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You can make a indoor greenhouse, you need sunlamps and a heater set to around 10c and use the base game dirt if you don’t want to use hydroponics, granted I’m running my base off 4 solar panels and a wood generator

or you could make a 23x23 box where all your colonists live together with workstations placed haphazardly while also destroying all and everything that could marginally raise wealth

A very special guide. Appreciate it TY

4:48 You can fully build the Cannibal platter and break it with attacks. It will also drop 120 meat.

Soo tips for one dlc, got it

Whats the background music? It sounds so familliar but I can't pinpoint what it is. It sounds like its from LoTD Edit: persona 5 maybe?

I love it

As showcased in your layout 2 the butcher room should be slightly larger. furs and leather tend to pile up in the doorway and cause temperature issues. In general the bonus from a barracks outweighs the "disturbed sleep" moodlet so combining Sleeping, Dining, and Rec gives the most ROI. I would argue that optimal is not individual bedrooms. Personally I migrated to an 11x11 internal dimension grid layout (walls are 12x12) as it accommodates every activity in the game and is narrow enough to not need center support. it looks a little sterile to have everything on a grid, but as its modular it can scale through the entire game. Being 11x11 the layout is the same radius as the Sunlamp so one module can easily be converted to a grow room at any time, and as Fabrication is the largest crafting bench at 2x5 you can comfortably fit 4 per module. additionally, by having sequential smaller rooms, should a conflict come up within your perimeter, you always have another doorway to fall back to to create a defensive choke point and minimal losses in the sacrificial room. Play how you like, but there are absolutely different things you can optimize for. I like your layouts but in the context of how they fit together I think there is just an easier way.

Alright, but what if I don't wanna use nutrient paste for the dining/freezer rooms? You can avoid mental breaks by just making sure you have some lavish meals on hand.

Honestly... This is inspiring lol thanks

solid advice

About your research room setup, i don't think multi analyser working this way, it only connects to 1 high tech research bench, so if you have research with analyser needed only 1 research bench would be working, i can suggest to put 2 modules near walls because you have free 8 tile space and it would really boost research bench effectiveness. Altar from ideology would be marked as disrespected if you don't place 4 columns in room, yeah it don't tell you that right away, but it will strike you when colony will have high+ expectations. 2x2 airlock for hot air is too much, 2x1 would work just fine giving you 2 extra tiles of space in the freezer. 2 tiles is 1 shelf so +6 stacks of food or other items. Other then this good video

I always leave a space between beds in hospital. I don't care what is most efficient. I will rather drop difficulty so I can make an organic looking colony than resort to this barbarism.

Penoxcylin is useless? what about preventing plagues and flus the pointless medical needed ?

How do the hops grow without sunlight?

What is the music player mod at the top right?

what are the building inside the unroofed freezer

Looks > Efficiency. Upside down bed is just a criminal felony. :)

This does feel more like an opinion list, and a detail description of specialists. I do like the attention to detail. However, You appear to be an animal hater (just saying to teasing) Animal specialist is B Tier by your own listing rules of usefulness at the very least. Animal specialist basically doubles animal effectiveness in a colony. Also I think you have a secret hate for doctors, Doctors of the Rim dont bill you....if your useful to the colony that is. ;-) (One specialist of Medical wouldnt be bad for emergency immunity gain...if the meme's to get it where not so damming bad. Also an already non-violent pawn would be perfect pick for one.) Melee specialists outside of their very limited ability are actually really really good, but you only need 2-3 of them at most to see results like I am thinking of. (seriously good front-line tactics with them.) Leader specialist can use some love sure, but its not a terrible pick overall but B Tier is fine for it as it is. Though you could easily live without having one, which is very sad. --Main fix (easy fix) IF you removed the Shared CD to have each ability a different CD (still 10 days) it would make this specialist far more considered. --Basic plan leader type, NO work penalties, seriously good leaders are not afraid of work, they just usually should be able to do more without needing too. --Add in not a debuff to mood or expectations, but I feel responsible mood Boost/or mechanic might be more interactive and rewarding to have one. (that is a whole video conversation, not for this text). overall different types of leaders would be nice (each with its own effects based on pawn, and ideo) Moral guide, and shooting specialists are definitely the best hands down. Production specialist is just behind those but very nice to have. Feels good. Miner and Research specialist are the most lacking but at least Research specialist is good til you max research, then you only really need one for the other stuff it can help with that use intellect/research stuff. How ever you can always use a few miner specialist at ANY point you can afford too. its more a General ok to spam until you run out of extra pawns. It is mainly the issue of the Memes needed to have one are not as desired in every colony. Plant specialist is based on colony size, need, and overall maximum food growth area size. So its good, but you may not need many. Overall I feel this is video is more a guide and less about actual strength comparison. Still useful to many I bet.

Amazing video :) I hope to see a ritual video if you decide on making one!

1:19 The pure optimization of the door being jammed open by leather as it leaks warmth out into the freezer.

Great video and great rankings (mostly). A few quick comments: - Shooting specialist is really great on researchers, doctors, and animal handlers, since their work isn't affected. - Research specialist is pretty meh, since you can get a similar bonus early game by just plopping down more research benches and having all pawns on priority 4 research. That being said, it's useful, like you said, for rushing techs early game when combined with everyone researching at once. Overall, because of it's limited use cases, I'd put it in C tier with miner. - You say that production specialist makes Flak Armour equivalent to Marine armour. Flak Vests are already nearly equal to marine armour at the same quality level, at least for chest, neck, and shoulder protection. The benefit of production specialist is you can churn out high quality flak vests for much cheaper than even average quality marine armour. You can also produce high quality dusters and clothes which also have great protection when made of good materials, which thanks to the layering mechanics increase the protection beyond the equivalent marine armour. - When you start your conclusion / summary of a tier list, I'd recommend showing the completed tier list for about 10-15 seconds. # A longer rant on Animal Specialists Animal specialist is certainly better than a D tier. Double training and taming chance is already good, but it's also only available on memes that improve taming or training chance. Rancher is the best since it improves training chance and yield. Why does this matter? It significantly reduces the amount of time you need to spend on training animals, meaning you can have a massive herd of nearly anything. Animals being worse than colonists doesn't matter when you're at raid cap and are throwing 80 elephants at the problem. Animals are better than Gauranlen Dryads in almost all circumstances (except extreme resource limited zones), many of which are able to haul, fight, produce resources, and be pack animals and mounts. In terms of combat power to effectiveness, they beat out most mechs by a longshot as well, since melee locking or blocking tends to work wonders on the most dangerous threats. Mech workers are obviously better, but you can have both pretty easily. - Bears can haul and fight, and produce lots of meat and valuable leather with good temperature and defenses if you need to put them down or they die in combat. - Elephants are absolutely cracked when you can let them graze, being able to haul, being the tied for second best combat animal, are pack animals, AND mounts, and again, provide metric tons of meat and valuable reasonable defenses leather if they die. - Big cats/wolves can haul, are decent in combat, and are some of the fastest animals, being able to chase down fleeing raiders, or quickly lock enemies in melee. They do die faster than bears or elephants though, so you need more of them to compensate. Their leathers also tend to be quite good for the biomes they frequently spawn in - Cows, chickens and horses are some of the most nutrient efficient sources of meat in the game while being easy to use. Combat animals can be zoned to be melee blockers, can meet breachers in an open field and win when at critical mass, and losses only provide you with resources to make allies, feed/clothe your colonists, or sell for profit. An animal specialist can keep way more animals trained than a non-specialist, and is way better at getting those elusive thrumbos or megasloths, and can quickly tame even a whole herd of elephants. Farm animals are also pretty good, provided you get the right ones. They produce a lot of resources, and many are also mounts or provide passive food. That being said, you don't really need animal specialist for them, although the rancher meme does provide better yields. I ran a rancher colony with animal specialists back when 1.3 was new and breachers were 70-90% of raids, and I barely even needed to fight, I could just sic my elephants on the mechs and watch the carnage. They outbred their losses, and the rest could be healed up. I barely needed to haul anything, and whenever I needed to caravan, the elephants served as mounts, pack animals, AND caravan defense. I started taming and training without the specialist at first, since I needed the other work types. When I switched to specialists, the number of trained animals doubles The sheer audacity of putting animals specialist on the same tier as the nearly useless melee specialist is offensive (I'm not actually angry lol). I'd personally put it right next to plants specialist in A tier, or at least B tier. It doesn't out compete either production specialist or shooting specialist (neither does plants), but it can be a good alternative to either since animals can give combat effectiveness, reduce labour needed, and provide often valuable materials for making alliances or equipment and keeping your colonists fed on fine meals.

Overall these are some really aesthetic designs, and pretty functional too. I'm going to say that hyper-barracks that have rooming, recreation, dining, and workbenches tend to be the most efficient space-wise, wealth-wise, and impressiveness-wise overall, and can still be made to look decent with some work, but for people who like to play with dedicated rooms these are all great. I do have a few comments, ignoring the "just build one big room". # Workshop Unless you're building a lot of melee weapons, the tailoring bench is likely a better bench for this room. All the defensive gear except plate armour can be made at the machining table or fabrication bench, and the things you do need are mostly one offs. Some runs I don't even build a smithy. Tailoring is done basically all game long to replace tattered clothing, takes a relatively long time per item, and benefits from tool cabinets. Since it takes a while you don't need a lot of material stored nearby at once, or, tbh, not even store any material nearby since the walking time is minimal compared to the work per item. If you do have a couple good melee characters, you'd be better served by increasing the size of the room and including the tailoring bench. Other benches also benefit from tool cabinets: the art bench, stonecutter, drug lab, butcher's table, and serum lab. The serum lab doesn't see a ton of use, and the butcher's table is better in your storage or freezer anyways, but drugs and art can be powerful mid-late game money makers and in most of my playthroughs the drug lab is almost always in use. # Freezer The transport pod is a neat trick, I also believe things in a transport pod also do not rot as quickly/at all, which is useful during solar flares. The butcher table should be as close to either the leather storage, or meat storage as possible, and also be as close to the corpses as possible. The workspeed penalty is not that big, compared the the time spent walking back and forth and opening and closing doors for each corpse. Note also that putting your butcher table there, with a nearby door will frequently drop items on the door, holding it open. This will cause the temperature in your fridge to go up and can potentially spoil food over time. If I have enough cooks to butcher every animal or raider fast enough before they spoil, I put both my corpse storage and butcher table in my general storage, so the leather and clothing drops in a "safe" area if doors get held open. If not, I stuff it in my freezer, and make my freezer a bit bigger to compensate for the door opening risks. # Dining Rooms The billiards table is pretty bad over all. Takes 4x8 of usable space (2x6 physical), costs a lot more in wealth and resources, only serves two pawns at once, and due to weird quirks of how it works, is only better for recreation than a throwing pin at good or better. The poker table on the other hand is a straight upgrade to a chess table in terms of recreation gain (an excellent poker table even beats a megascreen television), and can serve up to 4 pawns at once. It does take a bit more space than two chess tables would, but a throwing pin and poker table is way more space, wealth, and recreation efficient than a billiards table and chess table are. Also as a side note, build your recreation tables, dining tables, and chairs out of wood, since they're a lot less wealth and the flammability is way less of a risk in an otherwise non-flammable room. For ideology specifically, kneel pillows are actually pretty good as general seating if you have a good constructor. Basically a kneel pillow is equivalent in comfort to a dining chair of one lower quality, while offering double the beauty of that chair. Most furniture is not worth building for beauty, but the kneel pillow is an exception. Kneel pillows are also worth a lot less than armchairs, but getting max comfort requires legendary, instead of masterwork (dining chairs), or excellent (armchairs). # Greenhouse You're missing a sunlamp, and the inclusion of one would make the 5 hydroponic setup pretty inefficient power-wise, while unroofing would make the temperature be uncontrolled. It is a good idea to put your hydroponics close to your processing areas, but some well positioned shelves can do 90% of the work for you, and allows you to have more efficient farming setups. Based on the small scaled setup, you're presumably just making beer and psychite tea for recreation for your own pawns. Since the amount of work will be small, you lose a lot of the value of keeping things close, when you could instead have a single stove near your dining area instead, and just haul the small number of leaves to a shelf nearby instead. If you are doing a bigger scale grow operation for profit, using a drug lab and making flake is a much better use of the space nearby. # Barracks Even if you want perfect walkability and decent aesthetics, you can increase the number of beds to 32. If you don't care about walkability/aesthetics (pawns can crawl over beds), you can fit about 50. See below for the 32 pattern: (~ = walking space, B = bed, S = Shelf/Light/Art/Heater/Etc, D = Dresser) ~~~~~~~~~~ BBBBBBBBBB~ BBBBBBBBBB~ BBB~~~~BBB~ BBB~SS~BBB~ ~~~~DD~~~~ BBB~SS~BBB~ BBB~~~~BBB~ BBBBBBBBBB~ BBBBBBBBBB~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Of course this isn't a complaint or anything, since most people won't even hit 20 colonists in their runs, let alone 32 or 50. # Bedroom Using an end table will save 1 tile of space (which matters a lot for room impressiveness at smaller sizes), and provides the same comfort bonus at any quality. You can also throw another sculpture in there for more impressiveness if necessary. Lights are also highly unnecessary in a bedroom, unless your bedrooms also double as their hospital beds. Sleeping pawns don't care about darkness, and sleeping pawns have their mood locked in place while they're asleep anyways. # Hospital You already mentioned using 8 beds yourself, otherwise the same thing I use. # Laboratory It's good to have more research benches IMO, and just have even unskilled pawns on research priority 4 so they research if they have nothing better to do, although this depends really heavily on how many ground penetrating scanners you have as well. If you aren't doing a combined throne/dining or altar/dining, it's also really good to have the research in the common areas. Research is a long term activity, and it gets more social interactions for your pawns, and lets the books being read gain the benefit of your rec room bonuses. Pawns will take books out of the room if there is no seating available in the room the books are though, so you could also just put research adjacent to your rec room. If you're using sterile tile in both, there's also a potential benefit of combining Research and the Hospital, making the room more impressive and reducing the impact one spot of filth has due to the larger room.

How is it an optimised workshop if it doesn't contain all the work benches that benefit from the two tool cabinets? How are the hops growing without a sunlamp, do they have a lower light requirement? Would it not be more 'optimised' to combine the lab and hospital into one room?

nice ideas bro!

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Great video!

These videos are the best rimworld videos on all of TH-cam. Please keep these up. Maybe go into some common mods like Dubs or Vanilla vehicles expanded

Did you make a types of kill boxes video?

TH-cam keep deleting my reply so idk if you see it but I'll just make another comment here. Sorry 'bout that. But yeah, this is what I'm talking about the bell curve situation. When you first play the game, you make a room based on how you think a room would look irl. That's the left most low end side. When you played the game enough and start optimizing, you're playing the game more efficiently/being better at the game. The high mid point. I'm on the deep low right end of the bell curve. My colonist don't just have bedroom, they have a house, with "fridge" dinning room, work space, studies, living room. They don't have work shop, they have factory or actual shop. Throne room is a palace, with living quaters and office space. Alter room is a chruch/cathedral. Lab even have animal enclosure for "testing subject". Because I realized there is no "correct way" to play the game. I'm not competing with anyone so there's no point in optimizing. So I just turns it into a sim game and not stress about what is the right set up for whag.

I just focus on making the room pretty/realistic rather than optimize. The realization of optimizing late game doesn't matter as much as your immersion is like reaching the other end of the bell curve for me.

I think mining specialists are B+ atleast, a single mining specialist can clear out a component chunk in just a couple hours, and since there will always be something to mine, a mining specialist will never sit idle unlike plant, shooting, melee or animal specialists might

oh dang, I completely overlooked the breach axe as a weapon. this is a gamechanger.

It doesn't say, but production specialist also make better art

Great video, great tips 😊

"Specialist Tier List." Does not provide a tier list. Provides basic mum information about each specialist that anyone watching this video already knows. Thanks for wasting my time. Never again.

I agree with everything besides animal specialist. Although you made great points, I don't think It's completely useless. It allows to tame basically any creatures without any risks that you can either use them as meat shields in battle or sell them to traiders. The food situation can be solved by just taming herbivores and having them grase outside your base. Your content is really good and I would love to see more of your videos.

Psychic sensivity is not that important. Sure, it's helpful in early rituals, but: 1. 100% sensivity (average pawn) already grants 12% bonus, but you can get only 25% max and only if you boost pawn's sensivity by over 180% 2. Once you can make void sculptures and shard beacons, you can easily increase quality, so psychic sensivity becomes irrelevant

I don't play Remnant. I play RimWorld. So, I appreciate RimWorld content much more.

if only animals and mining specialists can boost yield, they would be worth having. Do research sp boost the underground scanning speed? For melee sp, they just got so overshadowed by the new ghoul frenzy. a ghoul with all the melee implant is as strong as a fully kitted melee sp, and can be revived dirt cheap.

I find trials to be incredibly useful in the lategame, when you start raising/recruiting supermen but you don't want to bloat your colony size. Shooting specialist/animal handler is a great template for mass-produced soldiers.

Omg that smoke tips, why I ignored it always

Keep doing that pls

How's penoxyciline useless?

Bro... I didn't know any of these except the smoke thing which I personally use

I feel like youre focusing on the ability a bit too much on the melee specialist. I use a melee specialist almost every run and on a sanguiphage with glucosoid pumps, go juice, luciferum, longjumps, modified arms and legs and a legendary ideo artifact persona zueshammer literally nothing can stop them. Even midgame a sanguiphage with a plasteel longsword and good armor can change the tide of a battle.

I think theres an argument to be made that the phoenix armor is better than cataphract at high qualities anyway. The higher the values the smaller the difference in sharp and blunt and the heat armor and flammability buffs from phoenix are amazing Get it up to legendary and it caps sharp same as cataphract too

Medical specially is definitely a D specialist imho. Other than the mood buff and arguably the boost to immunity gain, everything they do can be done just fine with a pawn with high medical and high manipulation. Fighting are the most important skills in this game, so they have the worst work restriction. What's more, the boost to surgery speed can arguable be a bad thing. Surgeries give huge amounts of experience proportional to their duration. So performing surgeries too quickly can make it harder to maintain high medical levels. As for animal specialists, I would have put it on B tier. They make Thrumbo ranching much more realistic, giving you a scalable source of the most protective textile in the game. They also make taming otherwise dangerous animals much safer. Corpses with any live wound get a 66% multiplier to their butcher yield, which means taming animals instead of hunting them is much more profitable. A high level animal specialist can do this with very little risk. The ability to tame megasloths and rhinoceroses early in the game can provide a lot of food and reasonably protective textile. Bears are also very good haulers and attack animals and they are among the most nutrition efficient animals that can haul, but their high revenge chance usually makes them difficult to tame. Finally, the various bonuses from the animal specialist, along with the great animal gene, can help compensate for the animal penalty from inhumanized pawns. What I will say about animal specialists though is that they might not be worth taking with your main ideoligion. Animal work is one of the few work types not prevented by bliss lobotomy. This means you have a good way to take advantage of the specialists from a secondary ideoligion without needing to worry about their mood too much.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't + harvest yield pretty much worthless? Each plant has a yield and on success that is what you get. The only thing harvest yield gives is less of a penalty for failure.

Nice