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Isn't the "Pheobe Friendly" mode completely peaceful?

Not tried myself as the raiders add a bit of excitement for me but the description certainly makes me think this.

Concrete fireblocks around your walls are a must, or the fire will spread from the graves to the grass to the walls.

Thx, i'll add those in. It rains so much on my planet they they usually get put out before they have a chance to burn out of control

In my experience, this is a bad idea - or at the very least, one you have to micromanage. Because if you don't, someone outside the walls on some kind of business or another will path to the deep mine canteen rather than the canteen they can reach sooner. If that person was already very hungry, they might go crazy on the way.

I'm only mining down one side of the map & my cafe is middle distance between my mining area & homebase so they pass on their way back. Works well for me anyway & I've pretty much mined the rest of the map so they can't get lost. I never let me outside my base anyway, unless there's some loose metal to grab.

It's my experience that if you make concrete highways outside your mountain fortress leading to it, the raiders will path down the highway. Then you can line the highway with explosive charges and graves, and wipe out the entire raid in one blast.

Not a bad idea yeh, thx. The way I have mine designed currently is they bunch up while bashing through the doors. I then set off 7-8 charges when they break through my final door & they flee almost immediately. It's a big bang...lol!
I also have an additional line infront my shooting area to catch the fleeing raiders if there is a lot of them & I want to wipe them out quickly. Although I tend to try to melee the stragglers to pick up some prisoners. I always welcome new colonists

Here's my latest base. Taken on day 250 or so.

Far improved from my last one after some tips from you guys. Enough room for 38 citizens so plenty of space and more guns than you could ever want!

Running out of rock to mine now so will be keeping my fingers crossed for lots of industrial traders.

Hope you like it. I'm off to burn some graves..lol..

Main Base layout

Deep mine cafe
Keep them fed during the day to reduced trips back to homebase.

Incoming!
I must be getting hit by well over 100hundreds raiders per round now. Blast charges required!

@ Shadowdragon8685 & Grimreaper1704.

Thanks for the tips guys. Much appreciated.
I've filled all those graves a couple of times but luckily i found the workaround of burning them to empty them. If I hadn't found that, I'd have no floor space left...lol..

Nice compact base grim.

After playing for a few days & getting utterly pummeled by lots of raiders, I finally managed to get a stable base on a map I really like. Almost ran out of things to do with it now so will probably start fresh soon. Can fend of huge amount of raiders now as all my guys are now equipped with M24's(the doubled sandbag area if where they all line up when the raiders arrive, they flee so fast)

Link to Base


I've just linked it the inserted image was cutting off half way, lol...

Hey everyone,

Ric here. Long time gamer, massive city builder/simulation fan. Been playing games since the late 80's & will continue to do so until the day I die

-What introduced you to RimWorld? Or to this style of game in general?

Noticed it on Steam's Greenlight a while ago & lit it up. Also saw a post about it on the Prison architect forums. I back a lot of Indie Alphas as they usually deliver the richest gaming experience in a lot of cases(I detest generic shooters, dumbed down games, etc...)& this one looked like it had a real promise. I've not been dissapointed so far!

-What's your favorite other game?

All time favorite game is Simcity 4 with the rush hour expansion. I've lost more hours to that beast than I care to mention. Anything with a simulation/builder aspect I probably own.

-Most embarrassing gaming-related story?

When I first started playing Team Fortress 2 I equipped the persian persuader(not knowing it's effects) & continued to play with it for 6 months & getting no ammo pickups before I realised my mistake..lol! Good thing I main soldier(for anyone not familiar with the weapon, it changes all ammo pickups into health) It was an embarrassing find to say the least, lol!

-What kind of breakfast cereal is the best?

Hard question....Love a lot of cereal. Country crisp is awesome when i'm feeling grown up. Frosties/sugar puffs when I'm not.

Nice to meet everyone!