13:06 Randy: "Stop exposing all my secrets!!!" *throws meteor*

For anyone else who was curious about the info window mod. Francis John answered this in a reply, but it took a while to go through all the comments and find it. It's Dubs Mint Menus by Dubwise.

I like how you can just produce food forever on the same tile with no problems

6:40 you can also feed berries to royalties

In my experience, the length of the heat wave/cold snap has to(guessing based on experience) do with: The initial temperature setting before world generation, biome and latitude. Closer to the equator, you get longer heat waves and cold snaps are rare/short. Near the poles, you almost never have a heat wave(in the do incident section in developer tools, you can actually see the heat wave event is disabled) but cold snaps will last a long time. So, you can have really long heat waves and cold snaps. The temperate zone(roughly halfway up or down from the equator to the nearest pole) will have the best balance with length of heat wave/cold snap, lasting only a day or two, but should be of similar length(unless you're in a desert or some cold biome). To deal with the heat waves, use passive coolers which again, only require wood. I hope you find this helpful.

Good nugget. I know this wasn't specifically a part of the topic, but for any new players who see this, make sure to add a decent sized dining table and chairs, some recreation and some good artwork to any grow structure: hydro or greenhouse or even open fields. Your pawns will be spending a great deal of time in there, especially a rice hydro room, and adding the amenities will greatly help with mood, inspirations and also travel time.

21:10 solar flares don't last long enough to kill crops in hydroponics basins. The flare always seems to end right before they end up dying, the plants stay in 5% health untill they are harvested but that's fine.

14:40, there's the slip! Can't wait to see you calling your dupes pawns in the new series

Fantastic tutorial. Love the power brick idea. I've been using the compartmentalized system since beta and it is so understated. Thank you very much for sharing!

Just ✍️ plant ✍️ potatoes ✍️ coz ✍️ you're ✍️ Irish

Francis John: "Today we're doing a tutorial on some esoteric and boring function." Me: "All right, this is gonna be the highlight of the day! Hey, Baby, come watch." My wife: "Rewind it! I need to here him say 'Aaaand we're back!' again!"

What a wonderful tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

One thing I've noticed with Rice - while it says that the harvest is 5 units, it frequently gives a pattern like 5-5-5-4 rather than 5-5-5-5, even with highly skilled planters. My suspicion is that the "5" is a rounded figure, and the actual figure is something more like 4.8 harvest units (which is 80% of 6). That would put the actual rice harvest much closer to the figures you're seeing for corn where the rounding doesn't have quite so obvious an effect in having the harvest value reduce from what is reported. i.e. for the points where you're reporting 500 rice, you'd actually only be getting 480 rice. That then affects calculations on using it for chemfuel, as you end up with a little bit less rice than the game's rounded figure would indicate you should get.

Finally! Someone else who appreciates Bjorn's work!

23 minutes ago I told myself I was just going to watch a little bit of this video to get the gist of things. Good stuff, very informative.

Very informative, thanks for taking the time to figure it out for us

You are the man Francis! Have been loving your content

Thanks for the vid. When I start up rimworld again it's nice to have updated tutorials

subscribing after 1 video is kinda rare for me these days. but you are well worth it

Brilliant breakdown of how it works.👍

I love it when he posts

Giving you a like, comment, and sub just because I appreciate the summary in the description so much. I will watch the entire video later for your metrics.

You did it thanks francis i love this channel

I always, literally always, learn something from your Tutorial Nuggets. Thank you for another great video!

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Nice tutorial and ratios. The metric you're measuring by is food/time which is a pretty good metric. Interestingly, in terms of food/work potatoes actually rank above rice in hydroponics.

Excellent tutorial! If I could make a request/suggestion for a future tutorial... I'd really love to see one on the effects of wealth. The ones I've seen lack your thoroughness and attention to detail, and seeing that it is such a core dynamic of the game I think it well worth having a better understanding of

Looking forward to this having to be remade for Ideology!

corn should be immune to blight, as well as other plants with a long growing period. also time when growers harvest rice, and plant rice, works in corn favor because that time is spent on actual growing rather than sowing new field. in general, corn should be better than any other plant, even considering the events. but rice can be used to gain experience quickly

When last I played, you could not get zzzt events unless that power grid had conduits in it. It is possible to corner-spot batteries in a way that can connect to the sunlamp from outside the growing area, removing yet another annoying hazard from the list while still keeping both growing area and electricity walled in/separated.

Terrain Zone Selections is a good mod for easily creating grow zones that match soil type. It helps for making organic bases with odd-sized stockpile rooms too.

On batteries and Zzztt-events: Most of you probably know this already, but if FJ has stated it explicitly anywhere I did not catch it. The size and power of the explosion Zzztt-events cause is proportional to the amount of energy stored in connected batteries, so it's a good idea to use as few batteries as you can get away with. If you noticed an episode or three ago in the 395-challenge series, FJ had an Zzztt with no batteries installed - that did basically nothing. In my previous base, I was powered mainly by wind (it was on a costline, and beaches are great for wind turbines), and I found I needed 6 batteries to even out the fluctuations. I therfore had two banks of 6 batteries each, that were connected to the grid via switches, and I tried to alternate between them to have stored power always available... Well of course I had the occasional 12-full-batteries-Zzztt, and those cause pretty big bangs. On my current hydro-focused setup, I have three batteries and the Zzztts, while not harmless, don't blow big holes in walls and are trivial to deal with.

@Francis John plants' rest period is a real thing. photosynthesis works in reverse, and the roots then get oxygen. Some plants like venus flytraps even have a dormancy period where the rhizome requires rest for months at a time. (from about Oct to February)

These videos are amazing

19:45 That's so cool, it's such a great idea.

Regarding crops and power, there are areas on maps where temperatures around the year are from 30 degrees celsius to higher (even had 78 degrees celsius during heat wave). Plants stop at growing at 50 degrees celsius. For greenhouses, you need coolers that add power consumption. Not sure how many pasive coolers are required, but I assume too much wood would be invested.

The big issue with hydrophonics is solar flares. Losing your crops is a big hit, although rice doesn't hurt all that much because of its short growth time.

Interesting. I think I'll use the basinless setup for my ganja empire playthrough. I always take a pawn with high plant skill or passion in it

There's always Randy throwing a siege mortaring the setup lol

Excellent.

These are by far the best comment sections on yt.

there’s a mod called auto cut blight. helps a ton with stopping the spread aswell

Helpful

To me the greatest blessing for power are weather controllers that make forces your map on a rainy thunderstorm, it will turn your wind turbines to basically geothermal generators. On a side note, on sea ice of the poles, wind and sun viability is kinda possible at certain times since a lot of those maps, it will be 100% lit for months and then dark for months, controlling the population growth a little, one can use the powerbrick to farm a ton of food with hydroponics to use for the dark months, during the sunless months with mostly wind the power should hold, maybe a couple of chemfuel generators for 1 hydronsetup but it will still be mostly wind and solar powered.

Amaaazing

Great and very informative. 👍 Well, one thing you did Not mention is "Space used" - if you don't use the huge Maps, maybe Go for hydro+chemfuel...

Blights spread from different plant types to others, and through walls if they aren't 3 or so tiles away.

I think the fertility system could be a lot more detailed like rice shouldn't be the universal starter plant for 90% of colonies, in reality rice needs very wet environment it would be a lot cooler if there were more food plants with more emphasize on your biomes temperature and weather grow rice in swampy areas, potatoes in cold ones and add some stuff like wheat and cabbages etc. also seasonal growth for crop rotations would be cool and would work fine with shorter average growth periods I know it sounds a bit too complex but with a few tweaks to how everything around it works it would make a lot more sense, I've never grown potatoes because it's so rare that you don't have at least normal soil

"you can support about 67 dupes" *takes notes even though i never had a colony with more than 8 people before I died*

As someone who is running a 20 year old sea ice base, I use wind for my hydroponics pretty much exclusively, besides the occasional unstable power cell and vanometrics.

I'd love to see a tutorial like this for all the Vanilla Expanded mods. There are pretty few guides about them out there despite how popular they are.

Thx you sir

Ahh you can hear the anger build up when you talk about destroyed solar arrays. I seem to recall a playthrough where they got destroyed almost every episode ;) The barricade trick is pretty cool, easily enough to do too! It's also nice to see the conventional wisdom around chemfuel/hydroponics challenged. Hydroponics definitely have their place on ice and desert biomes, but outside of that I find them far, far too costly in startup resources. As for chemfuel generators, I'm a bit torn on their purpose.

When did you get the name tutorial nuggets? One of life’s great mysterys

nice

Im doing a mountain base, so i gonna stick with your hydroponic build instead, we dont have a lot of open ground. But knowing solar panels does not block wind turbine is interesting, did not know that.

Ah yes, the infinite energy and food exploit in Rimworld, nice!

as long plants did not suffer any damage before hand(being too cold, not getting sunlight for a long period of time, or burned by fire), plants in hydroponics can normally last through solar flare just fine, there's no need for forced harvesting. another thing to note about sun lamps and growth, plants doesn't go straight to their full potential growth in the morning and drop slowly in the afternoon, this can cause some deficiency on long term growth. Sun lamp immediately maxes up the plants' growth efficiency in the morning and keep it that way until when the plants sleep. I also try to keep the plants in optimal temperature as being too hot and too cold can affect growth efficiency as well.

14:54 someone’s been playing too much ONI

That one lone centipede in the power brick, randy’s sign he wants to demoralize me.

In my thousand hours of Rimworld I don't think I've ever made a solar panel. Could be you've converted my thinking.

Thanks so much for this Francis. Say, I notice you didn't mention devil strand though. If I'm on a map thats 20/60days of growing season,they don't grow fast enough, barely even 40% grown before it gets too cold. How long does the growing season need to be for devilstrand? And can you plant it in hydroponics basin I haven't checked

That limestone meteor tried to interrupt your tutorial

Me: *smiles every time he says potatoes* This video: So you have chosen face pain...

Very useful video. Although, I usually just grow rice, even late game. Because of the amount of stuff that randy can throw at you that inhibit, or cripple, crops can be problematic. Sure, it's labor intensive. But you can just 'hire' and pirate or two, and put the to work.

I actually use potatoes in hydroponics mainly because of the labor cost. If I really need someone trained on plants, then the only thing they do is plant and harvest rice.

Doesnt that massive power brick give you tons of building wealth?

Great tutorial! Do the numbers include the power cost of running the biofuel refineries?

Its been a hot minute, but I recall a reddit thread that did the numbers and concluded that under most circumstances potatoes win out over rice, however I believe that thread only looked at it from the perspective of standard difficulties gaining the expected full harvests. The biggest factor as I recall is they generally win out in terms of nutrition per labour hours of your pawns, making rice really bad because it requires a dedicated gardener force where potatoes and corn generally require less direct maintenance so are better for smaller populations that have more important jobs to do than harvest rice all day, generally concluding berries sit somewhere between rice and potatoes.

How many hydroponic-sunlamp fields could this solar-wind tile power? And how many pawns would that feed?

@francis john plants sleep irl too. They have a dormant cycle in most cases, which can in some cases can even exceed local animal life.

Uhn, when did they change corn? Corn used to give something like 30% more food, in general, than rice. At least last I did this testing on... A17 I believe. Also I remember a time where putting a single solar panel to support a solar lamp was the go to way, because the lamps didn't use to turn off on their own so the solar would keep them active during daytime only.

double upload?! great day it is!

Is the nice window of the plants and basic datas a mod? I have to struggle with the very uncomfortable list view, would like to know how to get the window

The moment I've heard you misspelling pawns as dupes I knew I will find ONI videos on your channel)

20:30 Ok that's simple and useful.

Good to have a few berries around for nobles should you have trouble meeting their meal requirements.

Me as a gardener: That's not how plants interacting with their soil and growth works! D:

1. Have you published any Rimworld plays in an area like an ice sheet? If not, that might be an interesting option after the 395 Pawn challenge is over. 2. I can't believe I'm watching this despite not actually owning Rimworld. Though, understanding the mechanics helps enjoy your current Rimworld series.

so i was thinking... uh the travel distances are gonna be a thing i think on this map... you may have to zone people into specific areas to keep people working things farther away from the "core"

I like my strawberries thank you very much.

I get that hydroponics require more power and materials than just sun lamps but if you are at the point where you have enough power bricks and steel then it seems like a good way to make your growing area as small as possible while feeding the same number of people so they are space efficient and not energy efficient assuming that the space the extra energy production and storage takes up is not more than the space you saved. That said I haven't bothered with hydroponics much mainly due to the fact they can't grow corn and other things.

Wow I’ve played rimworld awhile and I didn’t know that potatoes didn’t get changed as much by rich soil, I’ve always planted potatoes, well exept in hydroponics of course

Potatoes will almost always win the day while everyone argues about rice and corn. You just throw that stuff anywhere and come back in a season. Boreal forest with a 20 day growth cycle? you can either go with very pricey greenhouses and hydroponics, or just throw down a large gfy potato field or two literally wherever and call it a win.

Wait, what about the Solar/wind setup you got there with the hydroponics. How many sun lamps does that support and does it have a higher productivity overall ?

Thanks for your videos. Is this one from vanilla Rimworld ? Thx

There is another advantage using hydroponics : it take 2 time less space to produce the same amount of food and dont require much more power , you can power it with solar panel too. one sunlamp + hydroponics = two sunlamps without hydroponic ( if on rich soil). There is another downside with hydroponic i think it make the game harder because the difficulty is scaled with wealth

Next playthrough it would be awesome to tackle ice sheet map.

Been using a mod which provides tilable hydroponics, I was so confused why you left 4 gaps, then remembered it was a mod

mushroom is the bast food if u in cold area , u just need dark area and stabil temperaturel , and wala u make a many mushroom aesly

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Dupes? Wait, what? Your Rimworld save can feed your ONI colony?

"U just Irish" loooool

I just had a catastrophy... short on a battery exploded it - which set fire to my warehouse as I was trying to move the Chemfuel out of it... a pawn collapsed, as I tried to grab him and the Chemfuel - *BOOM* * BOOM* *BOOM* everyone burned and all my resources aflame. 10mins of fire fighting and first aiding.. my guys are struggling to live - we are out of first aid - we are just surviving - *Rage fuelled Boomaloope appears*... NOOOOOOOO! ... It gets to my hospital my guys are trying to shoot it - Hits *BOOM* all on fire again... and they all die. This game is savage.

Is it a violation of a law of physics that growing rice via a sun lamp is both food and power positive even if you fuel the sun lamp with the rice you're growing?

whatts the mod he uses at 1.47 ive seen it in his other videos. It basically simplifies the details menu.

So if you have a lot of normal soil and a average temperature you can use 4000 steel and 100 components to create a power brick (28 Solar generator +7 batteries) with average of 15 sun lamps in a area of around 2000 tiles without counting the walls to produce around 7500 rice every 6 days = 750 simple meal enough to keep 40 people easily feed. if you want to do or needs to use hydroponics you can produce rice 3 times as fast meaning only 5 sunlamps but 120 hydroponics been fueled by 23 chemfuel .meaning 17280 steel , 200 components but using a area only 600 tiles without counting walls. you would need to fuel the generator using 920 every 10 days or 1900 Rice, so your total rice output would be 5600 or 32 people . BUT if you multiply by the area to see what is the most effect way possible of producing food by Area you could triple that meaning 96 people using the same 2000 tiles. I really hope I help at least a little bit , i spend a good hour doing the math , I hope this can help you Francis ,and sorry if their is any English mistake , not my main language

How will this work with fiber corn now

What about using electric heaters instead of campfires to heat your greenhouses during cold snaps? They're automatic so they don't require pawn labor and don't consume a lot of power, I'm just not sure if they generate enough heat to make them viable. How many heaters would you need to equal the 3 campfires? Would it require you to turn off more sunlamps? What's the efficiency difference between using wood for campfires and chemfuel for heaters considering you can turn wood into chemfuel?

If you were to put all those chemfuel generators in the crop areas, could that sustain your crops during a cold snap rather than building a campfire?