Raider Basics (Rimworld Raider Guide)

Raiders are a big subject in rimworld, and for good reason. Raiders are calculated monsters that will stop at nothing to end your colony. Thats why I'm here to teach you everything you need to know in order to fend off these bad guys and keep your colonies marching into the future.
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Dont die pls

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[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

Do you ALWAYS use the same face in your videos? And what's up with the Pink hair?WHY PINK?♤

[@FirstNameLastName-tg3rc]

(2:32) What about the remaining 10%? (Edit). Please ignore the question, it's answered at 4:25.

[@avrixel7488]

Me playing on Igor Invader: “LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT RAIDS!”

[@radoha6415]

Haha! What you know about the raids? Igor is warning you 12 hours before the raid. Void Will get you PTSD.

[@BillyNewton-cc7wv]

Agreed

[@thomasscroggs4410]

The "Sometimes Raids Go Wrong" mod has honestly been more dangerous for me not less. Unless the falling meteor even happens, it usually spawns in a mob to 'counter' the raid. For example, you get a couple of raiders armed with knives and clubs. A Manhunting Bear then spawns right next to them and kills them both. Good you say? Well what do you think that angry, manhunting bear is going to go for next?

[@avrixel7488]

You got only a bear? I got 2 man hunting ancient dragons while my forsaken base was still wooden. Let’s just say I decided not to have that mod enabled while I have animal play through XD

[@everinghall8622]

That's why I have bears of my own :D They can also haul, and for some reason, eat less than Huskies.

[@SpringDavid]

"prepare, theres a raid incoming" kid named big ass manhunting spider:

[@pavelZhd]

I know this is a bit obvious, but still took me some time to figure out. When raiders see a haulable high value target, they can decide to steal what they can and leave. So knowing this you can plan your defenses around this - make some statues and put them in stockpiles around the base as bribes for raiders to eff off. Might work.

[@user-hj4op5no6r]

Also you can shoot them while they try to steal things

[@badzombies2003]

Pro tip: If raiders dropping into your base are too much for you to handle, get yourself a mountain base. It's immune to pods crashing into your base, mortar bombardments, and the weather. The major downside is that insectoids may infest your base, which can easily kill your pawns if you're unprepared.

[@krischurch3763]

I like mountain bases a lot, but I'm afraid of infestations so I back out.

[@coffeeflavor1687]

@@krischurch3763there a mod that lets you make it so infestationa dont spawn in dark places, so if you keep the base lit up your fine

[@remliqa]

@@coffeeflavor1687 I prefer my games mod-less so that isn't an option.

[@everinghall8622]

@@krischurch3763 just have multiple airlocks throughout your base and keep plate armor and very strong melee weapons around. You can also have furnace chambers of sorts with vents leading to a room full of wood or something. Generally insectoids arent dangerous in straight corridors though.

[@ironmoondarkwing4190]

I mean, there’s also a mod that lets you remove overhead mountain and build thick stone roofs. Pretty op but I like it. 😅

[@Beef1188]

Pro tip: raiders will get you eventually so have some sort MAD strategy. MAD stands for mutually assured destruction.

[@pyrovonfire7966]

RELEASE THE LUCIFERIUM INFUSED CYBORG

[@likeablekiwi6265]

burn everyone

[@everinghall8622]

That's what boomalopes are for :D

[@kyleprall1757]

Anti-Grain warheads and an IED to trigger them, beautiful fireworks.

[@Norinia]

@@everinghall8622 not anymore

[@quasirobot222]

I never would have thought about using the shield belt to pull a reverse William Tell. Hopefully I can apply these lessons when the hordes of shiny new VFE mechs come baying for my blood.

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

William Tell? Who is that,do tell?

[@Leelan1250]

The best about these videos is that he gives good visual examples while slapping in animations for the finishing touch.

[@quddushashim6638]

I remember that I often try to make the Raiders have a mental breakdown by making them goes through a dirty room fill with corpse and human leather furniture... Just make sure your colonist is forbid to go into that room.

[@everinghall8622]

With no tables...

[@quddushashim6638]

@@everinghall8622 Hold your horses there buddy, I know that I want to make them have a mental breakdown but that too cruel.

[@exudeku]

How to properly defend your base Step 1: mortars Step 2: profit

[@ttvgoober3367]

I have an elephant army, that works pretty well too.

[@namvo3013]

Breach raid in 1.3 is crazy. Tynan reworked breach weapons to make them deal extra dmg to structures, and turrets will not scare them off. At least the player have battle command from leader to buff their group

[@puckishpie3156]

if Rimworld were to add a new raid type, what would you want them to add? personally id like a jetpack type of raid that jumps over your wall so you protect your entire base instead of a killbox.

[@Noobert]

raids expanded has a lot of new raid types

[@Elliott-me2jw]

Theres a reson i told you about it noobert

[@Maethendias]

id like to see sieges that ACUTALLY siege your colony, instead of just mortaring it... you know, setting anti mortar shields, and building an outpost on your map, killing caravans and pawns that come closer

[@nathanb1509]

I'd like raiders to parley and make demands like gold or glitter medicine. High social means a chance to send them on their way empty handed.

[@everinghall8622]

Tbh I'd like to see some type of raider that makes killboxes obsolete. Killboxes are boring and with a good one your colonists can go literal years without firing a shot outside of hunting.

[@pavelZhd]

14:00 "EMP them and then bash them with Zeushammers" Well... Zeuses have built in EMP whacker, so you don't really need to grenade the peeds before goind for the bash. Also if you are going to melee a Centepede, remember that you need best blunt armour to do so, or you'll get crushed.

[@shadoeboi212]

i think the initial EMP is so you have a chance to close to melee

[@remliqa]

Didn't Mechanosid gains temporary EMP immunity once they recovered form the first EMP ?

[@shadoeboi212]

@@remliqa they gain a resistance I think. also min shooting range since most mechs suck in melee

[@ahben98]

Fun fact about raider AI, any enemy which uses a weapon with multiple projectiles can only target 1 unit for its main attack (eg centipedes can only "aim" at 1 pawn). In essence, if you move this pawn in and out of the enemy's sight (eg: out of range or behind a long wall), the enemy will halt the current attack if it has already fired and the weapon will go on cooldown. You can use this mechanic to cheese centipedes with charge blasters into only shooting 1 shot per long charge.

[@KillerBot5100]

Pro tip: have defenses on BOTH sides of your defensive lines, and strongpoints all around your base especially with mountains. Whenever you have a drop pod raid, infestation, or other raid that bypasses your main kill box, move colonists to whatever strongpoint is closest and try and consolidate your forces gradually. If you have mods that allow it, prepare some kind of tactic to burn or gas out the rest of your base while your colonists hide in strongpoints. A good design for a strongpoint is a 1 or 2 wide hallway lined with turrets behind embrasures/sandbags with sandbags at the back, with a small stockpile of food and maybe a bed and some medicine. Someplace that 2-5 colonists can hole up for a few days. You can repurpose certain rooms to serve as strongpoints, such as your stockpile or other generally empty room that you can throw some defenses and food in. I also like to make one main great “bunker” or “panic room” that’s behind a hallway loaded with turrets and has enough facilities for about 5-7 of my best colonist to survive for several days and with resources to rebuild then rebuild the ruined base

[@seansandhagen481]

I remember one time I got a raid relatively early game while I was building a chamber to full of spike traps to clear an ancient danger, and I got a decent raid at a really bad time after one of my favorite colonists lost an arm. And then the Raiders decided instead of attacking my base they'd run down the tunnel full of spikes, they decided to flee shortly after that

[@dennylukman1801]

CE pro tips: if your enemy either androids, power armor troops, or mechanoid, either penetrate their armor or use electricity (EMP) to ruin their day.

[@joule400]

I hit a centipede few times and it apparently developped an immunity to emp Better idea Re-enable miniguns for the game and shred them, miniguns with HE bullets will destroy anything and they got 500 shots ready and if targetting a single target, wont stop firing until theyre out or said target is destroyed, even the tankiest of enemies cant last more than handful of seconds

[@dennylukman1801]

@@joule400 that the reason you need to give centipedes EMP slug hell before the centipedes out of stun lock.

[@konpekinogomi]

imagine someone recreated rimworld as a third person or fps with all the same mechanics as the game but you can play it with friends and can be approached from a new perspective, I know I'm delusional. Had an all nighter playing rimrim xD. Nice vid guys !

[@CallyAllyWay1999]

Hearing noobert go sicko mode on scanning raiders was... majestic.

[@Noobert]

lmao best moment

[@jogurcik13]

Is it me or new mech from idelogy makes multi layer killbox nonsense?

[@morokinzok5363]

What's the mod/mods that you use for those trenches, barbed wire & wooden spikes @ 5:33?

[@nutrynity4240]

I hate it when my food fights back!

[@marvingrafe5328]

0:20 - Yeah, believe me, you really wouldn't want to stand behind an RPG-launcher when it fires. Unless you like burned skin, that is.

[@jonasdelapena3543]

"CLEAR BACKBLAST!!!"

[@voidseeker4394]

I doubt burnt skin is the most serious problem here. The shockwave from the initial charge will liquify your brain first.

[@Saihyou]

Combat Extended Centipedes... the range, the pinpoint accuracy, the wall busting inferno cannons... who needs Termites?

[@cavemanbob82]

Thanks for another great vid. Informative AND entertaining.

[@Th3BlackLotus]

Vanilla expanded's "Ranged Shieldbelts" are amazing.

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[@Noobert]

Thanks mate i appreciate it 👍

[@firedstreams8210]

One time I had a sapper raid, damn thing dug into a insect hive I didn't know was there and that alone destroyed my entire colony. *Pain.*

[@moppa-qi5yr]

this brings me back to that time where classic randy random sent 5 damn consecutive raids one after the other and i stopped playing rimworld for a whole month because of that

[@ntma]

hey man. I know this is a bit of a necro, but thanks for making these guides. I know game basics, but I still learn something new o7

[@exudeku]

To all 1.2 plebs like me, there is an Anti-air mod to kill those pesky drop pods...I even obliterate an entire void group in it

[@AramatiPaz]

0:24 this is how Okita Sougo became a battalion leader in the police.

[@lonestoner8297]

I like to set up IEDs around the entry points of my map. Any survivors have to make it past the spike traps and finally the turrets. There is also a mortar placement I have with 3 mortars so for anyone raiding me that decided to make a plan will be bombed. If they somehow get to my actual base my pawns are ready. Very rarely do they make it to the front door or back door. I had a drop pod raid once where they crashed into my dinning room just like you were saying lol only thing was everyone in my dinning room were ready to fight. It was a bloody mess lol one of the raiders had nades and it... well so many people in one place you can imagine lol. Fun times being attacked in RimWorld.

[@PGMP2007]

:D nice video

[@zerokira2929]

Without combat extended melee units are the best when come to mechanoid raid.

[@diegomaynez1425]

Imagine playing without CE

[@Crspss]

Yayo Combat gang

[@remliqa]

@@diegomaynez1425 I prefer my games mod-less , I don't think I need to imagines anything.

[@everinghall8622]

@@diegomaynez1425 I like the base game, I feel combat extended gives low shooting skill pawns too high of a chance to hit their target, and it feels unrealistic to me.

[@Chris-fo2fi]

Catchphrase is a cool catchphrase!

[@hozic9929]

Fun thing is im doing raider playtrough rn starting as nomad is very op (good acess to luciferium and good armors)

[@theflamingphoenix5363]

Idk if you said this but if there's a battle going on it's always good to have a medic neaby to rescue downed fightets.

[@tabithal2977]

8:36 I once had a raid of like 20 Outlanders all with sniper rifles. I underestimated them. That game is no longer going.

[@diamentus3774]

I once had a raid of 10 tribal people with longbows. Long story short, both of my slaves got one shot and died

[@kamilslup7743]

I once got a mechanoid drop pod scatter early in the reactor charging. First one dropped into a dude's room as he was taking a bath

[@holyknightgoobleslordoftri3814]

What mortars are the siege raiders using and what mod are they from?

[@WolverineMKD]

You are hilarious !

[@Elliott-me2jw]

thanks

[@ZackyBonkPH]

U forgot the last raider **The FPS droppers**

[@raymondervin]

new to the game just had my 20 hour game ended by "the bombs" and a mortar strike team. any advice would be welcomed for my next attempt :)

[@FuturPlanet]

Ever tried the Rocket Man mod? It makes games run rly good. Brought my game from 15fps back to 50. Its insane.

[@leion800]

Any tips on dealing with a Void raid?

[@steveharrison76]

There is a fun farming exploit if you have the industry mod installed and are subjected to a siege. You can put an item puller at the edge of your base and extend a stockpile around the surging group. You can basically farm survival meals, mortar shells and occasionally building materials and medicine by doing this. The raiders never seem to twig to what’s happening and just wander around trying to build their siege compound with stuff that vanished as soon as it’s dropped in.

[@benlex5672]

Pirates, mechanoids, and deserters showed up at the same time to raid and started killing each other while raiding my very well-fortified spacer colony...... safe to say I end the day without any space in storage.

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Lmao adbert has been foiled

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i love randy random i use him everytime

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[@BehindTheCard]

Wait, can Centipede keep attacking with ranged weapons when someone melees them or is it part of CE mod that makes them unable to?

[@avrixel7488]

I think that’s base game because every time you melee something it starts meleeing back and stops shooting

[@LexTheCat]

Wait, did breach raids get covered in this? Did I somehow miss that?

[@trevoreklof1088]

Got destroyed by 3 sieges at once I thought I could handle the first one the second one possibly but by the third one it was over

[@RaDeus87]

I will never forget when a troop of pirates dropped right into my rec-room.... which was deep inside a mountain.

[@datcat8458]

Lesson, use mods to make your aim better/more realistic.

[@everinghall8622]

I dont have problems with pawn accuracy, just rotate your hunters until everyone has 12 or higher, they shouldn't be missing too often then, also only use good quality or higher guns, an excellent/masterwork weapon typically has 100 accuracy at its ideal range. Also put a roof over your sandbags so pawns dont get weather penalty in the rain.

[@nave_20]

Me starting to play rimworld again after 6 months. The first 10 Minutes (not joking) Toxic fallout Mana surge (rimworld of magic) Gutworm desease Mad boomalopes Eclipse Siege and a raid (30 seconds between them) ... ahhh i missed this game xD

[@Cronomancer]

I might use killbox if I could. Problem is, almost every raid I get is drop pods. 😤

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[@normanlandstruck3985]

I have a healthy fear of dealing with bow users in my rimworld playthroughs. For some reason I've had the worst luck with arrows taking out brains. Through heavy armor, I lose more colonists to bow headshots than any other weapon it seems.

[@HurricaneNWG]

When it comes to the new mechanoid, the Termite mechanoid is truly a pain to deal with. Still, that's nowhere as bad as what happens when you neglect going after VFX Mechanoid ships and you get like 121 of them dropping down outside your colony's gates ready to kick the door down.

[@jerrybarnette5148]

Im in a new game now with VFX Mech ships that keep landing but I cant kill them and they keep building up but they havent attacked yet, im worried they are about to steamroll me

[@MineSlimeTV]

@@jerrybarnette5148 and what happened next? Oh golly I was glad to had found this youtuber, and I will really try to play Rimworld once again. Even if I don't have neither of the two major DLC's

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Funny stuff.

[@Schoppeng]

What to do vs mod addiction :D ?

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The new background is sick! Er...Muscle Parasites sick, not Plague sick...

[@Logan0503]

Is there any chance of this video getting a remake? What with Ideology and especially Biotech there are new threats and issues to deal with, but also new opportunities to exploit.

[@Noobert]

Great question. yeah a part 2 is in order for sure

[@lenorelestrange]

2 critical isues, protect lives not property, living is more important than the base you can rebuild and 2: Steel is flamable in base game, idk why but it is.

[@themegaminecrafteur]

whats the music used at the begining ? (starts around 0:40) :D

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any luck getting the answer? :D

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I like your videos for the most part, but I think you could significantly improve them by doing another take when you misspeak

[@Noobert]

But then it would take looonngggeerrrr

[@Noobert]

I do retake really bad ones but i feel the rest are kinda funny

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Funny stuff

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Yes yes algorithm

[@theflamingphoenix5363]

What about Termite?

[@mbm3155]

Most random systems are not truly random and weighted, I have a feeling rimworld may not be weighted...

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early gang over here

[@alexoelkers2292]

Can raiders drop inside of caves?

[@Noobert]

no

[@Thatonecyborg]

Outranging would be highly recomended if facing any ranged raider type a Case in a nutshell would be Raider with a Pistol cant reach your colonist with the sniper rifle and in max range of their weapon and still shoots the raider thats outranging in a nutshell

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Why is it that I should like the video, before I truly know whether or not I actually like it?

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Well, do you like it?

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[@theflamingphoenix5363]

I had a raid just doomsday rocket me then dip.

[@tavernburner3066]

why use gun png not one of the guns in game?

[@MICKEYrenraw]

13:29 but... centipedes don't use mini guns any more, only charge blasters and inferno cannons, i mean they did use mini guns in the betas but not any more, right? :S i remember back in the day you could dismantle centipedes for their mini guns, the same way you could dismantle sythers for their syther blades... why were syther blades removed as cybernetics you could use on pawns? real shame :/

[@stevenldoe7838]

I only play randy random

[@jayav2877]

15:15 Ooh...

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Hi

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Hello im a fish

[@Noobert]

hi fish

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@@Noobert thanks for the good guides

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

Guys. Guys. literally just put a pillar and surround it with roofing. They raiders break it and kill themselves.

[@joea5183]

Good idea

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[@Noobert]

oh it helps a lot it really does people

[@weatherbeat8958]

who tf downvoted this piece of artwork!

[@radordekeche947]

I thought this was going to be a guide on how to be a raider, not how to fight them.

[@personperson6750]

i ussualy starve before any raids happen

[@krischurch3763]

I had the same issue, when I start out I make a big rice farm and a freezer now

[@personperson6750]

@@krischurch3763 doesnt work for me my colonists never tend to the farm

[@donecoin33]

@@personperson6750 open up the work top and toggle the manual priorities at the top left of the tab; there you can tell them what to do first and what to do last. If you have growing and plant cutting on 1 they’ll do growing first because it comes before plant cutting.

[@personperson6750]

@@donecoin33 i tried that

[@personperson6750]

@@donecoin33 i already tried that

[@thebulletkin8393]

If the raiders target colonist owned beds, what happens if you unassigned all the beds when a raid starts?

[@Noobert]

Still go for nearest bed

[@psydocthepsyduck8382]

Quack