How do I change the default controls for Rimworld?
The default controls for RimWorld, not including controls that only work from the Architect sub-menus. Key bindings can be changed through Menu, Options, Keyboard configuration. ,, .
How do I view the source of a Rimworld class or method?
For both of the assemblies that you just added: Right click the assembly and click Properties. Uncheck "Copy Local" (you may need to scroll down) and click OK. You're done! Note that Rider has a built-in decompiler—to view the source of a RimWorld class or method, just right-click its name and click Go To > Definition.
Where can I find the Rimworld DLLs?
Browse to the folder with the RimWorld DLLs (Mac: /Users/ [username]/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RimWorld/RimWorldMac.app/Contents/Resources/Data/Managed). Select both Assembly-CSharp.dll and UnityEngine.dll and click OK.
How do doctors treat themselves in Rimworld?
Doctors can heal other colonists, guests, prisoners or animals and will prioritize life-threatening wounds and illnesses before tending minor conditions. They can treat themselves at 70% effectiveness. Disabled by default, the self-tend option can be enabled on Health | Overview. The Medicine skill is the center skill of doctoring in RimWorld.
Requirements
The manual option in this tutorial requires you to have set up a Source and Assemblies folder (the Visual Studio automatic option sets this up for you).
Setting up a solution
Setting up can be different for different IDE's. Feel free to add complete instructions for your IDE of choice.
Common issues
Can't find the option to target .NET Framework 4.7.2? It may require additional installation steps. In Visual Studio, Tools => Get Tools and features => Individual Components => Select .NET Framework 4.7.2 development tools (or google installation instructions). Also make sure your project is a Class Library (.NET Framework).
How to change the material of a building in Architect?
You can change the material of a building by right clicking on it in the menu and selecting the desired material. Wood will be a sufficient building material for now. Construct a decent sized room 9 by 9 or larger, and place 3 wooden beds inside.
What to do about the awful decent barracks mood debuff?
There's nothing you can do about the "Awful-Decent Barracks" mood debuff for now, but see if there are any easily addressable debuffs, like a nudist wearing clothes or a brawler with a ranged weapon. Try not to give them commands right now or they will get the "disturbed sleep" debuff. Allow them to wake up naturally.
Default Scenarios
These four scenarios are in the base game. Each offers a different set of challenges, and encourages different playstyles to a certain extent.
Differences between New Tribe and New Arrivals
There are some significant differences with the New Tribe scenario compared to New Arrivals.
Scenario editor
The scenario editor looks somewhat like the default scenario choosing window except for the left side of the page has changed, there are now three buttons: Load, which you can use to load your previously saved custom scenarios. Save, which is used to save your custom scenarios. And randomize seed, which is used to randomize the scenario.
Medicines
Treatment
- Basic medical work involving tending to wounds and illnesses. Treating wounds stop them from bleeding and reduce the chance of infections, while tending to illnesses slows them down allowing your colonists' immune systems to catch up and pull ahead. Each individual treatment can have any quality from 0 - 100%. Higher quality makes infections less likely and slows down il…
Surgery
- Surgery is a medical operation which involves removal and addition of body parts, or excising carcinomas. Any doctor can perform most types of surgery (excising carcinomas requires 10 medical skill), and herbal medicine is the minimum required medicine for most surgical operations, although it's not advisable to use herbal medicine in surgery unless you have an exc…
Sanitation
- The cleanliness rating of a room has a major impact on the infection chance of a pawn, and a comparatively minor, but still significant impact on the success chance of surgery. It also affects other things, like research speed and food poisoning chance InfectionWhen a bed is set to be medical, selecting it shows the infection chance modifier of the room. The overall chance of infe…
Doctoring Strategies
- You will often need to make the most out of the doctors you have, to ensure maximum doctoring efficiency and colonist survival rate/ well-being.
Version History
- 0.9.722- Surgery can fail now, sometimes catastrophically. Failure chance is related to the surgeon’s medical skill and the quality of the medicine.
- Beta 18 - all surgeries now have a minimum 2% chance of failure, no matter how good everything is.
Setup
- Choosing a scenario
The first thing you'll be able to pick is a story scenario. There are 4 prebuilt scenarios to choose from. This guide assumes that you're choosing the classic "three crashlanded survivors"scenario; it's a good "first game" start, and many veteran players prefer it. - Choosing a storyteller
You can pick one of the 3 AI Storytellers, and a difficulty level. The storytellers only determine the random events that occur during your game. You can do your own research in the previous link if you wish, but it is recommended to choose Cassandra Classic on Strive to Surviveto get a feel fo…
Getting Off on The Right Foot
- Landing
1. PAUSE THE GAME! - wait for the colonists to emerge from their pods, then press spacebar. (Note: "Pause on load" can be set to default in the Options.) 1. Unforbid Everything!At the start, every item is "Forbidden", prohibiting your colonists from using them. The easiest way to unlock … - Your first day
Your goal before nightfall is to get everything under a roof, and your 3 colonists in beds. Light a campfire in the middle of your building (unless it's very hot, then built it outside.) Get your first small crops planted (30-40 tiles or so). If you have extra time, build a 1x2 table and 2 chairs - you…
Moving Forward
- Stone walls: Build a stonecutting bench, set a bill, and start churning out stone blocks made from chunks. General labor speed and Industriousness traitsaffect stonecutting speed while skills do no...
Other Tips Moving Forward
- Wild and Tamed animals will eat your crops and food if you let them. Kill the wild animals and restrict your animals in a zone that only contains hay or kibble.
- Visitors will get into your freezer and drink your beer regardless if you forbid doors.
- The notification when a hungry predator attacks a colonist is easily missed, only manhunters trigger the red flashing envelope notification. Be wary if there's a wild predator hanging aroun…
- Wild and Tamed animals will eat your crops and food if you let them. Kill the wild animals and restrict your animals in a zone that only contains hay or kibble.
- Visitors will get into your freezer and drink your beer regardless if you forbid doors.
- The notification when a hungry predator attacks a colonist is easily missed, only manhunters trigger the red flashing envelope notification. Be wary if there's a wild predator hanging around your b...
- If a person crash lands in an escape pod and you want to recruit them, you must capture them and then recruit them like any other prisoner, even if they're a colonist's family member. If you choose...
See Also
- Colony Building Guide- building a successful base at any stage of the game
- Defense tactics and Defense structures- defending against enemy attacks
- Intermediate Midgame Guide- expanding after settling down