Because this video is super long, here are some quick links to view the parts you are interested in! Step 1: Defenses 3:58 Step 1b: Geothermal Vents 8:45 Step 2: Farm 10:00 Steps 3 and 4: Kitchen and Freezer 13:00 Step 5: Dining room 15:30 Step 5b: Hallways 15:51 Step 6: Bedrooms 18:36 Final Steps: Rec Room 21:44 Hospital 23:29 Stockpile 25:03 Crafting room 26:06 Research room 28:45 Prison 30:17 Power 33:18 Battery room 34:31 Extra 35:45 Hope this helps!

For my designs, I generally look for the nearest mountain, black out for an hour, and then wonder why I'm suddenly playing dwarf fortress.

31:43 "It's a good idea to put jail next to fridge... " Me: Yes, got to keep those organs and corpses fresh and minimize hauling distance. "... because of nutrient paste dispensers." Me: Oh...

Let it be known that on this day, the KZfaq algorithm was generous.

this is like Bob Ross of making base for your future war crimes

KZfaq recommended me something useful for once

19:53 When settling in biomes with temperature extremes, sharing heat between multiple vents doesn't work so well since each vent reduces heat transfer. What I do is create a one-tile-wide hallway that connects to all the room (could even be a service-hallway behind the bedrooms in this case) where you place all your heaters / coolers, and finally a vent between that hallway and each room. That way, the heat / cold only has to travel between one vent from the hallway -> each bedroom, maximizing temperature dispersion.

One of my favorite Game-Overs was when my colony got wiped out by a pack of man hunting turkeys. I was very new at the game and I didn't know entire packs of animals could become hostile. I just finished my first in-game year and had about 8 colonist, which was a big achieve for me back then lol. We were low on food leaving the winter so I had my best marksmen go out for a hunt. They had a few good kills, a turtle here, a rat there, bit nothing good enough to feed 8. I saw a lone mufflio all on its lonesome. I tasked them to attack simultaneously. However, as soon as my boys got to the muff a pack of man hunting turkeys wanted the map on the same side my guys were located. I remember there being at least 10. It caught me off guard and before I knew it: my hunters were slaughtered, my base entrance broken into, and the rest of my colonist quickly overpowered...there, the kingdom of zula fell.😟 Thanks for reading, and awesome video, just wanted to share my memories.

Ultra-pro tip: Wind turbines are like impassable walls you can shoot through ! They are a huge exploit against manhunting events because animals (not insects) will never target them. They are also a good way to ambush snipers at the back of the raid with fast firing weapons once while the front line of the attack is distracted by your turrets.

I always start by making 1 to 3 small rooms and then imediately regret it and exit the game. Thats why im here

pro tips: combine your rec room and dining room. You're already putting them next to each other for good reasons, and combining them lets them share size and beauty, making both more impressive. Combine your lab with a bedroom, it will usually be a very impressive bedroom, and the central location keeps your science guy working longer hours

You have a way too bubbly voice to be talking so casually about forced prison labour :D Thank you for a good instructional vid! :)

Planning my base? You know what they say: man plans, Randy laughs... Seriously though, thanks for this guide! Just started watching but I am already looking forward to the point of view within!

The KZfaq algorithim has never helped me as much as it has now. In over 1500 hours of game play i still have badly designed bases. Thank you Loreplays

I always get way too stressed when looking at high-end bases/perfect optimization base-tutorials so this video is a godsend. No longer shall my colonies look like kwloon walled city 2.0

This is literally the most helpful Rimworld video I've seen, I constantly get to a point when I just abandon my game and start again because I don't want to deal with rebuilding and planning the mess that is my base 😄

No no no where is the rat-room ?!

As a newcomer to the game, I have to say this was a "must see" vid for me. Well explained planning "reasons", and top-shelf delivery. Thank you Loreplays!

I've never heard someone so enthusiastic about Rimworld even if it is a guide. Every time I load in I instantly think in my head "ahhh shit here we go again."

Pro tip: put your prison next to your kill box so you can drag the corpses of their family in and have them make human leather for you :)

"Are you tired of having your bases look like crap"? Were you speaking to me directly because that hit home. 😟

I love this! For some reason I'd never considered having outdoor hallways between buildings, but thinking about it that would make it so much easier to make the base look pretty. I have a list of things to consider when making my bases but the order you've done it in here makes so much more sense than how I normally do it. Learning about that trick with the medical beds is really cool too, and also putting small rooms for guests off of the rec room is something I will definitely be doing in the future. I don't know if you've ever considered this, but I normally put my research benches in the medical room. That way colonists who are stuck in the medical beds can get their rec need up by talking to the researcher. I then only need to put sterile tiles in one room. In addition to this, I like having my researcher be my doctor so that when a raid occurs, if I don't draft them, they'll stay at the research bench and avoid getting injured and will also be immediately available if I get an injured colonist. Thank you for sharing this video with us :) p.s. your voice is very soothing

I've never heard the phrase "kill box" spoken so happily before. It made my day. :)

Never forget an animal and kibble room, along with a grazing field, those can be very helpful for people who use animals to help with melee defense on raids (Like me). Even a single wolf or dog or big cat or something following each colonist can save them from manhunting squirrels. Use the grazing fields for farm animals like muffalo and chickens, which can help with getting meat (animal products) without hunting for meals. Although in my case, I end up having almost all my animals trained for battle, and just melee the raiders down with my hordes of 20+ animals.

Been playing for 3 months, I've watched hours of tip vids and this is my favorite tutorial by far. Thank you.

An inspiring guide for those of us meaning to get back into Rimworld. Really appreciated your attention to detail and aesthetics - too often ignored by the RimWorld mathletes!

4 years later and your video is still so helpful! i just started playing a few days ago and this video was very informative, so thank you! 🙏

The best part of this guide is all the mod recommendations! It really shows how you can mould the game to your play style

My bases are usually hybrid. I'll always have my first few rooms outside, and the rest will be mined out later in the year. And then I'll have literally just one room to fit everything in. The workshop is also always the dining room, the laboratory, and the kitchen, with one separate rec room. And that's exactly why I'm here.

I'm...I am very glad youtube gave me this gem, you've really outdone yourself!

Loving this style! I always play in mountains with doors 'held open' every two tiles so I can close them in an infestation and create modular isolated segments to clear out. I've been struggling to figure out how to make an 'open air' base that isn't a huge mess, thanks for this guide!

amazingly helpful guide! i usually plan a little in the beginning but then start winging it and end up hating my base or having no room to grow. watching this makes me want to play rimworld again and see how much better i can do with your tips!

Bought Rimworld years ago and hadn’t played it in 3 years until last night! Just come across your videos and they’re so good, definitely gained a SUB 😌❤️

I loooove this! KZfaq, good job on actually recommending something good for once! I actually planned my next base completely with your advice.

As someone just getting back into Rimworld, this video was super helpful! Really detailed and well edited, made things much easier to follow.

I always put my doors to rooms on the side, but now that I see you put them in the middle I won't be able to do anything else! I love it.

I have ~ 200 hours into rimworld, never even looked at the overlays for ceilings/soil fertility/terrain Thank you for the tutorial, this has changed everything about my playthroughs

I just started playing rimworld after having it on my wishlist for EVER. I’m excited about DF getting a similar treatment, and your thorough more “casual” approach to the game is nice. I have never worried about truly being the most efficient as I think the game just becomes work which is not the reason I play for sure.

Been playing Rimworld for years and you taught me i can still learn more! Thanks for the tips ^_^

This is so optimized it makes me feel like a complete buffoon and I love it!

I've just started playing Rimworld recently. I have my colony sort of getting into midgame I guess and realizing that I need to redo a huge amount of my base (due to bad defenses) and it's kind of disheartening, lol. This video is super helpful. Next colony I'm gonna try planning more thoroughly right from the start.

Second round of KZfaq recommendations coming your way, also this is an amazing video; now I hopefully won't feel so lost trying to design my base.

I don't comment ever, nor do I normally like videos. This one is getting both and if I was in a Rimworld community in any social media I would gladly share this. You can really tell how much work you put into this and it's very appreciated. Great job! I appreciate the clarity and speed in speech, the graphic overlays like the sun lamp one for example were used well too.

This video went way further towards getting me into the game than the min/max approach most Rimworld videos I've seen have taken. I really enjoyed it.

I just recently started playing, and the first thing I started doing with my base planning was planning my initial grow areas around the sunlamp radius, and organizing my pawns' bedrooms, including the prison and hospital rooms. So, my early bases always start out with 2-4 circular farm buildings, unroofed until I can afford sunlamps, and some arrangement of 7x7 bedroom units - enough for my pawns, and one for prisoners and one for medical. I'm still really bad at planning my storage zones and kill areas, though.

This was all great and I'm going to download the planning mod. One minor detail you missed is the need to have the battery room between your power and the rest of the colony as it minimizes the zztt event

Whenever I start a new game, such as right now, I always go back to this video to help me plan it out, super helpful!

Thanks for making this video. Ive been playing Rimworld casually (on/off) for a few years, but I still learnt a lot of things I never knew about from watching this.

Following your guide really makes me feel motivated to build a new and awesome base Thank you 😁

I just started playing Rimworld console edition and watching this helped me tons😭 I knew I had it wrong when I seen you clump your pawns rooms to minimize electrical use. So helpful !

Nicely explained. Some things I'll take on, some I won't. You treat your colonists waaay more nicely than I do. especially bedrooms I plan way smaller. Interesting take on the hospital!

Good tips ✅ Good editing ✅ Good narration ✅ Thanks for the video!!

Hell yeah KZfaq recs. Thanks Lore Plays, good luck in the future. Oh and I plan my bases poorly, to answer your question.

been playing for some months and learned a lot here... this tutorial was the most useful so far

JUST started playing RimWorld and this was exactly the video I was looking for! Solid info, excellent design, and even some mod suggestions. Much appreciated! 😁

I love on how youtube suggested me this video, then the next suggestion is a video about Auschwitz. Btw I would suggest having your farm closer to the prison, or even inside, so they can work on them it's more efficient.

I find it interesting how my freezer differs from yours. Normally mine are one thick with double cooler if I'm anywhere temperate or warmer (temperate only needs it for heat waves) and a small one block floor corner airlock that usually connects 3 ways between kitchen, dining area and freezer. I also usually have dining room and rec/relax room as one, so people can eat, watch TV and play poker all while talking with each other

Just bought this and got overwhelmed in my first couple of hours, so this guide has been incredibly helpful, thanks.

Very nice. I like to roll the dining room and rec room into one. It creates a nice sort of tavern atmosphere where some people are enjoying their meals at the table while others are playing pool or chess in the corner.

That was great! Nicely done, subbed.

Amazing video, glad to see the algorithm got this one right :)

Loved all the tips, many players should learn about this stuff first so they can actually progress through late game with satisfaction without restarting over again.

Great video I enjoyed the pattern of the way you put the base together. I am just getting back into rimworld after setting it down for a couple years and was trying to remind myself how to play and what's important. This video was a perfect quick reminder of every room I will need. In addition it was a great order to do your layout in because you can always see what you have left and certain things have to go in certain places

Great guide! One of the biggest problems with any design problem is decision paralysis - too many choices! This method of identifying the fixed components and working from there really helps overcome that. It's like filling in the first few entries on a sudoku puzzle.

Such a nice guide! And you have a really nice voice to listen to! Thanks for making this

Honestly Your video in one simple thing saved me a lot of effort. Your list as to how you prioritize building your base is pretty much the exact opposite of how I'd build mine, but my pawns would just keep dying, I imagine doing it your way will save a ton of hassle

This is exactly the kind of channel I needed for this game! The first guide I saw was like “Yeah so what I like to do is butcher the pet right off the bat, that way we get some extra food starting out and the owner of the pet will get a catharsis mood buff once it stops mourning.” I was not built for this game 😭

Thank you youtube for recommending this video to me. My bases aren't exactly a mess, the kitchen and dining room are next to the fridge, the bedrooms are located centrally so they can get to their important rooms faster and the hospital is close to the killbox However, I usually don't have a vision on how to organise my base and always end up with some inconvenient room placements

This guide was cool, thanks. I enjoyed the editing too lol

i must say, as a player who just started playing Rim World for the first time 2 days ago, This is probably the Single Most Important video ive watched on gameplay thus far. Thank you very much.

I barely ever comment, but have to say this was a wonderful guide to find. Thank you for this. It's very helpful to give a basic template of things to think about whilst also putting your own unique twist on things and not feeling like you have to mix-max everything hardcore. Really great video! Liked.

Liking this video wasn't enough for me. I have to compliment and thank you for such a well organized and edited guide. I've played quite a lot of Rimworld but am not good at it at all. This guide was super interesting. I can't wait to try out your ideas for my next colony. Also, looking forward to seeing more from you.

(warning: long post about my own base design) As for how I design my bases, I start in Mountainous locations as they are very easily defensible and have tons of resources from the start. Generally I start off with making a house, dining room, recreational room, power generation (wood burning generators are great for reliable power starting off, as long as you're somewhere with lotsa trees) and laboratory. I get some crops going and start trying to tame animals when I have food to spare, and have people start digging out into a mountain for a highly defensible, drop-proof base. I vastly prefer dealing with infestations than having raiders drop in and kill multiple colonists by landing directly on them. Usually once I've dug into my mountain, I'll begin setting it up with a main hub towards the front of the base, that leads off into three main areas. The first main area is Housing, which includes bedrooms, recreation, and the research lab(s). Second is the Industry area, which includes Storage, Manufacturing, and a Rimatomics reactor room and reactor control room. Finally is the Growing area, which includes Hydroponics, a Brewery, Drug Production, Kitchen/Freezer (the kitchen is usually in an airlock) and Dining Room. The Freezer vents into the main hallway of the Growing area or outside if it's close to an outside wall of the mountain. Once the basics have been setup inside the mountain, I demolish the exterior structures and expand my walls to take around half of the map. I leave half of the map not walled in to allow a bit of a buffer zone between my walls and the enemies, so mortars maintain effectiveness (I have a mod that makes mortars not total crap) while not shredding my killhalls to bits. About the killhalls, I usually fill them with sandbags and steel spike traps. which are usually enough to take out most of the enemies leaving heavier enemies like centipedes or power armor pirates without the necessary damage they need to take out my colonists effectively. Add art and other decoration and generally it's finished, until I add an extra colonist. Then the Housing area gets dug out further. Because Rimatomics reactors generate so much energy, I can put turrets inside my base to help out with infestations, and oh my, are some of the rimatomics turrets overpowered against bugs (at least IIRC you can put some of them indoors. I remember shooting bugs with them but that could be from an infestation from a quarry across the map) Really they're OP against everything, but ESPECIALLY bugs.

Wow thank you for such a helpful guide! As a new player I keep restarting my games because I've just been winging it as I go. This will help a lot

This is gonna help so much. Just got Rimworld and kept restarting cuz I didn’t like how the colony looked and cuz I didn’t know how to make it better haha. Ty

You know KZfaq recommendations are weird when it goes RimWorld on Phoebe Chillax’s style and a soothing female commentator.

omg been playing rim world for a couple months now, completed naked brutality and i have never thought of putting a steam power generator in an enclosed room for a greenhouse haha ty i learnt a lot

At first, I was like meh what else is there to learn? I scrolled down and saw the overwhelmingly positive comments and decided to sit through the whole video and I'm so glad I did, even the small things of having your farms super close to your fridge for efficiency, it shocked me that I didn't already do this. So, thank you! Thumbs up from me :)

The prisoners don't have a rec need so they don't actually use the poker table or any other rec item.

Who watches this every game on there phone and play on the computer now?

I never realized how inefficient my colonies were in til I watched this. Great video, subscribed!

The toggle to see swamps was amazing. I've played closing on 1000 hours and have never used that. Thank you!

Great guide! Even you added an interesting plan for hospitality, or emergency rooms. A question and suggestion: You know the dubs bad hygiene mod? If the case, how you could put bathrooms? And, I use to merge the throne room and rec room on royalty for a nice bonus on impressiveness for both and have my noble on a spot for easy trading with visitors.

I have watched this, IDK how many times and I always feel like I'm missing something massive.

just created my first category of saved videos on youtube, calling this one rimworld base building god tier, because this is way to good to forget!

This was really, REALLY helpful. It didn't just help me with what I should build, but also why I should layout my bases certain ways. Thanks!

I usually have a "mega base" so I can carry on with ash and poison clouds and stuff. I work around steam geysers and potent planting zones. I have extra bedrooms and extra rooms just so I have space to expand if I need. It starts small and I expand out when I grow. Below is a little mock up on Excel of what it looks like in the end. imgur.com/Me7H8Ji

'I treat my prisoners well!' Uhm... Minutes before that sentance you said you like to make them mine xD

20:20 thank you for mentioning popular mods and how they would affect your base. Hospitality happens to be one of the few mods I use, so having that little hint is very helpful

I think the planning tool mod is the best tip. I have restarted so many games because I forgot a space for something... Thanks for showing how you plan.

For the battery room: fuses and circuit breakers. The lack of this easy safety device is most definitely the reason why all those starships fall onto planets all the time. Not to mention all of those pesky mechanoids...

Damn, I could really have used a guide like this for factorio.

I have played about 3 hours of Rimworld thus far, safe to say this helped out a lot

2 years later and this is still helping people. Thank you.

What I like to do is to have a separate fridge solely for meals connected to the dining room so when you get larger amounts of colonists the main fridge stays cold.

Had this pop up in my recommended and loving it so far. However, a nitpick I had would be: for outer walls, 2 tiles thick is the optimal depth. This is because when calculating temperature transfer, the game considers the middle wall(s) in a 3+ thickness wall to be interior space. Essentially you're only getting the insulation of a two individual single-thick walls.

Been putting off watching this, I normally just make it up as I go, im definitely gonna step my game up and plan it all out like this.

Thank you so much for pointing me towards the map reroll mod, that will save me a lot of time when planning out a base

You have some very good points and no really bad ones, I'd like to add my own (and maybe you have counter-points): - you should consider merging the dining room with the recreation room. This way you get the "impressive" mood buff for both and only have to make one room impressive. - the hospital is the most likely room to get sterile tiles (in my games at least), so I try to put my research benches into the hosptial. Makes the room bigger as well (thus more impressive, a nice mood-buff for patients that are in pain), and both patients and researchers benefit from some statues in there to raise the beauty during their long stays. Also you have the researches at the front line during incoming attacks, and with the mod that makes them clean a room before starting work in it, they'll keep the hospital clean. I'd probably make it smaller than yours, maybe just one of the hospital pods (can they all view the TV even if they're not facing the right direction?), one high-tech bench and a normal one (so two can research when the topic doesn't require an advanced bench). If you plan for more casualties, add an overflow hospital next doors that you don't have to tile with sterile tiles, at least not right away. You can still tear down the wall once you do have the money to merge the hospitals. - I had very good results with giving my guests one big, extermely impressive guest room. The negativ mood due to being barracks is easily countered by being so impressive, and it doesn't cost as much as trying to make every guest room impressive. (colonists get seperate rooms just because I generally don't have many of them, but you can get up to 16 guests in a group and can potentially have multiple groups visiting; and they get a positive mood if you have more beds than guest, so I just fill the room stock full of beds and statues) - prison: I like to have at least one big, impressive prison cell for pawns I'm trying to recruit because it makes the process faster. - be careful with those wind turbines, pawns can't go around them the way you placed them. Because you have two doors to your garden, pawns can still reach both parts of it, but they need to go through the airlock. Better to make the garden 3 spaces wider so the turbines aren't adjacent to each other or any walls. - I also try to keep anything that can break down (or needs maintenance with the soft breakdowns mod) close to the base so pawns don't have to walk so far, especially if you don't have the mod and need to repair them quickly (keep a pile of components nearby). This also goes for batteries. - speaking of which: it might be a good idea to keep batteries close to the center of your base, especially if your power generation is clustered to one side. I've never had a battery explode on me, unless I left it unroofed by mistake... If something destroys the power conduits between your power generation and the part of your base with freezer/hydroponics, you'll want your power storage to be able to keep those going while you repair the damage. I also build multiple conduit paths throughout the base so even if one gets destroyed there are still two left, but still, the maintenance alone on those batteries is reason enough to put then close to the center of your base. Also increases the chances that you see if the storage gets low ;)