The Complete Lore Of Rimworld Mechanoids

[@thenightarchives4148]

What is your favorite Mechanoid?

[@1th_to_comment.]

Militors. They are adorable, until you remember their main purpose.

[@ForrestPemberton]

Lancers. Its a shame the devs have nerfed them so much over the years.

[@Dave0439]

apocriton. the apocriton understands we suffer from its attacks, yet it still goes along with it. it wants us to suffer, its commited to making us suffer, i respect that i also love how others fear it. i just love the concept of a machine who people speak of with fear in their voice. its ruthless, i love it

[@levisantos2465]

agrihand

[@sadontafiir2955]

Scyther. As much as I hated them in alpha, they are now my favourite

[@4sythdude549]

My headcanon for the mechanoid weapons that fall from space (Defoliator and Psychic Droner) is that the negative affects that your colony experiences don't event scratch the surface of what these weapons are capable of. These weapons have been disconnected from their ship and floating in space for who knows how long. They're malfunctioning and running on backup power. Despite all of this, these weapons can still do so much harm, even in this weakened state.

[@thenightarchives4148]

Yeah, agreed.

[@feenger2758]

Ah yes, my favorite faction. The "Leave no survivors" boys.

[@Its_Lute-77]

Bread

[@feenger2758]

@@Its_Lute-77 Bread 👍

[@TheKd8lvt]

Some 'fun' etymology behind the Apocriton's name; Both of its roots are from Greek! Apo- as a prefix means "without," or "from," among many other things. -crito means judge, and was also used as a masculine agentive suffix. Putting that all together - Apocriton, translated directly, means "Without judgement" - implying it kills for the sake of killing. However, it also has a secondary meaning - it serves to further the idea that the Apocriton knows what it is doing, and presumably is enjoying it, as the latter part of its name (crito) serves as a mark of self-agency.

[@skorps7970]

that is so cool

[@VincentTheMasked]

The Mechainator scenario is my favorite, not only you get pair of mechanoids on start, but you also get quite some research like microelectronics. What i like to do is to set up in mountainous areas and dig tunnels, or isolate my pawn by building a wall and then digging. In fact it is very easy to manage one colonist, since mechanoids cannot have mental breaks nor require any food.

[@thenightarchives4148]

Mechanitor scenario is pretty fun. It has a lot of cons and pros to it and it makes for a completely new way to play the game.

[@VincentTheMasked]

@@thenightarchives4148 indeed. But it is pretty easy with a Waster mechainator

[@k96man]

Also starting with the recluse trait makes you pick and choose your potential recruits, which I think leads to more memorable characters

[@zambekiller]

​@@k96man their all ai cores in the end for me whether they fought for my colony or I put them in deep freeze doesn't matter

[@semajniomet981]

How fun do you think a Mechinator start combined with an Anomaly Research start would be?

[@day3ric]

I think from the ruins and the destroyed mech parts everywhere, whenever you have all the dlc on, and the fact they are hostile to humans suggest mechanoids are what destroyed the planet your on. But somthing had to have stopped them from completely killing everyone, which is interesting to think about. For all we know, it could have been the archotech computer on the planet that stopped them From killing everyone.

[@thenightarchives4148]

That is a possibility

[@johntidont]

Aren't the insects designed to fight the mechanoids?

[@wodekw6862]

I thought they were created for mining ​@@johntidont

[@veryconcernedbread]

Not sure if its a fan theory or confirmed canon but i heard somewhere that the reason we only see small hamlets and not towns or cities is because mechanoids are drawn to major population centers meaning that most people have learned to stick to small, well defended communities that the hive (or whatevers left of it) deems too small to send large swarms but large enough to sustain small to medium scale industry. as for why anyones left it could be that the hive was simply destroyed seeing how the description says they are united in purpose but not execution & the mechs left were enough to still destroy large settlements but not scour the whole planet for everyone letting small discreet communities persist, or the mech being a population control measure by someone off-world for some sick glitterworld bloodsport show or just handwaved as an archotech needing them to keep the planed wild for whatever reason.

[@ee45122]

It is said that mechanoids are left from the great war, however it does not say what. I belive mechanoids were created to fight but after the war ended, they were left to roam as it says in the lore. Maybe the apocryton took control or smth. EDIT: mechanoids were apparently corrupted by a signal from the mechhive and turned on their creators and insecrs were brought to fight them

[@kaschey6145]

I have a strong feeling that the ancient mechsnoids are a futuristic ultra high-tech analog of all the forgotten and abandoned landmines and artillery shells in 3rd world countries...

[@Chemley]

Whoa thats a really cool idea

[@jackieboo8146]

The psychic drone made me violent as well holy hell

[@dominicsouthern7672]

With the grimworld mod they do not stand a chance against my human wave tatics, a thousand lasguns will take any mechanoid down! Casualties be damned

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

Hello fellow citizen of the Imperium!

[@zambekiller]

GUARDSMEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THE MECANICUS COMPUTER GET BACK TO THE TRENCHES!!!!!!!

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

@@zambekiller yes sir!!!!🫡

[@TheCyborgLord]

I wish there were more DLC Mechanoids, like imagine if we could buy techprints for unique mechs from the Empire or encounter anomalous mechs driven haywire by the monolith or infested with flesh beasts.

[@thenightarchives4148]

Techprints for unique mechanoids or different mechanoid types sounds so cool.

[@jart1984]

There need to be more inter-DLC content in general tbh, the DLCs feel too disconnected from each other imo

[@zambekiller]

​@@jart1984 I disagree with all but one of them being disconnected biotech ideology and anomaly go pretty good together especially with mechs anomaly the only one I would say is truly disconnected is royalty because the psypowers feel kinda useless especially with how long it takes to get them and with how much time it takes to gain psy focus you pretty much end up losing a pawn just so you can have a single Psypawn in the base and with the max lvl being 6 it's very limiting on what you want to get and with it being random on what you get

[@jart1984]

@@zambekiller yea vanilla psycasts kinda suck, the only decent ones are skipshield and berserk pulse. Everything else is either meh or just hella niche. Mods like VPE makes it more interesting but it can get unbalanced real quick.

[@trulers8713]

Void mechs would be absolutely terrifying omg

[@elricofmelnibone425]

This is the best series on KZbin rn

[@geronimo5537]

I love the Mechanoid lore in rimworld. I like to believe they were used first to fight an insect invasion dawning the idea to copy insect style hives then later in time for a great machine war that was lost thousands of years ago. Their Mech commanders long dead. Which was was caused by the ancients war. Who we're all wipe out. Forcing them to create crypto tombs in the hopes of outlasting the mechanoid existence. Which as some awake early to discover the world stripped to very little resources and much of the danger still present. Its the best conclusion after reading all the lore and adding many mech mods. If you havent seen it yet. Checkout the classic rimworld video "the lonely mechanoid".

[@YTDPROMISE]

I've always believed it was the opposite; The insects were bio-engineered to help in the fight against the mechanoids, but that abouts makes sense.

[@geronimo5537]

@@YTDPROMISE with biotech I suppose either could be true. I assume machine imitates life. But life could also be extremely bio engineered in the rim.

[@heavenlysteel8337]

​@@YTDPROMISE this is the official take. Mechanoids pollute worlds they invade (Pollution mechanic) and if you've noticed, insects thrive in pollution.

[@golemofflesh3953]

Always been fond of militors. Against the horrors of the rim having resurrectable cannon fodder is a considerable asset.

[@MrJamesbondo07]

wait wait wait wait, hol'up. are you telling me, that when a mechanoid adapts to emps its TEMPORARY?!?

[@thenightarchives4148]

Yup. For about half a minute.

[@kevinhenrique4256]

Amazing as always the only thing that i am not quite sure is the implication that the mechanoids we encounter as enemies are controlled by archotechs,i think is heavily implied that they have gone feral and are not being controlled by anyone specific,combining that with the fact that most archotechs are either Benevolent or indifferent,it does not make sense for them to control Several mechanoids armies at least with the objective of wiping us out,otherwhise the rim would be a death world by now,The Only archotech that is confirmed to be hostile is horax and as we can see it prefers... more direct... methods...(Speaking of it will you make a lore video on it?)

[@thenightarchives4148]

I don't think that Horax is the only hostile archotech. There has to be at least another one that is either directly controlling the Mechanoid Hive or at the very least is indirectly influencing their actions. Think about it, the psychic droner itself is proof towards this theory, as that is a weapon built by an Archotech. Not only the description of the droner itself states that, but even its graphics are made within the same style of other archotechnology. The droner is stated to be a weapon belonging to Mechanoid ships, its only logical to think that if a Mechanoid ship would make use of archotechnology, for an archotech to be in control of it in the first place. PS. Oh yeah, I plan to make a good, long video on Horax

[@kevinhenrique4256]

@@thenightarchives4148 fair point,Altrough given how widespread Archotech is these days,we can't exactly confirm by that(I mean even some tribals have access to Psyche tech),but we can't rule that out either,Anyways yeah a horax vídeo will be the biggest one yet

[@zambekiller]

​@@thenightarchives4148 well of course there is another one it's the players themselves think about it

[@Simon_1115]

Never knew mechanoids had so much lore to them. Great video by the way!

[@zug527]

How dare you make another quality video. Love the content, keep it up.

[@rexiudecem280]

I think that certain mechanoids are able to speak for the purpose of intimidation and distraction. It would be terrifying to face down a scyther while it screams for your blood. In addition, untrained individuals might shoot at the louder more aggressive threats than other more vulnerable and conspicuous mechs.

[@Horseshoesworld]

Man the sound that played while you talked about the psychic droner was unnerving and perfectly fits that section

[@axious9613]

The Psychic droner also drives local animals mad, from single animals, to entire packs

[@starwall8755]

Thanks for doing this series, this is exactly the sort of stuff I love. Really enhancing my own rimworld playthrough with this background!

[@upi556]

Thanks for a video and have a great weather my friend

[@user-kr1dx9nf4k]

Can’t wait for the next lore video

[@thenightarchives4148]

Probably tomorrow or after tomorrow

[@k96man]

Fun fact: some animals can tell you're afraid based off the scent of your breath [citation needed]

[@DSlyde]

I love the street combat footage you used for this video. It's such a small touch but it looks great. Did you build the maps yourself or use a mod to generate them? If so, which?

[@Its_Lute-77]

Rimcities

[@thenightarchives4148]

Like Sea Wheat Farmer said, I used Rimcities to generate a more detailed battleground

[@BierBart12]

Dunno if anyone ever said this, but your accent fits really well with the marble statue character Maybe they're hostile to humans because they're still fighting an ancient war that has ended long ago, a war between their creator species and humans. A war that humans won, extincting their creators, so there's no one to stop their battle protocols. Kinda like 40k Orks, considering they're self-growing. As such, maybe they used to be more sophisticated and have devolved over time

[@PrimroseParadox]

There is very explicitly no aliens in RImworld's universe. Everything you find on the 'Rim and beyond originates from humanity (unless you're a mod fiend :P). Xenotypes are exotic cases of genetic engineering or environmental adaptations, mechanoids were produced by humans on glitterworlds for every purpose imagineable. Even archotechs are human-originating, being the result of an advanced Glitterworld achieving *Singularity*, their own technology becoming so advanced that it outpaces them and, presumably, overtakes that glitterworld to turn it into a nascent archotech body.

[@dealin3035]

These videos have been an absolute joy, looking forward to what you do next. I think you'll have 10k subs by years end.

[@thenightarchives4148]

I hope so. That would be pretty swell

[@ybox1054]

this place is nuts!

[@chester9585]

And bolts!

[@thesologoldfish]

My theory for the exostrider is that they worked as mobile mechanoid factories, and that's why you can extract the mechlink from them

[@FelipeGames-py4gr]

I find the Apocritons to be the most interesting mechanoid of the group Being sentient machine of war with an in-built mini psychic droner and a AOE repair shockwave is one thing, but to be aggressive towards humans because they simply "hate humans" rather than following their programs like other mechanoids does raise some questions about their self-awareness Was the self-awareness an intentional design, or have they developed it over the years? If the former, was the hatred also intentional? And if the latter, what made every single Apocriton simulaneously despise humanity?

[@thenightarchives4148]

Yeah, Apocritons are actually pretty fascinating. They might be my favorites.

[@Superficial_Intelligence]

EMI Dynamos are the death of me. I had a colony completely run by two mechanitors, and suddenly out of nowhere 3 massive mech clusters come out of nowhere and made me lose control of more than half of my mechs!!

[@jart1984]

Just use the RT solar flare shield mod (and the retexture as well). It hogs a lot of power when active but keeps your colony running long enough to blow up EMIs to pieces

[@Superficial_Intelligence]

@@jart1984 Oh ok, thanks!

[@lakthederg]

thinking and feeling machines that do harm regardless of that is much better than unthinking, unfeeling ones imo

[@Gaood.]

Keep up the great work! Make a video on the psychic stuff because they are super interesting

[@thenightarchives4148]

Thanks! Will do!

[@spaceenjoyer8304]

I'm currently a year into my mechanitor run, militor zerg rush against imperials goes brrrrrrr 🤤

[@internetfreak8137]

Chef's kiss to this video, i've always wanted to know more about these little guys considering how many of my pawns they've taken away from me ;D

[@griff2009]

I like to think they got discontinued rather recently since they don't have a lot of dirt, let alone rust stain on them. Plus if this thing was falling apart, no way the part that stay is the probably highly explosive substance and it's container Or at least I would if I didn't double check the wiki and see the "war long ago" wasn't speculation but it's description :(

[@orfanclub6288]

After having made vids for most/all of the "official" rimworld content, what'd you think of theory videos and including using screens and recording from lore friendly mods. Since there's things that clearly exist in the lore that aren't in the game or official ludeon content, such as how there's charge rifles in vanilla but no charge rifle mini turrets, or mounting an inferno canon or charge blaster on a mini turret, things that would defenetly happen when we've got people who made atrocious things like some of the revolver magazine fed revolvers. keeping the cons from having a spining chamber but removing the pros of a revolver.

[@thenightarchives4148]

Theory videos would be pretty cool

[@jonathansibrian695]

I always build 4 scythers and i name them everygame the same: hands, scissors,hugs and throat-cutter

[@matheusexpedito4577]

12:50 so does my sanguophage entombed in a warcasket wielding a zeushammer rapidly approaching the apocriton

[@thenightarchives4148]

Sanguophages with zeushammers are the real GOAT's

[@ee45122]

An interesting fact is that the mechanoids have turned rogue because there is a signal from the mechhive turning them rogue. I believe that the mechs are remains from a great war. The 2 factions creatd mechanoids to fight but the signal turned them rouge and the 2 factions started fighting the mechanoids, hence why they they bought the insects to combat the mechanoids. I believe the signal was released by an archotech created but it turned rogue, the arcotech is probably able to help mechanoids create pyshic ships and other advanced things like emi dynamos, sun blocker and toxic spewer also in the arcotech ending there are mechanoids guarding the archotech.

[@rickysmyth]

If you look at the age of the mechanoids, you will see they are thousands of years old. They are rouge since over that time, the AI got corrupted. The deterioration of their hardware when abandoned in the desert or at the bottom of the ocean caused the code in their software to not attack their own side no longer work. With the new update you can now be raided by the ones that were dumped in the ocean

[@gethk.gelior4214]

Wait so when mechanitors make mechanoids they have to let the mech cook, let it gestate, but when the mech cluster does it it's suddenly an assembler?

[@thenightarchives4148]

It's crazy how nature works :)

[@pine9218]

I always wondered if Mechanites is part of mechanoids, and the concept of mechanites embedded on all future humans regardless of xenotype, I wonder what does it do to our body? Does it let us survive without water? That's why we don't need to drink water in vanilla rimworld?

[@thenightarchives4148]

Mechanites and Mechanoids are separate. I think humans in Rimworld still need to consume water, it's just a mechanic that was not added as from a gameplay perspective it might have been annoying to deal with along with everything else. It would be more probably to survive without food, rather than water.

[@reallifire6754]

I'm excited for you to cover the lore of the insects

[@thenightarchives4148]

Probably tomorrow or after tomorrow

[@nooneimportant1523]

A lore book would be wonderful...

[@Saren_5]

Never thought I'll found a lore channel for rimworld xd the algorithm really hide you well wish i found this sooner😅

[@Benad.]

ANOTHER VIDEO FROM THE TOP G🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@AuxRose]

A thing about the scythers, what if they use their ability to speak to lure out people who may be hiding and making them think it’s safe?

[@cideltacommand7169]

They are not scp 939, they don't have human vocal cords or the intelligence to lure people.

[@AuxRose]

@@cideltacommand7169 They may not have human vocal cords but they are still capable of speech which indicates that they can speak human language. Besides, animals are capable of mimicking human voices and the scythers themselves may not have the intelligence of a human or animal, but I’m sure their hive mind does. Plus if they have an apocriton, why not use the voices of friends and family to torment their human enemies even more!

[@Comradeatticus]

Bread.

[@dino_dude47]

Bread 👍

[@SonySteals]

You should’ve put names of robots on the screen because I have no idea if the first robot type is a Cider, Sider, Slider, Spider, Citer or whatever. We all have some sort of accent but displaying names can solve that issue.

[@thenightarchives4148]

My accent is the reason why I always add captions to every video. I will try to display names in the future though.

[@jaketheturkey7689]

Look at the timestamps

[@gajusz4372]

I like the stuff you make, but man, you could have at least paraphrased the in-game descriptions lol

[@thenightarchives4148]

Agreed, but thing is, I actually attempted it a few times, and it ended up being just an inferior version of the original description, so I decided to instead add my personal input to some stuff. And for other things, well, if you sum up all of my videos so far, it's probably over two hours+ of content, and there is going to be more. If I were to paraphrase everything it would end up taking a considerable amount of time to output new videos. I will attempt though to add more personal input in the future

[@jonathansibrian695]

Its fine , i dont read all descriptions and this helps

[@Maxhydrom1864]

BABY WAKE UP NEW NIGHT ARCHIVES RIMWORLD LORE JUST DROPPED!!!

[@wayloren4647]

I think a video about the shattered empire would be cool

[@GinaRanChaosdiver]

you should put up a disclaimer that a lot of these Mechanoid types are modded

[@OnurErtas-q1o]

Nice Vid, as Always.

[@ledachshund]

Nice video.

[@fazzolettinolegale]

Could you make a video about the Empire or Psycasts? Great content btw

[@thenightarchives4148]

Bet

[@jarnMod]

Nice. Bug vdo next. I wanna know what i eat

[@thenightarchives4148]

It's already posted :)

[@DruggiePlays]

Blood? I bet these frickers can smell adrenaline and fear

[@thenightarchives4148]

They probably feed on it too

[@elricchristian4866]

the lore of this game is so suggestive.

[@evanroyce2690]

Cool, mechanoids

[@skdekskadj1845]

yea me to

[@jokkepokke95]

cool

[@rifffamily5591]

Well I should say finish mechanoid

[@rifffamily5591]

Imagine if the mechanoids only had a few shots for their defenses in the same idea with the assemblers. After a certain amount of time they'll send a search party to either steal your resources or mine resources off the map.

[@thenightarchives4148]

That would be pretty cool to see. Tunnelers and Fabricors creating their own bases.

[@rifffamily5591]

@@thenightarchives4148 let the people that build pill boxes in mountains would be disappointed though.

[@randomguysittinginfrontofa3008]

Guys which mechanoid would cook the best food? For me I think it is the tesseron because it can somewhat cook meals with its beam laser.

[@golemofflesh3953]

Fabricators can be ordered to cook. They can also butcher human remains without psychological ramifications. Use this knowledge as you see fit.

[@AuxRose]

If you want irradiated food then sure, their weapons use gamma rays which is why they’re called “Grasers” as a mix of gamma ray and laser.

[@thenightarchives4148]

I think the paramedic could be reprogrammed for cooking. If its capable of healing and of surgery, then it must be capable of slicing, filleting and cooking food as well. In case anything goes wrong in the kitchen, having your cook be also a fire extinguisher sounds pretty useful

[@randomguysittinginfrontofa3008]

@@AuxRose Good point! I didnt even think of that 😅😅

[@TheTSense]

The difference between a Mechanoid and a Robot is that a Mechanoid can work forever. You drop it in the middle of an ocean to carry rocks back and forth at the bottem of the sea and 10 million years later it will still be there doing that, just as fast as day one. They need no repairs and no recharging, they will never wear down or rust. Biotech kinda broke lore to balance them for gameplay, but at this point it is tradition that DLCs break the Lore in one major spot. Like the Rimworld being a lawless planet and there are no governments big or small, and then there is the empire somehow, when the whole point of the lore is that without FTL ships, multi-planet government is impossible. One planet in your empire has a zombie outbreak? Well you will find out 200 years after all human life was wiped out! Better send a rescue party that needs another 200 years to get there.

[@thenightarchives4148]

I think that, while Mechanoids can certainly self-sustain for a long time, they cannot do so indefinitely, otherwise they wouldn't require energy cells found within Mech Clusters and they would have no need for a dormant state which is probably meant to conserve energy for a longer time. If they were able to self sustain endlessly, then they could be exploited as an infinite energy source, which so far is something that only archotechs managed to create.

[@kevinhenrique4256]

The Empire does not actually break the lore,they are not a Empire that covers the "Galaxy"(by than i mean the 1200 light year buuble of colonized space),at their high they controled only a few systems(Using feudalism to govern it),but currently they collapsed Scatterring in several refuuge fleets,the one we find in gameplay is one of these refuuge fleets.

[@ee45122]

@thenightarchives4148 mechanoids do dormant recharging, which is when they are sleeping. I assume they have mini reactors in them and use mech power cells to charge faster

[@odsts6658]

Question are these in the vanilla game or are they related to a DLC

[@thenightarchives4148]

Mechanoids are vanilla, but they are expanded upon with the Biotech DLC

[@Chimaera1017]

Psychic drone felt like i was turning schizo😂😂😂

[@thenightarchives4148]

That's the point

[@user-zj5xf9nm8d]

AWESOOME

[@Misterdino6984]

For luck, we have mod thas extends mechanoid, like mecha alphas

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

24:50-25:30 'o'

[@elivcdxv1852]

stay hydrated, or else

[@thenightarchives4148]

You again?? Man, thanks a lot for the support. I'll make sure to buy a can of cold soda and dedicate it to you!

[@FulKnight]

32:16 "Whether warmth or cold will be more dangerous to human life" Meanwhile me having two -10 climate adjusters in the extreme desert ._.

[@thenightarchives4148]

How even

[@bettergs2790]

Mă bucur că am găsit acest autor

[@nocive7381]

cine nu sar bucura ?

[@cideltacommand7169]

Nu stiu

[@node1186]

Heck yeah!!!

[@lordderpington8021]

I remember playing a multiplayer game with a buddy of mine a few years ago. After a couple years he got hit with a massive mech raid and I was able to drop in a hand full of soldiers from my own colony as a quick response force. They stood valiantly, but were all killed and his base burned to the ground. Unfortunately he was still learning the game at that point and didn't properly section his base nor begin to convert it to a non combustible material.

[@thenightarchives4148]

F for his base

[@TheGastropodGamer]

What is your accent? Common question I'd assume.

[@thenightarchives4148]

It's a mixed bag of different languages. English is like my third language.

[@keztannis6848]

Aw sweet, man-made horrors that are now within my comprehension!

[@diat4622]

Crazy

[@21506ash]

Pog

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

comment for algorithm

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

Also, you are SPOILING us with the 20 minute + videos. Stop that. ᵏᵉᵉᵖ ᵈᵒⁱⁿᵍ ⁱᵗ

[@OnurErtas-q1o]

Still havent Slept yet. Help.

[@thenightarchives4148]

How are you holding up?

[@OnurErtas-q1o]

@@thenightarchives4148 Just Impulse-Bought Biotech for Rimworld. Its Fun.

[@OnurErtas-q1o]

Engagement Comment.

[@fluffytowels1145]

I think the inferno turret can't sense nearby targets for the same of not blowing itself up

[@thenightarchives4148]

Its flammability rate its 0% though. Fire explosions and regular explosions differ.

[@fluffytowels1145]

@@thenightarchives4148 Ah, my bad, I play with combat extended mostly so I forgot they only set things on fire in vanilla