Hour glass design worked surprisingly well, under a mountain with a single pillar holding the roof up with IEDs around the pillar would make it hit even harder still

Who would win Squad of 30 heavily padded trained men with military grade weapons, shields, smokepops, combat "medicine" and with reinforcements on the way OR 10 meters long halway filled with wooden spring traps, sand bags and few dry wood

Don't floor your killbox. Don't build on stone terrain. Do build a roof over your killbox. The name of the game is to slow the swarms when they get inside your killbox so the turrets and the pawns get more time to shoot at them. You want to affect walk speed by way of terrain choice (ice, water, mud etc) and using lack of light to further slow them. Keep in mind, animals don't care about lack of light. They move at full speed regardless of light

one time i had sappers ignore my 3-4 block walls i can't remember and instead dig straight through a mountain, they actually uncovered an iron vein while they were at it

Killboxes are historically based, like a gatehouse

tip for mountain bases: Parkas and cooling the base to a minimum of -17c (-20c if heat waves are an issue) because infestation chance go down to 0% at -17c. Can also have condos outside. Another strategy I use (stolen from minecraft) is to light up every cave except one which is intentionally left dark giving it the highest chance of infestation then setting up a killbox for whenever randy decides to bless us with bugs. Then just live off insect meat and jelly for the rest of the game, they'll get over it. Also bugs can and should be weaponized.

I never liked to use killboxes because setting up defense of lines felt so much more cinematic to me

I like to keep a wooden door at the end of my killbox and have the rest of my base be walled off with stronger stuff. If Raiders can't path directly into your base they seem to like to go for the weakest point in the walls so it still draws them in. Not only do they still walk through the killbox but animals don't wander into my fields and manhunter packs are no problem at all. I also like to keep an armory and field hospital near my killbox. Armory so I can armor up my pawns without movespeed penalty making them slow to get to the action. Field hospital (aka a few nearby beds or sleeping spots in a pinch) because when stopping bleedout every second counts, and it's easy enough to un-designate medical beds to force a transfer to my main hospital. Also as someone who builds like a dwarf, I've never found infestations to be as threatening as they're hyped up to be.

Francis John has some very interesting designs, including a oven hallway to knock out invaders through heatstroke.

Chinchillas are cute, but I have another nasty surprise for raiders that get through the killbox, one that restocks my freezer and corpse freezer. 2 dozen angry boars in close quarters combat. The surviving piggies eat well after that.

Using the mod More Vanilla Turrets has really changed how I make 'killboxes' not because of any of the turrets it supplies but because of the mud moat flooring, a flooring that cut's movement speed to 25% so raiders take more time under fire while trying to advance. I also lace the box with spike traps, not so much to trap them but by forcing raiders to manoeuvre round them means they take longer to advance. I put a grow zone in growing grass so no trees will grow.

Breaching raid: "And I took that personally."

I got to admit, i have like 680 hours in rimworld and I barely get by when it comes fights..until i started watching your videos.. it has been enlightening for me, like creating killboxs and other things for pawns, and I have notice a increase rate of winning the fights with minimal losses of pawns and I'm enjoying the game more

This KZfaq channel is very underrated in terms of “viewers+subs/quality of videos”

For manhunter packs and scyther rushes, DO NOT use your main killbox. Instead, have a side-box where you have melee or animal blockers guarding the door, some shooters, and some grenadiers behind them, make sure to stagger their throws. Francis John technique.

I have the anesthetic turret mod. It lets me make standard mini turrets that fire tranquilizer darts instead of the standard bullets. I then can get loads of silver for the survivors at my comms console with a ransom mod.

For mountain bases I find that mining out a long shaft that has no light in it and filling it with traps and having turrets at the entrance works best for insects because they're most likely going to dig there than in the middle of the brightly lit dining room and as for defense against raiders I use a ventilation shaft for my massive underground freezer and line it with barbed wire, spike traps and have a few military turrets and flame turrets at the end I survived a 50 pawn raid and most of them died from the traps or heatstroke before making it to the turrets.

Put one firefoam where ur colonists are so if a molotov/inferno cannon hits, all the foam will prevent further fire dmg to the building (lots of cleaning however)

Another useful tip for those who do live under mountains is that insects prefer to infest rooms of average temperature, large size, and darkness before all others. Because of this it is possible to make a room that is much more likely to be infested and either burn everything in the trap room or collapse the ceiling whenever it becomes infested

Make a different killbox for the sappers without turrets. Do not leave the wall open or make door for that but keep it thin as much as you can. Sappers do not care about traps but they avoid turrets so they will attack where turrets wont see them. For the normal killbox make sure your turrets' reach are a bit far away from the entrance since they tend to meander around and avoid the turrets instead of going into the killbox.

i made a simple 1 block hallway. then i place a turret in a narrow hole. This bunches them up and allows the slow ones to catch up while the others are still fighting the turret. once htey destroy that turret, they continue along the narrow hallway. then riiiiiight at the end of the hallway, an explosive and incendiary landmine is laying in wait. if you rinse and repeat this, the raiders either all die/get downed by the second batch or the remainders flee. If you hide the turrets behind doors that you open once the raid gets going, even sappers tend to fall for this trick

This guide is better than those long explanations by other bigger youtubers. Great Job! and thanks

If pawns take damage, you are still beholden to rng. Even low damage can kill or cripple when unlucky. The best designs take out raiders without that, though it's more challenging with drop raids and sappers.

I'm a newbie and was just looking up this exact topic last night! Thank you so much for breaking this down

the quality of these videos is insane! love this channel!

the killbox ive found most effective is a zigzag with turrets behind a embrasure at the end, plus you can chuck colonists with smgs and other things behind the turrets or behind the walls separating the turrets, this singles them out and sure, only 4 max things are able to enter at a time, that's why you have a funneled big open area in which there are at least 3 turrets so you can hopefully kill all the raiders before it becomes more dragged out. my best way to describe it is the opposite of a conventional killbox of course, if sappers come you are basically dead so best bet with them is probably use run and gun and strafe the enemy

The intro was my first experience with a kill box, as in i started construction, and THEN i got raided! Lucky me, im new and slow, so it wasn't a problem.

I really learned a lot thanks to your video! Mostly about really strange Australian historical information.

11:13 only rimworld fans would understand this joke This was really funny to watch actually, the way you describe things good or bad was hilarious, and you allowed both vanilla and modded examples of how to handle it. It's good to see someone cover all bases.

Roofs are surprisingly effective against snappers and manhunters too. Build a single wooden wall 5 tiles outside of your outer wall and build a roof 4 tiles around it (do not let it touch any other roof or wall). Then you place a he trap on the outside and repeat this 9 tiles further down. This is cheap, effective and works against big groups of enemies at once.

I appreciate the discussion of burritos from this channel

Man I'm glad i downloaded those turret mods

Turrets get priority targeting as if they are pawns, even if un powered. You can have a bunch of turrets act as dummies for radiers to hit while you shoot at them

Stone chunks can be pushed aside by corpses or dropped weapons. If the rocks have nowhere to go they will be pushed into free space as soon as the game gets a chance for it. In other words the door in the corridor will be filled (held open) by chunks pushing into them the next time a pawn opens it. You don't want to drop of rocks in a kill corridor - ever - unless you have no other option and you are desperate for that little bit of extra slow to spread enemies out In addition for the melee killbox. The base game has weapon balancing done in a fairly 'realistic' way. Sharp weapons have more armor penetration than blunt weapons. However armor does a very good job at protecting you against sharp and is usually relatively bad at protecting you from blunt dmg. This means a melee kill box should always be equipped with the right weapons for the job. Flashy swords work well vs meat bags. For armored targets (aka non animals non tribals) blunt weapons are king. To provide you with an example A normal quality Cataphract armor has 120% sharp and 50% blunt protection. A normal quality Monosword has 83 % AP and a normal quality Zeushammer has 42% AP In other Words there is a 37% chance for a Monosword to deal 50% damage vs the Zeushammers' 8 % chance Or to use simpler word. On normal quality a Monosword will deal reduced damage in 4 out of 10 hits. The Zeushammer only for 1 out of 10 hits. On legendary quality its even worse whereby the Monosword loses out on 6 out of 10 hits vs the zeushammers 2 out of 10

i recommend making wood walls near the opening so that when they take cover and fire towards your colonist the wall is gonna break and they are exposed

I use the Moat mod, makes a muddy patch that really slows them down. Like a rock chunk, if you have them in a row, it only seems to slow down when they enter so alternate instead.. So I put them in a wall tube: soil.mud.soil.mud.soil... make the tube about 30-40 walls long and now you have invaders lined up and slow like sitting ducks. Place turrets in strategic locations to prevent sappers, and leave the tube open. Now they always come that way, the biggest thing to deal with now are mortar raids. No need for a 'kill box'

If you intend the sandbags to slow people down you can’t have a continuous line of them anymore the pawns keep their movement speed once they “mount” the sandbags, there needs to be breaks to reset the action.

Also as Roll1D2 explained, it's better to keep your colonists in dark place during fight so enemies get less chance to hit

Wonderful video quality... I am a video editor myself so can understand those layers of media you'd have put while editing this video...

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I have had vanilla security since it released and I did not know the rocket turret could shoot over walls I am so happy I watched this!

L O V E the JJBA references in the videos.

I like to make the last few traps closes to the exit of the trap maze out of something higher DPS like steel and the rest wood. I feel like it gives me that last little punch in the face before the enemy can actually engage my colonists. I arrange my ranged colonists in my killbox behind embrasures shaped like a T. I put them on either side of the T with the flat cross part towards the enemy so there is a one block between them. Then, hopefully, any explosions will be blocked. Unless of course they go long... I also like to plant fields of stuff in the killbox with a path or paths to the open door in my killbox. The AI pathing will try to walk the raiders across the path in the fields hopefully making them stand in front of my turrets longer. And bonus, if you do something like Haygrass you might get an extra harvest sometimes. A good mod for that one is the one that adds Chokeme, which really slows the enemy down and can be grown in a zone.

Melee blockers with a grenadier behind are really great at dealing with infestations. Toss in a psycaster with berserk pulse and you are golden. Have choke points throughout the base. This makes infestations really easy to deal with. Drawback is losing the rooms furniture. Like losing the whole hospital and cloning vats with 95% grown clone :(

honestly, insects usually arent an issue i=so long as you have better areas for them to infest, a few melee fighters to block them off, and a decently strong colony. i usually make long tunnels to dig for ores and insects like infesting those, so i just position a melee fighter in front and have the rest of my guys with miniguns do the rest

Insect swarm tutorial? Incredible intro man

I love your rimworld guides

Your vids are just too good nd useful nd also your voice makes it more fun to watch. Keep up the bootiful content

I play primarily nomadic, so I'll run away if facing an impossible situation, but your videos are hilarious. I may just play a giant base playthrogh next.

Id always have a panic room usually carved deep into the mountains with alot of walls and doors so when a big raid happens I can put a few pawns in there for when the colony is overran so the run isn't over

I use steel spiked traps as it has the strongest damage and in mid on building time to wood and stone.

Just 1 suggestion... don't use plasmaswords when using the 3man tank squad... setting enemies on fire causes them to enter panic and run through your front line, allowing the fights to get messy. Monosword much better for this.

The main time I have ever stone trapped was on arid shrubland where my tree farm was for other stuff and deep drilling kept me swimming in stone. IEDs or ok outside the deaht hallways. Just a little minefield action before they get in line :O

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I like how it’s 3k years in the future, laser weapons are a thing… but they can’t make windows in walls

Insect swarms are easy though... just need 3 Melee blocking pawns and 6-9 shotgun pawns... then you stand them at a doorway and shred the insects in a way that gives you huge volumes of Chemfuel to play with.

I like putting wood floors into the killbox and sneaking a pawn round the back when they get to one end then staring a fire and shutting the door...

Good reference 👏

Me: I'm a new Rimsworld player and this is very useful information! Also Me: I'm even more confused then I was before I watched this video. 😣

You said quarry right. Good job.

I prefer a large open map, and an artillery battery. Enemies don't like a hail of explosions tearing them to bits as they cross the map. (I have a 900x900 specially modified map. It took 15 minutes just to First-Time-Generate. But is it fun to turn into the moon every few seasons when a raid comes in on the far side with the 'they will prepare for a while' modifier.)

Cool vid. Great.

Killboxes are fine I guess. Personally, I never use them cause I feel like it's cheesing the game a little too much. I also understand how frustrating the game is that these raider factions somehow have enough population to launch 40 Raiders at a time at you every couple of days while your colony struggles to even find one more person (buying slaves or captured). Oh well

love the TTS reference.

I already know how to make killboxs but I just like watching your videos

I put out turrets out side the base but back from the entry point so when they bunch up on the entry to the maze they get shot in the back. Getting the range right is the trick so they focus on the entry not the gun.

Love the Gta: SA ammo health cheat reference.

maybe the first time im first! nice content noobert!

Only attack Thrumbo's if you got traders visiting. You get Two dead thrumbos and maybe a couple of dead trader escorts which will make your cannibals happy :)

As much as I dislike killboxes, I understand the people who use them especially when it comes to harder difficulties/storyteller (like void). This is a great guide! And your narration was very pleasing to listen to. Good video all around. Although chads will never use killboxes let alone traps to begin with :)

Thirty seconds in and I know this is going to be a good one

For mountain bases, I just lower the temperature below the point that infestations can spawn, and have everyone use winter clothing…

another good video

good one

If you get the remote door mods you can always make the kill box a freezer with ease. You can always back door it by opening your main door so they default run to it then open the back door to close the freezer. If you have a mountain base you treat it like a far north base with apparel and ideas. You keep your base freezing AF and things sealed besides your kill box. Bugs also despise the cold which makes the base easy to deal with there.

I don't know the game much, only base mechanics and decided to play at Tundra because why not. Would a place that is designated to make them soak wet and get hypothermia so they get debuff + chance to get frostbite if long enough, would it be better than a killbox?

Explosive IED's are good if you want to kill your enemies using roof by placing roof around one block of wall and with ieds around. If enemy dont want to walk on ied use one of your colonists gun. Some attackers will be harmed and there might be even some dead ones

i use heat based killboxs it perfect for insectoid and raiders but not very effective against mechanoids

Question, does this need the Locks Mod? Because it conflicts with the animal pens mod. So my handler pawns will constantly be leading animals back to the pens because fences can't be closed to the animals.

I always build my prisons in the mountains, I have a armory just outside the prison barracks so whenever those insects come I arm the slaves and go to war lmao

i grabbed a mod that says insects cant infect well lit areas so as long as the power doesn't go out im happy in my mountain

breach raids: nice killbox you got there

I always just make a gate house with no dore the raiders wander down the hallway get bunched up and ripped to chunks

Me: hehe my killbox is perfect Randy: Oh really?? Sends mechanoids, raid drops in the middle of base and infestation one after the other after a day of breathing. A horde of manhunter rabbit comes and wreck wounded pawns.

Left right up or down maybe middle where do you we start tho ? If enemies come anywhere anytime then there no right or wrong right

Soooo... I just had a group of some 20 raiders spawn in an open area inside a mountain on the top-edge of my map. I had open tunnels everywhere going left and right with no turrets around but the exits were beyond a 6 blocks radius from them. So, they ended up digging though every section of the 3 block layers I left up until they were free. So much for path of least resistance.

My muscles actually remembered the San Andreas code before my brain

I tried making a similar thing, just a line with traps in it and a door to the side, the first trap was built fine. Then my colonist walked into that same trap...

It's not a cheat mod, it takes work to infinitely mine those resources out of a single location inside a ridiculously well defended base with gold walls >.>

There's like this game, I think its called Rimworld. You can show everything you describe. Maybe I'm a dipshit but I didnt understand half of the things you mentioned which you could have easily shown. Essentially I have to now go watch another video because this only gave me half the info I needed.

who will win? Walled fort or drop pods

GOD DAMN IT JOJO'S REFERENCE CRUSH THAT LIKE BUTTON

where are you getting the vanilla extended shield generator mod from? I can't seem to find it on steam.

When is Nooberts avatar going to use graphics settings+ ???

My only concern is does this always work where the killbox is far away from my main base? I do wonder if they actually pull a reverse move and instead raid my main base.

Good editor.

4:14 hmmm explosive improvised explosive device

Honestly Just land in a swamp always works

Divide and conquer -szu tzu art of war

im jelly of how good you do this.. but i learned something so you get the like and comment ha