RimWorld Defense Guide - The Burn Box / Heat Killbox [2024, 1.5+]

[@AdamVsEverything]

EDIT: Burn boxes still work for killing biological enemies in 1.5/Anomaly. However, death on down now applies to enemies with heatstroke - meaning that this can't be used to get hundreds of prisoners anymore. Still great for defense though if you want to use it! Thank you for liking & commenting! Something not working for you? Don't fret, there's a lot of 'moving parts'. Come post your problem on our public Discord so we can get you roasting tribals in no time! - discord.gg/gKZh2XZzdK Collision Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4Wtl2NjpdqmrrM Flamebow Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooHJimedjM6je8k All RW Guides: kzbin.info/aero/PLQWnHloPSfq4ajFkTBA8vZk2R43NaQeKO Website: adamvseverything.com Blueprints Download: adamvseverything.com/downloads Watch this: kzbin.info/aero/PLQWnHloPSfq6DOxezzmyJKwsm-ynXv-ao Let me know in your own comment what you'd like to see a RimWorld Guide about! As always, thanks for watching.

[@gomo88]

If this doesn't give you access to "hundreds" of prisoners, does it give access to like... two or three per raid or does nobody survive?

[@matthewhughes-holland6194]

Any way to salvage the loot? I can’t put the fire out in time it all burns away

[@Inkboy1]

This guide is fire 🔥

[@bkm8707]

I'm so engaged by these helpful guides he's making!

[@parsa1372]

Get out!

[@AugustTheTitan]

I see what you did there!

[@ghysling]

@@parsa1372 Pogs are at grandmas place so we good.

[@pedrol.operator8522]

Right? Lit AF

[@matthewghilarducci5033]

Your guides are the best Adam. Succinct. Informative. No BS. Appreciate you brother.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks a ton, Matthew! Very much appreciated - and glad you like the guides.

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[@samsonthemanson]

These guides are what got me to start watching you, glad to get a better idea of how it works

[@SillyIdea]

I don't even use most of these guides but every one has had at least one actionable point I didn't know so I want to promote them.

[@WastedPot]

Alternatively you could set your zones up so the only person who can access the firewood chamber has their construction disabled, rather then disable everyone’s construction every time.

[@Hewberman]

absolute excellent guide. I love how to address questions during, so I dont have to troll comments for answers never given. You earned a sub mon frere

[@bkm8707]

Thanks for another helpful and well put together RimWorld guide!

[@OhNoTheFace]

I am niether on killboxes. I chalk them up to necessary evil, since somehow a village of 20 tribals can send 50 guys at you :P This looks interesting

[@hancin993]

Ahh, everyone’s favorite: raider popcorn

[@bkm8707]

Butter or guns? Both?

[@lambdachaos]

good video, such a nice set of war crime knowledge!

[@RedEyedShabby]

Fellow Hoosier here! Love your content!

[@dantevalentine7649]

I found you while looking for help to stop dying in my games. This channel of yours is a miracle to me. Just watching your 500% no pause runs has given me a good idea of what I need to focus on first to stop starving and getting murdered lol. Many thanks for all the epic guides and playthroughs.

[@Adamniezgodzki]

Nice tutorial. Never really used burn boxes, maybe once, but I'll have to give his one a try.

[@Wanderlust073]

Thanks for the guide, looking forward to more!

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks a ton, Wanderlust! Much appreciated. Glad you are enjoying the guides/content!

[@Tehk]

Those scorchers took installing a firewall pretty literal.

[@carok6817]

Awesome guide! Thank you Adam!!!

[@EboyPlaysMurderDrones]

God, I love burning with this building and a ton of loot

[@Lilrael]

Love your guides, helpful and logical as always.

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks a ton, Alexandra! Very much appreciated, and am glad you enjoy the guides.

[@Chaos3000and3]

I love the sound of human popcorn popping in my burn box

[@Q_Boiii]

Thank you for teaching me nearly everything I know about Rimworld!

[@Adam-rs4en]

Perfect video, thanks Adam. MORE MELEE GODS

[@anson7671]

I like your guises a lot, very helpful. More please.

[@skyesfury8511]

2:05 The AI pathing drives me insane. Inefficient would be an improvement on what's happening there. That's just plan bad pathing. Sadly, even mods don't actually fix this. Thanks for guide vids like this, Adam. Always fun to try out ideas I haven't done before.

[@Slouchy-tw1rw]

Thanks for this. I used the same idea to murder 80+ insects in a cave that were giving me a headache. I even had to sacrifice one of my pawns to thin them out before I used this.

[@corbinhansen4309]

I have watched you do this many times, but have learned a few things I have been doing wrong! Thanks!! Great guide

[@kettlefleet829]

This is revenge for burning all my crops and generators

[@kerrymoore1961]

Love your mech names!

[@khelnozz63]

Thanks for the guide Adam... Love them all

[@Dylandean92]

Great guide as always Adam

[@chasemorgan1992]

Yay new guide!!! Keep em comin!!!

[@Kodiac]

Everything Adam does is magic

[@pedrolucasssr]

Always great content, thanks Adam!

[@fknutz4400]

It was real fun watching all this stuff being tested on stream. I'm a person that's way too greedy to burn up all that loot, then I'm cursing myself trying to sort through 1000 bows spears and pilas

[@fknutz4400]

Quick faq is a nice touch

[@MeAMuse]

Great job Adam. I have seen you do these a bunch, but have never really got one working for myself... mainly because I thought you had to close doors. I may try it on my next run. I think the only thing about this one is that it may be a little too OP for me... I feel like actually having to shoot tells me where I am in terms of my colony... although I guess Mech raids are the actual litmus paper...

[@ghysling]

Oh, yeah I think I had seen a long while back a "beta" version, when adam was trying it out in a pre-bio or pre-ideo run, back then there was doors closing. No longer.

[@Elel765]

YESSSS A BURNBOX VIDEO!!!! YESSSSSS

[@walkerhall9243]

Can you do a guide on the morality of burn boxes

[@AdamVsEverything]

I'll do one right now. Are you making one IRL? Morally wrong. Don't do it. Are you making one in a game? Do all the things. :P

[@bkm8707]

​@@AdamVsEverything your responsiveness on these guides really engages the audience! What a great algorithm we have here.

[@Cyborg_J]

I was about to ask how this would work in real life then I remembered the holocaust. Yeah let's not go down that route.

[@jaybird024]

Thanks for the guide Adam, I've been hoping you'd explain this.

[@KinshinReaper]

When I first started playing I did a lot of building with basically 0 difficulty for some fun and learning. I ended my colony in a single moment and learned to hate batteries. I had a LARGE mountain base with a hay floored animal room and only 1 exit outside the mountain reeeeeealy far away. (Impassable map marker) Bzzzt... I didn't know what that event did and I had a lot of batteries so.. Before I understood what had happened, I discovered it had happened in said barn when a pawn when to open the only closed door in the base and they insta died in the doorway, leading to the whole base being made into a super oven, cooking everyone inside before they could get to the exit because I had all my inside doors open to make renovation construction faster at that moment.

[@cassiosieburger4843]

Adam is the best!!!!!!

[@MrTomberryuk]

Great guide, I remember watching some of this on stream, was very interesting

[@thewolfstu]

11:57 the scorcher mechs are just having fun splashing each other with flames. lol

[@Ratiasu1]

Cheers for the tutorial!

[@samschreiber1640]

great stuff 👍🏻 commenting to feed the algorithm

[@matthewbrown2551]

Just in time, I'm on my second archonexus restart and was looking for a different defense

[@Marchombre64]

For a burning killbox like this one, isn't the no collision version better to get rid of the raid faster rather than the collision one ? I've watched the collision tutorial but i might have missed something about it. Or does the no collision version push the raiders forward the entrance like you showed with the huskies in the tutorial ? And huge thanks for the videos, i've spent countless hours in this game and you make me discover new ways of adapting and fighting for my colony's survival.

[@AdamVsEverything]

"It depends". I often like doing the collision one for two reasons. 1 - I have a door near the exit so that when the raid breaks I run out for shooting experience (one thing that you end up not getting by defeating raids this way). 2 - Often times I use the same tunnel going into a standard killbox area. I want collision on raids that I let make it all the way through (or that don't die to fire). You could have another break before the base and put collision there, but you have to make sure it is not set in a way for the turret to overheat and burn. Lots of ways to do it, for sure!

[@iand6541]

Thanks for the video!

[@pendantblade6361]

Very important to know whether burning children gives a mood debuff.

[@darkexileIII]

Thanks as always

[@RandomPerson-ys9kx]

This guide is lit.

[@rambojohn272727]

I had this idea a while ago, I used dead bodies as the fuel and it works pretty well. Probably not as well as the wood though.

[@mynoc1113]

Thank you for yet another Awesome vid Adam

[@AdamVsEverything]

Thanks for watching!

[@davidnorris4199]

ooo i remember when you recorded this in twitch, such a good guide

[@James66344]

Interesting idea. I had the idea in my game to use a geothermal vent but I didn't think it got hot enough.

[@brianrinker3195]

Love these guides!

[@TheRealTetriser]

Dang adam you do be kinda 🔥 tho fr fr

[@darthbader6506]

Great work, thank you for all the effort you put into these

[@Flounder125]

Crazy informative. Thanks for this.

[@nathancormier8487]

10/10 quality as always

[@JasonAWilliams-IS]

Instructions unclear. Now the baby has a Molotov and is holding me hostage. Send help!

[@No-vq1iv]

Thank you, this is very useful, but I have a few questions... 1. What's the downside of using chunks instead of fences? 2. Would it be possible to use doors as cooling vents so that I don't have to break the wall to let the heat out? AFAIK raiders don't destroy them unless it's a valid escape path, which it wouldn't be in this case since it would only lead to an unroofed area used for cooling. 3. Any issue with using 2-tile wide tunners if I can spare the space? Would make fewer bodies get teleported outside.

[@AdamVsEverything]

1 - Chunks are items so they displace if something dies or is dropped on that same spot. You then have to haul them back to the proper slowing spots. 2 - Doors don't vent heat in time, the room will stay hot for a crazy long time even with a whole 'wall' of doors held open. Destroying a wall on the other hand instantly stabilizes temperature because it becomes 'outdoors'.

[@No-vq1iv]

@@AdamVsEverything Thank

[@derkavondangerkill7628]

i usually build cheap wooden stools and hoop sticks in the 'engine room'. free construction xp when I replace them.

[@J0krswy1d]

Mmm.. human popcorn. Thank goodness for the cannibal trait.

[@dudders666]

Another great video.

[@Marceau.]

I love fire

[@justagirlontheinternet7502]

*cues up some classic Blue Öyster Cult* Well they're definitely burnin' for me O.o

[@raiwenduravwin3166]

Maximum hurty spot hitting

[@DFHellscare]

Adam's motto, no pause no problem

[@farelltg3182]

Are there any options/patches against Breacher, sappers, sieges, etc? Or do I have to rely on other type of killbox?

[@dougtrythalleqoasharpy3101]

Snap, crackle, pop 🔥

[@friedghoughphtheightteeau]

🔥

[@wujek7616]

We ain't making it out of the art school with this one🔥🔥

[@guylovesima]

Finally 🎉🎉🎉

[@lari7281]

Thank you!

[@inscrutianaII]

If you ... really resonate... with this video, I'd like to introduce you to Project Zomboid, wherein flames are the secret sauce to your beer soup.

[@ghysling]

Adam, I put a shelf with wood on it in the burn box to refuel it more easily but the wood on the shelf caught on fire, what should I do? (I am kidding)

[@expressionamidstcacophony390]

My favorite trick was to make it longer, and do a little clever door management to trap them inside. Uhhhhh, for only the purest of reasons of course...

[@AlBundy319]

Fucking diabolical! 😬 Very informative and easy to understand, the main pillars of a great guide video 👍

[@blarnach]

I am against the idea of walls, any suggestions?

[@asdbg]

Why turn on collision for the hotbox thought? They cook evenly no matter the count, so it just makes the raid longer and leaves more survivors.

[@AdamVsEverything]

There are reasons for both. That is why I provide a blueprint for both. Use whichever you want with the situation you have. One example is that if the burn box is the intro to your standard kill area and mechs come through it you don't want them bunched up (or ballooning when they come out) and the heat could burn a normal turret deep in the maze.

[@morgan0]

are you aware of any burn box designs for the celsius mod? it simulates temperature per tile, so it would be pretty different to make a burn box for. i'm really curious if you have any ideas. my last play i made one and it worked great, but i got bored and started a new game with more mods, including celsius.

[@catsarecool9773]

For wood flooring, do you have to replace it after burning? I tried a burnbox with a wood floor once and instead of burning away completely, it got turned into "burned wood floor" which seemed just as good for killing raiders. Not sure if this works forever or if burned wooden floor actually is less effective, but it might be more optimal once you've hit the point where you stop caring about wealth? Anyway, thanks for the guide!

[@skunkboino.1232]

I play on console and just tried this today… i feel like its almost, almost too evil but good lord does it feel good watching them drop and burn lmao

[@12michix]

Hot button topic, i see what you did there :)

[@williamwhalen196]

I love human popcorn! Yum!

[@archmagemc3561]

So, you can have a perma heated killbox with like 4-8 burnbot mechs. Any reason to not have it perma heated other than the loot or repairs?

[@qzwx4205]

this video is a bit late lol... i built a "burnbox" assuming a geothermal vent would be enough to heat the place up... kinda skrewed my plans but ill bounce back :P

[@colecook834]

I like it. Im on a forested map with 5k wood in storage. Now it has a purpose

[@colecook834]

But why not just let them group on without collision. This kill box does not seem to care about that

[@AdamVsEverything]

"It depends". If you are using this as the entrance toa standard killbox, or having mechs go through, etc, you don't want them losing collision at the exit instead. It's going to kill all normal raiders with or without collision. You can use it either way depending on what it is emptying into etc.

[@josecarlosamador]

I know this video is some months old, but can someone answerme some stuff? Some questions: 1) (got the answer from another videos of yours) 2) Doesnt fire act like a block and force pawns to chose other path? I could swear this happened when I tried a few years ago. I did this by having two rooms adjecnt to each other, one being the "maze" and the other the burn chamber and. Btw, nto sure if this still works, but burnt wooden floor used to be the floor type with the biggest walk speed debuff and I used to use that. Anyway, best Rimworld content out there! Thank you so much.

[@AdamVsEverything]

No, enemies will walk straight into max heat/fire tiles without issue. They will begin running around at random when on fire, but after they are out will go straight back in. The burned wooden floor thing was changed back in either 1.1 or 1.2 (so has not been the case for many years, now).

[@josecarlosamador]

@@AdamVsEverything Thanks so much for answering. Coming back to this game and your channel is just the best. Gonna share it on a Brazilian comunity in Facebook and other groups I'm in.

[@Cohac]

Since Biotech released there have been a few posts on the subreddit about using toxgas to achieve the same effect, the example I saw was with mines but it can be done with grenades too afaik. Whats your opinion on that strategy?

[@milkcupatstarbucks3495]

advantages: smaller footprint, doesn't need fuel (if using grenades), collecting prisoners can be easier, loot doesn't get burned disadvantages: doesn't work well on some enemies, rotten corpses, prisoners can get dementia, tox weapons could take longer to get to

[@Luviabloodfallen]

Hot 🔥🔥🔥

[@silent_stalker3687]

Make clone lab Make maze Make one hidden area inside the mountain where the labs are and ‘the real citizens’ with selected clones. “Some of you may die, but those fuckers are dying too.”

[@traderjo9552]

Does anyone know why bugs decide to attack the doors instead of pathing through the killbox? There is a clear path from the kill box entrance to the beds, all doors are open, but they decide it's easier to break the doors down?

[@tylerpearson9754]

Did temperature rules change at all in the last 8 months? Ive built this exact same design and the temp isnt going up during my burns. Im not aware of any mods in my load order that change temp systems at all

[@tylerpearson9754]

I figured it out! Big dummy. I gotta put the doors at the ends smh. Otherwise it just counts as “outside” and doesnt change apart from the ambient temp!

[@doebeli1981]

One question. Witch MOD is recomended for limiting the Stockpile size to create 1 Wood-per-Tile piles?

[@AdamVsEverything]

No idea, I've never used a mod for it. I use the 'fence trick' as shown in the guide.

[@derkavondangerkill7628]

i love the idea of fueling the burn room with discarded tainted clothing. i usually pile it up and burn it anyways. lots of genius tips in this video and i'm usually disappointed with tip videos of this game.

[@ericb8419]

Unroofed room area? Just 4 walks with no roof? His example was just an open area next to the box

[@FELONIOUSBOLUSS]

cool