Biome Difficulty? Arid Shrubland

[cultist]

Mass psychotic squirrel attacks can be bloody scary. The sheer amount of them means the turrets can't kill them all before they start banging down the doors, and you really don't want to send any colonists out into the sea of angry fur. I'm actually a little bit frightened of what a boomrat attack on that scale would look like.

[MsMeiriona]

Large scale fires automatically trigger rain storms. There's not a massive risk of fire even if you're building out of wood ( like a crazy person ) if you put in even 10 seconds worth of fire-barrier work.

That's silly if true. I also seemed to notice rain comes suspiciously often if there's a fire.

If true, it means you can start a fire in a remote corner of the map to extinguish a fire elsewhere. Rimworld has a fire extinguisher and it's called "incendiary launcher".

It mostly only happens if the fire amount is overloading the game engine, at least that's what the fire/rain triggering I've personally experienced suggests.

[Mathenaut]

Mass psychotic squirrel attacks can be bloody scary. The sheer amount of them means the turrets can't kill them all before they start banging down the doors, and you really don't want to send any colonists out into the sea of angry fur. I'm actually a little bit frightened of what a boomrat attack on that scale would look like.

Depends. The explosions are be 'scary' but the actual damage is minimal.

Unless you have structures made of wood/metal, at least.

[Boboid]

30 tortoises are considerably more deadly than 30 boomrats.

You just can't kill Tortoises before they close with your colonists.. and gun-wielding colonists don't beat tortoises in melee combat.

Tortoises are heralds of doom!

[b0rsuk]

Boomrats are far less common than squirrels.