Tired of going hunting? Start your own animal farm! Breeding chickens is a good way to start, but it can get complicated. In this guide you will find everything there is to know about maintaining a self-sustainable chicken farm to keep your colonists fed for the years to come. So you want to start up a small chicken farm but you are a little lost… Where do you get them chickens? Do you need to tame every hen & r...
The first thing you need to know is that the amount of colonists you have in your colony is strongly influenced by the storyteller you chose when you created the game. There is no limit to the number of people you can have in a single colony, but each storyteller has 3 variables that affect the population in your colony: minimum desired population, maximum desired population and critical desired population. Stor...
Unskilled shooters will fail miserably at hunting or fighting, risking their life in the process. You can avoid this situation by training their shooting skills in safe grounds before you send them out to the battlefield. There are multiple methods to train your colonists in shooting. The most ridiculous of them all: playing horseshoes. Yes, playing horseshoes actually increases the shooting skill, though it incre...
RimWorld’s Scenario system makes your game more lively and challenging by allowing you to randomize and customize unique situations to play in. By customizing a scenario, you can determine certain starting settings: type of community (tribe or colony), map conditions, starting items, animals, health conditions, traits and other special rules that may apply. Take on unique adventures and create your own storylin...
Scythers are sentient mechanoids that don’t need to eat, can’t be tamed or trained, and are always hostile to the colony. They will always spawn equipped with the charge lance and will generally prefer to engage at range over melee. However, they are horrifyingly effective at melee, being the enemy with the highest melee DPS in game, surpassing that of the Thrumbo. They can be found sealed in ancient ruins in al...
