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For the last couple of nights I've been messing with the idea of making a graphic pack for RimWorld.  I'll probably be doing a few assets every night after work.  The focus will be on environment assets, especially ground textures and foliage.  Ideally, though, I'd like to get to creatures as well.


What I've done so far:
1st-pass repaint of soil, rich soil, and gravel textures.
Temporary pass on rough stone overlay (just chilled the existing one out)
Grass texture
Oak A, Oak B, Poplar tree A and the leafless versions

I will use this thread to document my snail progress.  Thanks in advance for your patience

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I tell my guyz to run for the hills every time I see that message.  No treasures in that rooms either from the looks of it... R.I.P.!

Haha that Thrumbo encounter. I know that feel bro. I'm scheming immediately when I see one come on screen. I never have the gear or manpower to take it on but I did take one down with just three colonists anyway lol. Almost lost two of them but hey, that thrumbo horn is worth money. Not to mention that meat is plentiful

I really want to ask you for an art trade but all I have to offer are okay GFX skills. I make forum signatures, wallpapers, that sort of thing. If you're interested, message me, I'd like just one sketch for one scene from my story a few threads below this one. If you're not interested, or don't have time, I understand. Just know that I support your work and I hope you do a lot more with it in the future!

Thrumbo horn = ~1200 silver
Bionic eye for Sparkles = ~1400?? silver (and operation failed, so time that by 2 or more!)
GrayHills people rep @ -98 = priceless

Not sure if worth, but talk about a cool moment of chaos   Playing on "Rough" on Randy storyteller btw, stuff gone really crazy right after that with waves of raiders and man hunters who fortunately killed each other before my horribly injured colonists bled to death.

I'm a bit overwhelmed schedule-wise right now (which is why I'm slacking off playing games rather than doing useful... panic level orange, lol) but maybe we can make something happen once RL stops throwing Randy Random raids at me   Thanks a lot for the kind comments!

[Twilight of day 10]

Thanks a lot guys   Having fun with all the new stuff (whoa animal taming???) and the colony has already gotten out of hand, heheh ^^b

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Twilight of day 10

A group of traders from the Grey Hills tribe visited, with weapons and monkeys for sale.  Charmed by the strange little creatures, Sparkles could not resist spending the majority of the colony's meager stock of silver in exchange for two of them.  The practical-minded India would not have agreed with this investment, and Sparkles could already imagine the cold glint in the clerk's eyes lurking behind her ever-smiling pleasantness.  India had retreated to the battery closet to get a quiet night's sleep alone, however, and Sparkles decided that she wouldn't worry about it until later.



Things took an unexpected turn when a huge, majestic, horned animal was sighted during dinner time.  From the tribesmen's awed whispers, Sparkles gathered that this creature was called a "Thrumbo".  The beast appeared almost god-like to Sparkles, but it inspired only excited discussions over the value of its horn among the Grey Hills people.  The numbers they casually tossed out stunned the girl, and she suddenly had an idea.

If she could take down the creature, she would earn much more silver than what she splurged on the animals.  India would be pleased.  Sparkles didn't truly desire to get on the camp leader's bad side.  There was something intimidating about the diminutive lady.

The thrombo was asleep when Sparkles crept into range.  Even in the dim moonlight, the girl had to pause for a moment in admiration of the creature's natural gracefulness.  Long flowing silvery fur covered the muscular long neck of the beast, while the precious horn glinted a pearly glow atop its slender head.  Sparkles was so nervous that she missed her first shot, but miraculously the huge beast did not wake.  Inhaling deeply, she fired a second time.



A deafening roar stunned the bold girl.  She suddenly realized that there might have been a reason that the silver-loving Gray Hills people did not hunt so valuable a prize.  As she turned to flee, she could hear trees being crushed behind her.  The enraged beast's growl sounded like the thunderclaps from an electric storm, and Sparkles had never run so fast in her life.

Sparkles sought the safety of the turrets she set up earlier in the day, hoping that the bullets would deter the beast.  In horror, she saw that the tribes people had set up bedrolls right around the turrets.  Not expecting trouble from this pathetic small band of castaways, the Grey Hills people did not post guards.  Thus, they were taken by complete surprise as the beast charged into the camp.

The confusion was total, and chaos ensued.  Sparkles fired desperately at the tall animal, while the tribesmen fell over themselves as they scrambled to get away.  The thrumbo roared again and charged, stomping right over one of Sparkle's turrets as well as another tribesman.  Before a horrified scream could escape from Sparkle's mouth, the crushed turret exploded into a giant fireball.  A sharp pain shot across Sparkles' head, and she realized that she could no longer see out of her right eye.  With the remaining eye, the girl looked on, unbelieving, as the beast stumbled to a crushing halt among several motionless bodies.



An arrow flew past Sparkles.  Looking up, she saw an enraged tribeswoman glaring at her.  Sparkles had the presence of mind to dive out of the way.

"You killed them!" the tribeswoman cried as a second arrow sank deeply into the wooden wall Sparkles hid behind.  The woman's voice was coarse with anger and exhaustion, but Sparkles somehow heard it loud and clear above the thrashing of the dying beast, the wailing of the traders, and the crackling from the burning wreckage.

The woman fell.  Sparkles realized then the trader had been badly injured.  She felt confused, guilty, and sick with grief.  However, there were more pressing needs to attend to. 

Sparkles ignored the promise of revenge the few surviving tribesmen hurled at her as they fled, accusing her of shooting down the woman in cold blood.  She pushed aside the questions the awakened and confused India shouted at her.  She shrugged off the searing pain in her face and the distant thought that her right eye might never see again.  She carried the tribeswoman to her own room and scrambled to find bandages. 

Got busy and stopped playing for a bit, but restarting now and am thrilled to see all the new features

New colonists:



Taking bets on how long it'll be till India goes postal and kills the other 2...

From my understanding, many fantasy novels came out of DnD campaigns - say Dragonlance.  In the same vein I wouldn't be too surprised to see some fan stories from this game or similar ones inspire something bigger, even though likely they'd grow out of the fan-fic territory.

Journal 01: First Blood

The laughter was cruel, with a hint of insanity.  Karen shrank back behind the rock wall, holding her pistol tight.  This was not her first fire-fight, and she shouldn't had been so scared.  However, there was something strange in the advancing man.  Karen had struck him at least a couple of times, yet the man's only response had been a hail of bullets of his own.  Desperation or madness?  Karen did not know, but she felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness.  Retreat, or keep shooting?  Karen's hands were cold and sweaty.  She tried to keep her hand from shaking.

A scream pierced the air, and abruptly turned into a gurgle.  Startled, Karen poked out of her cover.  In the dim moon light, she could barely make out the face of the tall figure standing over a slump on the ground.

"Hess!" Karen cried out in surprise.  Karen did not see Hess creeping up behind the stranger at all, but there she was, her army knife in hand.  Hess regarded Karen without any expression.  For an instance, Karen felt like she was looking at something inhuman... a machine.

"Threat eliminated." Hess said with a clear voice.  Then she looked down at her knife for a moment, sheathed it back onto her belt, and began walking back.  As the square-shouldered woman walked past Karen, Karen thought she saw a faint smile flash across that usually emotionless face.

Oh man, this thread is such a good read   I need to be more imaginative.

I haven't done anything that's not been mentioned in this thread, but the storyteller trolled me pretty hard when I first started playing.  I was running out of food and overjoyed when some meats crashed down from the sky... then when I went to unforbid them, I realized they were human meat -_-

Some of my colonies had since resorted to cannibalism once in a while, but there's nothing quite like getting a nasty surprise from the event system.

The colony has ran into the biggest roadblock yet... a beautiful platformer called Ori and the Blind Forest came out some time last week and took away both my breath and free time.  Back to less gawking and more drawing though!

Meet Spiffy the plant-hugger and Hess the soldier bride.

Spiffy came from the same shelter as Karen, and was one of Karen's first students.  Karen quickly took the dreamy-eyed girl who had a much easier time talking to plants than people under her wings.

Hess was grown in a vat, not unlike a plant.  This would explain why Spiffy quickly formed an unspoken bound with this silent lady after the crash-landing.  Hess wears a plain wedding ring but never talks about her husband.



First addition to the colony: Alice the depressive but brilliant loner.

Alice refused to talk, as usual.  She sat on her bed, shrinking from the dim light cast from the crude, buzzing lamp.  She had been in that exact pose for more than a week now, other than occasionally sleeping or eating.  Karen couldn't help but remember the day Alice was captured a month ago.  The skinny girl, barely more than a child, greeted her with fearful but determinedly unfriendly eyes.  Even as Karen welcomed her into the colony, there had been an air of suspense over the whole affair.  Karen had a feeling this was not going to be an easy transition.

Karen hoped that she had built some semblance of trust in the Alice before the girl suddenly broke down crying in the darkness caused by a solar flare.  Trying not to question her decision to drag the hysteric girl back by force, Karen gently chattered on about the happenings around the colony like she would do every night for the past week.  Alice never responded, but when Karen looked up from the floor, she found the dark eyes of the girl directly looking at her, as if seeing her for the first time in days.  When Karen stood up to leave moments later, Alice followed without a word.

Thank you!  Yeah, if I could get a dollar every time I see a raider who's a doctor/surgeon with disabled medicine skills...

New colony is up and running with 3 + 1 ladies already.  Meet Karen the school teacher.  She will need to use her common-sense and people skills to carry the colony to success.  She grew up in a shelter, and without digging too deep into the actual Rimworld lores I'm imagining it to be like a Fallout vault.  The "13" Tattoo on her neck is a nod to that.

Starting the thread off: quick sketches of my last colony's Starting members, plus the first convert.

Pinky, the sweet and tough housewife
Bennet, the trigger-happy loner doctor
Lady, the young and scrappy former noble
Mars, the "surgeon" who shoots to kill (and has zero medical skills, captured from a raid)



The colony has since grown by a lot, but these 4 members remain the most interesting ones.

I'm starting a new colony at work computer and want to try an illustrated journal thing later   Feel free to share stories of your most interesting characters if you'd like.  I may or may not add them to the doodling.

Hi there!  I'm what you'd call a "late adopter" at this point I suppose   I've spent an entire weekend obsessing over the game and barely doing anything else.

I've made a vow to not buy into alpha or early access games until I'm happy with the existing features, rather than promised ones.  Rimworld's been on my radar for over half a year now.  A recent Let's Play video recommendation on Youtube reminded me, and after checking out the new feature list I could resist no longer.

I make my living as an artist, so when I obsess over a game like this I try to make some fan art too... just so I can claim the crazy amount of time I'm spending on games is somewhat "research and development" related   The last game that made me feel necessary to do this was Starbound, before this game.  I'm planning to post fan art of members of my new colonies in the story session.

Looking forward to hearing everybody's stories and learning from all the tips here.  GL HF