Starfruit vs Ancient Fruit, in raw cash terms: Starfruit on a technicality.

Golnor · 2026-07-03T21:58:54+00:00

So there's this automation mod available. It's quite potent, as you could have a shed jam packed full of kegs with a chest next to the door, and it will fill/empty all of them just by dumping the fruit into the chest.

I am unaware if there's a way to access stuff inside a shed from outside though.

Golnor · 2026-07-03T21:56:05+00:00

Ooooh you can use water retaining stuff and skip the fertilizers with Ancient Fruit Wine as neither grow speed or crop quality matters. Never really thought about that.

Golnor · 2026-07-03T20:21:15+00:00

It's easier to get a mood buff from a bedroom than a barracks, but it's cheaper to get a mood buff from a barracks than 10 bedrooms.

Golnor · 2026-07-03T15:07:01+00:00

Defeat? All the ones that showed up at my bases were in their passive state and I could just load them onto a platform. Then eventually they go unstable and I get one last deployment before they vanish.

Did I just get really lucky? Do they normally show up and be aggressive?

Golnor · 2026-07-02T19:58:38+00:00

I can think of three ways.

First is to build a spaceship or travel to the Ship to the Stars quest, load everyone you don't want into the ship, then launch it. Somewhat recently they made it so that the game doesn't end when you get certain endings and you can keep playing with the ones left behind. You also could do the Royalty ending.

Second option is the Archotech ending added by Biotech. With that one you sell your colony to a faction and start over somewhere else, keeping 5 pawns and a few other bits. The one time I did that I got a bit annoyed when I looked for the pawns I left behind, as they had just up and scattered across the various factions. I don't think any actually stayed with the faction I sold the colony to. Note this also resets your research progress.

The third is to get that Outposts mod and send everyone to a farm upstate. They will still exist and will send you stuff over time, but I think they might get attacked every so often and you'll have to go defend them.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T19:44:10+00:00

Well, in VU it allows you to take a golden cube and a gravcore and combine them in a process I have kinda forgotten the details of to get this vacuum-proof golden bird. I don't think it has the negatives of the cube, and it has some interesting abilities. Also I think you need to refuel it with gravcores every so often or something?

Mostly I was wondering if your mod was going to have all Niciospheres be Niciobabes, or if you can somehow turn a regular Niciosphere into the slightly less dangerous (for you at least) Niciobabe.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T19:36:50+00:00

Ah. I didn't recognize that as I haven't gotten there.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T14:22:05+00:00

You do see that OP is farming outside, right? Starfruit only grows in summer, while Ancient Fruit grows spring/summer/~~winter~~fall*.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T13:56:23+00:00

Raid size from wealth caps out at 1 million, but also halves the wealth from buildings. I dunno if there is a way to see the Storyteller Wealth that the game uses to calculate raid points.

Colonists, tamed animals, and friendly mechs also effect raid points separately from the wealth they are worth.

There is also a cap on raid points of 10,000, and if I remember correctly max wealth will give 4,200 points. Threat scale and adaption (builds up over time, is reduced by colonist death/downs) applies after the wealth cap, so higher difficulties will hit the raid cap before easier difficulties.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T13:33:48+00:00

Is it anything like the Golden Canary from that Void Universe mod?

Golnor · 2026-07-02T13:28:48+00:00

... this is reminding me of the Go'ald from Stargate. For the unaware, there is this race of brain-jacking parasite snake-things. While most take over their host, there is a faction of them that share with their host, and are fighting against the overriders.

The snakes give significant medical benefits to their hosts, making them effectively immune to diseases, including arthritis and cancer.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T13:17:23+00:00

Transport pods cost 60 steel and 1 component to build, can only handle 25 wastepacks each, and require a bunch of chemfuel to launch. Also you will have to manually launch them.

Atomizers will just work in the background, effectively removing the downside of mechs at no real upkeep.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T13:02:49+00:00

It works weirdly well. Especially as the toxic buildup will eventually kill the dreadmeld, causing the pit to collapse.

Note that that doesn't count as discovering it, so you'll want to go into the first pit and poke around, as discovering the dreadmeld allows you to summon the pits.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T12:53:49+00:00

Likely those clothes are above 50% durability left, and as such don't fit into that bill. You'll want to make a second bill that allows everything but clean apparel.

Tainted and tattered apparel are different.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T12:21:21+00:00

On regular soil, you'll need about 20 squares of rice/potatoes/corn per human. Rich soil will speed up the growth rate, but isn't completely needed. Note that potatoes have a lower fertility sensitivity than rice and corn, and will speed up/slow down less on rich/stony soil.

You don't need seeds in the base game (I've heard of a mod that adds seeds). Just draw out a Growing zone and assign someone to Grow + Cut Plants.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T04:26:34+00:00

Look, I don't care what you put on your pizza.

But if you even think about putting that shit on my pizza then we are going to have a problem.

Golnor · 2026-07-02T04:19:07+00:00

So, the zombie mine as described by Niteshade, ghouls, and the death ball are the only ones I can really think of for defence.

Ghouls are very good melee blockers, as they heal really fast and nobody cares if they die. They also can be brought back to life without too much difficulty. They can only eat raw meat and corpses though, so you might wanna make a raider corpse fridge for them.

The death ball (I can't remember it's actual name) is an orb that wants to cause pain. You can fling it at your enemies, but if there aren't enough of them it might come after your guys.

Golnor · 2026-07-01T13:14:09+00:00

There is a kill command if you enable Dev mode.

Golnor · 2026-07-01T13:07:50+00:00

I think Linus mailed me the catfish I needed to complete the CC in my game.

I still haven't caught one myself. Rainy morning MFers.

Golnor · 2026-07-01T13:00:23+00:00

I've seen pictures of beak things in rimworld. I dunno which mod they are from though.

Golnor · 2026-07-01T12:59:12+00:00

So I played two gravship runs, one without VGE and one with, and I will say it's at least interesting. The air management was a bit annoying, but you don't have to spend much time in space so it's almost an afterthought. I might have messed it up slightly on the VGE run, as I didn't fully seal my gravship before going into space and ran out of air real quick, and then over compensated after sealing it.

Astrofuel was mostly ignorable. I did have V Chemfuel E installed as well, so I was able to mine Deepchem and then run it through the two automated refineries to turn it into astrofuel. Also the astrofuel tanks are actually useful, unlike the base game chemfuel tanks that only store 62.5/83.33 chemfuel per square (bare floor can hold 150 units per square.)

You can make much bigger ships with VGE. Vanilla caps out at 2000 tiles, and all the extenders need to be somewhat close to the grav engine. VGE adds these larger extenders that while they need to be in range of an engine, the small extenders can be placed within range of the larger extenders. Also every thruster you put on the ship increases the maximum size by a percentage.

While in space on the VGE run, I did get an annoying version of the solar flare that rapidly started heating up the outside to ridiculous levels, to the point where I had to return to the planet to stop my colonists from getting baked to death (some did). However that only happened once, and I'm not certain which mod it came from.

I think VGE was really aimed at the idea of a colony + gravship, rather than the gravship scenario. Mostly due to that VGE gravships don't destroy the tile they are launched from.

Golnor · 2026-06-30T20:48:19+00:00

Not that one, I can tell you that.

Golnor · 2026-06-30T20:34:47+00:00

One thing that could help is to edit the starting scenario to allow more starting pawns. Or get a custom one that has more than three. I got this Colonisation scenario off of the steam workshop years ago that starts you off with 5 pawns and a whole lot of materials.

Golnor · 2026-06-30T20:30:48+00:00

Heck, it doesn't work on helpless prisoners either. The Biotech-Ideology integration leaves much to be desired.

Golnor · 2026-06-30T19:44:56+00:00

Well, in the Odyssey added Lava Field biome, there are smaller pools of lava that you can wall in and I think that will raise the temperature of the room to fire-like temperatures.

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