can do during. So much time saved. 👼

[@daved1302]

Your fire at will was still turned off from when you set it that way with the grenades. That is why they were not auto-shooting.