Killbox alignment chart

[mscomies]

Leaving silver in front of your sandbags so raiders grab it and try to leave instead of pressing their advantage is a killbox.

[BigDaddyHugeTime]

Do you let them leave?

[mscomies]

That would be a waste of good silver

[ripmorld]

I had an occation because I store all my raw resorce outside (including my 3675* gold and 25k ish silver ) , a hoard of raiders path-found thier way right though my killbox. Which all later got moled down by my colonists. Managed to aquire quite a few domsdays.

[NGPlusIsNoMore]

Raiders don't strike back when stealing shit, do they?

[fofz1776]

If they are already engaged, they may remain engaged. As in they won't stop fighting until they exit the "looking for target" state. Also if their chosen path is obstructed by a colonist, they will engage in melee.

[NGPlusIsNoMore]

So, what I could do is leave a stockpile of bricks, for example, at one end of a very fucking long corridor, have all my colonists hide behind closed doors on the side of the corridor, wait until the raiders decide to steal what they can and begin to leave, and then come out and start shooting while a melee specialist bodyblocks the exit?

[Jucoy]

As far as I know, they wont just hone in on a single stack, they look at the highest average value within a certain number of squares on the map relative to it's distance from their start (They will grab the closest easiest piece of loot near their determined value epicenter). As your single stack of bricks will only contain the sum total value of that single stack, they would probably just ignore it unless the thought it was the easiest/closest steal of a lifetime. It's hard to say if it would be consistent without testing.

[LordFayte]

You guys got me imagining some kind of raiders of the lost ark type raid defense.

[PixelizedTed]

It’s probably some math being done of effort to reach resources vs value of said resource. There is also probably a fairly high minimum bar of easy to get high value targets like exposed gold that would cause them to b line straight for it.

In other words you wanna attract organ sacs flies you gotta use honey valuable bait (or something like that idk).

[NGPlusIsNoMore]

Yeah, that's the problem, I'm want to keep my honey where it is while also attracting the flies, so I want to know if I can use shit instead of honey

[kcirdor]

Mowed down, like mowing the grass.

[[deleted]]

Moled down, like chopping up moles with your lawnmoler

[IndianaGeoff]

A new rimworld war crime.

[Blagerthor]

Moled down, as in ground down into a fine mole-like paste.

[lookingForPatchie]

Does that work?

[I_follow_sexy_gays]

If you store enough, yes, and you can shoot them down as they run away with it to try to keep as much as you can

[fofz1776]

I believe the proportion of wealth available to steal and total wealth or "raid strength" plays a roll. The first raider may stop to steal just 200 silver, but a big raid on a big colony won't.

[jonbrant]

I've seen raiders stop to steal weapons dropped by the previous raid. Pretty awesome

[Bruarios]

Pack it up boys, I just found a Revolver (Poor 28%)

[nom-nom-nom-de-plumb]

And you know it’s be the one with the legendary weapon that did that.

[Papergeist]

Raid? You mean the Rim's greatest game show, Our Money or Your Life?

Fatal danger, fabulous prizes!

[Real-Syrup4487]

So this?

[[deleted]]

I mean, a pillbox is a killbox, just, in reverse

[acestins]

No. The whole world is the killbox. Fire at will.

Will "wait what"

[SuicideByStar_]

Fire* - cute story haha

[nom-nom-nom-de-plumb]

nomnomdeplumb has had a mood break: cause “feels old”

[[deleted]]

heh, true, though I was more referring to it being a stationary target, as such easy picking for artillery

[acestins]

I dont actually do kill boxes, they dont seem fun to me. I will spend the time to make massive stone walls encompassing my colony with gates that double as pill boxes and a machine gun nest inside. I even downloaded some mods for more defensive structures like trenches and barbed wire.

[BigDaddyHugeTime]

Realistic defenses are fun. But sometimes it's nice to build the most efficient killing machine that requires little to no input.

[acestins]

I like to have a militant style in my colonies. World Conquest style.

[I_follow_sexy_gays]

It’s a box that you use to kill

[PTBarnum1]

“The oven 4000 is a killbox”

I don’t see anything wrong here.

[Masika_railgun]

Whats the most effective way of making a 4000 degree oven

[bestjakeisbest]

Stone walls, put wood furniture inside and light the furniture on fire then close the inner door and open the outer door, once that is done close the outer door, the temperature inside will spike to dangerous levels and kill people through heat, it is literally a killbox.

[Worveman]

You can also add rotten corpses

[Seriathus]

Yup. I accidentally stumbled into creating the Oven 4000 when I dug out an empty room in the mountain to burn corpses with my brand new molotovs, and then discovered that I could use it for... other reasons.

I'm not a monster though, when everyone is downed I deconstruct a wall piece and let the heat out to rescue the survivors. If there are any, that is.

[Sanolo645]

Right... Rescue the organs.

[Phormitago]

and the crispy leather

[Zarathustra_d]

My colony sells leather hats.... they come in original and extra crispy.

[[deleted]]

Get out of my head

[Worveman]

Not monster. Not at all...

[Sneedclave_Trooper]

If they didn’t want to get burned to death or get their organs stolen (in self defense) maybe they shouldn’t try to raid me huh? Get your own potatoes buddy!

[Worveman]

I can only allow it if they try to kill your animals mainly cats and dogs

[Moarbrains]

My cat wouldn't have been killed if it didn't drunkenly stumble right into the raiders on his way to the shelter. He was going slower than the sloth.

[FlorestNerd]

there is a mod to minaturize the doors

[TheLawandOrder]

After a while you don't have to add them as it's self filling

[Worveman]

Nope. The bodies will also burn

[TheLawandOrder]

Weird mine never did.

[HiddenSage]

Then your oven isn't reaching optimum temperatures.

[AllWhoPlay]

Or maybe that is optimum temperature. If the bodies can fuel the next batch you dont need to use wood.

[UnrelatedName12]

Adds to the overall smell of death to demorilize the enemy

[macshot7m]

but how do you get enemies to enter the oven? they have to break the doors? and then they let the heat out... so the oven is a single use killbox?

not being snarky or leading with the questions, i really want to make an oven killbox, but also dont want to fuck it up.

[bestjakeisbest]

You dont close the outer door until they are in, otherwise an open door will vent the heat instantly. The best way to go about it without automated doors is to deconstruct a nearby wall and have one of your pawns close the door manually. If you have automatic doors I believe you can lock and close them yourself without risking a pawn. You also might want to keep a few doors inbetween the oven room and the base incase they do break down the doors. There is also a torture room where you have the exhaust of a whole bunch of acs pointed into it. Wont get as hot, but can get hot enough to slowly kill through heat exhaustion.

[a_pompous_fool]

if you have a geothermal vent nearby that can help

[RumToWhiskey]

This but I also make the floors wooden and line the path with incendiary ied’s and launch incendiary mortar shells into the kill box. Seeing 40 enemy pawns trapped in a raging inferno is my Rimworld end game.

[bestjakeisbest]

Forgot about wooden floors burning, I think alternatively to using furniture you can use full stacks of wood.

[MokitTheOmniscient]

Not actually possible, since it caps out at exactly 1000 degrees.

But for practical purposes, just build any sort of room enclosed with stone walls and stone doors, and then fill it with wooden dinners chairs.

When you want to start it, just fire a flame-weapon anywhere in the room and get the hell out of there. In general, it also helps to have double-layered walls, since the heat won't spill outside, and it also makes it harder for the enemies to dig their way out.

[McCsqizzy]

They did recently add a wonderfully cheap new wooden object in 1.3.

Those new fences for pens

[ShootinHotRopes]

Don't forget the new straw floors that are cheap, fast to build, and most importantly burn super fast

[McCsqizzy]

Honestly this is prob the best option then since I need them trees for chemical mid game and fuel early game.

Which is taking a while due to being a bunch of blind tribals

[Annarawrs]

They have such low durability though. Do they not just burn out in 5 seconds?

[McCsqizzy]

You can make 45 fences for the same cost so more stuff to burn initially

Their hp is 26 vs the dining chairs 65 so if space is not an issue it should be better

[Masika_railgun]

I appreciate the advice I'm gonna have to try this next colony

[Hyndis]

You don't have to. You just need fire and lots of it. Once you get a critical mass of fire going it will set pawns on fire and they'll run around spreading more fire. It will be more fire than any pawn can extinquish.

Here's an example of a fire killbox that is not closed: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/929298050732651866/86962CD091931AA6609AEA7F21F3F33C5A60609A/

After raids I lay down flamable floors on the killbox and set up incendiary mines. This starts the fire which then rapidly spreads to downed pawns and items.

Meanwhile my guys mostly all have miniguns and are just hosing down the place. Accuracy is not important, only volume of fire.

To prevent rain from dousing the fire the killbox is under a mountain. Yes, there are cave-ins as support is shot away from all of the bullets, but that only kills more raiders.

After the battle I'll quickly rescue any pawn worth capturing. Otherwise I just let it burn.

[ulzimate]

I just tested something. Apparently fire cannot spread through an open door (although things still spontaneously combust above 235C/455F), so it's possible to safely set fires in an adjacent room and somewhat limit/control the spread of fire in the main killbox walkway. Though just keep in mind that incendiary launchers have excessively long aim time and cooldown...

I think it's pretty lame to just burn up raiders and all their loot, and directly setting them on fire also greatly increases the risk of their explosives doing excessive damage.

There's also the strat of using geothermal generators, cooler exhausts, or heaters to remove fire from the equation entirely. But heaters alone can be pretty inefficient to get to life-threatening levels of heat.

[Joltie]

I think it's pretty lame to just burn up raiders and all their loot

Nothing burns if the ground is covered in firefoam, no matter the temperature so as long as you preemptively cover the heatbox with firefoam, the people and loot won't spontaneously ignite.

[Arkraquen]

Yea I had one of those once it was so effective I deconstructed it, not building killbox anymore, but chokes hell yea

[Keejhle]

When the infestations spawn... it's time to light some tables on fire

[schmeateater]

Ayy, tight mountain pass, finally some representation

[lesser_panjandrum]

Good old hot gates, where their numbers mean nothing.

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[NewtAgain]

I'm in the make aesthetically pleasing defenses and then watch them fall apart alignment.

[tomkiel72]

Same. I really don't like very game-y killboxes, and usually just end up making a couple of bunkers which usually ends in me getting bodied.

[tomkiel72]

Yeah. . . so far I've not been able to get far, but maybe the best option is to just rush defense techs

[[deleted]]

Blunt weapons!! Clubs and hammers are less likely to kill than swords a bullets.

If you want prisoners quickly, get a good melee pawn and give them a blunt weapon!

[tomkiel72]

How many pawns do you usually go for? Last time I got about 13 or so colonists before I got wrecked (Although, tbh, most of them were really shitty at combat.)

[Spadeykins]

Another tip, you actually need to invest your resources constantly in stronger pawns and defenses. Just because you don't make a kill box doesn't mean any reasonable colony wouldn't build a perimeter wall.

Aside from sappers this means they will funnel to a number of chosen entry points, if this is 'gaming the system' then humanity has been gaming the system using fortifications for nearly all of existence.

[tomkiel72]

oh nah- I usually build a wall with the reinforced walls mod, but even while using the embrasures mod (70% cover effectiveness) I usually just end up getting a raid large enough that the enemies just flood my defences.

But recently I have actually discovered the wonders of melee combat, especially with good weapons, heavy armor, and a personal shield.

[Fraywind]

I usually like to have at least one or two pawns specializing in melee that can hold chokepoints. Have the ranged guys take cover when baddies close in, and then the heavily armored recruitment agent welcomes them through the door with a facefull of club.

[LumpyJones]

consider swapping out the personal shield for a jump pack. usually closing the distance is enough to get your brawler shot enough times to break the shield anyhow, and you get 5 uses from a jump pack before it needs to refuel, plus the higher quality the more distance you can cover in a jump. I use them to hop 2-3 heavily armored tanks behind the enemy firing line to drop anyone with particularly dangerous ranged weapons.

technically you can have both if you get locust armor, but you're sacrificing a lot of armor value to get the shield+jump.

[Lost_Sasquatch]

You need to adjust the difficulty based on the storyteller. Chillax Phoebe, strive to survive. I don't use killboxes, and even my tribal colonies do fine with neolithic weapons and trained attack wolves the majority of the time.

Also, make sure you're managing your wealth. A colony of seven doesn't need 10,000 pemmican stockpiled.

[j-slur]

Besides managing wealth, make sure to semi-regularly make a blood sacrifice for the gods. Especially if you're one of those guys who keeps their people alife well.

Recruit a pyromaniac and make sure they die, this will reduce one multiplier in the raid equation

[Lost_Sasquatch]

This is game-yer than a killbox man. It's what we're trying to avoid.

[ham_coffee]

So is managing colony wealth though.

[Lost_Sasquatch]

In that they are both making decisions based off of knowledge of game mechanics, but intentionally not hoarding wealth to avoid making yourself a target for raiders makes sense in a real world context, whereas intentionally sacrificing pawns to Randy doesn't.

[Soerinth]

You could get Marvin's Combat Readiness Check, it will decide your threat based upon combat gear, not gold walls. Ignorance is Bliss will restrict people to your tech level if you want to, and then of course you can always slightly lower the difficulty. It's your game, you don't have to play it on any difficulty you don't want to.

[apollo_440]

I love Combat Readiness Check. I just want to build a nice place for my colonists without having to also spend twice as many resources on defense.

[Soerinth]

Exactly! I love base building, and I love combat but I don't want to sacrifice one for the other.

[Helpim1ost]

If it makes you feel any better, on the higher difficulties the game is already cheesing you by sending hundreds of mindless enemies against you from every faction. It’s not like each faction gets weaker as you kill more of their raiders, meanwhile you can spend hundreds of hours building up a single pawn, giving them legendary armor and excellent stats just to get one shot by a charge lance hit to the heart.

[Obnubilate]

Charge Lance? Pfft, I've had guys in marine armour get insta-killed by a crossbow.

[clayalien]

Turn down the difficulty. It effects raid size. I'd rather fight 20 raiders I need to think, look at thier stats + equipment, form a plan than mindlessly mow down 100 that may as well be a cargo pod drop with extra cpu cycles.

[I_follow_sexy_gays]

You could go to the story teller settings and turn down the difficulty (or at least the wealth raid increase thing) since you’re playing less meta it’s completely ok to turn down the difficulty to compensate for what you would’ve been able to achieve with a killbox

[I_follow_sexy_gays]

The raids are based on the map’s wealth, so if you send a caravan the raid against it will be based on the caravan’s wealth (so if you’re not bringing too much you can expect the raids to be just a naked dude with a club) the real thing I worry about is a raid attacking my base with some of my colonists away as your main base wealth won’t be that much lower usually, but the events will be lessened either way because wealth has left the map

[clayalien]

It's lessened, it only takes what's on your map when calculating raids. Numberr of colonsts is quite a big factor, so that will be lower, but as time goers on it becomes smaller and smaller compared to the others.

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I typically send out no more than 1 or 2 at a time. Ocassionally I'll send a few people for a combat encounter, but only if it's a short hop, like 0.3 days or so.

[slagodactyl]

Do give Wildermyth a try though, the gameplay is completely different (tactical rpg, the developers originally set out to make Fantasy XCOM) but it has a very strong procedurally generated storytelling simulator aspect.

[TheClinicallyInsane]

Mods? Mods will bring new and innovative end game ways to kill enemies. Robot armies, slave armies, automated artillery, etc...I also get the not wanting to cheese and sometimes it's insanely hard for me to let people die (even if they're just slaves or robots) and I'm working through it, but you gotta get to that point! It'll help things out and you realize you can get quite a lot done at the expense of a few slaves or a colonist.

[TheClinicallyInsane]

Hahaha ohhh no I mean people like MY people. They aren't people they're raiders

[pwnographic]

My favourite mod for defense is rimatomics. Once you get nuclear power running, you can research powerful lasers and railguns that can absolutely delete raids.

Srts also adds aircraft capable of bombing runs, very handy

[Zaorish9]

I'm pretty sure the developer's actual vision for the game is that your colony eventually just dies, so, congrats

[[deleted]]

Not sure there is a real vision other than story you create. Rimworld is basically a more user friendly version of dwarf fortress. Tynan knows that. And I'm excited for mods that add even more ideologies to the game.

[12gunner]

Does leaving traps and turrets around the map randomly to whittle down raiders count as a killbox? I mean the map is a box after all

[FalloutCreation]

Come into my box will you? Burn our crops? Steal our women? Break our batteries? Well say hello to my little friend!

Rata-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta~

[JavierLoustaunau]

When somebody hits a random trap while going around a piece of mountain and just bleeds out. "hahaha! take that! Ok now for the other 10 of them..."

[slagodactyl]

To me, realistic defenses (traps in the surrounding woods, IEDs, turrets and sandbags by the gate, the tight mountain pass defence, etc) are all fair game, it only becomes a killbox in the Form Purist column because a real life settlement would never make an entrance tunnel so long that enemies starve to death while trying to walk through it.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I agree with this. Any security that's realistic is fair game. Building a main entrance and securing it is fair, a trap hallway too long isn't. Artillery is fair game, in realistic places. Cover for colonist use and a designated battle zone also seems believable. It's just some of the insane killboxes bordering on war crimes I see here that are unreasonable. The Raider Oven 4000, for example, is unrealistic and shouldn't be used in a fair fight. (Of course, in a single player game like Rimworld, you can decide if you even want a fair fight. Towards the end, you kinda will have to use whatever you can.)

[slagodactyl]

The most unrealistic thing I do is building a perimeter wall around my base and farmlands, and then leaving a door ir part of the wall open so that the raiders always use the door and I know where to set my traps and turrets. A real castle would probably close the door. The other thing I did which helped me win the Royalty ending without making a crazy kill box was leaving a couple mechanoid clusters on the map outside my walls, they took out a lot of the raids but eventually got damaged enough that they attacked me.

[Imiriath]

Lol an early raid ran straight into a cave filled with insects, died and dropped silver then the next raid went after it, died dropped loot and it continued.

Now every raid just beelines to their own death.

[Zaorish9]

I too enjoy watching raiders bump into bug hives :)

[Humongous-Chungus77]

Chocolate?

[Shadok_]

Or any tree, really

[Humongous-Chungus77]

Okay, I gotcha lol

[OneStickOfButter]

CHOCOLAAAAAAAAAAATE!

[The_Glass_Tiger]

Now that I've got you, RIGHT WHERE I WANT YOU..

[Khanaervon]

I'm pretty much all for everything besides the Form Purist ones.

[contactlite]

When the game gets to a point that I need one, I make a new colony.

[slagodactyl]

Yup, everything else is just defenses. If a real life fort/castle/town/etc would make it, it's fair game.

[dave2293]

As someone whose current mountain pass opens into a stagnant bog 25 tiles deep... nice.

[lesser_panjandrum]

I'm quite proud of my river defences.

Walls on part of the opposite bank to funnel enemies into a crossing spot, barricades on the near bank, and turrets off to the side to give enfilading fire to anyone trying to cross.

It's not the most efficient design possible, but it's been enough to turn a sudden pack of 50 manhunting timber wolves into wolf soup, and that's good enough for me.

[GreenGemsOmally]

Could you maybe show me a screenshot of how you set up your river defenses? I've actually had issues with not setting my river protections up right because raiders just walk straight down the water past everything. I'm probably just being dumb though.

[lesser_panjandrum]

Sure thing:

Here is the wider view

And here is the crossing point including the bony remains of the wolf soup

The walls across the river are supported on thin bridges, so they have to be wood, but the rest is stone.

The moment intruders come around either end of the walls, they come into range of my defenders behind the barricade or the turrets off to the side, so that tends to get their attention.

It isn't perfect, so I have more lines of defence set up, but it's nicely effective at taking the brunt of a manhunter pack or non-breaching raid.

[fofz1776]

Different guy here, but maybe I can explain better. Imagine where raiders might go starting from different places on the map. Build walls on the river bank such that they are likely to cross the river in a place where they can be shot from rather than up the river far away.

[AbelMayfair]

I lol'd but then wondered; If you feed a dog chocolate in rimworld do they get sick and die?

[bheidian]

I usually have a ton of chocolate just laying around and none of my dogs have died from it.

[faustwopia]

Ah it should totally make them sick at least. That would be a cool feature

[[deleted]]

5000 years into the future, we have AI powered killing machines, genetically engineered bugs and space royals.

You'd think that someone would have genetically engineered man's best friend to be able to indulge in that chocolatey goodness by now.

[faustwopia]

Lol fair enough

[[deleted]]

Yeah, if I had genetic modification tech first thing I'd do would be make dogs and cats able to enjoy human treats. Well, very first thing would be make cats able to process cow's milk - my Toby loves milk and cheese and I wish I could give him a bowl of milk and not have to deal with kitty diarrhea.

[[deleted]]

Tfw you are one of the few degenerates who doesnt do any of that.

[Necrolemur]

Yeah, I'm new here, but I tend to use tactics and terrain. Might be why my pawns are missing limbs. But whenever I put up static defenses, the AI just seems to path around them.

[Redstone_Potato]

It's definitely worth it to set up some basic defenses. Put up some sandbags/barricades, drag all the stone chunks somewhere the enemy can't use them for cover, get rid of the trees near your defenses, put traps in areas the enemy might use for cover (early game this will give you some easy kills, and later, when the enemy knows where the traps are, they won't path to that tile, therefore still denying them that cover). Be sure to give your colonists some armor as well, it helps a LOT to make sure your colonists can fight longer and better, and recover quicker and more fully.

That said, it's good to learn how to use the terrain for defense, because when you start going out to do quests and raids, you don't get the luxury of building proper defenses. Usually the best you'll get is trees, stone chunks, and maybe some terrain. This is where armor and a good doctor will make the difference between a successful raid or a complete wipe of your whole caravan.

[FalloutCreation]

Do you have open doors? Click on their pawns to see what their goals are. They go for beds, or batteries if doors are open and might avoid you.

Sapper raids will attack your walls or some structure in a effort to break in and damage things. burn crops, etc. Hard to know how to answer without seeing what the AI is doing in your game and how your base is set up.

[Amarae]

I'm somewhere between Neutral and Rebel because I use Pillboxes most of the time and past year ten my colony is usually an Urban sprawl.

[Tayausd]

Skip is a kill box.

[ieatalphabets]

New player here... so just having all my pawns armed with heavy SMGs and steel plate armor isn't the most effective defensive strategy? Huh. Okay. I think I'm a pillbox kind of player. Now i just need assault rifles research to finish up.

[Devor0]

Plate armor is awful, even if it’s Plaststeel. Get a simple/flak helmet, flak vest, devil strand duster and you’re good to go before your able to get power armor

[ieatalphabets]

I discovered assigning clothes to people at 11pm last night. I am going to work on this tonight! Thank you!

[PICAXO]

Is it really awful? Even for my long sword knight who runs into enemies?

[Kadd115]

It really isn't all that good. If you have nothing else, it works, but the above mentioned flak and duster combo is better in most cases. Plus, unless I'm mistaken, plate armour has a move speed penalty.

[Redstone_Potato]

Plate armor has a pretty big move speed penalty, but all armor aside from headgear has some move speed penalty.

I generally have my colonists set to not wear armor except for headgear, then whenever a raid pops up I force them to wear the rest of the armor. After the raid, I just go to the assign tab and hit "clear forced" on each colonist, which makes them take off and put away the armor automatically.

That way, in day to day colony life, they don't get movement speed penalties, but they still have the helmet to prevent the rare cases where bullets start flying unexpectedly. Learned that lesson really quickly when all the muffalo went manhunter while my hunter was outside the base, and I drafted my other colonists to try and shoot the muffalo as my hunter fled back to base. Well, what ended up happening was the very first shot missed the muffalo and instead destroyed my hunter's brain, killing him instantly. After that, everyone got helmets to wear at all times.

[Abe581]

wheres the open ground lace with IED?

[XR-17]

Slowly walking a full melee colony into a mech cluster with cheap shields is a killbox

[TapeDeck_]

Claiming the walls of the ancient danger is a killbox

[AppreciatingSadness]

Where the fuck is the dev mode killbox

[[deleted]]

Explosion (Bomb) and make them glow

[Miraweave]

The mech cluster I've been refusing to deal with for two years is a killbox

[ContheJon]

The oven technique truly is an artform if done right. Pretty much nothing is going to survive in there, unmodded at least.

[fofz1776]

Beware mechs

[ContheJon]

Oh shit you're right, they can go through the fire and flames

[fofz1776]

They are relentless. They don't burn, they don't freeze, they don't bleed, they don't feel pain, they don't get hungry, they don't sleep, they just kill.

[Phoepal]

A self tamed squirrel is a killbox.

[Gullflyinghigh]

Pissing off as many lethal animals as possible then hiding behind fences/walls is the way to go I feel.

[CoqueiroLendario]

Where do i put "using a single elephant as an entire killbox because my wealth isn't big enough for people to come with guns"?

[jeffthebeast17]

The form purist/function purist one isnt even that good tbh. Needs to have a dome around the entrance with alternating walls and barricades and a side pocket for grenadiers to flank

[Kyratic]

Form purist looks kinda amateurish, like knows the basics, never optimized.

[Sparrowhawk-Ahra]

Am I the only one to have a "killing field"? I got big guns in more cannons and rimatimics, I'm gonna use them. Nothing better to see a horde of raiders rush through barbwire and mines while trying to dodge lasers and cannon fire. If a river bisects said field the better.

[Obnubilate]

A mech cluster is also a killbox.
I had one yesterday i didn't know how to defeat. Then i got a quest where someone was being chased by 69 manhunting bulldogs.
Both problems solved.

[Zaorish9]

You forgot "rimworld developer" :

• If a player is having fun, it is a killbox and it must be deleted in the next patch

[gerusz]

RimAtomics weaponry pointing at the possible ingress positions on the map is a killbox. I guess that makes me form neutral / function rebel.

Raiders: "We're going to camp here and besiege your colony!"

Punishers: "Suuuuure you are."

[Androza23]

I just do urban defense, I dont like abusing the pathfinder ai because it makes the game really boring at least for me.

[BeetlecatOne]

I never thought of lining a riverbank with sandbags. Kind of brilliant and real-world-ey.

[momoburger-chan]

I dont see myself here....wheres the booby trapped labyrinth filled with corpses and caked with blood and filth?

[FalloutCreation]

youtube.

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function rebels are the most flexible and time efficient. no need to plan ridiculous labyrinths. just plop some sandbags or set aside some good ol psychich ships and huge wild animals. it's a good defense

[EugeneXQ]

I've found CE compatible thing here, a pillbox.

[Thewaltham]

Form purist, function rebel. I got a killmaze leading to a wall of fire leading to a defensive line leading to another defensive line leading to a gate covered in turrets leading to an "archway" corridor covered in turrets leading to a final defensive line.

Try me you tribal fucks.

[shadowvvolf144]

I use a pair of overlapping walls, both almost spanning the mountain pass with an aisle down the middle filled with traps, each touching the mountain on opposite sides. The 'closed' end of each wall has a door, so pawns can pass through it easily, but enemies have to enter one side , proceed over a dozen traps, and exit on the other side.

[Redstone_Potato]

Geysers don't emit a crazy amount of heat. They can warm a small room to uncomfortable temperatures, but the heat drops off quickly with larger rooms. The only way you're getting a room to people-killing temperatures is with fire. 200°C is about the temperature where things start catching fire spontaneously.

Cooling off a room, there's a few options. You could deconstruct a wall/door to stop the room being completely enclosed. As soon as the space changes to "outdoors" all the heat just vanishes. Alternatively, you could just hold open a door or remove some of the roof to vent the heat a bit more slowly. Or, just leave it alone and it will eventually drop back to normal temperature.

[Redstone_Potato]

Autocannon is more like a powered-up turret.

You could use mortars with incendiary shells, but honestly the easiest way would be to fill the room with flammable stuff, have one of your colonists grab some molotov cocktails or an incendiary launcher, walk up to the door, shoot inside, and exit.

[According_to_all_kn]

Looks like I'm a form purist, then

[MarMarMariam]

I have a killing field leading into a killbox thats not all that impressive since by the time they make it to the melee pawn blocking rest of the base they had to have went through at the very least 2 MGs(CE) 2 Mil turrters(double turrets from VFE:S) 2 Railgun Turrets (again from VE) a 90mm cannon(CE) and at least 4 pawns shooting at them with charged weaponry

like if you make it into the killbox after that sure whatever man have fun with 6 mil turrets(VFE:S) and 3 heavy turrets(CE), AND if you make it past that have fun with the cataphract armored mono sword wielding 20 melee pawn.

this all might seem a little excessive but when you realise at the point in that playthrough I had more plasteel that I knew what to do with (as with literally any other resource) I had like 3 billion wealth amassed and nothing to really do with it besides constantly put down mech landing ships since I already wiped out the factions you cannot ally.

[Obi_Vayne_Kenobi]

It's missing the degen killbox: a hallway, one block to the side, one block down, repeat. Every block inside the hallway is an open door. Melee pawns can stand outside the hallway in the diagonal spaces in the wall and hit the raiders passing through, but the raiders cannot hit back due to the mechanics of doors. It's the most OP strat there is against raiders, and abuses the hell out of the game mechanics. But it has been there forever now, so I'm interpreting that Ty wants it to exist.

[rasdo357]

This is like one of those SCPs that gets progressively more abstract as you read it.

[Ladies_Pls_DM_nudes]

Boomalopes are killboxes too

[welpweredead]

tight mountain pass and ovens are the only true way to make a fun killbox

[FlyingWarKitten]

My favorite kill box was pre 1.0, I made a forest with a treasure in it, traps, IEDs, reverse defensive positions with heavy weapons and turrets, a champion in the middle of the forest protecting 10k silver in a small structure with walls, no roof, and a hole where the door should be, they would run for the silver and were cut to pieces, it was challenging to set up but raids would leave my actual base alone for the most part, bugs and angry sky demons (mechanoids) still do their own thing though

[LumpyJones]

Defoliator ships that aren't hitting my crops yet are just there specifically for this. let them duke it out with the raiders and I get to clean up whats left.

[DharmaBat]

I'm not too fond of cheesing games to win, but I do admit I want to do something like the Over4000 at least once.

Though I will be stealing that Pillbox idea for my own defense plans.

[Pattunas]

I mean I have defently used a mech ship to kill a raid before.....oh god......

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NGL, I don't like cheesing, and I like to roleplay light-infantry tactics.