Most of them are not grizzled veterans of countless struggles, neither are they highly disciplined super soldiers who never panic. Insane colonists can flee into the wild, try to kill each other, or go on berserk rampages where they will set fire to chemfuel or artillery shells, causing the entire colony to go up in flames. Psychic ships, blight, toxic fallout, and solar flares can cause the slow death of a colony through starvation and driving people mad, and as casualties mount the problem can only get worse until some colonists have mental breakdowns. It is entirely possible that the death of the colony comes from a gradual downward spiral of tantrums and madness as stress and negative mood effects pile on due to outside threats.They will mercilessly kill anyone they find on the map, and after everyone is dead or has fled, they will systematically roam around the colony and destroy everything you've built until the only trace of the colony left are burnt floors, broken stones, and the charred corpses of your colonists. These murderous robots only want to destroy every trace of your colony. Similar to the pirates, there's the mechanoids.And best not to dwell on what happens to the survivors who the pirates kidnap. They don't just want to loot and pillage, they want to wipe you out completely. Not only will they steal your wealth, but they will set fire to your crop fields and destroy art and furniture and recreational objects. Pirate raiders storming into the colony, intent on pure destruction.

They swarm over the security teams and rip the entire colony. Imagine the colonists going about their day within a well-fortified bunker, secure from outside threats, only to suddenly have hordes of gigantic insects suddenly tear through the walls, floors, and ceilings.Most of the situations that end a colony are quite nightmarish.And if you do this on one of the raider factions that can't be befriended at all, there is a tiny chance that they will send the same raider to your base again, and this time they'll obviously be at a huge disadvantage. As mentioned in Quotes this is not only good training, it's very profitable since the harvested organs are worth more to traders than the prisoner would have been as a slave. One of the best ways to make money while training Medical skill for your doctor is to capture a bunch of raiders from a faction you don't mind having hate you forever, then amputate all their limbs and surgically remove every organ they don't need to survive, including a lung, kidney, and both eyes, before finally slapping two peg legs on them and sending them off to avoid the penalty for having an 'innocent' prisoner die.Its flavour text calls it 'the Devil's Bargain', and with good reason. Luciferium greatly increases the physical health of the subject and reverses injuries and aging effects, at the cost of being immediately and permanently addictive, with withdrawal causing insanity and eventual death, and the addiction persisting even beyond its subject's death and resurrection.This is also recommended to keep prisoners from escaping. One often-recommended method of dealing with addiction is to cut off the person's legs.Some common medical practices both in-universe and by players are rather questionable when you stop and think about it:.Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.'- Game Over screen blurbĭespite Rimworld being basically a toned-down Dwarf Fortress in a hard sci-fi setting, there is no shortage of things that could consign your colony to the overfilling bin of prematurely ended stories.

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