Rimworld Mod Rundown - Vanilla Races Expanded Android

In this video we become sentient and discover what a terrible idea that was. I also realize that one of the effect filters I used totally borked the left margin of the video render for the entire thing... you're welcome!
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[@aqualitymeme9476]

12:53 It's important to note about these two subroutines that they are mutually exclusive to each other. You can't have an anti-awakening android that can also form emotional attachment, probably because I'm pretty sure Emotion Simulators gives a increase to a droids likelihood of awakening, so taking both would not only make no sense, but completely avoid the consequences of either choice.

[@MysteriousFawx]

Good point, will pin for visibility!

[@KFCArbiter]

Making low power firewalled androids that only use deep drills and ground penetrating scanners all day is so powerful. They end up paying for themselves

[@MysteriousFawx]

Dude out here playing 4D chess, damn man I didn't even think of that. Genius!

[@aqualitymeme9476]

After you get this set up, what I like to do is start production on a security team. Androids designed to stand in idle guard at all times at the gates and around town to provide protection when a raid comes. Low power, firewall and sleep mode are crucial besides the skill amplifiers. Simply put, once you get enough, you don't really have to worry about rushing your colonists over to an immediate threat because you'll always have a response on standby at the scene, yet they aren't active at all times and therefore are only draining their needs when they are needed. Just give them proper weapons and put them in warcaskets, and your national security issue no longer exists.

[@pinkliongaming8769]

5D Chess lol, that is brilliant. @@aqualitymeme9476

[@brandondodd4713]

@@aqualitymeme9476 I've got one melee focused one between my prison barrack and slave area, asleep with a uranium baton. Resistance is futile.

[@AZSprocket]

This mod would pair very well with Save Our Ship 2, due to the ludicrous resource requirements.

[@MysteriousFawx]

The mod simply called 'Metals Trader' certainly helps with both of these mods too. Just need to run a crazy drug ring to be able to afford all of the materials.

[@brandondodd4713]

The hurdle is just getting your first one for mining. He can just sit on a deep drill 24/7 and then it's just compounding from there.

[@pinkliongaming8769]

Fun-Fact, you can totally install bionics and archotechs on the Androids. I don't know about every bionic but the arms, legs and eyes seem to work fine. This mod is really cool and can be quite powerful if you play your cards right. I hope that they add more customisation, like the genes we have for Humans. Longjump legs, extra melee damage, robust. There are so many cool genes they miss out on.

[@senatorarmstrong1233]

Oh cool! Time to make a mining bot

[@ultimat3wingman270]

What a breakdown! Another great video! I never realized how insane it would be to actually have an android in my colony until this video! I only managed to find corpses from space battles that happened to also be androids. Looking forward to your next video! Listening to you discuss these mods is so much better than reading the mod descriptions themselves. Sometimes the mod descriptions don’t give me everything I want to see, so this helps me tremendously! Not only that, but the quality of your videos are also very good!

[@Necroskull388]

One overlooked way to get Neutro in Vanilla Expanded is Deepchem. Deepchem refineries can actually refine deepchem into neutro, as well as chemfuel (naturally) and synthread.

[@MysteriousFawx]

Since so many of the other VE packs have launched I rarely go back to chem/deepchem it didn't even cross my mind it had that functionality. Helix gas has me all kinds of spoiled and I usually just throw down outposts for the tricky bits. Good spot!

[@TheLifesentence2278]

How do you refine deepchem into neutramine? I didn't even know that was possible. Been growing neutroleaf. I have no use to refine deep chem into chem fuel so far the deposits just clutter up my map when looking for more useful resources.

[@MysteriousFawx]

@@TheLifesentence2278 it's a mod within a mod. You'll want this to allow the functionality steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2804110462

[@TheLifesentence2278]

@@MysteriousFawx thanks

[@fuchsmichael93]

@@MysteriousFawx I really like the Mod: Missing Fabrication Recipes. It gives the Option to craft Plasteel, Neutro, Synthread and Hyperweave. Its expensive and Time consuming but it feels pretty fair in Terms of Balance imo.

[@fernystories]

i love this channel so much bro

[@theral056]

The VFE Dryads also works, as the awakened medicine maker does produce neutroamine iirc, giving this weird crossover between tree lovers and androids

[@Foefaller]

Except that it's only 2 neutro every 5 days. You basically have to dedicated a tree to pumping out awakened medicine makers to maintain the soft cap before separation sickness starts killing them to support just a couple.

[@Magnificent_Mongolian]

Theres also a machine from VFE - Mechanoids called Neutroamine Infuser which can produce neutroamine from raw meat. Tho its pretty late game since you need research and mechanoid components to make it.

[@PapaCheddar]

Nice comprehensive video brother. Keep it up 😘

[@anonnobody2641]

6:08 you can also use prisoners for the analyser if your doing an android only colony

[@MysteriousFawx]

Aye, you can keep 4 on hand if you want to keep it as Android only, might be best to 'borrow' their legs for a while so they never get the urge to try and break out of prison.

[@singtothesilence]

​@@MysteriousFawx alternatively, park a sleeper bot with a cudgel just outside the gates as a "morale improvement officer".

[@xolodec1234]

Thanks for guides, man. Liked and subbed.

[@Foostini]

I dozed off during this video and came back awake during the Shodan part and about lost it

[@PvtCreamy]

I remember rescuing an awakened android and later making my own that later awakened. They were both high in social so they just ran the restaurant and eventually got married to eachother. It's definitely a fun one to play around with once you get far enough into a colony

[@michaelrichards5340]

Thanks, I've been afraid of this mod but excited about it for months now, this really helps me because I'm a visual learner

[@MysteriousFawx]

Glad I could help! It is definitely one of the most overwhelming feeling VE mods but it's just because it's a lot of visual noise. Stuff like VE Ancients and Mechanoids is technically more complicated, but way less scary because it isn't just one big page of buttons and choices thrown at you. Once you've got over the initial feeling of drowning in choices, it's pretty straightforward.

[@michaelrichards5340]

@@MysteriousFawx yeah I realized, I'm gonna save up some resources and implement them in my current run, we've been quite wealthy

[@pinkliongaming8769]

Yeah, same feeling with the gene system of Biotech too. After a while I got used to it and realised it was easy to use, just annoying to track down the genes you want lol.

[@giacomomeluzzi280]

I'm playing through the Awakened Androids scenario but only two rather than three because of RP reasons and I've made a point of never accepting any quest android and only crafting my own. Idk about standard play, but in this scenario I found them extremely powerful. If you are proactive neither Advanced Components nor Neuro are that hard to come by. I just sell drugs and dusters and buy Neuro in bulk in the settlement over, and I snatch every Adv. Component I can. After all my Androids work almost 24/7, and after building three more, two of which have Presence Firewall, I have an extremely skilled and efficient workforce that attracts relatively small raids. I also gave my custom Awakened Androids Mechlink capability so I added some mechyboys to the mix. Not being able to heal naturally isn't a big deal when you can patch up any damage in a short time with a good crafter. Normal pawns take days to heal.

[@tennoki]

I absolutely adore this mod, it's like the mechanoid crafting part of Biotech but better Now I'm deep in a save where a human android duo crashlands and after a refugee betrayal decides to only recruit/create Androids Oh I did frankenstein a mod to add many cosmetics for Androids. After painfully scrounging up all the materials, I definitely want to customise really cool Androids hahaha

[@giacomomeluzzi280]

I'm doing something similar with a duo awakened with the rule that I can only build new androids, not accept them from the quest the game keeps spamming.

[@zorkgreywind509]

Shodan for the empress! Jokes aside, great vid, great and timely channel. So many mods I wish you'd cover. But my wishes are my own )

[@R4d6]

You can also get a reliable source of neutramine with the Rimefeller mod by Dubs.

[@ruy_u]

If anyones just starting out I highly recommend rimfeller. It's an oil extraction mod where you can refine Neutroamine from. It's pretty far in the research tree but you can do it in about mid colony.

[@rellix6528]

I wish I watched this before I put the time into setting up my newest game lol. I just started a custom Crashlanded scenario with 2 Baseliners, 1 Animakin (from VRE Phytokin), and 1 Awakened Android. Did I kinda screw myself by starting with an Awakened Android without the proper research unlocked nor having access to neutromine? Didn't even cross my mind at the time. Think i should just dev mode things a bit? I don't really mind doing that. This was a fantastic video and way more indepth than I was expecting! I'm definitely gonna check out your other vids. Great work, keep it up!

[@TheRedneckGamer1979]

I started an android only colony focused around factories that was really fun, but yea that colony wealth is an early game HAMMER.

[@silent0089]

seeing this mod acting as a replacement to the Android Tiers

[@williamjawbone3385]

So many mods so hard to choose please please keep these coming

[@Bemad82]

Very good video(s)! Only the music is sometimes a bit to monumental. Despite this, keep up the good work!

[@senatorarmstrong1233]

Quick question about androids. Can they be given special limbs or bionics limbs? You know like drill arms or field hands?

[@MysteriousFawx]

Yep! They function exactly like a human. So the standard android limbs operate at the same efficiency as baseliner parts, if you install bionics or more specialised tools, they'll gain the stat bonuses. Just remember that some body parts are going to be meaningless on an Android as they don't use stats like Hunger.

[@Peek0.0]

I made my androids combat bots and put them in warcaskets from VRE- Pirates and then shut them down until a raid happened.

[@DrunkFlux]

One weird thing though, and this is a frequent bug experienced if you look at the comments in steam workshop, but unawakened androids stay at mood 32% no matter what happens to them, there is no way for them to ever awaken without using character edit to force them to have 100% mood(or zero mood).

[@tristanglock4925]

I think giving Androids deathless could be a thematic way to help rebalance them. It would make sense since they aren't organic and so can be put back together from a pretty broken state.

[@epiczombiedoctor5961]

Chemfuel to neut is a good roleplay mod to have. Makes it so that you feel like your synthesizing fuel for your androids.

[@danzaivar]

These pair disgustingly well with warcaskets. 16 shooting/melee, presence firewall and sleep mode. Warcasket armor means they hardly ever take sharp damage and lose neutro. They don't add to colony wealth so you can make as many as you want and with sleep mode you just deactivate them when there's nothing to fight, they've been repaired and recovered their memory. Warcasket armor doesn't have durability either. Plus if you make hyper specialized droids that are 16 in 1 or 2 skills and 'high performance' you can very easily keep them at +5 efficiency which means their only inputs are a reactor every 4 years. It's simple enough late game to have a bunch of specialists which can't even fight (enemies don't attack them if they go in sleep mode) and a separate killteam of warcaskets that sleep unless there's fighting or hunting to do. I don't even give the nonfighters weapons or armor. Giving them neutro synthesis means they only need 50 neutro to start doing their job and they will slowly replenish to full power over the next 10 days if you want to stretch the neutro supply as much as possible. For non-android starts you need to defeat the war queen to unlock androids so they're very endgame but between presence firewall and sleep mode I think it's a great way to break the game when you're endgame. I only got 1 to awaken with an inspiration after an ideology party when we found all our ideology relics, they got to pick 1 trait and 8 skills to get passions in. But awakening seems more like a fun novelty rather than something actively pursuing unless it's some kind of roleplay. Also a body modder android instantly gets the max body modder bonus because they're entirely robotic, so it's basically like sanguine.

[@McCbobbish]

Would work well with the lone mechantor start I reckon. You can choose exactly how many colonist buddies your loner mechanitor has

[@McCbobbish]

(Also I like the idea of the Weirdo Mechanitor and their Androide Buddy)

[@Kuvantor]

The mod is too complex for my taste and I don't find much use for it in my games, but it was very well explained!

[@MysteriousFawx]

I feel you on that one. I've had this in my modded playlist since it launched and making this video was the first actual time I really used it. Definitely one of the more complex race mods added. It's super unique, but it's just easier to stick to normal genes for most colonies.

[@benmackinnon3645]

What music are you using in this video?

[@MysteriousFawx]

@benmackinnon3645 It's the Detroit Become Human OST

[@PhoenicianRomans1]

You forgot one very very important point about unawakened androids - they can be reprogrammed. Want extra miners? Want extra crafters? Just stick them in the machine for a but and voila!

[@MysteriousFawx]

Mentioned it in the bit about the behaviour station, that they lose the ability to be skill changed when they awaken ;)

[@PhoenicianRomans1]

Gotcha 8-)

[@sebastiannavarro9686]

​@@MysteriousFawx really not, you just need to arrest them, I did that with a piromanyc colonist thinking that would lose that trait and become an unawakened android, but surprisingly it still has its passions and now have the new set of skills, but idk, it could have been provoked by a weird combination of.mods, but most of them are Vanilla Expanded, and at less for me this.game wasn't that hard, every ~7 days or more i get a nre quest for an android colonist, selling flake, yayo and organs make easy to buy new stuff and my trade ideology makes a constant supply of trade caravans

[@fuchsmichael93]

Im not sure if its the Big and Small Mod or if Androids got Updated. But you can build Giant and Pilotable Androids now.

[@MysteriousFawx]

Definitely not androids. That'll be from somewhere else.

[@fuchsmichael93]

@@MysteriousFawx Then its the Big and Small Mod. A Must-Have if you want to bio-engineer your Ultimate Supersoldiers.

[@jacob8858]

I’m running a VFE playthrough right now. And I got a whiney awakened android as a quest reward. He feels no emotion except for when he gets rejected and his pessimist trait meaning he’s always pissed.

[@McCbobbish]

It would be cool if awakened androids with the buddy modder trait would still let you put new subroutines I

[@Manepitaj]

Great video as usual. Can anyone explain how to influence basic android mood in order to get awakened android? From what I can see food or beauty bonuses do not work.

[@MysteriousFawx]

Easiest way is to give them the subroutine to form relationships and either keep them really happy or really miserable. Even though you can't see it on their mood bar, it will be tracked. You're essentially looking for an inspiration or a severe mental break, having the relationship subroutine makes it more likely that they'll awaken.

[@Manepitaj]

Thank you for the explanation mate

[@eleonoralandstrom9453]

whats the game that you put a clip off at 17.16?

[@MysteriousFawx]

Detroit - Become Human

[@mrpilkington9710]

This just seems like a massive downgrade from the older Androids tiers mod

[@Arkhmar]

This is more of a general work android mod, not the combat orientated ones.

[@mrpilkington9710]

@@Arkhmar I just did a mecnator run the bots are just over all worse in every way than the android mod You would think they would give you something to work with the hoops to jump through are too much for not enough pay off IMHO

[@Arkhmar]

@@mrpilkington9710 That is fair.

[@armpitz8694]

Thanks for the vid it was super useful