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Ideology and 1.3 release date, plus Gauranlen trees
Every now and then, a unique Gauranlen pod may sprout near your colony. From this pod you can harvest a Gauranlen seed, and in turn plant a Gauranlen tree wherever you like. Gauranlen trees are unique because they produce creatures called dryads. The tree nourishes the dryads and, in turn, the dryads protect the tree from predators and fire. These dryads are born from a dryad queen who lives inside the tree (and isnt seen in gameplay). Each dryad says attached to its mother tree for life. The first dryads your colonists ever see will be immature dryads. While adorable, these arent very useful. They become much more useful after they transform into their various specialized castes. For this to happen, though, a human must influence the tree. This means carrying out a special ceremony to connect with the Gauranlen tree. While others look on, the connector will approach the tree, touch it, speak to it, and generate a subtle psychic link. This psychic link allows the connector to control which caste the dryads will grow into. Choose your caste according to your needs. Some castes focus on combat:
Not all dryads are suited for battle. Some are more useful at home.
The tree-connector must maintain and strengthen their bond with the tree by pruning it now and then. A stronger connection means the tree can support more dryads at once - up to four for the strongest connection. Beliefs matter! Any human can create the above dryad castes. However, some people venerate trees in a special way. For these people, destroying any tree is a crime, and trees have important spiritual significance. This creates challenges - its hard to find wood without chopping trees down. However, this belief also has advantages. Tree-lovers can connect with the Gauranlen trees more deeply than others and gain several unique bonuses. First, a tree-believer can prune faster and better, and thus maintain more dryads in less time. More importantly, though, only tree-believers can specialize dryads into the gaumaker caste. Gaumakers can come together and produce new Gauranlen pods, which can be planted to create even more Gauranlen trees. In this way, a colony of tree-venerating nature lovers can grow their Gauranlen orchard over time and become powerful from it, both economically and militarily.
Dryads are awesome. They make quirky ribbit noises, they get tuckered out and fall asleep like other animals, they work hard, and they care about your colonists. But trees live and die, like everything else. So what happens when a Gauranlen tree dies? The screams of the queen and her children will haunt you Bug you later! Tia Links:
[ 2021-07-18 03:44:36 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hi again! Tia here, your resident bug whisperer and announcement bringer. First, the big announcement. Well be releasing RimWorld - Ideology on Tuesday, July 20! At the same time, the free 1.3 update (which is currently in public beta) will become the default version. You can wishlist Ideology now on its Steam page here! And also look at the original Ideology/1.3 announcement and the social roles update. If you want to continue on 1.2, you can do that using the Steam betas feature. To do it: Right click RimWorld in the Steam library, click Properties, then on the Betas tab select the branch called version-1.2. This will stay on version 1.2 forever. For modders: No need to break 1.2 support while adding support for 1.3! Keeping 1.2 support is as easy as leaving the old files in a folder. This document explains how to do it. As for savegames, saves from 1.2 (and before) will load on 1.3 (assuming no mods break anything). In addition, non-Ideology savegames will load with Ideology. (However, if you do this you wont be able to customize or randomize your belief system on startup, since the game is already started.) Let's talk about another feature of Ideology!
Gauranlen trees
Every now and then, a unique Gauranlen pod may sprout near your colony. From this pod you can harvest a Gauranlen seed, and in turn plant a Gauranlen tree wherever you like. Gauranlen trees are unique because they produce creatures called dryads. The tree nourishes the dryads and, in turn, the dryads protect the tree from predators and fire. These dryads are born from a dryad queen who lives inside the tree (and isnt seen in gameplay). Each dryad says attached to its mother tree for life. The first dryads your colonists ever see will be immature dryads. While adorable, these arent very useful. They become much more useful after they transform into their various specialized castes. For this to happen, though, a human must influence the tree. This means carrying out a special ceremony to connect with the Gauranlen tree. While others look on, the connector will approach the tree, touch it, speak to it, and generate a subtle psychic link. This psychic link allows the connector to control which caste the dryads will grow into. Choose your caste according to your needs. Some castes focus on combat:
- Clawer dryads are extremely vicious, with high damage output from their long claws. However, they are also quite fragile.
- Barkskin dryads a chunky and well-armored to soak up incoming damage for your soldiers.
Not all dryads are suited for battle. Some are more useful at home.
- Carrier dryads are big and gentle, and good at tidying up by hauling items for you.
- Woodmakers produce wood for you over time. This is important if you worship trees and hate to chop them down!
- Medicinemaker dryads have large bulbs on their backs that sprout herbal medicine.
- Berrymaker dryads gradually shed piles of ripe berries.
The tree-connector must maintain and strengthen their bond with the tree by pruning it now and then. A stronger connection means the tree can support more dryads at once - up to four for the strongest connection. Beliefs matter! Any human can create the above dryad castes. However, some people venerate trees in a special way. For these people, destroying any tree is a crime, and trees have important spiritual significance. This creates challenges - its hard to find wood without chopping trees down. However, this belief also has advantages. Tree-lovers can connect with the Gauranlen trees more deeply than others and gain several unique bonuses. First, a tree-believer can prune faster and better, and thus maintain more dryads in less time. More importantly, though, only tree-believers can specialize dryads into the gaumaker caste. Gaumakers can come together and produce new Gauranlen pods, which can be planted to create even more Gauranlen trees. In this way, a colony of tree-venerating nature lovers can grow their Gauranlen orchard over time and become powerful from it, both economically and militarily.
Dryads are awesome. They make quirky ribbit noises, they get tuckered out and fall asleep like other animals, they work hard, and they care about your colonists. But trees live and die, like everything else. So what happens when a Gauranlen tree dies? The screams of the queen and her children will haunt you Bug you later! Tia Links:
- Wishlist Ideology on its Steam page here!
- For more info on the expansion and 1.3 update, read the announcement of Ideology/1.3 and the preview of social roles
- Im on Twitter as @TiaPixel and you can follow Tynan at @TynanSylvester.
- Discuss this post on Reddit here!
[ 2021-07-18 03:44:36 CET ] [ Original post ]
RimWorld
Ludeon Studios
Developer
Ludeon Studios
Publisher
2018-10-17
Release
Game News Posts:
141
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Overwhelmingly Positive
(169637 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
- RimWorld (Linux) [194.51 M]
- RimWorld - Royalty (Linux) [32.75 M]
- RimWorld - Kepler (Linux) [56.87 M]
- RimWorld - Euclid (Linux) [39.71 M]
Available DLCs:
- RimWorld Name in Game Access
- RimWorld - Royalty
- RimWorld - Ideology
- RimWorld - Biotech
- RimWorld - Anomaly
RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress, Firefly, and Dune.
You begin with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant world.
RimWorld is a story generator. It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller. There are several storytellers to choose from. Randy Random does crazy stuff, Cassandra Classic goes for rising tension, and Phoebe Friendly just makes good things happen.
Your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re crash-landed survivors from a passenger liner destroyed in orbit. You can end up with a nobleman, an accountant, and a housewife. You’ll acquire more colonists by capturing them in combat and turning them to your side, buying them from slave traders, or taking in refugees. So your colony will always be a motley crew.
Each person’s background is tracked and affects how they play. A nobleman will be great at social skills (recruiting prisoners, negotiating trade prices), but refuse to do physical work. A farm oaf knows how to grow food by long experience, but cannot do research. A nerdy scientist is great at research, but cannot do social tasks at all. A genetically engineered assassin can do nothing but kill – but he does that very well.
Colonists develop - and destroy - relationships. Each has an opinion of the others, which determines whether they'll become lovers, marry, cheat, or fight. Perhaps your two best colonists are happily married - until one of them falls for the dashing surgeon who saved her from a gunshot wound.
The game generates a whole planet from pole to equator. You choose whether to land your crash pods in a cold northern tundra, a parched desert plain, a temperate forest, or a steaming equatorial jungle. Different areas have different animals, plants, diseases, temperatures, rainfall, mineral resources, and terrain. These challenges of surviving in a disease-infested, choking jungle are very different from those in a parched desert wasteland or a frozen tundra with a two-month growing season.
You can tame and train animals. Lovable pets will cheer up sad colonists. Farm animals can be worked, milked, and sheared. Attack beasts can be released upon your enemies. There are many animals - cats, labrador retrievers, grizzly bears, camels, cougars, chinchillas, chickens, and exotic alien-like lifeforms.
People in RimWorld constantly observe their situation and surroundings in order to decide how to feel at any given moment. They respond to hunger and fatigue, witnessing death, disrespectfully unburied corpses, being wounded, being left in darkness, getting packed into cramped environments, sleeping outside or in the same room as others, and many other situations. If they're too stressed, they might lash out or break down.
Wounds, infections, prosthetics, and chronic conditions are tracked on each body part and affect characters' capacities. Eye injuries make it hard to shoot or do surgery. Wounded legs slow people down. Hands, brain, mouth, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, feet, fingers, toes, and more can all be wounded, diseased, or missing, and all have logical in-game effects. And other species have their own body layouts - take off a deer's leg, and it can still hobble on the other three. Take off a rhino's horn, and it's much less dangerous.
You can repair body parts with prosthetics ranging from primitive to transcendent. A peg leg will get Joe Colonist walking after an unfortunate incident with a rhinoceros, but he'll still be quite slow. Buy an expensive bionic leg from a trader the next year, and Joe becomes a superhuman runner. You can even extract, sell, buy, and transplant internal organs.
And there's much more than that! The game is easy to mod and has an active mod community. Read more at http://rimworldgame.com.
(All non-English translations are made by fans.)
You begin with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant world.
- Manage colonists' moods, needs, wounds, and illnesses.
- Fashion structures, weapons, and apparel from metal, wood, stone, cloth, or futuristic materials.
- Tame and train cute pets, productive farm animals, and deadly attack beasts.
- Watch colonists develop and break relationships with family members, lovers, and spouses.
- Fight pirate raiders, hostile tribes, rampaging animals, giant tunnelling insects and ancient killing machines.
- Trade with passing ships and trade caravans.
- Decorate your colony to make it into a pleasurable space.
- Dig through snow, weather storms, and fight fires.
- Capture refugees or prisoners and turn them to your side or sell them into slavery.
- Discover a new generated world each time you play.
- Build colonies in the desert, jungle, tundra, and more.
- Learn to play easily with the help of an intelligent and unobtrusive AI tutor.
RimWorld is a story generator. It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller. There are several storytellers to choose from. Randy Random does crazy stuff, Cassandra Classic goes for rising tension, and Phoebe Friendly just makes good things happen.
Your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re crash-landed survivors from a passenger liner destroyed in orbit. You can end up with a nobleman, an accountant, and a housewife. You’ll acquire more colonists by capturing them in combat and turning them to your side, buying them from slave traders, or taking in refugees. So your colony will always be a motley crew.
Each person’s background is tracked and affects how they play. A nobleman will be great at social skills (recruiting prisoners, negotiating trade prices), but refuse to do physical work. A farm oaf knows how to grow food by long experience, but cannot do research. A nerdy scientist is great at research, but cannot do social tasks at all. A genetically engineered assassin can do nothing but kill – but he does that very well.
Colonists develop - and destroy - relationships. Each has an opinion of the others, which determines whether they'll become lovers, marry, cheat, or fight. Perhaps your two best colonists are happily married - until one of them falls for the dashing surgeon who saved her from a gunshot wound.
The game generates a whole planet from pole to equator. You choose whether to land your crash pods in a cold northern tundra, a parched desert plain, a temperate forest, or a steaming equatorial jungle. Different areas have different animals, plants, diseases, temperatures, rainfall, mineral resources, and terrain. These challenges of surviving in a disease-infested, choking jungle are very different from those in a parched desert wasteland or a frozen tundra with a two-month growing season.
You can tame and train animals. Lovable pets will cheer up sad colonists. Farm animals can be worked, milked, and sheared. Attack beasts can be released upon your enemies. There are many animals - cats, labrador retrievers, grizzly bears, camels, cougars, chinchillas, chickens, and exotic alien-like lifeforms.
People in RimWorld constantly observe their situation and surroundings in order to decide how to feel at any given moment. They respond to hunger and fatigue, witnessing death, disrespectfully unburied corpses, being wounded, being left in darkness, getting packed into cramped environments, sleeping outside or in the same room as others, and many other situations. If they're too stressed, they might lash out or break down.
Wounds, infections, prosthetics, and chronic conditions are tracked on each body part and affect characters' capacities. Eye injuries make it hard to shoot or do surgery. Wounded legs slow people down. Hands, brain, mouth, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, feet, fingers, toes, and more can all be wounded, diseased, or missing, and all have logical in-game effects. And other species have their own body layouts - take off a deer's leg, and it can still hobble on the other three. Take off a rhino's horn, and it's much less dangerous.
You can repair body parts with prosthetics ranging from primitive to transcendent. A peg leg will get Joe Colonist walking after an unfortunate incident with a rhinoceros, but he'll still be quite slow. Buy an expensive bionic leg from a trader the next year, and Joe becomes a superhuman runner. You can even extract, sell, buy, and transplant internal organs.
And there's much more than that! The game is easy to mod and has an active mod community. Read more at http://rimworldgame.com.
(All non-English translations are made by fans.)
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