Why not other players and you as well,or have you mastered everything???.....

As a new fan of yours through PZ, I have over 2000 hours in Rimworld. I'd always recommend making your freezers and rooms that you want controlled temperatures in, double layer your walls. It keeps the temperatures easier to keep at your target goal, and during events like heat wave or other power outs related, it keeps the temperature in them longer. It's also good to keep an emergency wood cooler in every freezer for emergencies when you need that temp to have a lower base than a normal room for whatever reason.

I'd also recommend learning or building a Nutrient paste dispenser as a top priority. At least for early game. It keeps your food stores longer, as well helps 100% eliminates the food sickness chances. Once you have a better cook, or a sustainable food source via the nutrient paste dispenser, you can then expand into cooking. It's always MORE IMPORTANT early game to have an extra hauler, than a cook.

I love your PZ guides when I was first getting into the game, and now I see that you have picked up a game that I've sunk many hours into, so its my chance to give a few tips in return. There's a reason why the RW community calls the first 1000 hours played "the tutorial", you can play for so long and still not know everything there is to know. There are few parts of the video that bugged me, but overall I think new players would find this very useful. Although having the butcher table in a separate room is a great tip, the best spot for it is in the freezer. The speed decrease from the cold isn't that important when your pawn can save on travel time, and you won't have the problem of heat getting in every time the pawn walks in to grab a corpse. Although it is a good idea to keep batteries in a safe space, fireproofing it isn't a must. The ZZT event that causes an explosion and fires is tied to the conduits, not the batteries. so a better tip would be to place conduits in walls, as the wall would absorb most of the explosion and minimize any potential damage. The only time you'd see specifically your batteries blowing up, is if you forget to put a roof over them, batteries and any electric workbench will short circuit and catch fire in the rain.

@@danishaqil151 ALTHOUGH, if he forgoes batteries and instead gets a chemfuel or wood generator to cover any shortages, he can avoid the zzzt event completely. It will never proc in vanilla settings if you don't have batteries. So even though it's the power lines themselves that zzzt, it's having a battery that causes it. So the game for some reason if you never build a battery, will never give you a zzzt event. Also depending on biome or time of year, you can arrange it that your generators are also a heat source using vents to vent the heat into your colony.

Oh Tysm😮 my colonist have been wearing tainted clothes but they aren’t in poor quality so it’s been making my head spin

What about armor? I use only stolen armor from the raids for profit.

@@sigmaerdogan If you're intentionally wearing tainted clothing then my advice can be ignored. It was mostly intended for those starting new games who might've forgotten or not known about default preset settings.

There's a menu for that?! Omfg thank you. These idiots in my main colony have been eating baby food and kibble every time they run out of regular food and making themselves crazy way before the 'low food' notification goes off so I know to manually prioritize meal production. 😒

@@EebyDeeby413 One thing that I started doing to help with meal management was to set the meal-making bills to Make Until X with X = to 3 meals per 1 pawn.

RIP Condor🫡

RIP Condor 🥺

RIP Condor 🫡

RIP Condor🫡

Rip the homie Condor.

That second point is exactly why I didn't really go into depth with who to choose as your colonists when recruiting new pawns. Like you say, the game is a story, picking the "best" pawns sorta ruins the appeal of that story in my opinion.

The best way to learn is through hardship. Plus it’s that much more gratifying when you accomplish something using sub-par pawns. If I wanted easy i’d open dev mode🤷🏻

Well said

bro... this comment is quite profound hahhahaha. Well said.

Well said

Glad it helped!

Same!

It's literally part of the tutorial though... (played yesterday for the first time)

Oh really? It's possible I've never played the scenario because I've been playing for so long... Or just learned from watching twitch streamers. But good to know

@@frakinggeminon6224 The tutorial is always in the upper right corner? XD In work tab you also can up the numbers by right clicking... Left click numbers go down, right click numbers go up. The video made me so nervous at that point :D

Is setting priority storage and dropping on floor a mod thing?

@@Palocles No it isn't a mod thing. Each production building has the option of Drop on Floor or Take to Best Storage or specific selected Shelf. When the dupe is finished with the production if you have (take to storage) on they will pick it up and take it to highest priority. Drop on floor means they will just set it down on the floor and continue on with the next build and if you have the raw materials close to hand on a shelf it's not a long trip. Your storage dupes can then come by and take the finished item when they can. Storage zones and shelves can be set to except durability and quality standards. So if you draw as small storage zone were the dupes drop the production you can in a sense automate production. Set the production table to make 1 item of any item and the zone to accept the item dropped as well as the durability and quality levels you want your dupes to have. This is critical because if you don't want your dupes to wear tattered set the limit at which they will wear clothing at 51% and have a shelf in storage set up to take the 51% the dupes drop. Placing in your trade beckon room is best. Those can still be sold for profit, not at 50%. Set the dupes range for what they will equip from 52% to 100% durability and anything over normal quality you like. The dupes will then look for a new items to use going for the highest quality they can and above the durability min. If you don't want your dupes wearing certain Legendary cause you want to sell, set the top end quality slider below legendary. Same with trade mission quests which are normal quality or better. If your best craft dupe can consistently make good quality then have the limit your dupes wear excellent the goods and normals will be set aside for sale or trade missions. At the table select, Count Equipped and the table will call for a craft dupe to make a new Armor, Gun, Clothing etc if none in storage or on the dupes matches 52% -100% normal to legendary or how ever set. They will keep building that 1 item till no dupe has the item or the 1 made available on the floor. Note this will not work if you force to wear things on dupes, they will wear till it falls off. I always set my dupe up with a unique clothing and equipment set based on combat and what their roles are in base and make those items accordingly. I hoped this helped.

I did NOT know this! Super useful info!

@@MrAtomicDuck I really appreciate how you lay out the information in these videos. You very succinctly and eloquently layer simple, complex and advanced tactics together in a way which is incredibly helpful. 👌

Although I believe you have to 'claim' the items before it is calculated into colony wealth for raids, no..?

@@Justout133 that might be for "buildings" but definitely is not for "floors" (I have not actually researched it too deeply: "deconstruct everything" = "less map value" is about far as I was willing to)

Good tip for sure!

Ooh that's a good one, glad I'm hearing it only a week in! No more frustratingly disappearing messages, thank you kind stranger! :)

One year on and your Tip has come in handy. Thank you.

damn that’s kinda messed up 😂

@@Samskings bro, this is Rimworld, where that is more tame than child soldiers, babies as food, and more heinous crimes

Lose not loose

This is a really bad idea, it has been proven, by many people on YT, that happy prisoners are easier and faster to recruit and convert. If a prisoner is having constant mental breaks because he is being kept in a bad room, then he is not being talked to by your recruiters. Forcing a prisoner to have a crisis of faith merely prolongs the time it will take him to convert to your religion, yes he may convert to your religion after his first crisis, but his morale is usually too low to prevent him from having another crisis of faith, or a mental break, and changing to another one soon after. Besides which, some ideologies are harder to convert than others. If you have a pawn with a high social skill, 12 or above, make him a priest and he will gain the convert ability, which he can then use to reduce the certainty of another pawn by as much as 95%, and this ability can be used every 3 days. There is also a ritual that you can use to attempt to convert a pawn to your ideoligy, but I do not recommend this as it has a very high chance to fail, and can increase the pawns certainty instead, whilst also putting your priests' convert ability on cooldown. In short, you can choose to be evil in Rimworld, if you wish, but it may not have the effect that you desire.

@@wolfen210959 I did not want to read that but I did

I usually employ that idea for the workshop too, but not recommended for the research room, as the dirt will slow the research speed. A single statue in a smallish research room, big enough to hold 2 or 3 research benches, will be enought to give the prettty or beautiful environment buff, depending on the quality of the statue, and a wooden floor will ensure full research speed, so long as it is kept clean. Oh and the best flower to plant are roses, they have a much longer living time than daylilies, which means your planters can actually be available to harvest your food crops, rather than spend most of their time replanting daylilies. I know that roses are less beautiful, but they live for 9 days before needing resowing, rather than 3 days for daylilies. For your killbox area I recommend dandelions, which live for 18 days, and will prevent trees from growing which would otherwise allow enemies to take cover behind. Dandelions are also great to plant in the wind capture area of your wind turbines, again to prevent trees growing and blocking power production, or you could plant psychoid plants instead, to start you on your way to becoming the drugs kingpin of the rim. :)

Firefighting and Rescue should be set to 1. At least one pawn should have Cleaning set to 1 as well, to ensure that the home is always clean.

and putting down some straw matting, which is a bit ugly but almost as dirt resistant as sterile tiles.

@@ZanathKariashi straw is very flammable, more flammable than normal wood tiles if I recall. It’s a big risk doing that.

I usually do a dirt floor in the kitchen for the early game. Dirt can get blood spatters and other fluids tracked in but not trash or dirt oddly enough.

Noticed this as well during my first games! Having some colonists with negative social traits can make things so much harder for you. Sometimes it's fun to play that out though.

Oo, I did not know this, thank you kind sir

I tried warning him to never take a pyro during his live stream. But automic said "THAT WOULDN'T BE INTERESTING" so here's in memory of his first colony taken out by a pyromaniac at the worst time :P

It can occasionally be useful to have a clear first colonists to die. Somebody with mediocre skills can be useful to die first. At least that's what my boss at the factory said

@@David-wj3tg you're a monster! I approve.

Very helpful stuff!

So much this, Rimworld's raids could easily be described as a tower defense game. You can send enemies through mazes to slow them down, but best in my experience is to force them through a bottleneck that opens into a defensive position where your fighters can fire from defilade.

Late shift cleaner… I had a cougar self tame but didn’t even know about training as I just bought the game. She got attacked by a bear and I didn’t know if I should help her so I didn’t. Rip cougar.

​@@Palocles We know this is your proto-cougar 'cause she didn't have a name =) It'll make your next wild animal tames and work more memorable now. Meanwhile I spent, I donno, 20 minutes at least rolling a perfect three chars. No bad/conflicting traits. Ridiculously high passionate skills with little or no overlap and no glaring dashes or zeroes, a high animal skill, a high artist skill, a high social. I sat there marveling at the combined score, then hit back when I was ready. No, wait, God, not _back_. Oh, forward gives me a new 8 randos.... RIP you legends, you all disintegrated on re-entry. You know it's a good game when you look up at the ceiling, swear once, then start rolling a new set.

@@ACESandElGHTS I spent ages rolling good pawns too, then they did shit. Next game just took three presents and did way better.. 🤷🏽‍♂ Btw; did you used to play Warmachine?

A breeding pair of pawns do not interrupt eachother sleep. So when they become lovers they no longer get that debuf.. irl this ends after marriage... but hey.. I learned that I breathe to loud.. so yea..

​@@ACESandElGHTS check out the mod: prepare carefully.. this will destroy the game for you for ever... since it enables you to customize everything about the pawn... every.. thing. And once tried.. you have a hard time going back 😅

Good tip!

Always a good idea. Nothing like queuing up a bunch of blocks to be made, queuing up things to be made from granite, only to find there's almost no granite on your map tile.

Granite is no longer the stone of choice, because of the introduction of the breach axe, a sapper can cut down any wall with just one hit. Instead, sandstone is now the stone of choice, because it is easier and faster to build with. Or you could build your outer wall by using doors only, as 3 hits are needed to destroy a door.

@@wolfen210959 Not every raid is gonna have breach axes. in large regular raids sandstone can easily be broken by bullets and grenades where granite would survive. All stones have their pros and cons but I'd definitely recommend making fighting areas out of granite if available

Corn is great, so long as it is not your only food source, blight can be devastating when your corn is about to ripen. I recommend 2 food crop fields, of corn and strawberries, seperated by 3 tiles to prevent blight spreading between them. Strawberries are less labour intensive than rice, and have a higher yield, and can be eaten raw without a mood debuff. Your excess raw food can be turned into chemfuel, which you will need a lot of in the mid/end game.

Yeah I've never had a torch or campfire ignite something else, even indoors. Upgrading to electric lights removes the need to refuel wood, the tradeoff being the Zzzt event and solar flares making it dark. Not sure they can cause fires

I just had my while gigantic potato field destroyed by blight now I'm starving because I've been trying to make hydroponics work for quite some time with no success lol. Thankfully I spent a lot of time researching geothermal energy so it should get better soon... I hope, because I'm running low on wild animals

There are a few problems with jungles, very high disease chance, including 2 diseases that are exclusive to jungles, malaria and sleeping sickness, lots of marshy terrain that only wooden walls can be built on, lots of predators, lots of heatwaves, increased caravan travel time. Temperate forest is your friend, until you are ready to try something a bit more challenging, such as the ice sheet for example, rather than the jungle. This is all just my opinion of course, and mileage may vary, but jungles are not recommended for beginners.

Jungle goes really well for tribal starts. Plenty of manpower to gather wood, fight fires and the best growers at the start to exploit that year round growing season. Disease is your biggest problem here so buying as much good medicine as you can early is essential. I raise animals for transport and sell them when they get too numerous, and meditate at the anima tree for my tribal witch army.

​@@wolfen210959i think that depends on playstyle. In jungles I always had an essier time than in temperate forests

Good to hear, thank you for that! Def come back and share some if you learn things :)

But isn't there a speed penalty for butchering outdoors?

@@ethernet764 I do not think so, if there is it is negligible debuff. but this will save you time on cleaning.

I don't know about the speed penalty but there is definitely a penalty on the percentage of resources you are able to harvest from any slaughtered animal if you do it outside, about a 40% reduction if I'm not mistaken.

Glad I could help!

My pleasure!

Hope you enjoy it!

Here's a tip, avoid the dlcs if you aren't sure about them. Some of them are pretty expensive for something that can be easliy replicated or done better by free mods.

Support columns will show the area they allow to be roofed, and can greatly extend buildings. They also don't block light sources, so are useful add-ons to sunlamp greenhouses.

Thanks! :D

No worries!

Thanks! PZ won't be going anywhere I assure you of that.

Glad it was helpful!

Glad to hear it!

Have fun!

Thanks!

Glad I could help!

Like to try new things where I can, not sure this will be a permanent thing but not all new ventures work out ^^

Np!

Thanks Edward :)

Good to know! Would love to play more but might need to wait for a new DLC to try and catch those new players.

@@MrAtomicDuck experienced players are always fun to watch. There are a few KZfaqrs with excellent insight and skills who do so much with it, from gameplay tips to generated stories/films. I can't speak for the algorithm but I can say I continue to search for videos about RW to hear a nice voice and a new perspective regardless of what's coming out.

Glad it helped!

Awesome, thank you!

Glad it helped!

Haha, until the mid game, when you discover that one geothermal generator isn't enough to keep the lights on, due to the plethora of power hungry machines that you need to build, and that's when you realise that you can't rely on just one source of power, but will need a few different sources, solar, if you go the indoor greenhouse route, wind, chemfuel, water, even wood generators should not be discounted. In fact, one route you could take is chemfuel, which requires far less research, and is easily supplied by an extra field of crops, or one boomalope will keep 2 chemfuel generators topped up, forever.

Some of these are great tips! Will have to start growing some devilstrand myself!

Its about the Royalty & Ideology dlc right? Theres a 3rd one, Biotech... I haven't tried it

@@MrAtomicDuck i advise you do indoors, since they take a long time, often you don't have time to grow them and harvest them before winter arrive

@@aldvier8849 Oh yeah I should have said the 3 expansions, I forgot about biotech

Can you please tell me the name of the mod you mentioned for mending clothes? 🙏

LOL

Glad you enjoyed it!

Braziers are better than torches, they only need refilling every 15 days, and give off the same light and can be built out of stone blocks, I recommend marble, as it's pretty. :)

May and Bojo are having an affair in my game and I regret everything

I came to the comments to find someone mentioning this, but finding out May and Bojo are lovers was not what I expected

Rimworld hurt my brain too 😂 Still, fantastic fun to play. Thanks Melon!

My pleasure!

@@MrAtomicDuck since posting this I have lived through the eventual failure of dozens of colonies - and I loved every single fucking minute of it (: thanks for your help, stay fresh mate!

Granite walls are no longer necessary, the breach axe will destroy a granite wall with just one hit, and a termite will destroy 3 walls, so it's actually better to choose a tile with sandstone as it's faster to build with than granite. No need to leave gaps in your walls, just leave one door open to a zoneable animal and most enemy raids will head there, so just set up defenses in front of, or behind that open door. Breach raids will also head there, but won't use the open door, they will head straight to an animal/pawn sleeping spot/bed, in an almost straight line, cutting through walls, mountains, fences on their way. A zoneable animal is an animal that can be assigned to a zone, such as dogs, cats, monkeys, wargs, panthers, elephants etc, rather than an animal that has to be kept in a pen. Make sure that the door is always kept open, as raiders decide their attack route immediately upon spawning in, but they can also be persuaded to change their attack route by opening up a different door, before closing the initial open door. You can use this tactic to delay if your pawns are not yet ready to fight, or they need a breather during the fight. The best way to deal with breach raids is to engage them in the field, as soon as you possibly can, to prevent them opening alternate routes for other raids and to keep your walls intact, so stock up on low shield packs, assault and sniper rifles for when those pesky centipedes, termites and sappers show up. Last tip, if you can afford to buy the Royalty dlc, it is a game changer, as it will allow your pawns to learn psycasting spells, such as Stun and Burden to stop/slow enemies for a few seconds, Skip will allow you to move your own pawns, instantly, to any other square they can see, which is incredibly useful to move them to where they can be more effective, or remove them from danger, and your enemies can be moved closer, or farther away, depending on the circumstances, Berserk and Berserk Pulse can force enemies to fight each other, Blinding Flash causes enemy shooters to be less accurate, Focus causes your pawns to move faster and be more effective in combat, and there is a whole range of utility spells for creating light, fighting fires, erecting temporary walls, summoning stone chunks to your location which can also be utilised in combat. :)

Thanks!

@@JohnYoga The quality of their beds can also throw them out of their sleep schedule, a legendary bed will cause them to sleep for 3 hours less each night, but has no effect on how quickly they become tired, so they will quickly end up out of phase with the schedule. The best quality bed to use, to keep to their schedule, is a normal quality bed, as even a good quality bed causes them to sleep about 20 minutes less than their schedule dictates, so they will eventually end up out of phase too, it will just take longer for that to happen. The only differences between a normal and a legendary bed are how long they will sleep, beauty and comfort (which have no real effect when they are asleep, as their mood is frozen), surgery success chance (only important for hospital beds), and wealth value(which can have a large effect on raid sizes). Please note that this is only important for small colonies, less than 10 pawns, as with large colonies, more pawns will be available to do the work that needs done, no matter how many are out of phase with the schedule. At the start of the game it can be useful to designate a pair of researchers to be on a night shift, which has 2 major advantages for the early game, it allows you to pair up 2 of your pawns, as they will be sitting side by side all night, and getting to "know" each other, and allows you to have 24 hour research for those all important heavy smgs'. :)

Glad to hear! Thank you!

Thanks!

Hope it helped!

No probs!

Lmao Wendy, these will never get old. Don't forget skin hats!

Have done a stream of it so far but all depends if there's enough demand :D Right now not looking likely sadly

You're very welcome.

You should! Very tough game to play, but once you get it, it's a blast.

it's one of the most fun games to fail it, seeing things go wrong in horrible ways sometimes has to happen to learn how to avoid it next time lol

Omnipotent too!

It allowed me to put them through hardship without a second thought.