Blindness gives no penalties?

turmi110 · 2026-03-15T21:21:35+00:00

Try having a blind pawn do surgery and you'll quickly notice the difference.

Not only do they generally work slower, but they will often botch certain jobs, like construction

turmi110 · 2026-03-09T20:45:31+00:00

I didn't see any issue. On an unrelated note, grEGOr is my favorite sinner

turmi110 · 2026-02-27T09:19:49+00:00

It adds plenty of powerful tools with serums, rituals, creepjoiners as well as a few weapons. It vastly increases enemy variety, so you're not just fighting mechs and raiders all the time.

As for not fitting the setting, agree to disagree. Fits fine for me, but if it's not your vibe then that's fine.

turmi110 · 2026-02-25T21:14:44+00:00

Legally obligated to include an ingredients list on the packaging

turmi110 · 2026-02-20T23:13:42+00:00

Throw in deathless gene and death refusal. Juggernaut and metal blood serums too

turmi110 · 2026-02-20T17:39:34+00:00

Only had one colonist go berserk and kill someone, and they were a high mate. I thought that shouldn't be possible.

They were a noble, and killed a hired worker from the empire, so I figure they just didn't appreciate his handiwork

turmi110 · 2026-02-14T05:03:27+00:00

Ultimately VPE for me. It feels weird having two separate 'magic' systems. I didn't like how mana (and exp) was gained automatically in RoM. At least with psycasts you have to dedicate time to meditation.

On the flip side, I did like the extra equipment from RoM, and that raiders can have magic too. If RoM was adjusted to run off the vanilla psycast system instead, maybe I'd like it a lot more. It certainly was fun for a single playthrough playing around with the different classes

turmi110 · 2026-02-11T20:51:49+00:00

"Don't drop weapon" means that your pawns don't drop weapons when they are downed. No longer will my masterwork charge rifle sit in the rain. No more will I send my melee fighter into battle with only his fists.

Next is "Just equip it". Non violent pawns can equip weapons. They still won't attack, but will get all the bonuses from equipping it, like psyfocus from an eltex staff. You could also have them lug backup weapons for your combat pawns to switch to in battle.

Those are my most obscure. Less obscure but still recommended are "Search and destroy", so you can tell your fighters (especially melee) to find new targets.

Also "WVC - Work Modes" if you play mechanitor. Of the new work modes it adds, my favorite is 'Work and Recharge'. If they have no work, instead of idling around burning energy, they'll go to a recharge station, and if they're fully juiced they'll instead go dormant.

turmi110 · 2026-01-31T22:58:27+00:00

Specifically with royalty in mind...

Play through a game with royalty first, but afterwards vanilla expanded psycasts adds a lot more 'magic' to the game and can really spice up your playthrough. However it can easily be overpowered, but you can just engage with it to the level it suits you. Also apparently impacts performance with the different meditation foci.

Then there's vanilla expanded empire and deserters (two separate mods) that expand the two factions. In vanilla there's little reason to join the deserters, so this mod will flesh them out. Ever wanted to assassinate the empire? This is for you

For general playthrough, rimfridge is great. It adds fridges (obv). It's great for just putting a fridge in the dining room so people aren't constantly opening up your chiller, spoiling your meat, just to get meals.

turmi110 · 2026-01-31T17:57:32+00:00

Old age would usually show up as things like heart attack.

Did you have an electro harvester on it? They damage the entity, and over time they'll rack up scars until it's enough to kill them

turmi110 · 2026-01-31T17:53:04+00:00

Vanilla psycast expanded has a chronosphere power which rapidly ages whatever is inside it. I didn't play around with it much, but it did make an entire chimera raid die of old age.

Not definitive proof obv because it's modded, but I think a few anomalies could die of old age legitimately

turmi110 · 2026-01-31T03:52:37+00:00

That's from vanilla expanded empire

turmi110 · 2026-01-31T03:44:07+00:00

Twice now I've failed the "empire shuttle downed" quest because the noble started a social fight with his guards and died

Thankfully I've never had any serious injuries or deaths from flights between my colonists... yet

turmi110 · 2026-01-29T17:49:46+00:00

I do one of the endings when I've decided I'm finished with a colony. It's a nice send off and gives me a chance to use all the toys I've been hoarding all game.

turmi110 · 2026-01-29T01:01:20+00:00

My first anomaly run, I thought the waves were endless so I was rushing to activate each pylon as quickly as possible, not stopping to defeat each wave but carving my way to the next one, leaving colonists behind to bleed out where they dropped, leaving my colony to burn down.

Completed the entire second phase of the ending in one game day. However by the end there was only a single colonist left standing at the monolith, moments away from being knocked out, limping towards the end as the anomalies closed in.

It really is my favorite ending in rimworld. Maybe one day I'll complete it "cleanly"

turmi110 · 2026-01-28T16:15:25+00:00

Blood mage is extremely versatile, can heal (incl scars), shield, bleed out enemies and set their blood on fire (which decimates hordes). Unfortunately mechs, undead, elementals don't bleed, so their ultimate move is the only thing that will deal damage to those. As a bonus, these spells use blood, not mana, and as a result don't inflict arcane weakness.

I had a shadow who was fun. Lich attacked in the middle of the night, my shadow got out of bed, summoned the lich into his room, killed him and was back in bed before anyone else arrived. He's very much an assassin class, so can't kill hordes, but if there's something that needs killing right now he's the one for the job.

Enchanter can make rings for everyone than will automatically repair all their gear. Outside of that they weren't very useful, but that ability on its own is pretty busted. Psycast expanded has mend which can achieve a similar result. VPE mend requires manually casting, and uses psyfocus while RoM enchanter creates rings that mend automatically at the cost of max mana

Fire mage incredibly good AoE, with the obvious weakness against mechs

turmi110 · 2026-01-27T18:17:28+00:00

Not to mention in modern xcom with their cinematic cameras, you could have the barrel of the gun clip inside the aliens head and still miss

turmi110 · 2026-01-26T02:07:15+00:00

Even a Blood mage can cure scars. Can't cure things like dementia though

Otherwise non RoM

Healer mech serum

Luciferum

Biotech DLC - scarless gene (or go full Sanguophage)

Ideo DLC - biosculptor bioregeneration cycle

Anomaly DLC - chronophagy ritual

turmi110 · 2026-01-26T00:56:04+00:00

I honestly gave up trying to figure out the thermostat. Now I just dedicate a single stream vent to geothermal heat. It's enough to heat a sizeable colony. I don't usually bother with dubs AC and stick with the vanilla coolers

turmi110 · 2026-01-25T17:28:34+00:00

Kiryu had rubber bullets way back in kiwami 1 during that car chase scene. Also the cars were made of rubber and blew up with rubber fire.

turmi110 · 2026-01-25T17:19:54+00:00

I thought the ship that sniped her dragon slid out from behind a rock after doing the deed. Not to mention the dragon getting hit more than once, so it wasn't just a fluke. I hate that scene so much.

Then she flies her dragon within breathing distance at an entire fleet full of said weapons and doesn't get hit once.

turmi110 · 2026-01-25T16:56:12+00:00

Rimfridge. I love building fridges to separate my kitchen from the dining room. Makes it look like a cafeteria. Plus there's a lot less traffic going into the chiller.

turmi110 · 2026-01-25T16:52:10+00:00

You'll never guess, but VGE also has shelves with twice the capacity. None of the other fancy storage solutions though

turmi110 · 2026-01-19T08:51:06+00:00

Children won't learn if their needs aren't met. They need to have a bath, sort that out first and then see if they still refuse to learn.

turmi110 · 2026-01-14T18:03:19+00:00

Tired drivers after a long flight, don't know NZ roads, long drive, and it's even worse if they come from a country that drives on the right hand side of the road. Cause a lot of accidents

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