Day 557: A snowman appeared on the shuttle launch pad. Gus explained that it was there to insure safety. Day 602: The snowmen have started wearing gunlinks now. Gus says "Safety, duh!" Day 642: A snowman joined us in the sanctuary for a wedding. He lost his head just a bit and seemed to shed a melty tear during the ceremony. Gus sat next to him. Day 736: Marriage is on! The snowman cracked a joke about melting tailcaps and Gus was aroused and agreed to become his lover. Day 737: Tragedy! The wedding night was too hot for the new husband, and Gus is now a widow. It did add a new meaning to "Cuddle Puddle."
Babies with changing and precarious parenthood stories are the only thing missing for this to turn into a soap opera like The Bold and the Beautiful. 🤔
The whole mechanoid fight where the crops died I imagined Delair asking Ralph, "Why didn't he berserk any of the centipedes?" and Ralph answering, "It's probably better not to ask questions. Nobody died, and we won't starve as a result, let's call it a win." Admittedly, the skip shenanigans were funnier. I think the reason for Slim only being in one relationship is that after the things they've been through having to "make" so many people guilty by punching wargs, having to eat so many people,, having to betray so many people, makes her have trouble seeing other people as... people. Just a bunch of walking meat as far as Slim is concerned. I bet she has nightmares of the cold encroaching and killing everybody leaving her alone. That would be hard to deal with, especially sleeping in the same bed. So yeah, I don't think age has much to do with it. That's my head canon at least. The moral guide being Dorian Grey is too funny. I love it. Also, I cannot understate the degree to which I don't mind the length. I actually enjoy it when your content is longer. Your voice is very pleasant. Keep up the amazing work. Every day that you upload a video (especially a longer one) I get a moodboost like, +20 watched a Francis John video that lasts some indeterminate period of time (: "... hunt them into oblivion, grind them up into chemfuel, the usual." That cracks me up.
I get the same moodboost as well. Unfortunately, I don't own a table, so I constantly have the -10 Ate Without Table debuff. My coworkers are beginning to complain...
Just downloaded this video to watch on a plane trip - going to a wedding myself! Glad I've got headphones; the folks I'm sitting with might wonder about the human leather tailcaps...
I've been doing max transhumanist, and it actually starts to pay off when you get the bionics installed. The neuro-charging, sleep-accelerating, and what not are all multiplicative bonuses, so stacking a 10% consciousness bonus on a 25% manipulation bonus is really good. The slightly higher efficiency of the bionic stomach helps to offset the hunger rate gain from sleep accelerating and neuro-charging, but only 12.5% bonus despite it's 125% part efficiency. Bionic components like stomachs, hearts, and limbs also don't contribute to pawn wealth. Basically, transhumanism sucks unless you stack the bonuses high. Bionics plus buildings will allow the pawns to be much better than the game will think, which may be a necessary advantage if you want to rip the threat cap off!
I never thought of it that way. That moves transhumanists even farther into the late game meta, but transhumanists are already a late game meme to start with.
@@r3dp9 it's almost always best to evolve into transhumanism, unless you're a fan of peg legs! For real though, with so many pawns with peg legs, who is and isn't the pirates can be a tossup
I would lean towards nuclear stomachs that late game. You are always going to have max surgery chance to the cancers could be removed via surgery with only a 0.5% chance of death for every operation. Alternatively go full Lucy for maximum pawn power. I should point out that last I checked bionic parts do add to wealth, so generally you are better of having more pawn than highly upgraded pawns for fighting power. But once you hit raid cap I suppose it stops mattering.
@@FrancisJohnYT I'm not sure if it's new, or if I'm totally misinformed, but I was under the impression that replacements for limbs and organs already present doesn't increase pawn wealth. Adding a psychic reader, or even an immunoenhancer, should increase wealth. I think it's just the basic bionic limbs, and the heart and eyes. The stomach I'm not sure about. Also yeah I may just be big stoopy bc I am definitely leaving the threat cap on. AFAIK archotech components of any type add to wealth, and so do additional mods. My transhumanist leader is worth around 17k butt naked!
@@keatoncampbell820 Grab a pawn with bionics and open up their info tab. Click on market value and it will list all their bionics and what they are worth.
Just a suggestion, when pulling back from a mech raid beserk pulse will cover your retreat safely as long as it is on something tanky. Like the whole longer video thing. Was not sure this series was going to be up to the previous ones, but it exceeded my expectations. You could also make locust armour. The armour is.... OK... but it is an integrated jump pack and you can wear a shield belt wirh it. Handy if you don't use the ,'belts are not utility', mod. Power-wise, remember sunlamps are off at night, so there is a 6kw lower draw. The new 8.8kw draw from sleep accelerators is going to be not quite as onerous.
Eh to be fair being a cannibal on the rim is easy as people for some reason no matter how many losses they take still keep showing up and food and cooking is a chore in most colonies well unless you do nutrient paste I guess that's like the peaceful way to not have to deal with food .
Francis makes this seem easy, 24 pods, 12 ship reactors, all pawns with high tech armor and a nose jobs… I think we need a production graph as the one in Factorio. He’s probably pushing 10K science….
Once you get to deep drills the game changes drastically. We have two crafters are 19-20 skill who spend all their time crafting, components, adv components and high tech armour. We have 4 full time miners and 1 part time. Three of the full time miners have double drill arms to keep us stocked in steel, plasteel and gold. I'm just bringing online another two dedicated crafters as well to ramp production up even more. Rimworld is a bit of a factory style game once you get far enough in.
@@FrancisJohnYT You're either pumping out high tech weapons, or psychic monsters in the endgame at the moment... but the new expansion looks like it might be changing that
@@FrancisJohnYT Agreed. At first, I thought the nerf to deep drills was ridiculous but after playing so many games, I kind of understood why it's reasonable.
We would need to keep it clean every time it snows and I'm not willing to spend the time on it. I figure the odd snowman can be demolished if need be. Next time I'm summoning a shuttle I'll check for snowmen first.
According to the Wiki the biosculptor can bring down a pawns age to 18, and I feel like slim should leave the ice sheet as a teenager Or maybe make everyone 18 then go to war with the Teen Coalition for not actually being teenagers
It's just looking back at all the series you can see an escalating trend in evil. This series is feeling pretty mild compared to the last one even with the cannibalism and tail caps.
When a raid letter says the raiders will breach your walls, they will pick out an assigned colonist bed and go straight for it. Since all your colonist beds are in the same room, you can know exactly where they are headed. The raiders will beat down any walls in their way on their quest to the bed.
OMFG love this series FJ I work 3 to 5 days a week 12 hour shifts as a nurse and this series is a major part of my much awaited days off. Thank you for the awesome content 👍👍👍👍👍
I have absolutely loved this colony. I think this tops the delightful silliness of the ridiculous perfectly adapted organism of the combat tile colony and the wonderful fun of Dogsbody. I think you should save this colony one you have essentially won, then come back to it and start a Save our ship 2 run from the victory condition of this colony (starting a SOS2 run from the beginning can also be fun, but it is an entirely different animal where you are swimming in steel and components) after SOS2 has updated for the rimworld 1.4 (I think). I'm making a guide for SOS2 that I'll finish sometime soon so you'll know generally which direction to go once you try SOS2 (as I've played thousands of hours in SOS2 and I love it so very much). God I love the number of weddings and all the love polygons. It cracks me up. You should consider doing it again. I love the evil of each of the ridiculous killboxes you've made. Also you're my favorite content creator, certainly my favorite rimworld content creator, and if I ever stop being an impoverished person, I'll support you on patreon!!! You should consider streaming some time! You might find it fun!
Bear in mind that SOS2, even before you get any space tech, SOS2 changes the game via quest rewards (especially archowombs, which can hatch adorable archospiders). A first time player of SOS2 might want to be eased into it instead of starting with a full blown colony - ESPECIALLY if playing with additional game changing mods and/or DLCs (vanilla vampires here we come!)
23:50 a good point with the nutrient paste - you have the mood so high you could easily go on the nutrient paste for ages and have a massive stockpile of meals waiting
Francis, i just want to say I am LOVING this playthrough. I tried it myself and you think of the game so differently when it's just 1 pawn. I have a request. When I see the next episode that I see from my suggested it is sometimes the next episode, and sometimes not. a link to the playlist in the description and an end card of the playlist would help me find where I left off. the auto-play ISN'T good and jumps around to random episodes unless you format it as a Season/Episode format within settings. Thanks so much and keep up the great RImworld and ONI series!
Had no idea about Season/episode format in the playlist settings, this has been changed. Have also put the playlist link in the description. Good suggestions.
You know Francis really want to end the series fast when there is no comment compilation at the end. Don't worry Francis, we also eager to see you play the new DLC when it came out. XD
Yes, pets and beer. Since I once had a colony with a little puppy being an alcoholic, I tend to de-zone the beer rack for pets. Also, I once had a colony that had a pirate sapper raid that opened my storage room. On the absolute chaos of people fighting, a wild stallion rushed in and drank almost all the beer. It got hammered and passed out. Next day it was still in the storage room, hung-over and vomiting all over the place. I was so impressed that I tamed him. 😁
It is sort of a mixed bag though. You get all these massive bonuses from all the weddings, but it only takes 1 or 2 deaths and then you can quickly get an unstoppable death spiral of berserk mood breaks.
Hey Francis just wanna say I've binged this entire series so far in 3 days: honestly, it's absolutely fantastic content. Looking forward to a bonkers ending!
42:40 mass chaos skip is handy when there is urgency. i.e. explosions. It is useless 99% of the time but 1% the time it is the only thing that can save you. Trust me, I played your tribal wizards run with max pop challenge, full transhumanist wizard warriors.
Could have installed the "Go Explore!" mod, then prompted the quest where a nearby settlement is doing a ship startup, raided them with your forces and taken over their ship. It's a seriously defended settlement in that mod with 4-6 mortars and all.
You could roll over the theme of this base with the new DLC. I think children get introduced but I may be wrong... Make another "Love Puddle" colony and have a massive woven family tree started. You could even set them up with some schooling and brainwash your next generation to be anything.
I would save 1-5 characters with character editor and import them into a fresh save in 1.4. That would be less likely to run into compatibility issues.
I swear charity quests become the hardest quests to complete late game. Like "take care of 20 refugees and don't cut trees, kill animals, or mine because it's against their religion" or "donate 2000 herbal medicine/10000 silver" and it takes so long to haul everything that they leave before you can donate it all
Lately FJ needed a specific plan to keep a playthrough fresh. I don't think that's going to be the case with the new DLC. It's going to be an age of unplanned discovery and emergent goals.
The gunlink might work out very nicely if you have a high accuracy pawn (anyone at this point) and a legendary lance, and they can sit back safely and 1 shot people while the others are forward. No misses ever with that method.
at some point you should consider forgoing the wind turbines in favor of more ship reactors. then you could get rid of the batteries and become immune to zzzt events (when no batteries in network, the conduit gets set on fire but no explosion happens)
or build another sunlamp hydroponics setup to farm rice to power chemfuel generators, and since one hydroponics produces enougth rice to power one generator you get a net 20kW of "free" power one of the wind turbine fields should be enougth to fit everything and its a constant power source not like the ebbing wind turbines
Converting the wind turbine area to ship reactors would be a great space saver. Of course the expense is insane. For the 12 reactors we already built it cost 96 Advanced components, 840 Uranium, 3,360 Plasteel, 4,200 steel. With a little stretching we could fit in 16 reactors, but we would need to spend another year collecting the resources and crafting the advanced components.
The thing with imperial trader is that you don't really want them. They don't offer anything special, trade with your royalty only and, the most important, use the "any orbital trader" event. So basically it's a tradeoff of 30% less exotic/combat/bulk ones in exchange for limited mix-and-match guys
Imperial traders are good for three things: They sell more glittermeds, and they are guaranteed to stock royalty bionics. That's it though - combat suppliers are more likely to give you better weapons and armor, exotics are more likely to give you decent bionics and archotech, and bulk traders are guaranteed to carry enough raw resources to make whatever you want. Overall, unless you really want lots of glittermeds, imperial traders aren't worth it. You're better off revoking the title, then working your way up to knight/dame for the only useful permit (shuttle).
In this playthrough I have found that slave traders stopped showing up all together. So like you said it's Bulk, Combat, Exotic with the Empire now added. Combat traders are useless now, only components and doomsdays I don't need. But they buy tailcaps so lots of silver. Bulk goods traders are better, Neutroamine, Components, Advanced Components. The Neutroamine is for crafting into wake up to sell to traders that don't buy caps. Exotic traders Neutroamine, Components, Advanced Components, Shock and insanity lances. They don't buy hats but we have cash from all the hats we sell and wake up we produce. Finally the Empire traders, Components, Advanced Components and Persona weapons. Also psychic sensitizers which we can't get anywhere else. The persona weapons can have big benefits. I would rank them better than weapons traders, maybe slightly weaker than Bulk goods with Exotic good traders being the best for us. This is all based on the time we are in right now. Late game with great equipment and flooded in cash. I am willing to roll the dice and hope we get a good persona weapon. Even if we don't the empire still has components and adv components that we need in droves so they are not much of a downgrade from the other traders.
42:51 The point of mass chaos skip is to get your pawns out of the road if they walk into grenade while you blowing up the trees in the jungle Also saved my pawn once when I missed grenade to unstable power cell and blew up the grenadier in one hit
Hmm… that Thrumbo is eating all the bonsai trees and the hunger meter seems stuck at 44. 5 minutes later; 2 new Thrumbos and this one’s drinking 4 beers. They’ll fit right in. No bonsai tree shall ever be safe again.
You could probably remove a few grow lamps by switching to a 100% eco friendly diet based of human meat nutrient paste only. You can keep a bunch a lavish carnivore meals in stock to use them as a mood drug in case of emergency, just like the tea. Removing a bunch of grow lamps can probably save even more power by reducing the need of heating such a large room (not that it is the biggest power drain in your base at the moment). You also have a bunch a "wasted" space inside your base due to the old plans that you did for personnal bedrooms, you can probably remove a lot of the inner walls to gain some space. The only problem i can see with all of that, is what would your pawns do of their days? You would gain a lot of productivity by lower sleeping times, higher work speed, fewer work hours needed (a lot less planting, a lot less cooking). That being said, they would probably spent 50% of their time doing mariage ceremonies anyway.
5:45 Hold up, how many bonsai trees does it take to feed one thrumbo? How cost efficient vs space efficient is it to feed a thrumbo off of bonsai trees as opposed to grazing on hydroponics? On a temperate year round growing tile, are bonsai trees better at feeding thrumbo than grass tiles? I feel like bonsai trees have the potential to upset the dandelion meta.
The thrumbos can eat the fine meal (meat and veg) but not the emergency Carnivore fine meals (meat only). I really need to do up a back of lavish meals as well for extra mood bonus.
If they are hungry enough and there's no "proper reachable" food, thrumbos or any animal can and will consume as much as the entire stockpile of your happiness fuel, if they don't get downed or dead before it happens, a "standard" thrumbo, or any hard to tame animal, taming strategy was to box the sleeping beauty in a room without any food but only a stockpile of beer, they will eat until getting downed, you rescue it and hope for the animal rescue join chance as sometime, it has higher chance and safer than "normal" taming
You don't actually need one per colonist, as they don't use it every day. There's probably ~1/4 of the time that they stand supercharged, and don't have the desire.
I have to say that the reward from the pilgrim visit was a bit underwhelming, considering the only time I bothered with a reliquary, I received a doomsday. I didn't bother waiting to see what any other pilgrims gifted me, I was doing the Archonexus and just wanted it to be over, so I could start a normal, kill everything in the world run. :)
When you wrap this series up, humor us with a marriage death spiral mood bomb, how many will it take until the weddings aren’t enough? Unless of course it happens naturally, we’ll see =)
Hi Francis, might wanna try Family Tree mod (fork of Fluffy's Relationship Tab mod) and see how that works out for you "special case. Always looking forward to your new videos!
Don't forget, you have the skipshield psycast now, so less need to burn those shieldpacks. Also, if you are using your killbox as well as skipshields/shieldpacks, you can use the gunlinks to crank up the shooting beyond insane levels.
Skipshield might be useless in most gunfights since it doesn't let bullets out, but it could still save a shieldpack or two with clever positioning. Examples: Colonists are in range of centipede A and centipede B. Place a skipshield inbetween the colonists and centipede B, have all colonists focus fire centipede A. Colonist A is not in position to pop a shield pop. Place a skipshield adjacent to where Colonist A is going to stand, have the firing team hide in there until Colonist A is in position. Termites are shooting a wall. Place a skipshield over the wall to buy time. A raider starts aiming a doomsday. Place a skipshield in front of the raider. Have the firing line retreat so as to not hit the skipshield. A mixed melee/ranged raider group is attacking. Place a skipshield between the ranged enemies, and focus fire the melee units. Retreat afterwards to avoid shooting the skipshields.
You can't shoot out of a skipshield, unfortunately. If you don't have a ton of melee a good use for it is to cast it on/in front of enemies to isolate them while you focus on their comrades. Good for putting in front of pikemen, for example.
If you enslave them it makes the conversion easier for sure. But then you have to imprison them and break them all over again to hire them. Unless they are concrete hard to break or it's early game I tend to just risk it.
Inter is to bury, and interment is a burial. I suppose a smarter plan to emphasise how disposable they were would have been to put a space between r and n.
I hate to blow my comment on the first 3 minutes of an hour+ long video, but isn't it just like a pawn to build a snowman in a critical area rendering it useless?
You know, a classic rimworld trap from alpha used to be collapsing roofs on enemies. Normally it's with IEDs, but I forget if you can still manually detonate them or if they're all just proximity now. However, you can still collapse a roof if you use pillars and have your mass of pawns shoot the pillar out when the enemies are under its roof. It'd be fun to come up with a killbox that made use of that. It'll be expensive because you'd have to replace the pillars and IEDs after each raid, but would be hilarious.
A falling roof is pretty tame unless it's overhead mountain. Normal roofs rarely cause serious injury, and while they are good in the early game when outlanders have tribal levels of armor, they'll barely scratch a centipede. Now if you drop overhead mountain on anything, it gets straight up deleted, but I am noticing a severe lack of mountains on the map, so that won't work
Can you please explain the need for 12 ship reactors? You keep saying "this needs so much power" but I don't see it. Each pod only uses 50w when not in use. 50x24=1200w, but you are disconnecting them and only using 4 pods at a time: 20pods * 0w = 0w + 4pods * 200w = 800w needed at any given time. Why did you need 12000w of reactor power for this?
That age reversal trait is always kinda a bummer, it just makes most of your pawns not available most of the time, I usually get rid of it after awhile when taking transhumanist. Maybe i can tweak the time it takes to biosculpt or theres a mod for that already?
I am wondering if you wanted to max those pawns with bionics legs, arms and eyes, fancy stomachs and stoneskin glands? That would've been a real transhumanist approach to make them practically cyborgs))
Why so many ship reactors instead of chemfuel? A sunlamp + hydroponics is power-positive when run on chemfuel. That costs dupe labor of course but you'd get a lot more power from it
Each chem fuel generator is the same as a reactor. Running 12 chem fuel generators is a fair chunk of work. I wanted something a little easier to maintain. Plus I like the idea of running on a bunch of ship reactors it feels just the right amount of over the top.
Wouldn't mind seeing a video of all the exploits that used to be used, but are now patched out. Sort of a tribute to how badly you managed to break the game, and how they had to fix it! Looking at you, heat stroke psylinks.
I think I need to make a list just to figure out what we can't use anymore. The doomsday rockets now exploding on contact with a low shield is a huge change. The explosion also penetrates the shield so you are not full protected anymore.
Day 557: A snowman appeared on the shuttle launch pad. Gus explained that it was there to insure safety.
Day 602: The snowmen have started wearing gunlinks now. Gus says "Safety, duh!"
Day 642: A snowman joined us in the sanctuary for a wedding. He lost his head just a bit and seemed to shed a melty tear during the ceremony. Gus sat next to him.
Day 736: Marriage is on! The snowman cracked a joke about melting tailcaps and Gus was aroused and agreed to become his lover.
Day 737: Tragedy! The wedding night was too hot for the new husband, and Gus is now a widow. It did add a new meaning to "Cuddle Puddle."
With 7 husbands and 1 lover, I believe Gus should now be renamed to Emily, that's definitely how the Emily's exes gang was founded
Give it till the next patch and watch the zerg rush of babies appearing.
Not even close ? Emily had thousands of exes lol
Babies with changing and precarious parenthood stories are the only thing missing for this to turn into a soap opera like The Bold and the Beautiful. 🤔
Not enough - I have wished for a beutiful bisexual Emily since the start of the orgy. but no luck there
@@efethecaptain6 Emily HAD thousands of exes. I'd like to think Francis culled the numbers a bit
The whole mechanoid fight where the crops died I imagined Delair asking Ralph, "Why didn't he berserk any of the centipedes?" and Ralph answering, "It's probably better not to ask questions. Nobody died, and we won't starve as a result, let's call it a win." Admittedly, the skip shenanigans were funnier.
I think the reason for Slim only being in one relationship is that after the things they've been through having to "make" so many people guilty by punching wargs, having to eat so many people,, having to betray so many people, makes her have trouble seeing other people as... people. Just a bunch of walking meat as far as Slim is concerned. I bet she has nightmares of the cold encroaching and killing everybody leaving her alone. That would be hard to deal with, especially sleeping in the same bed. So yeah, I don't think age has much to do with it. That's my head canon at least.
The moral guide being Dorian Grey is too funny. I love it. Also, I cannot understate the degree to which I don't mind the length. I actually enjoy it when your content is longer. Your voice is very pleasant. Keep up the amazing work. Every day that you upload a video (especially a longer one) I get a moodboost like, +20 watched a Francis John video that lasts some indeterminate period of time (:
"... hunt them into oblivion, grind them up into chemfuel, the usual." That cracks me up.
I get the same moodboost as well. Unfortunately, I don't own a table, so I constantly have the -10 Ate Without Table debuff. My coworkers are beginning to complain...
I got catharsis watching this video
"We successfully helped people, no murderage was involved."
*zooms in on massive pile of corpses you plan to turn into hats*
The moment you realize you are so proud of NOT being a murdering psycho is a true revelation in Rimworld!
"What the hell? Did you murder all the people?"
"No! No. I'm not a monster. I let a few live."
tfw all your hat material leaves the tile
He didn't murder THOSE exact people, so he's a man of his word.
Game: you did something lawfully good, here is a reward
Francis: confused chaotic evil noise
Just downloaded this video to watch on a plane trip - going to a wedding myself! Glad I've got headphones; the folks I'm sitting with might wonder about the human leather tailcaps...
I've been doing max transhumanist, and it actually starts to pay off when you get the bionics installed. The neuro-charging, sleep-accelerating, and what not are all multiplicative bonuses, so stacking a 10% consciousness bonus on a 25% manipulation bonus is really good. The slightly higher efficiency of the bionic stomach helps to offset the hunger rate gain from sleep accelerating and neuro-charging, but only 12.5% bonus despite it's 125% part efficiency. Bionic components like stomachs, hearts, and limbs also don't contribute to pawn wealth.
Basically, transhumanism sucks unless you stack the bonuses high. Bionics plus buildings will allow the pawns to be much better than the game will think, which may be a necessary advantage if you want to rip the threat cap off!
I never thought of it that way. That moves transhumanists even farther into the late game meta, but transhumanists are already a late game meme to start with.
@@r3dp9 it's almost always best to evolve into transhumanism, unless you're a fan of peg legs! For real though, with so many pawns with peg legs, who is and isn't the pirates can be a tossup
I would lean towards nuclear stomachs that late game. You are always going to have max surgery chance to the cancers could be removed via surgery with only a 0.5% chance of death for every operation. Alternatively go full Lucy for maximum pawn power.
I should point out that last I checked bionic parts do add to wealth, so generally you are better of having more pawn than highly upgraded pawns for fighting power. But once you hit raid cap I suppose it stops mattering.
@@FrancisJohnYT I'm not sure if it's new, or if I'm totally misinformed, but I was under the impression that replacements for limbs and organs already present doesn't increase pawn wealth. Adding a psychic reader, or even an immunoenhancer, should increase wealth. I think it's just the basic bionic limbs, and the heart and eyes. The stomach I'm not sure about.
Also yeah I may just be big stoopy bc I am definitely leaving the threat cap on. AFAIK archotech components of any type add to wealth, and so do additional mods. My transhumanist leader is worth around 17k butt naked!
@@keatoncampbell820 Grab a pawn with bionics and open up their info tab. Click on market value and it will list all their bionics and what they are worth.
To the patron supporter named "Does anyone actually read the names", I see you
Just a suggestion, when pulling back from a mech raid beserk pulse will cover your retreat safely as long as it is on something tanky.
Like the whole longer video thing. Was not sure this series was going to be up to the previous ones, but it exceeded my expectations.
You could also make locust armour. The armour is.... OK... but it is an integrated jump pack and you can wear a shield belt wirh it. Handy if you don't use the ,'belts are not utility', mod.
Power-wise, remember sunlamps are off at night, so there is a 6kw lower draw. The new 8.8kw draw from sleep accelerators is going to be not quite as onerous.
You know, with all the weddings and ceremonies going on, you kind of start to forget that this is a colony of cannibals
Eh to be fair being a cannibal on the rim is easy as people for some reason no matter how many losses they take still keep showing up and food and cooking is a chore in most colonies well unless you do nutrient paste I guess that's like the peaceful way to not have to deal with food .
To be fair I think there is definitely a logical link between the polyamory and the cannibalism. These ice-sheet pawns just love people!
When you know live can be short (cause you shorten them for a lot of people) marriage and making love becomes a top priority to fully enjoy your life!
Francis makes this seem easy, 24 pods, 12 ship reactors, all pawns with high tech armor and a nose jobs… I think we need a production graph as the one in Factorio. He’s probably pushing 10K science….
All on losing is fun, 500%, randy and on the ice sheet... without reloading, its incredible
@@SoleilCrafts It's a solid playthrough, but honestly 500% makes it easier to ramp fast... providing you can survive the danger
Once you get to deep drills the game changes drastically. We have two crafters are 19-20 skill who spend all their time crafting, components, adv components and high tech armour.
We have 4 full time miners and 1 part time. Three of the full time miners have double drill arms to keep us stocked in steel, plasteel and gold.
I'm just bringing online another two dedicated crafters as well to ramp production up even more. Rimworld is a bit of a factory style game once you get far enough in.
@@FrancisJohnYT You're either pumping out high tech weapons, or psychic monsters in the endgame at the moment... but the new expansion looks like it might be changing that
@@FrancisJohnYT Agreed. At first, I thought the nerf to deep drills was ridiculous but after playing so many games, I kind of understood why it's reasonable.
You can designate the landing pad as a snow clear area so they stop building snowmen there
We would need to keep it clean every time it snows and I'm not willing to spend the time on it. I figure the odd snowman can be demolished if need be.
Next time I'm summoning a shuttle I'll check for snowmen first.
51:23 "And that right there is the final pod", now you have to hire someone named HAL. Open the pod bay doors Hal.
>Wedding tolerance (Massive)
According to the Wiki the biosculptor can bring down a pawns age to 18, and I feel like slim should leave the ice sheet as a teenager
Or maybe make everyone 18 then go to war with the Teen Coalition for not actually being teenagers
FJ: "Proof that we actually helped people ... feels weird." 😂
It's just looking back at all the series you can see an escalating trend in evil. This series is feeling pretty mild compared to the last one even with the cannibalism and tail caps.
When a raid letter says the raiders will breach your walls, they will pick out an assigned colonist bed and go straight for it. Since all your colonist beds are in the same room, you can know exactly where they are headed. The raiders will beat down any walls in their way on their quest to the bed.
OMFG love this series FJ I work 3 to 5 days a week 12 hour shifts as a nurse and this series is a major part of my much awaited days off. Thank you for the awesome content 👍👍👍👍👍
I have absolutely loved this colony. I think this tops the delightful silliness of the ridiculous perfectly adapted organism of the combat tile colony and the wonderful fun of Dogsbody. I think you should save this colony one you have essentially won, then come back to it and start a Save our ship 2 run from the victory condition of this colony (starting a SOS2 run from the beginning can also be fun, but it is an entirely different animal where you are swimming in steel and components) after SOS2 has updated for the rimworld 1.4 (I think). I'm making a guide for SOS2 that I'll finish sometime soon so you'll know generally which direction to go once you try SOS2 (as I've played thousands of hours in SOS2 and I love it so very much).
God I love the number of weddings and all the love polygons. It cracks me up. You should consider doing it again.
I love the evil of each of the ridiculous killboxes you've made.
Also you're my favorite content creator, certainly my favorite rimworld content creator, and if I ever stop being an impoverished person, I'll support you on patreon!!! You should consider streaming some time! You might find it fun!
Bear in mind that SOS2, even before you get any space tech, SOS2 changes the game via quest rewards (especially archowombs, which can hatch adorable archospiders). A first time player of SOS2 might want to be eased into it instead of starting with a full blown colony - ESPECIALLY if playing with additional game changing mods and/or DLCs (vanilla vampires here we come!)
23:50 a good point with the nutrient paste - you have the mood so high you could easily go on the nutrient paste for ages and have a massive stockpile of meals waiting
Francis, i just want to say I am LOVING this playthrough. I tried it myself and you think of the game so differently when it's just 1 pawn. I have a request. When I see the next episode that I see from my suggested it is sometimes the next episode, and sometimes not. a link to the playlist in the description and an end card of the playlist would help me find where I left off. the auto-play ISN'T good and jumps around to random episodes unless you format it as a Season/Episode format within settings. Thanks so much and keep up the great RImworld and ONI series!
Had no idea about Season/episode format in the playlist settings, this has been changed. Have also put the playlist link in the description.
Good suggestions.
Gus is running out of fingers to put rings on, I imagine she would use them as gold knuckles in a fist fight
Francis John: "I don't think I've ever actually helped people before"
"And we didnt even betray them despite the offer, no murderage was involved" Gandhi.
You know Francis really want to end the series fast when there is no comment compilation at the end. Don't worry Francis, we also eager to see you play the new DLC when it came out. XD
You can designate the landing zone as a clean snow area, so your pawns don't build a snowman there.
We would need to keep it clean every time it snows and I'm not willing to spend the time on it. I figure the odd snowman can be demolished if need be.
What I'm learning from the name of this new expansion is that this game is actually called "RIBworld" and we've all been reading it wrong
Yes, pets and beer. Since I once had a colony with a little puppy being an alcoholic, I tend to de-zone the beer rack for pets.
Also, I once had a colony that had a pirate sapper raid that opened my storage room. On the absolute chaos of people fighting, a wild stallion rushed in and drank almost all the beer. It got hammered and passed out. Next day it was still in the storage room, hung-over and vomiting all over the place. I was so impressed that I tamed him. 😁
Sounds like you provided them a good home :)
@@FrancisJohnYT I did. I even tamed him a mare for company. 😁
You have a busy week and have 3 episodes to binge on, then as if by magic you get the start of a bionic thrumbo army. Yessssssssssssss.
It is sort of a mixed bag though. You get all these massive bonuses from all the weddings, but it only takes 1 or 2 deaths and then you can quickly get an unstoppable death spiral of berserk mood breaks.
? I thought the potential for unstoppable berserk spirals was the whole point.
Hey Francis just wanna say I've binged this entire series so far in 3 days: honestly, it's absolutely fantastic content. Looking forward to a bonkers ending!
Ok, next person to build a snowman here is punching warg. Last warning.
*wargning
42:40 mass chaos skip is handy when there is urgency. i.e. explosions. It is useless 99% of the time but 1% the time it is the only thing that can save you. Trust me, I played your tribal wizards run with max pop challenge, full transhumanist wizard warriors.
Could have installed the "Go Explore!" mod, then prompted the quest where a nearby settlement is doing a ship startup, raided them with your forces and taken over their ship. It's a seriously defended settlement in that mod with 4-6 mortars and all.
may be a bit micromanagy, but could the gun link be a good fit on a shelf near the mortars to help with shelling?
Did some testing on that and the gun link does not look to help with mortar accuracy unfortunately.
Upgrade those thrumbos into battlemechs! Thrumbonator, Cyberthrumbo, and Thrumborg. Just some thoughts ;)
You could roll over the theme of this base with the new DLC. I think children get introduced but I may be wrong... Make another "Love Puddle" colony and have a massive woven family tree started. You could even set them up with some schooling and brainwash your next generation to be anything.
I would save 1-5 characters with character editor and import them into a fresh save in 1.4. That would be less likely to run into compatibility issues.
"who built a snowman in the landing area" 🤣
"Would like to build a snowman?"
Gotta love the love 5 dimensional jigsaw puzzle
What sort of tortured Calvin & Hobbes snowmen do you think these colonists make?
Every video, I just keep wanting to say, Thank you!!
Recommendation "uncheck Meeting area on tables. " We don't want parties at those spots.
I just love that you have a legendary charge rifle just sitting in a reliquary. Unused and waiting for the grand finale :D
I swear charity quests become the hardest quests to complete late game. Like "take care of 20 refugees and don't cut trees, kill animals, or mine because it's against their religion" or "donate 2000 herbal medicine/10000 silver" and it takes so long to haul everything that they leave before you can donate it all
Lately FJ needed a specific plan to keep a playthrough fresh. I don't think that's going to be the case with the new DLC. It's going to be an age of unplanned discovery and emergent goals.
The gunlink might work out very nicely if you have a high accuracy pawn (anyone at this point) and a legendary lance, and they can sit back safely and 1 shot people while the others are forward. No misses ever with that method.
at some point you should consider forgoing the wind turbines in favor of more ship reactors. then you could get rid of the batteries and become immune to zzzt events (when no batteries in network, the conduit gets set on fire but no explosion happens)
or build another sunlamp hydroponics setup to farm rice to power chemfuel generators, and since one hydroponics produces enougth rice to power one generator you get a net 20kW of "free" power
one of the wind turbine fields should be enougth to fit everything and its a constant power source not like the ebbing wind turbines
Converting the wind turbine area to ship reactors would be a great space saver. Of course the expense is insane. For the 12 reactors we already built it cost
96 Advanced components, 840 Uranium, 3,360 Plasteel, 4,200 steel.
With a little stretching we could fit in 16 reactors, but we would need to spend another year collecting the resources and crafting the advanced components.
The thing with imperial trader is that you don't really want them. They don't offer anything special, trade with your royalty only and, the most important, use the "any orbital trader" event. So basically it's a tradeoff of 30% less exotic/combat/bulk ones in exchange for limited mix-and-match guys
Imperial traders are good for three things: They sell more glittermeds, and they are guaranteed to stock royalty bionics. That's it though - combat suppliers are more likely to give you better weapons and armor, exotics are more likely to give you decent bionics and archotech, and bulk traders are guaranteed to carry enough raw resources to make whatever you want.
Overall, unless you really want lots of glittermeds, imperial traders aren't worth it. You're better off revoking the title, then working your way up to knight/dame for the only useful permit (shuttle).
In this playthrough I have found that slave traders stopped showing up all together. So like you said it's Bulk, Combat, Exotic with the Empire now added.
Combat traders are useless now, only components and doomsdays I don't need. But they buy tailcaps so lots of silver.
Bulk goods traders are better, Neutroamine, Components, Advanced Components. The Neutroamine is for crafting into wake up to sell to traders that don't buy caps.
Exotic traders Neutroamine, Components, Advanced Components, Shock and insanity lances. They don't buy hats but we have cash from all the hats we sell and wake up we produce.
Finally the Empire traders, Components, Advanced Components and Persona weapons. Also psychic sensitizers which we can't get anywhere else. The persona weapons can have big benefits. I would rank them better than weapons traders, maybe slightly weaker than Bulk goods with Exotic good traders being the best for us.
This is all based on the time we are in right now. Late game with great equipment and flooded in cash. I am willing to roll the dice and hope we get a good persona weapon. Even if we don't the empire still has components and adv components that we need in droves so they are not much of a downgrade from the other traders.
42:51
The point of mass chaos skip is to get your pawns out of the road if they walk into grenade while you blowing up the trees in the jungle
Also saved my pawn once when I missed grenade to unstable power cell and blew up the grenadier in one hit
Hmm… that Thrumbo is eating all the bonsai trees and the hunger meter seems stuck at 44.
5 minutes later; 2 new Thrumbos and this one’s drinking 4 beers. They’ll fit right in.
No bonsai tree shall ever be safe again.
Looking forward to the comments highlight next week. This playthrough has been awesome so far. Thanks for your hard work Francis. Cheers.
You could probably remove a few grow lamps by switching to a 100% eco friendly diet based of human meat nutrient paste only. You can keep a bunch a lavish carnivore meals in stock to use them as a mood drug in case of emergency, just like the tea. Removing a bunch of grow lamps can probably save even more power by reducing the need of heating such a large room (not that it is the biggest power drain in your base at the moment).
You also have a bunch a "wasted" space inside your base due to the old plans that you did for personnal bedrooms, you can probably remove a lot of the inner walls to gain some space.
The only problem i can see with all of that, is what would your pawns do of their days? You would gain a lot of productivity by lower sleeping times, higher work speed, fewer work hours needed (a lot less planting, a lot less cooking). That being said, they would probably spent 50% of their time doing mariage ceremonies anyway.
5:45 Hold up, how many bonsai trees does it take to feed one thrumbo? How cost efficient vs space efficient is it to feed a thrumbo off of bonsai trees as opposed to grazing on hydroponics? On a temperate year round growing tile, are bonsai trees better at feeding thrumbo than grass tiles? I feel like bonsai trees have the potential to upset the dandelion meta.
1:17 Francis you promised you wouldn't eat the guests.
nothing wrong with MJ, in fact I kinda like him
So the thrumbos can live off of the carnivore fine meals but not eat the carnivore fine meals? I'm really not following what you said at about 1:11:00
The thrumbos can eat the fine meal (meat and veg) but not the emergency Carnivore fine meals (meat only). I really need to do up a back of lavish meals as well for extra mood bonus.
I hope you make a video about what exploit or other stuff that got patched out
GG. @4:45 "Beauty is only nose deep."
Francis, you should put them on paste now while they have all the marriages boosting them, save those for the end!
No more punching a warg to get someone guilty too. They're probably watching you closely. 👀
If they are hungry enough and there's no "proper reachable" food, thrumbos or any animal can and will consume as much as the entire stockpile of your happiness fuel, if they don't get downed or dead before it happens, a "standard" thrumbo, or any hard to tame animal, taming strategy was to box the sleeping beauty in a room without any food but only a stockpile of beer, they will eat until getting downed, you rescue it and hope for the animal rescue join chance as sometime, it has higher chance and safer than "normal" taming
I did a lot of silly things in this game, but I have yet to tame a male and a female thrumbo despite my best efforts. Hats off to you.
lol Silly Ass.... Just MOVE the doors :P
physically appealing +20 , may be those nose surgeries do work!
I'd be really keen to see your opinion on the 1.4 changelog and various announcements for Biotech
You don't actually need one per colonist, as they don't use it every day. There's probably ~1/4 of the time that they stand supercharged, and don't have the desire.
The narrative has a minor typo.. 'sever' instead of 'severe'..
I have to say that the reward from the pilgrim visit was a bit underwhelming, considering the only time I bothered with a reliquary, I received a doomsday. I didn't bother waiting to see what any other pilgrims gifted me, I was doing the Archonexus and just wanted it to be over, so I could start a normal, kill everything in the world run. :)
The new expansion probably won't happen for at least 1-2 weeks . You've got time.
When you wrap this series up, humor us with a marriage death spiral mood bomb, how many will it take until the weddings aren’t enough?
Unless of course it happens naturally, we’ll see =)
The good news is eventually everyone will be married to everyone else... Then no more marriages until you get new people
Simple meals for animals! that is how I feed my bear, megasloth, thrumbo army, they dont care if it is human meat too
Hi Francis, might wanna try Family Tree mod (fork of Fluffy's Relationship Tab mod) and see how that works out for you "special case. Always looking forward to your new videos!
Don't forget, you have the skipshield psycast now, so less need to burn those shieldpacks. Also, if you are using your killbox as well as skipshields/shieldpacks, you can use the gunlinks to crank up the shooting beyond insane levels.
Skipshield might be useless in most gunfights since it doesn't let bullets out, but it could still save a shieldpack or two with clever positioning. Examples:
Colonists are in range of centipede A and centipede B. Place a skipshield inbetween the colonists and centipede B, have all colonists focus fire centipede A.
Colonist A is not in position to pop a shield pop. Place a skipshield adjacent to where Colonist A is going to stand, have the firing team hide in there until Colonist A is in position.
Termites are shooting a wall. Place a skipshield over the wall to buy time.
A raider starts aiming a doomsday. Place a skipshield in front of the raider. Have the firing line retreat so as to not hit the skipshield.
A mixed melee/ranged raider group is attacking. Place a skipshield between the ranged enemies, and focus fire the melee units. Retreat afterwards to avoid shooting the skipshields.
You can't shoot out of a skipshield, unfortunately. If you don't have a ton of melee a good use for it is to cast it on/in front of enemies to isolate them while you focus on their comrades. Good for putting in front of pikemen, for example.
In the last episode, you should replace all the walls, or at least the interior walls, with silver
If you ain't got the stats...HATS!
You can just enslave the pawn to get the -30 from expectations off but I guess you already know that.
If you enslave them it makes the conversion easier for sure. But then you have to imprison them and break them all over again to hire them.
Unless they are concrete hard to break or it's early game I tend to just risk it.
54:50 A neural supercharge also increases hunger rate, btw.
18:34 and a termite in a pear tree
This gang is so relative...
i've been playing this game for.. i dunno how long. wtf does a baby thrumbo look like?!?!?!
It looks like a slightly smaller thrumbo.
Francis keeps forgetting about berserk psycasts :P
i had stroke reading title
Curious, why did you capitalize the T in intern?
Inter is to bury, and interment is a burial.
I suppose a smarter plan to emphasise how disposable they were would have been to put a space between r and n.
It is so weird to see a research tree where geothermal power has not been researched ... 😅
you really should use the polygame-bed-mod
I hate to blow my comment on the first 3 minutes of an hour+ long video, but isn't it just like a pawn to build a snowman in a critical area rendering it useless?
Between sex, marriages, and murder, I don't know how they have time to do any work!
The weddings were really eating into the productivity near the end. I think weddings need a cool down/
Can't you use the solar pinhole to heat the room when you get a solar flare?
I forgot to try, I am curious to see how much heat it produces. Though the light might be to much for our darksight colonists.
I really want to see if fj will be able to dominate an ultramodded run by only using "true vanilla" stuff
You know, a classic rimworld trap from alpha used to be collapsing roofs on enemies. Normally it's with IEDs, but I forget if you can still manually detonate them or if they're all just proximity now.
However, you can still collapse a roof if you use pillars and have your mass of pawns shoot the pillar out when the enemies are under its roof. It'd be fun to come up with a killbox that made use of that. It'll be expensive because you'd have to replace the pillars and IEDs after each raid, but would be hilarious.
Manual detonation by shooting at it
A falling roof is pretty tame unless it's overhead mountain. Normal roofs rarely cause serious injury, and while they are good in the early game when outlanders have tribal levels of armor, they'll barely scratch a centipede. Now if you drop overhead mountain on anything, it gets straight up deleted, but I am noticing a severe lack of mountains on the map, so that won't work
Can you please explain the need for 12 ship reactors? You keep saying "this needs so much power" but I don't see it. Each pod only uses 50w when not in use. 50x24=1200w, but you are disconnecting them and only using 4 pods at a time: 20pods * 0w = 0w + 4pods * 200w = 800w needed at any given time. Why did you need 12000w of reactor power for this?
*sigh* Had I waited 2m longer in the video I'd have my answer. I didn't know the power requirements of the neural charger things was constant.
Yeah neither did I, going transhumanist is really power intensive.
That age reversal trait is always kinda a bummer, it just makes most of your pawns not available most of the time, I usually get rid of it after awhile when taking transhumanist.
Maybe i can tweak the time it takes to biosculpt or theres a mod for that already?
Only takes 2.8 days with the transhumanist meme and sterile tiles. Only needs to be done once very 60 days so it's pretty easy already.
Looking forward to this ending and the new run. Also Gus is female? Had me confused for a bit.
Longest episode so far 👌
I am wondering if you wanted to max those pawns with bionics legs, arms and eyes, fancy stomachs and stoneskin glands? That would've been a real transhumanist approach to make them practically cyborgs))
Did not have time to get around to all that, that was the original plan. Nuclear stomachs, bionic eyes and full cyborg wargs.
what is the name of the mod that lets you create groups?
LTO Colony Groups - DerekBickley
@@FrancisJohnYT thanks, bro
can you tame (recruit) a centipede
Why so many ship reactors instead of chemfuel? A sunlamp + hydroponics is power-positive when run on chemfuel. That costs dupe labor of course but you'd get a lot more power from it
Each chem fuel generator is the same as a reactor. Running 12 chem fuel generators is a fair chunk of work. I wanted something a little easier to maintain. Plus I like the idea of running on a bunch of ship reactors it feels just the right amount of over the top.
Wouldn't mind seeing a video of all the exploits that used to be used, but are now patched out. Sort of a tribute to how badly you managed to break the game, and how they had to fix it! Looking at you, heat stroke psylinks.
I think I need to make a list just to figure out what we can't use anymore. The doomsday rockets now exploding on contact with a low shield is a huge change.
The explosion also penetrates the shield so you are not full protected anymore.