How to play Nomadic in Rimworld Royalty (No mod required)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ธ.ค. 2020
- Their are always question that arise during a nomadic playthrough, this is a guide that explains the strengths, weaknesses and how to start. Give nomadic tomb raider a try and you may just find it the most enjoyable way to play rimworld.
/ francisjohn
Simple Sidearms
Quick Stockpile creation
Complex jobs
Camera+
Dubs Mint Menus
Show draftees weapon
Color coded mood bar
Replace Stuff
Numbers
Achtung!
Simple Search Bar
TraderHelper
RimHUD
Dubs Mint Minimap
Blueprints
Numbers (patched) 1.2
Numbers Trait AddOn
Allow Tool
Colorblind Minerals
Animal Tab - เกม
Great tutorial. A few points from another tomb-raider (playing on regular "losing is fun" and researching) inspired by Francis:
1. You can keep your team quite small
I have six pawns now but I started with one and for most of the time only had four. As long as you have the skills covered a small team is fun, fast, and effective. That said, it's really hard to get enough anima grass with fewer than five tribals. There's just not enough time before something drives you off the map.
2. Be picky about your recruits
You'll get a lot of recruit options from the ancients and you don't need many colonists so only recruit the best of the best and be prepared to banish regularly.
3. You can play without angering the ancients
I'm on year six and still friendly with the ancients (my theme is that we're rescuing them). This means opening the caskets is generally (but not always) easier. This is really useful in the first couple of years when you're less powerful. Don't worry, you'll have LOTS of opportunities to collect goodies (by year two you'll be saying "oh, just another charge rifle and marine armor, nothing good). You can strip the pre-downed ones and stuff them back into the caskets without angering them. Also, make sure you check the ones that come out dead because they might have gold or other goodies in their inventory that don't drop. Side note: cryptosleep caskets will provide all the steel you need.
4. High quality bedrolls are very effective
You'll have a bunch of leather, so make bedrolls until they're all masterwork and sell the rest. One the subject of beds, check the ones generated on the map. I picked up a legendary double bed on the very first tile and have been using it since. No need for hospital beds!
5. Be careful about your mod choices!
I'm actually mostly based now because I had more than three straight years of map events (psychic rain, volcanic winter, toxic fallout, drought, the long night, toxic fallout again) that made nomadic life difficult (in some cases it would have been possible but thematically I felt like my troop would settle down). Except for the toxic fallout the events are from Vanilla Expanded Events. Another difference between my playthrough and Francis's is that because mods like VE Vikings, VE armor, VE furniture, and Expanded Prosthetics add in lots of new items I see far fewer of the vanilla goodies like archotech parts and neuroformers (In six years I've seen only two archotech parts and only one neuroformer). This is because the additional items reduce the chance that the best core goodies will become available.
6. It's VERY important to split off a single pawn before settling!
If you settle with the whole caravan all of your junk gets dumped in the center and it's a hauling nightmare. EDIT: Also, when you split the caravan the selection will default to the main caravan and sometimes BOTH caravans will have the same leader's name, so make sure you settle with the single person. Really frustrating to do it backwards!
7. Use Fluffy's Work Tab
I can't recommend this mod enough. It simply splits the core jobs into discrete tasks so that you can have some pawns doing one task (like sowing), while not doing another or doing it at a lower priority (like harvesting). You can also do things like set lower level builders to repair/ deliver resources to frames and reserve higher level ones for the important work. In this playthrough the most important task is "load/unload caravans." I uncheck unload from everyone. This means the pack animals don't get unloaded unless I manually drop their gear from the gear tab. So instead of having all of your junk cluttering up the place it stays on the animals until you zone them to where you want them and drop it. This also prevents some yahoo from unpacking the doomsday and leaving it on the edge of the map. You do have to drop everything before you load a caravan or use the items, however, as gear on animals isn't considered available. I also set "load" to priority one so that when it's time to go everyone drops what they are doing and loads the caravan but doesn't traipse across the map to haul random stuff like two berries.
8. Use "uninstall all"
In the orders tab you'll find a very helpful order called "uninstall." You can use this to uninstall everything. You can also use Fluffy's Work Tab to set uninstalling (and installing) to priority one! I lost a masterwork double bedroll and a legendary chess board by not uninstalling them (it's easy to miss items when there's a lot of clutter in the room)
9. When you go, go
When you're ready to go it's really important to get off the map quickly before moods drop and something nasty catches up with you, so fine tune that routine. Sometimes it's helpful to pack a smaller caravan and send it ahead, especially if you've just acquired a bunch of valuable stuff and the settlement you want to trade with is out of the way.
10. Convert silver to gold
You lose money on every transaction but before long your biggest problem will be too much stuff and too much wealth. Gold is light and everyone takes it. You'll get to the point where wealth is a liability, so just focus on buying the best gear and dumping the rest. Until I settled my raids were embarrassingly easy because wealth was under 100k. Less stuff means fewer animals to manage as well and faster travel times, which equates to better moods.
11. Watch your rec type boredom carefully
Your pawns will get bored of the same kind of rec, so it's helpful to build/buy heavy stuff like billiards tables and poker tables, uninstall the light stuff, and have everyone focus on the new rec. Then just abandon the stuff you can't carry. It's also helpful to buy chemical rec items like chocolate, ambrosia, tea, etc. If you only have a few rec sources everyone gets bored at the same time, which can cause cascading mental breaks.
12. Manage your animals well
Donkeys are great as they haul and Dromedaries are also good for a steady supply of milk. Bison are good as wool producers, caravan animals, and tanks. I'd keep a few elephants if I could tame them as they haul, tank, and carry a lot. Don't keep slow animals like chickens or yaks, and you might want to keep just one sex to avoid pregnancies. Herbivores are easiest because you never have to worry about food. If you're using the alpha animals mod a couple of groundrunners will take care of your mining and the aves (giant flightless birds like the ones in Nausicaa) are good caravan animals because they're fast (they also haul and have a nasty bite). They can't carry much but they're good for advance parties. It's really helpful to have some good handlers early on as you can also tame valuable animals and sell them off at the next stop and you want your all of your animals trained in guard so they don't flee. Slaughtered tame animals provide 50% more meat, meat sells well for its weight, and the young ones will slow you down, so... (sad animal noise).
13. Prebuild
Buildings are lighter than their resources, so make traps before moving on aside from that I don't min-max weight because you have so much wealth anyway you don't really need to. It's helpful to take wood with you so that you can start building immediately though.
14. LWM's Deep Storage mod
I use this mod to make realistic shelves. It's not essential but useful to remove the clutter.
15. Use space well
If you're in a forested area there's nothing stopping you from dividing your building into two rooms and flooring the barracks part with wood. This won't take long once you have decent builders and will significantly improve moods without expensive, heavy statues.
16. Don't be afraid to settle for a bit
Unless it's a hard rule for the playthrough it's helpful to settle for a couple of seasons to grow a bunch of corn (which lasts a long time without a freezer), stock up on supplies, get moods up, knock out some research, and do some crafting.
17. Finally, I'm not sure but maybe Francis has the number of tombs per tile turned up? He seems to have several per tile. I use the regular settings and I've only seen double tombs once out of about 25 and one of them was almost empty.
excellent summary. #6 is very important which FJ missed in his excellent summary. #17 - He uses large map tiles. The medium sizes only produce 1 tomb per tile (and sometimes not at all)
thanks man
I wish I read this comments sooner.
Number 8 is the real godsend. Uninstall all.
I think Francis was just impressed that this strategy actually worked out. First few on this were real nail biters.
At 500% I think we can expect a few more to come!
insane how efficient he has gotten at settling, opening and leaving each tile
Tell me about! Doing those is so tideous.
These have really become something i look forward to, please keep them coming
Chemical consumption recreation is also available while caravanning, if i do a lot of travelling i always create special drug policy for it. Bear a day if you are rich, or bear every two days if recreation below 30 for cash low cash time. Technically psychite tea or smokeleaf would work too, but personally i prefer saving psychite tea for cheap mood boost during combat, and smokeleaf has too big debuffs.
Also to boost foraging you need better sight, while manipulation dose affect foraging too, it caps at a 100%.
Your "just nuked tribals" cackle never gets old :-D
I love you for this and for your more consistent schedule these days 😘
This is a great guide. I've been playing my own nomadic run while watching yours and this answers so many questions I've had!
Very nice guide. I've been playing around with nomadic after seeing your series and love it, thanks for the intro and the tips
Really enjoy the tutorials as well as the rimworld videos, very entertaining.
Thanks for the series, I think this will be my next play through
use the mod "set up camp" allowing u to abandon a camp and after 60 days u can re settle it unlike the base game where it disallows future settlement
This is a tutorial and a "Murder Munchkins" video all in one lol
You are one of my favorite rimworld creators. Interesting plays, consistent videos, fun commentary. Now I want to see you try a hard challenge like void or the zombies mod to see how long you survive :D
What i've learned watching your videos is: Brute force is completely overpowered in most games. And i love it.
Thank you for this. I'm going to have to give this a try.
That was actually really really helpful. So much on point information in one video. Thanks a lot
It always baffles me when I look up a tutorial or guide and they try and sell me on their twitter account or something like that instead of giving me the info I came looking for.
@@FrancisJohnYT Yes! Definitely me too. I keep seeing these "tutorials" who just assume I have the same exact 1500 different mods that they have. And they always sound like they are trying to advertise all these the mods they are using. It's so difficult to get information about one of the main features of the Royalty, which is psycasting and anima trees. Again thanks
If you're lucky enough to score a pawn who's naturally happy, make sure they get a psychic harmonizer. This stacks with the psychic enhancers you'll want for all your wizards.
+16 mood bonus is easy to generate, highest I've seen is +40.
It took me so long to try this style of play, but it was super satisfying. Every win feels way more significant!
The Caravan Adventures mod should be out by now and it's a big one that looks like it will help a lot with the micromanagement.
As soon as I saw your first episode of "The Murder Munchkins", I thought that the game was waaaay better played this way. (but I'm still sceered)
Great little "Nomadic Nibble" of advice on this.
Thank you Francis.
cheers mate.
This is great thank you for this information!
I actually switched to this playstyle when you first started this series. I gotta admit, it is just way more fun than mega basing. Of course that probably has to do with the fact that my PC just can't handle mega basing.
thanks for the great content :)
i would add to this and say when you are strong enough you can just bust straight into the tomb and just set up in there, setting up inside the tomb straight up rather than an outside base, its a bit riskier but also takes less time to get into the good stuff. Also for berries i have been not eating berries but collecting them and then settling a tile with them and making pemmican while busting the tomb is pretty nice to have as well.
Try and keep the colonist numbers small as well, randy keeps giving me wanderers and random paralytic ablasians i dunno how francis has managed to keep his numbers so low. More than ten starts to get unwieldly, still doable but more tedious.
If you want Plant skills to make the travel between tiles easier just chop down the plants in each new tile with the one you want to level the skill. You can use the wood to craft a bunch and leave it behind if it's not worth selling and have the cook practice making Pemmican with whatever was harvested before leaving that too if the weight is a concern.
slight correction, even without a roof it can still be a room, it just needs to be fully enclosed by walls and doors. I usually have my telescopes in small gardens with a couple of statues late game.
Yes, it might be a room for morale purposes; but it's not indoors for the concept of stuff rotting away.
Stuff normally rots fastest in water (or during rain), outdoors, unroofed. And all 3 of those matter from what I've seen.
(for a solo naked tribal run; I found putting rotten corpses in outdoor unroofed water gets them gone faster)
A room with a roof and at most 3 unroofed spots counts as "indoors" to stop that decay from what I've seen (so long as you don't have stuff on those 3 spots OFC).
Holy shit this seems absolutely awesome.
At what point do you start editing the wiki? The information you have here is better than any other published resource on the subject. Regardless of how you look at it, your content is a cut above. keep up the great work and I look forward to continuing to learn from you.
It is awesome to see a Rimworld youtuber do something new and innovative. Instead of doing a "cannibal playthrough" or a "insert theme here playthrough". You and Rhadamant are pushing the limits of Rimworld playthrough capabilities. It would be cool to see you do a sea ice playthrough, possibly a nomadic sea ice run. Rhadamant's was the only sea ice run I have seen that stuck to a vanilla sea ice tile and managed it beautifully. I think you and him are the few that can accomplish a lot through vanilla.
I am using the side arms mod, which is a bit of a massive cheat. Not sure how I could make sea ice entertaining though, it would be a fight against scares resources. I think the big issue would be at 500% threat and sea ice temps the odds of mechs go way up, Centipedes would wipe you before you could get a decent foot hold.
3:03 and we're packed!
Wasn't the point of the game of Ur that it allows for recreation while on a caravan?
Middle and thumb had a recent divorce... is that a bird flipping joke? You sneaky devil
I've done this playstyle many times. Protip: cannibal kibble
I like your thinking, but to do it properly we need a wedding around the same time to cancel out the mood.
damn fracis is realy frequent these days.
I tried doing this a couple days ago. I haven't played Rimworld in a couple years, and I failed miserably. I just stuck with a normal playthrough and will have to try again afterwards when I relearn the game.
There are some really big difficulty jumps with nomadic playstyles on high threat. The first tomb is really dicey - you have low skills, no weapons better than bows, no armor, and a tiny amount of time to set up traps, raid the tomb, and recover from wounds, before you get raided by something nasty.
The second difficulty jump is after you raid the first tomb. You now have a ton of wealth, but most of that wealth won't help you fight off raids. It's a race against time to trade your useless wealth for useful items.
The third difficulty jump is getting psi powers up. Before you have lots of level 6 casters with berserk pulse, every single raid is a potential game over.
Even after you survive all three difficulty jumps, you are still limited by having a small number of pawns (since you can't farm, and can't feed a large number of pawns off of hunting animals). RNG will continue to bring you within inches of death.
@@r3dp9 Yeap, but I guess the standard 220% dificulty is far easier than what Francis had to deal with.
Dunno if it affects tombs, but it affects the raids
Holy moly... I'm late to this, but... you're the Enclave from Fallout 2. You open vaults, take everything, harvest any bionics, and move on.
The Enclave knew what they were doing, this is a very fun way to live. You get to open new presents all the time.
Man there is so much info here that isnt on the wiki.
Nvm, just found the caravan packing spot.... 😴
ir Francis, could you pls do a nugget on caravans? Im struggling being so efficient as you make it look. Also having issues finding the clip where you explained how to do it. Thx upfront and keep m comming!
Very cool
Mount and World: Rimlord!
You don't really need to build bases at all for this. Just have 1 caravan with your stuff, enter a map with the rest of your crew, open the tomb take the stuff and leave. You can hit 3 tiles in a day doing this. You really only miss out on recreation, and you will have to stop eventually if you want to craft stuff/ gain phyfocus. But if you just want to open tombs this way is much much more efficient.
looks like a great way to reach the AI ship that i usually just ignore. 😂
I love when he finds the hammer, starts basically planning an entire episode worth of content, and then just without skipping a note goes back to his original commentary.
God I love this channel.
wow that is cool.
i have 2 bases, a central one and a secundary mining base, an army of alpacas to carry all the stuff back too.
I am now ready to lead a nomadic lifestyle should society suddenly collapse. Thanks FJ!
i planning to do it with both dlc
I'd be interested to see how far you could take this in terms of population
This was my favorite playthrough to watch.
Is this strategy still viable with animals now needing pens?
Not with Alpaca's unfortunately. The only animal I'm aware of that might serve as a similar replacement is the elephant.
All the other option can't graze so you would have to feed them regular food.
Actually, I found a nice workaround which also seems fitting for the nomadic life.
You simply toss down a caravan hitching post and the pawns will rope the animals on it.
I have run into a bug when they sometimes get loose from the post and it won't let me rope them but it is fixed by forming a caravan.
I've been having a blast!
very helpful- thanks!
One question- I understand why the Ascetic pawn, but with no throneroom, how does the bestower do his thing? After the first level (or two?) you need a throneroom (normally)
what Francis does (and me too, I'm playing this style) is take over the ancient danger, slap in some braziers and do the bestowing ceremony pretty quick. You're right though, the ascetic doesn't need a throneroom but the bestower wants to see one
@@danmiltenberger5616 nice one thanks- makes sense!
Is it okay if I keep a base and nomadic so I can come back to base
Is it reasonable to have a settlement and some nomads?
niiiice
Looking to try this run but was thinking how does the changes to animals impact this play style, they now need a pen and you can not zone them anymore ... build walls around the pen? Makes a quick exit harder? Then you have large amount of wooden walls just ready for a massive fire?
Playing nomadic now you have a couple of choices, use elephants and/or Thrumbo, (they still work the same as in this video) they are a bit tricky to get your hands on though. Alternatively use an animal hitching posts to keep the regular pack animals from wandering off, though it does make feeding them a bit tricky.
I wonder if you could do a semi-nomadic play through where you have a central base and you send out raiding party on to other tiles to raid the tomes. Then you could move your main base if needs be.
Yes, that's what I ended up doing. You have the issue of not being able to settle directly next to a settled tile or on an abandoned tile, but it's totally doable. I have Vanilla Expanded Events and since the beginning of the third year I've had almost continual base-confining events (psychic rain, drought, the long night, volcanic winter, and regular old toxic fallout). Technically I could have kept up the nomadic lifestyle but I thought thematically the pawns would have settled down. At first it was temporary, but they've grown accustomed to it and now I just send out 1-2 pawns occasionally to bag a tomb or grab one when sending out a trade caravan. At this point we're advanced/wealthy enough that the tombs don't offer much compared to the threat of getting a huge raid while a couple of pawns are gone (I only have six colonists). I mean sure, I could pick up some marine armor, but my crafter can make better stuff and I can make more money that I can spend with our haberdashery. In the early/mid game though it's such an OP strategy that I expect it will be nerfed in future updates.
If u use viking mod from vanilla expanded there a quest to raid a bunch of tomb and legendary grave
@@nicolasbram165 Yes, I used that mod for the same reason. It's really well made. That said, I realized something by comparing my playthrough to FJ's: mods like the VE ones add a lot of items, reducing the opportunity to get the really good vanilla items. I didn't see a single neuroformer or archotect part for the first four years because the additional items from the VE mods (also had VE weapons and armor) reduce the chance that the vanilla items will appear.
@@ichifish i dont think it reduce the change for body part (unless u use other mod that increase bionic part).. There always 1-3 body part and its random (dunno if wealth increase the change of archotech part).. But it reduce the change of doomsday tho.. Its really hard to get some doomsday with VE..
@Nicolas Bram Raiders, traders, and dangers aren't coded to have specific items; they're coded to pull from tables of potential items until they hit their point caps. Even on vanilla there aren't guaranteed items, it's just that some raids/locations/settlements have a more limited pool to draw from so the likelihood of something appearing increases. Thus having more mod items in the pool reduces the chance that vanilla items appear. For example I got a lot of Viking artifacts like cornucopias and lightning generators and crypto weapons/armor from VE Vikings instead of archotech parts/vanilla gear/vanilla artifacts. It's the same way events and threats are determined: if you have mods that add events you're less likely to see vanilla events. I raided more than 30 tombs and caravanned constantly, so I've got a good data set to compare with FJ's.
9:40
"If they stayed there forever they'd eventually starve to death. They're only producing 0.92 foods per day."
That's actually not true. When hunger gets below the "hungry" threshold, their hunger rate is half the normal rate (0.80 per day instead of 1.60). If the pawn is "very hungry", their hunger rate is even slower at 0.40 per day. Plus. while a pawn is starving they are still foraging for food even though they aren't losing hunger (although some of it will still be lost later since pawns recovering from malnutrition have a 50% to 60% higher hunger rate). Point is that if your pawn doesn't have a high growing skill enough to stay well fed, they will become hungry and receive a mood penalty, but their growing skill would need to be very low to actually starve to death.
10:55 does chocolate not help? i thought chocolate gave nutrition and rec? i always thought of it as ideal caravan food.
also - the planting skill helps with caravan foraging, i always send a good planter along with caravans because the berries they gather can be sold at the next trade stop for good weapons and flak vests! always worth it!
Chocolate is get but is crazy labour intensive. It's a type of tree you have to plant and it takes ages.
@@FrancisJohnYT yeah, should really act more like a bush, so you can harvest a few times (like in real life). there's a mod that added fruit trees to the game, but weirdly i think they left cocoa trees vanilla. they could easy have changed their mechanics - but didn't!
how do you get rimhud to display the move speed on the infocard?
I find this playstyle very fun and easy but i struggle with getting new people
The Ancient caskets are an easy source but if you are very picky it can be hard as you tend to have to run from a lot of fights early on.
Rimworld: Darkest Dungeon
What do you do if you get raided at night? I don't think Animal pulsers work when the animals are sleeping.
Do you others have also extreme performance problems when you want to set up a caravan?
No. I did have an issue once involving a mod, it adds food and medicine to the caravan depending on how many are in the caravan. So if that was ticked and I started adding people and animals it would slow down like crazy as it tried to calculate what to bring. To fix simply untick the box in the caravan screen or uninstall the mod.
whenever i open ancient dangers the mech inside never chase me, they just wander around. i can literally bring my own turrets and drop them in the same room, then go home and sleep, come back and collect dead mechs the next day
Mods maybe?
@@FrancisJohnYT perhaps, i am running too many to tell
Is there something in specific that lets you know its an ancient danger prior to walking past the wall?
Walls are always in pristine condition and it is made of stone - it's not 100%, but it can reduce amount of checking
1:11, wood traps are more than enough...
This is a tech barbarian playthrough
Technically you are a tomb raider, it just so happens that the tombs belong to people with way better tech than you. My final base was built around the colony ship you can run too, it was the first time we had power for the entire play through. I did not realize until I got there that even an un activated reactor still produces 1000 watts.
@@FrancisJohnYT It's a very out of the box way to play.
I tried to make a wh40k reference above
RIP donkey 22
I wonder how this style plays on Core... w/o Royalty.
What is the map seed name?
Use a smaller anima tree radius mod
Couldn't you use the burning tables trick to make all the ancients pass out from heatstroke? build a few wooden tables inside the tomb, light them on fire with molotovs, wait a bit for the temperature to rise a bit, build a door and close it after you shoot the casket open. Might make for easier gear recovery and prisoner taking, right?
As a tomb-raider myself I'd say it seems totally possible and might be good for the early game, but you would run the risk of killing the downed ones and friendlies would walk through the door, letting the others out. Spike traps work well because friendlies will dodge them. It's really just how much time you want to put into prepping / how cheaty it feels, as it's easy to build a spike trap maze.
someone i watched (can't remember who) did this with heaters but you could do it with campfires. They were walled in individual 'cells' to prevent them shooting each others with 2 heaters per cell i think. It was very effective and allowed stripping of all gear.
Whatever he meant by "good" at the end, according to the tales, we're not meant to listen...
How does this work now that pens and ideoligions are in the game?
Not a clue, still finishing my 1.2 playthrough. But from what I have heard trying to caravan more than 3 animals at a time takes to long. Also no fences when you settle a tile means the animals run off. Going to have to do some investigating but it looks like they broke nomadic.
@@FrancisJohnYT [O21] Penned Animal Config (allows you to choose which animals need pens.) also you can get the mod "Train all Animals" (so you can train ur donkeys). I cannot confirm the 3+ animals too slow thing, but i am following this guide on 1.3 without much issue using the 2 mods mentioned above.
I wonder if its possible to win the game this way.
Jes, you can collect good gears - but it should be difficult to protect a starship for 15 days, even if you just wall yourself in and be on drugs and bionics all the time.
Enemy raid in this game be like.. friendly fire is fine..
hi Francis, how did you remove a trait from your pawn?
My guess would be some sort of debug/sandbox mode. It's not a thing you can do normally in the game, aside from basically cheating with debug/sandbox. Luckily it's a single player game, so cheating like that only depends on your own conscience :P
@@Zaughon If I remember correctly, in debug tools there is no "add trait" or "remove trait" option, so unless he had a character editor mod, he had to modify save file to do this
I thought someone died and we go back to 7 people..
Also you can't yell at a horse in a Shrek voice every time they mess up.
Therefore donkeys are superior.
You can just deconstruct a corner wall and see inside the ancient danger.
He did that at some point when someone else pointed it out, but said it ruined the excitement of being forced to deal with whatever is in there once you open it, and I do agree with that.. his way makes it a lot more exciting. You never know what is in there, you just know that whatever it is, you have to deal with it :P
Also, i actually tried decontructing a corner in my game. The mech-hive in there somehow spotted me, and blasted down a wall themselves, and slaughtered me. So it's not a fully secure way to do it :D
@@Zaughon you can also half build a wall, then deconstruct the wall and consequently finish the wall for the same effect.
Yeah sometimes I want to go nomadic after all the disasters my colony runs into. I couldn’t stomach 500% difficulty though, I don’t even play regular difficulty, I think I have it ramped down to something like 30%. I think that’s just because I’m not great at the combat, the micro managing irks me and I generally prefer a gentle challenge in games rather than a stress fest. I might try this play style though, maybe rescue the ancients instead of murdering them. Snd fuck the empire, how viable is it to just find neuro-watchamacallits amd gain psy levels yourself? Do you have to just do the anima trees? I don’t think I’ve ever managed above a level two or three psycaster with like, okay-ish abilities.
Getting levels with the empire is tough for the last few, getting up to knight is fairly possible. But for nomadic you have to give it to an ascetic or they will get unhappy for not having a throne room.
Gaining levels from the tree is not to bad, it just takes a bunch of time. Minimize the distractions and keep everyone but food producers around the tree and you can max them out fairly quick.
The very end is broken? No luck? No patreons? Think 15-20 sec are missing?
*@Francis John*
19:27 This is not the right strategy, the pawn that is hunted should keep on running circles around his friends, so the enemy keeps running around while the other pawns shoot as much as they can, IF the enemy switches to hunting some other pawn, make that pawn run instead, but keep shooting as much as possible.
instead of "running alot" why not just turn the threat scale down?
Where is the fun in that? Eventually you will become strong enough that we won't need to run. The journey their makes it all the sweeter when you finally hit that point.
@@FrancisJohnYT because there is no fun in running all the time. You can adjust storyteller settings at any time in the game
@@nethzul Just changing in-game settings does not give you the same experience as actually being proactive about a threatening situation.
I suppose you guys are right. Im currently just waiting for them to fix caravan recreation issues
playing this game for 2 weeks now and find it a bit hard, just having a normal base without anything special happening is already hard but having attacks and so on becomes to many things to manage, like already had 2 marriages and 2 divorces, a couple of people destroying stuff and a lot of cray animals attacks, several zzts .... wow to many things, also several arms and legs and to many fingers, heheheheheh
Yeah, there's a lot to learn and the first couple of playthroughs are rough! Had more than a few tragic stories... Playing tomb-raider myself now and I'd say in a lot of ways it's actually easier than building a base.
@@ichifish hard is a understatement, like I just finish a mech cluster with build factories and another drops right after, playing nomadic might be best because I'm not even playing on hard and using Cassandra (level 2)
@custume For level 2 that does sound excessive. Cassandra should only be throwing about one major event per quadrum (15 days) at you, and since the threats scale with your wealth they shouldn't be consistently overwhelming. Are you using mods? What's your current wealth at?
I wouldn't do fully nomadic if you're still new to the game (I wouldn't do tribal either). It isn't obvious from Francis's playthroughs but there are a lot of challenges with nomadic runs because mechanically the game is designed for building a functioning base.
@@ichifish well my wealth is max out (like the pawns are on high expectations), I'm playing with tribal and have a very big base
@@custume If you google "rimworld how to manage mood" you'll find some good advice on the Steam forums. But for the first couple of playthroughs it's pretty typical to have lots of problems.
Why not grab the free slaves instead of freeing them? (pun not intended)
28:00 critters ?
He's a little confused, the oxygen isn't generally included.
He often mixes "pawn" and "duplicant" as well.
@@packediceisthebestminecraf9007 , I know , i watch both series , and it's not the best , it's wood
This is too confusing.... I guess Ill stay with the builder difficulty and have a good time of not dealing with all of this😂😂😆
If it's not too much trouble, could you please add a mod that hides their helmets, like Invisible Hats? It's a bit bland seeing them all in near-identical armour
Yes, totally agree! "Hide Hats When Not Needed" is another one. No hats if not drafted.
@@ichifish I disagree, but sure, some hats/helmets could show hairs, for which I use Hats Display Section mod
In title "No mods required". Then goes on to use 20 different mods
yes! YES YES YES FIRST ONCE MORE
"no mods required" -> has game full of mods, notable simple sidearms, gj
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