RimWorld Timelapse: The Onion - 15(ish) years in 5 minutes.

[@EpicVideoGamer7771]

Mad respect for playing for 15 years straight

[@vanmedardfernandez3338]

15 ingame years right

[@xianeli8473]

@@vanmedardfernandez3338 no

[@EpicVideoGamer7771]

@@vanmedardfernandez3338 No IRL years ofc

[@Nik-lf4rw]

@@vanmedardfernandez3338 no

[@theNimboo]

Bro I played for 27 years. 15 is nothing. I'm tellin you, it is really easy to get comfortable in your colony and just turn it into the sims lol, make little goals for yourself.

[@LoliPolice-bf7mw]

This man spent 15 years of his life just to make this video. Mad respect

[@steelydanfan321]

15 of his rimworld years.

[@Yourebeautyfull]

@@steelydanfan321 You know nothing bro, I 've been playing this game for 30 plus years. 15 years irl is nothing.

[@dididistuff3417]

@@steelydanfan32115 years of his real life

[@chip1727]

​@@steelydanfan321you're missing da jok😢

[@SmokeHunter714]

​@@Yourebeautyfullonly ?! I've been playing for 3 centuries in row and I finally researched how to plant trees 😩

[@LordGerdz]

The surviving humans built three walls... Wall Maria, Wall Rose, and Wall Sina.

[@jimseldiesel1362]

real

[@theorangeheadedfella]

theres like five there

[@azulablue6988]

Nah, that's Ba Sing Se

[@Wabbaaajack]

if humanity built a kill box they would have beat the titans

[@sashalvy]

@@Wabbaaajack i mean thats basically how they eliminated them in paradise 💀

[@deaconblue-aja4864]

correct me if I am mistaken, but I love how you abandon each inner layer as you expand outward. Allowing nature to slowly reclaim inner sections.

[@Leeeighmail]

Thank you. You are correct. I removed home zones, switched most stuff off and let bits and pieces burn down.

[@Nae_Ayy]

I love this playstyle. Most of my games are spent building mega-bases that don't really benefit from being huge. I just like making big bases. I like to think of the colony as a big art project. Once I get bored of a base I'll relocate my colony and rebuild with a new design. I've had a game go for 25 years just constructing giant art projects and abandoning them.

[@watapizza1225]

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

[@草羽海紀]

Your Frostpunk base looks great.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Beautiful. I'm just getting back into the game since biotech I was waiting on mods to catch up but this is a great inspiration

[@Leeeighmail]

Thanks mate. Lots of mods have caught up now so if you're keen you should get back into it.

[@zakiel4534]

The planning this must have took is impeccable

[@Sivanot]

Not really. If they had the designator shapes mod, then the hardest part, making the circles match, is accomplished by just using the anima tree in the bottom right as the center point. Otherwise I doubt it was much more difficult than normally making an aesthetically pleasing base.

[@HellWatcher117]

The final build is really cool looking. I don't think I could personally handle rooms with wiggly walls.

[@cinnabaar]

Ive never seen someone build radially in rimworld, 10/10 my guy

[@inconvenient-antifascist]

I love that while he's building, the landscape around him is being incinerated over and over again.

[@captaincodypotato8386]

Bless the algorithm for showing me this. What beauty you have constructed.

[@oobediah2668]

this is incredible. also, how did you get so much rich soil to spawn? is it biome specific?

[@Leeeighmail]

I used the map editor mod which lets you adjust things like the amount of rich soil that spawns.

[@nazzartareev]

Also you can use Soil Relocation mod, you can relocate soils on your mat, dig it on another maps and bring it back to your base.

[@Petq011]

Or... you can just use the tillable soil mod...

[@Petq011]

@@Leeeighmail What's the seed and coordinates btw? If you remember... I actually doubt it'd produce the same map for me since I probably don't use the mods you do, but it could possibly get me the same general location, that only has the entrance to the map in one corner.

[@nazzartareev]

@@Petq011 soil relocation just gives you more challenge to make soil more fertile.

[@ThomasBaxter]

This was really cool! Thanks for sharing.

[@Leeeighmail]

Thanks for watching!

[@phaserra]

Theres so many layers to this

[@AzngameFreak03]

Whenever I want to start a new base another update destroys my save. I'm just waiting for the right moment, but I always choose the wrong one. Fkn so many bases lost to an update and for some reason Steam doesn't let you STOP updates. It makes you revert but you still have to update and going through all that hell back in the day having to click 1 mod at a time was just time loss. Too many good memories with Rimworld and too many bad memories when it comes to hedonistic modding practices mid game destroying saves just like skyrim. Respect for powering through.

[@geronimo5537]

primative on the inside and space tech on the outside.

[@dakaodo]

I love the barbicans/turrets you build out from your fortress ring walls. I know you were going for aesthetics, not function. But it's still pretty similar to how I usually build out a star fort pattern (b/c Rimworld square tiles) as I expand. Even with vanilla (no embrasures), a series of barricades and spaced walls for cover on each barbican makes for pretty effective overlapping fields of fire -- essential for culling the 200-pawn raids at max raid size. All the green spaces, boulevards, etc look really amazing. Your deliberate concentric ring planning was a real success. I love it! Everyone can play a sandbox how they want, but in watching a LOT of playthroughs and timelapses, I feel like the audience wants to see dynamic activity. Change, growth, destruction (of course, b/c viewers are bloodthirsty and love a good disaster), and reconstruction. So from a gameplay POV as well as an audience POV, I wonder if occasional bigger waves of attackers could contribute to the viewing experience: A horde of barbarians shows up every few years, breaking through multiple walls and compartments until the last dogged survivors defeat them at one of the few remaining gates outside the central town hall/temple/HQ/shrine. Rebuild in 3-7 years, and it all might happen again. Purely from a risk-averse gameplay experience, that could be frustrating to see hours of hard work half-obliterated in 1-3 major raid waves. But if we consider all the pawns and buildings as just story props for the story generator, then it could be more useful/fun. Not saying you should do this for your playthrough. I'm just thinking out loud about stuff that I've noticed or wanted in my own and others' plays.

[@Leeeighmail]

Thanks mate, I appreciate the comments. I only ever intended to show this as a still shot at the end so I gave no thought to the narrative aspect and that's perhaps evident in the timelapse. It's not something I've really considered but moving forward if I make more then it's something I will make note of because I think that could be a cool addition. Almost like an abridged play through if the narrative aspect can be captured adequately.

[@moonmun]

That's so satisfying. If only I could make half circular shapes like that! That'd be a fun base!

[@Leeeighmail]

Designator shapes mod makes a lot easier to do if you want to try

[@fadedchicken]

This was awesome maybe a closer up view at the end hovering around showing the colony in closer detail

[@playerioik6101]

love to see a playthrough making this gorgeous shapes, gg bro

[@bentleyalsup3339]

This was such a cool build! Thanks for posting the timelapse!

[@mainframe3675]

Ideal mountain base...Protected, Aesthetically beautiful, rational use of space.

[@maskedmonster]

"Shrek: Ogres are like onions. Donkey: They stink? Shrek: Yes. No. Donkey: Oh, they make you cry. Shrek: No. Donkey: Oh, you leave em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin’ little white hairs. Shrek: No. Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers. Donkey: Oh, you both have layers. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions."

[@Aptol]

Meanwhile i can't even create a bed for my colonists.

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

I feel like it'd be cool to make a bunch of tribals with only lower tier tech live in the center with bows, clubs, tribalwear, and caveman drugs.

[@Luke-ux1ss]

this is genuinely so cool

[@Leeeighmail]

Thanks mate

[@paille-boy]

this base is like ogre, bcs ogre have layers

[@malduarte]

true

[@yporuchlife2696]

Эхх эти 15 лет за пять минут сколько новых людей дитей и опасных и важных битв удачи в новых видео а лайк я поставлю и уважуха

[@Leeeighmail]

I don't speak Russian mate but I'll try my best to answer after using google to translate: I started with 5 pawns and ended with 22. All except 4 or 5 were children or grandchildren from one of the initial couples. Thank you for watching and thank you for the kind words.

[@xoni77]

@@Leeeighmail Even a Russian-speaking (Belarusian) is hard to understand what he wrote without commas, but what can be said for sure - he liked your video and the path that your settlement went through, he also expresses respect)

[@JDad1337]

What mod helped you create the circular architecture? That's too perfect to have been done by hand.

[@RichAFCW]

Designator shapes

[@Leeeighmail]

Yeah I used designator shapes

[@DeathByRabbit]

Did you use any specific mod for planning out the building arrangement? Want to try this myself! Love the design.

[@Leeeighmail]

Designator shapes - mainly used circles and straight lines.

[@DeathByRabbit]

@@Leeeighmail Ty!

[@deez_noots]

my guy made helm's deep

[@thepabli]

Beautiful. A work of art.

[@L-guy]

So fucking cool. It took me a minute to realize that you had just intricately placed each wall in a rounder, yet still square pattern; thought you had some kind of mod that made curved walls or something

[@mute7823]

This is art brother.

[@zerogrey3798]

I've got close to 4700 hours in the game and I still find things to impress me. Looks amazing. Unfortunately I CAN'T play like that. My brain starts giving me shits if I don't build for function and efficiency.

[@Nick-jf7ku]

I like the design for sure. :)

[@mattdnoob469]

this goes well with c418 aria math

[@ajemte6770]

muffalos were with you all the way

[@Leeeighmail]

Oh wow I didn't even notice! They did well to survive out there

[@mrnight_1677]

that hole has the shape of uruguay lmao

[@LordFalconsword]

Wow, impressive. I love the arcs design. What was the population by the end. I keep having bog down issues over 25 colonists.

[@Leeeighmail]

Pretty sure it was about 22 by the end. There was a noticeable slow down by the end especially because they would often path across the whole map for random things.

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Hey! I saw a post on this on the Rimworld subreddit!

[@matthewkram3606]

at around the 2:30 mark my computer would have started chugging

[@popielaty2611]

Wow, im very proud of you. Good and quality job

[@watchfii4855]

Seed?

[@Matoro342]

So many ate without tables.

[@Paulunatr]

What a beautiful base. Not the most functional, yeah, but 10/10 for style. Building diagonals is hard, even if you have a mod to keep things tidy.

[@Leeeighmail]

Not even remotely functional, good fun to make it though

[@Paulunatr]

@@Leeeighmail I'm still stuck in the old 13×13 cells with 2-wide hallways in between. It's pretty functional and orderly, but damn does it get boring after a while

[@renaigh]

there should be a way to share colonies so people can generate a world with a load of player made civilisations.

[@Kris-nj8ld]

How did you make the timelapse? Did you just zoom out at the end of every day to take a picture or do you have a mod for this or something.

[@Leeeighmail]

Progress renderer mod - you can set a time period for it to take screenshots of the whole map, or just certain sections.

[@Kris-nj8ld]

@@Leeeighmail That is awesome, I wish I had this at the start of my playthrough. Out of curiously, what interval did you use?

[@Leeeighmail]

I used every day at 12h because then there should be no shadows.

[@justinsellers9402]

Damn, now I want to play.

[@owobi_2991]

Would be pretty cool to see some up close images

[@Leeeighmail]

I posted a high-res screenshot on reddit of the final image: www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/11ncvi5/the_onion_15ish_years/ Zoom in and have a look around if you like

[@thedeadwookie25]

you can't eat me! not... not without onions!!!!

[@blakepeugh3450]

So a bit late to the party, I know you used map designer. Do you remember the settings roughly at all? And did you use geological landforms too, or just map designer? I’ve always wanted a map like this

[@Leeeighmail]

All good! I only used map designer. To the best of my memory it was a combination of a donut shaped mountain set really big but off centre, the guaranteed entrance setting, I think default smoothness and considerably more mountainous than normal. Also bulk rich soil. I had to continually fine tune the settings to get what I wanted because there was often corners missing mountains, or the entrance was too wide/narrow. Hope that helps!

[@KevHCloud]

wow, that's impressive.

[@thegreathornedrat1219]

hey if you ever end up doing this again, there is a modded storyteller called "I like build base" that tends not to send too many calamities which is amazing for just creating fun designs

[@AbdullachKahir]

Could you share seed of the map?

[@TremblingKiwi]

OMG how did you calculate these circles? Its amazing!

[@harrymeaking8933]

There’s a mod that can do it for you

[@Leeeighmail]

I used designator shapes which can plan circles. It's really easy to do if you have a consistent centre point like I did with the anima tree.

[@ТимГалагура]

Amazing video! Can you share the seed/id of your map? It looks really cool, and I would like to try it myself!

[@chocomojo9552]

It's beautiful!!

[@adik4208]

Saw your post on reddit. Amazing job.

[@Leeeighmail]

Thanks mate

[@TheMightyPenPen]

Magnificent!

[@renaigh]

I feel like a better name would be The Eye.

[@likeablekiwi6265]

Which map is this?

[@Leeeighmail]

Hey mate, I used the map designer to make this one

[@touristofsongs4946]

What a 🥰 wonderful 😃 base! I wonder what 🤭 60 Centipedes would make to it 😁🤩

[@Turfut730]

conclusion : we need curved walls

[@Code-Imp]

Did you use a tool or helper to make the rings placements?

[@lostyx1496]

As he mentioned in other comments, he's using Designator Shapes

[@jensen5160]

Boy that's a big onyo

[@aidenantley2373]

How many pops did you have by the end?

[@Leeeighmail]

About 22, I think.

[@davevd9944]

Looks great guess I got a new design to try next run :D

[@TeReaper]

This is hella cool bro! Its cool to see the like rings of technological progression plus watching the ground recover from fires is cool as well! (whats the mod name id be intrested in getting it but i dont remember the name)

[@Leeeighmail]

Which mod do you mean?

[@mega9592]

Seed and location?

[@Leeeighmail]

Used the map designer mod so seeds useless, unfortunately

[@henrydynan83]

oh my god frostpunk

[@richardwalker922]

Can you upload this save in the discription?

[@deanofthetower663]

Did you made this video with screenshots?

[@Leeeighmail]

Yeah, the mod progress renderer takes them.

[@kralmeco3967]

That map is perfect. Can you tell me the seed?

[@crazysapling2933]

Not entirely sure if it's vanilla, it might be, but it looks to me like it's part of the map generation from the geological landforms mod Could be completely wrong on that though, who knows

[@kralmeco3967]

@@crazysapling2933 No, what you say makes sense. It honestly looks too good to be true.

[@TheRDB46]

Awesome mate, what do you do about insects ?

[@Leeeighmail]

Thanks. I disabled infestations because I don't find them that fun

[@MeOwOgai]

@@Leeeighmail wdym you don't like fire? 😎🔥 It turned out that with vanilla expanded infestations are fun, I just leave a flamethrower in front of each door in my mountain base (I make 11x20 rooms) and double walls for extra roasting

[@Ungermax84]

Would be interested in knowing the seed and coordinates

[@aminebenrejeb7523]

I am guessing you're a fan of frostpunk

[@Leeeighmail]

Heaps of people have mentioned Frostpunk but I've never played it. Might have to have a look though.

[@att7364]

Man making attack of titan city

[@toneprime3622]

What landform was this?

[@bigchungus1513]

can you tell me how you made your map like this mod or map editor?

[@Leeeighmail]

I used a map editor mod along with the map preview mod

[@bigchungus1513]

@@Leeeighmail i mean what did you set the map editor to do?

[@bigchungus1513]

or did you just find a natural land formation that wal like this

[@bigchungus1513]

if it was a formation which one was it ide like to try to recreate something similar

[@Leeeighmail]

I have to assume you're familiar with the map editor settings or it's a bit hard to explain. To the best of my memory it was a combination of a donut shaped mountain set really big but off centre, the guaranteed entrance setting, I think default smoothness and considerably more mountainous than normal. Also bulk rich soil. I had to continually fine tune the settings to get what I wanted because there was often corners missing mountains, or the entrance was too wide/narrow. Hope that helps!

[@onirocrisia]

This is really cool. What did you use to make the timeline video? Is it a mod of some sort?

[@Leeeighmail]

I used the progress renderer mod and then just chucked all the images in a video editor

[@kandilo8572]

any idea what seed is?

[@Leeeighmail]

I used a map editor mod, so the seed will be no good to you, unfortunately. If you use map designer it's really simple to get something similar, though.

[@CrozetIs]

oh i saw this on reddit!

[@B_BAS_]

How many colonists did you have in the end?😅

[@Leeeighmail]

I think it was 22. Not many given the size but they only ever really inhabited one ring at a time.

[@BigDozza369]

bro made a base

[@JohnPabloEsposito]

mate this aint frost punk lol FR tho awesome base

[@Knae]

i'm curious what that fire at 0:21 was

[@Leeeighmail]

From memory that was a pyromaniac setting the food store on fire

[@luismacias1657]

Can you give the seed name and the location you landed in???😅 kinda want to give it a try myself

[@Leeeighmail]

I used the map designer mod, so the seed will be useless, unfortunately. Super easy mod to use though if you wanted to make it yourself.

[@sf4137]

thas a nas onion

[@blackwaspboy]

It’s the wifi base

[@DominicRyanOsborne]

Frostpunk vibes

[@nazardoe]

Hi, that was a really cool game. I was just wondering if you could give me a list of the mods you used?

[@Leeeighmail]

I can try and dig up the save file; but off the top of my head - Map Designer, Map Preview, Designator Shapes, Rimatomics, multiple of the vanilla expanded mods (furniture, food, farming), Wall Lights, OgreStack, Realistic Rooms, and a diagonal/bevelled wall mod and a storage mod that I can't remember the name of.

[@allenpoh8750]

the build looks wonderful! may i ask what map size did you play this save on?

[@Leeeighmail]

Map size is only 250x250. Building in a radial pattern makes it look bigger though.

[@cookiezero69]

1:38 how big was that fire omg

[@SkullpunkArt]

Is it still going? Did your colony die?

[@Leeeighmail]

Colony didn't die, I just finished the design I'd had in my head and decided not to pursue any of the win conditions. I might go back and build the ship one day.

[@SkullpunkArt]

@@Leeeighmail nice! I just had my colony die because apparently 15 giant insects is an appropriate threat level for a single tribal colonist lol

[@Arrvey]

i've just lost my 32 yrs save, anyone knows how to get it back?

[@nuurussubchiyfikriy5996]

how many settlers? and how do you make water bodies?

[@Leeeighmail]

I believe it was about 22 at the end. I made water bodies using dev mode.

[@nuurussubchiyfikriy5996]

@@Leeeighmail another question. how do you make building timelapse without zooming in/out while building? that's pretty awesome

[@Leeeighmail]

@@nuurussubchiyfikriy5996 I used the mod progress renderer. You can set it to take screenshots at whatever time interval you want and set manual borders or full-screen.

[@Commandelicious]

Nice!

[@WetAdek]

Damn, how did you manage to make it so beautifully round?😮

[@Leeeighmail]

Designator shapes has a circle tool that makes perfect circles really easy