Swarming Rimworld With an Exponentially Growing Colony

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hey folks. I have made this content. You have clicked it. What could this mean?

[@xavierharris7123]

what payload were you speaking of and what is crow?

[@xpell11]

Xavier of course u don’t know bc ur name isn’t Jonathan

[@abril4907]

It simply means I enjoy your content lol

[@nathankeane9208]

You're subscribe bit got me, clicked it ;)

[@thymusvulgaris4636]

Frog

[@sboven9530]

imagine telling one of those splitters "you and what army?" right before they, well do the thing they are named for

[@timothymclean]

_plop_ "...is that a baby?" "Plan A was to bring a bunch of friends, but that didn't really work out, and I didn't have time to set up plan B."

[@timothymclean]

@@richardbeaton8653 I was making a joke about how the splitters in this mod don't replicate on a tactically relevant schedule; they're not chrysalids. Arbitrarily accelerating their growth cycle as a response to my joke is...confusing.

[@dombelly3343]

instant army, just add water

[@cubee4108]

Plan C it is!​@@timothymclean

[@cross977]

​@@dombelly3343not the on demand plastic army lmao

[@slasher3428]

"How are we gonna come up with enough expendable soldiers to destroy the empire?" *Mfas in the mitosis gang:*

[@DrBreadMann]

i love toes

[@zerrierslizer1]

@@DrBreadMann i tove loes

[@RealThermite]

john would agree

[@DrBreadMann]

@@zerrierslizer1 toes

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

@@zerrierslizer1 I prefer home depot

[@knpark2025]

- Eats grain - Reproduces asexually - the "smaller copy" can be distinguished from the "bigger parent" That, Hazzor, is yeast. I'm staying indoors this weekends and enjoying what your colony has made.

[@BierBart12]

I imagine a yeastoid civilization's sewer systems flowing with pure high-alcohol beer

[@dominikrni]

​@@BierBart12someone's gotta make a yeastoid xenotype

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

​@@BierBart12 we're talking about sewer, so it would be quite dirty But yeah

[@knpark2025]

@@dominikrni Yes. This. Downside: you can't improve their moods with alchohol. Upside: all excrements (e.g., vomits in vanilla) magically turn into bottles of beer.

[@ValdVincent]

@@knpark2025 For game play purposes you'd have it as a milk thing, with a de-buff for not milking I guess. That or get Bad Hygen mod.

[@LimeyLizard]

6:50 Hazzor has gotta be the only Rimworld player to eat a self-tamed Thrumbo with no hesitation ...well maybe not the only one, but it was definitely an interesting choice.

[@machtus]

Most hardcore rimmers have determined that most of the time a thrumbo isn't worth it as they're extremely hard to train (99% wild go brrrr) and eat valuable trees, which can wreck an early game colony

[@You-are-definitely-right-but]

⁠@@machtusAll my hardcore rimmers, sound off

[@Pedrolovato]

i have a trumbo's farm, i kill them for the leather, much grass for everybody, but took a while to get them and on easy, i'm play this game for 3+ years, finally i get a wealth and stable colony, but this on easy and doing much research

[@viroshanargiri4641]

He living in a desert if he lived on forest or something where trees and plantation heavy at least thrumbo will ate trees there

[@BullMcCloud]

you'd have to have a master animal trainer to even have a chance of keeping it

[@kampfaxt9330]

so he basically took the idea of a breed colony, which was boring af, and turned it into something that is not boring af, nicely done lmao

[@t_gabiuel6058]

[14:06] The reason your shells are missing even after you spotted the target is because the spotting system is broken when targettting these ship parts. You should instead tell the spotter to spot the floor next to the psychic ship for it to actually work.

[@drake713]

18:51 if I walked up with my gang of rebels and saw a dude just get their head deleted by a slug turret I'd have a heartattack too 😂

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Fair point.

[@lewisrobinson3380]

if you look closely at 18:42 - 18:43 the guy has a heart attack before the slug turret fired.

[@mr.shameless1886]

@@lewisrobinson3380 He must've seen a vision of that exact same event

[@Jallahruud]

I did not need that reality check in a rim world video my guy

[@chaosstripe9446]

Sorry John

[@Dabigboii]

Well if you delivered the GODDAMN PAYLOAD we wouldn’t have to be so intrusive

[@Joshua-ox5fr]

Population is already declining so over populations really is a non issue. Should really be worried about not being able to replace the people that already do exist, actually.

[@Cato_Sicarius_the_glorious]

What reality check? I didn’t see anything

[@Jaxck77]

@@Joshua-ox5frExactly. Overpopulation of intelligent beings has literally never been a thing as long as we have existed. We always just find another way to expand the food supply

[@ZebraOnYourNose]

I bet everyone named Johnathan who watched this was thoroughly mortified 💀

[@Mcflapphypants]

Agreed as a John. Was like 😮 there ain’t no way tech is this good in a pre-recorded video LOL

[@SirWink]

I 100% was. Was listening to this as I was winding down in bed and it startled the heck out of me 😂

[@SproingBoing]

My currently sleep deprived brain did a triple take at that message to make sure I wasn't hallucinating 🤣

[@blakeoarmboy]

Why did he kill a colonist named Johnathan or something cause I don’t remember him mentioning a Johnathan

[@pollitopajaro]

Wth are yall talking abt?

[@WarWolfen]

Thankfully I am in a sane state of mind or else I would be extremely paranoid about delivering the payload.

[@cecilia7932]

What payload?

[@hereticFox716]

Apparently my name is John as well

[@AtlasNL]

Payload? What are you talking about?

[@gamingdoctor8533]

​@@AtlasNL I think despite what they may say they are going insane

[@stephenchanda7580]

We're sleeper cells. The mission is a go! We must deliver the payload

[@sarcasticskully1669]

21:13 props to Doc for just ripping a line of coke in the midst of all that chaos

[@SeaSpartan118]

Maybe giving them lethal cell instability would control the population a bit

[@timothymclean]

Isn't that the opposite of the point of this run?

[@amberblyledge7859]

Yea, but then it would be a race of splitting or dying out. It would be a fascinating playthrough. Even harder without cannibal and traits that have no issues with bodies.

[@filipaleksiekczuk3712]

Mass effect reference

[@mouseburger4183]

Indeed help control it and you could put some in cryosleep in case you needed more

[@anonimoqualquer5503]

@@timothymclean i think that when you age at 50x and a clone of you pops out every Month, a major cell Instability is fair

[@jmbhd123]

6:14 As someone named Jonathan I immediately became concerned 😂

[@matthewmubiru5495]

😂

[@FriHo245]

Why would you be concerned? He's just asking us to subscribe, that is very common on youtube

[@dwarf9938]

Why "someone named Jonathan", there's just a subscribe request there lmao

[@J0HN_0_is_bored]

my name is john lol

[@cargovroom134]

fr real bro I heard my name and I was like "what" like a dog hearing the word food or walk 🤣

[@tsalVlog]

the key to success on RimWorld KZbin: have a commonwealth accent and sense of humor. Everything else just works. Looking forward to more in this series!

[@nukesrus2663]

The frog might have something to say about that first bit

[@QuantumWaltz]

@@nukesrus2663 unsure about where exactly the frog is from but if he's States-side there are several "states" that are actually commonwealths... so perhaps he gets by via a loophole, an exploit, if you will.

[@zx-dx719]

i feel like using the inherent melee skill gene and going full aggro on the other factions with this genotype would be pretty fun.

[@fuchsmichael93]

That sounds like an awesome Idea, theres a lot of Stuff you can add, like Sharp Claws, unarmed Damage up or even Acid Blood so you dont even have to bother equipping them with Weapons.

[@Inactive_Account29283]

@@fuchsmichael93use the vfe settlers and use chemshine for some walking bomb

[@NotCreativeNickname]

Factorio biters

[@BierBart12]

Ant empire

[@n1ghtshade759]

Exactly what i was thinking, along with either natural weapons or having a constant supply of your melee weapon of choice

[@Foxtrot451xX]

Always down for more Hazzor, thanks a bunch!

[@petrabotha8314]

Ooo, I've done this one with bees! The queens are the only ones that can split, with massive physic abilities and an inability to do violence. Meanwhile, the workers are quick, weak, neurotic and clever, while the drones are tough and combat focused. Very fun play, with a royalty focused ideology.

[@AdyG53]

Please do a follow-up with the splitter. This one was uniquely interesting to watch and would be interesting to see how they fair in a different environment. Keep up the good work man.

[@jonathanwatson4484]

Meet todd; Todd;"hello😊" "Todd kinda looks like a bug" Todd; "oh😢" "Todd will have a a baby every 25 days" Todd; "WHAT?!?!?! 😱😨😫"

[@tahahasan236]

Ayo thats another jonathan spotted 😂😂😂

[@deltarno7502]

...Well, now I need to know if the crow got his package.

[@FlowersOfIcetor]

Did you comment this on the right video?

[@1th_to_comment.]

What is bro on about? (Attention Crow, the package has been intercepted, I repeat, the package has been intercepted.)

[@ArtThingies]

Who? What package?

[@aidanbrown7670]

Why is everyone talking about packages lmao, im so confused

[@kendog3419]

6:10

[@agnieszkabirbicz3620]

16:04 There are no words on gods green earth that can describe how much i jumped from that bug-looking mortar shell

[@muhughu]

Right on time with the dinner entertainment! 👍

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

I live to serve.

[@rucki57]

I really struggle with enjoying life but your videos are always making me feel warm, thank you ^^

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

I'm glad I can help. And in that case apologies for the incredibly bleak part of the video at around 18 minutes hah.

[@zZzZzyxel]

Hot damn, "disposable child workers" strat is cold af.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Yeah... but y'know, it does work.

[@Malefactor]

When it comes to cloning I tend to think of it like this: if you've cloned yourself, you're the parent. If someone else cloned you, you're it's sibling.

[@sidneysill8495]

The exisistential crisis was pretty clutch, cheers Hazzor love this playthru!

[@DexTag]

Ill say you manage something extreme like 400, not because its sustainable but because all is breaking apart and you get into a loop of attempting to maintain them, but they just keep breading more. Until those dying will take over those being born, and eventually you end up with a way lower number at which point you could just re-assign them to different tasks and survive, but call it a day

[@randomcitizen0]

aey, dex. I want to see you playing this game

[@merpymerpington9175]

What if you ran a cannibal splitter colony and used the excess pawns as a food source. Maybe add the extra meat gene from VFE Pigskins?

[@IsaacAllwood]

Unironically amazing video

[@GutsyGrimZ]

A baby a day keeps Randy away! Thanks for the video Hazzor, it was mighty entertaining!

[@user-rz1cy9fx5b]

Sending children directly into the fireline of highly precise mechanoids to get quest rewards is definitely a rimworld thing.

[@catamitekiller]

The suppressor (unless they changed it) affects enemies on the map too causing them to lose consciousness early or even arrive totally incapacitated if they have some other health problem. Its offen worth walling off and keeping when you have a single gender colony and its tuned to the opposite gender in my opinion as its a free buff basically.

[@jorq69420]

Don't underestimate the guinea pigs. I had all but one of my colonists out on a raid, leaving my doctor who was incapable of violence at the base. Suddenly, a single manhunting guinea pig showed up while she was foraging for medicine. She was unable to outrun the guinea pig and it entered the base, and she was ripped apart. The most harrowing part of the ordeal was when she started crawling towards the hospital area leaving a trail of blood, but passed away just before she could make it to the medicine.

[@Chaosgremlin69420]

Love how you really brought the play-through *together* . *One* hell of a video.

[@Hjartstilla]

I think my name might be John

[@NotNormalBread]

You think?

[@Hjartstilla]

@@NotNormalBread Yeah whatever daddy Haz says goes, I just haven't legally changed it yet

[@johntrimarche4353]

All of you are posers

[@Gilbert_gang.]

Did you deliver the payload for daddy hazor John?

[@Hjartstilla]

@@Gilbert_gang. *Gasp* How do you know about the payload?? Only I, Johnathan, should know about it

[@iisspoedniek3159]

yo i love your content keep up the gud work

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Thanks, I aim to do so.

[@JasonSilverain]

Enthralling as always though admittedly was a bit disappointed you didn't charge the horde of bug on mass with every man and child armed with whatever they could find. A great concept colony regardless.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Have always wanted to toy with this concept! Add: The war-ant mod for theme rim-war for domination goal Enemy base enlarging mods for difficulty The idea is to have a massive number of easily disposable pawns, swarming over a world... being beaten back again and again, but eventually, eventually all becoming... Todd.

[@JustKevH]

Recently started playing Rimworld again after like a year break, this was fun to watch.

[@GoingtoHecq]

For a colony like this I would love to start raiding with infinite pawns.

[@grimboguppis7432]

What a great video, can't wait to show it to my guy Schizo John, he will love it

[@jmpreiss]

You basically literally have an ant colony. Nice. Also your name choice for the package bit really got me ha

[@todd89558]

Just sat through a 2hr birthing class with my wife and strait after I click on a video about an ant with my name taking care of babies, I hope this goes well for him lol

[@MegaHoof]

Before watching the rest of the video, I think 40 clones before it turns to shit! Great content my man! Awesome script, really nice editing and very entertaining! Keep it up! =)

[@toddoverholt4556]

Alpha genes has some good bug stuff but I heartily recommend 'Oops All Bugparts' for stuff like abdomens, bug wings, exoskeleton bodies, and beetle horns

[@Lurkzz]

Man seeing your sub count at almost 200k is amazing! I remember getting your first video in my feed and how I became a fan instantly! Great job Servitor Hazzor

[@shadowclann28]

i just love how he keeps causing these insectoids "humans" like yea thats todd hes a classmate hes a little quirky but dont mind him

[@toddcarter4829]

Thank you, Hazzor, for putting me in the video. It was an honour! ❤

[@mememachine3963]

If you ever do this again, you should add the Live Munitions mod, so you can put the babies to good use

[@Мыслитель-ы9ф]

💀

[@santa_with_a_gun]

💀

[@MunchkinJax]

Took some time, but I've finally caught up with all of your videos. I came for the Rimworld content and stayed for your charming personality in any game you play. Time to move on to your live content until you post you next video! Thank you for doing what you do my dude!

[@timothymclean]

1:10: I think it makes sense to think of this as parthenogenesis rather than cloning, and offspring produced parthenogenetically are considered children rather than siblings. I guessed the population would reach the low three digits before something bad happened. That only takes seven uninterrupted generations, and I've seen colonies run with low-three-digit populations and for _way_ more than 175 days. (200 to account for unexpected deaths.) That time estimate didn't account for the fission timer not starting until adulthood, and assumed that your population would get much higher before mass deaths started happening. Also that Hazzor's PC was on par with that guy who did a 200-colonist run.

[@Uncensored_Thrack]

And now I sit here, waiting, craving for more of this rimworld content..... All Hail Hazzor's production quality

[@kael6596]

With my game, with a few mods to shorten pregnancy to a day and a few genes from loads of mods, I can make insectoid colonist that can produce 6 offspring a day I think, could vary a lot though

[@drotterton793]

Hazzor has become my favorite rimworld youtuber. These videos are just too good. I guess he just has a really good voice for story telling.

[@buggle6118]

I love e^{x}

[@medoyk637]

same bro, such a goated function to integrate and derive

[@cewla3348]

@@medoyk637 e^x is the hardened steel of maths. Integrate it? e^x. Derive it? e^x. Nothing you can do hurts it.

[@smurfcat228]

e^(todd)

[@navydraws_1413]

insanely underrated channel, your content is great so keep it up

[@Cadriul]

THE CHILDREN YERN FOR THE MINES!

[@KhaziirEverflight]

Man., this was strangely cathartic to watch... earned another sub for sure.

[@braxtonbrants5912]

Theoretically, the colony is immortal because if you give them the cannibal trait, they could just eat each other and you have an infinite and out of soldiers so, even if if you get hacked by big army, you can always come back theoretically, of course

[@Zach.C_]

I was binging the whole of Hazzor’s channel today and this was a fitting end to the binge. The story telling is always exemplary

[@GreenKnight-ne1gn]

You should have tried this run with Vanilla Outposts Expanded, I can see you build a gigantic globe spanning empire like that

[@Moldereyes1999]

I think his laptop would have burst aflame

[@Mugetsu542]

"Hey, do these things explode?" --Famous last words

[@spacebees86]

"aw beans, a cougar ate stafford" make mr drink come out me nose

[@thebuda01]

About a minute before you said it I thought "so you've finally made RimWorld into dwarf Fortress"

[@zebraleep]

To Hazzor: Wait where is the crow again? -Johnathan

[@xxDrain]

6:45 I had one self-tame like that too... Saw that it was 200 years old and thought if I should sell it off before it dies, since they sell for a lot. But then I found out they live a whole lot longer than 200 years so I have it hauling my stuff around now :D

[@eddaniels4731]

Loving the content, always a good day when you upload! Have you ever considered doing a video on Songs of Syx? Been addicted to it the last few weeks and I think there's a lot of cool stuff you could explore with it.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

first video on the channel :p Though it's not really the kind of content I make nowadays, so I dunno maybe I'll revisit it sometime.

[@notsusanna7485]

The fact that asexual fission is an archite gene is hilarious because that means a super intelligent godlike AI the size of a planet made this gene and was like “yup, there’s no way this could go wrong”

[@calebbraun9505]

Why did Johnathan randomly sprint away?

[@SelandraTheTomewormNaga]

i dont know. he was carrying some sort of black box... or was it brown?

[@monkeydoespride]

He was muttering something about... I wanna say birds?

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

I did a real life pogchamp face when i saw the thumbnail and title. Sure, its not exactly my suggestion, quite far from it actually, but its absolutely in the spirit of my suggestion and im glad to see you tried it out!

[@the_guaco3098]

Johnathon's been real quiet since this one dropped

[@blakeoarmboy]

Bruh am I missing something did he do something to colonist named Johnathan or something

[@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz]

[@crackedemerald4930]

2:09 who's the handsome storyteller at the bottom there?

[@viroshanargiri4641]

Storyteller from vanilla expanded insectoid mod . Also its was a hive queen.

[@ferriusnillan5323]

Its really is terrifying concept. A colony of sentient beings that can just shuffle a baby off their backs every month, and said babies grow within days, and repeat the cycle, but because they dont have much time to learn, the tactics become desperate, and rather fittingly - inhumane waves of chittering bug people, rushing the dangers of the rimworld with their trusty fists, teeth, and whatever junk they pillage off their dead comrades and enemies. Would be even more funny if there was a mechanic that would naturally put you at odds with other factions as your wealth and power explodes.

[@Sanford56]

Always love your rimwolrd content the storytelling is really good keep up the good work, also I have a question are you going to do an 100 days Warhammer 40k in Rimwolrd video in the future or is it something that doesn't really interest you ?

[@Furydragonstormer]

Honestly, it's stuff like this I enjoy seeing. Rapidly growing swarm of insects in a game that gives you such a massive amount of freedom? Yes sir, sign me up

[@blakeoarmboy]

Bruh I just rewatched the video cause I saw a lot of comments talking about a Johnathan and there’s not even a mentioning of a single Johnathan what are they taking about

[@Antimony-qc7hi]

6:16

[@blakeoarmboy]

@@Antimony-qc7hibro I watched this section it’s just a normal please leave a like bs all KZbinrs do I watched it like 3 times I couldn’t even find a background character called Johnson what are you on

[@jacksonschaefer99]

What are they genes

[@Sqwigglydiggly]

Never expected a British "person" to be my favorite KZbinr

[@spencerruston406]

We stan Todd, asexual icon

[@Nate_wright]

🫡

[@thatkid1277]

Truly, we must rejoice!

[@danielthecake8617]

You're right but also wrong

[@CoolPersonKarl]

you should make a cannibal swarming colony and just eat the babies that pop out, infinite food glitch

[@concordemakesvideos1070]

D... Deliver the payload? M....me?

[@lifeslogical8895]

Only you can see it

[@adlez6060]

See what?

[@notacreatureoftheabyss]

please Jon its on you now, only you can do'it

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

...

[@turnips4375]

something worth noting is that you can have multiple pawns researching at once, so long as you have enough research benches for all of them.

[@Peezy__]

anyone else get a black screen at 6:15 ? weird error in the video Hazzor

[@PregnantAdamSandler]

iirc there's actually a mod that lets you shunt colonists into self operating mini colonies that produce things for you, would be interesting to try that with this sort of build

[@jabz1582]

Mitosis

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Mitosis, what every cell knows is... WHEN IT COMES TIME TO DIVIIIIIIIDE

[@LuckyWolfUnleashed]

The phrase “Their is more of them than ants” is too real, and they kinda are ants, cell ants…

[@Black_golem]

Now that there’s an actual bug character, you should try doing the bug worshiping thing again💛

[@soup8315]

this man has done a pretty good job of getting me to subscribe.

[@darkninjacorporation]

The Neanderthal dying of a heart attack before even beginning the assault on your base sent me into a genuine cackling laugh, which does not happen often.

[@rustyshackleford1508]

Imagine having an existential crisis over phenomena that don't naturally occur. Legitimately, all of that shit you people worry about goes away once the people who are in charge of orchestrating it die, because they left no heirs to their insanity.

[@Cato_Sicarius_the_glorious]

Yet another lovely rimworld video, thank you Hazzor!

[@spiral5692]

"bush is having an Anakin Moment"

[@johnthegeordie1916]

I was idly watching this whilst doing something else and shit myself at the 6:15 callout, so thank you for that. Hahaha

[@scyobiempire4450]

I like how it actually mimicked an ant colony, with the synergy and cooperation for jobs

[@Theader-oe9yu]

Just made my day seeing that i could eat my breakfast and whatch your new video right when i woke up

[@gubbington]

Payload delivered to the Crow. See you soon, Falcon.

[@Se05239]

"Thanks to the expendability of children, we made it through."

[@L1GHTYTHING]

hey, Jonathan here. just got back from the hospital due to the unexplainable event of my tendency to spontaneous combust due to unexpected events using specifically my name. Just made it to 6:00, i can't wait to get back into this.

[@thediabeticgamer2104]

Yay! More Hazzor! Another very entertaining Video!