UPDATE: Everything in this guide is true for 1.5 and beyond EXCEPT for one - Animals are NO LONGER pathing targets for raiders. Raiders will still path to colonists or 'junk' targets.

"Don't expect a 200 enemy tribal raid to go after a single chair as if it were a squirrel" 😂🤣😂🤣 words to live by

Joining in on the "too many hours, still learned something"-train. Great guide! Finally I know why my melee block setup usually explodes into a blob fight.

"Okay, men! We have our orders! We need to kill this colony's pet squirrel. It's behind that creepy maze-like compound, so we're gonna walk in there *one by one*, got it? Alright, now move it!"

I was building a giant tunnel of death to lead raiders straight to my stash, nice to know all of my precious belongings mean nothing to raiders, but a single squirrel lumped in with them would do the trick. I'll have to try and use that trick when I finally get everything built! Appreciate the guide

I like how neat and no nonsense your presentation is.

i always never understand why raid attack my wall first rather than going in the heat kill box, now i understand. Thanks for the video

Over 2000 hours, this is still a very useful guide. Thanks.

Watching this video taught me about the History > Messages tab. What a game changer! No more, "Wait, what just happened??" Thank you.. Also pathing.

I really love the detailed, technical explanation of exactly what is going on and why.

"Don't expect a 200-enemy tribal raid to go after a chair as if it were a squirrel" is such a great sentence :)

Biotech update: Light mechanoids make great bait! One time I used a cleansweeper to kite a megaspider around the traps in my base because I was ill-prepared to fight it. Worked a treat!

This answered a lot of questions I had about raid mechanics, much appreciated

Thanks for all the work you're putting into this channel!

AMAZING tutorial. I am always confused by the mechanics but now it's so clear. thanks!!

Thank you so much man! I was having pathing issues while following the Singularity Killbox tutorial and nearly left a comment asking why this is happening until I saw the pathing link, very useful man!

Thank you for this, I've only learned about you not to long ago but have been loving your videos

Good stuff man, glad to see more guides out there to help players. Even after almost I think 1,000 hours of this game and I'm always picking up little bits of new info. Very well done, I hope more viewers like it and share it around to grow your brand. Cheers!

Thanks for the guide. It was really concise and helpful!

This is possibly the best and most useful video I have ever seen for Rimworld.

been playing this game for 8 years now and i'm still learning new stuff thanks to you

Wow. So much about why my base defense sucks makes sense now. One of the most useful guides I've seen!

Just came back to play rimworld, and starting from almost rookie knowledge, ur videos are great, keep it up mate!!!

I subscribed once I heard who you were donating to. Awesome stuff!!

This is great, answered everything I wanted to know 👍 Wanted to make an underground vault setup and was really confused why raiders kept attacking a 3x3 wall instead of the main/only entrance, happened to be because I had it closed via door at the very top

Useful guide as always. And a reminder that clumping enemies on purpose can be useful too. Things like Berserk Pulse or IEDs work great on clumped enemies.

Thanks for the guide, helps me understand how to set up and prep for larger raids

omg, I didnt realize they never reset the target - I always thought it was enough to open the door *after* they started attacking. This changes everything! Damn, this is a great video.

A very well put together guide! Thanks for making it!

Great content like the in depth approach

absolutely amazing

Thanks Adam! Super clear and informative. 💯

This video alone just got you a sub. Golden info, cheers for sharing it. 👍

thank you so much! If you made a million little guides like this i'd watch every one.

i love your guides. it's straight to the point

Your specific, in-depth, technical knowledge is so helpful. There are so many details that can make a strategy succeed or fail, and you do a great job of organizing and sharing that info. Thank you!

Thank you so much! I just got into the game not long ago and really struggled with raids in particular as I didn't understand that "attacking immediately" meant I couldn't place bait at my killbox after the fact. Great guide :)

Thank this helped me a lot ill gladly sub for the knowledge 😂

Dang, super helpful guide! Didn't know about zone-able animals giving collision, but I will put this to good use.

Hiya Adam. Just found your channel and am loving your content. new rimworld player and your guides helped me out a lot. I've watched them all now! I'd love to see further tutorials about caravans and trading (especially managing food and moods on caravans!) and maybe a guide to food production and meals as well. I'm gonna go now and watch some of your other videos, but so far I just wanna say I'm a fan. Thanks for doing what you do!

Really helpful guide. Very simple and useful, thanks!

Great guide Adam, clear & concise

it helped me so much this is a great guide

The best guide I ever seen. Love it ❤️

After playing 100 Hrs and struggling with the freaking Killbox i finally know where the problem was, the god damn collision ! Thx Bro!

I came back to see this video is still being updated to the most recent versions, thank you so much for the quality information and dedication :)

Thank you Adam ... I have over 600 hours clocked in Rimworld, and yet, everytime I watch your videos, I learn something new =D

That's amazing! Thanks pal!!

Wow! Collision tech is what I needed!

Adam always providing on point deep knowledge

This explains a lot about why my defences aren't working as intended, thanks!

Awesome guide! Will definitely start taming small animals to use in a kill-box from now on.

1600+ hours and I still learned something :D Awesome video, thanks!

great guide, you explained stuff that i have never seen other youtuber talk about

Nice Adam, great info, good work!

Excellent guide. Detailed, short and to the point. Nice jab at the Smurph. Speaking of current run needs another punching bag yes? I’ve made a note to grab the next bad pawn that is a masochist for that particular reason 😆

Love that you're donating the funds from these to DWB! :D Keep up the good content (as long as you're enjoying it, anyway)!

thank you Adam!

Very helpful, thank you!

Thanks Adam! I just got this game and I'm addicted xD. I'm an old Star Craft 2 "pro" (Diamond, season 1, before masters was introduced.) I got this game thinking. "I'll crush it." Boy was I wrong 😅. It's actually one of the most difficult games I've played in a long time which makes me love it. I hated dying SO MUCH at the start but now, I enjoy the story as you get to "know" your pawns. (Skip this next part if you don't want to hear my Rimworld story that brought me here 🤣) - I stayed up all night the other day with a colony. We made it 1 year in but I was taking it at 1x speed & really micromanaging everything. We had geothermal on 3. A kill box. Survived the winter which dropped down past zero on the map I chose. (Ooops.) Survived it pretty easy I might add. It felt really good. It felt really good. I was even working on an indoor growing farm because of the winter & the base was carved into a mountain. I literally just got the last wall smoothed out which I was OCD about to be able to lay power cables. Aside from patting myself on the back for smoothing out the walls, my 2 starter pawns had just gotten married. Things seemed too good. Like I had learned a lot finally. Then, on their wedding night of all times, (I sweat the developer does this stuff on purpose 😂) the biggest raid I ever faced came in & my kill box which I thought was great, ended up being not so great 🤣. My colony of 9 with 2 newly weds didn't make it 😢. The wife was such a productive pawn but was incapable of violence. She was the only one left in the house. I didn't want to see the raiders had in store for her so in a great sigh, I had to end that colony🤧. - Frustrated, I started a new game and kept hitting the x3 because I lost my patience. Ended up running out of food which I can normally resolve expect.... I was on a desert map & didn't make a garden right away... so... ya... What happened next was tragic. I had a starving inmate pawn that was so close to joining us. However one of starving pawns went on a sadistic rage & he also happened to be the one I gave the starting knife too 😧. The first place he went was, you guessed it, the jail cell. One of my other 2 pawns was hurt & starving so I took my only "good pawn" whom was also red & starving to save the inmate. She ended up getting knocked out by the maniac along with the inmate. So there I was... an inmate & a starter pawn on the ground waiting to be rescued. Another starter pawn on a sadistic rage & my 3rd pawn starving in pain, in bed & with no medical experience. So, I did what any gamer who isn't a total masochist would do, I hit Alt F4 😆. That said, I thought to myself, "The story of Colony 10. They got stranded on a desert planet. They ran out of food. Then they ended up going on a sadistic rage because of hunger before killing each other."🥲. Sorry! I'm sure every Rimworld veteran has their story. I just had to get mine off my chest since it just happened last night 😂. I realize now each "playthrough" is a several day, if not weeks, long endeavor so I need to stop trying to play it like I beat it in one night. Also, watching my newly weds die after we finally finished smoothing out the walls of our mountain home is what brought me here 😅. So you can thank her for me subscribing🤓 Thanks btw! Great tutorial! If I had this information beforehand. Maybe they'd still all be alive 😥. I knew the pawns were attracted to characters. I also knew that protecting structures like AC units and geothermals with walls was the way to go. Started putting boxes around my AC exhaust with a remove roof command because of that. However, every once in a while they'd still go for the walls or somewhere else completely I couldn't quite put my finger on what the difference was in each playthrough. Now I know thanks to your video! Thank you so much! Sorry again for the long story! I just really wanted to get that off my chest 🤣. Keep it up Adam! You have great content & your channel will keep growing! Rimworld is getting more popular everyday.

Awesome, thank you!

Commenting for the alogorithm, nice guide!

thank you. this will help alot

Thank you very much. 🤗My English is not very good, but i was understanding everything. 👍

Great guide video. It's great to have info out there to send people to. :D

The last tip is truly golden. Just too many colonies losts due to stacked mechanoids.

This is the video I needed, Thank you ! I assume this still holds up 1 year later ? :D

Thanks for the video!

i prob have more than a thousand hours playtime and i learned something ! your turret thing for activating collision is really awesome :)

top tier content

Well explained on the zone of collision. Many videos skip that concept and only explain how to abuse “pass through only” buildings like sandbags. Video is Not too long, well paced IMO with your voice work to content, and has solid info. Actually grateful/happy that you don’t bloat the video with all the different killbox styles. I’m currently making a mega base with mods just for Kyla. The challenge is getting everything set up to be beneficial such that all raid types are covered. So far, I have: melee through wall diagonals, autobong/poison bong, animal trap(potential boom box), ceiling+ied+column trap, spike hallway, heatbox, cold box, bug box, burn zone, killer mood box(potential water hallway), psycast/superpower box, and semi circle killzone. In a 400x400 map that is in the late game, it is extremely challenging to get all the areas to synergies. I would love to hear about some of the more obscure and hilarious killboxes out there from an expert such as yourself.

Great guide. Thanks.

How does this video only have 38k views This guide is criminally undervalued by the youtube algorithm.

Fun fact: you can pull center drop raids out of your base by opening a path to a powered turret or animal

Super useful. Thanks!

increadbly usefull video thank you

Nice guide, didn't know about the zonable animals as target.

Nice tutorial, keep up the good work! :-)

favorite rimworld creator 👍

Great video. I'm above 1k hours of playtime and I knew that raids like to target colonists, so I always kept a door open. But the information about collision was new for me and I have to say, it's extremely useful.

Great video and a real touch of class donating to Doctors Without Borders, especially given everything going on in the world right now.

So many hours into the game and still learning stuff. Can't wait for you to pick up Dwarf Fortress!

I NEVER KNEW YOU COULD HAVE SO MANY RAIDERS

Awesome thank you!

Damn that shit's helpful

1945 hours and I've learned something new about raid collision

Thank you, Adam (not Adam). Good info.

Another great video!

Gonna try this out, thx! I'm on my first playthrough on hard difficulty, tough for noob. Were it not for my 2 guard bears, my colony would have been wiped out already.

A great guide thanks. I think traps enable collision as well as preventing random predators eating your squirrel. I’d love to see a video on how to cope with breachers.

neat. subbed

Great Video

Thanks!

Very helpful

Very cool!

Great video and thanks for the info! But question, I have a fully double walled base all the way to the deep water ocean, I have side doors that are a wooden door facing the interior(closed) with granite doors 4 tiles away from the wooden doors(straight line) facing outwards(held open) for my colonist easy access to whatever. Then I have a killbox, no maze just a choke point and about 25 tile length by 15 tile wide battle area, behind this area is a single door always held open, my melee people line up in front the door for blocking, then right behind them I have embrasures for my shooters to shoot in a two tile wide area. My shooters area has a door behind them held open as well but they still attack walls. I think I know what I am not doing right as I write this but I wrote so much so gonna send this anyways lol. Also medieval play through so smaller killbox.

I'm leaving a comment because I really love that you are donating to doctors without borders. Keep up the good work man

As a new console player, this pleases me! I am about ready to leave my starting tile and want to build a nice base.

I noticed when my base gets attacked the raiders would, without fail, attempt to breach the vents and external coolers first. My freezer room's coolers became such good bait that I simply made a corridor filled with traps leading right up to them xD

Thnx a lot never knew about collision maybe I’ll stop dying