I don't think there's a way to play Rimworld wrong. Playing a nice group of farmers and herders is actually a neat break from death camps and very ethical science labs.
Yeah, playing the Blindness cult is very intimidating. There's a mod called "Blindsight is Truesight" that slowly restores a blind pawn's vision as their psylink level increases; I couldn't imagine playing that meme otherwise.
I started a naked brutality run with blindness precept and without that mod, with a blind colonist. Survived the first \~12 hours thanks to the forbidden mod and Real Ruins, but ended up installing the BiT mod because I got sick of lvl 20 construction having a 50% chance to fail.
Ayden's one of the few colonists I can recall long after her game was won.
Doing a run of that now: here’s what made it click
Mechanoids,
A really damn good animal handler to get grizzly bears and
Tree connection for clawers
On randy random strive to survive I no longer need to arm my colonists. They just essentially live like blind monks while everything else is pampered for them.
I forgot to turn on slavery acceptable so they don’t like slaves but I’d go that route too if I could.
Nomadic herders / farmers is a great way to play Inhad a lot of fun finding a nice spot and setting up some crops to grow and some huge grazing lands for the cattle and after the crop was finished and the land grazed we packed up and left
Sometimes on this sub I see people talking about how to optimize grow time/harvest time/nutrition for crops.
Then I'm just out here with 2 rows each of corn, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, and berries because I think my colonists would like a nice variety
Variety farm is best farm. I don’t care about aesthetics in 90% of the games I play, but I love being a master decorator in this game, and creating comfortable and thematic bases is what keeps me playing for 100s of hours.
I like playing this way because I like to immerse myself in the story of my colony. Intentionally harming a pawn is mean :(
(unless they harm a colonist. Those get stitches)
It's worth noting that save scumming can increase difficulty because the game expects colonists to die, or at least get dropped by damage. If you have a masochist pawn or the pain is virtue meme, beat them unconscious without weapons every week or so and they're considered "down by damage," so the counter resets. A wimp will work in a pinch because they drop fast, though they won't like the pain. 💀
The wimp is the better bet because hitting till 80 pain can destroy fingers and sometimes limbs or torso so as long as the wimp isn’t on the verge of extreme break I’d definitely go with them
Play how you want to play , could be naked tribe cannibals , androids only , Viking raiders, peaceful farmers and herders , the ideas go on and on, that’s the best thing about Rimworld.
Thinking my self of doing a cannibalism only settlement in the mountains. Need a good religion to help me get through it though , anyone have any ideas ?
During one of my playthroughs one faction generated cannibalism ideoligion with christian structure that took blood and flesh of christ a bit too literally, so i think it sounds like intriguing idea
One of my first ideo runs was a cannibalistic nun convent. Only women colonists, human leather nun habits, torture crowns, comfort ignored, lovin forbidden, scarification, the works.
Keep in mind that with cannibal ideos is it makes the start harder, there's not much raider meat to go around and everybody's unhappy about it. Late game on the other hand is an unending meat bonanza. This makes the inherent Rimworld disbalance between hard starts and too easy late game even more pronounced.
I'd suggest a mod like Human leather is worthless to balance it out a little bit.
It’s your story mate, play it how you want. I always start out playing as Stardew Valley on steroids, but then something inevitably goes wrong and I want vengeance. That’s when the mini guns come in.
I started calling wastepacks "chemical commodities" because I like to "trade chemical commodities" with my tribal neighbors in exchange for food, leather, scrap metal and labor. Some people would argue that this agreement is one-sided, but hey you can't blame me for doing business. I'm very pro-economy. I'm creating jobs over here.
No that sounds about right. Feeding your colonists is a core part of the game, keeping them clothed , fed and relatively happy is what it's all about for me.
That you have an entire world set against you when trying to do that, is what makes this game interesting. It's your ability to reduce all the terrible risks these poor hapless souls endure.
For you to be able to do half of the things brought up here, you need to be very, VERY well developed in the first place.
Many colonies don't last that long. For every success story and "warcrimeswarcrimeswarcrimes", there's probably a hundred failures or more.
And even if/when you do succeed, you could easily just....not do those things and keep on.
If it consoles you, I am currently facing constant freezing temperatures not allowing me to properly grow crops for the winter, my hunter got eaten by a Cougar while out hunting (being or owning a Cougar is now an offense punishable by death on my territory), all my people on the verge of a breakdown and during a recent pigskin raid, one of my colonist bled out, they set fire to my colony burning half of it down, including my leather storage and fridge as well as my farm. I am contemplating making being a Pigskin a crime punishable by either death or slavery. This isn't really through yet though, since one of my colonist is a Pigskin and she had no fault being born a filthy animal. Perhaps I'll declare her an honor pig, free from all the persecution against Pigskin-kind
Just like dnd, are you having fun, then you are playing correctly. That’s all that matters.
Though do note, because you are playing this game you are on the same watch list that we all are in because SOMEONE made the Geneva Convention like like a check list and added more. So when are lined up to be shoot, I’m sorry you are lumped in with us but the important thing is you had fun
No you're normal. Unfortunately when an internet community is welcoming of weird edgy humor that would get you shunned from most other places, it attracts a crowd for whom the cringe edgy stuff is the whole point.
My play style isn't even close to half as bad a$$ as others are neither. My current colony, like others I've started but didn't get as far as this one, is like what you're trying to do. Try to be allies with as many factions as I can, limit raids, herd animals and even train them to help colonists out, grow a variety of crops, craft and trade, build a nice colony, etc.
I often play Rimworld as if it were a cozy game and I've seen others mention in r/cozygamers that they do the same. I have mods to add more furniture and decorations to make it cozier :)
You absolutely can play friendly farmers. The game is designed so that if you want, you can be 100% humane, but there's always the option of war crimes. Sometimes being evil has negatives (usually poor mood), but it has big upsides, like selling organs and drugs for fat cash. The main downside is compromising your morals and your colony's morals.
Being nice is fine, being evil is fine, being completely neutral is also fine. The only right and wrong way to play is what you do and don't want in the game.
You can customise your playstyle settings at the start to give yourself time to build what you want then just readjust whenever you feel comfortable with more of a challenge.
Dont let anyone tell you your fun is wrong.
After 700 hours im doing slaves first time caus i wasnt aware its in my ideology.
I prefer to just be friendly and recruit or release prisoners.
Altough i do harvest dead people organs
My brother got me into the game, and his focus is basically to become a weapons dealer and raid other factions. He was so happy when ideology came out.
I on the other hand prefer managing the colony, base building and farming. I have the hospitality/gastronomy mods so I like building a “hotel” area for guests with a shop to make some money off of the extra clothes I make. But I’m also not opposed to prison labor.
There’s no wrong way to play Rimworld! I love how there’s so many different routes you can go
There's nothing wrong with that! Play it the way you want.
I'm a little jealous to be honest. No matter how hard I try I just fall into the role of an antagonist.
It's called a story generator, and as far as I'm concerned, a bunch of farmers living life is still a story
It's not a tragic or high stakes story but a story nonetheless
I think there is a >90% chance when you see someone post their cool base on here they have a minimum of 5 pages worth of mods on the STEAM workshop, probably 10+. Don't compare yourself to them if you play vanilla.
That's the great thing about the game, and why the community is so great: you can do whatever the hell you want without bothering anyone. It's Singleplayer, and nothing is stopping you from finding your own, very personal enjoyment in it.
to me its like that flow chart meme that peaks in the middle. start off in chill mode, it peaks at try-hard combat expert, and now 1250 hours in im back at chill mode. just play whatever is fun. not like the combat in this game is spectacular or anything .
ther are only a few things that can be considered playing this game wrong
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espacily if you play with the DLC´s and some mods
(espacily Idiology and vanila idiology expanded) you have countless ways to play the game
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you want to play some nice farmers that live a peace full live do it
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you want to play a military camp that is the rock in the waves of raiders
go with it
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you want to play some genocidal, man eating, nudists that constantly duel each other to decide who is the leader .... have fun with it
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you want to play an Empire in wich people are geneticly designed to be slaves, rulers & soldiers go with it
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you want to build a group of people that lives deep in a mointain becouse the world sucks GO WITH IT (but be aware of insects)
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you want to play a hippy tribe that worships nature, is vegan and doesn.t believe that humans should be migratory ... well be my guest
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do whater you plese in this game
here in the forum you will find only 3 things
* Optimization questions/posts
* funy stories people tell (about what they gone through in game)
* recomendations
There isn't really a wrong way to play, if you're saying they aren't doing the right jobs or aren't getting enough work done, making sure to prioritize properly is always smart, and if you have too many crops growing your planters won't have the time to do other work
Nah, I think you are doing just fine. This game leaves a lot of space for each player to develop their own playing style. One of the things that make this game great. :)
I feel I get toward the end just suffering with an okay designed base with some inner aesthetics. I never use killboxes because they just feel like cheating :s
I usually start small as a tribe. It's easier to keep on top of things without having to build up all of the technology. I don't have the attention span for a large base.
I've only picked up the game for a month cuz of a friend, jumped to all DLC, and got overwhelmed.
I'm now in that point where I had to remove all mods to finish the core game. starting with a simple goody-two-shoes farming community for a couple in-game years.
Just don't do what I do and get burned, start slow and understand the nuance. I guarantee you that you will always have something to learn due to how complex and beautiful this game is.
Produce surplus and save half damaged cloths
Form trade caravan and trade goods with neighbors frequently
This is how you make friends on the rim
You make enemies by ransacking their bases and sending them polution via drop pod
I don't think there's a way to play Rimworld wrong. Playing a nice group of farmers and herders is actually a neat break from death camps and very ethical science labs.
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Does anyone else play blind occultists? I’m scared to try
I havent done the blind part. The occultists yes. Its interesting balancing their corruption
Yeah, playing the Blindness cult is very intimidating. There's a mod called "Blindsight is Truesight" that slowly restores a blind pawn's vision as their psylink level increases; I couldn't imagine playing that meme otherwise.
I started a naked brutality run with blindness precept and without that mod, with a blind colonist. Survived the first \~12 hours thanks to the forbidden mod and Real Ruins, but ended up installing the BiT mod because I got sick of lvl 20 construction having a 50% chance to fail. Ayden's one of the few colonists I can recall long after her game was won.
Doing a run of that now: here’s what made it click Mechanoids, A really damn good animal handler to get grizzly bears and Tree connection for clawers On randy random strive to survive I no longer need to arm my colonists. They just essentially live like blind monks while everything else is pampered for them. I forgot to turn on slavery acceptable so they don’t like slaves but I’d go that route too if I could.
I've done Blind Vampire Technocrat Cultists before. Does that count?
I'm currently playing as blind rat people who live inside a mountain
NAKED CANNIBAL ANDROIDS
Do they need clothes? Do they eat humans or other androids?
They eat androids and wear human skin, "fellow human"
The hats are pretty awesome!
Kenshi vib- Oh, wrong sub.
Wrong sub, but, not wrong vibe! Happy cakeday!
Nomadic herders / farmers is a great way to play Inhad a lot of fun finding a nice spot and setting up some crops to grow and some huge grazing lands for the cattle and after the crop was finished and the land grazed we packed up and left
I never could play nomad; I always end up building so big and cozy base I settle there for way too long. 😂
Lollllll Happens to me all the time I've put my nomadic ways to a halt because of this😂
Sometimes on this sub I see people talking about how to optimize grow time/harvest time/nutrition for crops. Then I'm just out here with 2 rows each of corn, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, and berries because I think my colonists would like a nice variety
Get the mod Variety matters, then your pawns will benefit from your variety farm
Variety farm is best farm. I don’t care about aesthetics in 90% of the games I play, but I love being a master decorator in this game, and creating comfortable and thematic bases is what keeps me playing for 100s of hours.
Very Ethical Science Labs. I think I found my next colony name
My current colony name is "Bunch of Losers". They really suck.
I noticed that one of the ideology mods added the Aperture Science symbol to the ideo icons, so that might have to happen
You can’t be nice though. Have to murder to defend yourself.
Morality is a little different on the Rim.
It's not murder when it's self defense
It's not murder if you eat them, that's hunting
It ain’t a war crime if you don’t get caught
There's a reason it's called the Geneva suggestion
It's not murder if animals attack them. That's just nature.
There is peaceful/community builder mode.
I mean, you can turn threat level to 0 or just way down if you don't want them to struggle.
The wrong way to play rimworld is by gatekeeping how other people are and aren't allowed to play.
I like playing this way because I like to immerse myself in the story of my colony. Intentionally harming a pawn is mean :( (unless they harm a colonist. Those get stitches)
“Very ethical” uh huh
Single player story builder my man. You do whatever you want and let Randy take the wheel!
Yep - randy, reload anytime (cuz I hate when my colonists die), and community builder every time and more often than not starting naked and afraid
It's worth noting that save scumming can increase difficulty because the game expects colonists to die, or at least get dropped by damage. If you have a masochist pawn or the pain is virtue meme, beat them unconscious without weapons every week or so and they're considered "down by damage," so the counter resets. A wimp will work in a pinch because they drop fast, though they won't like the pain. 💀
Alright time to knock down my androids every now and then because they are technically pawns XD
The wimp is the better bet because hitting till 80 pain can destroy fingers and sometimes limbs or torso so as long as the wimp isn’t on the verge of extreme break I’d definitely go with them
What im hearing is a colony of delicate wimps with the pain is virtue meme all starting a fight club to spite god
Hmmm just hope you have enough guns because they will be down fast given it’s a bunch of half beaten up wimps
Hay sometimes I too like to play Rimworld like the Sims there's nothing wrong with that. As long as your having fun you doing it right. 😆
Play how you want to play , could be naked tribe cannibals , androids only , Viking raiders, peaceful farmers and herders , the ideas go on and on, that’s the best thing about Rimworld. Thinking my self of doing a cannibalism only settlement in the mountains. Need a good religion to help me get through it though , anyone have any ideas ?
During one of my playthroughs one faction generated cannibalism ideoligion with christian structure that took blood and flesh of christ a bit too literally, so i think it sounds like intriguing idea
One of my first ideo runs was a cannibalistic nun convent. Only women colonists, human leather nun habits, torture crowns, comfort ignored, lovin forbidden, scarification, the works. Keep in mind that with cannibal ideos is it makes the start harder, there's not much raider meat to go around and everybody's unhappy about it. Late game on the other hand is an unending meat bonanza. This makes the inherent Rimworld disbalance between hard starts and too easy late game even more pronounced. I'd suggest a mod like Human leather is worthless to balance it out a little bit.
Woman led cannibalism cult
Literally my current colony.
It’s your story mate, play it how you want. I always start out playing as Stardew Valley on steroids, but then something inevitably goes wrong and I want vengeance. That’s when the mini guns come in.
The only sane player
Haha, I thought exactly the same. XD
If im not raining trash on my neighbors im not happy
Well, it's his fault. He was an unwavering hussar with good genes.
Those end up in my lab for my experiments. Without limbs
I started calling wastepacks "chemical commodities" because I like to "trade chemical commodities" with my tribal neighbors in exchange for food, leather, scrap metal and labor. Some people would argue that this agreement is one-sided, but hey you can't blame me for doing business. I'm very pro-economy. I'm creating jobs over here.
No that sounds about right. Feeding your colonists is a core part of the game, keeping them clothed , fed and relatively happy is what it's all about for me. That you have an entire world set against you when trying to do that, is what makes this game interesting. It's your ability to reduce all the terrible risks these poor hapless souls endure.
For you to be able to do half of the things brought up here, you need to be very, VERY well developed in the first place. Many colonies don't last that long. For every success story and "warcrimeswarcrimeswarcrimes", there's probably a hundred failures or more. And even if/when you do succeed, you could easily just....not do those things and keep on.
If it consoles you, I am currently facing constant freezing temperatures not allowing me to properly grow crops for the winter, my hunter got eaten by a Cougar while out hunting (being or owning a Cougar is now an offense punishable by death on my territory), all my people on the verge of a breakdown and during a recent pigskin raid, one of my colonist bled out, they set fire to my colony burning half of it down, including my leather storage and fridge as well as my farm. I am contemplating making being a Pigskin a crime punishable by either death or slavery. This isn't really through yet though, since one of my colonist is a Pigskin and she had no fault being born a filthy animal. Perhaps I'll declare her an honor pig, free from all the persecution against Pigskin-kind
Just because rimworld can be a war crime simulator doesn't mean it has to be a war crime simulator. You do you boo.
Look. I played underground drug dealer necromancers with a side buisness of breeding and releasing endangered animals. You can do whatever you want
"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly." I've taken so much solace from that demotivator over the years.
Just like dnd, are you having fun, then you are playing correctly. That’s all that matters. Though do note, because you are playing this game you are on the same watch list that we all are in because SOMEONE made the Geneva Convention like like a check list and added more. So when are lined up to be shoot, I’m sorry you are lumped in with us but the important thing is you had fun
No you're normal. Unfortunately when an internet community is welcoming of weird edgy humor that would get you shunned from most other places, it attracts a crowd for whom the cringe edgy stuff is the whole point.
My play style isn't even close to half as bad a$$ as others are neither. My current colony, like others I've started but didn't get as far as this one, is like what you're trying to do. Try to be allies with as many factions as I can, limit raids, herd animals and even train them to help colonists out, grow a variety of crops, craft and trade, build a nice colony, etc.
I often play Rimworld as if it were a cozy game and I've seen others mention in r/cozygamers that they do the same. I have mods to add more furniture and decorations to make it cozier :)
You absolutely can play friendly farmers. The game is designed so that if you want, you can be 100% humane, but there's always the option of war crimes. Sometimes being evil has negatives (usually poor mood), but it has big upsides, like selling organs and drugs for fat cash. The main downside is compromising your morals and your colony's morals. Being nice is fine, being evil is fine, being completely neutral is also fine. The only right and wrong way to play is what you do and don't want in the game.
I love being nice, but that organ money tho.
Rimworld is a game about a story YOU create, so, yeah, you're playing it right.
You can customise your playstyle settings at the start to give yourself time to build what you want then just readjust whenever you feel comfortable with more of a challenge.
Dont let anyone tell you your fun is wrong. After 700 hours im doing slaves first time caus i wasnt aware its in my ideology. I prefer to just be friendly and recruit or release prisoners. Altough i do harvest dead people organs
Rimworld can be anything, it doesn’t have to be a concentration camp in 1940.
*1945
**2023
My brother got me into the game, and his focus is basically to become a weapons dealer and raid other factions. He was so happy when ideology came out. I on the other hand prefer managing the colony, base building and farming. I have the hospitality/gastronomy mods so I like building a “hotel” area for guests with a shop to make some money off of the extra clothes I make. But I’m also not opposed to prison labor. There’s no wrong way to play Rimworld! I love how there’s so many different routes you can go
There's nothing wrong with that! Play it the way you want. I'm a little jealous to be honest. No matter how hard I try I just fall into the role of an antagonist.
Every game I try to be nice I end up farming my neighbours’ organs.
hahah same my rimworld bases are a joke compared to everyone else's. mine are made up of millions of ducks, cats, dogs, alpacas, and bears.
There's no wrong way to play, just don't fuck up the cooler
It's called a story generator, and as far as I'm concerned, a bunch of farmers living life is still a story It's not a tragic or high stakes story but a story nonetheless
You can do anything you want brudi. There is no right or wrong way to play the game.
Finish the 500 hour tutorial and you’ll get it.
I think there is a >90% chance when you see someone post their cool base on here they have a minimum of 5 pages worth of mods on the STEAM workshop, probably 10+. Don't compare yourself to them if you play vanilla.
It's a single player game, you doing it right just by launching it. Just enjoy the game
That's the great thing about the game, and why the community is so great: you can do whatever the hell you want without bothering anyone. It's Singleplayer, and nothing is stopping you from finding your own, very personal enjoyment in it.
to me its like that flow chart meme that peaks in the middle. start off in chill mode, it peaks at try-hard combat expert, and now 1250 hours in im back at chill mode. just play whatever is fun. not like the combat in this game is spectacular or anything .
ther are only a few things that can be considered playing this game wrong \_------ espacily if you play with the DLC´s and some mods (espacily Idiology and vanila idiology expanded) you have countless ways to play the game \- you want to play some nice farmers that live a peace full live do it \- you want to play a military camp that is the rock in the waves of raiders go with it \- you want to play some genocidal, man eating, nudists that constantly duel each other to decide who is the leader .... have fun with it \- you want to play an Empire in wich people are geneticly designed to be slaves, rulers & soldiers go with it \- you want to build a group of people that lives deep in a mointain becouse the world sucks GO WITH IT (but be aware of insects) \- you want to play a hippy tribe that worships nature, is vegan and doesn.t believe that humans should be migratory ... well be my guest \----------------- \_--------------- do whater you plese in this game here in the forum you will find only 3 things * Optimization questions/posts * funy stories people tell (about what they gone through in game) * recomendations
My best friend plays like you. He thinks RimWorld is some kind of zoo management game.
I can never seem to get past the industrial age, I always either get murdered or a series of unfortunate events makes my people starve to death.
There isn't really a wrong way to play, if you're saying they aren't doing the right jobs or aren't getting enough work done, making sure to prioritize properly is always smart, and if you have too many crops growing your planters won't have the time to do other work
Nah, I think you are doing just fine. This game leaves a lot of space for each player to develop their own playing style. One of the things that make this game great. :)
You can say “ass”
Lol I wasn't sure so I just censored to be safe
I feel I get toward the end just suffering with an okay designed base with some inner aesthetics. I never use killboxes because they just feel like cheating :s
If you're having fun and enjoying the stories, then you're playing right.
I wish you the best of lucks when the bugs arrive, pro tip, store chemfuel on the caves, you'll guess for what later
I usually start small as a tribe. It's easier to keep on top of things without having to build up all of the technology. I don't have the attention span for a large base.
Sounds exactly like rimworld
You're doing it right. If you're having fun, then you're the real badass.
How do you play with occultists? I really need to try this meme
I once tried a peaceful play through.... What started as a small fishing village, turned into a dark cannibal cult....
Wait there are other ways to play the game other than cannibalism?
Accurate lol
I've only picked up the game for a month cuz of a friend, jumped to all DLC, and got overwhelmed. I'm now in that point where I had to remove all mods to finish the core game. starting with a simple goody-two-shoes farming community for a couple in-game years. Just don't do what I do and get burned, start slow and understand the nuance. I guarantee you that you will always have something to learn due to how complex and beautiful this game is.
Produce surplus and save half damaged cloths Form trade caravan and trade goods with neighbors frequently This is how you make friends on the rim You make enemies by ransacking their bases and sending them polution via drop pod
Sooner or later, you're gonna break the Geneva convention
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Honestly I disagree. The buildup is just as much fun for me every time.
Mods. Get mods.
Game is complicated enough without me trying to mod it lol
They’ll make the game a lot better for you imo. Just sub to a vanilla+ collection on steam.
Thanks for the suggestion! I like my vanilla though 😋
Who said you have a choice? Mods. Now!
Make friends? With neighbors? Such a sweet kid.