Rimworld Beta 18 - #1 NEW BASE In the Haunted Boreal Forest
Rimworld BETA 18 was just recently released and there is a ton of new content. In this episode I start a new base in the Boreal Forest. I was fed up with the swamp in my last base but discover there is marshy areas in this map as well.
I get off to a very slow start but things will get better. That said, winter is coming....
This is part of a playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHw_EJXYsdHipVG6w3wLFFdBaBw1IYV-A
Update from the developer:
Rough features list:
New swamp biomes: Swamp biomes are hard to move through due to choking vegetation, and hard to build in due to swampy terrain. Many new plants were added to fill out these and other biomes.
-Tropical swamp
-Temperate swamp
-Cold bog
New incidents:
-Meteorite impact. A meteorite impacts, leaving a lump of mineable ore.
-Aurora. A beautiful aurora lights up the night sky, improving mood.
-Tornado
-Peace talks quest
-World refugee quest
-Prisoner rescue quest
Storyful combat: A major rework of melee combat, and a new way to report all combat interactions. Storyful combat generates a combat log that reports each blow, miss, swipe, block and fall in the combat. During or after a fight, you can review the combat log to see what happened, to generate a richer story.
Various research has been split up:
-Gun research is now broken into several stages, so making advanced guns like assault rifles takes more research than making simple revolvers
-Melee weapon research is now broken into several stages
New furniture:
-Bedroll: Portable bed
-Dresser: Passively improves room
-Endtable: Passive improves room
-Various new table sizes
New quest reward special items:
-Psychic emanator
-Vanometric power cell
-Infinite chemreactor
-Techprof subpersona core
-Healer mechanite superdose
-Resurrector mechanite superdose
-Orbital bombardment targeter
-Orbital power beam targeter
Tribal content upgrade:
-Ikwa melee weapon
-War mask
-Tribal headdress
-Recurve bow
-Tribal hunter
-Tribal heavy archer
-Tribal berserker
New world site components (used in various situations):
-Sleeping mechanoids
-Animal ambush
-Enemy ambush
New mental breaks:
-Insulting spree. Randomly go around and insult people.
-Targeted insulting spree. Follow around a specific other colonist, insulting them repeatedly.
-Tantrum. Go around randomly smashing furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
-Bedroom tantrum. Go to your own room and randomly smash furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
-Targeted tantrum. Go to destroy a single, specific, randomly-chosen, valuable item or building.
-Sadistic rage. Melee attack prisoners for a while. Fists only. Only occurs when there are prisoners to attack. Does not attack downed prisoners.
-Corpse obsession. Dig up a corpse and drop it on a meeting spot table or in a random high-traffic area. The mental break then ends.
-Catatonic. Collapse on the spot into a downed state with a psychological breakdown. Recover some days later. This can be implemented by a “catatonic breakdown” hediff.
-Jailbreaker. Colonist goes to a random prisoner (who is capable of prison breaking), and upon doing a special “spark jailbreak” action with them, induces an immediate prison break in that prisoner.
-Slaughterer. Slaughter random colony animal(s) periodically.
Murderous rage. Hunt down a specific colonist or prisoner (randomly chosen) and attempt to kill them by melee attack. Uses melee weapon or fists, as equipped. Keep attacking until the target is dead.
-Run wild. The pawn basically starts acting like an animal. You can tame him to try to get him to rejoin.
New mental inspirations. Basically reverse mental breaks – these give temporary bonuses to colonists in high moods:
-Work frenzy (1 day): Global work speed 2.5x
-Go frenzy (1 day): Walk speed 1.5x
-Shoot frenzy (3 days): Shooting hit chance improved as though the pawn is 10 skill levels higher.
-Inspired trade
-Inspired recruitment
-Inspired surgery
-Inspired art
World features like lakes, mountain ranges, and bays are now detected and named. Names are displayed in the world view.
Caves now form sometimes in mountainous maps. Inside there are special cave plants. There can also be dormant insect hives.
Many new tale types were added. So, the game will record many new types of events, and colonists can make art about them. Art descriptions should be much more diverse.
Crop blights now appear and spread over time instead of instantly destroying crops
Spaceship is now bigger and has one more component, the sensor cluster
Spaceship quest ending phase: When going to the hidden space ship to finish the game, the game does not end instantly on arrival.
The map generates with the ship intact. To take off, first you must power up the ship, which takes some days, during which you must survive raids.
and more! See steam for full update notes.
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