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#1
I accepted the Protecting an Ally quest in 1.2, and completed it just now in 1.3. I didn't receive the rewards in the drop pods, so I reloaded, enabled dev mode and completed the quest again. It threw up a bunch of errors, the last of which mentioned drop pods.

The logs are here: https://gist.github.com/a858dff2f43a5fa04f5ddc3fe4417889

Save file was too big to included here (after zipping) so it's here: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZNx4lXZr38TQT0ixPpDSaynbaHauYm3U7GV
#2
General Discussion / Re: Rimworld Video Tutorials
September 16, 2020, 08:39:30 AM
Hey there. I made these a while ago, they are largely accurate still:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjtNsCg0XFV2En3FewYdkoCmGzevw-i2n
#3
Quote from: SpaceCows on January 30, 2020, 02:51:31 PM
Quote from: BugPowderDust on January 28, 2020, 06:24:07 AM
Great article- just one question- why anesthesize them before putting them in the Cryptosleep casket?

I don't think you can carry healthy prisoners to a cryptosleep casket, but you can if you anesthetize them.

Ahh, gotcha! Many thanks :)
#4
Great article- just one question- why anesthesize them before putting them in the Cryptosleep casket?
#5
Video / Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Rimworld
December 03, 2019, 04:23:04 AM
Updated OP to include complete list of the episodes
#6
General Discussion / Re: How to make a killbox?
March 18, 2019, 08:45:07 AM
You need to give a little more information- why are they failing?

You basically funnel the attackers into a single point of entry- i do this at max range of your turrets, and so they overlap fields of fire. Put a couple of turrets nearer and off to one side, so they will bee-line for those turrets first. Surround nearest turrets with sandbags or stone/steel chunks to slow them down, and/or traps

Surround this courtyard with a single wall, so if they break in rather than go through funnel, they are still entering killbox. Double wall rest of base so it makes this approach more desirable.

Build cover for your colonists to add their firepower in some safety- eg. W-S-W-S-W-S   where W= Wall and S= Sandbag.

Just some ideas, there are many ways to achieve this.
#7
Video / Absolute Beginners Guide to Rimworld
January 18, 2019, 02:39:15 AM
Hi all

Just posting a link to a new Absolute Beginners Guide i have started, for Rimworld 1.0.

Hope you find it useful:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 (final)

(updated for complete list)
#8
I've never even considered this tbh.

Do you just travel as far as you can on your food, then set up a base, farm more food, set off again, rinse/repeat?
#9
Stories / Re: The Siege & The Antigrain (with pictures)
November 23, 2018, 05:30:17 AM
Thanks :) it was my first time using it, although I had a vague idea of it's capability!
#10
Stories / The Siege & The Antigrain (with pictures)
November 21, 2018, 08:06:56 AM


Haeron was bracing for winter. The fourteen colonists were feeling positive (apart from the two who were off their heads- more on them later), the freezer was full of food, the walls were strong, the turrets were ready.

Erisen, their chief scientist, had started to research the components of a basic ship to get them off the planet. The hope was almost tangible, morale was good.

Then another raid came. One particular nearby faction had started to get a lot smarter with their attacks- The Eaters Of Intestines. No-one knew if their moniker was truth or just a ruse designed to instill fear in enemies. No-one wanted to find out either.

This time, they dropped in at distance. Mellor, the colony's unofficial but popular leader, squinted up at the sky.
"Oh shit." he cursed.

Dickson, stood next to him, followed his gaze, grinned.
"Heh, more of these fools to kill. They never learn."

Dickson loved violence, and he was very good at it- fast and deadly. 'Thank God he's on our side', Mellor thought, not for the first time.

Thirteen drop pods had landed south of the base, and, now observing through binoculars he always carried, Mellor saw they were quite well equipped. At least two were equipped with marine helmets and one had a Doomsday launcher. He sighed, and hit the alarm.

---


Tom cursed as he climbed out of the drop pod. He hated these damn things, always hurt his back. He glanced around and scowled. Looks like all the women were fine. Of course. Nothing bad ever happened to *them*. Damn he hated women.

Out of the thirteen who dropped, eight were women- eight!! Their leader, Lucky, was going through a positive discrimination drive, and it wasn't going down well with most of the men. Of the five men in the group, two others were like Tom and really hated women and all they stood for.

He glared at Chatal, who similarly hated all men, and got to use the Doomsday Rocket Launcher. This had been Tom's weapon of choice, but now he had one of the heavy, inaccurate LMGs. Piece of shit. Oh, and two of the women, Johnston and Ally, had the coveted Marine Helmets. What did he have? A cloth tuque.

Chatal returned his glare and flipped him the bird.

Tom hefted his LMG onto his shoulder, and the group headed out to drop site B without a word being spoken. No-one really much liked each other but they had a job to do- kill the colonists, and take their supplies. If their base was any good, they would have that too.
---

"They're both....what?!" Mellor exclaimed in surprise.
"Um..Zeiph has had a breakdown, and is just wandering around punching people since him and Kimmy split up. von Schield is puking and shivering in his room- he's coming down off GoJuice." Red responded. Red was sort of his number two, a big man who was utterly reliable.
"Great" muttered Mellor. "That leaves us with twelve? Eleven as Burton 'doesn't fight'" - he did air quotes. Red nodded.

Looking again through his binoculars, Mellor saw that they were receiving another drop, in a recess of a mountain. It looked like they'd received new equipment- mortars.



"Ah crap. They're going to siege us. So, we have three options. One, we go out out to them and fight them at a numerical disadvantage with terrible cover. Two, we sit back, take the beating and wait until they move in. Three, we use The Weapon." Mellor said.
"Boss, that's... untested- we don't know what it does really" responded Red. "We don't even know it's range or effects"
"We had basic instructions, and honestly, we don't have a lot of choice. Plus...I'm kind of curious about it. Once we...test it, we know what it can do. And, we may even be able to get another"
"You're the Boss" replied Red, ruefully.

Mellor ran out to the mortar. He wouldn't ask anyone else to do this.

.

As he loaded and targeted the AntiGrain warhead, a shell from the pirates went over his head and impacted their store-room. It appeared to be an incendiary shell, as the store-room burst into flames. He saw his friends running to douse the flames as the shell launched after the mortar had locked co-ordinates. "Now we see" he muttered. Flight time would be a few seconds.


---
Tom picked his teeth as the mortars finished being constructed. The one firing incendiary shells got the first shot off. Another day, another siege. These colonists wouldn't be much of an issue, just a waiting game really. He heard a distant "crump" as their shell landed and looked up. He saw a silver shell moving incredibly quickly toward them, and opened his mouth to shout...but never got any sound out.



The impact was massive. The shockwave tore off limbs and extinguished life. Chantal was vapourised as her Rocket Launcher combusted. Tom was shredded from head to toe. Three survived the blast in the mountain recess, one of whom, Callahan, had his right arm and left leg blown clean off. He wouldn't be a survivor for long. Suyu had lost an eye with massive torso damage. Tkoi escaped without a scratch- she'd be known as 'Lucky' for the rest of her life. Three others had been constructing defences on the other side of the mountain, and had escaped  by blind luck. Everyone who could, ran screaming soundlessly.


---

Mellor gaped at the results. The shot landed a little short so not everyone had been caught in the blast, but DAMN. They had to get another one of these. He got the others together, then they went to recover materiel and the wounded






#11
Quote from: Kirby23590 on November 15, 2018, 02:46:41 PM
I recommend replacing the wooden walls with stone, and don't break the stone rock walls, instead smooth them, they are more durable than the stone walls and can have wires placed underneath it.

Wait, what?? You can put conduit in rock walls? Damn, I've just been assuming you still can't, and replacing with walls where necessary
#12
No idea mate, I didn't start the thread. Android would suit me fine tbh.
#13
Quote from: vzoxz0 on October 21, 2018, 03:07:15 PM
"Gone GA"?

General Availability. I mean gone full on release, 1.0, end of beta, take your pick.
#14
Sorry for the necro, but as it's gone GA, it's relevant again.

This would be nothing short of amazing if Tynan was considering this, although I totally get it may be a ball-ache he could do without.
#15
Been around since Oct 2014, Alpha 7. It's the best $30 I ever spent, the amount of time I've spent enjoying this game is incalculable.

Congrats to Tynan and the team, this is a huge success!