Rimworld Episode 38: The New DLC Comes Out In Like 5 Hours And My Mods Won't Be Compatible Anymore

[Oyster Sauce]

Episode 30: 頬白鮫の帰還



頬白鮫 rolls a natty 100 to have his frozen corpse removed from his tomb. You know how you have to kind of twist an ice cube tray to get all of the cubes separated? It was kind of like that.





I never said it would be free of side effects though.



We've successfuly secured a diplomatic marriage for the dementia ridden zombie. What a happy couple they'll be



Waifu gets a cooking inspiration and will cook twice as fast for 8 days. Tangerine gets a point in Melee. Hoss loses 6 random skill points that he wasn't using anyway.



GhostCow gets a pig lung surgically implanted.



Prissy arrives, beating stick in hand, and doesn't look too thrilled to meet her betrothed who's still thawing in a hospital bed.



Stack takes an honor guard out to meet a hostile leader for peace talks



Elias has made some absolutely legendary leather boots. Maybe next time he can make a legendary gun or something useful.



Our raiders return in the middle of a blizzard with a fuckload of precious components.



Vitya gets some bots back up and running so repairs can get underway.



Oyster gets married, conceding his wizard powers.



Elias uses his necropath powers to absorb the residual energy from some corpses. I think these guys were our friends.



A skiphound blinks inside of our base. It's a pretty cool animal so we just tame it.



The honor guard easily fends off an ambush on the way to the peace talks...



which end up being a complete waste of time anyway.



Getting rid of the animal coffins in the throne room. You guys remember P'nut? Or Bishop?



This kid is a menace



Infestation time



We can handle bugs pretty easily now, but they happened to emerge from beneath all of our septic tanks, destroying most of them in the process. Dozens of ****-covered insects charge through the halls making an awful mess.



At least we have sewage outlets in the river in case of overflow



We've built a frog, which is like a reusable one-man transport pod. It doesn't seem to be movable on the ground so... we'd better remember to remove the roof above it before trying to launch it anywhere.



Tangerine has had some incredibly expensive power arms installed. They should be better at punching through armor.



One of our guests starts beating the **** out of a 13 year old girl in the chapel. To her credit, she fractures one of his bones.



A swamp of devourers takes 頬白鮫 by surprise while he's out hauling some stuff.



In an instant, one leaps at him and vores him in a single gulp.



Stack uses his shadowstep to teleport out and shoot the devourer until it regurgitates him.



...but he can't shadowstep other people, so he nopes the **** out of there. Good luck, 頬白鮫!



They're not so tough when you hide behind walls and shoot them, but they do cost us hundreds upon hundreds of bullets when we're somewhat in the middle of a steel crisis.



Stack hops out again and carries his baby boy home



Coizz looks happy to be knocked up. Considering that she's a horned red imp who breathes fire and GhostCow's like 1.5% pig, it'll be interesting to see how ****** up their baby is.



More bugs outside. We've never been so well prepared to repel an attack.



Speaking of getting knocked up, Herma is pregnant too.



Yet another Christmas



A royal comes to visit



And immediately starts watching our ****** TV in the dirty old bunker



It must be wedding season. All of the couples are now married except for Chuck and Waifu. Wonder if anything is going on there...



Reception is held in the dining room, where Elias undergoes a bestowing ceremony. It also somehow makes him pretty, which really just cancels out his hideous nosferatuesque appearance.





Stack swaps out his peg legs for bionics.



An acolyte from the Empire requests our help. She also has an entourage of 15 people. That's a lot of mouths to feed, but that second reward is immense. A hyper advanced archotech womb? Gotta have it.



Captain greets them at the door. That's a lot of people.





Speaking of tons of people, @Elias is somehow getting another bestowing ceremony. This ticks off his last aspiration (gain a level five psycast, become a sanguophage, become noble, and drink aperitif) which unlocks...



A growth moment for him. He can improve his passion for 3 of these skills and choose one of these traits. I bet you're all feeling silly for not taking 4 aspirations now, huh?



PLUS he's earned a new permit. Will he go for the transport shuttle? Aerodrone strikes? Temporary slaves?



Speaking of growth moments, Diana has become a child (3 years old).



As her father, @Val can decide whether she should be put to work right away or schooled to have higher stats later in life. There's no wrong answer.



@GhostCow is ready to choose an expertise.






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Now that Elias is a Knight, he can request diplomatic marriages from the Empire itself. Only the choicest babes from here on out.





There are about 51 people hanging out in our base right now




Turtle Coins™
Black Dog = 1/3
Boon = 0/3
Boot = 3/3
Captain = 3/3
Chuck = 3/3
Duke = 1/3
Elias = 3/3
GhostCow = 3/3
Hoss = 0/3
Kalarion = 3/3
Musa = 3/3
Raviola = 3/3
Rusty = 3/3
Stack = 3/3
Tangerine = 0/3
Val = 3/3
Vergil = 3/3
Vitya = 0/3
Waifu = 1/3
Zoth = 3/3

Increase skill by 1 (0-5) - 1
Gain a passion point - 1
Summon pet turtle - 1
Romance attempt - 1
Fistfight someone - 1
Summon rabid tortoises (automatic next enemy raid) - 2
Remove negative trait - 2
Get inspiration relevant to skills - 2
Decide fate of a prisoner (execute, release, organ harvest, arena fight, enslave, etc) - 2
Respec expertise - 2
Roll the D8 of Time - 2
Increase skill by 1 (5-10) - 2
Gain positive trait - 3
Miraculously beat an otherwise fatal infection (automatic) - 3
Recruit slave in relationship with colonist - 3
Roll the D20 of Heaven and Hell - 3
Increase skill by 1 (10-20) - 3
Bribe me to do something for you - ?

You can also buy any of the above for your NPC family members

[LemonDemonGirl]

**** it, I'm trying again.

[Oyster Sauce]

I forgot!

This is @Duke's current warcasket



But we've also unlocked advanced variants and can slot him into whichever he prefers. Technically he can mix and match the helmets/shoulders/bodies of any of them too, though none of these parts have special abilities attached to them. That comes later.

[Oyster Sauce]

**** it, I'm trying again.

I see what you're trying to do but it would just be 1d100+15

[LemonDemonGirl]

I see what you're trying to do but it would just be 1d100+15

Ok.
/********

[Jordy]

Coizz looks happy to be knocked up. Considering that she's a horned red imp who breathes fire and GhostCow's like 1.5% pig, it'll be interesting to see how ****** up their baby is.

****, it's going to be ginger isn't it?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Reception is held in the dining room, where Elias undergoes a bestowing ceremony. It also somehow makes him pretty, which really just cancels out his hideous nosferatuesque appearance.

Speaking of tons of people, @Elias is somehow getting another bestowing ceremony. This ticks off his last aspiration (gain a level five psycast, become a sanguophage, become noble, and drink aperitif) which unlocks...

Does Rimworld simulate room temperature? That is a lot of warm bodies crammed into a single room. Is it possible for a crush to happen with everyone trying to squeeze through that one door? Is room oxygen a thing? Smell?

As her father, @Val can decide whether she should be put to work right away or schooled to have higher stats later in life. There's no wrong answer.

Have Val teach her.

What are Val's current stats? I am considering spending turtle coins to increase them.

[Jordy]

I forgot!

This is @Duke's current warcasket



But we've also unlocked advanced variants and can slot him into whichever he prefers. Technically he can mix and match the helmets/shoulders/bodies of any of them too, though none of these parts have special abilities attached to them. That comes later.

Considering it costs resources, is this choice mine or one for the triumvirate?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Also, when WhiteShark was digested, the tooltip said "20 seconds" left. So was the acid going to kill him within 20 seconds? That is extremely fast acid. Even if he had only been in it for a few seconds, shouldn't he have severe burn scars? Can those be healed? Or is the game mechanic a binary where the digestion timer would have had to have completed for anything bad to have happened?

[Stack of Turtles]

Fiiiiiiine this one's basically okay with nothing overtly wrong except for being a coward (woman).

Hahahaha, if nobody beats that, 3 coins to give her the best beauty trait so my aspiration triggers.

[TKVNC]

Musa needs a dice of heaven and hell, it would be the noble and renaissance thing to do.

[GhostCow]

@GhostCow is ready to choose an expertise.

Let's go with repairing

[Stack of Turtles]

I forgot!

This is @Duke's current warcasket



But we've also unlocked advanced variants and can slot him into whichever he prefers. Technically he can mix and match the helmets/shoulders/bodies of any of them too, though none of these parts have special abilities attached to them. That comes later.

Considering it costs resources, is this choice mine or one for the triumvirate?

Just hold the other two members of the triumvirate hostage until you get what you want.


Not me though.

[Oyster Sauce]

Reception is held in the dining room, where Elias undergoes a bestowing ceremony. It also somehow makes him pretty, which really just cancels out his hideous nosferatuesque appearance.

Speaking of tons of people, @Elias is somehow getting another bestowing ceremony. This ticks off his last aspiration (gain a level five psycast, become a sanguophage, become noble, and drink aperitif) which unlocks...

Does Rimworld simulate room temperature? That is a lot of warm bodies crammed into a single room. Is it possible for a crush to happen with everyone trying to squeeze through that one door? Is room oxygen a thing? Smell?

Temperature is a thing. Chuck needs to stay inside during winter since he's a nudist or he'll get hypothermia pretty quickly. We use coolers to keep food in the freezer from spoiling, heaters to keep living spaces warm, and vents to equalize temps between rooms which is basically free heat from places like the kitchen or anywhere with heavy machinery. Here's a heat map.



I thought body heat wasn't a feature, but according to this picture from Reddit it totally is. Realistically it's a pretty negligible effect most of the time.



Corpses emit rot stink when they start to go bad. It's dangerous to be around for too long as you'll get lung rot unless you have some sort of mask or bionic lungs or natural resistance. There is a (modded) hygiene need that's taken care of by showering/washing up at sinks.

What are Val's current stats? I am considering spending turtle coins to increase them.

As a bonus, here's a completely unprompted story about being deported in the Reddit thread where I found the body heat image.

[Oyster Sauce]

I forgot!

This is @Duke's current warcasket



But we've also unlocked advanced variants and can slot him into whichever he prefers. Technically he can mix and match the helmets/shoulders/bodies of any of them too, though none of these parts have special abilities attached to them. That comes later.

Considering it costs resources, is this choice mine or one for the triumvirate?

I'd like to see them try to stop you.

Also, when WhiteShark was digested, the tooltip said "20 seconds" left. So was the acid going to kill him within 20 seconds? That is extremely fast acid. Even if he had only been in it for a few seconds, shouldn't he have severe burn scars? Can those be healed? Or is the game mechanic a binary where the digestion timer would have had to have completed for anything bad to have happened?

I dunno. Enemies typically leave you alone once you're incapacitated unless they're kidnapping you so he wasn't gobbled up a second time. It DID kill two construction bots though, so maybe. Scars are permanent without advanced technology like the healing serum that was used on Vitya. The bullet that got him in the brain left two scars since it was an incendiary round (impact+burn). The serum only healed the impact scar so he's still a little addled and we can see it.



His brain has a lower maximum health due to the scar, which also lowers its efficiency. Brain efficiency is what keeps you conscious (and consciousness affects basically everything else), which is why he was comatose with the other, larger permanent injury.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

@Oyster Sauce

Roll the D20 of Heaven and Hell for 3 turtle coins.

[Kalarion]

I'll take a positive trait, your choice.

[WhiteShark]

As funny as it would have been, I'm glad that 頬白鮫 didn't die on his first episode back. Speaking of him, @Oyster Sauce, he's missing from the list of characters with turtle coins.

By the way, is Waifu cooking twice as fast particularly useful, or does it just mean she has more time to goof off?

[A Chinese opium den]

I can fix her

[Oyster Sauce]

As funny as it would have been, I'm glad that 頬白鮫 didn't die on his first episode back. Speaking of him, @Oyster Sauce, he's missing from the list of characters with turtle coins.

By the way, is Waifu cooking twice as fast particularly useful, or does it just mean she has more time to goof off?

You have a shared pool :weeb:
We've got like 50 mouths to feed right now so yeah it's useful

[rusty_shackleford]

Cooking twice as fast just means turning up the heat.

[Tweed]

Let's up passion for crafting, melee, and artistic (shrug) since I don't do dumb labor. I'll take aerodrone strikes and cold lover.

[Tweed]

I change my mind on cold lover, I want perfectionist!

[Jordy]

I'd like to see them try to stop you.

Marine helmet
Marine shoulders
Cataphract body

[DemoGraph]

Considering it costs resources, is this choice mine or one for the triumvirate?

Give this soldier a bunk!

edit. Nvm, he already took one.

[MC_Sea]

I've been keeping tabs on this playthrough for quite a while now. I've never played Rimworld before so I had no attachment at first but gradually, it became more and more endearing as time passed by. It has been such a hectic journey up to this point. I feel like now would be a good time to introduce a character of my own.

Name: Mick "MC" Cedar
Sex: M
Age: 20 (He's a young 'un)
Appearance: Short Light Brown hair, Dress Shirt/Button up Shirt

► Show Spoiler

^ Something like this ^

Body Type: Regular Male
Favourite Color: White/Orange
Childhood Backstory: Aspiring Chef
Adulthood Backstory: Corporate Drone
Traits: Jogger/Industrious/Groundbreaker/Tough/Workaholic/Neat Freak/Gourmet/Nibbler/Greedy/Big-Boned
Aspirations: Burn Some Luciferium, Have a Wonderful Room, Get Blackout Drunk, Attend an Inspirational Throne Speech
Misc: Loves working (Perhaps a bit too much), Likes to keep his surroundings clean especially his room, Can be selfish at times


Shooting - 0
Melee - 0
+Construction - 8
+Mining - 7
Cooking - 0
Plants - 0
Animals - 0
Crafting - 0
Artistic - 0
++Medical - 8
Social - 7
Intellectual - 0

[Tweed]

WTB industrious pls.

[Oyster Sauce]

@Oyster Sauce

Roll the D20 of Heaven and Hell for 3 turtle coins.

You roll for Perfect Health. You can use it to restore yourself to peak condition or give it to someone else for immediate use.

Musa needs a dice of heaven and hell, it would be the noble and renaissance thing to do.

Dice button in the top corner of your post

I'll take a positive trait, your choice.

Kalarion gets Jogger to speed him up

[Val the Moofia Boss]

@Oyster Sauce

Roll the D20 of Heaven and Hell for 3 turtle coins.

You roll for Perfect Health. You can use it to restore yourself to peak condition or give it to someone else for immediate use.

If I give it to WhiteShark, will it restore his zombie body? If not, then give it to whoever is in the worst condition.

[Oyster Sauce]

@Oyster Sauce

Roll the D20 of Heaven and Hell for 3 turtle coins.

You roll for Perfect Health. You can use it to restore yourself to peak condition or give it to someone else for immediate use.

If I give it to WhiteShark, will it restore his zombie body? If not, then give it to whoever is in the worst condition.

It would fix up his dementia which is the only thing wrong with him